Latest from Samantha Schwientek
Skilled trades program for Indigenous workers gets $5M as industry faces retirements 'in droves'
The federal government announced Wednesday that it is giving $5 million in funding over five years to an Alberta-based non-profit that helps train Indigenous people for jobs in the skilled trades.
How Indigenous northerners are using traditional harvesting to fight food insecurity
Northern food sovereignty advocates say food insecurity in the region is not caused by a lack of food, but by systemic problems like over-reliance on imported foods.
Edmonton Police hope new billboard generates tips in 3-year disappearance of Indigenous woman
A billboard asking for information about Jeannine Ermineskin’s disappearance will be up for the next two months at the intersection of 107 Ave. and 101 St. Police described her as five feet eight inches tall and 138 pounds, with dyed blonde hair.
Hockey Night in Canada scores an itiqtitsijut with broadcasts in Inuktitut
APTN will air three NHL games in Cree on Jan. 18, Feb. 8 and Feb 22 and three more NHL games in Inuktitut on March 8, March 22 and April 12.
New book documents harms — and resistance — at Northern residential schools
A new book, By Strength, We Are Still Here: Indigenous Peoples and Indian Residential Schooling in Inuvik by Crystal Gail Fraser, documents the harms done by Northern residential schools while also highlighting the ways children resisted.
A teepee at this school was vandalized the day after it was set up. Now they're ready for a new one
Just one day after Elsie Yanik Catholic School in Fort McMurray put up a teepee, RCMP say two suspects wearing masks damaged it beyond repair. Within days, the school's Indigenous liaison started plans for a new one.
'Gory' gingerbread buffalo jump celebrates Plains hunting culture
Mariah Gladstone, a Blackfeet and Cherokee baker from Montana, recently spent about 11 hours creating a buffalo jump scene featuring a massive gingerbread cliff, teepees and butchered buffalo 'meat.'
Youth artists take centre stage at Edmonton's A Very Indigenous Holiday Market
An Indigenous art collective is helping youth connect with their cultures and develop as artists and entrepreneurs through its holiday market in Edmonton.
Some missing residential school students disappeared into arranged marriages, report says
Records show arranged marriages between residential school students as early as the 1890s, while the Truth and Reconciliation Commission collected testimony from survivors who said they faced forced marriage as late as the 1950s.
Indigenous youth skeptical of government's commitment to reconciliation, says survey
More than 1,100 Indigenous youth shared their thoughts on reconciliation, community and their own futures in a report released Wednesday by Indigenous Youth Roots (IYR).