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Emerald Lake, Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada

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Creation Stories - The Origins of Culture

An Exploration of Ktunaxa Creation Stories By Tanya Laing Gahr This video was created as part of a thesis project for a master’s degree in professional communication and represents an exploration of the Ktunaxa Nation’s creation stories in order to...

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The Wampum with Ken Maracle

While other cultures used wampum, this article is primarily about the Haudenosaunee usage.

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Waiting for the Honour of the Crown - Case Comment

By Kate Buttery, Affiliate Counsel with First Peoples Law; reprinted with kind permission from Kate Buttery CASE COMMENT ON MOHAWKS OF THE BAY OF...

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Nunavut flag

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Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Turns Twenty - 10 Fast Facts

The Nunavut Land Claims Agreement (NLCA) is remarkable on many points, but perhaps the most significant is that this Agreement gave the Inuit of...

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Sunrise with coastal rocks; St. Anthony, Newfoundland

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Qalipu Mi'kmaq Enrolment Agreement Reached

The Honourable Bernard Valcourt, Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development, and Brendan Sheppard, President of the Federation of...

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Twin Towers, New York

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Kahnawake Skywalkers: The Mohawk Steel Worker Tradition

Little Indian kids on a bridge up in Canada They can balance and they can climb Like their fathers before them They’ll walk the girders of the...

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The Duty to Consult—the Groundhog Day Conundrum

By Bruce McIvor, principal, First Peoples Law reprinted with kind permission from Bruce McIvor Case Comment on Adams Lake Indian Band v. British...

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fancy shawl dancer

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Indigenous Powwow Dances - #3 of 3 in the Powwow Series

This is the third in our three-part series on the Indigenous powwow. The first was A Primer on the Indigenous Powwow, the second was about the...

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powwow regalia

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Indigenous Powwow Protocol - #2 of 3 in the Powwow Series

This is the second in our three-part series on powwows. In the first part, A Primer on Indigenous Powwows, we covered a bit of the history. This...

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Chief Robert Joseph

Chief Dr. Robert Joseph - Q&A on Reconciliation and Forgiveness

In this segment from his presentation at the Expanding Our Knowledge Conference, Chief Dr. Joseph took questions from the audience on reconciliation...

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