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 25-29, 2021,
Local
- The Ayajuthem language radiates across territory by Odette Auger for Indiginews
- My Home Community Urgently Needs the Vaccine. Who Will Hear My Call? By Ginger Gosnell-Myers
National
- Indigenous knowledge systems often overlooked in academia by Athena Bonneau for The Star
- Indigenous two-spirit describes living in Canada’s ‘chemical valley’ in Greenpeace report on recycling, CBC News
- Liard First Nation preparing to enter self-governance negotiations with Yukon, federal governments by Gabrielle Plonka for Yukon News
- How the animated film Chicken Run became a cult classic in the Mi’kmaw language by Emma Smith for CBC News
- Meadow Lake Tribal Council releases Cree and Dene language apps by Nick Pearce for the Star Pheonix
- Nunavut television network launches Inuit-language channel by Beth Brown for CBC News
International
- How Covid-19 Threatens Native Languages by Jodi Archambault for the New York Times
- Papua tribe moves to block clearing of its ancestral forest for palm oil by Hans Nicholas Jong for Mongabay.com
- Lost in translation: Nepal struggles to preserve its indigenous languages as those speaking them dwindle, featuring CIS FNEL Professor, Mark Turin, for the Nepali Times
Events and Opportunities
- Join the Sexuality Education Resource Centre on Valentine’s Day, Sunday February 14th from 7:00 – 8:30 pm for a night of storytelling and learning from esteemed guest and Keynote Speaker, Dr. Kim TallBear, who will take you on a journey through her life and research in the areas of sexuality and relationships. RSVP here.
- On February 25th, join Dallas Hunt, David Gaertner, Karyn Recollet and moderator Lisa Jackson for a Roundable discussion. In this roundtable discussion, panelists will take up Indigenous futurisms—the projection of Indigenous peoples into imagined futures—within the contexts of the “apocalypse.” Looking specifically toward cultural and political resurgence, they will discuss representations of the apocalypse in Indigenous literature, film, and new media while tracing out the practices of care and compassion that will sustain us in the age of the postapocalyptic. Learn more and RSVP here.