Classes were canceled for “insufficient enrollment,” even as funding confirmations for many Indigenous students arrive late in the summer — after course schedules are finalized. “We are visiting the boundaries of our community’s property,” Kyembo said, according to Mongabay, before being forced to turn back. Community forest concessions allow Indigenous and local communities to hold up to 50,000 hectares in perpetuity. “We don’t know what lies behind them.”Previously, the government estimated 3.4 million hectares of oil palm overlapped forest land. In Canada, a university devoted to Indigenous renewal allows language to survive only at the level of symbolism.

Source: CBC News January 21, 2026 17:12 UTC