At the final national event of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) in Edmonton last week, there were a number of gestures of reconciliation—and some notable absences—as the TRC approach the final...

Jennifer Keith, volunteer staff Last week in Edmonton, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) held its last national event. The event was an opportunity for survivors of residential schools to share their truths...

How do we eliminate racism? This was the question elders, students, and members of the University of Manitoba community tried to answer last Friday at an event to recognize the International Day for the...

It seems that racism and oppression of indigenous peoples has become so commonplace in our society that obvious cultural appropriation occurs regularly

On Mar. 6, University of Manitoba Press launched the book Masculindians: Conversations about Indigenous Manhood at McNally Robinson. Editor Sam McKegney, who is also an associate professor of English and cultural studies at Queen’s...

Last Wednesday, the native studies’ 2014 winter colloquium featured Christy Anderson,  a master’s student researching the marginalization of Aboriginal women in Canadian society. Her presentation was timely given the recent murder of Loretta Saunders that...

Indians Wear Red: Colonialism, Resistance and Aboriginal Street Gangs—a Fernwood Publishing book released last August—challenges the reader to look at the problem of Aboriginal street gangs in Winnipeg from a different perspective. Two of the...