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In Kashmir, everyday people are heavily controlled by settler-colonial laws. A woman holds her child as she inspects her house damaged by artillery shelling from Pakistan in the border village of Gingal, north of Srinagar in Indian-controlled Kashmir, on May 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Borders and orders: How settler‑government occupations violate Kashmiri sovereignty

Missing from the coverage of Kashmir is the story of Kashmiris as Indigenous Peoples. Their territory has been under multiple occupations since 1947 and they face intensive repression.
Chief Roger William of the Tsilhqot'in First Nation stands next to a mockup of a highway sign with English and the Indigenous names of towns in British Columbia in 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

How AI could help safeguard Indigenous languages

Many of the world’s languages are at risk of extinction. However, researchers are developing AI tools they hope can safeguard languages for future generations.
Blueberry Grunt performs at the Elbows up rally at Alderney Landing in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia on April 6, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Riley Smith

Rising Canadian patriotism is a chance to rethink who gets to belong here

Canadian patriotism has risen since Trump threatened to annex the country. However, the rhetoric and symbols of Canadian nationalism may be leaving out modern understandings of the country.
Pintupi Elder Mantua Nangala James burning spinifex. Dannica Shultz

Fire revival: how Australia’s desert people use ancient wisdom to protect the endangered bilby

A return to traditional Indigenous burning practices in the Gibson and Great Sandy deserts is helping protect the ninu, or greater bilby.
A totem pole is seen in front of the ceremonial entrance of the British Columbia legislature in Victoria, B.C., on March 7, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito

Trump’s tariffs threaten Indigenous businesses in Canada — the government must take action

Indigenous people and communities are up against unequal and harmful effects that are not only economic, but also social and cultural.
The Mohawk Institute Residential School in Brantford, Ont., in 1917. The former residential school and nearby Hamilton Mountain Sanitorium are subjects of a research project aiming to bring together two Indigenous communities. (Library and Archives Canada)

How one research project is ‘re‑neighbouring’ two Indigenous communities

Scholars are working to piece together information about Indigenous children who attended a residential school in Brantford and Inuit patients taken to a sanatorium in Hamilton, Ontario.
An Inuit girl is carried by her mother at a grocery store in Baker Lake, Nvt., in March 2009. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

Inuit children in Nunavut face a preventable food security crisis

With funding for a government food voucher program ending and Parliament prorogued, many Inuit children in Nunavut may soon go hungry.
We can learn a lot from beaver dams — according to both Indigenous oral history and NASA researchers. Here a beaver nibbles on a small branch near his dam. Mark Ma/Unsplash

When building Indigenous infrastructure, build relationally, like beavers

When it comes to equitable and sustainable infrastructure, we can learn a lot from beaver dams — according to both traditional Indigenous oral history as well as NASA researchers.
Forest covers more than 90% of French Guiana. AlixMillet/Shutterstock

An agreement ends resistance to a renewable energy plant in French Guiana… but is it energy justice?

An agreement between an indigenous community and an energy company secured the development of a power plant in exchange for community benefits. But the deal does not meet energy justice principles.
Carol Tiger, a member of Muscogee Nation and an elder in Okemah, Okla., lets the oil drip off a freshly-cooked piece of frybread. Although beloved by many, it is a far cry from the pre-colonial foods that nourished Indigenous people for centuries. (AP Photo/Brittany Bendabout)

Frybread: Comfort food or colonial byproduct?

Frybread — a simple, versatile “comfort food” for many Indigenous communities — embodies the contradictions that have dictated Indigenous food and health in North America since colonization.

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