Indigenous people

An Ontario First Nation suffering from generations of mercury poisoning still needs a treatment centre and help for children harmed by the toxic metal, its chief said on Wednesday, December 5, 2018.

Rebuilding Canada's relationship with Indigenous people is part of the legacy Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wants to leave, he told chiefs gathered at a major Assembly of First Nations meeting in Ottawa on Tuesday, December 4, 2018, afternoon.

Francis Pegahmagabow went to a recruitment office almost immediately after war was declared in 1914.

British Columbia's government is moving to increase the participation of Indigenous people in the environmental assessment of projects with new legislation tabled on Monday, November 5, 2018.

Indigenous people continue to suffer from racism connected to hydroelectric development in northern Manitoba, the grand chief for the area said two weeks after a review found abuse and violence dating back to the 1960s.

Near the foot of sacred Mount Prevost where Indigenous people say their ancestors first landed on earth lays buried a 2,000-year-old settlement with archeological evidence of ancient tools, homes, hearths and grave sites.

Cedar George-Parker remembers the moment he decided to devote his life to defending Indigenous people and their traditional territories. It was the one-year anniversary of a shooting at his high school that killed four of his classmates in Marysville, Wash.

Premier Rachel Notley has formally apologized for Alberta's role in the '60s Scoop, and although survivors say that doesn't close the book on one of Canada's darkest episodes, they say it does open a new chapter of reconciliation and healing.

The Alberta government says it is creating the world's largest boreal forest preserve with new wildland parks in the province's northeast.

A group of Canadian Indigenous leaders reaffirmed their opposition to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion at parent company Kinder Morgan’s annual shareholder meeting in Houston on Wednesday. In a move seen as a victory for the project's opponents, shareholders voted for two of three non-binding proposals calling for improved environmental reporting.

Three levels of Canadian government say they will oppose the latest attempt to open the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

The federal government is proposing major changes to the criminal justice system to address criticism that it's biased against Indigenous people and other marginalized groups, as part of sweeping legislation introduced on Thursday, March 29, 2018.

Colten Boushie came into the world smiling.

Bulldozers and excavators are cutting a broad swath through the reserve land of the Tsuut'ina in southwest Calgary as part of a transformative project gets underway.

The federal Finance Department has shaved several years of projected deficits from Canada's long-term financial future following better-than-expected economic growth in 2017 — though many more years of deficits remain.