Indigenous News

NAIN, NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR — The president of the organization representing Inuit in Canada hailed the arrival of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a small village on Labrador's north coast Friday as "momentous.

Indian authorities have started the process to have two Canadians extradited to face charges after four members of the same family froze to death in southern Manitoba while trying to cross into the United States, says a police officer.

Federal Public Safety Minister Bill Blair says Canadian Forces personnel are being deployed to help with an "unprecedented" wildfire situation in Alberta. Alberta has declared a state of emergency.

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IQALUIT, Nunavut — An arbitrator has sided with the organization representing Nunavut Inuit, ruling that plans by the federal and territorial governments to increase Inuit employment in the territory are not meeting commitments in the Nunavut Land Cl

VANCOUVER — An Indigenous-led report into a massive wildfire nearly six years ago that destroyed more than 100 homes and scorched a vast swath of British Columbia's Interior says the blaze resulted in up to $1 billion per year in ongoing nature and e

Improving access to mental health care for Indigenous individuals – particularly those in remote communities – and creating a mental health unit in a northern Ontario jail were among 46 recommendations presented Wednesday at the inquest into the deat

TORONTO — At the Copenhagen premiere of the new documentary “Twice Colonized” in March, a young Greenlandic woman stood up in the audience and offered Aaju Peter “a beautiful moment of realization.

OTTAWA — On the shores of the eastern arm of Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories, Iris Catholique and the Ni Hat'ni Dene Indigenous Guardians have spent several years watching the ice take longer and longer to form every winter.