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For decades, The Beaver depicted Indigenous societies as primitive peoples in need of ‘civilization.’ In actuality, the magazine’s images reveal vibrant cultures, resilient communities, and crucial new perspectives on the North.

Reflecting on 12,000 years of history.

From flimsy skin boats, to graceful canoes, to powerful steamboats, vessels of one kind or another have carried people over the waterways of Canada's West.

This project has worked to identify people in residential school photographs and put the images back into the hands of the Indigenous communities represented in the pictures.

Exhibition at the Bata Shoe Museum explores history of Indigenous Arctic footwear.

Book Review: Separate Beds is a wide-ranging study of Indian hospitals in Canada. The thoroughly researched book traces the history of hospital staffing and operations, the experiences of patients, the development of national policies regarding Aboriginal health care, and efforts by Aboriginal communities to resist oppression and discrimination.

Katherine McIntyre discovers the rich Indigenous heritage of coastal British Columbia.

A journey to Cree land near Moose Factory reveals nature's delights. 

A chance discovery on an internet auction led to the discovery of a substantial body of work by Canadian painter Francis Fitz Roy Dixon.

Archaeologists have been looking for traces of three storied eighteenth century shipwrecks in the Gwaii Haanas region of British Columbia.