“So they are actually indigenous people. But they don’t want to be. Like everyone else in Western Europe in the Middle Ages and in the early modern period, they really wanted to be invaders.

Juneau’s Arias Hoyle, performing as Air Jazz, sings onstage Sept. 21, 2023, at Centennial Hall Convention Center in downtown Juneau during Áak’w Rock, a three-day Indigenous music festival.

Despite improved relations between the federal government and Canada's Indigenous people, northerners still get excluded from political decisions that impact their lands and livelihoods, says Bob ...