Maamwizing: Pursuing Research in a Good Way – over 250 attend research conference, seek to build capacity
By Laura E. Young SUDBURY – As Celeste Pedri-Spade reviewed the program for Maamwizing 2018, the research conference co-chair noticed a unique moment. It was...
Zhooniyaa – receiving a lump sum of money
By Helen Bobiwash Are you expecting to receive a lump sum of money? An amount that isn’t part of your regular income? There are many...
Just keep writing: the time is now for Indigenous writers
By Laura E. Young SUDBURY – For Lee Maracle, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) may have created an appeal and focused renewed attention on...
A better future with strength of youth and wisdom of the Elders
By Kelly Anne Smith NORTH BAY—Three Elders and three youth called on Indigenous peoples to support the youth as they strive to protect Mother Earth...
Nipissing First Nation Youth plant musical seeds as medicine
By Kelly Anne Smith NIPISSING FIRST NATION—The sizzling fire in the teepee at Big Medicine Studio kept the Youth4Music committee warm as cold winds whipped...
Buffy Sainte-Marie visits the Toronto International Festival of Authors
By Christine Miskonoodinkwe- Smith TORONTO—A captivated audience learned how the collaboration of the authorized biography came about between author Andrea Warner and singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie...
4th Annual Indigenous & Ingenious promises another stellar Show & Sale
TORONTO–Distinctly, uniquely Indigenous works by 18 talented artists, artisans and designers will be showcased and available for sale in Toronto at Indigenous & Ingenious on...
Seven Fallen Feathers author kicks off CBC Massey Lectures Tour
By Rick Garrick THUNDER BAY—Seven Fallen Feathers author Tanya Talaga kicked off her 2018 CBC Massey Lectures Tour with a lecture on What Are the Keys...
Wiikwemkoong Elder recounts being on set of Indian Horse
By Rick Garrick THUNDER BAY—Wiikwemkoong Elder Edna Manitowabi shared some of the details of her performance as Naomi, the grandmother, in the film Indian Horse...
Advocating for Indigenous Rights on Orange Shirt Day at Nipissing University
By Kelly Anne Smith NORTH BAY—The Enji Giigdoyang Student Lounge was packed full of students in orange t-shirts the Thursday before Orange Shirt Day. Nipissing...
Pow Wow welcomes students back to higher education in North Bay
By Kelly Anne Smith NORTH BAY—A most powerful welcome was extended to new and returning college and university students and to members of the public...
Culture Days returns to celebrate creativity in Thunder Bay
THUNDER BAY (September 27, 2018) – The ninth annual national Culture Days event runs in Thunder Bay this Friday, Sept. 28, through Sunday Sep. 30. Presented...
Beeswax candles and honey products a sweet success at Curve Lake pow wow
By Rick Garrick CURVE LAKE FIRST NATION—Aundeck Omni Kaning’s Jaden McGregor recently promoted his Wasseyaa Design beeswax candles at the Curve Lake Annual Pow Wow...
An Evening of Native Jazz: Songbirds and Nightingales of Turtle Island Vol, 2
By Brian Wright-McLeod TORONTO—What is Native Jazz? So many questions surround Native music, as often queries inundate our very existence in every other aspect. But...
Jeremy Proulx’s Pane Jaagide Everlasting Fire has world premiere at Neyaashiinigmiing
By Laura Robinson NEYAASHIINIGMIING FIRST NATION–Hundreds of theatre goers gathered at the Nawash Community Centre in Neyaashiinigmiing First Nation on the Saugeen Peninsula for an...