Indigenous Issues

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

Police gave Wet’suwet’en members an hour to summon hereditary chiefs to discuss a blockade to their traditional territories by LNG company Coastal GasLink.

British Columbia pipeline battle highlights broader issue: who has authority in territories never signed away by treaty

The facts about aboriginal rights and title support the Wet’suwet’en peoples in their pipeline protest.

SERVING NATIVE WOMEN SINCE 1985 The Native Women’s Resource Centre of Toronto (NWRCT) 4000 Cover Stories

Federal and Haida leaders signed a historic agreement recognizing Aboriginal title over the archipelago of Haida Gwaii.

Adam Gary Lewis Imagining autonomy on stolen land settler colonialism, anarchism and the possibilities of decolonization? 2017

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While Wet’suwet’en land and water protectors are being depicted as transgressors of the “rule of law,” they are in fact upholding Indigenous and international legal orders.

Behind the RCMP’s enforcement of Coast GasLink’s injunction, and the ongoing police presence on Wet’suwet’en territory

Two years ago a blockade was set up on the CN rail line in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory and was set up for three weeks.

How can there be one approach or one solution to reconciliation when there are a multitude of First Nations?

Janice Keil, a secondary school teacher from Peterborough Ontario, owns 100 acres of land in Northumberland County, in the territory of the Mississauga. Keil wants to repatriate some of it to nearby Alderville First Nation.

It was a solemn, joyful scene on the banks of the Wolastoq as St. Mary's First Nation welcomed a new chief and council with an elaborate traditional ceremony.

Indigenous filmmakers and curators share their must-see recommendations from the National Film Board's catalogue of hundreds of films.

By Nikki Sanchez @nikkilaes For the Wet’suwet’en living at Unist’ot’en, maintaining cultural practices is just as important as stopping the pipelines. The camp is one of the most significant global examples of Indigenous land-based sovereignty

Amber Bracken: The difference between Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs and elected chiefs is rooted in Aboriginal title, an issue that the Government of Canada continues to leave unresolved

The Two Row Wampum Treaty, also known as Guswenta or Kaswentha and as the Tawagonshi Agreement of 1613 or the Tawagonshi Treaty, is a mutual treaty agreement, made in 1613 between representatives of the Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee and representatives of the Dutch government in what is now upstate New York. The agreement is considered by the Haudenosaunee to be the basis of all of their subsequent treaties with European and North American governments, and the citizens of those nations, including the Covenant Chain treaty with the British in 1677 and the Treaty of Canandaigua with the United States in 1794.

A federal judge on Wednesday struck down permits for the pipeline and ordered a new environmental review of the project.

The Iroquois Confederacy of upper New York state and southeastern Canada is often characterized as the world’s oldest participatory democracy. Learn more about the Native American peoples who made up this influential body.