An attack on Galdino Pataxó exposes violence against Indigenous people

Governor General Roméo LeBlanc issued the proclamation designating 21 June each year as National Aboriginal Day. It recognized First Nations, Inuit and Métis cultures and contributions. The measure...

Undocumented migrants occupied Saint-Bernard church in Paris as part of a struggle for regularization and rights. The occupation made people usually discussed as an administrative problem visible as...

Police entered Saint-Bernard church in Paris and removed the undocumented migrants occupying it. Images of the operation made the conflict over regularization widely visible. The eviction did not...

The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples released its five-volume final report. It proposed a renewed relationship and recognition of Indigenous governments as an order of government within...

The High Court ruled that the pastoral leases at issue did not necessarily extinguish native title. Indigenous and pastoral rights could coexist, with lease rights prevailing where inconsistent. The...

The Bringing Them Home report was tabled in federal Parliament. Drawing on testimony about the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, it made the...

The Supreme Court of Canada clarified Aboriginal title and held that courts must adapt evidentiary rules to take Indigenous oral histories seriously. It ordered a new trial rather than awarding the...

Armed attackers killed 45 Indigenous people in Acteal, Chiapas. The massacre became a focus of demands for justice and scrutiny of state responsibility. Amnesty International later criticized the...

Minister Jane Stewart unveiled Gathering Strength and a Statement of Reconciliation in response to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. The government acknowledged damaging past policies and...

The first National Sorry Day brought public attention to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people separated from their families. Community remembrance followed the Bringing Them Home inquiry and...