A Canadian Indigenous News Update from L’nuey
Kwe’ nitap – Hello friend, the Mi’kmaq word of the week is…
“Nujkima’q”
Meaning: melt; thaw; defrost
In The News
- Eastern Passage students unveil Mi’kmaw Moons project – CBC News
- Cultural classes aim to make Mi’kmaw language thrive on P.E.I. – CBC News
- Mi’kmaw regalia repatriated after more than 100 years in Australia – CBC News
- P.E.I.-based Abegweit First Nation signs 5-year fisheries deal with Ottawa – CBC News
- First Nations in B.C. get $8.2B from Canada to fix disparities in heath care – APTN News
- 3 First Nations sign agreement with Ottawa, Alberta to take over child welfare – CBC News
- Moderate livelihood fishery in Abegweit First Nation receives funding, recognition from DFO – SaltWire Network
- Trudeau encourages reconciliation efforts but says decision on Orange Shirt Day holiday up to provinces – CBC News
- Five First Nations reach historic $800 million, 44,266 hectares settlement with B.C., federal government – Global News
- Manitoba government says it doesn’t have consensus to make Orange Shirt Day a statutory holiday in 2023 – CBC News
Politics & Law
- Looking at the legal side of class action lawsuits on InFocus – APTN News
- Panel to release roadmap for Thunder Bay, Ont., police reform – APTN News
- Family of Cindy Gladue says province has ‘misplaced’ her remains – APTN News
- Intervenors join Gitxaała in court to argue against B.C. mining law – APTN News
- Canada, Yukon fail to consult over proposed mine says Kaska Nation – APTN News
- Now What? Next Steps for the Uprooting Doctrine of Discovery – First Peoples Law
- Onion Lake Cree Nation suing province over Saskatchewan First Act – National Observer
- 15 First Nations Justice Council centres to open throughout British Columbia – CTV News
- Premier Scott Moe fights feds over First Nations natural resources comment – Global News
- Ex Millbrook First Nation employee faces charges in multimillion-dollar fraud: RCMP – CTV News
- First Nations leaders want Quebec to drop plans for Indigenous language law – Montreal Gazette
- Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs wants to create First Nations courts to reduce incarceration – CBC News
- First Nations police association accuses Ottawa of failing to live up to funding commitment – APTN News
- Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug celebrates First Nation-led family law, one of the few in Canada – CBC News
- Justice minister says he lacks the power to call an investigation into First Nations woman’s death – Windspeaker
- ‘We’re angered’: Indigenous leader displeased with Prime Minister Trudeau’s comments on resource control – CTV News
Business, Finance and Economics
- Alberta plugs $10M into sustainable rural, Indigenous tourism – Cochrane Eagle
- On the way to Wehwehneh: What it takes to transform downtown Winnipeg’s former Bay – CBC News
- Opportunity for First Nations, northern communities to partner on forestry: regional chief – Business in Vancouver
- Indigenous Tourism Ontario enters into a Memorandum of Understanding with Camping in Ontario, formalizing a mutual partnership and commitment to the education of land stewardship – NationTalk
Education, Health & Culture
- University ethics boards are not ready for Indigenous scholars – nature
- Funding for Yukon First Nation School Board more than doubles – CBC News
- ‘Defiant Dene:’ Former Northwest Territories premier publishes memoir – APTN News
- ‘You feel part of history’: William Prince on making his Grand Ole Opry debut – CBC News
- More Yukon children in care being placed with family members, report shows – CBC News
- Jackie Vautour’s family home demolished inside Kouchibouguac National Park – CTV News
- Missing, murdered Indigenous men and boys need to be part of the discussion – Windspeaker
- Trudeau speaks at FNUniv on cost of living, importance of public dialogue – Regina Leader-Post
- Jackie Vautour’s family’s belongings boxed up from Kouchibouguac National Park – Global News
- COVID-19 pandemic stalled progress on eliminating tuberculosis among Inuit: officials – National Post
- Indigenous people represent 95% of children, youth in out-of-home care in the Yukon: report – Yukon News
- Ontario ombudsman slams foster care company, child welfare agencies for failing Indigenous girl – Global News
- Analysis of anti-Indigenous racism in hospitals reveals pattern of harm, no tracking mechanism – National Observer
Environment, Science & Technology
- Salvaging the sacred from climate disaster – National Observer
- Traditional Mi’kmaw practices maintain Nova Scotia’s forests – CTV News
- UBCIC critical of First Nations owned gas facility in British Columbia – APTN News
- Mining, climate change decimates the Bathurst caribou herd in N.W.T. – APTN News
- Documentary on West Coast tsunamis from an Indigenous perspective – APTN News
- Why is High Park on fire? How Indigenous-led prescribed burns protect the land – CBC News
- Beavers could help replace artificial dams being decommissioned in B.C. watersheds – CBC News
- These scientists are teaming up with Inuit communities to study climate change in Labrador – CBC News