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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.
More than a year after the missing women inquiry ruled that systemic racism and a “colossal failure” by RCMP and Vancouver police had allowed serial killer Robert Pickton to continue killing for years, B.C. has settled a lawsuit with 13 children of missing women, and announced a $4.9 million fund for 98 such children in the province.
Announcing the fund on March 18, B.C. Attorney…
First Nations in Quebec may hold their own independence votes in the event the Parti Québecois wins the April 7 elections and holds another referendum.
Although the Liberals appeared to be in the lead in the final weeks of the campaign, the poll is being watched closely by aboriginal groups concerned about their rights should the province separate from Canada.
Similar concerns…
There will be no transition period for organizations that use project funding from the Urban Aboriginal Strategies program as it is revamped.
The impact of no gap funding will be devastating, said Christine Martin, co-chair of the Metro Vancouver Urban Aboriginal Executive Council. Clientele will be losing out as community-driven programs close their doors because of lack of funding.…
The Skidegate Saints have done it again.
And in relatively easy fashion.
The Saints won the boys’ title at the British Columbia Junior All-Native Basketball Tournament, which concluded on March 21 in Kamloops.
This marked the third straight year the Skidegate side had won the provincial crown. A total of 25 teams competed in the boys’ division at the event, which featured…
Hosts win two titles
The Six Nations Minor Hockey Association is once again receiving rave reviews for a long-running youth event it hosted. For the second straight year the Six Nations organization hosted the Little Native Hockey League Tournament.
As was the case last year, in order to accommodate the size of the tournament, the event, more commonly…
The history of Canada is based on a series of misunderstandings as well as understandings, Bob Rae told an audience of mostly law students at the University of Toronto on March 19.
Rae resigned last year from his position as Liberal MP for the Toronto Centre riding to take on the job of Advisor to the Matawa Chiefs Tribal Council regarding the development of an area in The Ring of Fire…
Colonization has interfered with the traditional roles of Indigenous men, Giibwanisi told people gathered on March 5 for a discussion on men’s obligations. The discussion was part of a speaker series titled Community Resurgence, hosted by Ryerson University’s Centre for Indigenous Governance and Ryerson’s Aboriginal Education Council.
“When I first understood what colonization was, I…
Many residential schools were built from brick so artist Dawn Marie Marchand has invited survivors, their descendants and their spouses to draw their stories in the form of a three inch by nine inch piece of brown paper.
“I want to recreate the stories on a wall and I wanted to use a medium that was easily accessible and anybody could mail,” said Marchand of choosing the brick-shape.…
The Indigenous Visual Culture Program at Toronto’s OCAD University hosted a talk titled, Wampum: Language and Symbol recently. About 60 people gathered to learn about wampum from historians, curators and artists.
Historian and curator, Rick Hill, Tuscarora from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, started learning about wampum belts when he worked in a museum in the 1960s.
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Teaming up with cancer agency for study
Metis Nation-Saskatchewan and the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations have teamed up with the Saskatchewan Cancer Agency to identify First Nations and Metis cancer sufferers in hopes of using that data to improve cancer surveillance, care and services. Riaz Alvi, provincial leader of epidemiology and performance with the…
Thousands perished from disease, malnutrition, fire.
Large numbers of children who were sent to residential schools never returned home. In light of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s final national event held at the end of March in Edmonton, this month’s Footprints is dedicated to the memory of those children who died from the harsh conditions they experienced,…
The Urbane Indian
Remember when riding the school bus was easy and simple. No pressure or anger, other than the odd bully. No socio-political issues of exclusion, equity, diversity or racism. It was just a simpler time, and the only thing that mattered was getting to and from school.
At that age, there was no substantial understanding of the deeper implications that riding a bus…
Indigenous women in Canada experience rates of violence more than three times that of non-Indigenous women and young Indigenous women are five times more likely to die of violence. Moreover, recent research shows that more than 800 Indigenous women and girls have disappeared or been murdered in Canada over the past several decades.
When Parliament debated my motion on Feb. 14, 2013 to…
Apologies are critical, said Edmonton Archbishop Richard Smith of the Archdiocese of Edmonton, but they do not erase the past. They are beautiful to hear, but the memories of wrong-doing remain, and that, despite the pain these memories stir up, is a good thing, because as soon as we forget our past, we have a tendency to repeat it. “We need to learn and to remember.”
Smith was speaking…
Release: March 18, 2014 - Prime Minister Stephen Harper today issued the following statement regarding the resignation of Jim Flaherty, Minister of Finance:
“It is with great reluctance that today I accepted the resignation from Cabinet of Jim Flaherty, Minister of Finance, so that he can eventually return to the private sector.
“In a political career of almost 20 years…