YWCA Canada apologized recently to Indigenous communities for its involvement in programs offered at residential schools and Indian hospitals that supported colonial practices and assimilation policies.

Kiahna Brennan is a young Dene Cree writer who says imagination is the most important part of her life. Here she talks about hope, storytelling and seeing things that she had not been looking for before.

A partnership between Millbrook First Nation and the Royal Bank of Canada is allowing some band members to receive a mortgage and build their own home on reserve land. Previously, getting a mortgage on-reserve was off the table. Band leadership says this change is empowering.

The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team says there's no evidence an offence was committed when Mounties used force to arrest Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Chief Allan Adam outside a Fort McMurray, Alta., casino in 2020.

Federal governments both Conservative and Liberal spent at least $14.5 million fighting prominent First Nations child advocate Cindy Blackstock in court over the last 18 years. Blackstock says the figure is "really disappointing," while an NDP MP calls it "appalling."

A residential school survivors' group says it will have to close its doors at the end of the month unless it receives a federal funding decision. Laura Arndt, lead at the Survivors' Secretariat in southern Ontario, is accusing Ottawa of breaking promises. “They lied" to survivors, she said.

Born in 1983 from community demands in the wake of internal troubles, Akwesasne's Indian Time newspaper published its final edition Thursday as tensions returned to this Indigenous territory that is severed by the Canada-U.S. border. 

The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs says the federal government is failing to provide communities with vital funding and resources through Jordan's Principle, leading to an escalating crisis affecting children. 

Indigenous elver fishers who once were at odds with federal fisheries officers say they're hopeful that a new plan to provide them quotas this season will create more peace on the water.

First Nations leaders are blasting the federal government and calling for an apology after Ottawa attributed its latest deficit overrun to Indigenous legal claims against the Crown. The statement "harkened back to the colonial mindset" to villainize and scapegoat First Nations, one leader says.