British Columbia RCMP officers arrested at least five people who were blockading the McLeod Lake Indian band office Monday over a litany of grievances including chief and band council decisions to sign onto resource development projects.
Saskatchewan Conservative MP Rob Clarke introduced a private member’s bill Monday that, if passed, would increase the power of bands to pass bylaws, repeal sections of the Indian Act dealing with residential schools, the governing of wills and that barred First Nations in the prairies from freely selling agricultural products.
After six days of hearings in Vancouver Supreme Court, the decision on what to do with Calgary law firm Blott & Company now rests in the hands of Justice Brenda Brown, one of nine judges across the country who oversee the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement.
A 22-year-old Cree man says he is planning to burn the Canadian flag on Canada Day to symbolize a “cleansing” of Indigenous lands.
As the Dakota in Manitoba continue their fight against the provincial government to sell cheap cigarettes, they also continue to claim their tribe is a sovereign nation.
The Yukon Supreme Court is hearing a judicial review into the inquest for Raymond Silverfox.
Tensions mounted this morning in Vancouver as an ongoing dispute over a burial site threatened by a condo went up a notch.
The identities and bodies of many First Nations children who died at Indian residential schools may be lost forever, says the Ontario Coroner’s Office which has been working with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to sift through one of the darkest periods in Canadian history to find the dead.
As Montreal’s evening marches continue, people are using a new form of protest to express their anger.
