Marc Montgomery – Indigenous, the Other Story

Find out about prehistoric Canada from an archaeologist who's discovered remnants of what could be a 10-thousand-year-old village in the Pacific coast province of British Columbia.

For a long time science told us that the first people to reach the North American continent arrived here on foot after the last Ice Age. But, scientists are finding evidence that suggests otherwise. They think the first humans came in boats thousands of years earlier than previously thought. We spoke to anthropologist, Dr. Niobe Thompson who hosts a documentary on the subject, called The Code Breakers.

Marc Montgomery talks to Canadian research scientist Joel Barker who's found the most northerly mummified forest ever discovered. The preserved organic material from this ancient forest in Canada's Nunavut territory could help us understand how ecosystems adapt to climate change.

A group that promotes play for children in disadvantaged parts of the world has started a program for aboriginal children in Canada. Right To Play hopes to reduce suicide, violence and drug abuse that plagues too many first nations communities.

A conversation with Maurizio Gatti, a young man from Italy who has produced a compilation of French-language literature by contemporary aboriginal writers from ten First Nations in the province of Quebec.