Indigenous Stories and Education

Four Indigenous organizations are partnering to create the first national database of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, two-spirit and gender-diverse people.

Shorter winters and thinning ice are imperiling cultural activities in the north, including hockey, broomball and hunting

Events are taking place across B.C. Monday as Indigenous people and their allies gather, march and hold ceremony for the hundreds of Indigenous women and girls who are missing or have been murdered in Canada.

In the wake of the 2025 federal election revealing an increasingly polarized electorate, First Nations leaders in Alberta are demanding that Premier Danielle Smith stop fanning the flames of separatism. 

After decades of effort, Percy Onabigon's family is repatriating his remains back to Long Lake #58 First Nation in northern Ontario. He was buried more than 1,200 kilometres away after being taken to a residential school without his family's consent.

While the results won’t be known until election night, one thing is certain, there are fewer Indigenous candidates to choose from this time.

Two women from Kahnawake were among those who travelled to Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre to hear Pope Francis's apology for the church's role in Canada's residential school system. They reflected on his legacy.

An archeologist from northern Ontario says he’s concerned about new provincial legislation that could exempt some archeological requirements for certain developments in an effort to build faster.

Indigenous students from the University of Winnipeg were honoured on Sunday for their academic achievements during a powwow graduation ceremony that brought in hundreds for an afternoon marked with joy, colour and tradition.

With more than 100 friendship centres across Canada, these community hubs have long served as safe and welcoming spaces for multigenerational urban Indigenous people — supporting their rights, well-being and cultural preservation. Today, this vital movement continues to grow and thrive.

First Nations craftspeople from across Manitoba are gathering to showcase their cooking, medicine and mukluk-making skills in Winnipeg this week. Both those who are learning and the teachers say they hope the event helps preserve and revive traditions.

Winnipeg's Downtown Community Safety Partnership, started six years ago as a pilot project and then made permanent in 2020, is now expanding with the introduction of a special unit.

A delegation of Indigenous representatives from Quebec is taking part in the 24th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), which is being held this week at UN headquarters in New York.