Aboriginal leaders and human rights advocates are hailing a federal court ruling that requires the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal to take on a case it had dismissed involving fundi...
Lynn Armitage
April 15, 2012
Lynn Armitage Plan ahead and appreciate what you have Oh, the love of money. We never seem to get enough of it. The 2010 U.S...
Partnering with the Canadian Centre for Child Protection and the Royal Canadian Police Force (RCMP), the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) is starting an outreach program to let Firs...
Aboriginal child welfare was on the docket in Federal Court on February 13 as child advocates argued that inequities in funding between on-reserve education, health and children’s ...
Ethan Yellowbird, the 5-year-old grandson of Samson Cree First Nation Chief Marvin Yellowbird, was killed by a stray bullet fired outside his Alberta reserve, on July 11, 2011...
Walter Lamar

If you saw a toddler walking toward a busy intersection, would you wait before you intervened? Indian children in homes where adults are substance abusers are in similar danger. Tribal community members must step in before children are hurt or taken away from the community....

January 11, 2012
An estimated half of aboriginal children will grow up fatherless over the next decade, says this CBC News documentary that focuses on aboriginal fathers and their metamorphosis int...
School’s out for the holidays, and some youthful leisure time is upon us. But that’s no reason for kids to stop learning...
Child advocate Cindy Blackstock, long a champion of aboriginal children's rights, is on the federal government's radar, but not for her work improving the lives of children...
Tekatsitsiakwa Katsi Cook

Among the privileged few early “outsider” observers of Native American birth is anthropologist Matilda Coxe Stevenson who published on Pueblo cosmogony and “...

November 02, 2011

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