Vancouver’s new city council cuts key reconciliation fund in half
‘I'm actually appalled,’ says one member of the city’s Urban Indigenous Peoples’ Advisory Committee.
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Trudeau’s promises to Indigenous people ring empty without real diplomacy
The conflict with Wet'suwet'en land defenders shows how little government or industry understand or respect Indigenous communities.
I didn’t mean to make them laugh
Vancouver’s urban Indigenous people aren’t that visible. But we are here, and we need to be heard.
Learning Cree and Ojibwe feels like ‘coming home,’ these urban Indigenous students say
Dorothy Eastman was beaten in residential school for speaking her language. Now she’s teaching a new generation to speak Ojibwe.
Surrogate elders are like medics fixing the wounds of colonialism
‘I’ve been struck by how empty many Indigenous youth feel when they don’t know who they are.’
Elders help urban Indigenous youth connect to culture — if they can find each other
‘We aren't learning that knowledge that is supposed to be passed down,’ one teen says.
Indigenous language and culture survives, even in the darkest places
As Robert began to chant, the people shooting up or smoking crack around us in the alley stopped what they were doing to listen.
If we lose our Indigenous culture and language, ‘we lose everything’
Robert Williams overdosed on heroin a few months ago. His language, culture and family's love kept him alive and gave him hope, he says.
One man’s search for his Métis roots sent me on a journey, too
I listened deeply when I heard that Métis people often ‘get less than-ed or othered,’ writes Wawmeesh Hamilton.
A Lower Mainland man’s search for what it means to be Métis
‘Métis is not what they teach you in school. It’s much more than that,’ says Chris Trottier.