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New warnings are being made about using social media to sell wildlife meat and fish online. On a Nunavut Territory Facebook page “swap and sell” site, one can find narwhal and whale maktaaq (blubber), caribou meat, arctic char, walrus, and other “country foods” for sale or auction.

Francis Pegahmagabow was honoured this week. He was Canada’s most decorated indigenous soldier of the First World War.

If you think that Arctic Huskies have a bit of wolf in them, you’re right. It’s thought that the very first travelers into the new world crossing the Beringia land bridge brought husky-like dogs with them from Siberia to the Arctic of North American and eventually to Greenland

A new study shows that all Inuit- Iñupiaq speakers in the Arctic share a commen genetic background. It was published on April 29th in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. The study was initiated by elders in Barrow, from Alaska’s North Slope area who wanted to learn more about their history.

Wild rice was once a critically important food source for aboriginal tribes from the southern parts of the province of Manitoba to parts of Quebec and in the US around the Great Lakes. Five years ago the community of Wikwemikong on Manitoulin Island in Lake Superior began a wild rice restoration programme and began harvesting this fall.

Find out about prehistoric Canada from an archaeologist who’s discovered remnants of what could be a 10-thousand-year-old village in the Pacific coast province of British Columbia.

For a long time science told us that the first people to reach the North American continent arrived here on foot after the last Ice Age. But, scientists are finding evidence that suggests otherwise. They think the first humans came in boats thousands of years earlier than previously thought. We spoke to anthropologist, Dr. Niobe Thompson who hosts a documentary on the subject, called […]

Marc Montgomery talks to Canadian research scientist Joel Barker who’s found the most northerly mummified forest ever discovered. The preserved organic material from this ancient forest in Canada’s Nunavut territory could help us understand how ecosystems adapt to climate change.

A group that promotes play for children in disadvantaged parts of the world has started a program for aboriginal children in Canada. Right To Play hopes to reduce suicide, violence and drug abuse that plagues too many first nations communities.