Feb 2 In 2016, NDP candidate Melanie Mark became the first indigenous woman elected to the British Columbia legislature after winning a byelection in the party stronghold of Vancouver-Mount Pleasant In 2022, eighteen months after it dropped a name that was offensive to Indigenous Americans, Washington’s NFL team announced it would now be called the Commanders. Feb 3 In 2021, Louise Bernice Halfe, who has won accolades for weaving Cree language and teachings into her works, was named Canada’s new parliamentary poet laureate. Halfe, who is also known by the Cree name Sky Dancer, is the ninth poet named to the post and the first to come from an Indigenous community. In 2020, four B.C. First Nations lost their court challenge of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. The Federal Court…
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