A new high school serving three Gitxsan communities in northwestern B.C. has officially opened, giving students the chance to complete grades 8 to 12 closer to home in a school rooted in Gitxsan culture, language and community.
Reese Simon, a Mi'kmaw student from Natoaganeg First Nation, won a contest to get her strawberry artwork on a Canadian brand of granola bar. Her winning submission can now be seen on store shelves across the country.
“Hair in native culture is really big,” said Lexie Paul, the store owner’s wife, who serves as the shop’s creative director. Each appointment is treated with a level of intentionality they describe as a “ceremony.”
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A haircut can be about so much more than hair. 💈🧡 We love the idea of bringing Indigenous values into the barber chair—turning an everyday service into an opportunity for care, connection, conversation and community.
📰 Why We Chose This Story for Our Top 5 This Week → Smudging is ceremony—not a fire hazard. 🧡 Nova Scotia Health’s province-wide policy makes space for Mi’kmaq cultural and spiritual practices in health-care settings, removing the burden from Indigenous patients and families of having to ask, explain or advocate for something that should already be understood and respected.
📰 Why We Chose This Story for Our Top 5 This Week → AI and Indigenous knowledge might seem like an unlikely pairing—which is exactly why this caught our attention. 👀 Indigenous entrepreneurs are approaching emerging technology on their own terms, exploring its possibilities while asking important questions about culture, ownership and who gets to shape the future.
Alaya McIvor, a prominent Manitoba-based advocate for missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit individuals, is being remembered as a generous and passionate person who fought to make a difference for families that have lost loved ones.
The Indigenous Seed Collection Program at the National Tree Seed Centre in Fredericton is helping preserve native tree species threatened by climate change, invasive insects and other pressures. The program combines scientific seed collection with Indigenous knowledge.
Treaty 8, signed in 1899, is the only numbered treaty in B.C. A new film, featuring vignettes from the lives of Indigenous people across the territory, premiered in Fort St. John on Sunday.
The spectre of generational trauma haunts the latest feature from Indigenous Canadian filmmaker Tim Riedel. As a troubled young Metis woman returns to her late mother’s rural home in an attempt to reconnect with herself, this atmospheric if occasionally uneven film explores the insidious, destructive power of buried emotion and the dark legacy of systemic abuse.
Mark Thomas, Upper Columbia salmon chief for the Secwépemc Nation, welcomes groups of students to a narrow stretch of the Columbia River, between the Rocky and Purcell mountains in western Canada. It’s late May, and snow still graces the distant peaks.
Over the last two years, host Mary Powder has continued combing the archives for stories in Inuktitut to share on her podcast. It’s a process that keeps cultural teachings alive by transmitting oral history through modern technology.
Big auntie earring competitions have taken Treaty Days celebrations by storm on many First Nations across the Prairies as a tongue-in-cheek ode to Indigenous-made earrings.
📰 Why We Chose This Story for Our Top 5 This Week → Because sometimes the news we need is BIG AUNTIE EARRINGS. 😂✨ Joy, humour, creativity, culture and some seriously impressive earring game—this Treaty Days competition has all of it. 🧡
In a conversation with Q guest host Gill Deacon, Indigenous puppeteer DerRic Starlight shares his hopes of introducing the first Indigenous character to Sesame Street.
New research analyzing jade artifacts, unearthed east of the Rocky Mountains, sheds light on vast Indigenous trade networks that once cut across pre-colonial Western Canada.
The Montreal-based Anishinaabe artist created this year’s National Indigenous Peoples Day Doodle using the sculptural beadwork practice he has spent a decade developing
📰 Why We Chose This Story for Our Top 5 This Week → An Indigenous artist. A Google Doodle. And millions of people seeing beadwork-inspired art when they open their browser? Yes, please. ✨ Nico Williams brings a deeply rooted Indigenous art form into one of the world’s biggest digital spaces—and does it in a way that is unmistakably his own. 🧡
A unique, week-long ceremony on Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation included both Indigenous and Tibetan Bön ceremonies. Monks from Nepal were invited to conduct spiritual ceremonies on Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation to bring healing to its members.
A First Nation in British Columbia says a new native plant orchard established in its territory could help reclaim and restore thousands of industrial sites around
Brooke Metchewais from Cold Lake First Nations in Alberta was recently crowned Miss Indigenous Canada 2026. Heather Wolf Ear from Siksika Nation was first runner-up and Miss Congeniality.
The artist Skawennati has spent decades envisioning Indigenous futures through fashion collections, quilts, beadwork and films created entirely in virtual environments using game-like software as both camera and set.
Ten years after the Government of Canada officially adopted the term "Indigenous" instead of "Aboriginal," discussions persist on what terms best describe First Nations, Inuit and Métis.
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