Lenard Monkman

Pimicikimak Cree Nation has been sending COVID positive patients to Winnipeg. The new units will allow citizens to remain in the community.

A group of mothers from a First Nation in northern Manitoba are calling for leniency after they were fined $5,000 each for leaving their community for essentials during a community-imposed lockdown.

With the July deadline to apply for the Indian day schools settlement approaching, one survivor is warning others to take the time and support they need when filing the application.

Two First Nations chiefs in Alberta say the province is removing pandemic restrictions too early, as they worry about the health and safety of their members.

Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak launched a project on Feb. 14 asking people to bead hearts and share them on social media to raise awareness for MMIWG2S.

A First Nations couple in Manitoba is calling for changes to the province’s Vital Statistics Act after they were told at the hospital there might be issues registering their daughter’s birth with the traditional spelling of her name.

A First Nations mother in Manitoba whose daughter’s traditional name was changed on the birth certificate supports another couple’s call for changes to the province’s Vital Statistics Act.

COVID-19 has highlighted housing shortages in some northern First Nations in Manitoba just as the federal government announced funding for proposed solutions to the issue.

First Nations communities in northern Manitoba already pay high prices for fuel and groceries, and many are worried about the impact rising costs will have on struggling families.

A quest to deliver thousands of pounds of food to a remote Manitoba First Nation only accessible to vehicles for six weeks of the year via an ice road has culminated in a new partnership to improve food security.

First Nations in Manitoba say they will continue to keep mask mandates and other pandemic-related restrictions as they continue to monitor the ongoing COVID-19 situation.

A First Nation in southern Manitoba is weighing its options about what to do with hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of potato chip equipment it owns, which is sitting in a factory collecting dust.

Esther Moore, 70, wrote a 10-page letter detailing her experiences at the Brandon Indian Residential School in Manitoba. She hopes her letter can be delivered to Pope Francis by her granddaughter, who is in Rome documenting the trip by Indigenous groups.

The Senate must amplify the recommendations of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls by drafting legislation based on the findings of the three-year inquest, a commissioner with inquiry told a Senate committee Monday.

A tikinagan baby carrier that belonged to an Anishinaabe family in Manitoba was returned more than 50 years after it was purchased by a museum curator for $30.

First Nations in southern Manitoba say they have detailed emergency preparedness plans. This stems from experience with power outages from previous winter storms.

Educators from St. Theresa Point First Nation honoured a longtime community ally this week with gifts for Strini Reddy.

Ray St. Germain, the co-host of NCI’s popular call-in show Métis Hour x2 for over 20 years, is getting ready to retire soon.

First Nations leaders in southern Ontario say the media has to do better at reconciliation after a newspaper ran an offensive cartoon that employed negative stereotypes of Indigenous people.

Three teens from Winnipeg, Manitoba, who will be marching on Valentine’s Day to raise awareness about MMIWG2S share their reasons why.