NAHNDAHWEH TCHIGEHGAMIG Wikwemikong Health Centre project moves to final commitment
WIKWEMIKONG, MANITOULIN ISLAND (December 15, 2016) – A joint review committee consisting of representatives from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada,...
Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls Honoured with REDress Project
By Kelly Anne Smith NORTH BAY—The art installation, the REDress Project held powerful ambiance on December 6 at Nipissing University as part of the National...
Chrétien’s Ojibway-designs eyeglass frames hit the market
By Rick Garrick NIPISSING FIRST NATION—Nipissing artist Donald Chrétien is looking forward to the Dec. 18 release of his Journey and Birch-design AYA Eyewear eyeglass...
FASD/MedicAlert program looking for ‘champions’
By Leslie Knibbs SERPENT RIVER—Since taking over the position of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Coordinator for the Aboriginal Health Access Center on the North...
Letter to the Editor: Rota uses blame and misdirection to avoid pipeline conversation
The Nipissing community is facing a real local problem with the TransCanada company wanting to send diluted bitumen for export through a pipeline that could...
‘The Environment shouldn’t suffer’ says Nipissing First Nation Chief
By Kelly Anne Smith NORTH BAY— Speaking on the opening conference panel of the 2016 Lands and Resources Forum, the Chief of Nipissing First Nation...
We have to start treating water with respect
By Barb Nahwegahbow TORONTO—“What we want is for people to engage and actually connect with water on a personal spiritual level,”said Mike Nagy, Chair of...
Chiefs forewarn on environment issues at Lands and Resources Forum
By Kelly Anne Smith NORTH BAY—It is fitting that the 2016 Lands and Resources Forum: We Are All Connected, featured an image with a bull...
Standing Rock spiritual leader in Toronto
By Barb Nahwegahbow TORONTO—The 19th generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe, Chief Arvol Looking Horse, headlined a fundraising event for Standing Rock...
First Nations Truck and Coach Apprentices graduate
NORTH BAY, ONTARIO (December 12, 2016) – The first cohort of Canadore College’s pre-apprenticeship truck and coach technician program celebrated their graduation last Saturday. A...
The education system and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
By Leslie Knibbs SAGAMOK ANISHNAWBEK FIRST NATION–Educators are quickly becoming aware of a critical problem created by mothers exposing their unborn children to alcohol. Front...
Award-winning writer discusses Art of Reconciliation
By Rick Garrick THUNDER BAY—Curve Lake’s Drew Hayden Taylor says the term reconciliation is “a Rorschach name” during his Nov. 30 talk on The Art...
Federal and Provincial Governments invest in Biomass North Development Centre in partnership with the Union of Ontario Indians
By Laura Barrios NIPISSING FIRST NATION—Member of Parliament for Nipissing—Timiskaming, Anthony Rota, announced on behalf of the Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science, and...
Anishinabek Police Constable switches to life-long learner
By Kelly Anne Smith NORTH BAY—After many years of service to the community, Constable Ken Dokis has retired. A retirement social for Dokis took place...
I Am Not a Number tells Granny’s Indian Residential School story
By Kelly Anne Smith NIPISSING FIRST NATION—Nipissing First Nation author sells out at book signing–again. An academic and now a best-selling author, Jenny Kay Dupuis...