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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 woman credited with negotiating B.C.’s first modern treaty under the BC Treaty Process is partnering with EY (formerly Ernst & Young) to help their clients better liaise with First Nations on joint economic development. Kim Baird, former chief of Tsawwassen Nation, will share her insight into the best ways for companies to engage First Nations in future projects.
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On Oct. 8, a small demonstration at the edge of a river raised awareness about 0, reads the Truro Daily News. Mi’kmaq representatives set eel traps as part of a protest to a natural gas storage project.
“Once we drop that first trap, then that is our treaty fishing grounds of the Mi’kmaq nation of the Shubenacadie district,” said spokeswoman Cheryl Maloney. “Once we drop these traps, if…
Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation has dropped a treaty land entitlement claim because the process is taking too long. The land claim process began following the arrest and incarceration of six KI leaders, including Chief Donny Morris, in 2008 as they protested Platinex Mining company claims near Big Trout Lake in KI traditional territory.
The entitlement claim was pursued soon…
The Save Our Seas and Shores coalition wants the issuance of license extensions to Corridor Resources Inc. for its exploration site in the Gulf of St. Lawrence halted. The coalition told the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board it supports the Innu, Maliseet and Mi’gmaq Alliance in their call for a 12-year moratorium on offshore oil and gas development in the gulf.
…A woman from eastern Ontario was in court on Oct. 20 challenging the federal government after being denied Indian status in 1995 because she doesn’t know the identity of one of her grandfathers. Lynn Gehl’s grandmother and father have status, but she was denied.
“They made the assumption that this unknown grandfather was a non-Indian man, and through the process of that assumption I was…
Toronto-based Mohawk artist Greg Staats launched his three-month term as Artist-in-Residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario on Oct. 14 with an evening of reflection about the Haudenosaunee worldview.
Fifty-one-year old Staats works in photography, performance, video installation and sculpture. Born and raised on Six Nations, he’s lived and practiced his art in Toronto for the last 25…
The Blackfoot Confederacy is experiencing a rebirth in their culture. Action undertaken by the Elders has led to the first treaty signed in more than 200 years between First Nations in Canada and Tribes in the United States. This one on buffalo restoration.
“I think it’s kind of a like a rebirth of the old Indian way of doing things,” said Dr. Leroy Little Bear, talking about both the…
Aboriginal leaders and the families of missing and murdered Indigenous women repeated their calls for a national inquiry into the crisis on the steps of Parliament Hill during a National Day of Remembrance on Oct. 4, but the rally’s first speaker, Cree elder Irene Lindsay, insisted that the vigil was about more than grief.
“Today we need to celebrate their spirits,” she said, “and to…
AFN pushes for independent inquiry
The Assembly of First Nations is calling for an independent probe of how police handled the disappearance of 15-year-old Tina Fontaine, whose body was pulled from the Red River wrapped in a bag on Aug. 17. Fontaine had run away from home on the Sagkeeng First Nation in July. She was placed into the care of the Child and Family Services…
Tales drawn from 5,000 years of existence are woven together through audio, visual and modern technology to breathe life into the colorful history of the Musqueam First Nation community.
The Musqueam, Museum of Vancouver and the Museum of Anthropology have partnered on a series of three distinct exhibitions, opening simultaneously this coming January known as c–YsnaîYm The City Before…
It has taken the tragic and seemingly preventable death of a beloved Skidegate Band councillor to shed light on what critics say is chronically unreliable ambulance service in B.C.’s remote communities.
Godfrey Williams (Didi), 48, died of a heart attack Aug. 2, following a series of blunders that caused what should have been a 10-minute ambulance trip to take nearly one hour.
It…
Though the spotlight is not shining on her as it was a couple of years ago, Mary Spencer’s main athletic goal remains the same.
Spencer, a 29-year-old Ojibwe boxer who lives in Windsor, Ont., would love to win a medal, preferably gold, at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Spencer had been considered one of Canada’s best medal hopefuls heading into the 2012…
HIV, AIDs among Aboriginal women to be examined
Digging Deep, a three-year community-based pilot project, will examine why Aboriginal women in Saskatchewan are disproportionately represented with HIV and AIDS. Co-principal investigator and First Nations University of Canada professor Carrie Bourassa hopes the research project will set the tone for provincial and…
Attack Off To Solid Start
The Batchewana Attack got off to an ideal start in the Canadian International Hockey League which is in its first year of operations. The Attack, coached by former National Hockey League player Denny Lambert, who is Ojibwe, won its first three regular season contests in the eight-team league.
The Attack is playing its home contests on…
New Relationship Trust has contributed $750,000 to First Peoples’ Cultural Council to launch the First Peoples’ Heritage,
Language and Culture Project. This contribution will support the delivery of services and programs to revitalize First Nations language, arts and culture in British Columbia.
The funding contribution will build capacity and increase awareness…