Pope returns 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada as part of reckoning with colonial past

The Vatican insists the items were "gifts" to Pope Pius XI, but Indigenous groups and experts have long called for their ...
Seeking Alpha

Indigenous Women Empowered to Make History on Canadian Banknotes through Native Women's Association of Canada's 'Change the Bill' Exhibition

TORONTO, Jan. 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) is proud to announce the launch of "Change the Bill", a call to action that aims to promote reconciliation ...
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Canadian wildfires hit Indigenous communities hard, threatening their land and culture

EAST PRAIRIE METIS SETTLEMENT, Alberta (AP) — Carrol Johnston counted her blessings as she stood on the barren site where her home was destroyed by a fast-moving wildfire that forced her to flee her ...
The Daily Princetonian

Native American leader says tribal culture at risk

"It was a policy designed to drum out the core of your being." At a meeting Tuesday of POL 433: Comparative Politics: Canada and the United States, Canadian Native American leader Phil Fontaine spoke ...
PBS

‘Sugarcane’ exposes horrifying abuse of Native children in Canadian schools

An investigation at an Indian residential school in Canada is the focus of the documentary, “Sugarcane," named after a Native reservation in British Columbia. The film is up for an Academy Award, and ...
SUNY Cortland

Exercise Teaches History of Native and U.S. Relationships

An interactive group exercise to raise awareness of the history of the relationship between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples will be held Thursday, Oct. 4, on campus. The event, titled “Witness ...
Arizona Daily Star

Pope sorry for abuse at native Canadian schools

VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI apologized Wednesday to native Canadians who were physically and sexually abused at church-run boarding schools they were forced to attend, saying he was sorry for ...
Reuters

Pope apologizes for 'deplorable evil' of Canadian indigenous schools

Pope is on apology tour of Canada Condemns past "colonizing mentality" of Christians Over 150,000 indigenous children were separated from families Indigenous people want Vatican museums to return ...