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Notre-Dame-du-Cap Basilica, a Canadian shrine administered by the Oblates. The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) is a missionary religious congregation in the Catholic Church. As part of their mission to evangelize the "abandoned poor", [1] the Oblates are known for their mission among the Indigenous peoples of Canada, and their ...
Native Americans in the United States, Greenlandic Inuit, Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Indigenous peoples in Canada also known as Aboriginals) [ 2 ] are the Indigenous peoples within the boundaries of Canada. They comprise the First Nations, [ 3 ] Inuit, [ 4 ] and Métis, [ 5 ] representing roughly 5.0% of the total Canadian population.
On June 29, 2007, Canadian Aboriginal groups held countrywide protests aimed at ending First Nations poverty, dubbed the Aboriginal Day of Action. The demonstrations were largely peaceful, although groups disrupted transportation with blockades or bonfires; a stretch of the Highway 401 was shut down, as was the Canadian National Railway 's line ...
Study period at a Roman Catholic Indian Residential School in Fort Resolution, NWT. The Canadian Indian residential school system[ nb 1 ] was a network of boarding schools for Indigenous peoples. [ nb 2 ] The network was funded by the Canadian government 's Department of Indian Affairs and administered by various Christian churches.
Mohawk people. The Mohawk, also known by their own name, Kanien'kehà:ka ( {lit|"People of the flint"}} [2]), are an Indigenous people of North America and the easternmost nation of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy. Mohawk are an Iroquoian -speaking people with communities in southeastern Canada and northern New York State, primarily ...
Peter Jones (missionary) Peter Jones (January 1, 1802 – June 29, 1856) was an Ojibwe Methodist minister, translator, chief and author from Burlington Heights, Upper Canada. His Ojibwa name was Kahkewāquonāby (Gakiiwegwanebi in the Fiero spelling), which means " [Sacred] Waving Feathers". In Mohawk, he was called Desagondensta, meaning "he ...
Norval Morrisseau CM RCA (March 14, 1932 – December 4, 2007), [1] also known as Copper Thunderbird, was an Indigenous Canadian artist from the Bingwi Neyaashi Anishinaabek First Nation. He is widely regarded as the grandfather of contemporary Indigenous art in Canada. [2] Known as the " Picasso of the North," Morrisseau created works ...
Creator of the Canadian Aboriginal syllabics system for the Ojibwe language and the Cree Language and later adopted by Inuktitut. James Evans (January 18, 1801 – November 23, 1846) was an English-Canadian Wesleyan Methodist missionary and amateur linguist. He is known for creating the syllabic writing system for Ojibwe and Cree, which was ...