Feds spending record-breaking dollars on litigating Onkwehon:we land claims

A new article from the Law Times revealed that by far the largest spending on legal battles by the Canadian government is taking place in…

The Honour of the Crown in decline

History is funny sometimes, how things that go around come around. Like many people attending Remembrance Day ceremonies across the country I turned my back…

Patrick Brazeau and violence against Indigenous women

Senator Patrick Brazeau, 38, who is being investigated by the RCMP over allegations of breach of trust over his housing and expense claims, and faces…

Noam Chomsky: Indigenous people “are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us”

MONTREAL - Noam Chomsky, the celebrated 85-year old American linguist, peace activist and social critic who is the author of more than one hundred books…

Scientific evidence and native oral history tells us the same story

Hundreds of years ago when Onkwe:honwe (Indigenous) people had complete domain over this continent they commonly did one thing from the Atlantic to the Pacific…

New anti-pipeline film released

TIOTIAHKE (MONTREAL) – Kahsatstenhsera: Indigenous Resistance to Tar Sands Pipelines is a short documentary film and anti-pipeline movement resource co-produced by Amanda Lickers and subMedia.tv…

Change the Name or End the Genocide?

To suggest there are many and far more pressing issues facing Native people than being exploited and insulted by sports teams is an obvious understatement.…

UN Special Rapporteur welcomed to Winnipeg with Jingle Dress Dance

WINNIPEG – Portage and Main, the busiest intersection in downtown Winnipeg was closed to traffic and instead rang out with jingles, drumming, whoops, and singing…

UN Rapporteur concludes his tour of Canada

OTTAWA-UN Special Rapporteur James Anaya concluded his tour of Canada earlier today with a press conference reviewing his findings. Anaya met with federal and provincial…

Walking With Our Sisters Memorial opens in Edmonton

EDMONTON – When Metis artist Christi Belcourt heard about the disappearance of a number of indigenous women in her area, she was overwhelmed with emotion.…

The Big Lie: The Doctrine of Christian Discovery

Steven Newcomb is the author of “Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery.” He is the foremost authority on the subject.…

Indigenous rights record blacken Harper’s eye

In today’s information age, it is impossible to keep skeletons in the closet for long, as Prime Minister Stephen Harper is finding out.

Should Have Fought Harder

By Jonathan Garlow

Rule of Law or Rule of Lawyers?

We often hear from the righteous voices of the U.S. and Canada when looking at countries and peoples they view as inferior, that the “…

Neil Young calls Fort McMurray a “wasteland”

Wearing his signature crumpled hat and a green “Go Family Farms” T-shirt, Canadian rock legend Neil Young raised some eyebrows in Washington last week when…