Waub Rice to receive storytelling honour
UOI OFFICES (Nipissing FN) July 15, 2014 – CBC journalist Waubgeshig Rice has been selected as the 2014 recipient of the Debwewin Citation for excellence...
Wiky students exploring science careers
By Heather Campbell SUDBURY − Students from Wasse-Abin High School have been finding out just how much fun science can be. This past year they participated...
Intertribals are for everyone!
By Sharon Weatherall BEAUSOLEIL FN − Intertribal dances and pow-wows are for everyone. “Intertribal means all are welcome and the celebration is to be shared...
Koostachin documentary about her dance journey
By Martha Troian Originally published in the 2014 Great Lakes Pow-wow Guide TORONTO — She grew up with a parent who survived the Indian Residential...
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Are pow-wows the best way for people to learn about us?
By Holly Brodhagen With the season of pow-wow upon us, I find myself wondering about the impression these gatherings give to the general public. Recently...
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Artist shares talents with communities
By Greg Plain CHIPPEWAS of the THAMES – The Munsee-Delaware daycare has new artwork thanks to Chippewas of the Thames artist Nancy Deleary. Deleary, who...
Chief’s trading ledger tells a Dokis story
By Marci Becking DOKIS FIRST NATION – Norm Dokis Jr. says that stories connect people, places and names of the landscape. “I remember a...
Bronze partners survey Huronia
By Sharon Weatherall MINESING, Ont. – A life-sized bronze image of a First Nations guide and European trader carrying a canoe has been unveiled in...
Gallery showcases budding Morrisseaus
CURVE LAKE FN –Visitors to Whetung Ojibwa Centre are used to seeing work on display by such well-known Indigenous artists as Norval Morrisseau, Arthur...
Flett inspired by family stories
By Christine Smith McFarlane TORONTO – When he was a boy, Julie Flett’s father Clarence liked picking blueberries with his grandmother… and eating the sour...
Monument to salute Shannen’s Dream
By Martha Troian She’s been praised in the House of Commons and even immortalized as a comic book heroine. Now plans are underway for a...
Posters bringing warriors to life
By Barbra Nahwegahbow TORONTO – Artist Philip Cote has heroes, many of them long-forgotten First Nations warriors. Cote has featured them in a series of...
Chippewa girls deliver the mail
By Sharon Weatherall BEAUSOLEIL FN – Three Anishinabek Nation girls have had artwork depicting the War of 1812 commemorated on Canadian postage stamps. The young...