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Martha Troian

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Toronto Program Helps Female Indigenous Ex-Inmates Heal and Regain Their Pride

By Martha Troian
Leadership of the Lubicon Lake Cree Nation meet in their longhouse to discuss the Penn West court order and their anti-fracking blockade.
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Court Tells Lubicon Lake Cree in Alberta to Stop Blocking Fracking Activities

By Martha Troian
Cherri Low Horn, sexually abused by a woman as a child, tells her story and starts a dialogue on the subject of such abuse.
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Documentary Explores Filmmaker's Own Story of Sexual Abuse at the Hands of a Woman

By Martha Troian
Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt, right, and Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo visit a seventh-grade classroom in October 2013 just before the federal government released a draft of education reform legislation. Valcourt is holding a copy of the Royal Proclamation, which celebrated its 250th anniversary this year.
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First Nations Call Federal Education Act a Bust

By Martha Troian
A flash mob in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, during the height of the protests at the end of 2012.
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One Year Later: From Idle No More to Elsipogtog

By Martha Troian
Currently intermediate-level radioactive waste rests in shallow pits at the Bruce Power nuclear complex near Kincardine, Ontario. Ontario Power Generation, a quasi-public company owned by the provincial government, wants to bury it.
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Saugeen Ojibwe and U.S. Politicians Oppose Nuclear Waste Burial Near Lake Huron

By Martha Troian
Davyn Calfchild at the Toronto Remembrance Day Ceremony.
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Veteran's Pride in Native Flags Leads to Faceoff and Arrest in Toronto

By Martha Troian
This photo of 28-year-old Amanda Polchies kneeling before Royal Canadian Mounted Police while brandishing an eagle feather during anti-fracking protests in New Brunswick has become iconic as a symbol of resistance to destructive industrial development—and of women's role in fighting for the water.
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Mi'kmaq Anti-Fracking Protest Brings Women to the Front Lines to Fight for Water

By Martha Troian
Police cars burn at a Mi'kmaq protest against shale-gas exploration in New Brunswick, Canada
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Police in Riot Gear Tear-Gas and Shoot Mi'kmaq Protesting Gas Exploration in New Brunswick

By Martha Troian
The white spirit moose, killed by hunters, will be given a spiritual sendoff by the Mi'kmaq in a four-day ceremony.
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Grieving Mi'kmaq Begin Four-Day Ceremony for White Moose Gunned Down by Trophy Hunters

By Martha Troian
Children as young as 7 are addicted to sniffing solvents such as gasoline on the remote Natuashish First Nation in Labrador, Canada.
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Innu Leader Ties Churchill Hydropower Project Shutdown to Action on Youth Solvent Addiction

By Martha Troian
Some of the missing indigenous women highlighted on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's Facebook page.
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RCMP Uses Social Media to Bring Missing Aboriginal Women Home

By Martha Troian
This white moose, considered a spiritual being among the Mi'kmaq, was gunned down by hunters in Nova Scotia on October 3. Millbrook First Nation member Brandon Maloney, happening upon the hunters as they were driving away with their prize, snapped this photo to bear witness.
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Hunters Slaughter Sacred White Moose; Mi’kmaq Outraged, Mourning

By Martha Troian
Protesters against fracking in Kent County, New Brunswick, Canada, slept on the ground overnight on September 30 to try and stop SWN Resources Canada from conducting seismic testing for potential fracking.
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First Nation Moves to Evict Fracking Co. From Lands Held in Trust

By Martha Troian
Phyllis Webstad, Stswecem’c Xgat’tem First Nation, British Columbia, today wears the color orange to pay tribute to residential school survivors—and acknowledge their pain, trauma and loss—all across Canada and the U.S.
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Turtle Island Marks Orange Shirt Day on September 30 to Honor Residential School Survivors

By Martha Troian
Mass posters of the faces are not enough. Families of missing and murdered aboriginal women are putting together their own database.
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Taking Control: Indigenous in Canada Compile Own Database on Missing and Murdered Women

By Martha Troian
The Big Chief food truck in Hamilton, Ontario (Big Chief Fresh Food Company Facebook)
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Bison Sliders & Boar BLTs! Native Blows Up the Traditional Food Truck

By Martha Troian
One of the hundreds of residential schools that dotted the landscape of Canada and tore apart indigenous families.
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A Mixed Blessing, Part 5: Sharing Stories, and Coming Full Circle After Residential School

By Martha Troian
Gloria Ranger and her mother, a residential school survivor in Canada.
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A Mixed Blessing, Part 4: After Residential School, a Broken Home, and Struggling to Fit In

By Martha Troian
Gloria Ranger, Ojibwe, and her mother, a residential schools survivor in Canada.
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A Mixed Blessing, Part 3: Deafness and Alcoholism, the Aftereffects of Residential School

By Martha Troian
Ben Powless with his mother, whose own mother was also a residential schools survivor.
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A Mixed Blessing, Part 2: 'Killing the Indian in the Child'

By Martha Troian
Young Ben Powless spent childhood weekends at the Six Nations of the Grand River reserve with his father after his parents divorced.
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A Mixed Blessing, Part 1: Stories by Intergenerational Residential School Survivors

By Martha Troian
Marie-Cecile Nottaway
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Marie-Cecile Nottaway Is the Algonquin Martha Stewart

By Martha Troian
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CBC’s ’8th Fire’ Ignites Twittersphere With Praise; Episode 2 Airs January 19

By Martha Troian
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Filmmaker Melissa Santoro Greyeyes-Brant Talks About 'Kinamagawin: Aboriginal Issues in the Classroom'

By Martha Troian
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Covering the Crisis: Can Mainstream Media Attention Help Attawapiskat Long-Term?

By Martha Troian
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New Graduate Journalism Course Gets Student Reporters into Aboriginal Communities

By Martha Troian
Alberta Billy, whose request to the United Church of Canada sparked official apologies to aboriginal peoples from denominations nationwide for their role in the residential schools system.
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25 Years Later: The United Church of Canada’s Apology to Aboriginal Peoples

By Martha Troian
Mural at the Clinica Santa Maria Echo Park, at 1571 West Sunset Boulevard
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Protecting Identity and Art: 17 Years of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples

By Martha Troian