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Indigenous Canadians Join Fight Against Massive Pipeline in North Dakota
The protest at Standing Rock has been called the largest gathering of Native Americans in a century.
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's "Under Your Always Light" Is a Poetic, Beat-Driven Fantasy
A story-song about escape and nature.
Indigenous people sue Canada for taking them from their homes as children
The children were taken out of their homes in Canada, largely without the consent of their families or bands, and placed in non-Indigenous care from the 1960s to the 1980s, in a period now known as the Sixties Scoop.
Judge Rules Residential School Survivor Shouldn’t Have Had to Prove Abuser’s ‘Sexual Intent'
Dozens of other claims were rejected on the same basis.
This Unrecognized Aboriginal Community Is Pissing Off Quebec Mohawks
Indigeneous leaders say the Mikinaks are making a mockery of their struggle.
Bill Leak's Defiance Shows Us What His Problem Is
If people were confused about yesterday's cartoon, the meaning of his defensive op-ed is clear: Leak sees himself as the victim in this situation.
We Asked Some Artists to Respond to Bill Leak's Racist Cartoon
For every racist cartoonist—or commentator who thinks shitting on an entire community of people is funny—there are a whole lot of people who don't.
Not Exactly News: 'The Australian' Has Published Another Racist Cartoon
We're not using it as the thumbnail image because it's gross. In fact, the cartoonist responsible—Bill Leak—has a long, proud history of being gross.
We spoke to families of Canada's missing and murdered Indigenous women
They doubt new funding will tell them anything more about their sisters’ cases.
Canada is finally confronting why 1,200 Indigenous women have gone missing or been murdered
The government announced on Wednesday the start of a long-awaited inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women, who are six times more likely to be murder victims than non-Aboriginal women in Canada.
This community in Canada doesn’t have clean drinking water after an oil spill
Residents of the Muskoday First Nation have to rely on tanker trucks of water after an oil spill leaked into their drinking water.
Critics say Canada's inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women will be toothless
A national inquiry into the reasons why more than a thousand Indigenous women have disappeared or been killed hasn't yet begun, but it's already causing fraustration.