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Blueberry Grunt performs at the Elbows up rally at Alderney Landing in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia on April 6, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Riley Smith

Rising Canadian patriotism is a chance to rethink who gets to belong here

Canadian patriotism has risen since Trump threatened to annex the country. However, the rhetoric and symbols of Canadian nationalism may be leaving out modern understandings of the country.
Pintupi Elder Mantua Nangala James burning spinifex. Dannica Shultz

Fire revival: how Australia’s desert people use ancient wisdom to protect the endangered bilby

A return to traditional Indigenous burning practices in the Gibson and Great Sandy deserts is helping protect the ninu, or greater bilby.
A totem pole is seen in front of the ceremonial entrance of the British Columbia legislature in Victoria, B.C., on March 7, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito

Trump’s tariffs threaten Indigenous businesses in Canada — the government must take action

Indigenous people and communities are up against unequal and harmful effects that are not only economic, but also social and cultural.
The Mohawk Institute Residential School in Brantford, Ont., in 1917. The former residential school and nearby Hamilton Mountain Sanitorium are subjects of a research project aiming to bring together two Indigenous communities. (Library and Archives Canada)

How one research project is ‘re‑neighbouring’ two Indigenous communities

Scholars are working to piece together information about Indigenous children who attended a residential school in Brantford and Inuit patients taken to a sanatorium in Hamilton, Ontario.
An Inuit girl is carried by her mother at a grocery store in Baker Lake, Nvt., in March 2009. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

Inuit children in Nunavut face a preventable food security crisis

With funding for a government food voucher program ending and Parliament prorogued, many Inuit children in Nunavut may soon go hungry.
We can learn a lot from beaver dams — according to both Indigenous oral history and NASA researchers. Here a beaver nibbles on a small branch near his dam. Mark Ma/Unsplash

When building Indigenous infrastructure, build relationally, like beavers

When it comes to equitable and sustainable infrastructure, we can learn a lot from beaver dams — according to both traditional Indigenous oral history as well as NASA researchers.
Forest covers more than 90% of French Guiana. AlixMillet/Shutterstock

An agreement ends resistance to a renewable energy plant in French Guiana… but is it energy justice?

An agreement between an indigenous community and an energy company secured the development of a power plant in exchange for community benefits. But the deal does not meet energy justice principles.
Carol Tiger, a member of Muscogee Nation and an elder in Okemah, Okla., lets the oil drip off a freshly-cooked piece of frybread. Although beloved by many, it is a far cry from the pre-colonial foods that nourished Indigenous people for centuries. (AP Photo/Brittany Bendabout)

Frybread: Comfort food or colonial byproduct?

Frybread — a simple, versatile “comfort food” for many Indigenous communities — embodies the contradictions that have dictated Indigenous food and health in North America since colonization.
Independent Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites associated with Indian Residential Schools, Kimberly Murray, delivers remarks on an Indigenous-led reparations framework during a national gathering in Gatineau, Que., on Oct. 29, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby

Canada and churches have moral obligations for the reparations of missing and disappeared Indigenous children: Final Report

The report focuses on unaccounted missing children, unmarked grave sites, and the roles of government and churches in the Indian Residential School genocide.
Beef dominates American diets. In 2022, Americans consumed almost 30 billion pounds of beef. Johnrob/E+ via Getty Images

How beef became a marker of American identity

On July 4, 1891, Oklahoman farmer Oscar Weber Bilby served his neighbors the very first hamburgers on buns.

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