NTI head wants special recognition for Inuktut as one of Canada’s founding languages
The woman in charge of Nunavut’s largest land claims organization wants Inuktut recognized by Canada as one of the country’s founding languages.
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‘We are entitled to justice’ Family of Colten Boushie speaks at UN forum
Family and supporters Colten Boushie, the 22-year-old who was shot and killed on a Saskatchewan farm used the international stage of the United Nations Tuesday to advocate for change in the Canadian criminal justice system.
Littlechild tells inquiry that violence against women and girls getting international attention
The grand chief of Treaty 6 territory, on which the Edmonton hearings of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Women and Girls took place, made a brief appearance on the final day of the hearings to offer encouragement to the commission and to the 75 witnesses who testified during the three-day session.
First Nation Elders want Eagle Staff gifted to Canada’s UN ambassador returned
Some First Nation Elders want to repatriate an Eagle Staff gifted by Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde to a Canadian diplomat in honour of the 10th anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Trudeau tells UN of Canada’s shame over Indigenous Peoples
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used a speech to the United Nations on Thursday to probe a source of national shame: the historic struggles of Canada’s Indigenous peoples.
B.C. chief tells Trudeau he needs to ‘see where the rubber hits the road’
“I have seen nothing substantive that he has done for our peoples.”
First Nations in B.C. bring in the United Nations to stop Site C Dam
First Nations call in the United Nations to stop Site C dam.
Battle flares over including Indigenous peoples in global climate change deal
Climate change talks expected to run until Dec. 11
Conservative candidate Greg Rickford says Manitoba, Winnipeg haven’t asked for ‘Freedom Road’ dollars
Shoal Lake heading to the UN