The Haíɫzaqv Nation is aiming to protect their world — building a clean energy future for generations to come while at the nexus of negative impacts from colonialism and climate change.
A tornado rocked the Greater New Orleans area Tuesday night, tossing houses from their foundations, snapping power lines and hurling trucks, trailers and school buses.
The influenza pandemic of 1918 is best understood not as a carbon copy of our current circumstance but, rather, a reflection of our present moment in a funhouse mirror.
Since time immemorial, Indigenous people have used hides for clothing, shelter, ceremony and more. Canada’s colonial policies sought to stamp out these traditions, but community organizations are fighting to revive them.
Between 1962 and 1970, 10 tonnes of untreated mercury were dumped into the water near Asubpeeschoseewagong Netum-Anishinabek (Grassy Narrows First Nation). Decades later, the community is still suffering from the poisoning.
Contaminated water in the English-Wabigoon river system has impacted the people of Grassy Narrows and Wabauskang First Nations for generations. Today, elders are still fighting for the government to acknowledge its ongoing impact.
For decades, the Ontario government suspected a pulp and paper mill in Dryden was polluting the English-Wabigoon river system. The contamination became public knowledge in 1970, but First Nations communities in the area are still living with the impacts today.