These other institutions/actors are highlighted in the TRC's 94 Calls to Action and include the healthcare system, public educators, judges and lawyers, child welfare services, and, of course, media organizations and journalists. This chapter situates the news media within broader settler colonial...
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TEHRAN, Jul. 06 (MNA) – At least 9 Canadian churches were set ablaze amid a backlash over the country's use of church-run residential schools to forcibly assimilate indigenous children from the late 19th century until the 1970s.
In a news release Wednesday, Indigenous Services Canada said there have been 89 COVID-19 cases, including 15 deaths, in nine long-term care homes on reserves located in Manitoba, Alberta, Ontario and Quebec. The number of COVID-19 active cases in First Nations communities reached an all-tim...
In a news release Wednesday, Indigenous Services Canada said there have been 89 COVID-19 cases, including 15 deaths, in nine long-term care homes on reserves located in Manitoba, Alberta, Ontario and Quebec. The number of COVID-19 active cases in First Nations communities reached an all-tim...
means “oil”—carried out by the Kwakwaka’wakw artist Beau Dick. Perhaps more familiar to US audiences, this connective spirit also animated the anti-pipeline protest at Standing Rock, which used art to mobilize aid and support for Water Protectors across vast swaths of the US and Cana...
These are the first construction activities under this fund, and a clear demonstration of this government‘s efforts to Close the Gap on essential services and water infrastructure for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.” To view the joint media release Delivering water to remote ...
“Given what we have seen in the last two weeks, there is little doubt the second wave of COVID-19 will hit Indigenous communities harder,” Minister of Indigenous Services Marc Miller said Thursday in Ottawa. Miller explained that during the first months of the pandemic, infection rate...
In 1976, the U.S. found that forced sterilizations happened in at least one-third of the regions where the government provided health services to Native Americans. The U.S. government has never formally apologized or offered compensation. ...
“Roughly one-third of homes here on America’s largest reservation don’t have electricity or running water, so Ms. Tyler, herself a member of the Navajo Nation and an Army veteran, brings services directly to her fellow vets, most of whom are over the age of 65. ...