In Canada's British Columbia, the mountainous West Kootenay region forms a rare inland temperate rainforest, where the Sinixt ...

A First Nation declared extinct by the federal government 60 years ago has won a court battle to have its existence recognized. A provincial court judge in Nelson, B.C., acquitted a Sinixt man from ...

This past summer, Rick Desautel stopped alongside a road near Vallican, British Columbia, and gave a prayer to all the members of his tribe who had fought for decades for the Canadian government to ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Shed antlers are judged by Neil Johnson, left, Corey Peone, center, and Jarred Erickson, right, a Tribal Councilman in the Nespelum district, during celebration of tribal member Rick Desautel's ...

The Sinixt case was scheduled to begin at the Supreme Court of Canada in April, 2020, but was postponed because of COVID-19. The Sinixt are interior Salish people, one of the first nations that lived ...

Richard Desautel went to the Supreme Court of Canada with the goal of proving the Sinixt First Nation's existence in Canada. (Submitted by Mark Underhill - image credit) "We're not going back to the ...

Canada's highest court has upended the federal government's 65-year-old claim that an Indigenous nation from British Columbia's Interior no longer exists. In a 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court of ...

The Sinixt people have been living off the land in British Columbia’s West Kootenay region for thousands of years. The First Nation was here when Jacques Cartier explored the St. Lawrence region in ...

1:53 First Nation ‘disappointed’ by U.S. tribes’ lawsuit A B.C. First Nation is reacting angrily to lawsuits filed by a U.S. Indigenous group against the B.C. government. On Wednesday, the Sinixt ...

Dec. 31—This past summer, Rick Desautel stopped alongside a road near Vallican, British Columbia, and gave a prayer to all the members of his tribe who had fought for decades for the Canadian ...