Exploring Theme: "Indigenous-led Initiatives"

Leaders meet with Cree traditional hunters and trappers last week to talk development CBC Indigenous: How development happens in Cree communities and who benefits was front and centre at a recent meeting between Cree leaders and many hunters, trappers and land users from the inland communities in northern Quebec.  Close to 300 hunters and tallymen, as...

J.P. GLADU AND KEN COATES CONTRIBUTORS Toronto Star: Last week’s sale of a $1.12-billion stake in seven Alberta pipelines to First Nation and Métis communities is one of the most important milestones in Canadian economic history. The acquisition of the Enbridge pipeline shares by Athabasca Indigenous Investments, which is owned by almost two dozen Treaty...

Toronto Star: On a wintry day last November, Daphne Kay looked up at an expanse of gleaming solar panels located on Cowessess First Nation reserve land just east of Regina and cried. It was the mix of past and present that moved her, watching her fellow community members hold a traditional round dance to mark...

NationTalk: AnishinabekNews.ca, Sudbury– Atikameksheng Anishnawbek, Sagamok Anishnawbek, and Wahnapitae First Nation and Technica Mining are proud to announce that they have entered into a partnership under a new business entity called Aki-eh Dibinwewziwin, which means “to be owned by the earth”. The name of the company was intentionally generated by Anishinaabe Language holders from each...