A few years ago, Brittany LeBorgne, 31, was about to give up on her dream of becoming an actress. It was a dream she kept alive since she was a five-year-old girl, playing dress up and performing for large imaginary audiences.

Fighting her self-doubt during what she calls her “Debbie-Downer period,” she decided to give it another shot after the then TV pilot series Mohawk Girls landed its first season in 2011.

A dedicated group of protesters are hoping they can accomplish what legal action has failed to do: shut down BC Hydro’s construction of the Site C dam on the Peace River.

Jasmine, from New Brunswick, stood up at a recent open forum, hosted by the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples in Edmonton Jan. 14, and gently chided Alberta for not having a CAP affiliate.

“It’s been a culture shock. The disparities between the Aboriginals we have in the east as opposed to here in the west. Right away my daughter and I noticed the homelessness. It’s so rampant here. It’s mindboggling,” she said.

Art Sterritt expects Gitga’at First Nation’s recent legal victory to impact more than the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project.

Photo: Enoch Cree Nation Chief Billy Morin (left) and Cold Lake First Nations Chief Bernice Martial (far right) provided opening remarks at the Treaties 1-11 Gathering.
(Photo: Shari Narine)

January 20, 2016

Chiefs, their delegates and Elders gathered behind closed doors Wednesday to discuss how to move forward with the federal government in treaty implementation.

The president of the Three Voices of Healing Society has gone public to refute allegations of questionable spending at its 12-bed residential alcohol and drug abuse treatment centre in Invermere, B.C.

The centre, which operated under the umbrella of the National Native Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program, earned a high profile for its success working with First Nations clients.

A small group of grade 12 students from Piikani High School has grabbed the attention of a man in the city that is the destination of their graduation trip.

January 18, 2016

Economics will be the focal point of the upcoming Treaty 1-11 Gathering later this week.

“We always need to talk about economic prosperity,” said Cold Lake First Nations Chief Bernice Martial. CLFN is hosting the event which takes place Wednesday and Thursday at the River Cree Resort on the Enoch Cree Nation. 

The theme of the event is "As Long as the Sun Shines, the Grass Grows and the Rivers Flow: A Livelihood for a Livelihood."

Seven activists led by We Wai Kai Hereditary Chief Geh-Soh-Giliach (Dan Wallace) have been taken into custody after occupying an offshore geotechnical barge moored near the Westridge Marine Terminal on Burrard Inlet in Tsleil-Waututh Nation traditional territory.

The barge, working under contract to Kinder Morgan, was conducting drilling operations in preparation for the proposed expansion of the terminal to increase crude oil shipments from the Alberta tarsands.

Alberta health minister to push Indigenous health concerns