Chamber of Commerce make good business sense

By Barret Dokis The Anishinabek Nation’s Economic Blueprint calls for the establishment of an Anishinabek Business Association, which would be like a chamber of commerce....

Be Safer message on Highway 17 West

NIPISSING FN – Union of Ontario Indians HIV/AIDS Program coordinator Jody Cotter and her daughter/artist Maddison stand underneath a new bright animated billboard on the...

Deputy political champion

By Doris Peltier If someone would have told me a few years ago that Chiefs in one tribal region would one day pass a resolution...

Farm Tales: One kid leads to another

By Jennifer Ashawasegai My four kids happened by accident. By this, I mean, I didn’t intend on having a small herd of goats or a...

Thinking about food in a better way

By Christine McFarlane TORONTO – “Diabetes affects Aboriginal peoples at alarming rates, and it is a disease that can be prevented, if we learn to...

Veterans join forces

Visiting Elder and Canadian veteran Sam Hearns, Alderville FN, was joined by First Nation political veteran Elijah Harper at a Youth and Elders Conference staged...

Teaching kitchen confidence

NORTH BAY – Kelly Crawford-Bellissimo,  mother of Danika, 11, and Dakota,7, citizens of Nipissing First Nation, knew that her family needed to do something about...

Young accepts UN post

CHIPPEWAS OF THE THAMES – Brenda Young is on her way to Geneva, Switzerland in June after being accepted into the United Nations 2013 Indigenous...

Dokis forecaster passes on

DOKIS FN – Gord Restoule Sr. was regarded as a wealth of what he would call common sense, but what scientists now refer to as...