Each week, we feature a few articles about Indigenous news, issues and initiatives with a local, national and global focus.
For November 9th – 13th, 2020,
National:
- Salmon Nation tackles COVID-19 and climate crisis through virtual arts festival, from APTN
- Carver honoured for emerging skill learned from Kwakwaka’wakw masters from APTN
- Mi’kmaq-owned partnership in Clearwater Seafoods deal a ‘benefit for everybody’, CBC News
- ‘Cultural genocide’: Nunavut passes changes to education, language protection acts by Emma Tranter
International:
- American Congress will have record number of Indigenous representatives, CTV News
- CNN puts itself in the news with ‘Something Else’ label, from APTN
Events & Opportunities:
- A Spot on the Brain: Trauma and Healing in the Age of COVID with Jesse Wente and Tanya Talaga.
- On November 4th, CIS practicum partner, grunt gallery, launched an exciting and diverse selection of new works on the Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen!
- The World Virtual Indigenous Circle is hosting a panel called Open Science and the Decolonization of Knowledge on Thursday Nov. 12. The event itself is sold out right now, but the article that the event is based on (written by Leslie Chan, Budd Hall, Florence Piron, Rajesh Tandon, and Wanósts’a Lorna Williams) is available here.