Exploring Theme: "Cultural Issues"

APTN News: It started with Hollywood and the portrayal of Indigenous Peoples on the big screen in the 2009 Peabody Award winning film Reel Injun. The documentary used hundreds of clips from classic and newer movies and featured interviews with Hollywood legends like Clint Eastwood to look at the evolution of Indigenous Peoples on the big...

World Intellectual Property Organization passed treaty to protect some traditional knowledge APTN News: Imitations of Inuit art and artifacts — mass-produced for profit — are all over the internet. A quick search for an ulu on Amazon, for example, brings up dozens of knives which claim to be the real thing. One such knife that Bernice...

By Matteo Cimellaro | News, Urban Indigenous Communities in Ottawa | May 24th 2024 A photo of a seal harvester at work. Photo courtesy of Yoanis Menge / Reconseal  SUPPORT JOURNALISM THAT LIGHTS THE WAY THROUGH THE CLIMATE CRISIS Goal: $100k $22,050 Donate Canada’s National Observer: When Paul McCartney campaigned against the seal hunt in 2006, it was unclear how reliant the Inuit...

The Globe and Mail: In his sun-drenched workshop in Ottawa, July Papatsie chips away at a carving of an inukshuk,the well-known stone formations used by Inuit as landmarks and guideposts. Around here, he’s known for always having a story to tell, and can often be found chatting with fellow Inuit carvers who share the workshop located inside...

Montreal art gallery now charged with illegally selling sperm whale teeth CBC Indigenous: On July 25, 2021, Pedro Huertas, an American doctor trying to cross from Canada into the U.S. at the Highgate Springs border crossing in Vermont, told a border guard he was bringing one $2,000 stone statue with him.   He was lying.  A...

Prince Albert pub owner stands by policy banning anyone with visible face tattoos CBC News: A Cree woman says she was kicked out of a Prince Albert bar because of the cultural tattoo on her chin. Sara Carriere-Burns is from James Smith Cree Nation in Saskatchewan and lives in Prince Albert. On March 25, she joined family members at...

Indigenous artists, senator say legislation is needed to protect artists’ work You’ve probably seen Andy Everson’s work – without even knowing it. The K’ómoks and Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw artist is the creative mind behind a popular Every Child Matters logo that’s on orange T-shirts across the country.  “The Every Child Matters [image] is near and dear to my...

Eliminating the $5M Indigenous Culture Fund in its entirety. The Fund was set up in response to calls for action from Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The initial plan was to cut $2.25 million. (Canadian Art). The Indigenous Culture Fund was set up last year and is administered by the Ontario Arts Council. It supports...