Auditor General Sheila Fraser, an Officer of Parliament, audits federal government departments, agencies and most Crown corporations and makes regular reports to the House of Commons.

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The fight for fishing rights in B.C. waters is at its most ferocious when the salmon are scarce.

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According to Guujaaw, president of the Haida Nation, focusing on the individual is not the Haida way. Hereditary chiefs, elders and citizens of the Haida Nation direct the work of this well-known leader, as well as the work of countless others.

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First Nations in Canada are exercising aboriginal and treaty rights more and more.

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A First Nations leader says he's concerned federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea doesn't grasp the crisis situation facing Fraser River sockeye salmon. Grand Chief Doug Kelly, who co-chairs the First Nations Fisheries Council, attended a meeting Friday with Shea and the disappear …

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It was with great concern that I read an article in our paper dealing with sport fishing for salmon on the Fraser River. In the article Grand Chief Stewart Phillip makes a statement on the plight of Fraser River Salmon stocks. He would like to see all sport fishing stopped.

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Massive oil sands exploitation in Alberta is making Canada "one of the biggest climate criminals in the world" - it is having a deadly impact on Indigenous People and also threatens the biosphere and Humanity.

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As major supplier of oil to USA, Canada's tar sands kill the environment, locals, and pollute the world's atmosphere. Canada can never control its emissions with this giant carbon smokestack to the sky... now increasing 5x

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For a sore throat, the roots of a type of plant that grows in the water. For a fever, the gum and needles of a spruce tree, boiled together and swallowed first thing in the morning.

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It's a good day for a celebration. Sunshine sparkles on the water of the Sooke Basin, the sky is clear and a fresh wind makes the heat bearable. Outside the T'Sou-ke Nation band hall, tables are set up for a BBQ salmon lunch.

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An aboriginal leader from British Columbia became the new national voice for First Nations people on Thursday after a marathon election with eight rounds of voting. Shawn Atleo, 42, was sworn in as the grand chief of the Assembly of First Nations as native chanting wafted in the …

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Premier Gordon Campbell says he is forging ahead with efforts to achieve reconciliation with aboriginal communities despite escalating demands from top native leaders that threaten to undo four years of often-intense negotiations toward a "new relationship." Grand Chief Stew …

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Amid the drumbeat of litigation that surrounds Columbia River salmon and the ever-present debate over dam-breaching, it's easy to miss one remarkable achievement: We now have a salmon protection strategy that most of the region agrees on. That has never happened before.

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Self-interested leaders "have been a huge thorn in the flesh of many reserves where complaints of corruption, nepotism and unfair elections occupy far too much time."

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The federal government passed a long-awaited treaty with a group of Vancouver Island First Nations on Tuesday. As part of the Maa-nulth treaty, five aboriginal groups will receive $73 million and 24,550 hectares of land over a 10-year period.

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Health care is scarce and resources few on the First Nations reserves, which are dealing with outbreaks of the flu.

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When the run-of-river hydro project on Harrison Lake soon begins generating its first watts of clean electricity, something truly amazing is going to happen for the people of the In-SHUCK-ch First Nation. For the first time, they will able to switch off the noisy, foul-smelling  …

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A punishing drought, which gave the State of Washington a grim warning about what the future might look like with global warming, has led to a U.S. dam proposal that threatens to drown a British Columbia valley.

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In a stunning turnaround, last month Australia announced its support for the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. In doing so, it broke ranks with Canada, New Zealand and the United States -- a grouping that, prior to Australia's defection, was known to indigenous …

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The official spokesperson for the Save Our Rivers Society told Whistlerites last Thursday that independent power producers (IPPs) are "bribing" First Nations. Rafe Mair, a longtime B.C.

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The income gap between aboriginals and other Canadians is so wide it should trump concerns about other ethnic disparities in this country, a Canadian economist says.

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he infant mortality rate for native babies in Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand is up to four times that of non-native newborns, says a groundbreaking new study.

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The Fourth World - March 6th 2009 - - The Intelligent Aboriginal News Service has partnered with other progressive bloggers to form the Aboriginal News Group (ANG), an International association representing Indigenist blog-journalists covering Indigenous/First Nations news.

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A Saskatchewan man's behaviour that led to the freezing deaths of his two young daughters was "wanton and reckless" and deserves a three-year prison term, a judge ruled Friday.

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