Indigenous

Assembly of First Nations National Chief RoseAnne Archibald speaks during her closing address at the Assembly of First Nations Special Chiefs Assembly in Ottawa, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. Archibald says the Pope’s willingness to return Indigenous artifacts stored at the Vatican Museum suggests the items will make their way home. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby

Pope’s willingness to return sacred items means they will come home: national chief

Much of the Vatican’s current collection is from a world exposition in 1925

Assembly of First Nations National Chief RoseAnne Archibald speaks during her closing address at the Assembly of First Nations Special Chiefs Assembly in Ottawa, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. Archibald says the Pope’s willingness to return Indigenous artifacts stored at the Vatican Museum suggests the items will make their way home. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
FILE - Dancers participate in the Gathering Of Nations Pow Wow at Tingley Coliseum, Friday, April 29, 2022 in Albuquerque, N.M. Tens of thousands of people are gathering in New Mexico for what organizers bill as the largest powwow in North America. The annual Gathering of Nations kicks off Friday, April 28, 2023, with a colorful procession of Native American and Indigenous dancers from around the world. (Roberto E. Rosales/The Albuquerque Journal via AP, File)

Largest powwow draws Indigenous dancers to New Mexico

This marks the 40th year for the gathering

FILE - Dancers participate in the Gathering Of Nations Pow Wow at Tingley Coliseum, Friday, April 29, 2022 in Albuquerque, N.M. Tens of thousands of people are gathering in New Mexico for what organizers bill as the largest powwow in North America. The annual Gathering of Nations kicks off Friday, April 28, 2023, with a colorful procession of Native American and Indigenous dancers from around the world. (Roberto E. Rosales/The Albuquerque Journal via AP, File)
A child’s dress is seen on a cross outside the Residential School in Kamloops, B.C., Saturday, June, 13, 2021. The shishalh Nation on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast says ground-penetrating radar has identified what are believed to be 40 unmarked graves of children on the site of the former St. Augustine’s Residential School. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward

First Nation says 40 unmarked graves found around former Sechelt, B.C. residential school

Ground-penetrating radar has confirmed what the Nation says its members already knew

A child’s dress is seen on a cross outside the Residential School in Kamloops, B.C., Saturday, June, 13, 2021. The shishalh Nation on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast says ground-penetrating radar has identified what are believed to be 40 unmarked graves of children on the site of the former St. Augustine’s Residential School. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
An aerial view of a railway terminal port in Ashcroft, B.C. is shown in this undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, Ashcroft Terminal Ltd.

B.C. First Nation sues port firm, others for disrupting ancestral remains

Bonaparte First Nation says Ashcroft railway project on site of burial ground

An aerial view of a railway terminal port in Ashcroft, B.C. is shown in this undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, Ashcroft Terminal Ltd.
Chief Clarence Louie of the Osoyoos Indian Band watches as band member Jane Stelkia, 93, speaks to the crowd at a land ceremony in Okanagan Falls Friday, April 15, 2023. (Mark Brett/Local Journalism Initiative)

Traditional land returned to Osoyoos Indian Band

The land has been an ancestral place of culture and sustainability for Indigenous peoples

  • Apr 18, 2023
Chief Clarence Louie of the Osoyoos Indian Band watches as band member Jane Stelkia, 93, speaks to the crowd at a land ceremony in Okanagan Falls Friday, April 15, 2023. (Mark Brett/Local Journalism Initiative)
Maynard Johnny Jr. looks over the Salish Heron, featuring his design, at BC Ferries Fleet Maintenance Unit in Richmond. Johnny is one of 14 artists featured along with legend Bill Reid in the Bright Futures exhibition. (Photo by BC Ferries)

Exhibit asks ‘What would Bill Reid think of Northwest Coast art today?’

