tag: the conversation
The Conversation: First Nations left out of NAGPRA framework (March 28, 2024)
We are First Nations historians and professors working in Canada. Our communities are also impacted by the loss of cultural patrimony to museums in the U.S. and the laws covering repatriation. 
Too often, K-12 social studies classes in the U.S. teach a mostly glossed-over story of U.S. settlement.
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. 
The Łutsël K’é Dene First Nation has protected Thaidene Nëné under their own law since time immemorial.
Dina Gilio Whitaker: Sacheen Littlefeather was a Pretendian (October 28, 2022)
“Pretendianism” – the act of falsely claiming American Indian heritage – does real harm. 
The Conversation: Advancing food sovereignty in Indigenous communities (October 5, 2022)
The lack of baseline data on the scale and scope of Indigenous involvement in agriculture continues to be an obstacle to effective engagement of Indigenous communities. 
Religious communities, bishops and popes were variously complicit in a system that dispossessed Indigenous peoples and cruelly oppressed their children at Native residential schools.
Three young Indigenous people died under mysterious circumstances in Prince Rupert in British Columbia. The investigations into their deaths were inadequate.
On an intuitive and experiential level, the Catholic Church as an institution was an agent of harm. But Pope Francis has avoided saying so.
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. 
The Conversation: Native nations are the experts on citizenship (December 13, 2021)
There is a growing movement to identify and call-out people who have fraudulently held positions by claiming indigeneity like Cheyanne Turions, Joseph Boyden, Michelle Latimer and Carrie Bourassa. 
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. 
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. 
Many of the original survivors of the Stolen Generations have passed away without seeing justice.
Water quality in Canada is ranked among the best in the world yet First Nations struggle to access a safe supply.
Indigenous Fashion Week Toronto once again took the world by storm, only virtually this time around.
The Conversation: Indian day school survivors are seeking truth and justice (October 28, 2020)
In January 2020, Canada began accepting claims emerging from a billion-dollar settlement with survivors of Indian day schools. 
Prakash Kashwan: The racist legacies of American conservation (October 7, 2020)
Conservation institutions and policies continue to exclude and discriminate against Indigenous and rural communities.
Popular Tags
117th
alaska
alaska native
arizona
bia
california
cherokee
chuck hoskin
coronavirus
crime
cronkite news
dc
deb haaland
democrats
doi
donald trump
economic development
elections
employment
house
ihs
joe biden
languages
media
meetings
montana
nafoa
native america calling
native vote
navajo
ncai
new mexico
oklahoma
race
radio
republicans
scia
senate
south dakota
sovereignty
supreme court
treaties
water
women
youth
Search
Advertisement
