Toronto Vigil for Indigenous Youth in Crisis going into fourth week
By Barb Nahwegahbow TORONTO – It’s nearing the end of Day 23 of the Vigil for Indigenous Youth and Children in Crisis at Toronto’s office...
Canadian Canoe Pilgrimage helped by Indigenous paddlers
By Kelly Anne Smith NORTH BAY – A month long journey of reconciliation and healing came ashore in North Bay to a large gathering. The...
Youth attend healthy relationships-themed summer camp
By Colin Graf Teenagers from First Nations in southwestern Ontario are getting a chance this summer to talk and think about how to create and...
Water Walker challenges readers: What are you going to do about it?
By Maurice Switzer A writer presents a book publisher with a story pitch. “It’s about this woman who – when she’s 61 years old –...
Aamjiwnaang enforces policy for visitors fishing in the territory
By Colin Graf AAMJIWNAANG – Citizens of Aamjiwnaang First Nation are asserting their rights to fish along the two Kilometre stretch of the St. Clair...
Woodland School master painter at the ROM
By Barb Nahwegahbow TORONTO – Visitors to the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) were recently given the rare privilege of watching a Woodland School master painter...
New Scugog retail plaza includes Minisi Convenience, Tim Hortons and Fill-up Fuels
By Rick Garrick The Mississaugas of Scugog are planning an Aug. 13 grand opening for their new retail plaza featuring the Minisi Convenience/Arts and Crafts...
Fort William runner wins two medals at NAIG
By Rick Garrick Fort William’s Kyra Anderson-Morriseau won two medals, a sliver and a bronze, at the North America Indigenous Games (NAIG) 2017 in Toronto....
Book Review: Page-turner ‘LaRose’ a must read
Reviewed by Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith LaRose by Louise Erdrich is a fictional novel that grabs the reader from the first page and from thereon it...
The revival of beading crafts welcome at pow-wows
By Kelly Anne Smith MANITOWANING – The fingers of artist Sarah Williams go into fast motion when she sits down to her bead work. She...
Babies arriving into world on Nipissing First Nation
By Kelly Anne Smith Upon arrival at the Grand Opening of the K’Tigaaning Midwives, mom Carrie Arra Silas was leaving with Romea in a baby...
Grandmothers honoured at Maamwi Kindaaswin Festival
By Kelly Anne Smith NORTH BAY – Grandmothers are everything. The important message is from Richard Assinewai, a Wikwemikong Unceded Territory citizen and the Head...
‘Indigenous Thought and Mobility in a Contentious World’ theme for this year’s CINSA
By Karl Hele For the third time since the relaunching of the Canadian Indigenous Native Studies Association (CINSA) in 2015, participants attended a three-day conference...
Help this Sixties Scoop survivor look for his birth family
By Barb Nahwegahbow Sixty-year old Timothy Marks is a Sixties Scoop survivor and he’s looking for his birth family. He knows he is Mohawk and...
Medicines part of school learning space
By Rick Garrick THUNDER BAY – Traditional drum songs and the planting of four traditional medicines highlighted the June 23 grand opening of the Indigenous...