Investigates

What does five decades of pushback get you? Millions spent on modern treaties. Decades spent in court. Arrest and incarceration for standing up. Indigenous people know it's the good fight for current and future generations.

But there's a cost when you're looking to down the barrel to defend your homeland and assert your identity. And it appears to be a battle with no end in site.

The RCMP raid on Wet'suwet'en territory last year painted a troubling picture of the state of the relationship between Indigenous people and Canada.

Colonial attitudes, racism and the economy continue to roll over the rights of the First Peoples. But there are those who fight back at the negotiating table, in the courts or on the land.

Long-term care facilities are ground zero for the Covid-19 pandemic. Reporter Brittany Guyot travels to northern Manitoba's Rod McGillivary Memorial Care Home, where all 28 residents came down with the virus. She speaks to family who say their loved ones are falling through the gaps in care.

APTN Investigates reporter Brittany Guyot examines long-term care for Indigenous people in Canada. Through that lens, she examines Winnipeg's KeKiNan Centre beset by security concerns, lack of medical attention and gaps in accountability.

Indigenous people in Canada are over represented in every area of the justice system. And in Prince George, they are dying in cells.

Reporter Lee Wilson examines why death in custody happens so often in Prince George's RCMP detachment.

Three Indigenous people have died while in custody in Prince George's RCMP detachment over the last three years.

APTN's Lee Wilson speaks to the families of two of the men who died, as they search for answers with not much progress.

Since 2013, 178 Indigenous children have died in connection to Ontario's child welfare system – with 147 of those children tied to First Nations child welfare agencies.

How did we get to this point? Cullen Crozier and Kenneth Jackson continue their look at the child welfare system in Ontario.

Three sisters gone in seven months, with one surviving sister left to tell their story.

Robyn-Lee Mathers' sisters had deep ties to Weechi-it-te-win Family Services, but Sacha Raven Bob never made it out alive.

Could Odelia Quewezance have been charged with second-degree murder in error? Her co-convicted cousin who was a minor back in the 1990s, maintains he copped to the terrible murder and insists to this day that she had nothing to do with it.

High-profile prison advocates say her case needs to be re-examined in the context of rural Saskatchewan racism and even a homegrown "satanic panic."

A Saulteaux woman says she was wrongfully convicted for murder and is fighting for her freedom after spending more than 25 years in prison.

In A Life Sentence - Part 1, John Murray and Holly Moore share the story of Odelia Quewezance, who was convicted of second-degree murder in 1994.