Opinion: Housing and the Economy – The framework of sustainable First Nations
Submitted by the Anishinabek Nation Economic Development Department The absence of adequate housing in many First Nations is something that you can see in the...
Announcing! Professor Dr. Rhonda Hopkins, Teaching and Learning – Anishinabemowin
Honorary Doctorate in Education by the World Indigenous Nations University (WINU) to be awarded to Kenjgewin Teg’s First Full Time Faculty Position in Anishinabemowin MANITOULIN...
ATLOHSA calls to action: MMIWG2S
LONDON– Indigenous women, girls and Two-Spirit Peoples are sacred in our cultures, yet face disproportionate rates of sexual, gender-based and domestic violence due to a...
Book review: Surviving the City Vol. 2: From the Roots Up
Reviewed by Karl Hele Tasha Spillett and Natasha Donovan’s second contribution to the Surviving the City series From the Roots Up returns us to the...
‘Each First Nation needs to ask: Is language important to us?’ says Anishinabek Nation Language Commissioner
By Mary Laronde NIPISSING FIRST NATION— Barbara Nolan, Anishinabek Nation Language Commissioner, recently said that First Nations must ask that question as a first step...
100th anniversary of letter to Indian Agents regarding dancing
By Sarah St. Louis History has a way of repeating itself. We’ve seen this time and time again as the years roll on. Even pandemics,...
Drew Hayden Taylor’s new television series premieres this weekend
By Rick Garrick CURVE LAKE — Curve Lake writer Drew Hayden Taylor enjoyed capturing stories of Indigenous peoples from across Turtle Island for the first...
‘A pow wow to remember’ series: Rebecca Loucks
In a continued effort to lift everyone’s spirit during this time where we are all staying home, the Anishinabek News did a call out to...
Federal Budget 2021: New funding can’t come soon enough to address First Nations opioid and methamphetamine crisis
CHATHAM-KENT (April 30, 2021) – Thunderbird Partnership Foundation says details from last week’s 2021 federal Budget can’t come soon enough for First Nations and treatment...
Binesiwag Center for Wellness to celebrate SLGBTTQQIAAP+ community members through song, dance, and gender-based expression
FORT FRANCES– June 2021 marks the 52nd anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, a pivotal time in 2SLGBTTQQIAAP+ history that marked the birth of both the...
Calls for increased investment for homeless Indigenous people
LONDON– Following a fire at the Indigenous Medicine and Teaching Garden (Mushkeeki Gitigan) in east London’s South Branch park on April 29, 2021, Atlohsa Family...
Fort William First Nation Catherine Banning makes history as second Indigenous lay bencher of the Law Society of Ontario
By Rick Garrick WARE TOWNSHIP — Fort William’s Catherine Banning was recently appointed as the second Indigenous lay bencher in the about 224-year history of...
Indigenizing Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition project awarded new funding
By Rick Garrick THUNDER BAY — Lakehead University assistant professor Lana Ray was recently awarded $114,094 in Ontario Council on Articulation and Transfer (ONCAT) funding...
Book review: Surviving the City Vol. 1
Reviewed by Karl Hele Surviving the City Volume 1 is a graphic novel that follows a couple of days in the lives of two young...
Opinion: Economic Development articles— Quarterly summary #2: The Entrepreneur
Submitted by the Anishinabek Nation Economic Development Department It has now been a year since the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) global pandemic response brought many...