Indigenous Fronts

The inside story of how Greenpeace stood with water protectors — and got hit with a $666 million court judgment.

While various media outlets are reporting that Jonathan Joss was engaged in a dispute with a neighbor, his husband has revealed that it was a hate crime. Rec...

Lindsay Nixon surveys the Indigenous artists making work about displacement, decolonization, and resurgence

Indigenous wisdom provides and essential critique of modern concepts of science and technology that can advance our protection of biodiversity.

This is the last of three interviews with Indigenous representatives at the United Nations about the latest issues in their country’s Amazon forests. Read the interview about the Peruvian Amazon here and Colombian Amazon here. NEW YORK CITY — In the bustling concrete jungle of New York City, representatives from the Amazon rainforest arrived at […]

SOUTH SIBERUT, Indonesia — As night falls over the Siberut jungle, a fire crackles inside the Tateburuk clan’s wooden home, or uma. The walls are covered in traditional Mentawai carvings of forest creatures — birds, lizards, monkeys and gibbons — a reminder that the boundary between the outside world and the home is thin. Damianus […]

Three Treaty 9 First Nations chiefs say they will challenge a proposed Ontario law to implement "special economic zones" to speed up development, if passed.

Mark Carney unveiled his first cabinet as elected prime minister on Tuesday.For more on the cabinet appointments, APTN News spoke with Cody Groat, a Mohawk a...

Chiefs from Treaty 6, 7 and 8 gathered in Edmonton for an emergency meeting where they were blunt in their criticism of Premier Danielle Smith

Ignoring Indigenous nations and rights as Canada enters a new economic chapter would shred Canada’s reputation, much as ignoring the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement shreds America’s. Ignoring us is contrary to the last decade of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation work and is a risk to both the legitimacy of political elites and the profitability of Canadian industries.

Carney told a final leaders election forum "we need to get back to the table." It is the first time the AFN organized the leaders forums.

Twenty years after Amnesty International released its first report on missing and murdered Indigenous women...

Cold Lake First Nations Chief says Alberta Premier Danielle Smith will have some questions to answer at a May 6 meeting with Treaty 6 chiefs

'No matter what happens we will stand and we will fight, and we will keep pushing for solutions' *Corrected

OTTAWA - Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami president Natan Obed says he doesn't expect Prime Minister Mark Carney to get everything right immediately as he learns about and crafts policies for Indigenous Peoples, but it's clear he's willing to learn.

Historically, Black and Indigenous trans women were honoured within our communities. Today, Land Back means undoing transmisogyny in our movements and restoring the cultural importance of non-colonial gender identities.

The election is behind us and Mark Carney is now the elected prime minister of Canada with a slim minority. There are now questions about how long his govern...

A new generation of Indigenous voters is rising — informed, passionate, and ready to be heard.

Under Mark Carney's leadership, global investment firm Brookfield was accused of breaching Indigenous rights or harming the environment in at least four countries — Brazil, Canada, Colombia and the United States — CBC Indigenous has found.

The federal election campaign is well underway, and so are efforts to get out the Indigenous vote.But Indigenous issues have been absent from the political d...

More and more states are choosing to celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day instead of Columbus Day.

Thousands of pages detailing abuse and poor conditions are now public and searchable

The Amazon Rainforest, often referred to as the “lungs of the Earth,” is not only an incredible repository of biodiversity but also a critical player in the global climate system. For centuries, indigenous communities have lived in harmony with this vibrant ecosystem, employing sustainable practices that maintain its delicate balance. As the world grapples with ... Read more The post The Amazon Rainforest Can Heal: What Indigenous Land Protection Is Teaching the World appeared first on discoverwildscience.

Indigenous fire stewardship enhances ecosystem diversity, assists with the management of complex resources, and reduces wildfire risk by lessening fuel loads. Although Indigenous Peoples have maintained fire stewardship practices for millennia and continue to be keepers of fire knowledge, significant barriers exist for re-engaging in cultural burning. Indigenous communities in Canada have unique vulnerabilities to large and high-intensity wildfires as they are predominately located in remote, forested regions and lack financial support at federal and provincial levels to mitigate wildfire risk. Therefore, it is critical to uphold Indigenous expertise in leading effective and socially just fire stewardship. In this perspective, we demonstrate the benefits of cultural burning and identify five key barriers to advancing Indigenous fire stewardship in Canada. We also provide calls to action to assist with reducing preconceptions and misinformation and focus on creating space and respect for different knowledges and experiences. Despite growing concerns over wildfire risk and agency-stated intentions to establish Indigenous Peoples as partners in wildfire management, power imbalances still exist. The future and coexistence with fire in Canada needs to be a shared responsibility and led by Indigenous Peoples within their territories.

Intergenerational organizing to unite communities within so-called Vancouver’s Chinatown

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he would incentivize First Nations to support natural-resource projects through industry taxes.

Tabatha Bull, the head of the Canadian Council for Indigenous Business says now is the time for Canada to strengthen its own supply chains.