If you’ve been on social media lately, chances are you’ve come across a cute green creature.  Baby Yoda — or “the child” in the Star Wars web series The Mandalorian — has stolen hearts across the internet. And Indigenous fans in particular are claiming the adorable alien as one of their own in everything from memes and…

Tony Thibodeau was roaming around Indigenous Comic Con when he noticed a bit of a trend: Indigenous people love and relate to the Star Wars story. He launched “The Force is With Our People,” an exhibit that features artwork from more than 20 different contemporary Native American artists at the Museum of Northern Arizona. The exhibit includes…

Star Wars is a franchise beloved by many, but it’s especially loved by Indigenous fans who see parallels between the movies and the stories of their own communities.  Darren Lone Fight is a cultural studies scholar and member of the Three Affiliated Tribes in North Dakota. As a fan of the franchise, he said there are lots of…

B.C.’s human rights commissioner is urging the Canadian government to stop the eviction of Wet’suwet’en and Secwepemc peoples who are protesting the Coastal GasLink pipeline in the province’s north. Kasari Govender spoke out Friday after a United Nations committee working to end racism also urged Canada to immediately stop the construction of three major resource projects in…

Last winter, Phylicia Kagyut had just finished upgrading the courses she needed to get into a post-secondary institution. She had planned to start school in the fall, but that changed when her sister showed her an ad on Facebook for the International Internships for Indigenous Youth Program — an opportunity for her to leave her…

After Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission report was released, Willow Cree writer, cultural activist and journalist Paul Seesequasis felt compelled to do something to contribute and understand what his mother, a residential school survivor, went through. He began to collect and share never-before-published photos of Indigenous communities across North America, and learned the stories of those photographed. Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun shares some of…