Rabbit and Bear Paws
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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...
Language learners reach new horizons
By Margaret Hele GARDEN RIVER FN – A grant from the federal government’s New Horizons program will support Anishinaabe language immersion sessions. The successful application...
Keep sweetgrass sunny and wet
By Emilie Corbiere Sweetgrass has been used in First Nations ceremonies for centuries and often times people will say they can smell it when driving...
Writer picked berries, jury picked writer
TORONTO – Julie Flett, author-illustrator of Wild Berries and the Cree version Pakwa che Menisu, is the first-time recipient of a new Aboriginal Literature Award....
Sacred Water Circle growing
By Julie Kapyrka PETERBOROUGH – The Sacred Water Circle has grown from founder Dorothy Taylor’s vision three years ago into a movement with 25 active...
Education signing kicks off school pow-wow
By Sharon Weatherall BEAUSOLEIL FN –The renewal of the Education Services Agreement with the Simcoe County District School Board kicked off the fifth annual Christian...
Francis Pegahmagabow: controversial hero
Reviewed by Karl Hele Adrian Hayes. Pegahmagabow: Life-Long Warrior. Toronto: Blue Butterfly Books, 2009. Adrian Hayes’ brief biography of Francis Pegahmagabow from Parry Island First...