Communities rally in support of families of missing and murdered Indigenous people
Family members with missing and murdered Indigenous loved ones gathered on Wednesday, May 5, to bring awareness to the alarming rate in which Indigenous men, women and children go missing and are murdered each year. 8:16 pm, May 5, 2021 ×
Family members of missing and murdered Indigenous people, draped in quilts, stood in front of the North Dakota State Library on Wednesday, May 5. A member of the Three Affiliated Tribes Victim Services (back center) spoke about the importance of coming together to heal from trauma caused by violence. Michelle Griffith / The Forum.
The Canadian oil company is feeling the heat as Indigenous groups, environmental organizations, and other activists are demanding that the President pull the plug.
Australia s longest war is within its own shores
« Australia’s longest war is within its own shores April 22, 2021
War in the Middle East has often been referred to as Australia’s longest war. But is this genuinely the truth? My whole life I have been exposed to people from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nations who have used those same words to describe the effects of colonisation. As a child in school one teacher after another refused to acknowledge a war had ever been fought upon these shores. I was always that kid who pointed out their error because Japan bombed Darwin. Then I would ask about the stories I had heard from my own family and clans. A part of Australian history that was referred to by my Elders as the killing times. During what is now described as the Frontier Wars, where some reports estimate 90% of the Indigenous population was lost.
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
Mike Williams: Friend s knighthood sparks fond memories
23 Apr, 2021 06:58 PM
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Mike Williams reminisces on childhood and a childhood friendship. Photo / File
Hawkes Bay Today
I felt a huge sense of pride when I saw Justice Joe Williams dubbed a Knight at his home marae at Manaia on the Coromandel last week.
Joe grew up in Hastings and my family s first Hastings home, in Outram Rd, was just a block away from the house where Joe spent his childhood.
My mother told me years later that we got to know the other Williams family in the street when our mail got mixed up. No matter how it happened, our families became the closest of friends and my mum was in contact with Joe s whangai mum, Chris Williams, either in person or over the phone, every day of her life until Chris passing.