First Nations

While the colony celebrated, another story was unfolding.

More than 600 kilometres north, Aboriginal men, women and children were being hunted down and slaughtered.

That year, Foundation Day - the day that would later become Australia Day - was marked by events that could not have been more black and white.

The chairman of one of the Northern Territory's most powerful land councils has called for David Connolly's appointment to be reviewed in the wake of the revelations.

APTN News has learned that plans are in Colville Lake, N.W.T. for a new school to replace the log cabin students are currently learning in.

Indigenous foods are varied, delicious and plentiful — but getting them to customers can be a challenge for small producers

In short:

Bunurong elders, linguists and community members are working to revive a language that has not been spoken fluently for more than a century.

Using 19th-century records, they are reconstructing Bunurong word by word and returning it to community use.

What's next?

The dictionary has been launched online, and community members are now beginning to speak their tongue on country again.

The president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe said Thursday that he's been "made aware" that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained four of its members in Minneapolis.

Returning the stolen bodies of Indigenous Australians is ‘the most important act of reconciliation’, but museums can’t keep pace with the rate of surrender

Bizzi Lavelle, a Queer Wakka Wakka and Arrernte writer and burlesque dancer known in the scene as Bizzi Body, is reclaiming the hidden legacy of this art-form one tassel twirl at a time.

Cameras have started rolling for First Nations television series Reckless being filmed in Perth and Fremantle. The new Australian work is written byStuart Page and Western Australian First Nations creative Kodie Bedford. Bedford is also executive producing the series with Kylie Washington. Directed by Beck Cole and produced by Andy…

Kanyanyapilla means "place of many eagles", and it's where Indigenous students in Adelaide are coming to connect with Kaurna culture.