Outside of her day job as a travel agent, Stacey Mitchell keeps busy designing clothes with a touch of Mohawk flair. Mitchell, 39, is from Akwesasne, a Mohawk community that straddles the Quebec, Ontario, and New York State borders. She grew up learning beadwork, quilting, and sewing regalia from her mother, and in the last…

Vic Linklater believes the solution to many of the problems facing his community can be found out on the land. He is the coordinator of Moose Cree First Nation’s new land-based withdrawal management facility— a cluster of cabins in the bush 14 km south of Moose Factory expected to welcome its first patients later this month. …

An Indigenous teacher in Ridgetown, Ont. is part of a mission to keep the Lunaapeew language alive. For the people of Delaware Nation in southwestern Ontario, Lunaapeew is more than just their language — it is integral to who they are as people, but a painful history of racism and residential schools has left behind only a…

The University of Regina says it won’t cancel or censor a lecture by renowned Canadian poet George Elliott Clarke simply because he edited poetry written by convicted killer Steven Kummerfield, who beat an Indigenous woman to death in Regina 25 years ago. The lecture, scheduled for Jan. 23, and a lack of consultation with Indigenous groups in…

Mary Black and her best friend both endured childhoods rife with pain and suffering while growing up on Hollow Water First Nation. Her friend killed himself nearly five years ago. Black felt she was heading down the same path before a combination of therapy, counselling and cultural ceremonies helped her steer away from the addictions,…

A B.C. Supreme Court judge has issued an injunction against members of the Wet’suwe’ten Nation who have blocked access to a natural gas pipeline project inside their traditional territory in northern B.C. Justice Marguerite Church granted Coastal GasLink’s application for an interlocutory injunction in a Prince George courtroom on Tuesday, restraining protesters from barring workers…