Environment and Climate Change Canada has approved the Piikani Nation for $30,390 under the Aboriginal Fund for Species at Risk.…Continue Reading

Area residents Dr. Leroy Little Bear, Reg Crowshoe and Harley Bastien were named last week to an environmental panel. The Indigenous Wisdom Advisory Panel will advise Fred Wrona, Alberta’s chief scientist, about how to incorporate Indigenous perspectives and traditional ecological knowledge into environmental monitoring. “Indigenous wisdom is fundamental to measuring, assessing and informing on the…Continue Reading

Renowned as an international scholar, speaker and leader, Dr. Leroy Little Bear is a pioneer in the advancement of Indigenous…Continue Reading

Blackfoot leaders and the Alberta government have created a new protocol for collaboration. The Alberta–Blackfoot Confederacy Protocol Agreement was signed Friday during a ceremony at the McDougall Centre in Calgary. “We live in a time when our relationship with First Nations people is made richer and clearer by monumental documents as the final report of…Continue Reading

Blood Tribe Council has implemented a trespassing by-law to block drug dealers from the community. Effective April 13, Blood Tribe…Continue Reading

The convergence of western methods with indigenous ways of healing has taken on new meaning. The indigenous patient journey now…Continue Reading

Julian Black Antelope for a long time wondered what might happen if an immortal being got bored. Now Black Antelope,…Continue Reading

The end of a successful hunt thousands of years ago was cause for celebration by the Blackfoot people at the base of Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump. As people laboured to process the meat, children laughed and played and the women prepared a feast. For one family 1,600 years ago, dinner was interrupted. Archeologists last week excavated…Continue Reading

On the day when Canada was celebrating First Nations culture, a special Blackfoot ceremony was held in Fort Macleod to…Continue Reading