“OUR CULTURE IS NOT A COSTUME,” said Calgarian Michelle Robinson. “We are real people with a real culture and depicting it incorrectly just adds to negative stereotypes and adds to violence we face.”
Although Canada’s Criminal Code mandates that all sanctions other than imprisonment are to be considered with particular attention to the circumstances of Aboriginal offenders, the proportion of Aboriginal admissions to adult custody has been trending upwards for a decade. Many of the Elders attending to Indigenous offenders were child survivors of the residential school system.
Your schoolkids may already know it’s Orange Shirt Day today, September 30, 2019—a day to honour the memory of Indigenous children who attended Indian Residential Schools in Canada.
Should children’s books on residential schools carry a trigger warning? Media Indigena host Rick Harp discusses a news item with his guests, Alberta Native Studies prof Kim TallBear and UBC Journalism prof Candis Callison, in Episode 105 of the podcast.
An Uplifting Indigenous Families Association and Women Against Violence Against Women Collaboration. We will be hosting a Brushing off and Blanketing Ceremony at the newly renovated 312 Main Street ground …
IndigenEYEZ camps provide a learning experience that brings creativity and the arts together with culture and on-the-land activities. We connect youth with the Earth and support them to find safe …
LET MILLIE POPLAR AND THE BAKER TWINS give you an Indigenous point of view on Canada’s Constitution in Supreme Law, an NFB interactive web documentary made in partnership with the Centre for Constitutional Studies and directed by two-time Emmy winner Katerina Cizek.
BOB JOSEPH, CORPORATE TRAINER AND AUTHOR OF THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER 21 Things You May Not Know About The Indian Act, has now published Indigenous Relations: Insights, Tips & Suggestions to Make Reconciliation a Reality.
The Truth Sharing Podcasts is a project inspired by the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, that gives life to the truth and creates a living legacy of commemoration. This series of podcasts visited five Canadian communities to seek out and give voice to those who have experienced loss, examine the ways in which those affected are trying to heal, and shine a light on those trying to bring about positive change.
“There is a real opportunity to look within our own country,” said Aaron Sam Sumexheltza, chief of the Lower Nicola Indian Band. “And I’m hopeful that industry, business and government will see First Nations young people – the fastest-growing demographic – and invest in them. Because I believe when First Nations people prosper, everyone else will prosper.”