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And the winner is ... Guess which Canadian city has the highest aboriginal population?
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Top 5 Cities in Canada With the Most Indigenous People

By David P. Ball
Cindy Blackstock, Gitksan First Nation, fought tenaciously for nine years to get equal funding for indigenous children on reserves as executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada.
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Scared and Spied On Under Harper, Why Child Advocate Didn't Give Up

By David P. Ball
Shoal Lake 40 First Nation drug and alcohol counsellor Stewart Redsky stands surrounded by the band's drinking water jugs, stacked in what used to be the community's youth center until their water storage shed's floor collapsed.
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Isolated Shoal Lake 40 Members Shed Tears as Canada Refuses to Fund Road

By David P. Ball
West Moberly First Nation chief Roland Willson (left) speaks out against the Site C hydroelectric dam alongside Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs president Grand Chief Stewart Phillip.
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First Nation Fights to Stop Flooding of Its Lands for B.C. Hydro's Site C Dam Project

By David P. Ball
A demonstrator and veteran of the 1993 Clayoquot Sound anti-clear cutting protests speaks to the crowd on Burnaby Mountain on November 26.
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Tensions Simmer After Kinder Morgan Confrontation Over Pipeline Extension in Burnaby, B.C.

By David P. Ball
Clément Chartier, President of the Métis National Council
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MĂ©tis in Canada Demand Harper Meeting as Court Upholds Status Ruling

By David P. Ball
'Self-Portrait,' by Buffy Sainte-Marie. Ilfordchrome (Cibachrome) photograph. 33"Âť x 45.5."Âť Description from buffysainte-marie.com: 'A photo was imported into my computer and I played with it. It is a headshot where I was wearing a lightweight veil; black hair, blackened background; and streaks of very interesting computer colors in some feathers.' Source: buffysainte-marie.com
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Singer, Activist, Digital Artist: Another Side of Buffy Sainte-Marie

By David P. Ball
The Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business has issued a report showing that many indigenous economic challenges can be met from within, but others are stymied from without. Archaic laws established during the colonial era are a major barrier.
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New Business Report: Indigenous Entrepreneurs in Canada Optimistic But Barriers Remain

By David P. Ball
'I don't think about calendars, deadlines or styles,' says Sainte-Marie. 'I just play and sing whatever I dream up.'
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Up Where She Belongs: Buffy Sainte-Marie Making First Album in 6 Years

By David P. Ball
The selfie heard round the world: Ellen DeGeneres's star-studded selfie at the Academy Awards netted a $1.5 million donation for the Humane Society of the United States, which opposes the seal hunt. Inuit have struck back with a Twitter storm of "sealfies" showing members of the indigenous group sporting sealskin duds.
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Inuit Flood Twitter With 'Sealfies' After Ellen DeGeneres Selfie Funds Hunt Haters

By David P. Ball
Pictured outside Taseko Mines Ltd. 2012 annual meeting, from left, Tsilhqot’in National Government Chief Joe Alphonse, Xeni Gwet'in chief Marilyn Baptiste, Union of BC Indian Chiefs vice-president Bob Chamberlin and president Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, and Council of Canadians chair Maude Barlow.
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Taseko Sues Canada Over Third Rejection of Environmentally Devastating Mine Proposal

By David P. Ball
'If you really want to see something historic in your life, go to Fort McMurray and just bear witness to what they're doing,' says legendary musician-activist Sainte-Marie.
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Buffy Sainte-Marie on Tar Sands: 'You've Got to Take This Seriously'

By David P. Ball
The Baker Twins, a.k.a. Canadian models Shannon and Shauna Baker, take the Winter Challenge to the Red Carpet.
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7 Indigenous Artists, Activists and Allies Who Took the Icy Winter Challenge Plunge

By David P. Ball
Women on the frontlines in Elsipogtog First Nation territory, protesting fracking in 2013.
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Women Warriors: 9 More Standout Indigenous Female Leaders in Canada

By David P. Ball
Mi'kmaq women face off against police in October 2013 while protesting fracking on the territory of Elsipogtog First Nation.
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Women Warriors: 5 Standout Indigenous Female Leaders in Canada

By David P. Ball
A Tribe Called Red, from left: DJ NDN, DJ Shub, and Bear Witness.
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Juno-Nominated A Tribe Called Red on Redskins, the Road and Angel Haze

