Rare 1,500-year-old arrowhead found in northwestern Canada
Jennifer Macgillivray had been trying to do a back country hike in Yukon’s Tombstone region for a number of years.
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Indigenous chef in Canada willing to go to court to serve country food
An Indigenous chef in Ontario (southern Canada) says he’s willing to go to the Supreme Court of Canada to fight
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Vast majority of homeless in Northern Canadian city are Indigenous: survey
Results from a survey suggest that the vast majority of those who are homeless or “provisionally accommodated” in the city
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Homes destroyed, highway temporarily closed by wildfire in Northern Canada
Three homes in Lower Post, northern British Columbia (B.C.), have reportedly been destroyed by wildfire, and it’s not clear when
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Norman Yakeleya elected new chief of Northern Canada’s Dene Nation
Norman Yakeleya is the new Dene national chief. Hundreds of delegates from across the Northwest Territories and beyond cast their
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First Nation in Northern Canada begins new era as decades-long chief steps down
It will be a historical turning point for the Dene Nation today, as delegates from across and outside the Northwest
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Northern Canadian territory’s tourism on pace for another record-setting year, say tourism officials
Canada’s northern Yukon territory could be in for another year of high tourism numbers, according to people in the industry.
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Western science, traditional knowledge combine in Northern Canadian fish monitoring project
Cutting up fish, collecting mud samples and crunching data might sound like a messy, nerdy summer job to some high
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Gov cancels caribou hunt in Northwestern Canada following First Nation’s complaints
The Yukon government has cancelled permits for hunting Finlayson caribou in southeast Yukon this year in response to objections from
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10,000 pages of Indigenous language material published online in Northwestern Canada
A collection of Yukon Indigenous language books has been scanned, organized and made freely available online. There’s at least 10,000
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Northern Canadian First Nations reject Ottawa’s land claim offer
The federal government’s latest land claim offer to the Dehcho First Nations (DFN) received an overwhelming thumbs down at the
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Perry Bellegarde wins another term as Canada’s Assembly of First Nations chief
Perry Bellegarde won a second term as national chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) on Wednesday amid allegations
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Mining industry fears changes to legislation could end free entry staking in Canada’s Yukon
The Yukon Prospectors Association and the Yukon Chamber of Mines fear that proposed amendments to the Quartz Mining Act will
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Canada’s territorial leaders discuss northern issues at meeting of premiers
Canada’s territorial premiers discussed northern priorities at the Council of Federation talks (a congress comprising of Canada’s provincial and territorial
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First Nations National Chief candidates tell Indigenous Northern Canadians to ‘exert your sovereignty’
Four candidates running to be National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations were at a forum in Whitehorse on
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