The Heiltsuk people of Canada have opened their first ceremonial longhouse in over 100 years.
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The statement comes ahead of the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook's landing in New Zealand.
Read moreRobin Levinson-King
BBC News, Toronto
More than 3,000 indigenous children are believed to have died in Canadian state-run schools.
Read moreJoshua Cheetham
BBC News
Controversy over a ship in New Zealand shows how tensions remain over national identity.
Read moreA Native American movement is encouraging indigenous people to reconnect with their ancestral practices.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responds to an inquiry that found Canada to be complicit in a "race-based genocide" against indigenous women.
Canada is complicit in a "race-based genocide" against indigenous women, a government inquiry finds.
Read moreJessica Murphy
BBC News, Toronto
Beverley Jacobs and Terri Brown fought tirelessly on behalf of missing and murdered indigenous women.
Read moreLeaked national report describes possibly thousands of deaths of indigenous women as genocide.
Read moreChief Poundmaker is now remembered as a peacemaker who prevented violence during a time of unrest.
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