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The severity and impact of forest fires dominate the headlines every summer. In 2016, the Fort McMurray, Alberta, wildfire invoked the largest mass evacuation in Canadian history, with nearly 90,000 people forced from their homes. Many of the...
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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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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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Traditional Indigenous knowledge (TK) and traditional resources have been managed by Indigenous communities since time immemorial. The arrival of...
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I was recently included in a conversation on CBC’s The Current about the efficacy of anti-bias training. The host, Anna Maria Tremonti had three...
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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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I want to reflect on how the social and political landscape of Canada is changing. It may not be as fast as some of us would like, or as...
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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.
