Two of Manitoba's major universities are approaching indigenous education very differently and that's the topic of debate on Thursday.
Last spring the University of Winnipeg approved a motion making it mandatory for students to take at least one indigenous studies course to graduate. More...
By Louise Brown. Raigelee Alorut, an Inuit grandmother, is among the aboriginal university grads joining a campaign urging indigenous people to get a higher education. More...
By May Warren. Angelique EagleWoman did not get her full name until she was 15.
In her Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate tribe, one of the Dakota Nations, children are given nicknames at birth and receive their formal names as teenagers, when their true character is revealed. More...
By Elizabeth Payne. Aboriginal health researchers are the latest group at odds with the federal agency in charge of funding medical research.
The researchers and others say reforms at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research mean less support for aboriginal research at a time when conditions in First Nation, Métis and Inuit communities are at “crisis proportions” and require more focus. More...
By Tracy Sherlock. One day, it may be mandatory to take a course in aboriginal history and culture to graduate from university in B.C.
It’s a step the University of Winnipeg has already taken. Starting next year, every undergraduate at that institution and at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ont., will have to take at least one indigenous studies course. There are several courses to choose from and the total number of credits required to graduate does not change. More...
Brown University, by a vote of its faculty on Tuesday, has designated what was once Columbus Day at the university as Indigenous People's Day. In 2009, the university dropped the Columbus Day name and designated that day off as the "fall weekend holiday." Tuesday's vote replaces that name. Read more...
By Courtney Kueppers. On Brown University’s 2015-16 academic calendar, Columbus Day does not appear. The day in October when classes aren’t held is called the Fall Weekend holiday. Starting next autumn, though, the day will bear a new name: Indigenous People’s Day. More...
By Munyaradzi Makoni. Academics are demanding better security for education institutions after a brutal terrorist attack on Wednesday morning on Bacha Khan University in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province that left at least 20 dead – including students and two staff members – and many injured. Read more...
By Stefanie Botelho. Rosalie Lalo was five-years-old when the U.S. government sent her to the Phoenix Indian School, more than 200 miles away from her Hopi family home. She was forbidden to speak her native language, her long hair was cut, and she was stripped of a traditional Hopi childhood. More...
By Laura Jean Grant. Just days after the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's final report, Cape Breton University is acting on one of its key recommendations.
Starting in January, CBU will offer a new course, titled Learning from Knowledge Keepers of Mi’kma’ki, that will provide CBU students and interested members of the public an opportunity to learn about Mi'kmaq culture and history. More...
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