Indigenous Affairs

Six Nations to build Canada’s first Indigenous-led hospice

The provincial government announced it will be investing $1.25 million towards the construction of Six Nations of the Grand River’s new five-bed hospice during a press conference at White...

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Search for unmarked graves in Brantford cut short

The search for bodies at a residential school in Brantford continues, but some of...

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Province provides funding to Six Nations Polytechnic

The Ontario government is investing $75,000 to help Six Nations Polytechnic achieve accessible and...

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Federal government to support Indigenous-led organizations

Bryan May, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Small Business and to the Minister responsible for...

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Brantford Native Housing creates opportunities for the urban Indigenous community

Brantford Native Housing (BNH) is a non-profit charitable corporation with the main objective to...

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Six Nations calls for more funding for language immersion school

Six Nations of the Grand River is calling for more federal funding to help expedite the construction of an unfinished school that teaches Cayuga...

A look into Indigenous history through music

An ensemble of eleven Indigenous and allied musicians performed at the matinee show of TREATY: A Reconciliation Revelry at the Sanderson Centre for Performing...

Ontario provides funding to First Nations Police

The Ontario government is providing more than $6 million to help First Nations police services better protect their communities. The investment is part of...

Six Nations of the Grand River Housing receives $1.5M in funding

Six Nations of the Grand River’s Housing Department received just over $1.5 million in funding to go towards the construction of a 5-unit townhome...

Feds 6 months late on payments to Mohawk Institute Residential School survivors group

The group responsible for finding unmarked graves at the site of a former Mohawk Institute Residential School in Brantford says the federal government isn’t...

Honouring Our Children at Mohawk Park

The Brantford Region Indigenous Support Centre (BRISC) hosted the Honouring Our Children social to honour victims and their families impacted by residential schools on...

Honouring Our Children Social event will be “a sign of resiliency”

A number of local organizations are coming together to honour the victims of the residential school system in Canada at the Honouring Our Children...

Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs on 18-day tour raising awareness about Coastal GasLink pipeline spanning Northern B.C.

Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs met with Six Nations Indigenous leaders tonight. This meeting starts an 18-day cross-country tour in Haudenosaunee territories to raise awareness about...

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