Debassige caps season with silver medal
By Sam Laskaris KAHNAWAKE, Que. – Deidre Debassige capped her successful hockey season with yet another medal from a prestigious tournament. The 17-year-old from M’Chigeeng...
‘What kind of Indian are you?’
By Richard Wagamese When I was small an adopted cousin once asked me, “What kind of Indian are you?” Back then the question shocked me....
Statement from AFN National Chief Shawn A-In-Chut Atleo
May 2, 2014 STATEMENT FROM ASSEMBLY OF FIRST NATIONS NATIONAL CHIEF SHAWN A-IN-CHUT ATLEO (Ottawa, ON) – Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Shawn...
‘Decolonizing’ universities has a price
By Karl Hele MONTREAL – If you want to decolonize post-secondary institutions, have an Indigenous presence, and see our worldviews presented there are two fairly...
Public safety should be really simple
By Maurice Switzer It’s so much easier to keep things simple. So please don’t talk to me about diluted bitumen having a viscosity of 201...
Shoe donation shows character
By Sharon Weatherall BEAUSOLEIL FN – Students at Christian Island Elementary School (CIES) will be running in style this spring, thanks to a generous donation...
Kettle & Stony Point ‘adjusting’ constitution after ‘no’ vote
By Greg Plain KETTLE & STONY POINT FN – Chief Tom Bressette says his First Nation’s draft Constitution will be “adjusted” after an April 25...
Student’s mom tried to see Atleo
By Jorge Barrera APTN National News Vicki Monague drove six hours from her home community of Beausoleil First Nation to Ottawa in hopes of confronting...
New slogan minted at Anishinabek Education Symposium: Say ‘Yes’ to the AES!
UOI OFFICES (Nipissing First Nation) – The draft education self-government agreement between the Anishinabek Nation and Canada got an in-depth review by First Nation leaders...
Navajo lead fight to formally oppose ‘redskins’
By Gale Courey Toensing Indian Country TODAY MEDIA NETWORK.com The Navajo Nation Council has adopted a bill opposing the use of the name ‘redskins’, a...
Grits or Tories: Who’s worse?
By Karl Hele Who’s better for First Peoples – Liberals or Conservatives? With the recent raft of unilateral legislation affecting First Nations– including several proposed...
Kindergarteners clean house on Earth Day
By Greg Plain CHIPPEWAS of the THAMES FN – The 14 children of Fiona Braidwood’s Senior Kindergarten class were on cleanup duty April 22, celebrated...
Still a speaker after 60 years in city
By Barb Nahwegahbow TORONTO – It was the late 1950’s when Mary Fox left her home on Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve and set out for...
Anishinabek education needs ‘two sneakers’
By Marci Becking NIPISSING FN – Anishinabek Nation interim youth rep Quinn Meawasige likens an Anishinabek Education System to having one foot in a...
Ring of Fire First Nations to share in revenues
THUNDER BAY – Ontario Regional Chief Stan Beardy extended his congratulations to the nine Matawa member First Nations and the Ontario government on the Ring...