With many Indigenous languages being listed as “critically endangered” as a result of having only a handful of fluent speakers left, it can seem like the one option left is to document these languages before they die out completely. Sort of like the linguistic version of freezing your body and Read more
As a group of common law students at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law, we submit the following as input to the pre-Inquiry design process. Throughout January 2016, we examined important case law involving Indigenous women from a critical perspective in our Indigenous Women’s Legal Advocacy course, taught by Read more
There is probably no more famous Chief in all of Canada than Chief Clarence Louie of Osoyoos, British Columbia. Whenever the issue of First Nations comes up in a news piece, you can lay a very safe bet on Chief Louie being raised in the comments section as an example Read more
2014. It was at the tail end of a lonely summer. My daughters were with their family in Alberta, and I couldn’t afford to fly out and visit my own family there. My husband’s daughters had wrapped up their summer visit and were back in the U.S. It was just Read more
I have been a teacher since 2001, taking time off here and there to have babies (3 now), and to get a law degree. I started teaching in the Northwest Territories, then moved back down to Alberta, before coming out to Quebec where I currently reside. Right now I’m on Read more