Danielle Moore and Denise Gonzalez-Avila can understand why. As “family navigators” based out of the Cook County Juvenile Center, Moore, 26, and Gonzalez-Avila, 41, meet waves of parents and ...

Oscar-winning singer Buffy Sainte-Marie has had two more awards rescinded amid revelations about her heritage and nationality. Canada's prestigious Juno Awards, which recognize musical ...

Nainoa Thompson, pwo navigator and CEO of the nonprofit Polynesian Voyaging Society, at a ceremony for Hōkūleʻa navigators and crew members on March 6, 2025. A celebration Saturday marked the ...

Thompson, who was taught by master navigator Mau Piailug of Micronesia, trained his students for that journey. Although Thompson wasn't with the crew, he kept a close eye on the route to Tahiti as ...

Folk singer Buffy Sainte-Marie has suffered more fallout after returning her Order of Canada following allegations that she fabricated claims of her Indigenous ancestry, which she has denied.

Buffy Sainte-Marie has been stripped of her Canadian music awards. Both the Juno Awards and the Polaris Music Prize announced Friday they were rescinding the honours Sainte-Marie had received ...

Sainte-Marie was inducted into the Hall Of Fame in 1995, and she won the Juno Humanitarian Award in 2015 and Indigenous Music Album of the Year for Medicine Songs in 2018.

The Oscar winner is also set to lose two Polaris music prizes after a 2023 CBC program claimed the Sainte-Marie had been fraudulently posing as Native. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief ...

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That’s because the stars are what the navigators used to guide the Polynesian voyaging canoe. The gathering was a show of camaraderie for dozens of navigators, captains, teachers and caretakers ...

Buffy Sainte-Marie has been stripped of her Juno Awards, Polaris Music Prizes and her induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame because she is not Canadian and therefore does not meet the ...