The Department of Indian & Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) seems poised to oversee the process of verifying Métis identity, at least according to a contract award notice on the government’s tendering service website, MERX. A branch of INAC, the Office of the Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians has tentatively awarded a contract of between $50,000 to 100,000 […]
Just a 20 minute drive west of Parliament Hill in the nation’s capital lies Beaver Pond, an old-growth forest that according to First Nations is of historic and spiritual significance. The forest is also home to what archaeologists estimate to be a 10,000 year-old stone circle. But according to reports, as of this morning, the […]
UPDATE: In my original headline for this post, I wrote “71% of all recent infant deaths in BC were Aboriginal: Report.” This was unintentionally misleading on my part. In fact, as Neil Edmondson rightly points out via Twitter, “It wasn’t all recent infant deaths, just 71% of [the] 21 [infants] selected for study.” In my […]
If this is true, it’s a stunning statement in and of itself: according to the Edmonton Journal, Alberta’s new 12-member Oil Sands review panel, set up to conduct make recommendations regarding “environmental monitoring, evaluation and reporting,” has no Aboriginal representation whatsoever. The Journal reports that “last September, [Alberta Environment Minister Rob Renner] announced he would […]
Came across this piece by Photo District News detailing the backstory behind a series of still and moving images by New York City-based photographer Evan Abramson about Indigenous water conflicts near the Kenya/Ethiopia border. Entitled “When the Water Ends: Africa’s Climate Conflicts,” Abramson’s work was transformed by the production studio MediaStorm into a compelling multimedia […]
