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Community members who have been told they have missing information on their files for the federal Indian Day School settlement have until next Friday to submit their documentation, a hard deadline that represents the very final deadline associated with the class action.

King Charles III opened his speech in Ottawa this week, to the House of Commons and the world, with a vapid land acknowledgement.

It’s the little things that sting the most for Lily Ieroniawákon Deer. Small, day-to-day nuggets of knowledge that she doesn’t have, like knowing whether or not to paint the rust on her car.

A number of Indigenous Members of Parliament (MPs) have been named to the federal cabinet this week, not the least of which was Mandy Gull-Masty, the former grand chief of the Grand Council of the Crees, who becomes the first Native person to lead Indigenous Services Canada.

When Innu poet Maya Cousineau Mollen was appointed to the role of senior advisor for First Peoples Relations at the Universite de Montreal in May 2024, she was hopeful that she would play a part in the ongoing project of reconciliation, and further the interests of Onkwehón:we students and staff.

Martin Akwiranoron Loft did a lot of walking over the pandemic, especially in Montreal, taking photos along the way each time. It brought him back to his 20s, when much of his work consisted of street photography. He began sharing black-and-white portraits of the people he’d encounter on Instagram, creating a page that’s since led to him being featured in an active exhibit at the McCord Stewart Museum.

The Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) did not go it alone at the Supreme Court of Canada, which heard Council’s appeal last month against Sylvestre et al. 

Looking to renew your band card? As you know by now, the days of heading down to the White House by the hospital are over.

On the morning of March 19, the Supreme Court of Canada heard the MCK’s appeal in Mohawk Council of Kanesatake v. Louis-Victor Sylvestre et al. The appeal had previously been dismissed by the Court of Appeal of Quebec in December 2023.

This week, the first stage of the claims process opened for a landmark class action settlement that seeks to compensate children and their families who were harmed by the chronic underfunding of on-reserve child welfare services.