Communique: Anishinabek have better plan to educate our children
To: Anishinabek Leaders and Communities From: Grand Council Chief Patrick Wedaseh Madahbee Anishinabek have better plan to educate our children Anishinabek leaders, educators and citizens...
Chippewa settle land claim after 200 years
By Greg Plain LONDON, Ont. – It took the better part of 200 years, but Canada has finally settled a claim involving lands sold without...
Beausoleil’s oldest citizen honoured for inspiration
By Sharon Weatherall BEAUSOLEIL FN – Nellie Mixemong, the oldest Beausoleil First Nation citizen, was among nine community members honoured in 2013 with...
book review: Meeting destiny courageously
The suicide of a friend consolidates the painful, dark and repressed secrets of James Nathan and Jake Noland. Their haunted histories are expressed in their...
Book review: Lessons of hope
You might consider Vernon Roote a lucky person. He didn’t attend residential school but he couldn’t escape the narrow colonial box in which First Nations...
Nimkii danced in his mother’s womb
By Christine Smith McFarlane TORONTO – Nimkii Osawamick is 22 years old, but the Wikwemikong performing artist says he’s been dancing longer than that. “I...
Book review: History: sad but resilient
A young Iroquois girl (Snow Falls) is kidnapped by an Elder Huron Warrior (Bird) as revenge for the killing of his family. In the process,...