Bi-weekly, we feature a few articles about Indigenous news, issues and initiatives with a local, national and global focus.
For the weeks of September 28 – October 11:
Local
- Musqueam Nation gives gift of new name for Vancouver’s former Trutch Street by Akshay Kulkarni for CBC News
- ‘The spirit of our Elders’: the inside story of how the Tahltan Nation saved their Sacred Headwaters by Matt Simmons for The Narwhal
- ‘Bringing back identity’: Memorial totem pole raised on Orange Shirt Day by Micheal Bramadat-Willcock for Terrace Standard
- The complicated truth about pipelines crossing Wet’suwet’en territory by Matt Simmons for The Narwhal
National
- WATCH: Dress designer inspired to help after tragic mass stabbings at James Smith Cree Nation by CBC News
- LISTEN: A Seminar in Settlerology by Media Indigena for Rick Harp
- ‘Really beautiful’: Indigenous jacket with ties to Red River region discovered by U.K. thrift shop by Kayla Rosen for CTV News
- Inuktitut preservation through digitalization by Félix Charron-Lecler for Penticton Herald
- McGill University unveils new space for Indigenous learning in medical school for CBC News
- Canada’s changing map: Reconciliation renames people, places, things by Adrian Humphreys for the National Post
- Meet the Sixties Scoop survivor writing children’s books for Indigenous children in foster care by CBC News
- Wanuskewin Heritage Park welcomes baby bison born on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation by David Shield for CBC News
- Can sweetgrass sequester carbon? Piikani Nation plans to find out by Drew Anderson for The Narwhal
International
- LISTEN: Coping with climate change on Mt Everest with Pasang Yangjee Sherpa and Dawa Yangzum Sherpa for Aljazeera