Provinces promoting aboriginal tourism
By Barret Dokis LITTLE CURRENT –Delegates to the Great Spirit Circle Trail’s (GSCT) 8th Annual Tourism Business Conference learned about the advantages of provincial involvement...
Anishinabek Nation joins partnership to combat cancer
Munsee-Delaware Nation – Representatives from Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) signed a Relationship Protocol with the Anishinabek Nation at the Annual General Assembly. This protocol is...
Anishinabek unanimous: Move ahead on education
By Kelly Crawford MUNSEE-DELAWARE FN – The Anishinabek Nation has moved a big step closer to First Nations control of First Nations education. Chiefs-in-assembly unanimously...
Education negotiations to be completed before 2015: Minister Valcourt
Grand Council Chief Patrick Madahbee and Anishinabek Nation Regional Grand Chiefs met with Minister Bernard Valcourt at the Indian Affairs and Northern Development Canada offices...
Serpent River puts meetings online
By Marci Becking SERPENT RIVER FN – Citizens of Serpent River First Nation living anywhere in the world with a high speed internet connection can...
‘Citizens Speak’ at Serpent River on water and treaty issues
SERPENT RIVER FIRST NATION – Robinson Huron Treaty leaders plan on holding more community meetings over the next year to bring the treaty discussion into...
Constitution must be like mirror
By Kelly Crawford SAULT STE. MARIE – Anishinabek community members must see themselves reflected in their constitutions, says education negotiator Tracey O’Donnell. “If the document...
Book Review: Mining problems old hat
A timely reprinting of the 1965 novel by Robert Traver, which was the nom-de-plume for Justice John D. Voelker. Laughing Whitefish is a fictionalization of...
Spring Salad
By Sarah Blackwell Spring salad Mixed Greens of your choice Add chopped tomatoes, chopped broccoli, chopped cucumber Add 1 tbsp Hemp Seeds (optional) Herb Dressing:...
Millions sought NAHO information
By Greg Macdougall OTTAWA – In its last full year before being shut down by the 2012 federal budget, the National Aboriginal Health Organization had...
A grateful nephew mourns his most influential teacher
By Waub Rice OTTAWA –My aunt Elaine Rose Kelly, also known as Shawishkokeeshigogue (Blue Sky Woman), died suddenly on Wednesday morning (May 8) at the...
First Nations students get laptops
TORONTO – Eighty students of First Nations School of Toronto have received laptops as part of the National pilot program One Laptop per Child (OLPC)...
Baby goat due, or is Willow just kidding?
By Jennifer Ashawasegai ALBAN –We’re anxiously awaiting the arrival of a new kid. Our oldest doe goat, Willow, is getting ready to drop her kid...
Students submit business plans
KAMLOOPS, BC – The “Kanata of Youth” team from Winnipeg won the 2013 top prize in the E-Spirit Business Plan competition with a proposal for...
Indigenous health project using old ideas
By Christine Smith (McFarlane) TORONTO – When Dr. Janet Smylie talks about doing things in a new way, she really means in an old way...