Helping support Indigenous businesses, artists and crafters around the holidays is easy.  It’s as simple as “buy stuff,” says Inuk artist Jason Sikoak. “If you can buy things from Indigenous artists, then do. But if you can’t, share and spread the word.” Sikoak, who is from Nunatsiavut, the Inuit area of Labrador, and lives in…

After the closing Thursday of the Assembly of First Nations annual December meeting In Ottawa, Jody Wilson-Raybould, a former federal justice minister and AFN regional chief, was honoured by First Nations leaders during a ceremony that saw her called a hero, a trailbreaker and an icon. Wilson-Raybould, who was kicked out of the Liberal caucus over…

More than 10 months after the RCMP enforcement of an interim injunction in Wet’suwet’en territory related to the Coastal GasLink pipeline, criminal charges have been laid against a Prince George, B.C., man arrested at the barricade.  Joseph Choken, 27, was among the 14 people arrested on Jan. 7 after police came to enforce an interim injunction against some Wet’suwet’en…

Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde says Ottawa has failed to work with First Nations to prepare for a new Indigenous child welfare law coming into force Jan. 1, 2020, according to a letter sent to Indigenous Services Marc Miller Wednesday. The new law creates national standards on how provincial and territorial child welfare…

Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett said Wednesday that Ottawa is moving forward with proposed legislation on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). Bennett said the proposed legislation would be co-developed with Indigenous representatives.  Watch Day 2 of the AFN Special Chiefs Assembly here: AFN chiefs gather to discuss issues such as: implementing…

What happens when Indigenous people across Canada and the United States adopt Baby Yoda as one of their own? He gets placed in a cradleboard. Maybe wearing a ribbon skirt. He gets a pair of beaded earrings. He might even become a pair of beaded earrings.  Since a new television instalment to the Star Wars…