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The Conversation: Australia must continue to deliver on promises to First Peoples (September 3, 2024)

The Prime Minister of Australia is announcing a shift in the government’s policy toward Indigenous peoples.

The Conversation: A surprising discovery at Stonehenge (August 15, 2024)

Where is the Altar Stone at Stonehenge from? How was it transported to southern England?

The Conversation: The legacy of the Indian Citizenship Act (July 30, 2024)

Over the past century, Native people have come to terms with being dual citizens of the same country.

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.

The Conversation: Thanksgiving stories ignore history of colonization on Native lands (November 29, 2023)

Too often, K-12 social studies classes in the U.S. teach a mostly glossed-over story of U.S. settlement.

Kwetiio of Kanien'keha:ka Kahnistensera (Mohawk Mothers)

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 Conversation: An attack of Indigenous rights is an attack on nature conservation (November 2, 2022)

The Łutsël K’é Dene First Nation has protected Thaidene Nëné under their own law since time immemorial.

Sacheen Littlefeather / Marie Louise Cruz

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.

The Conversation: A brief history of the Catholic Church and Native peoples (July 25, 2022)

Religious communities, bishops and popes were variously complicit in a system that dispossessed Indigenous peoples and cruelly oppressed their children at Native residential schools.

The Conversation: Families still seeking justice for loss of loved ones (July 18, 2022)

Three young Indigenous people died under mysterious circumstances in Prince Rupert in British Columbia. The investigations into their deaths were inadequate.

The Conversation: Catholic Church avoids accounting for abuses at residential schools (April 8, 2022)

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.

The Conversation: Justice elusive for Aboriginal children stolen from their families (September 3, 2021)

Many of the original survivors of the Stolen Generations have passed away without seeing justice.

The Conversation: First Nations see little progress on clean water (May 4, 2021)

Water quality in Canada is ranked among the best in the world yet First Nations struggle to access a safe supply.

The Conversation: Indigenous fashion designers showcase resistance and resurgence (December 3, 2020)

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.

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