Each week, we feature a few articles about Indigenous news, issues and initiatives with a local, national and global focus.
For the week of January 11-15, 2021,
Local
- EXCLUSIVE: B.C. ministry warned birth alerts ‘illegal and unconstitutional’ months before banning them by Anna McKenzie, Bayleigh Marelj and Brielle Morgan for IndigiNews
- Crisis at the camps: B.C.’s COVID rules for industrial sites too little, too late, critics say by Matt Simmons
National
- Fancy felines: Beginner crafters practise skills by purrfecting regalia for cats by Ka’nhehsí:io Deer for CBC News
- A letter from the organizer of the Sask. prisoners’ hunger strike by Cory Charles Cardinal for Briar Patch Magazine
- Indigenous Beadwork Flourishes on Instagram by Anna V. Smith for the New York Times
- Tear Down Residential Schools, or Keep Them as Memorials? Communities Should Decide by Ry Moran for the Tyee
Events and Opportunities
- UBC Library presents, in partnership with UBC Forestry and the Simon K. Y. Lee Global Lounge and Resource Centre, a conversation with Dr Robin Wall Kimmerer on Friday, January 29 (1pm -2:30pm PST). The acclaimed author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants will be joined by moderators, Dr Daniel Heath Justice and Corrina Sparrow to discuss the author’s influence on multidisciplinary understandings of her work and how readers can integrate this into our connections with land and each other through our respective disciplinary lenses.
- Join CIS on January 22, 7-8pm, for a live Q&A with Asivak Koostachin, lead actor in Red Snow (2019). For more information, click here.