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Songs Upon the Rivers

February 9, 2017
| The histories of Indigenous communities and European explorers contain stories that have been lost in history. A new book presented by Sébastien Malette seeks out the forgotten stories.
Length: 14:47 minutes (13.55 MB)
Trudeau fails to deliver on election promise to support Indigenous post-secondary students
By
Bilan Arte
| May 26, 2016

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In the 2016 federal budget, Trudeau failed to deliver on his explicit election commitment to invest $50 million per year in the Post-Secondary Student Support Program (PSSSP), a federal initiative that provides support to Indigenous and Inuit students pursuing post-secondary education. Instead, the Liberals invested no new funding in the program.

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Don't partake in celebrations over new Supreme Court ruling on Métis just yet
By
Pamela Palmater
| April 15, 2016

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The Daniels decision hasn't been out for 48 hours yet and already there is mass confusion about what it does and does not say. Despite the buzz in mainstream and social media, it does not make Métis and non-status Indians "Indians" under the Indian Act.

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Metis communities still waiting for reconciliation

I am proud of Metis survivors who told their stories and reached out through the Truth Commission process. But I feel for myself, for my family, for our communities, we are not healed.

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Metis survivors of residential schools still waiting for reconciliation
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Metis survivors of residential schools still waiting for reconciliation
By
Samantha Nock
| June 9, 2015

We carry a lot with us.

We carry our stories, our loves, our histories, our traumas, inside ourselves every day. And they are heavy. They sometimes weigh on our hearts and take up residency in the back of our brains. Sometimes they make our bones ache with their presence.

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Settlers claiming Métis heritage because they just feel more Indigenous
By
Âpihtawikosisân
| March 11, 2015

In 2009, John Ralston Saul tried to whip together a cohesive Canadian identity in A Fair Country: Telling Truths about Canada, using the Métis as a synecdoche for ‘a unique people' (i.e. Canadians). He argued that Canadian culture was less a result of English and French Enlightenment values, and more of a result of interactions between English and French newcomers and First Nations. To call this a rosy reading of history is an understatement as vast as the Mariana Trench. The goal of this approach is to encourage Canadians to "learn who they truly are" via reconnecting with their Indigenous roots. Real, or very much imagined.

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The Bell of Batoche is repatriated to the Métis people of western Canada

"When I came into the North West in July, the first of July 1884, I found the Indians suffering. I found the half-breeds [Métis] eating the rotten pork of the Hudson Bay Company and getting sick and weak every day. Although a half breed, and having no pretension to help the whites, I also paid attention to them. I saw they were deprived of responsible government, I saw that they were deprived of their public liberties..." - From Louis Riel's final statement to his staged trial in Regina, July 31, 1885.

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Civil disobedience and the truth about Canadian history: Reflections on National Aboriginal Day

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Between June 21 and July 1 -- National Aboriginal Day to Canada Day -- we'll be featuring a series of articles examining and critiquing the uses of Canadian identity, the resurgence of Indigenous movements for justice, and the ways in which activists and thinkers across these lands are addressing these fundamental questions. 

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Manitoba Metis win historic ruling
By
Roger Annis
| March 20, 2013

"Louis Riel must be smiling."

That was the front-page headline of the Winnipeg Free Press on March 9, 2013. It’s taken from the response of the head of the Manitoba Métis Federation to the ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada released the day before that the Canadian and Manitoba governments abrogated their responsibilities to respect land rights won by the Métis people when the province was established in 1870.

Louis Riel was one of the leaders of the Métis people during the latter half of the 19th century. They are the people of mixed European/Indigenous ancestry in western Canada.

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Happy Louis Riel Day! It's time to make it a national holiday

Louis Riel is honoured today in Manitoba, but we think it's time to make it a national holiday.

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Make Louis Riel Day a national holiday
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