National Chief Shawn Atleo talks to APTN
Last week’s Special Chiefs Assembly featured a protest on Parliament Hill.
Aboriginal
Washington Post honours A Tribe Called Red
The Washington Post has named its 10 Best Pop Albums of 2012 and there’s a familiar Canadian Aboriginal among them.
Brazeau says Senate inquiry will lack teeth
He doesn’t see anything wrong with his fellow senators calling a Senate inquiry into missing and murdered Aboriginal women but Senator Patrick Brazeau said it’s not the best route and won’t give the crisis the best bang for the buck.
Finding his identity with each brush stroke and a skateboard
As the paint brushes along the canvas Jordan Bennett reflects on what it means to be an artist.
CSIS met with jailed Ottawa firebomber before parole denied
The man who firebombed an Ottawa bank in 2010 in the name of First Nations rights was denied parole a few months after CSIS met with him prison, APTN National News has learned.
Aboriginal children make suicide pact
Community groups in Vancouver were sounding alarm bells Tuesday.
Drum group visits Edmonton
Diverse drum group Ohnia:Kara took their show to Edmonton.
Aboriginal mother fights Saskatchewan school board
A Saskatchewan Aboriginal mother is fighting against a school board who says they hold the lawful authority to restrain and seclude their students.
Missing and murdered Aboriginal women summits divided
Two separate summits took place in Winnipeg last week and while they looked at the same issue of missing and murdered Aboriginal women they had different opinions on how to address the problem.