Indigenous Business

Partnerships between Indigenous communities and the private sector should incorporate both business and community development aspects if they’re going to be successful, said an executive with Fort William First Nation.

The province has announced additional funding for the Aboriginal Economic Development Fund, which will also get a new name: the Indigenous Economic Development Fund. The fund will get $70 million over the next seven years, which launched in 2014.

Barry Strachan is so confident in the Keewaytinook Okimakanak (KO) Northern Chiefs Council’s Safe Water Project, he’s willing to bet his reputation on it.

Algoma University in Sault Ste. Marie conferred an honorary doctorate degree on Murray Sinclair, chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, on May 30.

A new renewable energy company to be run by First Nations for First Nations has received $2.7 million in FedNor funding to get up and running.

Mushkegowuk Tribal Council’s new information services department is not quite a year old, but already the community is seeing the benefits of its efforts.

Kathryn Corbiere flexes creative muscles while using traditional welding techniques

In 2014, just two years after Sagamok Anishnawbek First Nation acquired Ritchie Falls Resort, a fire ripped through the showerhouse, damaging the boiler and other infrastructure.

The average Canadian just has to look at the country’s first economic engine — the fur trade — to find the origins of Indigenous peoples in business.

An Ojibway community on the north shore of Lake Superior is carving out a path to prosperity in forestry.