Cultural Competency

THE FIRST NATIONS TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL WANTS TO DESIGN CUSTOM AI (artificial intelligence) resources that prioritize digital sovereignty and support Nation-building.

CREE, PLAINS CREE, DENÉ, ANISHINAABEMOWIN, BLACKFOOT, OJIBWE, OJI-CREE, AND INNU summaries of selected Federal Court decisions between 2019 and 2024 are available in both PDF and audio formats on the website of the Federal Court.

I’VE BEEN APPROACHED IN THE COURTROOM and asked whether I was the Native Courtworker. I replied, “No. I’m a Native lawyer. Can I help you?” (“Story of an Indigenous Woman Lawyer” as read by barbara findlay in But I Was Wearing a Suit (2018) at 10:16)

ON WORLD TB DAY, MONDAY, MARCH 24, 2025, WE REMEMBER there are people in First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities who still develop the world’s deadliest infectious disease—tuberculosis (TB) disease—and many more that who carry the TB infection, even while Canada has some of the lowest rates of TB in the world.

A KEYWORD SEARCH FOR “INDIGENOUS WOMEN” AND “INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY” brings a lot of good reading to your browser. Here’s just a handful of organizations with messages, activities, images, words, resources, and offers to celebrate and honour Indigenous women and gender-diverse people on IWD March 8, 2025.

LU’MA NATIVE HOUSING SOCIETY AND SWAHILI VISION INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION operate a 96-unit residential building in New Westminster to provide safe, affordable housing for Indigenous and Black Elders and families.

PROCLAIMING OUR ROOTS is a project “aimed at honoring the histories, realities, stories and experiences of people who are of  African diasporic and Indigenous ancestry, and who reside on Turtle Island.”

THE BLACK AND INDIGENOUS SOLIDARITY PROGRAM (BIS) of Indigenous Youth Roots (IYR), a national, Indigenous, youth-led organization, will take place in Toronto from the last week of March to the first week of May 2025.

McNally Robinson Booksellers in Winnipeg will be hosting the launch for the second edition of Elements of Indigenous Style. The event will also be streamed on McNally Robinson’s YouTube channel.

ANISHINAABE AND DAKOTA TRADITIONAL TEACHINGS ABOUT HEALTHY LIVING adorn the sides of buses in Brandon, Dauphin, Portage la Prairie, Selkirk, and Winnipeg as part of the Southern Chiefs’ Organization Inc.’s multi-media “Healthy Living Campaign”.