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...
Anishinaabe Elders’ lifework recognized and honoured during Sacred Blanket Ceremony
SAULT STE. MARIE, ON—The Anishinabek Nation made cultural history this past month by hosting the very first Traditional Medicine Gathering, on August 14-15, in Sault...