Tag: Indigenous
New website showcases local Indigenous artists
Area residents can learn more about the region’s Indigenous art, culture and history at a website set up by the London Arts Council.
Pearson: A home-grown effort at reconciliation
Efforts toward reconciliation with Canada’s Indigenous people have been of great interest to many Canadians, primarily as a national issue. We hear of negotiations between Indigenous leaders and provincial and federal governments. We watch from a distance as some of this country’s most significant oversights are finally getting the attention they should have generated decades […]
Indigenous student trustee shines light on missing, murdered women
They weren’t in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Niigonii White-Eye, an Indigenous student trustee on the Thames Valley District school board, wants schoolkids and their teachers to understand this about why Indigenous women continue to disappear or be murdered. “It’s a systemic issue that goes back generations,” he said. Prior to Red Dress […]
Western University class will share Indigenous wisdom to ‘heal’ campus land
Western students soon will be getting their hands dirty under a unique five-year land-use agreement that will see them learn how to heal the land using Indigenous wisdom.
Cornies: Pope’s apology to Indigenous Peoples may heal deep wound
Talk about a watershed moment.