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The Vatican has repudiated the Doctrine of Discovery, a 500-year-old decree used to justify settler colonialism. Scholar Veldon Coburn explains this symbolic victory and what still needs to happen.

Indigenous people have been raising alarm bells over Amira and Nadya Gill's claims of Inuit ancestry for years, now a family tied up in their claims is asking the RCMP to step in.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton announces the Liberals' formal opposition to the federal government's model for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, after a party room meeting in Canberra.

Center right Liberal Party leader Dutton accuses Prime Minister Albanese of dividing country over proposed federal consultative body.

Church leaders criticize institutional corruption and impunity that have allowed the escalation of crime and murder

A press secretary for Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino backed away from any timeline, saying ‘It is too early to say when the legislation will be tabled.’

Prospect of a successful referendum to change the constitution and create an elected group charged with advocating Indigenous interests now appears doomed.

The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples affirms the rights of Indigenous Peoples to self-determination, to their language, culture and traditional lands.

Canada’s commitment to halt biodiversity loss can only be realized by weaving together Indigenous and non-Indigenous knowledge.

The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples affirms the rights of Indigenous Peoples to self-determination, to their language, culture and traditional lands.