indigenous Archives - Teaching Kids News Readable, teachable news. Thu, 08 Jul 2021 22:21:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://teachingkidsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-TKN_square_blk-32x32.jpg indigenous Archives - Teaching Kids News 32 32 Mary Simon To Be Canada’s Next Governor General https://teachingkidsnews.com/2021/07/08/mary-simon-to-be-canadas-next-governor-general/ https://teachingkidsnews.com/2021/07/08/mary-simon-to-be-canadas-next-governor-general/#comments Thu, 08 Jul 2021 20:10:56 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=19813 Canada will soon have a new Governor General (GG). Her name is Mary Simon and she is the first Indigenous person (she is Inuk) ever to hold that role. The Governor General of Canada is appointed by the Queen of […]

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]]> Canada to Lead Trade Missions for Women, LGBTQI, Indigenous Businesses https://teachingkidsnews.com/2018/04/22/canada-to-lead-trade-missions-for-women-lgbtqi-indigenous-businesses/ Mon, 23 Apr 2018 00:09:50 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=16966 The Canadian government is going to help businesses owned by women, Indigenous peoples, and LGBTQI people (LGBTQI means lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning and intersex people).
The government will create "trade missions" to support their businesses.
A trade mission is when one country -- in this case Canada -- travels to another country in order to talk about increasing the amount of business between the two countries.
Typically, business owners and government officials go to another country, and meet with business owners and government officials there. They discuss ways the countries can work together.

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]]> Coming To Grips With A Shameful Past https://teachingkidsnews.com/2015/06/07/coming-to-grips-with-a-shameful-past/ https://teachingkidsnews.com/2015/06/07/coming-to-grips-with-a-shameful-past/#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2015 00:34:17 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=14755 Canada is trying to come to grips with a difficult chapter in its past.
During the 19th and 20th centuries, many First Nations people living in Canada were done a terrible wrong by the federal government.

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