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Canadian First Nations leaders urge government to protect wild salmon in British Columbia
Canadian First Nations leaders have urged the country's federal government to ke...
Giovanni Torre 18 Jun 2026
Native American artist turns beadwork and family memory into a remarkable exhibition
Chicago-based multidisciplinary Lakota, Dakota and Shoshone artist Chelsea Bigho...
Joseph Guenzler 14 May 2026
United Nations urges Canada to stop assimilatory impacts of the ‘Indian Act’
The United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples recently...
Giovanni Torre 13 May 2026
Amnesty International condemns Canadian court system’s treatment of Wet’suwet’en land defender Chief Dsta’hyl

Amnesty International has condemned Canadian authorities for unjustly criminalising an Indigenous leader defending Country. On April 28, the Court of Appeal for British Columbia ruled that Likhts'amis...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre May 7, 2026
British Columbia First Nations leaders demand end to sex discrimination and violence against women

Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs Secretary-Treasurer, Chief Marilyn Slett (K̓áwáziɫ), was in Ottawa on Tuesday - Canada's National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murde...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre May 6, 2026
Alberta separatism in Canada: 'One of the most troubling times in my lifetime for First Nations people'

With the threat of separatism from Canada and annexation by the United States, persistent treaty violations, fast-tracked resource development projects, and ongoing societal issues, the present moment...

T
Thomas Law Apr 28, 2026
'First Nations children in Canada should not have to wait for justice' - advocates

The Our Children Our Way Secretariat, British Columbia's Indigenous Child and Family Services peak body, has taken its call for justice to the world stage.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Apr 27, 2026
D Lan Galleries and Pace Gallery to present Emily Kam Kngwarray in New York

D Lan Galleries, in collaboration with Pace Gallery, will present Emily Kam Kngwarray: The Turning Season, a major survey of one of Australia's most significant artists, on view in New York from May 1...

Phoebe Blogg Phoebe Blogg Apr 22, 2026
Canadian First Nations leaders fight back against attack on Indigenous rights in British Columbia

Canadian Indigenous leaders have urged legislators in British Columbia to vote down a bill which would suspended parts of the province's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Apr 20, 2026
Sacred Chaco Canyon lands at risk as protections face rollback

A proposal to remove federal protections around Southwest USA's Chaco Culture National Historical Park has drawn renewed opposition from Indigenous leaders, who say a sacred cultural landscape is agai...

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Apr 7, 2026
British Columbia Court of Appeal overturns decision limiting Nuchatlaht Nation's claims on Nootka Island

The British Columbia Court of Appeal has overturned a 2024 lower-court ruling this week after finding the judge used an "arbitrary boundary" to determine a First Nation's native title over a swath of...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Apr 3, 2026
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