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Resource Revenue Sharing is Not a New Idea
Canada is renowned for the wealth and diversity of its natural resources and has long relied on royalties from extractive industries to contribute to...
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The Role of Indigenous Games in Culture
Agility, strength, balance, reflexes, hand-eye coordination, accuracy, strategy, intuition, and patience. These are skills Indigenous hunters and...
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National Day for Truth and Reconciliation: The Date Debate
In August 2018, the federal government announced it would declare a federal statutory holiday to mark the legacy of the residential school system....
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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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Let’s Not Make Reconciliation a Political Football
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. George Orwell, 1984
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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,...
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Canada’s Complicated History with First Nation Totem Poles
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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Why Canada Needs Indigenous Economic Reconciliation
Trade and specialization were common to First Nations in Canada and throughout the Americas in the pre- and early contact periods. Moreover, public...
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Smudging to Indigenous Protocol - Our Top 10 Articles in 2017
In 2017, we had just over 816,000 visitors to our blog Working Effectively with Indigenous Peoples® looking for information on a wide variety of...
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Indigenous Trade Networks Thrived Long Before the Arrival of Europeans
There used to be millions of us. Although there were no population counts, best estimates suggest that there were at least 40 million of us in the...