In late May 1940, 20-year-old Qapik Attagutsiak voluntarily picked up a burlap bag, put her one-year-old son in her amauti ⁠— a traditional caribou parka with a built-in baby pouch ⁠— and set off on a grim search.  The new mom went out to the walrus harvesting grounds of her spring hunting camp in Qaipsunik, an…

Claudette Osborne-Tyo made her last known phone call 11 years ago at a payphone on Selkirk Avenue in Winnipeg’s North End. For the past nine years, her family has gathered at the corner of Selkirk and King Street to honour the missing 21-year-old and mark the last time she was heard from. A round of…

There was optimism last fall when Quebec Premier François Legault stood before the National Assembly, turned to First Nations and Inuit leaders in the gallery and apologized for the province’s mistreatment of Indigenous people.  The apology was the first recommendation in a report prepared by retired Quebec Superior Court justice Jacques Viens. The report —…

An environmental science video has been translated to Ojibway and the creators are hoping it sparks youth interest in science and language revitalization. “We really believe that language is an essential part of culture and any way that we can help kind of promote local languages, the better,” said Pauline Gerrard. Gerrard is the deputy…

Ottawa is balking at a pledge to consent to the certification of a proposed class action lawsuit over First Nation child welfare — less than two months after the justice and Indigenous services ministers publicly said the federal government wanted to settle the case, according to one of the lawyers on the file. Justice Canada informed lawyers…

Cape Dorset is one step closer to its name being officially recognized as Kinngait — one of its traditional names.   Kinngait means “where the hills are,” in Inuktitut, said the hamlet’s mayor, Timoon Toonoo. The Nunavut community’s hamlet council passed two motions last Tuesday that pave the way for an official name change.   The first motion…