By David P. Ball
Eleventh-grade student Stephen Bunn tells the Aboriginal People's Television Network about being threatened with suspension for smelling like smudge.
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Sage-Burning Student Who Was Smoked Out of Classes May File Human Rights Complaint

By David P. Ball
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has consistently refused to convene a national inquiry into the high incidence of unsolved murders and disappearances of indigenous women.
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10 Unheeded Calls for a Canadian Inquiry Into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

By David P. Ball
Singer Neil Young speaks during a news conference for the "Honor the Treaties" tour, a series benefit concerts being held to raise money for legal fight against the expansion of the Athabasca oilsands in northern Alberta and other similar projects, in Toronto, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2014.
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Neil Young: Blood of First Nations People Is on Canada's Hands

By David P. Ball
Musqueam nation blockade spokesperson Cecilia Point (left) with her sister Mary Point, launched the protest in March 2012.
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Bittersweet Victory: Musqueam Save Site From Condo Developers By Buying It

By David P. Ball
The children who were taken from their families during the Sixties Scoop are known as a hidden generation among those fighting for justice.
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Lawsuit Proceeds for Canada’s Lost Generation of Stolen Babies

By David P. Ball
Hundreds of paddlers took to Vancouver's False Creek the day before residential school hearings opened.
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Reconciliation Week Brings Out 70,000 Marchers, Honors Residential School Survivors in Canada

By David P. Ball
Anti-fracking protesters in New Brunswick in early June.
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Fracking Troubles Atlantic First Nations After Two Dozen Protesters Arrested

By David P. Ball
Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Minister Bernard Valcourt addresses reporters.
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Financial Transparency Legislation Renews Controversy Over First Nation Chiefs' Salaries

By David P. Ball
Inuit Elder James Learning is dragged by Royal Canadian Mounted Police to one of their vehicles upon his arrest on April 5, 2013, for refusing to stop participating in a blockade to protest the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project on the Lower Churchill River in Labrador, Canada.
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Muskrat Falls Inuit Arrested Battling Churchill River Hydroelectric Project in Labrador

By David P. Ball
Grand Chief Derek Nepinak of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, left, and Assembly of First Nations Regional Chief Bill Traverse, right, walk with hunger striker and Manitoba elder Raymond Robinson as they make their way to a a press conference following a meeting with the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs in Ottawa on Thursday, January 10, 2013.
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First Nations Claim Coercion as Harper Makes Aid Contingent on Legislation Support

By David P. Ball
Red Lake Band of Chippewa members have been camped near  four Enbridge pipelines outside Leonard, Minnesota, since Feb. 28, 2021, to protest what they say are a lack of easements on their property.
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Red Lake Band of Chippewa Determined in Blockade Atop Four Enbridge Pipelines in Minnesota

By David P. Ball
The Highway of Tears, which activists say has been the scene of hundreds of murders and abductions.(© 2012 Samer Muscati/Human Rights Watch)
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Allegations of Police Abuse of Native Women Have Rocked Canada

By David P. Ball
American Indian activist, author and educator Mary Ellen Brave Bird-Richard walked on February 14.
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Mary Brave Bird, Author of Lakota Woman, Walks On

By David P. Ball
Manitoba Métis Federation President David Chartrand and Métis National Council President Clément Chartier speak on March 8, 2013, after Canada's highest court upheld their 146-year-old land claim.
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Manitoba MĂ©tis Win Historic Land Claims Case Against Canada

By David P. Ball
The motion to launch a committee to examine violence against aboriginal women came as hundreds rallied across Canada for missing and murdered women on February 14.
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Canadian Parliament Unanimously Approves Launch of Missing and Murdered Women Committee

By David P. Ball
Carrying red roses for the dead and yellow for the missing, thousands marched through Vancouver's Downtown Eastside to end violence against aboriginal women in Canada.
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Valentine's Day Women's March Gathers Steam With Human Rights Watch Report and Idle No More

By David P. Ball
A flash mob in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Idle No More Enters a New Phase, Seeks Next Steps

By David P. Ball
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Aboriginal Housing Crisis in Canada Threatens to Explode

