“A Subjugation”: First Nations Chiefs Blast Carney’s Nation-Building Scheme
For all his talk of reconciliation, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s push to accelerate the next wave of nation building has exposed a familiar fault line in Canadian politics: when economic ambition...
View ArticleThe Yukon Liberals Are Coming Apart at the Worst Possible Time
On May 12, Doris Bill stood before a small crowd to launch her campaign for the Yukon Liberal Party leadership. A former CBC journalist, three-term Kwanlin Dün First Nation chief, and residential...
View ArticleThe Stark Reality Ten Years after the Truth and Reconciliation Report
In 1958, Eugene Arcand from Muskeg Lake Cree Nation was taken to St. Michael’s Indian Residential School. There, he was assigned a number—781—and he lived under the constant threat of abuse. Arcand...
View ArticleThe Truth of Reconciliation
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View ArticleHow Media Can Help Bring Indigenous Traditions Back to Life
My first week as a journalist was the same week the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released the summary of its Final Report. I was twenty-two, a recent graduate of a university named after...
View ArticleA Fundamental Aspect of Reconciliation: Giving Back Stolen Land
In 2024, the Haida Nation reached an agreement with the provincial government of British Columbia and the federal government to return the nation’s authority and jurisdiction over its ancestral...
View ArticleThe Missing Indigenous Women Canada Refuses to See
Two things are true about Indigenous girls, women, and gender-diverse people in Canada. First, as Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson notes, they “reproduce and amplify”...
View ArticleCanada’s Resounding Failure to Fully Embrace the Truth of Residential Schools
For six years, starting in 2007, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission travelled throughout the country, hearing testimonies from over 6,500 people who’d endured Canada’s residential school system....
View ArticleIndigenous Priorities Are Just a Checkbox When It Comes to Economic Development
Is it possible for Indigenous nations to define their own priorities within the very same economy built on their oppression and exclusion? In the decade since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission...
View ArticleThere Are More Indigenous Children in Care Now than at the Height of...
More than 150,000 children taken. That’s really all you need to know about residential schools. In Canada, more than 150,000 Indigenous children attended these institutions between the 1870s and the...
View ArticleFirst Nations Warn Carney’s Push to Build Canada Could Tear It Apart
From the moment he took office, Prime Minister Mark Carney made moves to show his commitment to Indigenous peoples. In March, he met with the leaders of the three main Indigenous organizations: the...
View ArticleGreenland Has Been Fighting Off Americans for Over a Century
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View ArticleCan You Be Sued for Saying Someone Isn’t Indigenous?
In June 2021, an Atikamekw artist named Catherine Boivin posted a video on TikTok. It begins with a clip of a woman who goes by Isabelle Kun-Nipiu Falardeau describing “une femme Métis de l’Est,” or an...
View ArticleMy Father Could Have Changed the World. Instead, He Changed Mine
K uskowunusk is a dark cloud that holds the threat of a great rain that only the cumulonimbus can contain, and when we moved to my favourite home—the acreage, near Edmonton—the cumulonimbus gathered,...
View ArticleCanada’s Sovereignty Crisis Feels All Too Familiar to First Nations
Even before he took office, United States president Donald Trump was talking about annexing Canada, posting on Truth Social in mid-December, “I think it’s a great idea. 51st state!!!” Trump is funny,...
View ArticleFirst Nations Are Rethinking Education in the Yukon. And It’s Working
The radical new approach includes year-round classes—with breaks for hunting and fishing The post First Nations Are Rethinking Education in the Yukon. And It’s Working first appeared on The Walrus.
View ArticleAcclaimed Playwright Jani Lauzon Responds to The Walrus’s Investigation into...
A cancelled play, a confused response, and more questions The post Acclaimed Playwright Jani Lauzon Responds to The Walrus’s Investigation into Her Indigenous Ancestry first appeared on The Walrus.
View Article“I Needed to Be Doing This”: When Writers Uncover Family History
Tanya Talaga and Sadiya Ansari discuss ancestors, the colonial project, and intuitive pings The post “I Needed to Be Doing This”: When Writers Uncover Family History first appeared on The Walrus.
View ArticleCentring Indigenous Values in Forest Management
How forestry's Indigenous partnerships can redefine the industry The post Centring Indigenous Values in Forest Management first appeared on The Walrus.
View ArticleAn Acclaimed Canadian Playwright Faces Questions of Pretendianism
Jani Lauzon has maintained she is Métis and her play 1939—now touring Canada—is based on her father’s experience at a residential school. What if none of it is true? The post An Acclaimed Canadian...
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