BETWEEN 1910 and 1970 tens of thousands of aboriginal children were taken from their families in a failed assimilation programme that wanted to “breed the colour” out of them. Ten years ago the ...

Letter writers discuss why aboriginals are over-represented in Canada's prisons, and other issues of the day. You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account.

THE LAST picture of Cassius Turvey, a 15-year-old Aboriginal boy of Western Australia’s Noongar and Yamatji nations, showed him lying unconscious on a hospital bed, attached to a ventilator. His head, ...

A recent article reminded me of the natural affinity the Chinese have always had with our Aboriginal population. In a publication called Rice Paper Magazine, Jackie Wong wrote about, “The Mysterious ...

On Nov. 24-25, 2005, Prime Minister Paul Martin, the premiers and aboriginal leaders met in Kelowna for the First Ministers Conference on Aboriginal Affairs. The meeting resulted in a five-year, ...

Their Royal Highnesses Prince Charles and The Duchess of Cornwall Camilla will make Regina their third and final stop on their Royal visit to Canada. Prince Charles and Camilla will have a full slate ...

TORONTO — Scores of aboriginals from across Ontario rallied Tuesday ahead of a landmark court hearing on whether the Canadian government robbed them of their cultural identities during a two-decade ...

This story appears in the June 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. A finger across the throat and a glance seaward. That’s the signal. The two men grip their spears, hand-carved from ...

When a photograph of me, an Indian Dalit, posing alongside Jeanine Leane, Marie Munkara, Dylan Coleman and Brenton McKenna, descendants of Australia’s early inhabitants, was published, I felt a ...

Canadians must acknowledge that for generations their public schools have fed them misinformation about aboriginal people, says the chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Sinclair’s ...