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Success, one student at a time

How universities are embracing the Aboriginal baby boom

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Kicked out of a movie night for the colour of my skin

How can this campus group claim to fight oppression?

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U. Manitoba to house huge residential schools research centre

Thousands of Indigenous survivor stories to be archived

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Maclean’s Interview: John Ralston Saul

Q: Your new book, A Fair Country, opens with the startling claim that Canada is a Metis civilization, not a European one. What does that mean? A: You have to put aside the racial idea of the Metis. I’m...

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Are we a Metis Nation?

Ever since he burst onto the philosophical scene in 1992 with Voltaire’s Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West, a somewhat overdramatic look at the evolution of the western mind, John...

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As to the historical legacy of Louis Riel

Conservative MP Peter Goldring has managed today the rare feat of uniting the Liberal party and the Prime Minister’s Office in scorn. “This document is absolutely not, in any way, an initiative of our...

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Stolen bell of Batoche to be unveiled, returned to Saskatchewan Catholic bishop

BATOCHE, Sask. – People from across Canada are expected to visit a small Saskatchewan community this weekend to witness the return home of a significant piece of Metis history after 128 years. It’s...

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Study of residential schools now mandatory in Alberta curriculum

EDMONTON – Alberta students are to be taught about the horrors and the painful legacy of Indian residential schools. The province has announced that all kindergarten to Grade 12 curriculum will include...

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Metis leaders argue for same tax benefits as other elected officials

OTTAWA – Senior leaders at Canada’s largest Metis organization are vowing to keep up their fight in order to get the same tax-free treatment on their expense allowances as other people elected to...

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Federal government to stop funding payments to Saskatchewan Metis group

SASKATOON –The federal government says it is going to stop funding Metis Nation-Saskatchewan. A letter dated Wednesday from Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt said the group failed to hold an...

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Colleges promise to meld Indigenous learning into programming

Signing Protocol. The man on the left is Robert Everson, K’ómoks First Nation Chief Councillor. The man on the right is John Bowman, President, North Island College. (Lee Simmons/North Island College)...

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Judge rules foster parents may keep caring for Metis toddler

VANCOUVER – A Vancouver Island couple who feared a Metis toddler was about to be removed from their home say they will hug the little girl in celebration after a judge ruled they can keep her in their...

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Celebrated Metis poet delivers poignant view of residential school life

BLACK APPLE By Joan Crate Crate, a Metis novelist and poet, builds her novel around a unique literary relationship between a lonely Aboriginal girl at a residential school and the head nun who prepares...

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Supreme Court rules that Metis, non-status Indians are federal responsibility

Metis Federation leaders and delagates march to the Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa on Thursday, April 14, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick OTTAWA – Canada’s 600,000 Metis and non-status...

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B.C. Metis commission’s role will expand, says ministry

VANCOUVER — British Columbia will expand the role of its Metis representative in the child welfare system, amid criticism of the province’s plan to adopt a Metis toddler to non-aboriginal parents in...

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One of the biggest mysteries in Metis history gets even more puzzling

The Bell Of Batoche, officially displayed during Back to Batoche Days in Batoche, Sask., on Saturday, July 20, 2013. (Liam Richards/CP) Just when you think the mystery behind the Bell of Batoche has...

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How ‘race-shifting’ explains the surge in the number of Métis in Eastern Canada

Métis Family and a Red River Cart, 1883. (State Historical Society of North Dakota, A4365) This piece first appeared at The Conversation. Since the early 2000s, there has been a meteoric rise in the...

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