The Conversation

Looking for Indigenous history? ‘Shekon Neechie’ website recentres Indigenous perspectives

Mary Jane Logan McCallum receives funding from SSHRC and CIHR. Robert Alexander Innes receives funding from SSHRC. Susan M. Hill does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any ...

No, Indigenous people are not coming to take Canadians’ homes

What they’re not meant to do is terrify people, or make Canadians think the Indians are coming, riding fast over the hills to ...

Good Intentions Gone Bad

The lands at issue in Cowichan are situated in the delta of the Fraser River. About 35 kilometers upstream lies the city of ...
Los Angeles Times

Canadian wildfires hit Indigenous communities hard, threatening their land and culture

EAST PRAIRIE METIS SETTLEMENT, Canada — Carrol Johnston counted her blessings as she stood on the barren site where her home was destroyed by a fast-moving wildfire that forced her to flee her ...
National Catholic Reporter

Pope warns Canadian government: Don't 'colonize' country's Indigenous

Pope Francis on July 27 again apologized for the abuse that Canadian Indigenous children suffered at Catholic-run residential schools, but warned that ongoing "ideological colonialization" could ...
National Catholic Reporter

Indigenous Canadians hope Pope Francis will do more than apologize

Marie-Anne Day Walker-Pelletier, a former chief of the Okanese First Nation in Saskatchewan, will be attentive to Pope Francis' words during his trip to Canada and to the church's actions in the wake ...
New York Post

Pope Leo returns artifacts from Vatican Museum to Indigenous peoples from Canada

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican on Saturday returned 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada as part of the Catholic Church’s reckoning with its role in helping suppress Indigenous culture in the ...
PBS

‘In the blink of an eye, we lost so much.’ Worst wildfire season in Canadian history wreaking havoc on Indigenous communities

EAST PRAIRIE METIS SETTLEMENT, Alberta (AP) — Carrol Johnston counted her blessings as she stood on the barren site where her home was destroyed by a fast-moving wildfire that forced her to flee her ...
The Atlantic

Against Guilty History

John A. Macdonald, the first prime minister of Canada, was born in 1815. Some years ago, as the bicentennial of Macdonald’s birth neared, some civic-minded residents of the Ontario county in which I ...
CBS News

Canadian government says pope's apology not enough for abuses of Indigenous children

The Canadian government made clear Wednesday that Pope Francis' apology to Indigenous peoples for abuses in the country's church-run residential schools didn't go far enough, suggesting that ...
Reason

Canadian Indigenous Nations Use Exemptions From Zoning Rules to Build Affordable High-Rise Housing

Like many parts of the United States, several major cities in Canada have severe housing shortages caused by exclusionary zoning - rules that forbid or severely restrict the construction of relatively ...