Indigenous News

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TORONTO — Veteran driver Chris Christoforou, thoroughbred builder R. Glenn Sikura and horses Bulldog Hanover and Pink Lloyd top the eight inductees named for enshrinement into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame on Wednesday.

TORONTO — Leaders of northern Ontario First Nations descended upon Queen's Park in Toronto on Wednesday to deliver a message to the province: they want to be equal partners on any kind of development in their territories.

TORONTO — A year after Ryerson University was reintroduced to the public with a new name – a major move in addressing problematic colonial legacies – its president says the school's updated identity has helped bring a previously divided campus commun

PERUIBE, Brazil (AP) — This year's Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand is a world away from Indigenous Brazilian leader Guaciane da Silva Gomes, who lives in the isolated village of Tapirema in southern Sao Paulo state.

HALIFAX — Photographs have been released showing people fishing for baby eels in Nova Scotia despite the federal government's recent decision to shut down the contentious fishery.

PIACAGUERA INDIGENOUS LAND, Brazil (AP) — As a bonfire lit by children finished burning, the winners at the first Indigenous Games of Peruibe calmly welcomed their wooden medals around their necks with little fanfare otherwise.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Melissa McCarthy is out front on this year's People magazine “Beautiful Issue.” The “Bridesmaids” star says being on the cover "felt like it was saying something really lovely to my younger self, to my 20-year-old self.

OTTAWA — The head of the Alberta Energy Regulator has refused to tell a parliamentary committee investigating releases from an oilsands tailings pond about when the provincial government was told about the problem.

SÃO PAULO (AP) — When Alessandra Korap was born in the mid-1980s, her Indigenous village nestled in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil was a haven of seclusion.