Are you the right person to tell this story? That’s what the organizers of the Dead North Film Festival want filmmakers to ask themselves when they’re submitting movies that include Indigenous stories, culture or language. The annual Yellowknife festival showcases short horror films from across the circumpolar North. This year the organizers, Pablo Saravanja and…

CBC is doing a series of stories to recognize that the United Nations has declared 2019 the International Year of Indigenous Languages. The observance is meant to raise awareness about the consequences of losing endangered languages, and to establish a link between language, development, peace and reconciliation. Travelling into one of the N.W.T.’s Sahtu communities…

A new children’s book tells the story of Innu protests against low-level flying in Labrador in the late 1980s and early 1990s is told through the eyes of a young Innu girl.     “I’m excited. All of the characters and the story, they’re all real, so it’s nice to see it come to life,” Elena Andrew of…

Expect to cross paths with a few federal cabinet ministers at the airport in Iqaluit this year. Mandate letters issued Friday by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to ministers of Northern Affairs, Indigenous Services and Crown-Indigenous Relations spelled out a number of specific commitments to Nunavut. They include the construction of a treatment centre, the full implementation…

The deputy chief of the Gwich’in Tribal Council says he felt frustration and sadness while attending the UN climate change conference in Madrid, Spain, this week. Jordan Peterson of Inuvik, N.W.T., went to the conference because he wanted to educate people on porcupine caribou conservation and to see meaningful action on climate change from governments.  Since 1995,…

A Tragically Hip tribute band from the Moose Cree First Nation on the James Bay coast is incorporating Cree into the lyrics of a couple of iconic Hip songs. The band called The Poets got together last summer in Moose Factory at a local music festival called The Gathering of Our People.. “We tried to…