Edmonton Catholic church with Indigenous traditions prepares for Pope’s visit

EDMONTON — Cultures collide each Sunday morning at Edmonton’s Sacred Heart Church of the First Peoples, with sage burning alongside candles and both hymns and…

Haaland tour casts light on Native boarding school abuses

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland will visit Oklahoma on Saturday for the first stop on a yearlong nationwide tour…

Senate report says government must implement rights based Indigenous fisheries

OTTAWA — A new report from the Senate is calling on the federal government to implement Mi’kmaq, Wolastoqiyik and Peskotomuhkati rights-based fisheries on Canada’s East…

Assembly of First Nations delegates reject resolution calling for chief’s suspension

VANCOUVER — An emergency resolution before the Assembly of First Nations annual meeting to reaffirm the suspension of National Chief RoseAnne Archibald has failed in…

Native American leaders push for boarding school commission

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The federal government has a responsibility to Native American tribes, Alaska Native villages and Native Hawaiian communities to fully support and…

Canada signs $20B compensation agreement on First Nations child welfare

OTTAWA — The federal government has signed a $20-billion final settlement agreement to compensate First Nations children and families harmed by chronic underfunding of child…

First Nations in Manitoba file lawsuit against Canada over 25 year old land agreement

WINNIPEG — First Nations in Manitoba are suing the federal government for what they say is a failure to live up to a 25-year-old land…

‘In a crisis’: Deaths of Indigenous women in Winnipeg spark calls for safe housing

Lori Ann Mancheese always wanted a home. But the 53-year-old mother of five from Manitoba’s Ebb and Flow First Nation died before her dream could…

Experts: US Court fractures decades of Native American law

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling expanding state authority to prosecute some crimes on Native American land is fracturing decades of law built around the hard-fought…

Indigenous conservation Canada’s way of the future, Guilbeault says

Tanya Ball began her career as a social worker for the Kaska Dene First Nation. Now she runs a land guardian program, working to monitor…

Assembly of First Nations National Chief RoseAnne Archibald says suspension unlawful

OTTAWA — Assembly of First Nations National Chief RoseAnne Archibald and her lawyers say the organization’s move to suspend her and prevent her from attending…

Learn from reconciliation efforts in Canada, Prince Charles urges Commonwealth

KIGALI, Rwanda — The Commonwealth can learn from Canada’s efforts at reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples, Prince Charles told the heads of governments at the opening…

‘About the survivors’: Pope’s visit important to understand residential schools

MASKWACIS — Leaders from four First Nations in central Alberta say the Pope’s upcoming visit could help the world understand the trauma the residential school…

Cree of Chisasibi to search for graves at residential school sites in northern Quebec

MONTREAL — The Cree Nation of Chisasibi said Tuesday it will search for unmarked graves at the sites of five residential schools that operated on…

‘National shame:’ Groups decry inaction on violence against Indigenous women, girls

Advocates across the country had a similar message for Ottawa one year after it released a national plan to end violence against Indigenous women and…