Koganaawsawin to staff up April 1
By Marci Becking BIINJITIWAABIK ZAAGING ANISHINAABEK – Social Services Director Adrienne Pelletier has big plans for Koganaawsawin. “We want a better deal for an Anishinabek...
Chief’s Island grave story
By Laurie Leclair On Thursday, November 8, 1923, a workman putting through a new sewer line across a property on St. Mary’s Street made the...
Victory and loss in the Robinson Huron Treaty Trial
By Catherine Murton Stoehr SUDBURY—The audience at a Robinson Huron Treaty trial panel was startled this week when, half-way into a measured, lawyerly PowerPoint presentation...
Nipissing First Nation could draft own cannabis law
By Kelly Anne Smith NIPISSING FIRST NATION—Nipissing First Nation (NFN) has the inherent right to its own cannabis law and could be drafting a new...
Anishinaabe University of Sudbury students presented with scholarship awards
By Rick Garrick SUDBURY—Three University of Sudbury Indigenous Studies students are looking forward to being able to focus more on their studies after being presented...
APTN launches new TV series featuring Indigenous arm wrestlers
By Rick Garrick THUNDER BAY—APTN recently launched Arm Nation: the TV Series featuring more than a dozen Indigenous arm wrestling competitors, including Brenden Lemmon-Mulvihill and...
Seven Fallen Feathers author kicks off CBC Massey Lectures Tour
By Rick Garrick THUNDER BAY—Seven Fallen Feathers author Tanya Talaga kicked off her 2018 CBC Massey Lectures Tour with a lecture on What Are the Keys...