Elder Raymond Robinson Ends Hunger Strike as Health Deteriorates

ICTMN Staff
April 10, 2013
Elder Raymond Robinson ended his hunger strike on April 9 after nearly a week without food or water, as his health started to deteriorate significantly...

Chief Theresa Spence, Attawapiskat and International Indian Treaty Council File Urgent Action Request with U.N. Human Rights Body

Gale Courey Toensing
February 19, 2013
The legal fight against Canada’s omnibus Bill C-45 and its environmentally focused companion, Bill C-38, has gone international, with an appeal to the United Nations Office of the ...

Aboriginal Housing Crisis in Canada Threatens to Explode

David P. Ball
February 08, 2013
When the housing crisis in Attawapiskat First Nation made headlines worldwide in October 2011 after the community declared a state of emergency, few had heard of the band’s chief, ...
Chelsea Vowel

Regarding the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples

"Canada is a test case for a grand notion — the notion that dissimilar peoples can share lands, resources, power and dreams while respecting and sustaining their differences....

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January 11, 2013

Harper Announces Meeting With First Nations Leadership as Idle No More Catches Wall Street's Eye

ICTMN Staff
January 04, 2013
As Attawapiskat First Nation Chief Theresa Spence’s hunger strike ground on, and the Idle No More movement gained traction worldwide, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announc...
Winona LaDuke

Idle No More, Indeed

As Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence enters her fourth week on a hunger strike outside the Canadian parliament, thousands of protesters in Los Angeles, London, Minneapolis and New York City, voice their support....

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January 03, 2013
Chuck Trimble

Deathly Silence at a Deadly Time

Several weeks ago I was sent a link to a ominous report from the First Nations Strategic Policy Counsel, dated June-October 2012. It puzzles me that I haven’t read anything about it in Indianz.com or on other blogs, nor in any Native American news periodical....

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January 01, 2013

imagineNATIVE Film Festival Opens with Tribute to Alanis Obomsawin

ICTMN Staff
October 18, 2012
The 13th annual imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival festival opened yesterday in Toronto, and the first screenings showcased the work of a filmmaker who's been documenting N...

Parliament Unilaterally Supports First Nations Education Motion

ICTMN Staff
March 06, 2012
First Nations leaders are calling last week's unanimous parliamentary motion on aboriginal education a major step forward, even as they press for more action...

Canada Blasted at U.N. for Treatment of Indigenous Peoples

Gale Courey Toensing
February 23, 2012
A United Nations expert panel on human rights has blasted Canada for its treatment of the country’s Indigenous Peoples. During hearings in Geneva on February 22, the U.N...

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