Blue curtains help students to focus
By Jennifer Ashawasegai HENVEY INLET FIRST NATION – Britt Public School teacher Wanda McQuabbie says she’s learned some valuable tools to help students from a...
UN rapporteur calls for inquiry into murdered, missing Indigenous women
By Jorge Barrera APTN National News Ottawa needs to call an inquiry into the high number of murdered and missing Indigenous women across the country,...
Community comes together to produce video on change
By Tammy Desmoulin NIPISSING FN – Long Lake #58 First Nation used four powerful words: “One word, one day”. These words have the ability to...
Walk honours those lost to suicide
By Rick Garrick THUNDER BAY – Wikwemikong’s Lisa Bishop and son Zenith recently honoured the memory of their late husband and father at the Out...
Bequest boosts Beausoleil books
By Sharon Weatherall BEAUSOLEIL FN – Literacy is a priority at Christian Island Elementary School, and the program received a huge boost, thanks to an...
Lack of Ipperwash follow-up endangers First Nations police: Madahbee
UOI OFFICES (Nipissing First Nation) May 9, 2014 – The lives of First Nations police officers continue to be at risk because recommendations from the...
Mississauga had Methodism in common
Mississauga Portraits: Ojibwe Voices from Nineteenth-Century Canada by Donald B. Smith. University of Toronto Press, 2013. 457 pgs. Reviewed by Armand Garnet Ruffo Many years...
Beardy in full support of First Nations policing recommendations
Ontario Regional Chief Stan Beardy welcomes the recommendations on the First Nations Policing Program by the Auditor General of Canada released May 6 saying issues...
Carver brings out images in antlers
By Rick Garrick THUNDER BAY — Lake Helen artist Mike Anderson first began carving when he noticed the image of an eagle on an...
Letter to the Editor: First Nations could make water from air
Aanii(n). Bagosendamaan(h) gimino-(a)yaa. I’ve recently seen two items on line which made me think that these examples of cutting-edge technology could significantly help First Nations...
Kill education bill now: Madahbee
UOI OFFICES (Nipissing First Nation) May 6, 2014 – The Minister of Indian Affairs shouldn’t be delaying his proposed First Nations education legislation, says Anishinabek...
Dancer happier since going barefoot
By Barb Nahwegahbow TORONTO — Sarain Carson-Fox is proud to call herself an Aboriginal artist. The 26-year-old dancer – a citizen of Batchewana First Nation–...
Anishinaabemowin must come first
By Marci Becking NIPISSING FN – Anishinabek Nation Deputy Grand Council Chief Glen Hare told participants at the Anishinabek Nation Education Symposium held April 23-24...
Dancer wins heritage prize
By Marci Becking NORTH BAY – Caitlyn Lee, citizen of Maskwacis First Nation in Alberta, was the winner of the Ontario Heritage Fairs Association Founder’s...
Kids’ books shortlisted
TORONTO–Five children’s books are in contention to become the First Nation Communities Read community reading selection for 2014-2015. Six jury members from First Nation public...