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Indian pony relay race, 1914.

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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 fishermen relied on to feed their communities. And those skills were learned at an early age through...

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Hun¿qum¿i¿num¿ alphabet poster, a dialect of Halkomelem, Coast Salish. Photo: George Mully / George Mully fonds / Library and Archives Canada.

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Why Is It Important to Protect & Revitalize Indigenous Languages?

Of the most spoken languages in the world, English is third after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. But English is the most commonly spoken second...

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Nisga'a elder. Photo: miguelb, Flickr

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What is the Nation Rebuilding Program?

In January 2019, a situation arose in northern BC that brought to the public’s attention the fact that some Indigenous communities have two forms of...

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Haida big house

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Indigenous Cultural Tourism Protocol

Cultural tourism is one of the largest and fastest-growing tourism markets globally. The urge to experience another culture or learn about another...

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simple calendar

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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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foggy unclear window

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Insight on 10 Myths About Indigenous Peoples

The definition of “myth”, according to the Oxford Canadian Dictionary, is “a widely held but false notion.” When it comes to the topic of Indigenous...

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talking stick

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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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grave stone of Private Edwin Cook

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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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Ancient Nuu-chah-nulth masks, UBC, Museum of Anthropology. Photo: Thomas Quine, Flickr.

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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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football sitting on the field

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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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