First Nations

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation: P.A. event honours painful legacy of residential schools

Emile Highway, a decorated veteran and residential school survivor, can still remember the loneliness he felt as a young boy being in a strange place and the sole comfort that came with his older brot...

Sep 30, 2024

Survivors call for reversal of Canada's 'cut' to residential school search spending

OTTAWA - Residential school survivors say the federal government is keeping the truth about those institutions in the dark by cutting back on funding for records and ground searches looking for unmark...

Sep 30, 2024

'It's like light in my chest': Indigenous singing brings youth together

Traditional Indigenous rhythms echoed through the roof of Don Ross Centre on Friday night as First Nation community members gathered to embrace the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Through e...

Sep 30, 2024

'A way of hope and resilience': Annie Peyachew statue unveiled in Central Park

At the entrance to a grassy grove in Central Park, a little girl stood on a boulder wrapped in a star blanket. As the mid-morning sunlight gently dappled the leaves of the overhanging trees in gold, t...

Sep 30, 2024

Why do people wear orange on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation?

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is a day to honour residential school survivors, those who never returned home, their families and their communities.The day is also sometimes referred to as ...

Sep 30, 2024

First Nations, Inuit and Metis leaders say work lays ahead on road to reconciliation

The Liberal party of today is not quite the same as the one elected in 2015 promising to foster new paths and nation-to-nation relationships with Indigenous Peoples, the leaders of the three national ...

Sep 30, 2024

Rustad wants B.C. Indigenous rights law repealed. Chief sees that as 40-year setback

British Columbia saw a rare unanimous vote in its legislature in October 2019, when members passed a law adopting the United Nations Declarations on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, setting out stand...

Sep 29, 2024

Sweetgrass F.N. and N.B. sign 'historic' Urban Reserve Services Agreement

As members of Sweetgrass First Nation and the City of North Battleford leadership sat at a table to sign an historic Urban Reserve Services Agreement, gasps and sighs from attendees could be heard. Th...

Sep 28, 2024

Eight potential graves found near site of former George Gordon First Nation residential school

From inside an old gym that was once attached to a residential school, George Gordon First Nation made a grim announcement on Friday that was felt deeply throughout the community.The Saskatchewan Firs...

Sep 28, 2024

La Ronge, Meadow Lake talent involved in new film shot in Regina

Four former residents from La Ronge and an actress from Meadow Lake were involved in a horror-thriller feature film recently shot in Regina. The movie, which is called #Vanlife and was written and dir...

Sep 28, 2024