The Daily Ubuntu24 articles · page 2 of 2
The Paix des Braves, as equals
In 2002, Quebec and the Cree replaced years of lawsuits with a nation-to-nation agreement on the territory and the forest.
ReadThe community freezer
In Nunavik, nearly eight in ten people experience food insecurity. Yet almost everyone gives or receives food: here, game is shared before it is sold.
ReadThe river that gives life
At Grassy Narrows, mercury dumped upstream poisoned fish and families; decades of struggle have won commitments to repair.
ReadWhen the land burns, where does home go?
In 2023, forest fires ravaged 4.5 million hectares in Quebec. In Eeyou Istchee, Cree families lost much more than timber: traplines, camps, part of their memory.
ReadA declaration for all peoples
Canada voted against the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007, before endorsing it without qualification, then making it law.
ReadAn apology that is not the end
At Maskwacis, in July 2022, Pope Francis asked Indigenous Peoples for forgiveness. Survivors remind us it is only a beginning.
ReadAn orange shirt to say every child matters
On September 30, a simple orange shirt recalls the history of residential schools and a collective promise: every child matters.
ReadJordan first: when the child comes before the paperwork
Jordan River Anderson died in 2005 while two governments argued over who would pay for his care; his name became a simple principle: the child first.
ReadJudging the person, not just the act
Since the Gladue and Ipeelee decisions, a judge must consider an Indigenous person's history before sentencing them. Yet federal prisons have never been so Indigenous.
ReadNinety-four gestures to stitch a country back together
In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada turned thousands of testimonies into 94 calls to action addressed to everyone.
ReadThe Pines, thirty-six years later
In the summer of 1990, a pine forest in Kanesatake became the heart of a 78-day crisis. Since then, Mohawk and Quebecer neighbours have been slowly learning to talk to each other.
ReadThe day Quebec apologized
After the Viens Commission, the Premier of Quebec apologized to First Nations and Inuit in 2019. The real work was just beginning.
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