Indigenous

Indigenous participants voted to change the name after 106 years of use

I am the poet with her work attached to a clipboard. I am surprised that my first published work, Annie Muktuk and Other Stories, is a book of short stories. There’s irony in that.

The Governor General's Award-winning Indigenous author talks up Winnipeg's best and brightest local arts and culture

Indigenous peoples are proud of their heritage, and want to share much of it, but on their own terms.

The effort to indigenize universities is, as such, being done with little critical engagement with what “indigenization” might involve, especially if it is to benefit Indigenous nations.

Family members confirmed that the acclaimed writer passed away on Friday in his home in Kamloops, B.C.

Toronto Blue Jays win the World Series. They are the first team outside of the U.S. to win.

The full list of recommendations and calls to action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to advance the process of Canadian reconciliation

Innovative Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq is back with a new album titled Retribution, to be released Oct. 21 on Six Shooter Records. Tagaq’s last album, 2014’s Animism, won the 2014 Polaris Music Prize and the 2015 Juno Award for Aboriginal Album of the Year. According to the album’s announcement, Retribution‘s themes are “more musically […]

The award-winning journalist has been on the frontlines, reporting the stories of missing and murdered Indigenous women

Canada’s arts and culture institutions are breathing a sigh of relief thanks to the new Liberal government budget. Following years of federal budget reductions under the previous Conservative government, a mass cultural cash infusion is once again going to museums, arts programs, and cultural space maintenance and repairs. Among the biggest benefactors is the Canada Council for the Arts, […]

The Globe and Mail, CBC and Radio-Canada are sharing the 2016 Canadian Hillman Prize in Journalism for their investigative projects on missing and murdered indigenous women. “Courageous and groundbreaking journalism made sure that the story behind the missing and murdered indigenous women remained a priority concern of the new government,” said Tony Burman, one of […]

A gifted storyteller and award-winning author, Joseph Boyden has successfully followed up on Three Day Road with the story of Annie and her uncle Will. On the search for her recently missing sister, a New York-based model, Annie leaves the community she knows and heads for the studios and “A-list” parties of the big city. […]

The CBC host talks about being the first, and still the only, Aboriginal national TV anchor on the three major Canadian networks

Vancouver pretties up city streets from the bottom up

The Inuit pop star talks about her new album 'Big Feeling' and reveals how her wide acclaim took a personal toll, leading to a breakdown