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Sixties Scoop settlement brings survivors mixed emotions

With the Covid-19 pandemic slowing administration of Canada’s $875 million class-action settlement agreement with Sixties Scoop survivors, a federal judge has approved interim payments of $21,000 to the 12,500 people already deemed eligible, as well as to those approved in the months ahead as the review process continues.

Patrick Quinn

GIS mapping project will visualize 60s Scoop displacements

While the recent announcement of interim payments for eligible Sixties Scoop survivors as part of a $750 million class-action settlement may bring some a sense of closure, there remain many unresolved issues for those whose traditional culture and homeland were taken from them during childhood.

Patrick Quinn

The federal government slow in tackling the MMIWG issue

The Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) has given the federal government a failing grade based on its handling and response to the final report from the national inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG).

Lachlan Madill

Quebec’s move to reopen northern mines meets with Indigenous opposition

Three weeks after all non-essential businesses ceased operating in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Quebec government announced April 13 that mining activities – many of which are in First Nations territories – would gradually resume.

Patrick Quinn

Growing support for Wet’suwet’en land defenders shakes Canadian politics

An escalating protest movement has brought international attention to the fight of Wet’suwet’en First Nation hereditary chiefs and land defenders against a natural gas pipeline that would cross through their traditional territory in northern British Columbia.

Patrick Quinn

Policing changes needed

According to Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada, a recent court ruling in Nunavut finally acknowledges the “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” situations that many Inuit women and children find themselves in when it comes to domestic violence in overcrowded housing.

Amy German

Strateco’s appeal dismissed, possible Supreme Court challenge awaits

A ruling by the Quebec Court of Appeal may be the final chapter in the 14-year saga of Strateco Resources’ Matoush uranium project.

Dan Isaac

Day-school survivors entitled to compensation, but concerns remain

For nearly 140 years, nearly 200,000 Indigenous children across the country attended one of nearly 700 Indian day schools that sought to assimilate them and rid them of their culture and language.

Ben Powless

The State of the Cree Nation Address

No doubt, 2019 has been a big year for Abel Bosum at the helm of the Cree Nation. Whether it was reorganizing administration, addressing the housing issue, fine-tuning education or promoting the advancement of the Cree women, Cree families and the health of Crees, the Cree Nation Government has been tireless.

Amy German

Indigenous artwork focuses on the largest pipeline protest in recent history

A crowd gathered at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture (MIAC) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on December 1 to bid the Beyond Standing Rock exhibit farewell.

Julie McIntosh

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