Re-visioning the Americas through Indigenous filmmaking
Indigenous filmmakers from around the world are in Montreal right now for the First Peoples Festival
Featured
‘Grandfather’ Commanda, an Algonquin man of ‘wisdom’ and ‘inspiration’
Algonquin Elder and spiritual leader William Commanda, known by the honourary title of “grandfather,” died in his home early Wednesday morning. He was 97.
‘Sometimes you wonder where their hearts are’
A desperate mother from Pictou Landing First Nation in Nova Scotia is continuing her fight to keep her 16 year-old son at home.
Poundmaker chief, eight others face charges over treaty money
A complaint from a member of the Poundmaker First Nation in June 2004 has led to several charges being laid.
Tootoosis: politician, elder, residential school survivor, acclaimed actor, icon
Actor Gordon Tootoosis has died.
Cree community bans FNs spirituality
An overwhelmingly Christian Cree community in northern Quebec has banned sweat lodges and all forms of First Nations spirituality.
FNUC: LESSON LEARNED? PART 1
The First Nations University of Canada came perilously close to closing. What went wrong? Has it been fixed? What will the future bring? APTN Investigates the state of higher education today and tomorrow at Canada’s First Nations University.