Native Indian News and Articles in Canada (Page 60)

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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Fitness Takes Hold in Aboriginal Country With Just Move It—Canada

ICTMN Staff

March 22, 2012

Aboriginals in Canada have joined their American Indian and Alaska Native cousins and are learning to shake their booty, traditionally speaking...

Native American Smallpox Remedy Could Be Instrumental in Event of Bioterror Attack

ICTMN Staff

March 22, 2012

In the late 1800s, it is believed that the Micmac Native Americans of Nova Scotia used an herbal remedy—a botanical infusion derived from a species of the pitcher plant—to treat sm...

Missing Women Commission Gets Two New Lawyers for Aboriginal Interests

ICTMN Staff

March 21, 2012

Wally Oppal, head of the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry in British Columbia, has appointed two new attorneys to address aboriginal issues in the ongoing inquiry into serial ki...

Annual International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Is Today

Gale Courey Toensing

March 21, 2012

“If a phantom has at some time traveled this earth, it is racism...

Actor Adam Beach on Stardom, Passion and the Award Closest to His Heart

Vincent Schilling

March 21, 2012

Actor Adam Beach is known for his turns most recently in Cowboys and Aliens with Harrison Ford, along with numerous other roles in film and television...

March Madness Strikes B.C. in Aboriginal Basketball Youth Tourney

Wawmeesh Hamilton

March 20, 2012

It’s March madness in British Columbia’s Alberni Valley as 49 teams and up to 1,000 aboriginal people have converged for the week-long British Columbia Junior All Native Basketball...

Frolicking, Preying Animals Populate Discovery's 'Frozen Planet'

ICTMN Staff

March 19, 2012

The cornucopia of images and lush cinematography, a mix of time-lapse photography and live action, that is Frozen Planet has finally arrived on our side of the Pond...

Little Hockey Tourney Registers Potential Stem Cell Donors

Sam Laskaris

March 18, 2012

Thanks to a unique partnership, the talk at a popular aboriginal youth hockey tournament in Canada this week was not all about goals, assists or wins...

Keeping Inuit Students Engaged: School Programs Incorporate Inuktitut, Day Care

ICTMN Staff

March 18, 2012

Earlier this week we brought you Fiona Walton, a professor of education at Prince Edward Island University and recent winner of a 2012 3M National Teaching Fellowship , a prize bes...

Aboriginal-Law Expert Joins Miller Thomson in Saskatchewan

ICTMN Staff

March 17, 2012

As mining companies and other entities get more and more serious about conducting meaningful consultation with aboriginals on land and resource development, aboriginal law is a fas...