/newsroom/taxonomy/term/10198/all en /newsroom/channels/news/cree-speaking-alexa-bot-345535 <p>Indigenous communities across the globe are fighting to retain their languages, which serve as means through which cultures, knowledge and traditions are preserved and transmitted between generations.</p> Tue, 24 Jan 2023 17:11:41 +0000 claire.loewen@mcgill.ca 288656 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/mcgill-receives-its-largest-gift-indigenous-education-297808 <p>The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a US$1.25-million grant to ƻ����Ժ, in support of a new Indigenous Studies and Community Engagement Initiative. The Initiative will be implemented over the next five years.</p> Fri, 14 Jun 2019 19:04:20 +0000 jessica.goodsell@mcgill.ca 169062 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/policy-options-real-justice-denied-boushie-285182 <p>The public conversation overlooks how the entirety of Colten’s life, as an Indigenous person, was lived without justice.<br /> By Veldon Coburn, a PhD candidate at Queen’s University’s political science department, studying Indigenous identity, policy and politics, and teaches Indigenous issues at ƻ����Ժ. <br /> <a href="http://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/february-2018/the-real-justice-denied-to-colten-boushie/">Policy Options</a></p> Mon, 19 Feb 2018 18:14:30 +0000 nathan.menezes@mail.mcgill.ca 32978 at /newsroom /newsroom/article/around-campus/mcgill-lecturer-open-his-class-public-talk-justice-and-race-saskatchewan <p><span>The </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Colten_Boushie">death of Colten Boushie in Saskatchewan and Gerald Stanley acquittal</a><span> sparked a national discussion on the Canadian justice system and anti-indigenous racism in Canada.</span></p> Wed, 14 Feb 2018 19:15:01 +0000 Newsroom 32958 at /newsroom