Book Review: Kids’ book for everyone

Roy Vickers has done it again. With startling vivid colours and his trademark embossed  symbols worked into skies, oceans and mountain, the B.C. First Nations...

Buckwheat is not wheat!

By Sarah Blackwell Buckwheat Squares I love this recipe! It is so versatile and can be made as sweet as you want it. Buckwheat is...

Changes boost energy

By Sarah Blackwell This column will feature the journey of one Anishinaabe family – mine – as we made the transition from sickness and disease...

Granny stops grader

Oklahoma grandmother Nancy Zorn, 79, was taken into police custody after locking herself to a piece of heavy machinery, effectively halting construction on TransCanada’s Keystone...

Funding cap shadows education progress

By ROJ Staff In 1996 Canada put a 2% cap on increases for funding First Nations education. The 2% cap has entrenched discriminatory funding shortages...

Tidying up Mother Earth

A beautiful sunny day, Earth Day April 22nd, was an ideal time to spend outdoors.  Five elders, all over 60, from the Ontario Native Women’s...