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A sepia-toned colour, grainy, old photo from 1909 featuring a group of Indigenous pupils at Mount Elgin Industrial Institute, a United Church-run residential school in Ontario. The students are doing laundry using old washing wheels. The girls have long braids, long-sleeve shirts and skirts and aprons on. The boys have short hair and blazers and trousers on.

How searching for lost residential school photos made me think differently about reconciliation

by Heather Menzies

Personal encounters and relationship-building are the key to reconciliation, writes Heather Menzies

Two Indigenous women are standing in front of a purple tipi. The women are dressed in red and yellow dresses. One of the dresses has full sleeves and the other is sleeveless. One woman has dark brown hair tied into a braid and the other woman has light brown hair in a bun. They are talking and smiling.

New wave of Indigenous-led operas are reimagining the art form

by Cierra Bettens

The Canadian opera landscape is poised to grow and change as more Indigenous performers and writers tell their own stories

Lost records, found roots: How a Métis genealogist helps people uncover their Indigenous ancestry

by Hannah Carty

Anne Anderson has spent a lifetime trying to piece together the past

An illustration of a brown-skinned woman with brown curly hair walking. She is holding a megaphone, wearing a teal and peach striped shirt with a yellow, green, pink and mint-coloured scarf. Her pants are teal. She is walking and below her legs is a river with three kinds of fish floating, as well as a half-submerged house with teal-coloured windows. A small black and white cow is on top of the brown roof. IN the background is a multi-coloured sky (mint, peach, grey and dark brown).

Using Indigenous wisdom to save the Martuwarra River

by Lesley Evans Ogden

Investing in collective wisdom, along with science and technology, is the key to responding to climate chaos, says Indigenous leader

Four people stand in front of a colourful mural in a room full of books and shelves. The mural features a blue sky with a red sun and a rainbow in the sun. The sun is rising above grey mountains and blue rivers. The rivers have salmon painted in it and runs along a green landscape and pine trees. In the sky there is a black eagle painted in an Indigenous style. On the green land, there is a black and grey bear painted in an Indigenous style. The four people standing in front of the mural include three women and one young man. One woman is the artist. She is wearing a black hoodie and has short curly black and grey hair. She is wearing glasses. Behind the artist is a taller white woman with blond hair and is wearing a white scarf and black shirt. On the other side, in the front is a middle-aged woman with white hair, white skin in a black shirt and pants with a long white scarf that has silver stars on it. She is holding the head of a black and white dog with curly fur who is sitting in front of her. Behind this woman is a young man with brown skin. He is wearing a blue and white plaid shirt, yellow gloves, black pants and a grey toque. He is smiling.

Indigenous artist’s mural designs in Port Alberni church represent hope and healing

by Avil Beckford

The vibrant artwork honours the church's commitment to truth and reconciliation

Indigenous healing centre inside United Church could help people struggling with work and finances

by Brian Vinh Tien Trinh

The healing centre will offer employment, training, tutoring and care package services

Person with two long black braids wearing a navy blue vest over a striped black and white shirt. They are standing beside a grey door with a pride flag and a sign that reads "Doctor in Session. Please be Quiet. Thank You"

Dr. James Makokis brings traditional Cree approaches to transgender medicine

by Alison Brooks-Starks

"It innately makes sense that we rebuild the Indigenous health system," he says

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The unsettling conversation around Buffy Sainte-Marie’s pretendian controversy

by Mike Alexander

Though the popular musician and trailblazer was adopted into a Cree family, she took up space where she didn't belong, Mike Alexander

What Canada can learn from Brazil about returning land to Indigenous communities

by Byron Armstrong

Brazil's new government has made several commitments to Indigenous reconciliation in a fraction of the time the Canadian government has been in

The first complete Mohawk Bible translation will be available this fall

by Leslie Sinclair

Harvey Gabriel (Satewas) of the Kanesatake community has been working on the project for more than 40 years

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