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Native America Calling: Native shows and Native content to watch (March 4, 2025)
The Dark Winds crime series is coming back. And the acclaimed Sugarcane is streaming. What else is on your Native screening list? 
Canadian documentary focuses on ‘Icon’ who based career on Native identity (October 25, 2023)
A Canadian news documentary focuses on the Native identity claims of one of the most celebrated performers in entertainment history. 
The Conversation: Mohawk Mothers keep fighting to protect lost children (October 17, 2023)
Debates over what “mapping” means show how Indigenous communities still have to advocate for and defend their cartographic methods in order to uphold their connections to the land. 
Many Canadians are coming to terms with the nation’s history of schooling and settler colonialism.
No Native entity knows the answers and to truly heal we need our children returned to our homes.
Native America Calling: The history and protocols of headdresses (August 1, 2022)
The pictures of Pope Francis wearing a headdress spurred controversy across the globe — and across social media. 
Pope Francis, the leader of the Catholic Church, delivers remarks at Maskwacis Park in Alberta, Canada.
Religious communities, bishops and popes were variously complicit in a system that dispossessed Indigenous peoples and cruelly oppressed their children at Native residential schools.
One of the intents of the Canadian and U.S. governments in creating the boarding-residential schools was to alienate indigenous people from their ancestral lands.
Nothing will be done for us without us. No one may speak on our behalf without our express approval.
On an intuitive and experiential level, the Catholic Church as an institution was an agent of harm. But Pope Francis has avoided saying so.
Native America Calling: The papal apology (April 7, 2022)
The apology from Pope Francis sought forgiveness for the role the Catholic Church played in atrocities at Native residential schools. 
Tens of thousands of Native children suffered abuse at residential schools run by the Catholic Church, all with the compliance of the Canadian government.
Celeste Pedri-Spade: Self-indigenization has become a real problem (January 27, 2022)
What we are facing has been, and continues to be, a settler colonial crisis, which under its current guise, seeks to replace us. 
Native America Calling: Catholic reconciliation in Canada? (November 4, 2021)
Pope Francis is scheduled to meet with an Indigenous delegation when he visits Canada in December. 
The Conversation: Native ceremony in the age of COVID-19 (October 25, 2021)
Indigenous ceremonies have been central to Indigenous health and well-being since time immemorial. 
True peace will come about when Native residential school children, now buried, arise and are returned to the embrace of their ancestors in their home territories.
The Conversation: Education system can’t remain silent on Native genocide (September 29, 2021)
The education system needs to help teachers address, repair and heal education towards and beyond reconciliation. 
People ask why the residential-boarding school survivors, their respective families and supporters wear orange.
The sordid history of the U.S. effort to bring Native children into boarding schools is, quite frankly, staggering.
Arne Vainio: We all have an opportunity to redeem (August 12, 2021)
All our generations exist in us and one day our ancestors will carry us home. 
Almost 2,000 Native children have been found on the grounds of former residential schools and thousands more have yet to be located.
The Akwesasne community demonstrated in the most powerful way its desire to address the terrible effects residential schools have had on the people.
Native America Calling: Residential schools: cycle of grief (July 15, 2021)
The revelation that more unmarked graves were found at a Canadian residential school adds additional injury for Indigenous people. 
Grassroots treaty rights events on Independence Day featured a peaceful but spectacular civil disobedience action.
Religious-based boarding schools are an enduring symbol of forced assimilation of Native children in the United States and Canada.
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative, a comprehensive review of the troubled legacy of federal boarding school policies.
I learned that it was not good to be an “Indian.” We were supposed to forget our language and culture.
Give us back our lands so that we might be restored to the embrace of the earth.
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