Indigenous News

Indigenous leaders from across Latin America will meet this week for talks on how to enforce legal rulings designed to enforce their rights to justice and territorial protection.

MONTREAL — Last fall, as archeologist Yves Chrétien was supervising a team digging at the site of a future hockey rink northeast of Montreal, a mini excavator unearthed pieces of cut stone.

Wildfires have forced more than 800 residents to evacuate their northwestern Ontario First Nation.

TYENDINAGA MOHAWK TERRITORY — Ontario Provincial Police say they are investigating after human remains were found in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, located on the Bay of Quinte. Police say shortly before 3 p.m.

WINNIPEG — For many familiar with Canada's powwow scene, Maggie White is known as the first lady of the jingle dress.

Another dead whale has washed ashore on a British Columbia beach, the third over two weeks, but a marine wildlife expert at the scene said Friday that there's likely no connections between the latest case to the other deaths.

OTTAWA — As the first Indigenous person ever to lead the federal department responsible for delivering services to First Nations, Inuit and Métis, Mandy Gull-Masty knows she has a daunting task ahead.

CALGARY — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced Friday an overhaul of several government ministries, creating two new health services portfolios and replacing her Indigenous relations minister.

Peru 's state-run oil company failed to attract any bids to develop an oil field that overlaps ancestral territories of several Indigenous groups, prompting celebration by the communities and environmentalists on Friday.

VICTORIA — First Nations leaders are calling on B.C. Premier David Eby to immediately "kill" two pieces of legislation that would fast-track projects in response to U.S.