Since 1999, November 25 has been the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. It was started to commemorate the brutal 1960 assassination of three sisters in the Dominican Republic. To mark the day, MI is exploring a problem not readily acknowledged or discussed in Indigenous communities: senior abuse. While violence comes in […]
Aboriginal people have fought for Canada since well before the War of 1812. It’s estimated that more than seven-thousand First Nations people served in World Wars I & II, and in the Korean War — not including Inuit, Metis, non-status Indians or people from the north. In WWII alone, nearly 4,000 First Nations individuals served, […]
As we told you in a previous post, vigils for hundreds of missing and murdered Aboriginal women were held in over 70 communities across Canada on Monday. Martha Troian (Lac Seul Anishinabe) was at the vigil held on the steps of Canada’s Parliament and produced this multimedia presentation for MEDIA INDIGENA. Sisters in Spirit 2010 from […]
Alois Brunner, Dr. Aribert Heim, Ivan Demjanjuk — names of but a few of the most wanted war criminals named by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Los Angeles-based human rights advocacy group and well-known Nazi-hunting organization. According to the CBC, just this week, former Nazi death camp guard Samuel Kunz (3rd most wanted on the list) was […]
Today is the 2nd anniversary of the Government of Canada’s official apology to former students of Indian Residential Schools. To mark the date, Ottawa-based journalist Martha Troian sat down with one former student and heard her story of time spent at residential school, her reflections on the apology, and how she learned to forgive. She was […]
