Cultural teachings help employability
M’CHIGEENG FN – Participants in the Kenjgewin Teg Educational Institute’s A.I.M.S. program have nothing but praise for the 12-week job-readiness initiative. “The program taught me...
Moccasins draw mixed emotions
By Jennifer Ashawasegai PARRY SOUND – Viewers of the “Walking With Our Sisters” exhibit experienced mixed emotions. They see 1,600 moccasin vamps (tongues) that are...
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Storyteller took poetic turn
By Greg Macdougall OTTAWA – Vera Wabegijig’s first book, “wild rice dreams”, comes after 20 years of writing poetry. The mother of two was born...
‘Gchi nendam gwa noonga maa yaa yan’
By Sharon Weatherall BARRIE –When he has completed the two year Anishnaabemowin Language Program at Georgian College’s Barrie Campus, Tyler Taylor hopes to share what...
book review: Meeting destiny courageously
The suicide of a friend consolidates the painful, dark and repressed secrets of James Nathan and Jake Noland. Their haunted histories are expressed in their...
Book review: Lessons of hope
You might consider Vernon Roote a lucky person. He didn’t attend residential school but he couldn’t escape the narrow colonial box in which First Nations...