Poetry: A Song for Spring
A Song For Spring Drip drop, drip drop The dryness beneath me, the wetness atop. My umbrella shields me from the rain The...
Monument honours and educates
On the side of the Indian Residential School monument facing West are ten plaques which educate and honour Anishinabek children families and communities. The first...
‘Gchi-nendama’: Beausoleil language instructors
By Sharon Weatherall BEAUSOLEIL FN – Roseanne Monague is one of seven Christian Island language-keepers who participated in a 160-hour immersion program to equip them...
Dancers can tell stories
By Rick Garrick TORONTO – The graceful kicking and twirling fancy shawl dance moves of Jennifer Meness highlighted the 35th annual Toronto Storytelling Festival. “It...
Anishinaabe immersion
By Andrea Crawford SUDBURY — The Ojibway Cultural Foundation’s yearly spring conference is the perfect place to come if you want to understand what it’s...
Words cure any pain
By Albert Dumont OTTAWA — Recently at the Singing Pebble bookstore I spoke about what it was that created the poetry I write. I shared...
Lots of miigwech’s to all contributors to Anishinaabemowin-Teg
By Martina Osawamick Aanii! Miishigo zhiseg wii-maawnjidiyiing! Anishinaabemowin-Teg enchiiyaang gmiigwechwi’aanaa Wikwemikoong bemaadzijig sa gii bi naadimaagewad maanda gii-mi wiikgchitooyaang zhoonyaa gii-mi “bingoyaang oodi 2012.” Miigwech...