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Updated: Feb 23, 2014
Team Canada's Carey Price defeats the USA and Sweden with shutouts in the last two games to backstop them to gold in Sochi! Congratulations Carey!
Related: NHL's Buffalo Sabres head coach Ted Nolan (from Garden River First Nation) is the head coach of the 2014 Men's Latvian Olympic hocky team.
Latvia has upset the Swiss team to now face Team Canada in…
HOOP DANCER WINS UNPRECEDENTED 7TH WORLD ADULT TITLE AT HOOP DANCE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS AT HEARD MUSEUM
More than 3,500 watch outdoor
A hoop dancer from Old Oraibi on Arizona’s Hopi reservation won an unprecedented seventh adult world champion title Sunday at the 24th annual Heard Museum World Championship Hoop Dance Contest.
Derrick Suwaima Davis (Hopi/Choctaw) won the…
On Thursday, January 16, Sodexo celebrated its first anniversary on campus at Bow Valley College. Sodexo marked the occasion with a generous donation of $50,000 to create the "Sodexo Aboriginal Emergency Funding Support Fund." Awarded once a year over the next 10 years, the funds will support Aboriginal learners who face financial barriers.
"Sodexo is committed to the value of…
Sixty survivors of St. Anne’s Residential School took the federal government to court to gain access to documents to support their claims for compensation under the residential schools settlement agreement. On Jan. 14, the survivors won their battle.
An Ontario Superior Court ordered Canada to release documents from a five-year-long Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) investigation into the…
Canada and the provinces are, “waging a war against Aboriginal oral tradition in the courts,” said lawyer Paul Williams, “and it’s part of the larger war and, yes, it’s part of land and resources and survival. It always is.”
Williams spoke on the state of oral tradition in Canadian law at an event organized by the University of Toronto Aboriginal Law Program on Jan. 8. Described as a “…
Two exciting initiatives came together on Dec. 10 for an event in Ottawa, marking the one-year anniversary of the initial Idle No More National Day of Action and the start of Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence’s hunger strike.
Niigaan: In Conversation, a grassroots Ottawa project led by four Indigenous community members who have held 13 public events since March of last year, partnered…
The federal Conservative government is carving close to the bone in its efforts to eliminate the deficit in advance of the next election in 2015, and this certainly does not bode well for First Nations and Aboriginal groups, which are historically the first on the chopping block when government sings from the cut and slash song book. “We are doing this without raising taxes, we are doing it…
Former national chief of the Assembly of First Nations,
Phil Fontaine, was heckled off a stage at the University of Winnipeg Jan. 22. He was scheduled to lecture on First Nations issues, but protesters booed him for taking a job with TransCanada Pipeline in December. TransCanada Pipeline proposes building the Energy East project, a 4,500-kilometre pipeline that will carry 1.1-million…
On Feb. 4, the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business
will honour the 2014 inductee into the Aboriginal Business Hall of Fame, William MacLeod, former president and CEO of Cree Construction Development Company. As well, the inaugural National Youth Aboriginal Entrepreneur of the Year Award will be presented to Savannah Olsen, owner of the Old Faithful Shop in Vancouver. This new award…
The Omushkegowuk Walkers, Danny Metatawabin and
two other Attawapiskat residents, Brian Okimaw and Paul Mattinas, set out on foot Jan. 4 on a trek from James Bay to Ottawa. Readers may remember Metatawabin as a speaker for Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence during her hunger strike last year. Metatawabin said he was inspired to do the trek by the Cree walkers who completed a three-month…
Membertou First Nation and Eskasoni First Nation have launched the Memski Project Inc., a company that they hope will increase employment rates, identify opportunities with new and emerging industries and identify gaps in the labor force. “By combining our resources, our communities are ready to meet the needs of major projects by providing companies with access to a diverse and capable…
Nuu-chah-nulth territory on the west coast of Vancouver Island is being plagued by elk poaching so the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council and its 14 member nations, with some help from the BC Guide Outfitters Association and local business, have committed a $31,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or people responsible for the illegal elk kills. It is one of…
A hashtag tweeted by the pro-oil group Ethical Oil has been deemed racist by many Aboriginal people and caused the group into damage-control mode. In its attempts to discredit singer/songwriter Neil Young’s public views on the environment and the tar sands during his Honour the Treaties tour, Ethical Oil tweeted the hashtag #IndianIgnorant while sharing a news story from the Sun News Network.…
Native Americans are protesting a Michigan Republican official for offensive comments he made in an article in The New Yorker titled “Down with Detroit?” Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson, referring to the historical treatment of Native Americans at the hands of non-Natives of the past, said the financially-troubled city should be turned into a reservation-style detention centre…
Sinclair inquiry report results to be made public early 2014
The findings, conclusions and recommendations of the Ted Hughes’ inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Phoenix Sinclair will be made public early in 2014, following a thorough review by the government. The Hughes inquiry sat for 91 days, heard testimony from 126 witnesses and examined the…