This comic illustrates how the Hudson’s Bay Company sold, without ever have owned, Indigenous lands to Canada. This resource was created as part of the Yellowhead Institute Cash Back Red Paper. Picking up from Land Back, the first Red Paper by Yellowhead about the project of land reclamation, Cash Back looks at how the dispossession …
Key statistics from a review of over 100 injunction cases involving First Nations across Canada. This resource was created as part of the Yellowhead Institute Land Back Red Paper. The project of land back is about reclaiming Indigenous jurisdiction: breathing life into rights and responsibilities. This Red Paper is about how Canada dispossesses Indigenous peoples …
Why are Black and Indigenous communities disproportionately imprisoned in Canada? This set of data visualizations animates data from the Yellowhead brief by Rai Reece which makes the argument for carceral redlining: the practice of identifying and targeting racialized communities for criminalization in order to maintain a white (settler) state.
How much do Prairie cities, where there are growing Black and Indigenous populations, spend on policing? This set of data visualizations breaks down the budget numbers and makes the case for police abolition as one step toward transformative change. For more information, read the accompanying Yellowhead Brief by Emily Riddle.
There is a significant difference in the reported data on COVID-19 in Indigenous communities from community sources vs. Indigenous Services Canada. This infographic shows this discrepancy between the data from community-sourced research conducted by Yellowhead Institute and the available numbers from ISC. Four reasons for this discrepancy are highlighted. Learn more on this topic by …
Community vs. Indigenous Services Canada Data: The Covid-19 Discrepancy Read More »
In June 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) began telling the story of residential schools in Canada. They chronicled the harms and made 94 Calls to Action in the hopes of finding justice and reconciliation. In the four years since, progress has been slow. In 2016, five Calls were completed; in 2017 …
Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action: 2019 Status Update Read More »
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