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Coverage around the world on Indigenous issues for the week ending March 27, 2022

Patricia Elaine Nawagesic (Oza-Migizi-Kwe—Brown Eagle Woman) passed away on March 13, 2022 after a brief and valiant fight against a rare and aggressive form of cancer. She was a member of Kiashke Zaaging Anishinaabek (Gull Bay First Nation).

During this week's town council meeting, council received a heartfelt letter from First Nations Technical Inst...

LU professor receives grant to explore the work of the Hamilton YWCA.

Explaining how residential schools came to be, what happened there and the lasting impacts of those experiences requires both delicacy and honesty, according to experts.

Its official contrition and restitution to Namibia for genocide resonates with other societies dealing with past wrongs.

College of the Rockies hosting Indigenous Speaker Series

Native American CEAH scholarship winners announced May 14, 2021 The recently established Center for Environmental Arts and Humanities at The University of New Mexico announced its inaugural awardees of the undergraduate Native American Environmental Arts and Humanities Scholarship. This interdisciplinary scholarship is awarded to Native American students at UNM who have demonstrated excellence during their undergraduate tenure and who are interested in art and ecology, social justice, envir...

Ontario Native Women’s Association Executive director Cora-Lee McGuire-Cyrette Cora-Lee McGuire-Cyrette is no stranger to being part of a team. As the executive director of the Ontario Native Women’s Association (ONWA), McGuire-Cyrette has wholeheartedly immersed herself in the issues at hand since assuming her role in 2015. “Working to address violence against Indigenous women has been a driving force in my life. My grandparents who were residential school survivors have taught me the p...

Confederation College continues to work on advancing its five year strategic plan. Indigenous Learning was identified as a top priority. President Kathleen Lynch says they have worked really hard to address systemic racism in the college. “This is facilitated through education and we have a Negahneewin education strategy that has been created both for staff and students to help us do this.” Lynch says they had mandatory staff training on Indigenous culture and history and had nearly 100% co...