LATEST GLOBAL INDIGENOUS NEWS

Many feel reconciliation actions by the Catholic Church need to go beyond an apology for residential schools.

University of Alberta students have repurposed an old shed on the Kapawe'no First Nation in northern Alberta and filled it with sports equipment for children in the community. 

Hundreds of people gathered on Saturday to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Eskasoni's annual competition powwow. The largest Mi'kmaw community in the world welcomed visitors from far and wide for two days of dancing, drumming and singing.

When Ian McCallum put a canoe in the Thames River for the first time last August, he was looking for more than an adventure. Now, the two-day journey has inspired a book as part of a wider effort to revitalize the endangered Lunaape language, also called Munsee.

Funding will be spent on the construction of a net-zero carbon facility in Eskasoni First Nation.

A Shamattawa First Nation man was shot and seriously injured by RCMP in the northern Manitoba community, the federal police service and community’s chief said on Saturday. 

People at a Cancel Canada Day event in Saskatoon said the July 1 celebrations taking place in the city and across the country don't recognize the past and present harms of the country.

Chickasaw Nation Governor Bill Anoatubby is the Most Powerful Oklahoman, according to OKC FRIDAY’s poll of state leaders. Bill Lance, Jr., Secretary of Commerce of Chickasaw Nation, came in number 18.

Some Mi'kmaw two-spirit advocates would like to see powwow organizers across the country make events more inclusive by acknowledging two-spirits as being welcomed into these spaces.

Following a tense discussion around the zoning of a planned medical boarding home for Inuit in Ottawa, Inuit leader Natan Obed said there is an opportunity to learn from what was said.

The Anishinaabe (Algonquin) elder from Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg will start her new role as chancellor in November.

It's waterproof. It's windproof. It's lightweight and durable. And it's made from the intestines of two bears, painstakingly cleaned and sewn together by a group of women in Alaska.

Hundreds of people clad in orange shirts marched through downtown Winnipeg late Friday afternoon to honour Indigenous children who died in residential schools.

The October 2021 Supreme Court term will be remembered as the most consequential one in generations, experts said, pointing to sweeping rulings affecting the rights of millions of Americans and establishing a new conservative vision of constitutional law.

The Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador says it’s disappointed to learn only 400 seats have been allocated to survivors of residential schools in Quebec as Pope Francis visits the province for mass later this month.

This Canada Day, the Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation is celebrating the life of Chief Constant Pinesi, who fought bravely in the War of 1812 and was the last grand chief of the Algonquins to live at historic hunting grounds in Ottawa.

A U.S. Supreme Court term that by any measure was historic has concluded, and it takes a village of podcasters to untangle everything that happened. So this week, hosts from Pro Say team up with the hosts of The Term to discuss this momentous term.

Dr. Tiffany Brooks has become the first person to become a medical doctor from Sitansisk Wolastoqiyik, N.B., also known as St. Mary's First Nation.

A Florida insurance company told a New Jersey federal judge Friday it has agreed to dismiss its lawsuit alleging that a group of insurance and marketing businesses conspired to illegally sell health plans associated with Native American tribes.

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., rejected the Pilchuck Nation's latest attempt to gain formal recognition, saying the Washington state tribe has not exhausted its nonlegal options because it never sought that status through an official process overseen by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.