I’VE BEEN APPROACHED IN THE COURTROOM and asked whether I was the Native Courtworker. I replied, “No. I’m a Native lawyer. Can I help you?” (“Story of an Indigenous Woman Lawyer” as read by barbara findlay in But I Was Wearing a Suit (2018) at 10:16)
April 2025
This month’s spotlight shines on Chelsea Wilson of RLR Lawyers.
ON WORLD TB DAY, MONDAY, MARCH 24, 2025, WE REMEMBER there are people in First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities who still develop the world’s deadliest infectious disease—tuberculosis (TB) disease—and many more that who carry the TB infection, even while Canada has some of the lowest rates of TB in the world.
A KEYWORD SEARCH FOR “INDIGENOUS WOMEN” AND “INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY” brings a lot of good reading to your browser. Here’s just a handful of organizations with messages, activities, images, words, resources, and offers to celebrate and honour Indigenous women and gender-diverse people on IWD March 8, 2025.
LU’MA NATIVE HOUSING SOCIETY AND SWAHILI VISION INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION operate a 96-unit residential building in New Westminster to provide safe, affordable housing for Indigenous and Black Elders and families.
PROCLAIMING OUR ROOTS is a project “aimed at honoring the histories, realities, stories and experiences of people who are of African diasporic and Indigenous ancestry, and who reside on Turtle Island.”
THE BLACK AND INDIGENOUS SOLIDARITY PROGRAM (BIS) of Indigenous Youth Roots (IYR), a national, Indigenous, youth-led organization, will take place in Toronto from the last week of March to the first week of May 2025.
Our annual two-day conference held on November 6 and 7, 2025 brings together leading human rights law practitioners to address current and emerging issues in human rights law with a focus on BC. We invite you to submit an outline of the paper you would like to present at the conference.
McNally Robinson Booksellers in Winnipeg will be hosting the launch for the second edition of Elements of Indigenous Style. The event will also be streamed on McNally Robinson’s YouTube channel.
March 2025
This month’s spotlight shines on Jessica Proudfoot of Woodward & Company.