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"I feel there's a serious threat on Huu-ay-aht Aboriginal rights and treaty rights," said Huu-ay-aht Chief Coun. Robert Dennis Sr. "We want to be the ones to decide what old growth can be taken or what old growth can't be taken. That's our decision." cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c…

We spoke with five First Nations people about the issues they see, what they expect when others make land acknowledgments and advice on how they can ring less hollow. cbc.ca/news/indigenous/land-…

The formation will now be known by its original Stoney Nakoda name, Anû Kathâ Îpa, or Bald Eagle Peak. cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/b…

Andy Everson is tired of private companies using his art to "capitalize on the atrocities" committed against children in Canada's residential school system. cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/ind…

"It's a day of reflection, in many ways a day of protest. Canada can't be at peace with itself, unless it comes to peace and harmony with Indigenous governments, as was intended with the signing of the treaties," said Chief Dennis Meeches. cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/…

Not even being forbidden to speak her language in residential school, nor a 19-month stint in the tuberculosis ward of a hospital as a teen, stopped Dorothy Visser from speaking, writing and eventually teaching the Cree language. cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c…

The community of ?Aq'am, a member of the Ktunaxa Nation, says 182 unmarked graves were discovered using ground-penetrating radar to search a site close to the former St. Eugene's Mission School. cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c…

WARNING: This story contains distressing details. Support for people in Cowessess and residential school survivors is coming both from within the First Nation and across the country. cbc.ca/1.6079077

WARNING: This story contains distressing details. In light of today's news in Cowessess First Nation, we wanted to reshare these stories from residential survivors, in their own words. They were recorded in 2018, as a part of Beyond 94. cbc.ca/beyond94

The Cowessess First Nation says it has discovered hundreds of unmarked graves at the site of the former Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan. cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatche…

"When that news came about… we had to speak to that. We had to commemorate those spirits, so what we did is we created the 215 spirit orbs representing each child that was found," said artist Jeannie Red Eagle. cbc.ca/news/indigenous/mural…

This morning's announcement came in response to a call to action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that demanded governments allow survivors and their families to restore names changed by the residential school system. cbc.ca/1.6064850

Before the discovery of what's believed to be the remains of 215 children at a residential school in Kamloops, B.C., work was being done to identify burial sites at 25 residential schools in Alberta, including one with the highest mortality rate in Canada. cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/r…

An NDP bid calling on the government to recognize the residential school experience as genocide has been rejected in the House of Commons. cbc.ca/news/politics/ndp-res…

"We've seen incredible growth in our tourism membership. And we also know that there is incredible appetite from the Indigenous entrepreneurs and communities looking to get in the tourism space," said Shae Bird, the CEO of Indigenous Tourism Alberta. cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/i…

"It's about honouring, remembering those babies and giving them the opportunities to be released to the spirit world. That's why people here today feel happiness — because something's being done to help them," said Kelsey Big Plume. cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/t…