For the Mowachaht, fishing is a way of life — and resistance to colonial destruction
Landmark rulings have affirmed Mowachaht/Muchalaht rights to fish in their ancestral territories. In the face...
Indigenous Peoples in Canada are made up of First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities. There are more than 1.6 million Indigenous Peoples in Canada, representing 4.9 per cent of the population, according to 2016 census figures.
Through treaties and the Canadian Constitution Act, Canada has made significant promises to Indigenous Peoples in exchange for access to Indigenous land. The vast majority of natural resource decisions and development in Canada has been made in violation of these promises and, as a result, the government of Canada has promised to renew nation-to-nation relations with Indigenous Peoples.
By any measure the federal government and its provincial counterparts have much work to do. Critics have pointed out approvals of projects like the Site C dam and the Trans Mountain pipeline challenge Canada’s commitment to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), which guarantees the right to “free, prior and informed consent.”
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Landmark rulings have affirmed Mowachaht/Muchalaht rights to fish in their ancestral territories. In the face...
Trans Mountain’s decision last summer to trench through an Indigenous sacred site kicked off more...
In this week’s newsletter, reporter Emma McIntosh talks about a trip to far northern Ontario...
On the shores of James and Hudson Bays, the Omushkego Wahkohtowin conservation project is almost...
British Columbia and the Haida Nation’s historic agreement recognizes Haida land ownership across the archipelago...
On the land looking for moose — and one nation’s efforts to bring them back....
The air is biting cold as Willie Bertacco navigates his motorboat through the blackness that...
Gitxsan Hereditary Chiefs are shifting their tone on a pipeline project. In our latest newsletter,...
As tensions in northwest B.C. persist over pipelines, court-ordered injunctions and police enforcement, Gitxsan Hereditary...
Tribal protectors representing members of four Nisg̱a’a villages set up a blockade early Monday morning to stop pipeline vehicles from proceeding past the village of...
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