Indigenous

"How do you explain to a little girl that her people were kidnapped and incarcerated at schools where they were beaten for speaking their parents’ language, told their gods were devils and taught to hate themselves?" asks columnist Julian Brave Noisecat.

Indigenous advocates in Canada are calling for more cultural and mental-health supports for residential school survivors as communities discover unmarked graves at former sites.

A lawsuit alleging RCMP systematically brutalized Indigenous people in Northern Canada can proceed as a class action despite objections from the government, Federal Court ruled on Wednesday.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said his government had felt the need to act on the issue.

An extraordinary gathering of Indigenous family leaders occurred in the days following the discovery of what are believed to be the remains of 215 children at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, says a former chief.

The unmarked graves at a Kamloops residential school are testimony to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's failure to make progress on his promise to radically shift Canada’s relationship with Indigenous people, says Independent MP and former Liberal justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould.

A year after Chantel Moore was killed by police in Edmundston, N.B., the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council and Green Party are calling for action.

Jason Kenney has built his political reputation around a willingness to fight — and is pushing back against so-called "cancel culture" even after 215 children's remains were found at a Kamloops residential school, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Years ago, the grandparents of Ando’ohl lax̱ ha (Nathan Combs) had fed friends and family from potato fields and smokehouses on a plot of land they tended by the Skeena River about 150 kilometres northeast of Terrace. Combs, who is Gitxan, wanted the land, which had been dormant for years, to again bolster his community’s food security. 

If the network thinks Rick Santorum’s views are worth elevating, then it’s long past time for it to have at least one Native person regularly on air, writes columnist Julian Brave NoiseCat.

After a COVID-19 lockdown hiatus year, a free seed library in Vancouver is restocked and ready for all levels of gardeners.

The young Black and Indigenous directors and alchemists of Future Ancestors are helping schools, companies and organizations do the work of grappling with systemic racism and pushing for racial and social justice, including on climate change.