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This week’s election in the United States saw a record number of Indigenous candidates, according to a U.S. organization that tracks Native American, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian elected officials, but it says there’s still a long way to go in representation. CBC | World News
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Belgium honours Indigenous First World War veterans
As Jeff Purdy retraced the steps of his great-great-grandfather, Sam Glode, in Belgium during the First World War, he marvelled at the depth of the tunnels dug by his own flesh and blood beneath German lines. CBC | World News
Read More »Biden to apologize for past U.S. policy on boarding schools for Indigenous children
U.S. President Joe Biden is scheduled to formally apologize on Friday to Indigenous people for the government’s role in the abuse and neglect of children sent to federal boarding schools to assimilate them into white society. CBC | World News
Read More »King Charles shouted at by Indigenous Australian senator during royal visit
King Charles was accused of “genocide” by an Indigenous senator at Australia’s Parliament House on Monday, moments after he delivered a speech in which he paid his “respects to the traditional owners of the lands.” CBC | World News
Read More »Olympic diver Margo Erlam on her Indigenous roots and the importance of Truth and Reconciliation day
Host Anastasia Bucsis speaks to Olympic diver Margo Erlam about competing at the Olympics, and how discovering her Indigenous roots has inspired her to give back to the Indigenous community. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Movie Rez Ball shows why Indigenous stories are best told by Indigenous people
Knowing and learning about your subjects is a basic tenet in journalism. But it hasn’t always been done well for people in the margins. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, at centre of controversial murder conviction, gets parole hearing
Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who has spent most of his life in prison since his conviction in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents in South Dakota, has a parole hearing Monday at a federal prison in Florida. CBC | World News
Read More »Norway’s court rules against Indigenous control over northern territory
In a narrow 6-5 decision, Norway’s Supreme Court ruled Friday that the largely Indigenous community of Karasjok does not have collective property rights over a vast area in the country’s northernmost region. CBC | World News
Read More »Indigenous leaders adopt declaration condemning identity theft
First Nations, Inuit and Red River Métis leaders unanimously adopted a formal declaration condemning Indigenous identity fraud, capping Day 2 of what they’re calling a historic summit in Winnipeg. CBC | World News
Read More »This court case could set groundbreaking precedent for Indigenous land rights in Europe
A case before Norway’s Supreme Court could see an area in the north of the country transferred to local, Indigenous control and would be the first time such a land claim succeeded in Europe. If it fails, the process the Indigenous Sámi helped establish could be called into question. CBC | World News
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