A lot was happening for Native creativity during the late 1980s and early 1990s. The decade started off with music from the Innu Nation in Quebec when Kashtin burst onto the music scene with their debut album of the same […]
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Muskrat Falls: Courts shut down dam protest over Labrador’s Lower Churchill Project
Labrador Inuk Ossie Michelin was packing his bags and preparing leave Muskrat Falls on the Churchill River west of Happy Valley-Goose Bay last October 17, a day after the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador issued an injunction forcing protestors […]
Montreal Police practicing racial profiling?
“Have you had any issues with Aboriginal people?” This was the question that police officers in Montreal may have been going door-to-door asking residents of certain neighbourhoods. It happened at least once – and in a triumph of bad luck […]
Mistissini man runs 345 km to raise research funds after beating the disease
Mistissini’s Patrice Dominique, an Innu originally from Mashteuiatsh (Pointe-Bleu), ran a total of 342 kilometres between the two communities in late June to raise over $3000 for the Canadian Cancer Society and to celebrate his good health after recently beating […]
Montreal conference discusses business in the new era of Aboriginal title
The Conference on Business Partnerships with Aboriginal Communities, held in Montreal February 10 and 11, wasn’t the usual grip-and-grin networking event. Instead, it was a direct response to the last summer’s historic Supreme Court Tsilhqot’in judgment. The immediate response to […]