Indigenous People

As a Canadian Indigenous community comes to grips with a deadly stabbing rampage by two of its own, many blamed rampant drug and alcohol use on the reserve that they linked to repeated failures by the government over many years. One of the alleged attackers, Myles Sanderson, has 59 criminal convictions, according to parole documents. He'd been serving a sentence of four years and four months on charges that included assault with a weapon, assault on a peace officer and robbery when he was released. Public Safety Minister Mendicino said he's been told by the parole board there will be an investigation into its assessment of Myles Sanderson. I want the know the reasons behind the decision" to release him, he said. I'm extremely concerned with what occurred here. Many of his past crimes happened when he was intoxicated, and he told parole officials substance use made him out of his mind. He had been sought for a parole violation since May. The drug problem and the alcohol problem o

The Canadian government made clear that Pope Francis' apology to Indigenous peoples for abuses in the country's church-run residential schools didn't go far enough

Pope Francis began a fraught visit to Canada on Sunday to apologize to Indigenous peoples for abuses by missionaries at residential schools

People from the Tiwi Islands and Larrakia Traditional Owners are seeking an injunction.

She is one of only a handful of indigenous Australian women who are both sporting champions and household names

The state government had in 2019 said that RIIN is required to prevent issuance of indigenous inhabitant certificates to ineligible persons

State health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that Assam and the northeast got due attention from the Central government and made unprecedented progress during the last six years

The state government will also reach out to the people to dispel their misunderstandings about CAA, he said

Many of the values that inspire the American Dream - liberty, equality - originated with native North Americans