[NEWS] Five Indigenous links: Cree NHL, Mi'kmaq, US-Mexico border, Australia, reconciliation

[rfmcdonald]

• APTN is broadcasting NHL hockey games with Cree-language commentary, a first. Global News reports.


• New funding and authority has been given to Nova Scotia's Mi'kmaq educational authority. Global News reports.


• The National Observer notes the significant damage that the Trump border wall could cause indigenous peoples bisected by the US-Mexico frontier.

A school in Melbourne, Australia, is doing interesting work trying to help Aborigine children bridge the cultural divide in their lives. The Toronto Star reports.

• Natan Obed writes in MacLean's about how the press following Trudeau in Iqaluit failing to deal with his apology to the Inuit reflects a failed implementation of reconciliation.