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Established in 1983 to serve the needs of northern Alberta, Windspeaker became a national newspaper on its 10th anniversary in 1993.
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An interview by the new director for research for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) with his university newspaper has prompted an apology from commission chair Murray Sinclair.
In a March 22 interview granted by John Milloy, who also serves…
A survey that takes a snapshot of urban Aboriginal life across the country is sparking a dialogue about issues that impact the success of First Peoples in Canada’s city centres.
The Urban Aboriginal Peoples Study, which was released April 6 by the Environics Institute, involved person-to-person interviews with 2,614 First Nations, Métis and Inuit people conducted in Vancouver, Edmonton…
The Federation of Newfoundland Indians remains tight-lipped about the lengthy legal proceedings that surrounds the three-year battle for the creation of the Qalipu Mi’kmaq First Nation.
“This matter is now into a legal process and I am not permitted to speak until this matter is resolved,” said president of the Federation Brendan Sheppard.
The establishment of the Qalipu band was…
As Alanis Morissette would say: Isn’t it ironic!
On March 26th, the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation rolled out the red carpet for 14 outstanding individuals less than a mile down the road from the First Nations University of Canada in Regina, where the academic institution is in danger of having the rug pulled out from underneath it by the federal government.
The topic was…
Heretofore the history of the United States has been largely treated as the story of a process, rather than the complete history of a land “from sea to shining sea.” And this process always begins either in Europe or on the Atlantic Coast of North America.
Allow me to contrast the history of England with the history of the United States. In the history of England one finds that a “land…
It’s been a busy couple of weeks, what with me being on a book tour for my new novel, Motorcycles and Sweetgrass, and maintaining my usual lecture and reading tour schedule.
I never know where I’ll end up. Just the other week I was in central Quebec. I didn’t know what to expect other than people eating that unusual and questionable concoction of french fries, gravy and cheese, called…
It’s important, said Gwen Reimer, lead investigator with Praxis Research Associates, that people don’t take away the wrong message from the Aboriginal Healing Foundation’s newest report.
Just because more residential school survivors claimed to have positive experiences with the Common Experience Payment (CEP), it shouldn’t be assumed that these experiences outweigh the negative impacts…
Indian Affairs Minister Jim Prentice's remarks regarding a United Nations committee's judgment of Canada's performance under the covenant on economic, civil and political rights have caused a stir.
The remarks were made after the release of a UN report related to Canada's treatment of the Lubicon Cree people of Northern Alberta. The United Nations human rights committee has twice before…
Days after Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty announced on June 10 that his negotiators would no longer participate in talks aimed at resolving the more than 100-day-old Caledonia land rights protest, the barricades in the town came down.
After the decision was reached (to dismantle the barricades) by the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Council, work began at about 10 p.m. on June 12 to remove…
It'll be Phil versus Bill when the election for national chief is held on July 12, the middle day of the three-day Assembly of First Nations' (AFN) 27th annual general assembly.
National Chief Phil Fontaine, a Seaulteux (Ojibway) from the Sagkeeng First Nation in Manitoba, will be seeking his third term as leader of the AFN.
Fontaine will be opposed by only one other candidate,…
It'll be Phil versus Bill when the election for national chief is held on July 12, the middle day of the three-day Assembly of First Nations' (AFN) 27th annual general assembly.
National Chief Phil Fontaine, a Seaulteux (Ojibway) from the Sagkeeng First Nation in Manitoba, will be seeking his third term as leader of the AFN.
Fontaine will be opposed by only one other candidate,…
Indian Affairs Minister Jim Prentice was on the receiving end of criticism in May and early June as he hinted at a new approach by the new Conservative government in dealing with Aboriginal issues.
After six month's of Conservative rule, specialists in Aboriginal Affairs are beginning to arrive at the position that the government has no political will to do any more than it must on…
Metis National Council (MNC) leader Clem Chartier sent a letter to Saskatchewan Premier Lorne Calvert on June 6 in an attempt to get Aboriginal groups involved in the talks about the fiscal imbalance in Canada's regions.
The western premiers were about to meet in Edmonton to discuss how the federal transfer payment system could be made fairer. All premiers will gather for a First…
Dear Editor:
The misfortune of the seal hunt is not the fault of Paul McCartney or animal rights groups, but on the hunt itself. Activists make great scapegoats but the hunt has been documented, the brutal chaos enshrined in photos, on video and in eyewitness accounts. Inuit economic devastation comes not from activists, but is a product of the larger commercial hunt. The senseless…
Dear Editor:
Re: "Windspeaker should send reporters to witness CAP voting," May 2006
The assertion by your reader F. One Moon in the May 2006 edition of Windspeaker that "the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples is a Metis organization" is incorrect and should have been more thoroughly researched by the author.
The congress was incorporated in 1971 as the Native Council of Canada…