It's Indigenous History Month and APTN News is celebrating First Nations, Inuit and Métis people making a difference across the country.
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Did you know that when astronaut Jeremy Hansen travelled around the Moon on the Artemis II, he carried teachings shared by Indigenous Guardians and Elders?🌕✨
He also carried a patch designed by Anishinaabe artist Henry Guimond, as well as the flag of the Innu Nation – to honour the time spent on the Nitassinan with Innu Guardians.
Turns out Guardians have an impact far beyond the land.🚀
Visual made by @csa_asc Henry Guimond's artwork.
Tonight, a Blue Moon takes center stage to close out the month. 🌕
While it won't actually change color, a "Blue Moon" is the name given to the second full moon to happen within a month. It only happens once every two or three years!
📷: @Bsondergaardpho
Every second, the Sun ejects 1.5 million tons of material into space at hundreds of miles per second, but Earth's magnetic field protects it from the solar wind.
📽: NASA Goddard
I went out with the Wainwright Wildlife Society to a sharp-tailed grouse lek at sunrise this morning. One of the most amazing sights I have ever seen. https://t.co/X52PtDg4Z3.
May 5 is Red Dress Day, the national day of awareness for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
Winnipeg Free Press columnist Niigaan Sinclair shares his thoughts on the upcoming day as the crisis of MMIWG continues.
Watch more on Truth & Politics: https://t.co/dlIuXJzlwM
It’s International Dance Day, and we’re honouring Indigenous dance and the artists who carry culture, stories, and teachings through movement.
🎧 Audio on : POW Wow Carnival (feat. Little Creek Singers) -DJ Shub 🎵
#InternationalDanceDay#IndigenousDance
NEW VIDEO: Grammatical rules have caused heated debate for centuries. So, where do these seemingly random rules come from, and which, if any, actually matter?
Take a look at 3 famous English grammar rules and find out if you really need to follow them: https://t.co/otwhsxgfud
Isapo-muxika (Crowfoot) was one of the most significant Indigenous leaders of the 19th century.
As a Siksika chief, he led his people through a difficult and transitional period of their history.
This is his story.
📸 Provincial Archives of Alberta
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The okapi has the head of a giraffe, the stripes of a zebra, the body of a horse, a blue tongue long enough to clean its eyes and ears and lives in the wild in a single country in the world. Oh, it's not even 150 years we know about it
[📹 San Diego Zoo]
On this day in 1928, the Supreme Court ruled that qualified persons, under Section 24 of the British North America Act, did not include women.
The Famous Five took their case to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in England, which ruled in their favour on Oct. 18, 1929.