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[Canadian] Truth and Reconciliation report brings calls for action, not words
Commission releases 94 recommendations to confront 'cultural genocide' of schools
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You can boost Indigenous reporting — here’s how
The Indigenous Reporting Fund provides a bilingual and national platform for Indigenous voices
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Prime minister using national security to distract from faltering economy, says Grand Chief
Concern that Harper may be ‘desperate enough to deliberately provoke a conflict’ with Aboriginal peoples
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That Supposed Map of Pre-Contact North America
There's a map making the rounds on Facebook right now, which is being shared as if it's a map of pre-contact North America. You can find it here. But it doesn't show pre-contact North America at all — it's trying to show what the boundaries of the First Nations & Inuit would look like in 2015 if contact had never happened. And it's not even an accurate representation of that alternative history: the borders it uses are borders that were formed, in part, as a result of European contact.
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This Rare, White Bear May Be the Key to Saving a Canadian Rainforest
The white Kermode bear of British Columbia is galvanizing First Nations people fighting to protect their homeland. By Alex Shoumatoff.
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Aboriginal Astronomy - Emu in the sky
The photograph above shows the aboriginal "emu-in-the-sky" constellation in the sky. It won its creator, Barnaby Norris, third prize in the prestigious 2007 "Eureka" awards. To see the "constellation", look at the dark dust-clouds, not the stars!
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United Nations votes 191-2 to condemn U.S. embargo against Cuba
In the first United Nations vote on a resolution condemning the U.S. embargo against Cuba since the two countries renewed diplomatic ties in July, Cuba scored its biggest victory yet as the General Assembly voted 191-2 to adopt the resolution. The only drama was how the United States would vote after its Dec. 17 announcement of a rapprochement with Cuba and its renewal of diplomatic relations with Havana in July after a gap of more than 54 years.
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The World Indigenous Games
The first World Indigenous Games is underway in Palmas, Brazil, having kicked off on October 23. The games include 2,000 athletes from dozens of Brazilian tribes, as well as indigenous groups from 22 other countries.
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« Nègres blancs » et Autochtones : un dialogue nécessaire
Les révélations de l’émission Enquête ont eu l’effet d’une bombe, avec raison. Mais au-delà du choc initial, cette crise doit être l’occasion d’une réflexion en profondeur sur les rapports entre le peuple québécois et les peuples des Premières Nations. On est habitué d’entendre certains politiciens parler du Québec comme d’un cas « exemplaire ». Au Canada anglais (rien de surprenant), on dit souvent l’inverse : la société québécoise serait insensible aux enjeux autochtones.
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Canada's murder rate in 2014 falls to 50-year low
Canada's murder rate in 2014 edged down to a near 50-year low, but aboriginals accounted for a disproportionately high number of victims, official data showed on Wednesday. Almost one-quarter of the 516 homicide victims in 2014 were aboriginal, a group that accounts for just 5 percent of the Canadian population, said Statistics Canada. The figures reflected the dire living conditions for many of Canada's 1.4 million aboriginals as well as the high levels of violence against women and children.
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Unsurrendered
The Unist’ot’en clan stands in the way of three oil and gas pipelines. What makes this blockade unique is the land: a territory never given up by treaty.
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Can Technology Wash Away a Culture?
In an indigenous Costa Rican community, fewer and fewer students are graduating from high school. Older generations are concerned that cellphones are getting in the way. By Rebecca Gibian and Diana Crandall.
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“In search of our better selves”
‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ as Totem Transfer Narrative. By Dallas Hunt.
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Disappearing world: Paraguay’s Ayoreo people fight devastating land sales
An Ayoreo group in the Chaco whose ancestral land was sold to international ranchers in 2012 is battling for its return – and to hang on to their way of life. By Toby Stirling Hill. (Jan. 25)
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How the Gold King Mine Spill Threatens the Navajo Nation
Colorado’s Gold King Mine spill sent millions of gallons of contaminated water into the Animas River this past summer. More than 130 miles away in New Mexico, along the San Juan River, the environmental disaster is making the Navajo Nation rethink itself. By Robert Sanchez.
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How Alaskan hunter-gatherers preserved their food sources
A new study of humans on Sanak Island, Alaska and their historical relationships with local species suggests that despite being super-generalist predators, the food gathering behaviours of the local Aleut people were stabilizing for the ecosystem.
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Canada’s prisons are the ‘new residential schools’
A months-long investigation reveals that at every step, Canada’s justice system is set against Indigenous people. By Nancy Macdonald.
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How a huge Arizona mining deal was passed — and could be revoked
Pushed through Congress, the Resolution Copper deal could damage sacred Apache sites. By Osha Gray Davidson. (Feb. 2)
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The Fencing Master
David Treuer on learning to fence with Maître Michel Sebastiani and learning to write with Toni Morrison.
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Indigenous court provides a solution to overrepresentation in Canadian justice system
The Supreme Court of Canada helped pave the way for a solution, but several communities including Williams Lake seem reluctant to apply a renewed Indigenous law approach
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