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Peter d'Errico: Ignorance can't be an excuse for genocide (05/16)
Peter d'Errico discusses genocide in Guatemala, Canada and the United States: In Guatemala, the High Risk Court concluded a trial of former military dictator José Efrain Ríos Montt. The court...

Three people reported dead in house fire on Ontario reserve (05/09)
Three people, including two young children, died in a house fire on the Wunnumin Lake First Nation in Ontario. The victims were reported to be a 21-year-old female, a six-year-old...

Statcan reports increase in Aboriginal population in Canada (05/08)
The Aboriginal population in Canada is growing, according to a new report from Statistics Canada. Data from the National Household Survey shows 1.4 million people claimed Aboriginal ancestry in 2011....

John Boncore, Mohawk activist, passes in Canada at age 61 (05/07)
John Boncore, a Mohawk activist who once tried to arrest former president George W. Bush, died on March 13. He was 61. Boncore was found near his home on the...

Charles Kader: Border tribes threatened by pipeline projects (05/06)
Charles Kader on pipeline projects that threaten tribes on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border: The uneven progress associated with fossil fuel pipeline projects on Turtle Island has taken on...

Residential school survivors host reunion in British Columbia (04/25)
Survivors of a residential school in British Columbia are hosting a month-long series of events. The survivors of the St. Joseph's residential school will meet for a reunion and dedicate...

Tribes in Washington join coalition to fight coal export project (04/23)
Tribes in Washington are joining a coalition to fight a coal export project. The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, the Tulalip Tribes and the Lummi Nation are part of the Leadership...

Q&A with Blaine Favel, University of Saskatchewan chancellor (04/22)
Blaine Favel. Photo Courtesy University of Saskatchewan. The Globe and Mail interviews Blaine Favel, a former chief of the Poundmaker Cree Nation, about his new role as the chancellor...

Daniel Wilson: Insincere apology for residential school abuses (04/22)
Daniel Wilson on Canada's apology for Native survivors of residential school abuse: It hurts people to think so -- and I truly regret if it hurts anyone for me to...

First Nation declares state of emergency over rash of suicides (04/18)
The Neskantaga First Nation in Ontario has declared a state of emergency after seeing two suicides within the last two weeks. Over the past year alone, seven people have committed...

Boy in stable condition after being mauled by dogs on reserve (04/09)
A six-year-old boy is in stable condition after being mauled by a pack of dogs on the Shamattawa First Nation in Manitoba. The boy was attacked on his way to...

Native man breaks silence after being abused by ex-priest (04/04)
A Native man from Ontario is breaking a gag order in order to share his story of being abused as a child. Raymond C. Jacob, an Ojibway from the Webequie...

Native Sun News: Natives united to protect our Mother Earth (04/02)
As a National Week of Action to Stop Tar Sands Profiteers came to a close March 23, in the movement to block completion of TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone XL Pipeline, participants in an indigenous encampment in northern Minnesota marked three weeks of continuous protest against another Canadian oil pipeline.

Native youth depart on 45-day walk from Manitoba to Ottawa (03/28)
Native youth in Winnipeg, Manitoba, embark in 45-day walk. Photo from Youth For Lake on Facebook. Inspired by the Idle No More movement, a group of Native youth is...

CBC News: Business grows for Native-owned airline in Canada (03/26)
CBC News has a video report on Canadian North Airlines, a 100 percent Native-owned company: Despite operating out of Edmonton for years, Canadian North Airlines has flown under the radar...

Teens await sentence for death of five-year-old Native boy (03/21)
Three teens will be sentenced for the drive-by shooting death of five-year-old Ethan Yellowbird on the Samson Cree First Nation in Alberta. The teens were ages 13, 16 and...

Survey finds rise in negative perceptions of Natives in Canada (03/20)
A growing number of English-speaking Canadians harbor negative perceptions of Native people, according to a new survey. Through a telephone survey, the Canadian Race Relations Foundation found that 59 percent...

Doug George-Kanentiio: Freeing Aboriginal people in Canada (03/15)
Now that the raw emotions of the Idle No More movement have temporarily receded it is time to think clearly about how to resolve the longstanding social, political and economic...

Inquiry into death of Native girl put on hold again as costs climb (03/14)
The inquiry into the death of Phoenix Sinclair has been put on hold again as costs of the probe have risen to more than $6 million. Phoenix was under the...

Native Sun News: First Nations leaders slam Keystone XL study (03/11)
The following story was written and reported by Talli Nauman, Native Sun News Health & Environment Editor. All content © Native Sun News. Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Chief Allan Adam...

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