Exploring Theme: "Indigenous History"

Destruction of Kepe’kek, on the harbour’s Dartmouth shore, led to ‘an eviction’ CBC Indigenous: Every year on Dec. 6, filmmaker Catherine Martin holds a gathering on the Dartmouth shore of Halifax Harbour to honour her ancestors on land that was once the Mi’kmaw community of Kepe’kek, or the Narrows, also called Turtle Grove.  Standing on land connected to her family history, Martin,...

Barbara Todd Hager Windspeaker: Métis/Cree filmmaker Barbara Todd Hager will be adapting the award-winning book On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe to a three-part docudrama series titled On Distant Shores. Todd Hager also owns Acimow Media, which she established in 2021. Acimow means “she tells her story,” in Cree. The Indigenous-owned production company,...

Globe and Mail: When I was 12, my family gave me a set of encyclopedias called The Book of Knowledge – alphabetized tomes containing hundreds of topics. For a young Indigenous boy growing up poor on the Red River in Manitoba, I was fascinated by the information about civilizations around the world. I learned about foreign cultures,...

Leah and Falen join guest Kyle Muzyka for a closer look at Treaty 6 in this special episode CBC Podcasts  Of the 11 numbered treaties in Canada that were forged between 1871 and 1921, Treaty 6 is one of the most well documented treaty signings in Canadian history.  This treaty signing, which covers the central...

‘Good mind and peace and friendship… that’s just what these treaties are about’ Social Sharing June is National Indigenous History Month. To celebrate our accomplishments CBC Indigenous is sharing stories highlighting First Nations, Inuit and Métis trailblazers in law, medicine, science, sports — and beyond.  CBC Indigenous: The One Bowl wampum is the first known...

‘To Palestinians, the effect of Zionism is settler colonialism and apartheid,’ says Jeffrey Wilkinson CBC Indigenous: Many activists and academics are drawing comparisons between the plight of Palestinians in Gaza and the experiences of Indigenous people in North America, though others question this. Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) activist Ellen Gabriel said there are parallels. “We live under...

APTN News: As the wind whips across the limestone floor of the high arctic tundra while nearby sea ice crashes together, Peter Amarualik sits on a stone bench and looks at the statue carved by his father, Simeonie Amagoalik. The monument, unveiled in 2010 in Resolute Bay honours those it calls “High Arctic Exiles” and...

The Mohawk Legion Branch 219 was founded in 1953 by 15 veterans of the Second World War.Ka’nhehsí:io Deer/CBC CBC News: Fifteen Second World War veterans made history more than 70 years ago when they founded Mohawk Legion Branch 219 in Kahnawà:ke, south of Montreal. It was the first and remains the only First Nations-operated Royal...

Back row (L to R): Gareth Short, park warden supervisor for Jasper National Park and Elk Island National Park; Jasper RCMP Sgt. Rick Bidaisee; Chief Aaron Young of the Chiniki First Nation; Kúkwpi7 (Chief) for Simpcw George Lampreau; and Jasper National Park superintendent Alan Fehr. Front row (L to R): Elder Henry Holloway of the...

From: Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada NationTalk: Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada — The Honourable Marc Miller, Minister of Crown–Indigenous Relations; the Honourable Patty Hajdu, Minister of Indigenous Services; the Honourable Dan Vandal, Minister of Northern Affairs, Minister responsible for PrairiesCan and CanNor; and the Honourable Pablo Rodriguez, Minister of Canadian Heritage, issued the...