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Traditional Indigenous knowledge (TK) and traditional resources have been managed by Indigenous communities since time immemorial. The arrival of Europeans and the ensuing insatiable demand for resources, coupled with colonizing policies and the...
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We all belong to some form of culture and identify with that culture to varying degrees. Our understanding of our own cultural identity begins at...
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There are more and more articles in the news about the value of Indigenous traditional knowledge being taken into account in climate change studies,...
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Language has the power to respect and honour, or, hurt and offend and that is particularly true when working across cultures. Within that frame of...
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There are lots of lore and misconceptions about First Nation totem poles. In this article, we address six of the more common misconceptions.
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What does Indigenous knowledge (IK) mean? That’s a big question because “there are approximately 370 million Indigenous people in the world,...
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Indigenous people account for less than five percent of the Canadian population, yet represent 25 percent of the total inmate population. Canada is...
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Canada has a complicated history with the totem pole. Totems have been misunderstood, coveted, stolen, quashed, copied, and celebrated. The first...
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When communicating cross-culturally there are certain sensitivities around the language used in the letter and expectations placed on the recipient...
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We identify ourselves in many ways - by gender, generation, ethnicity, culture, religion, profession/employment, nationality, locality, language,...