While status registration under the Indian Act is a construct, claiming status identity isan important factor in Indigenous identity and cultural transmission.

Lisa Bird-Wilson on UNDRIP, reconciliation, and the anxiety felt by Indigenous people in Canada.

Romantic notions that equate Indigenous peoples with nature are not going to cut it.

In the home for unwed mothers, as she waits for me to be born, one word in Cree is spoken over and again in her head—macitwawiskwesis, bad girl.

We think of the Arctic as pristine and untouched—but nowhere on the planet is as harshly impacted by climate change.