The Tthetsënɂotı̨́né of Rocher River, Northwest Territories are still fighting to reclaim their culture and identity after being forcibly removed from their traditional homeland.

Now, more than 60 years later, they are looking for answers and an apology from the Canadian government.

A small group of Dene say Canada forcibly removed them from their traditional homeland in the N.W.T. in the 1960s.

Since then, the Tthetsënɂotı̨́né have fought to hold on to their culture.

APTN Investigates explores this chapter in the history in “Refugees in our Land.”

APTN Investigates visited a community with infrastructure and governance problems but almost 5000 kms away Membertou’s chief, Terry Paul, says his community’s success is about having transparent policies and sticking with them.

Also, a look at a Ktunaxa man who has started an organization to help band members who can’t find accountability.

First Nation citizens across Canada have nowhere to turn with their concerns about their on-reserve government. APTN Investigates speaks to a member of one of these communities whose concerns are echoed.

We found corruption and mismanagement aren’t as widespread as stereotypes suggest, but when it does happen, does the Indian Act system allow it? In fact, many experts say the Indian Act is the problem.

Nadine Moostoos is speaking out for the first time since she joined a U.S. class action as “Jane Doe #44.”

The former foster child says her healing is in limbo while she waits for Winnipeg Police to investigate her allegations against former fashion mogul Peter Nygard.

Winnipeg fashion magnate Peter Nygard is wanted for alleged sex crimes in the US after the FBI charged him last year.

Now, his alleged victims who are Indigenous have come forward to tell their stories and question why Canadian authorities are failing to investigate their cases.

Human trafficking is making headlines in Nova Scotia, with high rates in the province relative to the rest of Canada.

APTN’s Trina Roache looks at why and what makes Indigenous women vulnerable in APTN Investigates: Exploited

Among curators and other museum professionals, “decolonization” is a buzz word everywhere these days.

APTN Investigates visits the Royal British Columbia Museum where the decolonization conversation is at the boiling point, prompting staff departures and an internal investigation.

It’s no secret that museum collections have benefitted from the colonization of countries occupied by imperial powers such as Britain and France.

But in recent years, spurred in part by the 2007 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, there is a global push to decolonize museums.

What does five decades of pushback get you? Millions spent on modern treaties. Decades spent in court. Arrest and incarceration for standing up. Indigenous people know it’s the good fight for current and future generations.

But there’s a cost when you’re looking to down the barrel to defend your homeland and assert your identity. And it appears to be a battle with no end in site.

The RCMP raid on Wet’suwet’en territory last year painted a troubling picture of the state of the relationship between Indigenous people and Canada.

Colonial attitudes, racism and the economy continue to roll over the rights of the First Peoples. But there are those who fight back at the negotiating table, in the courts or on the land.

Long-term care facilities are ground zero for the Covid-19 pandemic.

Reporter Brittany Guyot travels to northern Manitoba’s Rod McGillivary Memorial Care Home, where all 28 residents came down with the virus. She speaks to family who say their loved ones are falling through the gaps in care.

APTN Investigates reporter Brittany Guyot examines long-term care for Indigenous people in Canada.

Through that lens, she examines Winnipeg’s KeKiNan Centre beset by security concerns, lack of medical attention and gaps in accountability.

Indigenous people in Canada are over represented in every area of the justice system. And in Prince George, they are dying in cells.

Reporter Lee Wilson examines why death in custody happens so often in Prince George’s RCMP detachment.

Three Indigenous people have died while in custody in Prince George’s RCMP detachment over the last three years.

APTN’s Lee Wilson speaks to the families of two of the men who died, as they search for answers with not much progress.

Since 2013, 178 Indigenous children have died in connection to Ontario’s child welfare system – with 147 of those children tied to First Nations child welfare agencies.

How did we get to this point? Cullen Crozier and Kenneth Jackson continue their look at the child welfare system in Ontario.

Three sisters gone in seven months, with one surviving sister left to tell their story.

Robyn-Lee Mathers’ sisters had deep ties to Weechi-it-te-win Family Services, but Sacha Raven Bob never made it out alive.

Could Odelia Quewezance have been charged with second-degree murder in error? Her co-convicted cousin who was a minor back in the 1990s, maintains he copped to the terrible murder and insists to this day that she had nothing to do with it.

High-profile prison advocates say her case needs to be re-examined in the context of rural Saskatchewan racism and even a homegrown “satanic panic.”

A Saulteaux woman says she was wrongfully convicted for murder and is fighting for her freedom after spending more than 25 years in prison.

In A Life Sentence – Part 1, John Murray and Holly Moore share the story of Odelia Quewezance, who was convicted of second-degree murder in 1994.

In 2020 the global conversation around racism has gained momentum. In Racism Lives Here Too, Trina Roache looks at the Mi’kmaq and Black experience in Nova Scotia.

Struggles over land, rights and justice and tensions around identity for people with deep ties in both communities.

Racism has made headlines around the world throughout 2020.

In Nova Scotia, racism has shaped the history of Mi’kmaw and Black people for over 400 years.

In APTN Investigates: Racism Lives Here Too, Trina Roache explores that shared history and what it looks like today.

Ecosystems damaged, and a way of life vanished. In Part 2 of Power, APTN Investigates reporter Christopher Read visits Pimicikamak to hear from the people there who aren’t quitting their fight for better treatment by Manitoba Hydro.

Harnessing the power of rivers to generate electricity with hydroelectric dams is often thought of as a clean and green engineering marvel. But the negative impacts of hydro generation on ecosystems and the people who harvest from those ecosystems is the part of the story that doesn’t get mentioned in the glossy brochure.

In Part 1 of APTN Investigates: Power – Christopher Read travels to South Indian Lake, Manitoba once one of the largest freshwater fisheries in North America.

We don’t have to wait till we surpass the level of global warming scientists are warning us about to note climate change is already wreaking havoc. Inuit communities have been dealing with the loss of arctic ice for decades.

Hunters lives and livelihoods are put at risk and people are recovering emotionally and physically from extraordinary weather events. Reporter Rob Smith heads way up north for the story.

Humanity has a little over a decade left before passing a dire milepost – a 1.5 degree rise in the average global temperature. At the present rate we will hit that mark sometime in the 2030s. That would be disastrous for humankind. But the science is clear.

In Part 1, Rob Smith delves into wildfires in Telegraph Creek and the people whose lives were changed forever.