Tag: Indigenous Politics

Is the idea of Indigenous sovereignty really in conflict with the well-being of migrant communities? A review of “Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants.”

In Guatemala, traditional Indigenous governments are battling municipalities and transnational corporations for control of their land

The Beaver Lake Cree Nation is taking on the tarsands, arguing that they represent too much industrial development in the face of constitutionally protected treaty rights.

In Ontario’s Indigenous child welfare agencies, the superficial trappings of culture take the place of policies that would grant jurisdiction over Indigenous children to Indigenous families, individuals, and communities.

I have a memory. At least I think it’s a memory – it’s hard to tell sometimes between dreams, nightmares, visions, and memories. I’m choosing memory because it feels like a memory.

How can we have reconciliation if we are terminating the people whom settlers have to reconcile with?

What it really means when Indigenous protesters say “Bring back our children.” An interview with Chasity Delorme and Prescott Demas from Camp: Justice For Our Stolen Children.

No matter who’s elected national chief, the AFN is fundamentally flawed, and beyond being saved by reforms.

Through the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s, the Canadian government took thousands of First Nations children from their families and placed them in white foster homes. I was one of them. Alienated from my language, culture, and community, I was taught to hate my people.

Most days during Gerald Stanley’s trial, the courtroom could be cut in half: the white half – family and supporters of the accused – and the brown half – family and supporters of the victim.

Protesters of the Site C dam in the Peace River Valley are facing a civil suit from both BC Hydro and the B.C. government.

The largest contemporary Indigenous art exhibition in the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s history, INSURGENCE/RESURGENCE is framed as an act of rebellion and a revitalization of Indigenous culture that challenges dominant Western methods of artmaking and presentation.

Colten Boushie’s killing and Gerald Stanley’s acquittal make it clear: justice has nothing to do with lip service, and everything to do with tangible action.

The Unist’ot’en continue to square off with pipeline companies and the RCMP.

The Klabona Keepers are a small group of Tahltan families and Elders in northwestern B.C. who have been taking direct action to defend their traditional territories from mining and drilling projects since 2005.

The conflict between the hereditary leadership and the elected band council on the largest reserve in Canada provides an education in colonialism.

Sessional instructors at FNUniv, a federated college of the University of Regina, are paid less than other sessionals at the U of R.

From changes in status recognition to land claims agreements, Canada’s Indian policy demonstrates the cunning of a colonial state.

Bridging Palestine solidarity work with Indigenous struggles in Canada.

What forces shape the health of immigrants and refugees in Canada?