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A small Inuit community in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut is reviving its eiderdown business, something it hopes provides jobs and opportunity for the isolated settlement.

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.

For more than two decades University of Regina professor James Daschuk has assembled documentation of how disease and the politics of starvation decimated the Indigenous population in what is now the western prairie provinces of Canada.

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 […]

Name: Walter Bayha Occupation: Director of Implementation, Deline Land Corporaration Hometown: Deline, Northwest Territories, Canada Quote: “We can’t develop one area and neglect another, destroy one area and build another. I think we need to teach our young people why that’s so important.” Listen: Walter Bayha on how government policies negatively affected the Dene transition into the wage economy: {play}/media/jukebox/Walter. Intro: The transition from […]

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.

It was under the authority of the British crown that treaties for aboriginal land were negotiated and signed with Canada’s First Nations. Those agreements were long-term treaties meant to stand « for as long as the sun shines, the grass grows and the rivers flow » and some are now the basis for newer agreements.