The Nechi Institute at Poundmaker’s Lodge Treatment Centres just outside St. Albert will have to find a new home. A letter from Alberta Infrastructure says its lease with the institute — an Indigenous learning and counselling centre — will be terminated effective March 31. CBC has obtained a copy of a letter that says Alberta Health…

First Nations would need about $3.5 billion in funding over five years to effectively take over responsibility for child welfare services as they will be able to do under a new law that comes into force on Jan. 1, says Manitoba’s Assembly of First Nations (AFN) regional chief. Bill C-92, or An Act Respecting First Nations, Inuit and…

A day after a belated birthday celebration, a 101-year-old elder in Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T., has died. Persis Gruben died on Sunday, one day after relatives and friends gathered for a big dinner party at her home.  “We were all noisy, we were all laughing, and that’s what she wanted to hear,” said her youngest of eleven children, Chuck Gruben. “That’s…

RCMP are planning to make an announcement Tuesday in relation to the case of Cassidy Bernard, who was found dead in her home on We’koqma’q First Nation in Cape Breton last year. Over the past 13 months, police have been very tight-lipped about the ongoing investigation into the 22-year-old Mi’kmaw woman’s death, beyond that it was considered…

The chief of a small First Nations community in British Columbia’s Interior says he expects the power to go on any day now for what will be among the first solar farms 100 per cent owned and operated by a First Nation in the province. Chief Russell Myers Ross of the Yunesit’in in the Chilcotin…

The United Nations declared 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Languages to raise awareness of them, in order to both benefit people who speak these languages and to help others appreciate their importance to the world’s cultural diversity. UNESCO’s 2010 Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger counts 86 Indigenous languages in Canada, and…