When Helen Haig-Brown and six fellow aboriginal filmmakers were asked to make short films for the 10th anniversary of the ImagiNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, they each received...
Canadian actress and producer Michelle Latimer has added another epithet to her list of accomplishments: winner of honorable mention for indigenous shorts at the 2011 Sundance Film...
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...
High birth weights in First Nations babies may indicate an increased risk of postneonatal death, according to a study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal , report...
Pamela Masik's 69 portraits of missing and murdered women, scheduled to be shown at the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver in February, will not be exhibited, the museum announced...
First Nations Bank of Canada saw double-digit-percent increases in loans, assets and deposits for 2010, the country’s only majority aboriginal-owned and -operated bank said on Jan...
Education reform tops the list of issues mentioned in Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s letter to Assembly of First Nations Chief Shawn Atleo in a recent offer to meet, according to ...
This year Canada could see the repatriation of what may be the world’s oldest birchbark canoe--found in a storage barn, dating back 250 years, the tattered vessel is slated to be r...