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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...
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National Indigenous Peoples Day 21+ Important Indigenous People to Celebrate
To celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day on June 21 we have compiled a list of 21+ important Indigenous people from all walks of life. It is a...
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A Brief Look at Indian Hospitals in Canada
We would like to acknowledge that this article was framed from the research and writing of authors Maureen Lux (Separate Beds: A History of Indian...
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The Impact of Smallpox on First Nations on the West Coast
The Bostonian Robert Kemp, on the brig Otter just north of the Queen Charlotte Islands in December 1810, reported that "the Natives are all infected...