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Windspeaker - Canada's National Aboriginal News Source
publishing since March 1983.
Contributing Editor: Debora Steel
Windspeaker is Canada's most widely distributed Aboriginal news publication and the most effective means of reaching Canada's Aboriginal people.
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By January, the federal government will have three more reports to look at when considering changes to First Nations primary and secondary education.
Gilbert Whiteduck, spokesperson for the three First Nations organizations that wrote the Report on...
The Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) and the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA) have announced that the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women will conduct an inquiry into the...
Onistah-Sokaksin, Calf Shirt, was the leader of the Nitayxkax, Lone Fighters Band, and was a great war chief of the Bloods, a Plains tribe in what is now southern Alberta.
Calf Shirt distinguished himself as a brave warrior numerous times in his...
The community of Attawapiskat First Nation entered the holiday season in a state emergency, with a housing shortage and deplorable living conditions, including a lack of running water, sewage disposal and heating, central to the nation’s concerns...
We’re not too sure what everyone is complaining about when it comes to the federal response to the Attawapiskat situation. Seems to us the fed’s response time is extremely fast, at least when dealing with any criticism it faces from outside sources...
Jenna Camire, age 12, from Kenora; Sophie Bender-Johnston, age 18 from Toronto; Bineshiinh Smoke-LeFort, age 11 from Six Nations; Jared Bissaillion, age 16 from Thessalon; Parker Waswa, age 12 from Fort Hope and Charmaine Thomas, age 16 from Big...
The Mohawk Council of Akwesasne is taking steps to re-establish ancestral trade networks with other First Nations. In a ceremony conducted Dec. 6 Grand Chief Mike Kanentakeron Mitchell signed a Nation-to-Nation Trade and Commerce Protocol with Huron...
Aboriginal People will make up nearly one-quarter of Saskatchewan’s population by 2031. It will be the highest percentage of any province, says a Statistics Canada report. The province’s Aboriginal population today is 16 per cent, but in 20 years...
The First Nations of the North Shore Tribal Council in Cutler, Ont. say they strongly reject the prospect of the North Shore of Lake Huron becoming a site for the long-term storage of nuclear waste for the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO...
Fort William First Nation has settled a land claim with the federal and provincial governments that will see the transfer of Pie Island and Flatland Island to the community. Chief Peter Collins said the islands will be used for economic development...