25 years after the death of the Haida master artist, a new show highlights what followed in his wake

  • Apr 18, 2023
Maynard Johnny Jr. looks over the Salish Heron, featuring his design, at BC Ferries Fleet Maintenance Unit in Richmond. Johnny is one of 14 artists featured along with legend Bill Reid in the Bright Futures exhibition. (Photo by BC Ferries)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau embraces Wayne Christian (Wenecwtsin), right, First Nations Health Authority Deputy Chair, as he jokes about knowing the prime minister’s late father, former prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, while speaking during an announcement about First Nations health-care funding at the Squamish First Nation, in West Vancouver, B.C., on Friday, April 14, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

B.C. First Nations health gets $8.2 billion in federal funding to fix ‘disparities’

Prime Minister announces funding at the Squamish Nation in West Vancouver

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau embraces Wayne Christian (Wenecwtsin), right, First Nations Health Authority Deputy Chair, as he jokes about knowing the prime minister’s late father, former prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, while speaking during an announcement about First Nations health-care funding at the Squamish First Nation, in West Vancouver, B.C., on Friday, April 14, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Wallace Antoine and Emanuel Sampson of Khowutzun Forest Services work on packing and hauling sandbags during Chemainus River flooding in November 2021. (Photo by Don Bodger)

B.C. First Nations salvaging the sacred from climate disaster

New campaign aims to to target care of sensitive artifacts in the wake of fires and floods

  • Apr 14, 2023
Wallace Antoine and Emanuel Sampson of Khowutzun Forest Services work on packing and hauling sandbags during Chemainus River flooding in November 2021. (Photo by Don Bodger)
After much buzzing and speculation on who won the grand prize, Thelma Florence is the winner of BCLC’s Lotto 6/49’s Guaranteed Prize of $1 million draw that took place on April 1. (BCLC)

Hope woman hits million-dollar jackpot

Chawathil’s Thelma Florence purchased winning ticket at Bee’s Food Market

After much buzzing and speculation on who won the grand prize, Thelma Florence is the winner of BCLC’s Lotto 6/49’s Guaranteed Prize of $1 million draw that took place on April 1. (BCLC)
Marc Miller, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations, is during an announcement in Ottawa, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. The federal minister responsible for Crown-Indigenous relations is praising workers at a Winnipeg landfill for their “heightened vigilance” after the remains of an Indigenous woman were discovered there on Monday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Prime minister calls discovery of Indigenous woman in Winnipeg landfill heartbreaking

Police do not believe case linked to woman whose remains were found in the same landfill last year

Marc Miller, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations, is during an announcement in Ottawa, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. The federal minister responsible for Crown-Indigenous relations is praising workers at a Winnipeg landfill for their “heightened vigilance” after the remains of an Indigenous woman were discovered there on Monday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Assembly of First Nations National Chief RoseAnne Archibald speaks during the AFN annual general meeting, in Vancouver, B.C., Tuesday, July 5, 2022. First Nations chiefs have endorsed a revised multi-billion-dollar settlement for children and families harmed by Ottawa’s underfunding of on-reserve child and family services. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

AFN chiefs endorse revised child-welfare settlement, call on Trudeau to apologize

Extra $3 billion from Ottawa increases the total compensation package to $23 billion

Assembly of First Nations National Chief RoseAnne Archibald speaks during the AFN annual general meeting, in Vancouver, B.C., Tuesday, July 5, 2022. First Nations chiefs have endorsed a revised multi-billion-dollar settlement for children and families harmed by Ottawa’s underfunding of on-reserve child and family services. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Governor General Mary Simon speaks during an event at the Flora Footbridge in Ottawa, on Monday, Feb. 20, 2023. Assembly of First Nations National Chief RoseAnne Archibald says Simon is working to bring Indigenous leaders together with King Charles to hit restart on their relationship to the Crown. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby

Governor General wants Indigenous leaders to meet King Charles to ‘reset’ ties: AFN

Mary Simon facilitating opportunity for Indigenous leaders to meet with King before coronation

Governor General Mary Simon speaks during an event at the Flora Footbridge in Ottawa, on Monday, Feb. 20, 2023. Assembly of First Nations National Chief RoseAnne Archibald says Simon is working to bring Indigenous leaders together with King Charles to hit restart on their relationship to the Crown. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
The Gitxaała First Nation Flag flies in Kitkatla in June 2022. (Photo: K-J Millar/The Northern View)

First Nation in Supreme Court trying to enforce B.C. ‘duty to consult’ on mineral rights

