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Indigenous women share their lives through storytelling project
The Ready2Listen campaign sees Indigenous women and 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals across Canada tell their advocacy stories
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Setting the story straight
Indigenous journalists are creating spaces to investigate the crimes committed at Indian residential schools, grappling with unresolved histories and a reckoning that still has a long way to go
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Featured Fellow: Chantelle Richmond
The Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Health and the Environment speaks about her work as a health geographer, restoring relationships with the land, Indigenous methodologies and more
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Bush cook meets chef: The unlikely duo behind the docu-series Moosemeat & Marmalade
Now on its sixth season, this popular cooking show combines Indigenous and French cuisine while exploring culture, tradition and good food
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The project working to identify Indigenous people in Canada’s archives
Launched in 2002, Project Naming invites Canadians to engage in identifying Indigenous people from Library and Archives Canada to help tell the story behind every photograph
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Kakiniit: The art of Inuit tattooing
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Reclaiming Indigenous matriarchy with Sandy Ward
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Documentary debut! NFB world premiere of The Lake Winnipeg Project
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Q&A: Attawapiskat, Ont. musician Adrian Sutherland on the story behind his First Nations rights protest song
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Indigenous design subject of new exhibit at Canadian Museum of History
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Interview: Celebrating 50 years of the Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres
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Our land: Mapping Nitassinan
An Innu school board has created a map to pass on intergenerational knowledge to schoolchildren
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Ocean Week: Howe Sound community creates interactive map protecting ecological, economic and cultural values
The 400-layer map will connect communities, celebrate culture and share data to protect the Howe Sound ecosystem
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Interview: Mapping the displacement of 60s Scoop adoptees
Indigenous rights activist and 60s Scoop survivor Colleen Cardinal discusses her project to map the Indigenous adoptee diaspora
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Samuel de Champlain’s cartographic debt
Although often unheralded in accounts of Champlain's accomplishments, Indigenous Peoples played an important role in helping the famous explorer map New France
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Vanishing birdsong: How climate change is altering Canada’s soundscape
Indigenous conservationists are listening in to track the impacts of climate change on the boreal forest
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What’s in a name? Problematic names in the world of wildlife
Wildlife names that could use a rebrand
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Return to the Peel
We came to retrace an ancestor’s 1905 map-making expedition of the Peel River watershed. We left with a new-found appreciation of what this ancient land means to the people who live there.
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Inuit preschool, Yukon cold-climate greenhouse among winners of 2018 Arctic Inspiration Prize
A total of $2,566,000 was awarded to five Northern Indigenous programs at a ceremony in Whitehorse Feb. 12
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Interview: Lessons from Indigenous Peoples on climate change
Jocelyn Joe-Strack, a scientist and geographer from the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations, is embarking on a tour of Canadian embassies in Europe to share Indigenous perspectives on climate change
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Inside the Saskatchewan grocery store that still trades furs
Robertson Trading Co. in La Ronge is a living museum to northern Saskatchewan’s storied past
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Our Country: Tanya Talaga’s favourite place in Canada
The award-winning author and journalist on her connections to the shores of Lake Superior at the Fort William First Nation, Ont.
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It’s time to listen to the Inuit on climate change
Because temperatures in the Arctic are rising faster than anywhere else in the world, we must look to the experiences of Inuit as a harbinger of what is to come — and seek their guidance on how to live sustainably
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Groundbreaking Indigenous resources promote reconciliation
First Nations, Métis and Inuit leaders gather on Parliament Hill for the launch of the Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada's Giant Floor Map and teacher's guide, now available across the country
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The resurgence of the Nuxalk
In British Columbia’s Bella Coola Valley, the next generation of Nuxalk culture-keepers and Guardian Watchmen is establishing a new paradigm for Indigenous rights
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Ocean Bridge Diaries: Jay Matsushiba
“The Edge of the World” became a meeting place, where the edges of my world collided with another
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Dehcho Grand Chief honoured for bold conservation approach
Herb Norwegian, Grand Chief of the Dehcho First Nations, is the recipient of this year’s Glen Davis Conservation Leadership Prize
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Fighting for their coastline
As ship traffic increases off the coast of British Columbia, so will accidents. The Heiltsuk Nation intends to be ready.
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Inside the fight to protect the Arctic’s “Water Heart”
How the Sahtuto'ine Dene of Déline created the Tsá Tué Biosphere Reserve, the world's first such UNESCO site managed by an Indigenous community
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La SGRC, en partenariat avec les organismes des premières nations, des Inuits et des Métis, prévoit créer l’Atlas des peuples autochtones du Canada
Ce projet multiplateforme et ambitieux, lancé par les peuples autochtones, sera un outil d’éducation et de réconciliation.
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RCGS partners with First Nations, Inuit and Métis organizations to create Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada
Ambitious multi-platform, Indigenous-led project will be a tool for education and reconciliation
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The story behind “Thirteen Moons,” a new work by Alex Janvier
Celebrated Indigenous artist Alex Janvier's new work is a circular mural inspired by the traditional lunar calendar. Here's how it came to be.
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L’histoire de Thirteen Moons (Treize lunes), une nouvelle œuvre d’Alex Janvier
La nouvelle œuvre du célèbre artiste autochtone Alex Janvier est une peinture murale circulaire inspirée par le calendrier lunaire traditionnel. En voici l’histoire.
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Meet the winners of the 2019 Indspire Awards
Twelve Indigenous people honoured for their extraordinary work across Canada
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“This is where our heart is”
Earlier this year, an Alberta Métis community became the first to purchase their territory from the province. Here’s what it means for their future.
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An ‘Angry Inuk’ defends the seal hunt, again
Award-winning documentary will have its Canadian TV premiere on CBC this weekend
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Stories of survival
Sometimes, the people you interview puncture you and you can’t leave them behind
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Truth and reconciliation and a sacred bentwood box
During Truth and Reconciliation Commission events, personal items were placed in a carved bentwood box to symbolize the journey toward reconciliation. How far have we come?
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The true story of Pauline Johnson: poet, provocateur and champion of Indigenous rights
The daughter of a hereditary Mohawk chief and an English immigrant, Johnson used her hard-won celebrity to challenge Indigenous stereotypes
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Traditional trapping in the North
Once a traditional way of life across Canada, trapping survives and even thrives in communities throughout the North, including Colville Lake, N.W.T.
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Toward a Métis homeland
As Canada embarks on a process of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, the Métis are still without territory to call their own
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Photos: Living on Eeyou Istchee
The residents of eastern James Bay, or Eeyou Istchee (‘the people’s land’), are opening their territory to visitors. Here’s a glimpse at a few communities in the region.
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In search of wild horses in the Sonoran Desert
A chance to spot these beautiful creatures in the wild awaits at the Sheraton Grand at Wild Horse Pass, just a short drive from Phoenix, Arizona
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Exploring the eskers in the “Land of little sticks”
The geological formations that surround Gangler's North Seal River Lodge in northwestern Manitoba are intriguing pathways to the past
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