Thousands of former students who suffered harms while attending federally operated Indian day schools are now able to submit claims for compensation. The claims process began Jan. 13 for the long-awaited nationwide settlement, which offers former students a range of compensation between $10,000 and $200,000, based on abuse suffered. Former students have two and a half…

A rolling blockade in opposition to a British Columbia natural gas pipeline project brought traffic on Ontario’s busiest highway to a crawl Monday morning, as Indigenous-led protesters held a demonstration in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en First Nation in Northern B.C. Nearly a dozen cars slowed eastbound travel on Highway 401 to between 60 and 65 kilometres…

A Manitoba First Nation plans to argue in court that the federal government is cutting off evacuee benefits without providing secure housing more than eight years after flooding forced people to leave their homes. Lake St. Martin’s lawyers are asking the Federal Court for an injunction and judicial review into what they say is a…

“I always thought I was a Lennie until I got my first paycheck,” said Ashley Lennie.    She was a teenager when she found out the name on her birth certificate, Inglangasuk, was a different surname than the one she has used her entire life.  “It was kind of a shock to me and I couldn’t handle…

A member of St. Mary’s First Nation says it’s been a punishing year since she volunteered to drive her chief home from a Fredericton bar.  Jade Polches says Feb.  22, 2019, wasn’t the first time she helped an intoxicated Alan Polchies Jr. get back to his residence.  However, that date is seared into her mind…

Gabriel Frey sits in his workshop, his towering frame hunched under a lamp, the only light illuminating the room. He shifts on his stool and grimaces slightly as he weaves one piece of black ash over another in a delicate but rhythmic dance.  “Our creation story is based in black ash,” Frey said.  “We have the mythical…