Legal action seeks to overturn mineral rights claims and suspend further claim in Gitxaała territory

The Gitxaała First Nation Flag flies in Kitkatla in June 2022. (Photo: K-J Millar/The Northern View)
Boats in the Gitxaala village of Kitkatla in June, 2022. (Photo: K-J Millar/The Northern View)

Gitxaala First Nation in B.C. goes to court over automatic mineral rights

A two-week court hearing begins today at the B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver

Boats in the Gitxaala village of Kitkatla in June, 2022. (Photo: K-J Millar/The Northern View)
Two hundred and fifteen pairs of children’s shoes are placed on the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery n Vancouver on Friday, May 28, 2021, as a memorial to children who did not return from residential schools. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Vancouver asks artist, vigil keepers to end Indigenous children’s shoe memorial

City says art gallery memorial not aligned with spiritual practices of the three area First Nations

Two hundred and fifteen pairs of children’s shoes are placed on the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery n Vancouver on Friday, May 28, 2021, as a memorial to children who did not return from residential schools. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
The Ooknakane Friendship Centre in Penticton (Western News File)

More lawsuits filed against Penticton Indigenous friendship centre for ‘wrongful termination’

The Ooknakane Friendship Centre has already been sued by its former executive director

The Ooknakane Friendship Centre in Penticton (Western News File)
Assembly of First Nations National Chief, RoseAnne Archibald, speaks during her closing address at the Assembly of First Nations Special Chiefs Assembly in Ottawa, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. Archibald says advancing economic reconciliation must go hand in hand with helping communities heal from intergenerational trauma. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby

Move toward ‘economic reconciliation’ must also come with healing: AFN national chief

Archibald: government has failed to create more economic opportunities for First Nations

Assembly of First Nations National Chief, RoseAnne Archibald, speaks during her closing address at the Assembly of First Nations Special Chiefs Assembly in Ottawa, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. Archibald says advancing economic reconciliation must go hand in hand with helping communities heal from intergenerational trauma. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
Pope Francis waves to faithful during his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 29, 2023. Pope Francis went to a Rome hospital on Wednesday for some previously scheduled tests, slipping out of the Vatican after his general audience and before the busy start of Holy Week this Sunday. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Responding to Indigenous, Vatican rejects Discovery Doctrine

Vaticans says decrees ‘did not adequately reflect the equal dignity and rights of indigenous peoples’

Pope Francis waves to faithful during his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 29, 2023. Pope Francis went to a Rome hospital on Wednesday for some previously scheduled tests, slipping out of the Vatican after his general audience and before the busy start of Holy Week this Sunday. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
A fly fisherman casts on the Kootenai River, downstream of the Koocanusa Reservoir at the centre of the dispute, near the Montana-Idaho border and Leonia, Idaho, on Sept. 19, 2014. U.S. Indigenous leaders say they aren’t about to stop pushing Canada to agree to a bilateral investigation into toxing mining runoff from B.C. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP - The Spokesman Review, Rich Landers

Fight against toxic mining runoff from Canada persists, say U.S. Indigenous leaders

Friday’s announcement of a US/Canada deal a sign of progress, but not what lobbyists want

A fly fisherman casts on the Kootenai River, downstream of the Koocanusa Reservoir at the centre of the dispute, near the Montana-Idaho border and Leonia, Idaho, on Sept. 19, 2014. U.S. Indigenous leaders say they aren’t about to stop pushing Canada to agree to a bilateral investigation into toxing mining runoff from B.C. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP - The Spokesman Review, Rich Landers
The cover art for Wanda John-Kehewin’s new graphic novel<em> Dreams: Visions of the Crow</em>. (<em>Dreams: Visions of the Crow</em> cover art)

B.C. writer’s graphic novel depicts the spiritual journey of a Cree-Métis teen

Author Wanda John-Kehewin writes about a teen boy, a mysterious crow and a new girl at school

  • Mar 27, 2023
The cover art for Wanda John-Kehewin’s new graphic novel<em> Dreams: Visions of the Crow</em>. (<em>Dreams: Visions of the Crow</em> cover art)