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The Cree Nation of Chisasibi, a northern Quebec town on the eastern shore of James Bay, is making history this weekend by hosting ten elite Indigenous curlers from all across Canada who will be taking to the ice for an historic game. CBC | Sports News
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Canadian wrestler Justina Di Stasio proud to represent Indigenous roots at Paris Olympics
Canada’s Justina Di Stasio qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympic games, which will serve as the wrestler’s first taste of Olympic action in her 20-year career. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Canada’s Trinity Ellis makes push for more Indigenous representation in luge
Trinity Ellis, who is Métis, said she wants to help raise the profile of Indigenous athletes in luge. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Joe Biden and White House support Indigenous lacrosse team for 2028 Olympics
U.S. President Joe Biden is pushing to allow the Indigenous nation that invented lacrosse to play under its own flag when the sport returns to the Olympics in 2028. CBC | World News
Read More »Hard hit by climate change, Indigenous leaders want strong voice at COP28
From disappearing salmon stocks and caribou herds to wildfires and a changing landscape, Indigenous leaders are sharing their impressions at the UN climate summit of how a warming planet is impacting their communities and way of life. CBC | World News
Read More »University of New Brunswick hockey camp aims to help Indigenous girls get on the ice
More than a dozen girls are learning the game of hockey from members of the University of New Brunswick women’s team this fall at a camp created specifically for Indigenous girls. The camp is led by Lillian George, a sixth-year student at UNB and an assistant captain with the Reds. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Australian voters reject referendum to recognize Indigenous Voice to Parliament
Advocates for constitutional change in Australia say they’ree devastated by the defeat Saturday of a referendum that would have created an advocacy committee to offer advice to Parliament on policies that affect Indigenous people. CBC | World News
Read More »‘I had an identity issue’: Basketball connects urban Indigenous player with his roots
Helping his Nisga’a team win a basketball championship is a victory for Gene Wolff. But connecting to his home First Nation in northern B.C. is an even bigger win. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Brazilian president accused of inciting genocide of Indigenous people
A group of Brazilian lawyers and former ministers has requested that the International Criminal Court (ICC) investigate President Jair Bolsonaro for allegedly inciting the genocide of Indigenous people and failing to safeguard the forests and protected lands they live in. CBC | World News
Read More »Illegal loggers kill Amazon indigenous warrior who guarded forest
Illegal loggers in the Amazon ambushed an indigenous group that was formed to protect the forest and shot dead a young warrior and wounded another, leaders of the Guajajara tribe in northern Brazil said on Saturday. CBC | World News
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