By David P. Ball
Idle No More Grand Entry hoop dance in Turtle Island's largest mall, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on January 13, 2013.
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Idle No More Conducts Pow Wow Grand Entry in Continent's Largest Mall

By David P. Ball
Indigenous protesters drummed and sang outside the Enbridge Northern Gateway hearings, which faced more than 1,000 protesters when it began hearings in Vancouver, British Columbia, on January 14, 2013.
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Enbridge Faces Rising Opposition to Northern Gateway Pipeline With Protests, Arrests

By David P. Ball
Cree youth journey 900 miles by snowshoe from Hudson Bay to Ottawa in support of Idle No More.
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Idle No More Youth 'Show Strength of Cree Culture' in 900-Mile Frozen Trek to Ottawa

By David P. Ball
Idle No More protesters outside the January 11 meeting between the Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo, 19 other chiefs and Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
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Cross-Canada Indigenous Blockades Highlight Idle No More Tactics' Tensions

By David P. Ball
Idle No More participants in Vancouver, B.C. rally outside downtown's Canada Place, as local organizers prepare for another event at the U.S. border on January 5.
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Idle No More Ceremony Planned for US-Canada Border January 5

By David P. Ball
Mishkomekinaak Ikwe (left) and Mille Lacs elder Irene Benjamin set off for Washington D.C. on December 28 to pressure a meeting between Prime Minister Stephen Harper and hunger striking chief Theresa Spence in Canada.
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Idle No More Support: Ojibwe Woman Embarks on 1,400-mile Journey to D.C.

By David P. Ball
Kinnie Star portrait by Hannah C Productions. Source: kinniestarr.ca
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Kinnie Starr Declares Sovereignty on New Album 'Kiss It'

By David P. Ball
Former Canadian Senator Patrick Brazeau listens to Lorelei Williams, founder of missing women families' dance troupe Butterflies in Spirit, about her personal experiences of violence and racism.
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Controversial Conservative Senator Patrick Brazeau Calls for National Inquiry on Missing Women, Writes Support Song

By David P. Ball
A Dakota group drums in honour of Chief Theresa Spence's hunger strike, as 600 people attending an Idle No More rally in Vancouver, B.C. pray for her health. (Photo: David P. Ball)
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Chief Theresa Spence Resolute in Hunger Strike, as Her Body Weakens

By David P. Ball
Jerilyn Webster, aka Nuxalk and Six Nations rapper JB the First Lady, speaks at IdleNoMore Vancouver. (Photo: David P. Ball)
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Idle No More Sweeps Canada and Beyond as Aboriginals Say Enough Is Enough

By David P. Ball
Wally Oppal, head of the British Columbia Missing Women Commission of Inquiry, released his critical report on the missing women inquiry on December 17, 2012. Photo by David P. Ball
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Missing Women Inquiry Rules That Racism and Bias Caused 'Critical Police Failures'

By David P. Ball
More than 1,500 rallied in Edmonton, Alberta, alone, according to CTV News. (Photo: CTV News)
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Idle No More Rallies Sprout Across Canada, Invigorating Grassroots

By David P. Ball
Canada's oil sands -- which as a whole are one of the largest industrial projects on the planet -- have generated heated public debate over their environmental impacts, including this fall's She Speaks: Indigenous Women Speak Out Against the Tar Sands tour, pictured here. (Photo: David P. Ball)
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Alberta Judge Throws Out Court Challenge Against Shell's Jackpine Oil Sands Plan

By David P. Ball
Members of the anti-logging blockade at Grassy Narrows First Nation quietly marked its 10th anniversary on December 2, commemorating a decade of fighting to keep logging corporations and the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources off their traditional territories. (Photo: David P. Ball)
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Grassy Narrows Anti-Logging Blockade Marks Ten-Year Anniversary

By David P. Ball
West Coast LEAF executive director Kasari Govender (center) launches a report on failings of the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry, alongside co-authors Darcie Bennett (left), campaigns director for Pivot Legal Society, and Lindsay Lyster (right), BC Civil Liberties Association president. (Photo: David P. Ball)
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Missing Women Inquiry Independence Questioned by Legal Advocates

By David P. Ball
Wet'suwet'en blockade photo courtesy of UNISTOTENCAMP
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U.S. and Canada-Wide Protests Target Pacific Trails' Proposed Fracking Pipeline

By David P. Ball