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The Twelfth Annual Elders' and Traditional Peoples' Gathering was "the best gathering yet," according to a poll of participants done by Johna Hupfield, one of eight co-ordinators.
The largest gathering of its kind in Canada attracted more than 3,000 participants to Peterborough, Ontario's Trent University. This three day event, Feb. 17-19, offered a manifold of…
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Clearcutting on this southern Alberta reserve has decimated the equivalent of 25 years worth of logged wood over the past four months.
An estimated 500,000 cubic metres of wood have been harvested from Stoney Indian Band land, a staggering 2,631 per cent more than the 19,000 cubic metres recommended by Forestry Canada.
The rampant logging put hundreds of thousand of…
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Clearcutting on this southern Alberta reserve has decimated the equivalent of 25 years worth of logged wood over the past four months.
An estimated 500,000 cubic metres of wood have been harvested from Stoney Indian Band land, a staggering 2,631 per cent more than the 19,000 cubic metres recommended by Forestry Canada.
The rampant logging put hundreds of thousand of…
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Aboriginal people should be making the policies that directly affect their communities, not the government, said a member of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal People.
Paul Chartrand was the lone dissenter of the recommendations made in a scathing report on suicide in Aboriginal communities. "What I object to is a reaction that says we decide what's going to be the best…
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Aboriginal people should be making the policies that directly affect their communities, not the government, said a member of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal People.
Paul Chartrand was the lone dissenter of the recommendations made in a scathing report on suicide in Aboriginal communities. "What I object to is a reaction that says we decide what's going to be the best…
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People in South Africa and India are living longer than Inuit in northern Quebec, reports a new health study.
The life expectancy of the Inuit of northern Quebec has dropped by five years since the signing of the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement, due in large part of an extraordinary rate of suicide among the youth. So says a study carried out by the public health…
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People in South Africa and India are living longer than Inuit in northern Quebec, reports a new health study.
The life expectancy of the Inuit of northern Quebec has dropped by five years since the signing of the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement, due in large part of an extraordinary rate of suicide among the youth. So says a study carried out by the public health…
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The release of studies into the case of the missing salmon in British Columbia waters has failed to completely solve the mystery.
But Natives say the conclusion that warm water - not illegal fishing - was to blame exonerates them.
"These reports should lay to rest once and for all the specter of Aboriginal poaching as the cause of the missing salmon," said Ernie…
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The release of studies into the case of the missing salmon in British Columbia waters has failed to completely solve the mystery.
But Natives say the conclusion that warm water - not illegal fishing - was to blame exonerates them.
"These reports should lay to rest once and for all the specter of Aboriginal poaching as the cause of the missing salmon," said Ernie…
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In what may well be Saskatchewan Metis' largest-ever provincial election, the Metis Nation of Saskatchewan elected veteran politician Jim Durocher, a.k.a. Jimmy D., as its new president.
The Feb. 18 election proved a bit of a heated battle which saw the nearest rival, Bernice Hammersmith, lose by more than 100 votes, reports Earl A. Pelletier, the chief electoral officer…
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In what may well be Saskatchewan Metis' largest-ever provincial election, the Metis Nation of Saskatchewan elected veteran politician Jim Durocher, a.k.a. Jimmy D., as its new president.
The Feb. 18 election proved a bit of a heated battle which saw the nearest rival, Bernice Hammersmith, lose by more than 100 votes, reports Earl A. Pelletier, the chief electoral officer…
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Innu Nation spokesman Penote Michel maintains the environmental review of military low-level flights over Labrador is a farce, and the Canadian Forces announcement it plans to allow four additional countries access to the airspace seems to prove this out.
Michel said agreements with Belgium, France, Italy and the U.S. will see an increase in the number of flights taken…
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Innu Nation spokesman Penote Michel maintains the environmental review of military low-level flights over Labrador is a farce, and the Canadian Forces announcement it plans to allow four additional countries access to the airspace seems to prove this out.
Michel said agreements with Belgium, France, Italy and the U.S. will see an increase in the number of flights taken…
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Concerns mounting among the Innu and Inuit peoples of Labrador about mining exploration by a company partly owned and co-chaired by Robert Friedland, who used to head another company that was responsible for the infamous $120-milion Summitville disaster which left a river in Colorado poisoned with cyanide.
Friedland was president, chairman and a major shareholder in…
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Concerns mounting among the Innu and Inuit peoples of Labrador about mining exploration by a company partly owned and co-chaired by Robert Friedland, who used to head another company that was responsible for the infamous $120-milion Summitville disaster which left a river in Colorado poisoned with cyanide.
Friedland was president, chairman and a major shareholder in…