Indigenous News

OTTAWA — The dream to open an Inuit-led university is one step closer to realization, the president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami said, after a $50 million investment from the Mastercard Foundation.

OTTAWA — Closing the First Nations infrastructure gap could generate $635 billion in economic output over the next seven years, a new report commissioned by the Assembly of First Nations said.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — People in Nunavut and northern Labrador have been writing to Canadian government officials this year to say grocers were charging exorbitant prices despite receiving a federal subsidy.

OTTAWA — The federal government is barring a company previously co-owned by a Liberal MP and former minister from bidding on contracts with the federal government.

OTTAWA — The federal government has apologized for its role in the killing of sled dogs in Nunavik between the mid-1950s and the late 1960s.

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Sadith Silvano’s crafts are born from ancient songs. Brush in hand, eyes on the cloth, the Peruvian woman paints as she sings. And through her voice, her ancestors speak.

NORWAY HOUSE, Man. — A police officer fatally shot an armed teenager on a First Nation north of Lake Winnipeg, RCMP said Friday.

OTTAWA — The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has ordered Canada to address a backlog of requests under Jordan's Principle which is meant to ensure First Nations children don't wait to receive assistance because of jurisdictional battles.

VANCOUVER — The Xatśull First Nation says it is "disappointed" that British Columbia's Mines Ministry has granted an operating permit for the Cariboo Gold Mine without meeting its leadership or obtaining the nation's consent.

LONDON (AP) — Indigenous leaders from the Wampis Nation in Peru are urging lawmakers at the House of Commons in London to ban international banks' support for Amazon oil activities they say harm their ancestral rainforests.