First Nations

Tension reached a high point during a trauma-healing ceremony when a hereditary chief walked across a sand-covered floor and returned the gift he had received from Vancouver Police Chief Adam Palmer.

First Nations and environmentalists say they are angry the federal and British Columbia governments continue to stonewall American requests for a joint investigation of cross-border contamination from coal mining as meetings of the panel that mediates such issues wrap up.

First Nations fighting to get salmon farms out of the ocean are dismayed in the wake of federal Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray’s recent engagement tour on a plan to transition open-net pen operations in B.C. 

Federal Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu says she remains "open" to legislating fire and building codes on First Nations, even though Ottawa has no plans to do so now.

There is no way to enforce building or fire codes on First Nations and pursuing a legislative fix would require significant time and money, federal officials warn in an internal briefing document.

Behind a fence sit cans containing remains of the mine's old roaster building, its every beam and timber steeped in poison from more than a half-century of separating gold from the arsenic that held it.

Dr. Meghan Beals says she wants Canada's National Day for Truth and Reconciliation to resemble Remembrance Day.

Shaundria Yellowback travelled almost 600 kilometres by plane — a 90-minute flight via Perimeter Aviation — to get to class for the first day of Grade 12.

Winnipeg Free Press columnist Niigaan Sinclair writes on provincial governments’ approaches, and how making Sept. 30 a provincial statutory holiday should be a no-brainer in Manitoba.

Some Indigenous leaders and community members say they're concerned about making progress on reconciliation with King Charles III.

The largest loan in the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation's history was awarded to the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) on Tuesday.

Columnist Julian Brave NoiseCat reflects on identity, community and family at Toronto's first-ever two-spirit powwow.

The Mi'kmaq's relationship to Catholicism stretches back over 400 years, but there is a growing shift away from the church. And the Pope's apology is unlikely to stem that flow.

On the eve of the German chancellor's visit to Canada, Wolastoq Grand Council, other Indigenous people and allies in Atlantic Canada will voice opposition to proposals for East Coast LNG export projects and related fracking.

A federal financial intervention program created new water and housing hardships for at least 65 First Nations while it was in place, a Canada's National Observer investigation finds.