Indigenous Stories and Education

The First Nation acquired Temple Gardens, Moose Jaw's famous spa, in 2022. Now, it has reopened the spa after a renovation and acquired naming rights for the local arena, now known as the Temple Gardens Centre.

On July 28, Na-Me-Res along with the City of Toronto held a ribbon cutting to celebrate the official opening of 20 new homes for Indigenous men who are transitioning out of the shelter system or experiencing homelessness.

Manitoba and Saskatchewan have the highest rates of new HIV infections in Canada, and Indigenous people are disproportionately affected. Education, culture and community are the way forward, three people living with the disease say. This reporting by Lenard Monkman was supported by the CJF Indigenous Health Journalism Fellowship, in partnership with the Canadian Medical Association.

Saskatoon EX, or The Eight Best Days of Summer Fair is putting Indigenous culture on the map with the Gabriel Dumont Institute having brought the Canadian Geographic Indigenous Atlas to the city’s biggest summer event.  

"She advanced Indigenous rights globally." Sahtu Dene advocate Cindy Kenny-Gilday was named an officer of the Order of Canada by Governor General Louise Arbour.

A group of First Nations leaders and advocates in Manitoba want help repatriating thousands of Indigenous artifacts from Switzerland.

First Nations University of Canada graduates marked convocation, the school’s 50th anniversary and National Indigenous Peoples Day in Regina this weekend.

The Yukon has been a trailblazer Indigenous self-government for decades. Chief Jim Boss is considered the first to chart a path.

The First Nation says in a statement on Facebook that its council issued the banishment order after receiving "significant concerns" from the community.

2026 marks 150 years since the signing of Treaty 6 — and students with the Lloydminster Public School Division are marking it in a big way: by retracing the route taken by First Nations and Canadian Crown dignitaries who entered the agreement in 1876.

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami president Natan Obed says he’s proud of how Gov. Gen. Mary Simon used her time in office to seek a balance between her dual identities as an Inuk woman and the Crown’s representative in Canada — roles that some Indigenous people felt were inherently in conflict.

Charlotte Ross hopes to keep helping with Cree language revitalization while her son, Steven Ross, wants to teach the next generation of Indigenous students about land-based learning.

The Yukon government says it's planning to meet with First Nations leaders as it moves toward rewriting the territory’s outdated mining laws.

Indigenous community members have encouraged federal officials to reflect on how the Order of Canada can overcome its “deep colonial symbolism and associations,” says an internal government presentation on efforts to modernize the Canadian honours system.

From harvesting medicines to growing food, Indigenous people are reclaiming traditional ecological knowledge that was nearly lost. The results are personal healing, a stronger sense of self, connection to their culture, and important survival know-how.

Thursday marked the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Greasy Grass, known to many as the Battle of Little Bighorn. For Native Americans, it's a time to commemorate one of the most famous and symbolically charged events in U.S. history.

Darla Contois reflects on the desire to play a character that isn’t classified as Indigenous, the desire to just play a woman on screen.

📺: Rematriate the Lens: Indigenous Women on Screen is a groundbreaking four-episode roundtable series amplifying the voices of 16 Indigenous women in film and television. 

Two worlds united as Jolene Ashini was called to the bar in Labrador, wearing a ribbon skirt and beaded caribou skin moccasins. 

She made history in May, becoming the first Innu lawyer in the place her people call Nitassinan, “our land,” and the first Innu lawyer called to the bar in the province.

For years, Wayne Mercredi spent hours driving the Tibbitt to Contwoyto winter road. Leaving early in the morning to take advantage of limited daylight, he’d travel the road’s 400-kilometer length (250-mile length) — built atop frozen lakes, to connect the territorial capital of Yellowknife to diamond mines farther north.

Events are being held across the country to mark the 30th National Indigenous Peoples Day on Sunday — a day meant to honour the culture, histories and contributions of First Nations, Inuit and Métis people.

The Montreal Botanical Garden is marking the 25th anniversary of its First Nations Garden by renaming it the Indigenous Peoples Garden. The change is intended to better reflect all Indigenous communities in Quebec, including both First Nations and Inuit. “Walk, just look, connect with her, mother earth,” said Anicinape Hereditary Chief & co-founder of the Garden,.

Indigenous people (First Nations, Inuit, Métis) who reside in what is now Canada have diverse cultural traditions that are reflected in the variety of thei

Since it began more than five years ago, the Treaty Land Sharing Network has worked to honour the original intent of the treaties: to share the land and resources. It is expanding its scope by adding medicinal plants to its lists, which started with berry picking locations.

The B.C. government announced that the popular park will be closed for 31 days this year, less than half of the number of dates the park was closed for in 2025.