PATRICK DODSON was there on the day, 30 years ago, that prime minister Bob Hawke promised aboriginals a treaty that would at last acknowledge their rights. At the time Mr Dodson was the manager of one ...

Letter writers discuss why aboriginals are over-represented in Canada's prisons, and other issues of the day. You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account.

In Australia, when they say "you’ve got Buckley’s chance," it means you have little to no chance. This is ironic, considering that ex-convict William Buckley managed the impossible: Buckley escaped ...

BETWEEN 1910 and 1970 tens of thousands of aboriginal children were taken from their families in a failed assimilation programme that wanted to “breed the colour” out of them. Ten years ago the ...

Melissa Gorelick, an Associate Public Information Officer with the Yearbook Unit of the UN Department of Public Information, has written about global media and human rights. 1 September 2007 With ...

Frances Sanderson sees a lot of hardship walk through the doors of Nishnawbe Homes, a non-profit provider of aboriginal housing across the Greater Toronto Area. Often it’s young people moving to the ...

A recent article reminded me of the natural affinity the Chinese have always had with our Aboriginal population. In a publication called Rice Paper Magazine, Jackie Wong wrote about, “The Mysterious ...

As oil pipeline giant Enbridge Inc. prepared this week to meet with the most militant of the 40 First Nations and Metis in northern British Columbia straddling its proposed Northern Gateway pipeline ...

Historical research reveals that government officials tested tuberculosis vaccines on impoverished aboriginal people during the 1930s instead of fixing poor living conditions that spread the disease.