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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.
The Manto Sipi Cree Nation filed a statement of claim Sept. 9 in the Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench against the province of Manitoba. The claim centres on the failure of the province to resolve outstanding mining claims that encumber ancestral lands selected by the First Nation and that should be acquired and converted to reserve land. Manto Sipi Cree Nation alleges that Manitoba failed to…
The Indigenous Council on Policing and Crime Prevention, which was established by resolution last December by the Winnipeg Police Board, has finally had members appointed. The council’s mandate is to provide information, knowledge and advice to the board related to Indigenous people’s safety concerns and the priorities, objectives and policies the board sets for the Winnipeg Police Service.…
For the fall 2015 semester, the proportion of self-identifying Indigenous students enrolled at the University of Winnipeg rose to 12 per cent, up from 10 per cent the previous year. The total number of students enrolled at the university stands at 9,487 and the UWinnipeg is claiming one of the highest proportions of First Nations, Metis and Inuit students in Canada. The Opportunity Fund, which…
Cora Morgan, Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs’ First Nations family advocate, says families and children will be pushed as a priority leading up to next month’s federal election and the upcoming provincial election in spring. “We’re going to be doing a campaign where we ask people to vote for children and to have the political parties have the issue of children welfare in their province at the…
Traffic was held up on Highway 6 near Fairford on the afternoon of Sept. 15 by chiefs, community members and students. They gathered to protest the Manitoba government’s commitment of $495 million to flood mitigation in the area but its failure to secure permanent homes for the about 1,900 people who remain displaced by flooding four years ago. In July, the province announced plans to build a…
The 2016 winners of the Indspire Awards range from an award-winning author, to a reconciliation expert to an NHL athlete.
The 14 honorees were announced by Indspire CEO Roberta Jamieson in a sun-filled top-floor room of a downtown Toronto office building on Sept. 15.
Jamieson said the recipients of this year’s awardS—considered Canada’s top honor by and for indigenous people—are…
We will no longer wait for the federal government or a national organization to start an inquiry into missing and murdered women (MMIW) and girls, said Ontario Regional Chief Isadore Day at a media conference in Toronto on Sept. 9.
On behalf of the Chiefs of Ontario Chief Day announced the launch of an online campaign to create awareness about the issue of MMIW and to start the process…
The problem of unexploded munitions (UXOs) on the Camp Ipperwash army lands may keep the Chippewas of Kettle and Stony Point from developing the land for up to 20 years, according to the Department of National Defence (DND).
If people expect to build new homes or businesses there soon they are “sadly mistaken,” according to Mike Cloud, former band negotiator and witness to UXO…
The Assembly of First Nations and the Canadian Council of Child and Youth Advocates are urging the provinces to take action to improve child welfare instead of waiting for the go-ahead from the federal government.
The 2011 National Household Survey indicated that 48 per cent of the 30,000 children and youth in government care across the country are Aboriginal, according to a report…
Eleven months after closing arguments were delivered in a case that has the potential to change the way child services are funded on reserve, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has yet to rule.
That delay falls well beyond the four to six months guideline under which the CHRT usually makes decisions. But the absence of a ruling has nothing to do with the upcoming federal election or…
It’s not often you will find approximately 4,000 people showing up to see a play about a fictional Native character written by a 19th century German writer named Karl May, who reportedly had never been to North America.
But there they, and I, were in late July, nestled in a humongous amphitheatre that had once been a large quarry. In fact, at this very performance of the play “Im Tal…
A day of celebration 73 years in the making for the people of the Chippewas of Kettle and Stony Point in Ontario turned into a scene of confrontation and suffering Sept. 20 at the gates of the former army camp slated to be returned to Aboriginal control by the federal government.
Band member Pierre George, brother of Dudley George, who was killed by police near the former Camp Ipperwash…
The 16th annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival will be held in Toronto Oct. 14 to 18.
imagineNATIVE's opening night gala will be held at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema with Sterlin Harjo's Mekko, starring Rod Rondeaux and Sarah Podemski.
Mekko is a thriller following a man who must navigate a welcoming, yet dangerous, community of Native…
Self-described settler ally Trina Cooper-Bolam found a world of difference between Western and Indigenous practices of commemoration.
Bolam worked with residential school commemoration projects funded through the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement. When she learned that no one was doing research on the commemoration projects that totaled…
A month after his election as Ontario Regional Chief, Isadore Day Wiindawtegowinini offered tobacco at the sacred fire burning at the Mississaugas of New Credit Cultural Village set up at Toronto’s Fort York as part of the 2015 Pan Am Games. He also visited the Aboriginal Pavilion where he agreed to an interview to talk about his priorities for his three-year term of office.
As the…