Tag Archives: First Nations
Human remains under West Victoria to be exhumed this week
KAMLOOPS - The remains discovered at the site of reconstruction on West Victoria Street will be exhumed in the coming days. The location where they were found has been cordoned off since last Wednesda...
Dylana Kneeshaw Jul 03, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Jill Sperling
Chief Commissioner for National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls speaks at TRU
KAMLOOPS - The chief commissioner of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls was in Kamloops today. Marion Buller presented the final report of the inquiry to a crowd...
Jun 24, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Chad Klassen
Liberals promise $13M for missing, murdered Indigenous women commemorations
OTTAWA - Gender Equality Minister Maryam Monsef says the federal government will fund more than 100 projects to "honour the lives and legacies" of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Fund...
Jun 24, 2019
McAbee Fossil Beds Heritage Site re-opens to the public
KAMLOOPS - The McAbee Fossil Beds Heritage site opened to the public today. The site is located east of Cache Creek and was once the home of an ancient lake bed. Its hills hold thousands of fossils th...
Jun 21, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Adam Donnelly
Indigenous Peoples Day marked by maiden voyage for Brock student-carved canoe
KAMLOOPS - Over the 2018/2019 school year, students at Brock Middle School have been chipping away at a log - eventually carving out a canoe. The course facilitating the dug-out canoe carving gives st...
Jun 21, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Dylana Milobar
B.C Government announces $2.7M boost for Indigenous education training
MERRITT, B.C. - The B.C. Government has announced its next phase of incorporating Indigenous knowledge into the education system. Speaking in Merritt, B.C.'s advanced education minister laid out her m...
Jun 13, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Former Tk'emlups chief sets sights on First Nations majority share in Trans Mountain pipeline
KAMLOOPS - The former chief of Tk'emlups te Secwepemc is working to gather First Nations support in the bid to own a majority share in the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. Shane Gottfriedson is the ...
Jun 12, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Jill Sperling
Canada's treatment of Indigenous women not a 'genocide': Andrew Scheer
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says "genocide" isn't the right word to describe what's been done to generations of Indigenous women and girls in Canada. Speaking on Parliament Hill, S...
Jun 10, 2019
Chase Secondary students contribute Secwepemc language and culture to province's first Story Trail
CHASE, B.C. - When the former Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park returned to its traditional Secwepemc name, Tstswecw, the BC Parks Foundation wanted to bring language into the park. The foundation e...
Jun 07, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Adam Donnelly
Explained: Why the MMIWG commission invoked 'Canadian genocide'
The national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women was unequivocal in its assessment: "This is genocide." Chief commissioner Marion Buller was greeted by cheers when she spoke these ...
Jun 03, 2019
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