Indigenous Stories and Education

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.

'They were genuinely saying sorry and that meant a great deal to me,' said Dawn Wilson. 'I really don’t think I fully had put this behind me before tonight. It was really beautiful'

June is National Indigenous History Month. Younger readers can experience Indigenous storytelling with these picture books and middle-grade titles published in the last few years.

The University of Alberta Botanic Garden is celebrating National Indigenous History Month with a showcase of Indigenous culture. As the CBC's Nicole Healey reports, organizers say this is one of many celebrations aimed at connecting people to our land.

A forestry consortium that was granted an interlocutory injunction halting a blockade by a family from Matachewan First Nation, allowing it to complete tree-harvesting work in northern Ontario, will sit down in a listening circle with them in a case that may see further court action. "We’re not against forestry per se, but we want to be able to tell [the consortium] how we believe that needs to be looked after," says Dorothy Larkman.

Leader of the XAXE TEṈEW̱ Sacred Land Society’s Indigenous land restoration and stewardship program, says Indigenous land stewardship directly help with wildfire prevention. Research from UBC shows it also makes the land healthier.

Inuit leaders and Indigenous scholars are disappointed the Senate shot down an amendment to Bill C-9 aiming to criminalize residential school denialism. They argue Holocaust denialism is criminalized, yet residential school denialism is not.

Judith Sayers, one of the directors at the First Nations Justice Council, says many Indigenous people don't feel comfortable approaching the institutions that handle complaints against police, like the Independent Investigations Office of British Columbia.

More evidence is needed to understand how laundry could help curb skin disease.

Sturgeon Lake First Nation celebrated the grand opening of the Shirley Bighead Nihāwiki and Ohpikihāwasowin Birthing and Child Rearing Lodge this spring. The Lodge provides mothers from the First Nation with the opportunity to give birth closer to home in accordance with Cree tradition and ceremony.

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.

The federal government reintroduces First Nations clean water legislation after months of pressure from chiefs to bring the bill back.

Over 7,000 people crowded into GMC Stadium at the Stampede Saturday night for the first-ever Calgary Stampede First Nations Rodeo and Relay.

National Indigenous History Month occurs every June in Canada. It’s a time to think about Indigenous history, and the impact of First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities across the country. We asked teens in Balgonie, Saskatchewan, why they think it’s important to observe National Indigenous History Month.

The K’ómoks First Nation is inviting people to join in for this year’s National Indigenous Peoples Day celebrations on June 20. National Indigenous Peoples Day is a community-wide celebration of the contributions and unique cultures of First Nation, Inuit and Métis communities locally and from across Canada

The City of Vancouver is known for being progressive in many ways. One of those ways is through the development and implementation of a new Urban Indigenous Engagement Framework. 

Three centuries after their ancestors signed a treaty with the British Crown, Indigenous people returned to the same grounds, finding joy, grief, pride and an urgent question: when does a promise finally get kept?

From Donald Marshall Jr., to the Quewezance sisters, Suzanne Patles of the IBA says there's something Canada doesn't understand about justice.

The chief of the Cowichan tribes tells APTN Investigates that winning back their land was a 'joyous' occasion.

On Oct. 19, Albertans will vote on whether they want to stay in Canada or start the process to hold a second, binding referendum on leaving the country. The outcome of the referendum could drastically change the lives of the thousands of Inuit in Alberta and the North.