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...

So far 10,000 CATSA employees have received Indigenous cultural awareness training CBC Indigenous: The Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) launched a new protocol for passengers travelling with sacred and spiritual items in 2022 but some Indigenous people say they’re still experiencing hassles at airport screenings. Kelly Lavallee, a member of the Métis Nation of Ontario, said she travels regularly...

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...

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...

CBC Indigenous: Land advocates and Native Americans are calling for better protection for sacred sites, as their locations are being distributed online. Deidra Cinclaire, a land advocate and enrolled member of the Navajo nation in Arizona and Apache nation, said she’s noticed more damage caused by visitors to the sacred sites her grandmother taught her...