Indigenous Stories and Education

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.”

The policy will clarify how staff can best assist people who want to smudge in a health-care space.

Shani Gwin's foray into the world of artificial intelligence began with a problem.

Reports for Indigenous offenders will have a new name in an Alberta court over concerns the term stigmatizes people with a common surname.

The shelter has 7 bedrooms, a shared kitchen and a living area

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.

Descendants of an Indigenous tribe that was considered extinct are now raising money so that their oldest matriarch can have a dignified home.

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.

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

Indigenous comedians from across the country point out the things that connect First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities.

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.

Treaty 8 First Nations of Alberta has officially changed its name to Treaty 8 Sovereign Nations.

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.