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Lakota artist smudges the former gold mine inside the Black Hills

Lakota artist smudges the former gold mine inside the Black Hills

When Lakota artist Marty Two Bulls Jr. looks at the Black Hills of South Dakota, he doesn’t just see its natural beauty. He also sees a scar cut deep into the heart of the universe.
Lil’wat’s Xet̓ólacw Community School to benefit from computer donation

Lil’wat’s Xet̓ólacw Community School to benefit from computer donation

Lil’wat Business Group arranged a donation of 70 laptops and 40 portable monitors from the accounting firm.
New Nova Scotia regulations allow retail cannabis stores owned by Mi'kmaq community

New Nova Scotia regulations allow retail cannabis stores owned by Mi'kmaq community

HALIFAX — Mi’kmaq communities in Nova Scotia will be able to open legal cannabis retail stores on reserve under new provincial regulations.
Photos: Lil'wat Business Group holds job fair

Photos: Lil'wat Business Group holds job fair

The April 1 event offered more than 50 positions to prospective job seekers
Nuclear waste agency looking for Canada's second deep geological repository

Nuclear waste agency looking for Canada's second deep geological repository

TORONTO — An organization tasked with managing Canada's nuclear waste found one site to store millions of bundles of radioactive used fuel for thousands of years hundreds of metres underground — and now it's looking for a second.
Officer who shot and killed Indigenous man in N.B. did not commit crime: watchdog

Officer who shot and killed Indigenous man in N.B. did not commit crime: watchdog

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick's police watchdog says an RCMP officer did not commit a criminal offence when they shot and killed an Indigenous man in Elsipogtog First Nation last year.
Eby says Indigenous teen shouldn't have died' as B.C. government is grilled over care

Eby says Indigenous teen shouldn't have died' as B.C. government is grilled over care

A teenager who was found blocks from her group home on a cold January night this year "shouldn't have died" British Columbia Premier David Eby said, adding that her death represented a "failure.
Manitoba woman sentenced to 10 years for fatally stabbing community role model

Manitoba woman sentenced to 10 years for fatally stabbing community role model

DAUPHIN, Man. — A Manitoba judge has sentenced a woman to 10 years in prison in the stabbing death of her ex-boyfriend, whose killing left a "significant" impact on family, friends and the First Nation they lived on.
Transfer of baby eel quota to First Nations was unfair, says federal judge

Transfer of baby eel quota to First Nations was unfair, says federal judge

HALIFAX — A Federal Court judge has ruled that the Fisheries Department failed to properly consult commercial baby eel fishers when it transferred about 14 per cent of their quota to First Nations.
Manitoba chiefs call for search of Winnipeg landfill for Tanya Nepinak

Manitoba chiefs call for search of Winnipeg landfill for Tanya Nepinak

WINNIPEG — First Nations leaders in Manitoba say the search of a landfill for the victim of a serial killer must include recovery efforts for another First Nations woman who vanished more than a decade ago.