A B.C. developer and First Nation are asking the provincial ombudsperson to investigate the government’s apparent failure to recognize the historical value of what is believed to be an ancestral cemetery.

Corpus Management Group claims that the provincial ministry of forests, lands and natural resource operations failed to grant historical status to the site, which is understood to be a mass burial ground for victims of the 1782 smallpox epidemic.

The Art Gallery of Alberta will be presenting the exhibition 7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc. from March 5 to July 3, 2016.

The show brings together more than 80 paintings and drawings from the 1970s from the group, whose members included Jackson Beardy (1944-1984), Eddy Cobiness (1933-1996), Alex Janvier (b. 1935), Norval Morrisseau (1932-2007), Daphne Odjig (b. 1919), Carl Ray (1942-1978) and Joseph Sanchez (b. 1948).

Twelve-year-old traditional singer, Theland Kicknosawy (Odawa/Potawatomi), led the procession into the room where the commissioners of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission awaited to present their final report in Ottawa yesterday.

Chairman Justice Murray Sinclair (Ojibway), opened the event encouraging the young First Nation boy to walk tall and continue to sing his Honor Song.

The mental health and residential schools healing programs of the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council hosted the Feed the People Christmas Lunch on Dec. 10 at Trinity Church in Port Alberni. It was the fifth year a lunch for inner city and urban Native people was held in honour of late Ray Seitcher, hereditary chief of the Tla-o-qui-aht people, who dedicated his life to helping people. Servers had hundreds to feed in a short time.

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The newly-released internal evaluation of British Columbia’s child welfare system has been solidly panned by First Nations leadership, who called it a wasted opportunity and an attack on the child advocate’s office.

Filmmaker wanted nothing less than the truth

“Today, it’s important to look Indian, to be Métis.”

With these words, Gil Cardinal narrates how he feels about meeting a blood relative for the first time in his autobiographical documentary Foster Child.

The 1987 internationally-acclaimed self-portrait records his heartrending journey to find his Aboriginal roots and birth family.

Blackwater Now Toiling In Slovakia

Judd Blackwater’s professional hockey career continues to take him to various parts of the world.

Blackwater, a 28-year-old forward who is from the Blood Tribe in Alberta, is a much travelled player who has suited up for 12 different squads during his pro career.

Though he’s just 11, Samuel Assinewai is gearing up to represent Canada in an international hockey competition.

Assinewai, who is Ojibwe, was selected to represent his country at the inaugural Russian World Hockey Challenge. The tournament will be held in Moscow from May 5 to May 9.

This event will include teams with players born between 2001 through 2005.

Assinewai, a Grade 6 student at Little Current Public School on Ontario’s Manitoulin Island, will play for one of the two Canadian entrants featuring players born in 2004.

Partnership to help with high cost of food

Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug, Lac Seul First Nation and Creewest GP Inc. (a for-profit corporation owned by First Nations in the northeast) have signed a memorandum of understanding to build a food distribution and logistics centre in Sioux Lookout to better provide food to northern communities.

The Canadian Aboriginal Aids Network is spreading awareness about the impact of the disease in the Aboriginal community.

Each year, CAAN holds a week-long series of events across Canada inviting key partners, members of parliament, and members of the public, to come to together to engage in discussion around issues faced by those affected by HIV and AIDs, and learn preventative measures.

This year the week kicked off in Calgary on Dec. 1, and ended with a breakfast on Parliament Hill.