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Funding to Support 25 First Nations, Inuit & Métis Nation Documentary Heritage Projects
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023–2024 funding cycle of its Listen, Hear Our Voices initiative. In total, 25 First Nations, Inuit and Métis Nation...
Confederacy of Mainland Mi'kmaq & Govt of Canada Sign Historic Framework Agreement
MILLBROOK FIRST NATION – The Government of Canada recognizes Indigenous Peoples’ inherent right to self-determination and supports the right of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis to independently...
Initial Environmental Statement Rejected by Standing Rock Sioux
STANDING ROCK – Three years after a federal court mandated the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) “to conduct a full environmental impact review” of the Dakota Access Pipeline, the...
COS Celebrates Indigenous Children Eye Examination Project
TORONTO – August marks Children’s Eye Health and Safety Month, and as good vision is significantly important for a child’s growth and well-being, the Canadian Ophthalmological Society (COS)...
Maine Tribes & Leading Environmental Organizations Join Forces To Oppose Proposed Mine in Shadow of Katahdin
By Colin Durrant, Perry Wheeler, Sean Mahoney at Earthjustice. Two Tribes in Maine today joined forces with leading environmental groups and a national public interest environmental law organization...
St. Bruno's Indian Residential School Ground-Penetrating-Radar Report Released
JOUSSARD, AB – Sucker Creek First Nation Chief Roderick Willier and Driftpile Cree Nation Chief Dwayne Laboucan welcomed over 400 registered Survivors, Descendants, and Community Members – from...
Anishinabeg Algonquin application to the Canadian Energy Regulator
KITIGAN ZIBI – In an application addressed to the Canadian Energy Regulator, three Anishinabeg Algonquin First Nations are requesting that the Regulator intervene with the Government of Quebec in...
$12.5 Million Announced to Build New Healing House in Tḱemlúps te Secwépemc
TḰEMLÚPS TE SECWÉPEMC – TRADITIONAL TERRITORY OF THE SECWÉPEMC – On March 23, 2023, Kúkpi7 (Chief) Rosanne Casimir of the Tḱemlúps te Secwépemc, the Honorable Patty Hajdu, Minister of...
New Zealand's Māori fought for reparations - and won
By Fabiola Cineas. TARANAKI, New Zealand — About 500 people sat gathered under a large white tent in late October, partly to shield themselves from intermittent rainfall, but mostly to focus their...
ACFN Demands Action & Accountability from Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) & Imperial
FORT McMURRAY, AB – “Since May 2022, Imperial Oil and the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) have covered up unprecedented failures of tailings dams and toxic tailings leaks and spill at the Kearl...
Métis Nation of Alberta Hosts Connecting Through Culture Family Retreat
Smoky Lake, Alberta – Over the past two weekends, the Métis Nation of Alberta's (MNA) Children and Family Services Department hosted 30 families...
The true stakes of the Indian Child Welfare Act
By Nick Martin. This week, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments for Haaland v. Brackeen, a case in which the justices will decide the future of the Indian Child Welfare Act. Passed by...
Blackfeet Nation Challenges Ban & Four Tribes Join Lawsuit to Protect Antiquities Law
Blackfeet Nation Challenges Ban on Montana Vaccine Mandates By Katheryn Houghton. Kaiser Health News. Law professors and attorneys say the challenge appears to be the first time that pandemic-related...
Atlantic First Nations Water Authority makes history as first Indigenous Water Utility
UNCEDED TRADITIONAL MI’KMAQ TERRITORY – It’s now official after an agreement was formally signed in Halifax on November 7: the Atlantic First Nations Water Authority (AFNWA) becomes the first...
New school provides education closer to home for high school students in Poplar River First Nation
POPLAR RIVER FIRST NATION – A new Kindergarten to Grade 12 school at Poplar River First Nation means that some high school students will no longer have to travel outside the community to pursue...
Manitoba Métis Federation's initiative to bring home the spirits of Métis children who never returned from residential schools
THE RED RIVER MÉTIS, MANITOBA MÉTIS FEDERATION – Locating unmarked burials at former residential school sites across Canada is a tragic reminder of the abuse that many Indigenous children...
United Nations Notifies Canada of Gaps in Country's Response to Allegations of Insufficient Action to Protect Mi'kmaq People
SIPEKNE’KATIK, FN – The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has issued a letter to the Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations Office in Geneva. The...
Yakama and Umatilla Tribes unite for comprehensive salmon recovery
PRESCOTT, Wash. – On Tuesday, Aug. 9, tribal leaders from around the Pacific Northwest gathered at Fishhook Park to advocate for working together to restore Columbia Basin salmon populations. The...
Chief Mike Sack endorses findings of Peace on the Water Senate Report
The release of the recent Peace on the Water Senate report gives our community hope that there may be a pathway forward for the recognition and implementation of our Indigenous rights. We are...
Yakama Nation Responds to Murray - Inslee Draft Salmon Report
YAKAMA RESERVATION – The Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation (“Yakama Nation”) recognize Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and Governor Jay Inslee (D-WA) for their release of a draft...
First Nation, Canada Wide, United States and NYS COVID-19 Update
Epidemiological summary of COVID-19 cases in First Nations communities as reported to FNIHB on November 17, 2020 at 2:55 p.m. ET for the week of November 15 to November 21, 2020. 10 Quebec Cases 1...
Trump Administration Invites Oil Industry to Desecrate Sacred Arctic Refuge
WASHINGTON, D.C. Amid a global public-health crisis and with oil prices at extreme lows, the lame duck Trump administration is expected to issue a “request for nominations” as early as Monday,...
Sipekne'katik votes Mike Sack back in as Chief for third term
Sipekne’kitak, FN. – In a defining election Chief Mike Sack was notified of the final ballot count of over 72% in his favor this evening by the Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaq returning...
News from Around the Nations
Mi’kmaq First Nation, Nova Scotia The federal government is affirming the Mi’kmaq First Nation’s treaty rights in an ongoing dispute with non-Indigenous fishermen in southwestern Nova Scotia....
Navajo Nation takes part in COVID vaccine study
By Dalton Walker. Reprinted with permission from Indian Country Today. The Navajo Nation, which has lost more than 500 citizens to the COVID-19 pandemic, is on the frontlines of a volunteer vaccine...