Native Indian News and Articles in Canada (Page 130)

Canada Marks Fifth Anniversary of Historic Residential School Apology

June 11 marks the fifth anniversary of the day that Prime...

Visit Nunavut's Mount Thor, World's Steepest, Tallest Cliff

In Auyuittuq National Park on remote Baffin Island in...

British Columbia’s Enbridge Pipeline Rejection Could Raise Keystone XL Questions

Citing environmental-safety concerns, the newly elected...

'Gifts From the Elders': Documentary Follows Anishinaabe Youth Journey to Environmental Awareness

In the film Gifts from the Elders, five Anishinaabe youth...

Desecrated Pow Wow Grounds Healing

The sacred Mount McKay Pow Wow Grounds on Fort William...

400-Year-Old Moss Emerges From Under Arctic Glacier, Still Alive

It’s eons-old moss, and it has not been seen in at least...

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Atlantic Universities Pledge to Reach Out to Aboriginal Students

ICTMN Staff

March 22, 2011

In a deal thought to be the first of its kind in Canada, First Nations leaders and universities in Atlantic Canada signed a memorandum of understanding on March 17 to beef up educa...

U.N. Focuses on Cities for World Water Day 2011

ICTMN Staff

March 22, 2011

With 884 million, or one in eight people, lacking access to safe drinking water and 2.6 billion without toilets, the United Nations marked World Water Day with a call to attend to ...

Baffin Island Maps Its Sea Ice

ICTMN Staff

March 21, 2011

Arctic sea ice is as much a partner in daily Inuit life as the people themselves, and now a new online, interactive atlas is charting the permutations of that ice, accompanied by e...

Marybelle Chase Honored With Cherokee Nation Gadugi Award

ICTMN Staff

March 21, 2011

Marybelle Chase was recently given the Gadugi Award in recognition of her academic contributions to the Cherokee Nation...

Report Finds Canada's Boreal Forest Key to World's Survival

ICTMN Staff

March 20, 2011

Canada may hold the key to the world’s survival, steward as it is of the world’s largest intact forest, which contains more unfrozen water than any other ecosystem, a major U.S...

Education Is First Nations Priority, Says National Chief

ICTMN Staff

March 19, 2011

From virtual summits to meetings with federal officials, Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo is pushing hard for aboriginal education reform in Canada...

UN Preparatory Caucus Meeting March 19-20

ICTMN Staff

March 18, 2011

This weekend the Blue Lake Hotel & Casino, Blue Lake, Calif., will accommodate 200 indigenous peoples from more than 80 tribal nations from throughout North America for the Nor...

Sheila Watt-Cloutier to Receive Honorary Degree from University of Northern British Columbia

ICTMN Staff

March 17, 2011

Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier will receive an honorary degree from the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC)...

Human Rights Tribunal Dismisses Discrimination Complaint; First Nations to Appeal

ICTMN Staff

March 16, 2011

The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal on Monday dismissed a 2007 case alleging that First Nations children were being discriminated against by discrepancies in funding between federal...

Rounding Up the Predators

Valerie Taliman

March 16, 2011

In honor of Women’s History Month and the 100 th anniversary of International Women’s Day on March 8th, ICTMN debuts Navajo writer Valerie Taliman’s new series on the growing human...