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Indigenous people need to use Sept. 30 as community space
“I see this as an opportunity to really restore our relations with each other. I think it’s what our ancestors would want for us. To be connected to our communities, to be able to live our culture, to have spaces for it, and to ensure that our lands and water are taken care of.” — Ginger Gosnell-Myers
New books celebrate West Coast Indigenous art
“It’s actually a contact narrative. It's about the whole 300-year history of contact. She starts it in the time before that period as a way to set the stage for the changes that would occur…” — Robert Kardosh is the owner and director of Vancouver’s Marion Scott Gallery
“Mother lode” struck with equity partnership between Enbridge and 23 northern Alberta Indigenous communities
“We never surrendered the natural resources. When we signed the treaty with the Crown it was to the depth of the plow. That means six inches. So it’s been a long time coming. It’s probably been decades, I would say.” —Frog Lake First Nation Chief Greg Desjarlais
New four-stamp issue features work of First Nations, Inuit and Métis artists
Canada Post unveiled today four new stamps that encourage awareness and reflection on the legacy of Indian residential schools and the need for healing and reconciliation.
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Curve Lake First Nation teen drafted by National Lacrosse League’s Philadelphia Wings
“I know I’ll be going to (Philadelphia’s) training camp and I know I’m going to work as hard as I can while I’m there.” — goaltender Deacan Knott
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Pope’s apology has left a ‘deep hole’ in acknowledging role of Catholic Church in residential schools—Murray Sinclair
“For the children and descendants of Survivors, it is not enough that you have stopped abusing them, you must act to help them recover, as well as commit to never doing this again.” — Murray Sinclair
