Bi-weekly, we feature a few articles about Indigenous news, issues and initiatives with a local, national and global focus.
For the weeks of July 13 – 26:
Local
- Meet the northern B.C. Indigenous artist who paints intricate works using only her mouth by Courtney Dickson & Nadia Mansour for CBC News
- Pat John, actor who played Jesse on The Beachcombers, is dead at 69 by for CBC News
- The Hiýáḿ Project by Satinflower Nurseries & Sḵwálwen Botanicals
National
- After years of demands, this Quebec First Nation will finally get its own police force for CBC News
- ‘I started to cry’: Iqaluit mother of 3 receives house from Habitat for Humanity by for CBC New
- Jeremy Dutcher donates $10K to Wolastoqey immersion school by Angel Moore for APTN
- Why do some people pretend to be Indigenous? by Drew Hayden Taylor for TVO Today
- University of Sask. announces policy aimed at rooting out false claims of Indigenous ancestry by for CBC News
- LISTEN: The Arts of Sovereignty Series
- LISTEN: CANADALAND #800 Cindy Blackstock’s Long Game
- Note: Cindy Blackstock, executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada; This is the story of how her work resulted in the largest financial compensation settlement the Canadian government has ever made because of the systemic neglect of First Nations’ children in the child welfare system over the course of decades.
International
- Once nearly extinct, bison are now climate heroes by Jess McHugh for the Washington Post