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Appreciating or Appropriating Indigenous Culture?
A reader recently asked us a question about talking sticks. We changed the question a little so as to preserve the confidentiality of the questioner.
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Edwin Victor Cook - Indigenous War Hero
Edwin Cook was born in Alert Bay, the home of the Namgis First Nations in 1897. He was the fifth of 16 children born to Jane and Stephen Cook. Jane...
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What are the Elements of an Effective Indigenous Joint Venture?
Canada’s historical reputation is of a country where living conditions were good, and there were ample economic opportunities - a “land of milk and...
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Meaningful Consultation with Indigenous Peoples
The announcement on August 30, 2018, that the Federal Court of Appeal had quashed the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion due, in part, to faulty...
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Forest Fires and Indigenous Communities
The severity and impact of forest fires dominate the headlines every summer. In 2016, the Fort McMurray, Alberta, wildfire invoked the largest mass...
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Some Indigenous Protocol Examples
We are at an interesting juncture in Canada in terms of Indigenous relations. On the one hand, there is an awakening and awareness on the part of...
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What Reconciliation Is and What It Is Not
For a very long time, mainstream Canadians were unaware of the horrors and conditions that 150,000 Indigenous children endured in the Indian...
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6 Guidelines for Projects Involving Traditional Indigenous Knowledge
Traditional Indigenous knowledge (TK) and traditional resources have been managed by Indigenous communities since time immemorial. The arrival of...
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Why Continuity of Indigenous Cultural Identity Is Critical
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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Rise of Indigenous Traditional Knowledge in Environmental Assessments
There are more and more articles in the news about the value of Indigenous traditional knowledge being taken into account in climate change studies,...