The Innu people have lived in eastern Canada for thousands of years. Their spiritual home is nutshimit – the same boreal forests and tundra where their ancestors lived as hunter-gatherers long before the white people arrived from Europe. Yet, for many years, the Innu have been embroiled in a long and painful legal battle with the Canadian government to prove their rights to this land.

Recently, this battle has become even more complicated with the emergence of a “rival” group who are making their own claim of Indigenous rights to much of the Innu’s land – land which is also of huge interest to mining and hydro-electric power companies. In our latest Insights long read, Colin Samson – who has researched and written about the Innu for three decades – explains the damage that is being done to the Innu people and psyche by this legal battle, which has forced them to explain: “Why do we think we are Indigenous?”

Elsewhere today, rising antibiotic resistance and difficult-to-treat infections mean we urgently need new antibacterial drugs and infection prevention measures. Here’s what we can learn from how scavengers avoid infection.

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