Kiera Kolson, part Gwich’in and Tso’Tine Dene—two First Nations from Canada’s North—was recently awarded the Jonathon Solomon Youth Activist Award by the Gwich’in Steering Committe...

A new national park announced by Prime Minister Stephen Harper on August 22 not only includes aboriginal stewardship as a cornerstone but also guarantees the preservation of a majo...

Accomplished anthropologist and author David Treuer argues that “to claim that Indian cultures can continue without Indian languages only hastens our end." The following is an exce...

The Manito Ahbee Festival crowned Torry Marie Eagle Speaker as the Miss Manito Ahbee Travelling Princess for 2011–12 on Saturday at the event's International Competition Pow Wow...

The Yinka Dene Alliance, which leads the First Nations charge against Enbridge’s proposed Northern Gateway oil pipeline from the Alberta oil sands to the British Columbia coast, is...

The fight against Enbridge’s plans to build a pipeline through the heart of aboriginal territory got a recent boost when the Dene Nation, comprising 35 chiefs whose territory stret...

Aboriginal Awareness Week is this week, kicking off on March 7 and running through Friday the 11th at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, the university’s Aboriginal Awareness Cent...