A video showing some tense moments of the RCMP injunction enforcement at a Wet’suwet’en checkpoint last Friday is circulating online. The RCMP have been tasked with enforcing a B.C. Supreme Court injunction to ensure people are not blocking or interfering with construction of a natural gas pipeline through the Wet’suwet’en nation’s traditional territory. Denzel Sutherland-Wilson,…
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Chris Harper is leaning forward. He’s running a support group for Indigenous men, but says he heals as much from their time together as they do. “This club, it helps me,” he says to a few members huddled around the drum circle. “I wish there was someone around when I was younger,” he later adds, “to guide me.” Harper is serving…
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For Kanen’tó:kon Hemlock, people in his community of Kahnawake, Que. have to ask themselves how they can be engaged in the revitalization of Kanien’kéha, the Mohawk language, and incorporate it into their jobs. “It’s not enough just to write our languages down, it’s not enough to just put them in books,” he said. “You have to put…
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A rail blockade of CN Rail’s main line in northern B.C. is coming down after a Gitxsan hereditary chief said both B.C. and Canada have agreed to meet. Supporters of the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs who oppose the Coastal GasLink pipeline project have been blocking the track near New Hazelton since Saturday afternoon, halting transport between Prince George and Prince Rupert. Hereditray…
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A rail blockade of CN Rail’s main line in northern B.C. is coming down after a Gitxsan hereditary chief said both B.C. and Canada have agreed to meet. Supporters of the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs who oppose the Coastal GasLink pipeline project have been blocking the track near New Hazelton since Saturday afternoon, halting transport between Prince George and Prince Rupert. Hereditray…
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Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller has offered to meet with the Mohawks of Tyendinaga if they end an eight-day demonstration that has shut down passenger and freight rail traffic through southern Ontario, according to an email obtained by CBC News. Miller sent the email just after midnight Thursday to three individuals, including Kanenhariyo, whose English name…
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