Former Kluane First Nation Chief Math'ieya Alatini has been elected Grand Chief at the 45th Council of Yukon First Nations General Assembly in Brooks Brook. Alatini succeeds Peter Johnston in the role. Johnston, who served as grand chief since 2016, decided not to run for another term. After the election, Alatani outli...

By Talar Stockton, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Chasàn Chùa is the most recent part of land to be designated a territorial park in the Yukon. The park - also known as McIntyre Creek - was announced at a press conference on the afternoon of June 19. It covers around 35 hectares through the heart of...

A lawsuit over the right to Inuit language instruction in the Nunavut public school system is a step closer to being heard following a Supreme Court of Canada decision. The top court has dismissed the Nunavut government's latest bid to have the lawsuit thrown out before the parties make full arguments. Two Inuit mother...

Dozens of First Nations leaders from across the country gathered in front of Parliament Hill Monday with a message for the King as he arrived in the city - respect your treaty partners. Treaties were "meant to be a respectful relationship where we could continue to live our lives, practise our inherent rights of h...

For many familiar with Canada's powwow scene, Maggie White is known as the first lady of the jingle dress. The late Anishinaabe woman earned the title after popularizing the jingle dress regalia and dance style at powwows in the late 1960s to the early 1980s. In the years since, the dance, known as a healing dance, has...

The Federal Court has rejected the federal government's motion to dismiss a claim for monetary relief in a class-action lawsuit brought by non-status individuals and Métis who were involved in the so-called "'60s Scoop." It's also granting the plaintiffs' request for a motion declaring that the Crown h...

On a warm July day in 2022, thousands of dignitaries, Indigenous leaders and residential school survivors travelled from across Canada to powwow grounds in central Alberta. For some, the journey took days. For others, decades. They had all come to hear Pope Francis apologize for the Catholic Church's role in residentia...

Members of the Kitselas First Nation in British Columbia's Skeena Valley region have voted to become self-governing. The nation says in a news release that more than 96 per cent of its enrolled voters took part in the ratification on Thursday. It says 85 per cent of voters ticked Yes for the treaty, while 81 per cent v...

The chief of a Manitoba First Nation allegedly forced a young girl into a bathroom in his Winnipeg home, took photos of her and sexually assaulted her, court heard on the first day of the man's trial. Christopher Traverse, who was the leader of Lake St. Martin First Nation at the time of his arrest last year, has been ...

First Nations leaders in Manitoba say the search of a landfill for the victim of a serial killer must include recovery efforts for another First Nations woman who vanished more than a decade ago. Tanya Nepinak was last seen in Winnipeg in September 2011 and police believe her body was dumped in a garbage bin and taken ...