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By Matteo Cimellaro | News, Urban Indigenous Communities in Ottawa | June 20th 2023 https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/06/20/news/algonquin-leaders-sound-alarm-over-planned-nuclear-waste-facility Four Algonquin chiefs spoke out on Tuesday, calling out the government and its private-sector contractor over what they say are inadequate consultations over a planned nuclear waste storage facility. Last year, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) paused its decision to move ahead with the planned…
2Centre for Indigenous Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
3Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
4American Indian Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
Throughout the Americas, most Indigenous people move through urban areas and make their homes in cities. Yet, the specific issues and concerns facing Indigenous people in cities, and the positive protective factors their vibrant urban communities generate are often overlooked and poorly understood. This has been particularly so under COVID-19 pandemic conditions. In the spring of 2020, the United Nations High Commissioner Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples called for information on the impacts of COVID-19 for Indigenous peoples. We took that opportunity to provide a response focused on urban Indigenous communities in the United States and Canada. Here, we expand on that response and Indigenous and hu