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Canadian Miles Morrisseau, Métis, who writes for Indian Country Today, is shown with his grand-niece, Finley Delarond, Métis/Cree/Ojibway. Finley received a spirit name and an Eagle feather at the family’s 2021 Canadian Thanksgiving feast. (Photo courtesy of Melissa Morrisseau)
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Canadian special correspondent joins ICT

By ICTJun 6, 2022
Russia's Fanuza Kadirova, left, vies for the puck with Canada's Victoria Bach during the International Ice Hockey Federation's women's championships game in Calgary, Alberta, on Aug. 22, 2021. Bach is Mohawk of the Bay of Quinte in Canada. (Photo by Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)
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First Nation women's hockey player expands her legacy

By Dan NinhamJun 6, 2022
Vegas Golden Knights defenseman Zach Whitecloud, an Indigenous player from Canada, skates against the San Jose Sharks during the first period of an National Hockey League game in San Jose, Calif., on March 6, 2021. Whitecloud had a breakout game for Team Canada against Finland on May 29, 2022, but the Canadians settled for silver. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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Indigenous hockey player stars in international finals

By Miles MorrisseauMay 31, 2022
Taylor Behn-Tsakoza watches her mother Sally Behn prepare mukluks for her to wear during her trip to Vatican City. (Photo Charlotte Morritt-Jacobs/APTN)
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Speaking her truth to Pope Francis

By APTN National NewsMar 30, 2022
Evan Tlesla II Adams, a Coast Salish actor and physician from the Sliammon Band near Powell River, in British Columbia, Canada, will serve as keynote speaker at the AISES National Conference.
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Canadian Medical Association elects new leader

By Kalle BenallieMar 18, 2022
Mi’kmaw Elder Phyllis Googoo. (Photo courtesy of APTN News)
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Indigenous elder heads to Vatican

By APTN National NewsMar 17, 2022
Kenneth Moore, Peepeekisis Cree Nation, front row, second from left, is believed to be the first Indigenous person to represent Canada in the Winter Olympics and the first to win gold, but he has not gotten national recognition. Moore was a member of the Canadian hockey team, shown here, that won a gold medal at the 1932 games in Lake Placid, New York. He died in 1981 after a long career in Canadian hockey. (Photo courtesy of Jennifer Moore Rattray)
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Canada’s Forgotten Olympian: Kenneth Moore

By Miles MorrisseauFeb 15, 2022
Trucks are parked on Metcalfe Street as a rally against COVID-19 restrictions, which began as a cross-country convoy protesting a federal vaccine mandate for truckers, continues in Ottawa, Ontario, on Sunday, Jan. 30, 2022. Thousands of antivaccine protesters descended on Canada’s capital of Ottawa in frigid temperatures to protest vaccine mandates, masks and restrictions over the weekend and some remain, blocking traffic around Parliament Hill in what has been the biggest pandemic protest in the country to date.(Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP)
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First Nations speak out against trucker convoy

By Miles MorrisseauFeb 5, 2022
Canadian hockey player Jocelyne Larocque, Métis, shown here with her gold and silver medals from the 2014 and 2018 Olympics, will be going for the gold this year at the Beijing games starting Feb. 4, 2022. Larocque is one of three Indigenous women playing for the U.S. and Canada. Larocque and another First Nation player, Jamie Lee Rattray, also Métis, will face athlete Abby Roque, Ojibway from Wahnapitae First Nation, who is a member of the U.S. team. (Photo by Candice Ward, courtesy of Hockey Canada Images)
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Winter Olympics feature three Indigenous women

By Miles MorrisseauJan 31, 2022
St. Joseph's Mission Residential School circa 1901. (Photo courtesy of School District 27 in B.C. via APTN National News)
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Canada First Nation finds possible burial sites at school

By APTN National NewsJan 25, 2022
Brigette Lacquette poses for a photo at the IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship in Edmonton on Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2021. Lacquette is the first Indigenous woman to scout for an NHL team, the Chicago Blackhawks .(Jason Franson /The Canadian Press via AP)
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Breaking barriers: NHL's 1st First Nations scout

By The Associated PressJan 7, 2022
AFN Regional Chief Cindy Woodhouse, Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu and Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller during a news conference Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022 in Ottawa, Canada, where the federal government shared details of an agreement that pledges $40 billion for Indigenous child welfare. (APTN screenshot)
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A $31.5B settlement over treatment of Indigenous children

By APTN National NewsJan 5, 2022
Indigenous Action Artist Mentorship program. (APTN screen grab)
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'Indigenous representation in front and behind the camera'

By APTN National NewsDec 15, 2021
Finley Delaronde, Metis/Cree/Ojibway, received her Indigenous spirit name - Apsimosis Iskwesis (Little Deer Girl) - from her Chapan (great-grandmother) Nellie Morrisseau during the family's 2021 Thanksgiving celebrations. (Photo courtesy of Melissa Morrisseau)
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A Canadian looks at American Thanksgiving

By Miles MorrisseauNov 22, 2021
Kahsennenhawe Sky-Deer was elected grand chief of Kahnawà:ke Mohawk Territory. (Photo courtesy of Facebook via APTN National News)
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Kahnawà:ke’s first female, LGBTQ2S grand chief

By APTN National NewsJul 7, 2021