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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 residential schools over a period of more than 100 years. For many Canadians, the first inkling of the...
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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.
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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...
