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Caribou hunting quotas make scapegoats out of northern First Nations | 208282 hits | 10:29 PM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack
Newly published research argues Indigenous hunting didn't cause the collapse of once-mighty caribou herds in Canada's North and harvest bans only force First Nations to shoulder the blame for problems they didn't create. Rescues and reconciliation | 208713 hits | 12:22 AM on Monday | posted by Hyack
Vancouver Island training program pairs Indigenous knowledge with Coast Guard rescue expertise. Indigenous mariners have jumped into their fishing boats and mounted rescues for some of the worst ocean disasters on the B.C. coast Jury finds Raymond Cormier not guilty in death of Tina Fontaine | 209367 hits | 3:41 PM on Thursday | posted by ShepherdsDog
Mother outraged after school sends 'triggering' residential school book home to 3rd graders | 209467 hits | 7:57 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack
A mother from Hay River, N.W.T., says she started crying reading the first page of a children's book for her Grade 3 child. The book is called I am Not a Number. The story is about a girl who was taken from her home to attend a residential school. | 211747 hits | 11:05 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack
A Mιtis trapper survived a mild heart attack and 24 hours in the subarctic cold last month after his snowmobile got caught in metre-deep snow. Thousands ring in lunar new year with Hoobiyee and the beat of the drum | 208595 hits | 10:21 PM on Saturday | posted by Hyack
The stadium at the PNE came alive with traditional song, dance and beats of drums as First Nations celebrated Hoobiyee in Vancouver. Hoobiyee began as the celebration of the return of oolichan an important food source for the Nisga'a to B.C.`s northe Supreme Court sides with B.C. First Nation in ancestral land dispute | 208773 hits | 5:51 PM on Friday | posted by Hyack
The Supreme Court of Canada upholds a tribunal ruling siding with the Williams Lake Indian Band, which had argued pre-Confederation British Columbia failed to protect its territory from settlement. Mi'kmaq chiefs call for immediate removal of Halifax Cornwallis statue | 208281 hits | 6:05 PM on Friday | posted by Hyack
The Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi'kmaq Chiefs is calling for the immediate removal of the statue of Edward Cornwallis from a downtown Halifax park. Dancing, igloos, ice slide part of Inuvik festival to mark return of the sun | 208756 hits | 7:57 PM on Saturday | posted by Hyack
Inuvik will officially welcome back the sun on Saturday for the first time since it set on Dec. 5. The three-day festival will be held predominantly at the Midnight Sun Complex and Twin Lakes. Federal Court dismisses Squamish First Nation's request for more salmon | 208214 hits | 1:35 PM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack
The Squamish First Nation has lost a bid for a larger allocation of the scarce Fraser River sockeye salmon fishery. The First Nation filed an application for a judicial review after federal officials rejected its request for 70,000 sockeye for food, socia Book published on Inuit tattoo revitalization 'all my visions coming to life,' says author | 208485 hits | 1:11 PM on Sunday | posted by Hyack
It began as a personal mission to revive a traditional Inuit custom. Now, it's become a published book one that Angela Hovak Johnston hopes will inspire Inuit women across Canada. Family says Indigenous elder humiliated by search at Sask. Canadian Tire store | 208425 hits | 8:03 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack
The family of a 78-year-old First Nations elder says he was humiliated when an employee searched him at a Canadian Tire store in Saskatchewan earlier this week. Delilah Saunders 'grateful and outraged' by struggle to get liver transplant | 208718 hits | 5:27 AM on Wednesday | posted by ShepherdsDog
Manitoba Cree elder Sarah Harper dies at 111 | 208678 hits | 9:45 PM on Sunday | posted by Hyack
A well-known Manitoba Cree elder passed away over the weekend at 111 years old. The elder celebrated her 111th birthday in August in Bunibonibee Cree Nation also known as Oxford House where she spent most of her life. Protesters object to development of Cape Breton mountain sacred to Mi'kmaq | 208774 hits | 5:54 PM on Saturday | posted by Hyack
Dozens of protesters are taking a stand against mining projects on a Cape Breton mountain that is sacred to the Mi'kmaq. Return of sacred objects helps revive ceremonies in Indigenous communities | 208627 hits | 5:44 PM on Saturday | posted by Hyack
Many repatriated Indigenous artifacts have become spiritual and artistic inspirations to the descendants of those who made them. "(This museum) actually phoned the tribe and said, 'Can somebody come and pick this up? Our staff are hearing animal sounds in On Haida Gwaii, logging plans expose rift in reconciliation | 208460 hits | 11:09 PM on Sunday | posted by Hyack
The B.C. government is "pursuing profit over culture and community" by selling logging rights on Haida Gwaii without permission, the Council of the Haida Nation has warned. 'The scalp of Edward Cornwallis' to be sold online by Mi'kmaq group | 209876 hits | 4:33 PM on Saturday | posted by Hyack
The organizer says the auction is strictly satirical no grave digging has taken place but she's hoping the controversial items will draw attention to issues affecting Mi'kmaq communities. Supreme Court rules in favour of Yukon First Nations in Peel watershed dispute | 209341 hits | 8:02 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled in favour of Yukon First Nations in their fight to protect the Peel watershed region, overturning a decision that rolled back years of planning and ordering the government to consider a final recommended plan proposed Indigenous groups in Alberta, N.W.T. say they've borne 'enormous costs' from B.C. dams, call for end to Site C | 212115 hits | 8:33 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack
A coalition of First Nations in Alberta and the Northwest Territories whose lands are downstream from B.C.'s Site C dam called on Premier John Horgan to cancel the project on the same day cabinet ministers consulted with energy experts. Missing man and boy found near Nunavut community after searchers 'saw a light' | 209172 hits | 2:31 PM on Friday | posted by Hyack
The man and the boy were found walking towards Hall Beach, Nunavut after search and rescue teams spent four days out on the land looking for them.
Paul Sr. Quliktalik, and Mark Qulitalik,13, set out on the approximately 70-kilometre journey shortly after Remains from 145 Indigenous ancestors in storage at University of Winnipeg | 208745 hits | 10:36 AM on Monday | posted by Hyack
The University of Winnipeg has been working to repatriate the remains of Indigenous people stored on campus, but at least one Indigenous woman says it's not happening fast enough. Nunavut creates country food safety guidelines to boost traditional menus across territory | 208496 hits | 10:01 PM on Sunday | posted by Hyack
The Nunavut health separtment has created food safety guidelines on how to handle and serve country food in the territory especially to people who are already sick, or have weak immune systems.Back to Canada News
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