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September 7, 2016.
The environmental stewardship that the NDP government has embraced as policy is an opportunity for Indigenous people to lead.
“We have that ancestral connection as environmentalists to take care of Mother Earth, to look after Mother Earth and in turn Mother Earth looks after us. But in order for us to do that we’ve got to create some sort of…
Carol Powder, lead singer of the all-women’s drum group Chubby Cree, has made her own pow wow drum as well as hand drums. (Photo: Chubby Cree United/Facebook)
August 18, 2016.
In teaching her children their culture, Carol Powder has been able to make a difference in their lives – and a difference in the lives of others.
“We heal people and have…
August 22, 2016.
The Metis Nation of Alberta is taking the provincial government to task over what it considers an “ongoing delay (that) is deeply concerning” over changes to the Metis Harvesting Policy.
In a strongly worded four-page letter sent Friday to Environment Minister Shannon Phillips, MNA President Audrey Poitras states, “This issue is more than an “…
August 16, 2016.
The Metis Nation of Alberta has adopted a statement of principles that it hopes will guide discussion with the province when negotiations on consultation and accommodation take place.
The Statement of Principles on Crown Consultation and Accommodation with the Metis in Alberta was passed unanimously at the MNA’s annual general meeting Aug. 4-7 at the Métis…
August 15, 2016.
Mid-August and Geraldine Potts, director of operations with Nechi Institute: Centre of Indigenous Learning, has 98 applications in her hands for students who want to get culturally-aware addictions counselling training, but can’t afford to.
The institute has been without federal dollars for core funding since 2011. Students have been able to…
August 8, 2016.
It has taken 20 years for township road 734 to get the go-ahead to be paved but Horse Lake First Nation Chief Eugene Horseman sees the approved funding as heralding in a new age of cooperation and acceptance.
“I never ever thought I’d see the day that this project would ever be accomplished, but I’ve noticed the change in this new government – the federal and the…
August 3, 2016.
Passing an Order in Council to give standing to the national inquiry into murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls is a priority for Alberta.
“We will adopt the terms of references and the commissioners under the provincial Public Inquiries Act,” said Brent Wittmeier, press secretary for Richard Feehan, minister of Alberta Indigenous Affairs. “We’ve been…
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July 27, 2016. An arrest on the Blood Indian Reserve has resulted in the arrest of one man and the seizure of drugs with a street value of close to $2,000 in Standoff. On July 25, Blood Tribe Police Service Crime Reduction…
July 28, 2016. RCMP have ruled the deaths of Dylan Laboucan and Cory Grey as homicides. Autopsies performed by the medical examiner in Edmonton concluded that both Laboucan, 17, and Grey, 19, had been shot. RCMP said in a news release that “a significant amount of evidence” had been…
July 29, 2016.
The investigation into the fire that destroyed Red Crow Community College on the Blood Indian Reserve last August is expected to wrap up soon.
“There was a lot of discussion with the fire commissioner and stuff and there were some people we wanted to talk to that were hard to track down,” said Sgt. Jason Colon, of the Blood Tribe Police Service, as to why the…
July 29, 2016.
Three repurposed shipping containers will become home for a family on the Bearspaw First Nation in September.
It’s a pilot project that Rob Shotclose, CEO for Bearspaw First Nation, hopes will prove to be at least part of the answer for the unique living conditions faced on First Nations. Large family sizes; families that consist of disabled persons and Elders;…
July 22, 2016.
Alberta Indigenous Relations Minister Richard Feehan has a unique insight into a government system that is failing Indigenous children in care.
“I am abundantly aware, that here I am, 34 years after I first became a social worker, saying we still have an over-representation of Indigenous families in child welfare and children in care and that’s just completely…
August 2, 2016.
In an act of reconciliation, the congregation at Southminster-Steinhauer United Church recently invested over $500,000 into the community, including projects that will help Edmonton’s Indigenous population.
“We have a real commitment to live into the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. We’ve been attempting to attend and find ways to be…
July 12, 2016. A committee of the Canadian Judicial Council has granted intervener status to a national coalition of women’s organizations, which includes the Institute for the Advancement of Aboriginal Women. The coalition will intervene in the inquiry into Justice Robin Camp’s conduct during a 2014 sexual assault trial in Alberta, when he asked the complainant, a 19-year-old…
Federal health funding to improve facilities, services
July 12, 2016. Money through the federal Social Infrastructure Fund will see $17.3 million used to upgrade health facilities in three First Nations communities in Alberta. John D’Or Prairie will receive a new health centre over the next two years, while existing facilities in Saddle Lake Cree Nation…