Impassable winter roads create ‘dire’ situation for Ontario First Nations

Impassable winter roads are delaying vital shipments and threatening the safety of First Nations across northern Ontario, leaders warned as they pressed the provincial and…

Métis Nations, federal ministers sit for a bilateral mechanism meeting to hash out relationship, priorities

By Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com Updated with clarification on the co-development principles. Legislation may be the only way to ensure that a…

Indspire announces 2024 Indspire Awards recipients

Indspire’s annual celebration, The Indspire Awards, honours the achievements and contributions of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples in Canada and takes place on April…

Two dead, three injured after house fire on Weenusk First Nation in northern Ontario

The leader of an organization representing 49 First Nations says he is mourning after two people died in a house fire in a remote northern…

Two Native American boys died at a boarding school in the 1890s. Now, the tribe wants them home

By Jim Salter   When two Native American boys from Nebraska died after being taken to a notorious boarding school hundreds of miles away in…

National chief calls on Ottawa to resume policing talks after mass stabbing inquest

By Kelly Geraldine Malone   The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations says a coroner’s inquest into a mass killing in Saskatchewan shows…

‘We’re still losing kids’: Young panelists discuss intergenerational trauma at Iqaluit conference

By Jeff Pelletier, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter A panel of young adults spoke of how intergenerational trauma from residential schools continues to impact their lives…

Suffering in silence: Men’s and boys’ mental health are still overlooked in sport

By Michael Kehler, Werklund Research Professor, Masculinities Studies, University of Calgary; and Gabriel Knott-Fayle, Postdoctoral Scholar of Masculinities Studies in Education, University of Calgary  …

Deloitte Canada launches advisory practice focused on Indigenous communities

Deloitte Canada says it has launched a dedicated practice focused on helping build capacity and opportunity for Indigenous peoples and nations.  Jolain Foster, managing partner…

A famed NYC museum is closing two Native American halls. Harvard and others have taken similar steps

By Philip Marcelo   NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s American Museum of Natural History is closing two halls featuring Native American objects starting Saturday,…

Report details cost estimates, risks of proposed Manitoba landfill search for remains

The proposed search of a Winnipeg-area landfill for the remains of two slain First Nations women could cost $90 million — about half the projected…

Ontario First Nation chiefs ask for moratorium on mining claims

By Liam Casey An organization supporting all First Nations in Ontario is calling on the province to implement a one-year moratorium on staking mining claims.…

Ontario First Nation chiefs ask for moratorium on mining claims

By Liam Casey An organization supporting all First Nations in Ontario is calling on the province to implement a one-year moratorium on staking mining claims.…

Two teens arrested after fire destroys First Nation’s only school: chief and council

A northwestern Ontario First Nation says two teens have been arrested in connection with a fire that destroyed the community’s only school. Chief Solomon Atlookan…

Lily Gladstone, first Native American actress nominee, travels to Osage country to honor Oscar nod

By Jocelyn Noveck Lily Gladstone knew she wanted to be somewhere special when the Oscar news came. And that somewhere was not home, watching on…