Each week, we feature a few articles about Indigenous news, issues and initiatives with a local, national and global focus. We feature these as an educational resource, and they should not be construed as an official stance or reflective of the opinions or beliefs of the Institute, CIS staff or faculty.
For the week of June 21-25:
Local
- New online map braids together Indigenous land, language, arts and culture by Anna McKenzie for Indiginews
- Two on-reserve churches burned down on Indigenous Peoples Day in B.C.’s interior by Athena Bonneau for Indiginews
- Learn how to pronounce these Indigenous phrases from the CBC
- Objectivity is ‘the view from nowhere’ and potentially harmful on the Sunday Edition, featuring FNIS’s Candis Callison
- No new funding for Indigenous languages in B.C. leaves teachers scrambling for resources by Angela Sterritt
National
- Parliamentary committee gives Liberals until March 2022 to come up with drinking water plan from APTN National News
- Why this treaty educator says every Nova Scotian should learn the Mi’kmaw language by Emma Smith for the CBC
- Tsuut’ina unveil new high school on National Indigenous Peoples Day from the CBC
International
- Louise Erdrich ’76 Wins Pulitzer Prize for Fiction by Charlotte Albright from Dartmouth News
Events & Opportunities