A feature documentary by a Kainai Nation filmmaker is one of four National Film Board of Canada works featured at…Continue Reading

In 1979 a prehistoric human skull was found in the waters of the Oldman River west of the Monarch bridge at Highway 3A. Last month, the skull was laid to rest with a traditional ceremony conducted by First Nations elders. The skull was found on July 22, 1979 by a Monarch resident, who was swimming…Continue Reading

An eagle feather blessing on Thursday prepared six F.P. Walshe school graduating students for the next chapter in their lives.…Continue Reading

Blood Tribe Chief Roy Fox is leading his people by example during the COVID-19 pandemic. Fox received his first dose of vaccine Friday during a clinic at the Blood Tribe Department of Health. “I think it’s important that everyone takes responsibility not only for themselves but for all of us,” Fox said in a news…Continue Reading

A pair of southern Alberta Indigenous artists are featured in a travelling exhibit at the Fort Macleod Library. The work of photographers Star Crop Eared Wolf and Marjie Crop Eared Wolf make up the exhibit Aakii isskska’takssin (Woman — thought). The exhibit is on loan from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program.…Continue Reading

A Piikani Nation man is one of four people being honoured by Lethbridge College. Doane Crow Shoe joins Brian Wichers,…Continue Reading

In reaffirming its commitment to making Indigenous education a priority, Lethbridge College launched its newly-developed institutional Niitsitapi strategy. The strategy…Continue Reading

Mootookakio’ssin, at its simplest description, is a project to create detailed images of historical Blackfoot objects housed in British museums. At its most complex, it is creating a virtual home for Indigenous objects, a place to reactivate the Blackfoot relations within them and transfer that knowledge all the way from Britain back to their peoples…Continue Reading

Parks Canada welcomed six plains bison from Elk Island National Park to the Waterton Lakes National Park bison paddock on Feb. 19. Blackfoot Confederacy elders from Kainai Nation, Piikani Nation and Siksika Nation welcomed the bison — known as Iinnii in Blackfoot —  back to the park, blessing the animals and the land in a…Continue Reading