A Weekly Canadian Indigenous News Update from L’nuey
Kwe’ nitap – Hello friend,
The Mi’kmaw word of the week is…
“Kina’matnuwo’kuom”
🗣 (ghin-ah-mud-new-whoa-gu-whoa-mm)
Meaning: school 📚🎒
In the News
- Potlotek youth ‘really shocked’ by election win – SaltWire
- Kanien’kehá:ka man on why he joined B.C. pipeline blockade – CBC News
- First Nation leaders remember AMC Grand Chief Cathy Merrick – APTN News
- RCMP officer in New Brunswick charged with aggravated assault – APTN News
- ‘I am in shock’: Reaction to death of AMC Grand Chief Cathy Merrick – APTN News
- Team Lennox Island takes home medals from summer games – West Prince Graphic
- Stop fear-mongering around Indigenous rights: First Nations executive – Castlegar News
- Elsipogtog First Nation man dead after N.B. RCMP shooting, SiRT investigating – CTV News
- B.C. First Nation signs historic coordination agreement with B.C., Canada – Peace Arch News
- Federal research funder launches pilot aimed at rooting out Indigenous identity fraud – CBC News
- Polaris Prize-winning musician Jermey Dutcher on keeping Indigenous languages alive – CBC Radio
- Cathy Merrick to lie in state at Manitoba Legislature Wednesday, a rare ‘very special event’ – CBC News
- Police watchdog investigating after Mi’kmaw man killed by RCMP at Elsipogtog First Nation – CBC News
- Resilience lives in the bones of Mi’kmaq country 25 years after the Marshall decision – The Globe and Mail
- 2 First Nations men killed during confrontations with police in Saskatchewan, New Brunswick – APTN News
Politics & Law
- One First Nation’s fight for safe drinking water gains support – APTN News
- Developing policies to end academic Indigenous identity fraud – APTN News
- Council approves new Indigenous reconciliation framework – Burnaby Beacon
- Alberta MLAs call for province to start collecting race-based data – APTN News
- Yukon Supreme Court strikes down part of territory’s eviction law – APTN News
- ‘Pretty bogus’: Ontario chiefs seek clarity on historic Métis communities – Soo Today
- N.L. government reaches tentative rate mitigation deal with Innu Nation – CBC News
- Teen shot by RCMP handed over weapons and then ran away, investigators say – CBC News
- Use of the Gladue principle has ‘largely failed’ Yellowhead Institute report finds – APTN News
- Cowessess receives largest transfer of mineral rights ever in Saskatchewan – Saskatoon StarPhoenix
- AMC Stands with First Nations Children as Historic $530 Million Settlement Case Begins – NationTalk
- PAGC and FSIN leaders say GST, PST, and Carbon Tax a violation of treaty rights – Prince Albert Daily Herald
- ‘The fight’s not over,’ Pimicikamak chief says after urging non-Indigenous moose hunters to return licences – CBC News
- Manitoba First Nation under 6-year boil water advisory taking feds to court over funding for treatment plant – CBC News
- Assembly of First Nations (AFN) Responds to Investigation into Federal Indigenous Procurement Strategy – Assembly of First Nations
- First Nations in Ontario continue to call for more clarity surrounding the identification of six new so-called “historic Métis communities” in the region – NationTalk
Business, Finance & Economics
- Major Indigenous housing announcement was made in Toronto – APTN News
- Selkirk First Nation clears 1st hurdle to buy Yukon’s abandoned Minto mine – CBC News
- Cree-owned ‘Wachiya’ store selling Indigenous arts and crafts in Old Montreal – CBC News
- CRTC denies request to have financial details of Bell sale in the North released – APTN News
- $200M River Cree expansion highlight’s Enoch Cree Nation’s economic success – Global News
- TC Energy says $1B sale of minority stake in pipeline to Indigenous groups is delayed – Global News
- Indigenous procurement program fix ‘must be led by First Nations’: AFN Chief Woodhouse – Global News
Education, Health & Culture
- Gathering at Fort Qu’Appelle to mark 150 years of Treaty 4 – CBC News
- Why APTN’s new channel is a game-changer for Indigenous language learning – CBC News
- Mohawk professor receives prestigious accolade from Royal Society of Canada – Windspeaker
- Bannock Bums Indigenous comedy showcase delivers punchlines for a good cause – APTN News
- ‘It was really beautiful’; Eskasoni residents learn to pick sweetgrass and embrace tradition – SaltWire
- Generations have fought to protect Haida Gwaii’s land and culture. They say the’ve won – CBC News
- Norval Morrisseau’s legacy ‘irrevocably damaged’ due to art fraud, says judge giving man 5 years in prison – CBC News
- ‘Indigenous fashion is blowing up and it’s overwhelming that I’m a part of it,’ says designer heading to Paris – CBC News
- Healing centre for residential school survivors in Winnipeg puts programs on hold because of lack of funding – CBC News
Environment, Science & Technology
- Non-Indigenous hunters warned to avoid First Nation’s territory – Winnipeg Free Press
- ‘YOUTH ARE DYING’: Shamattawa fighting feds for clean drinking water – Winnipeg Sun
- How the Métis Nation of Alberta is surveying land for signs of bumblebees at risk – CBC News
- Kebaowek Nation enlists help of Bloc Quebecois to stop Chalk River development – APTN News
- New Indigenous-led guide helps First Nations track local wildlife with camera traps – IndigiNews
- B.C. First Nation wants more say in forestry after Canfor mill closure announcement – CTV News
- ACFN chief slams AER’s $50K penalty against Imperial Oil for Kearl seepages – Alberta Native News
- Warmer temperatures have put chinook salmon — and a way of life — in grave danger – CBC News
- Indigenous Mi’kmaw People Use Ingeniously Simple Method To Deter Great White Sharks – Inspire More
- 10 years after Franklin shipwreck site was located in Nunavut, Inuit involvement is still strong – CBC News
- ‘Pray that they have a safe journey’: Nations bring sockeye back to Arrow Lakes for first time in decades – IndigiNews