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By Ryan Paul • Dec 7th, 2009 • Category: South America • No Comments »
President Evo Morales seems set to push ahead with the implementation of a new constitution to place indigenous peoples at the heart of Bolivia’...
By Ryan Paul • Oct 26th, 2009 • Category: Canada • No Comments »
Not all residents of an isolated Manitoba First Nations community hit hard by the first wave of the H1N1 flu are eager to be vaccinated against an exp...
By Ryan Paul • Oct 26th, 2009 • Category: Canada • No Comments »
The federal Liberal critic for women’s issues has called on the Conservative government to guarantee a renewed five-year mandate for Sisters in ...
By Ryan Paul • Oct 26th, 2009 • Category: Canada • No Comments »
An aboriginal youth choir from Newfoundland and Labrador may get a chance to perform in B.C. during the 2010 Olympics after all. Members of the Set...
By Ryan Paul • Oct 26th, 2009 • Category: Canada • No Comments »
The recreation money for Ontario’s native reserves will be spent largely on renovating or expanding community centres and arenas, many of them i...
By Ryan Paul • Oct 25th, 2009 • Category: Canada • No Comments »
A B.C. First Nation is just one chapter away from a treaty agreement, but its main negotiator says federal government foot-dragging has become frustra...
By Ryan Paul • Oct 24th, 2009 • Category: Canada • No Comments »
A young aboriginal woman from northwestern New Brunswick is going to Greece next week to get the Olympic flame. Dina Ouellette, 22, of the Madawaska M...
By Ryan Paul • Oct 23rd, 2009 • Category: Canada • No Comments »
REGINA — Charlie Bird, one of the few remaining aboriginal veterans of the Second World War, has died. The 89-year-old fought in the D-Day invasion....
By Ryan Paul • Oct 23rd, 2009 • Category: Canada • No Comments »
The Native Council of P.E.I. has launched a letter-writing to campaign to save one of the country’s oldest diabetes programs aimed at aboriginal...
By Ryan Paul • Oct 22nd, 2009 • Category: Canada • No Comments »
The remote and often troubled reserves of northern Ontario are rarely big winners at budget time, but federal stimulus spending promises a hockey-rink...