Wendat Nation buries grave-robbed remains of 1,760 ancestors
Any people would be horrified to think of the remains of their ancestors totalling a large part of their nation to have been stolen from…
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Matawa First Nations drops legal challenge to Ring of Fire project
The nine Anishinaabe communities represented by the Matawa First Nations – spread across the James Bay Treaty #9 and the Robinson Superior Treaty areas –…
Wendat Nation buries grave-robbed remains of 1,760 ancestors
Any people would be horrified to think of the remains of their ancestors totaling a large part of their nation to have been stolen from…
Members of Mi’kmaq Warrior Society Swarmed by RCMP in Moncton in Ongoing Struggle Against Fracking
On September 11, 2013, members of the Mi’kmaq Warrior Society, “the Homeland Security of the Mi’kmaq Nation,” were tailed throughout Moncton, New Brunswick just before…
25 years after Manitoba’s report on root-causes of crime, native incarceration rates have skyrocketed
Twenty-five years after the “Report of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry of Manitoba” enumerated its root causes of crime in Indigenous communities – poverty, lack of…
Nestlé pumping 265 million litres of water from Sto:lo ancestral lands every year
The world’s largest food company, Nestlé – which was listed in 2011 by the Fortune Global 500 as the top-ranking company in the world by…
Week in Review an Introduction
Onkwehon:we / ORIGINAL PEOPLES – WEEK IN REVIEW (August 5-11, 2013) Flood Evacuees of Siksika Nation Living in Prison Camp-Like Conditions No smoking, no pets,…