Like immigrants, aboriginal populations' economic success may be enhanced by the acquisition of skills and traits appropriate to the "majority" culture in which they reside. Using 1991 Canadian Census ...

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 ...

LINDA BURNEY was ten when Australians voted in 1967 to remove the clause in the constitution that excluded Aboriginals from the national census. “The notion that you weren’t worthy of being counted ...

True beach elegance is indestructible. It never dies; it evolves with time. Even when the beaches and pools are full of swimwear that seems meant to be stared at (and lots of them are), you’ll still ...

In Australian media, there is no shortage of coverage of the Aboriginal population. And, according to photographer Amy Toensing, the coverage is not always favorable. "On paper, the truth is there's ...

This week a 32-year-old aboriginal man on parole allegedly went on a stabbing rampage in Saskatchewan that killed 11 people and wounded 17. He died days later in police custody of self-inflicted ...

Aboriginal teenagers play street hockey at dusk outside the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation meeting hall in North Vancouver. One house on the Burrard band reserve sports an inflatable white snowman and a ...

Canadians must acknowledge that for generations their public schools have fed them misinformation about aboriginal people, says the chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Sinclair’s ...

With all the attention paid to the Idle No More movement and the off-again on-again talks between some native chiefs and Prime Minister Stephen Harper, one basic fact about aboriginal life in Canada ...

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 ...