Native Indian News and Articles in Canada (Page 142)

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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Preemie Seals Paradox Puzzling Researchers

ICTMN Staff

January 22, 2011

Seals are being born prematurely in the Canadian Arctic, and pups are washing up dead on beaches in Labrador. A scientist says the phenomena may be linked...

Cree: Traditional Remedies for Diabetes Rival Prescription Drugs

ICTMN Staff

January 21, 2011

Type II diabetes reached “epidemic proportions in Cree communities,” around the turn of the millennium, Kathleen Wootton, deputy chief of the Cree Nation of Mistissini in Quebec fr...

Arsenic Near Quinsam Mine Causing Concern

ICTMN Staff

January 20, 2011

Environmental groups, concerned about arsenic levels in the sediment of Long Lake, have asked British Columbia officials to conduct a full environmental review of the Quinsam Mine ...

My Journey Along the Trail of Tears

Ron Cooper

January 20, 2011

So why am I, a Comanche, hiking the Trail of Tears? What do I hope to accomplish? What am I trying to say? All good questions...

Pedophile Belgian Priest to Face His Inuit Accusers

ICTMN Staff

January 20, 2011

The priest accused of abusing Inuit children during the 1970s and ’80s in Nunavut has been expelled from Belgium, where he was arrested in early January, and brought to Canada, the...

Mohawk Energy to Distribute Efficiency to Fellow First Nations

ICTMN Staff

January 19, 2011

Ontario-based Mohawk Energy of the First Nations has netted an exclusive contract as distributor of products made by renewable-energy company Next Alternative Inc., which has offic...

Canada Bands Together Against Northern TB Scourge

ICTMN Staff

January 19, 2011

Nunavut’s tuberculosis rate is 62 times the national average, according to CBC News , with more than 100 active cases diagnosed in 2010, up from 58 in 2008...

AFN Chief Speaks Out Against Tobacco Seizures

ICTMN Staff

January 18, 2011

The head of Canada’s First Nations governing body has called for the return of cigarettes seized recently from two First Nation reserves in as many provinces...

Rez Life à la The Sopranos

Wilhelm Murg

January 18, 2011

In a closed society that operates under its own rules, things can go very wrong...

First Nations Woman Chairs Order of Nova Scotia Council

ICTMN Staff

January 18, 2011

Viola Robinson, a First Nations woman who has championed Mi’kmaq people and the advancement of aboriginal and treaty rights in Nova Scotia and Canada, is the new chair of the Order...