School in Brantford to be named for Six Nations nurse
BRANTFORD — Grand Erie District School Board’s Ryerson Heights Elementary School is set to become Edith Monture Elementary School, honouring the Ohsweken-born World War I…
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What to do with your bread and cheese
Bread and Cheese is back and doesn’t really need to be explained to most people who live in the area. Show up, greet some friends…
One quarter of Canada’s Indian Residential Schools have grave searches underway
In total, across Canada, 2207 unmarked graves of indigenous children have been discovered outside of Indian Residential Schools since the 1970s. A total of 479…
US report details church state collusion on Native schools
By Peter Smith THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A new Interior Department report on the legacy of boarding schools for Native Americans underscores how closely the U.S.…
Inquest to begin in N.B. police shooting of Indigenous woman during wellness check
FREDERICTON _ The lawyer for the family of an Indigenous woman fatally shot by police in Edmundston, N.B., during a wellness check two years ago…
Milgaard pushed for action on Indigenous sisters’ wrongful conviction claims
David Milgaard was actively helping people who claim they have been wrongfully convicted right up until his sudden death, including two Indigenous sisters who have…
Indigenous languages ‘marginalized all the time’ in Canada: Mary Simon
KANGIQSUALUJJUAQ, Que. — Think of your morning routine — after your alarm goes off and before breakfast, you probably unlock your phone and check emails,…
Six Nations Food Bank officially home in the village
It was an emotional ‘mini' grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony for Mary Monture on Tuesday, May 10, as she gave a heartfelt speech thanking the…
Concrete slab falls from bridge over 403
BRANTFORD — All lanes on Highway 403 through Brantford and parts of the Wayne Gretzky Parkway were closed Monday after a huge piece of the…
Ontario offers just 15% of what was needed to search former Mohawk Institute
SIX NATIONS — The Ontario government is providing $1,300,000 to the Survivors’ Secretariat at the Six Nations of the Grand River to search for unmarked…
B.C. government gives $2.5M for Indigenous centre after concept plan is approved
VANCOUVER — The British Columbia government says it will provide $2.5 million for an Indigenous centre in Vancouver after the approval of a concept plan.…
On-reserve COVID hospitalizations increased by nearly half in March
OTTAWA — Indigenous Services Canada says that there was a 45.5% increase in people living on reserves hospitalized due to COVID-19 in April. In all…
‘The land is my therapy’: healing centre encourages reconnecting with Inuit identity
KUUJJUAQ, Que. — On the shore of a still-frozen lake in front of a traditional Inuit dwelling with the spring sun melting the snow underfoot,…
Help heal Indigenous residential school trauma, public safety minister tells RCMP
OTTAWA — Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino is directing the head of the RCMP to work closely with Indigenous communities to address the traumatic legacy…
Forced to relocate to a flood plain: Manitoba First Nation says protection is overdue
WINNIPEG — The marshy delta of Manitoba's Fisher River was not the original home of Peguis First Nation. But having been relocated there more than…