Tag: Indigenous
City with a dark secret – Thunder Bay: Where indigenous people are worth less than whites – News
Jethro Anderson disappears one day in October 2000, just never coming home. He comes from a First Nation, from a remote indigenous reservation. The 15-year-old goes to high school in…
In Canada, a 28 billion euro plan to right the wrongs suffered by Indigenous peoples
Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland speaks about the envelope for Indigenous communities at a press conference in Ottawa on December 13, 2021. BLAIR GABLE /…
In Bolivia, the great indigenous march ends in indifference
The indigenous march arrives in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, on October 16, 2019. AIZAR RALDES / AFP There is an air of weariness. The one that wins those who hoped to…
In Canada, Justin Trudeau’s new Speech from the Throne, read for the first time by an Indigenous woman
Governor General Mary Simon delivers the Speech from the Throne with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa on November 23, 2021. SEAN KILPATRICK / AFP Two months after regaining…
Two months after re-election: Trudeau wants reconciliation with the indigenous population
A good two months after his re-election, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has promised the Canadians an intensified fight against the climate crisis and a reconciliation with the indigenous population.source site-15
Canada appeals ruling to compensate Indigenous children
The discovery of anonymous graves on the sites of former Indian residential schools had turned Canada upside down. The government on Friday, October 29, asked the country’s federal appeals court…
“France must call on EDF to respect the rights of indigenous peoples in Mexico”
Tribune. Electricité de France (EDF) is planning the construction of an industrial-scale wind farm on the land of the indigenous community of Union Hidalgo, in southern Mexico. For several years,…
A statue of Christopher Columbus in Mexico will be replaced by that of an indigenous woman
In this archive photo of September 28, 2020, a vandalized statue of Christophe Colom, on the Paseo de la Reforma (“promenade of the Reformation”) in Mexico City. MARCO UGARTE /…
Inuit Mary Simon becomes Canada’s first Indigenous Governor General
Governor General Mary Simon with the Guard of Honor upon her arrival at Rideau Hall on July 26, 2021, in Ottawa, Ontario. RYAN REMIORZ / AP Inuit woman and former…
In Canada, new fires of Catholic churches on Indigenous lands
Two new churches were set on fire on Saturday, June 26, in indigenous lands in western Canada, bringing to four the number of churches burnt since the discovery of a…
Indigenous people protest in Brazil – view
Eraldo Peres Indigenous people walk through tear gas smoke after bumping into police during a protest outside Congress. Photo: Eraldo Peres / AP / dpa The demonstrators marched through the…
Canada Faced With Colonial History After Bones Of 215 Indigenous Children Found In Former Residential School
In Vancouver (British Columbia), Montreal (Quebec) or Regina (Saskatchewan), 215 pairs of children’s shoes were placed on the steps of a church or the steps of the Legislative Building, in…