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Norman Shewaybick, accompanied by his two sons, walked 17 days in what they call the “Healing Journey Home 2016“. It was in fulfillment of a promise Shewaybick made to his wife, Laura who died when the oxygen supply ran out at the nursing station in their home community. Beginning in mid-February, the trio walked north from Thunder Bay, Ontario, dragging a toboggan with an […]
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The government’s approach to settling native abuse claims now seems “very mean spirited and very adversarial,” says lawyer Steven Cooper. He has represented several hundreds of Aboriginals who were forcibly taken from their parents and sent to residential schools where they suffered physical and sexual abuse. These boarding schools were set up in the late 1870s and the last one was dismantled in 1996. At the […]
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Charles Edenshaw is recognized as an outstanding creator of art of the west coast Haida people who lived from 1829 and 1920. His works were collected around the world and over 200 of them have been brought to the Vancouver Art Gallery for a special exhibition.
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The largest study ever conducted on aboriginal people living in Toronto has discovered a divided community. As The Link’s Toronto correspondent Lyne-Francoise Pelletier tells us, while the city has a thriving aboriginal middle class, for many urban aboriginals, meeting basic daily needs still remains a challenge. https://www.rcinet.ca/autochtones-en/wp-content/uploads/sites/70/2013/10/Study-takes-a-closer-look-at-aboriginals-living-in-Toronto.mp3
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Graham Shonfield, a student at Carleton University, knew little about Canada’s First Nations’ reserves and it was something he wanted to change. So, he spent time volunteering on the Gull Bay First Nation reserve, about 200 kilometres from Thunder Bay in Northern Ontario.
