Indigenous Stories and Education

Ian Campeau, an Anishinaabe activist and former member of the musical group A Tribe Called Red, said he experienced shame for not speaking his ancestral language. Now he carries around books written in Ojibway to help him learn.

From simple crayon drawings, elementary school students in the Innu community of Uashat Mak Mani-Utenam got to see their ideas for the perfect playground come to life.

The Champagne and Aishihik First Nations are investing nearly $1 million in an effort to preserve the Southern Tutchone language. 10 students were chosen to attend an immersion program that started this fall.

Dutcher spent five years researching, writing and recording his brilliant and ambitious debut album, Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa -- now, it has earned one of Canada's most prestigious prizes.

Matthew Cardinal’s big papier mâché head represents an Indigenous warrior, with a traditional Pendleton pattern on one side of his face and a handprint on the other.

The federal government's refusal to extend the inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls means the inquiry had to rule out visits to prisons to hear the experiences of Indigenous female inmates, the inquiry's commissioners say.

CAPE DORSET, NUNAVUT — The Municipality of Cape Dorset and the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative celebrated the opening of the Kenojuak Cultural Centre and Print Shop in Cape Dorset, Nunavut thanks to funding from the federal government.
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A German board game called Manitoba is drawing a lot of criticism for the way it portrays the culture of Indigenous Peoples in Canada.

Indigenous Peoples have a troubled relationship with the systems that have been imposed by settler colonial populations.

B.C. and international students from the Langley Fine Arts School say studying Indigenous culture in high school changed their approach to education and Canadian history.

Students at one Vancouver Island school are taking immersive language learning a step further — and getting their hands dirty practising SENĆOŦEN, one of the Coast Salish group of languages.

The CBC series Beyond Beads and Bannock examines the call by the First Nations Education Steering Committee and the B.C. Teachers' Federation for an indigenous-themed course to be a high school graduation requirement.

It takes up the better part of a room, and is highly detailed, offering a new look at Canada

Warming oceans and development threaten the West Coast's wild salmon. So activists started a traveling celebration to draw attention to the plight of the sockeye in Canada's Fraser River.

Anaana's Tent is an educational children's show aimed at preschoolers that teaches Inuit culture and language through puppets, music, and animation.

Prize of 50,000 Canadian dollars won by classically trained indigenous singer who reinterpreted traditional songs of his Native Wolastoq people

Northern stories and culture are at the heart of this kids' show.

Inuit life, culture and healing dominated discussion on the first day of hearings in Iqaluit for the federal inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, as a trio of panellists outlined the impacts of colonialism and efforts to regain lost culture.

Students entering the University of Ottawa's faculty of medicine were welcomed Wednesday with a special ceremony on Victoria Island, a traditional meeting place of the Algonquin people.

Lennox Island First Nation is reaching out to other communities with new ways to teach about its culture.