Will Indigenous cultures assimilate everyone else?
By Rick Garrick THUNDER BAY – Decolonization, art and future generations were on the agenda at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery’s “Let’s Keep Talking” panel...
Book review: Red Wolf reconnects
Dance tells the story of Red Wolf, a five-year-old boy who is removed from his family at the age of five to attend residential school....
A sweet business on Christian Island
By Sharon Weatherall BEAUSOLEIL FN –Ted Marsden went back to his roots when he started producing maple sugar this year. The Christian Island man is...
‘The Orenda’ tells some tough history
By Rick Garrick THUNDER BAY – Pic River’s Russell Twance hopes Joseph Boyden’s bestselling The Orenda” will lead to improved relations between First Nations...
Jiibay helps illustrate choices
By Christine Smith McFarlane TORONTO – Chad Solomon, the creator of the graphic novel series “Rabbit and Bear Paws”, introduced a new puppet character to...
‘Tribe’ breaking through at Junos
By Marci Becking OTTAWA – Ian Campeau, aka DeeJayNDN and one-third A Tribe Called Red, says that being nominated for the Juno Awards’ Breakthrough Group...
Bannock one of Canadore’s winning ingredients
By Emma Williams NORTH BAY – Canadore College Culinary Arts students have been cooking up a storm by serving dishes with a First Nations flavour....
Book Review: Inside look at foster care
Tara was born in a remote fly-in First Nation community. As an infant, she was deceptively removed from her 15-year-old birth mother by the “authorities”...
Art class gets important lesson in beadwork
By Barb Nahwegahbow TORONTO – Art students got a different perspective about beads from a February presentation at OCAD (Ontario College and Design) University. An...
Andrea takes her heritage onto the ice
By Maurice Switzer NIPISSING FN – Andrea Goulais incorporates her First Nations heritage into her figure skating routine, as well as her skating regalia. The...
Moose hide bags will outlive buyers
By Rick Garrick THUNDER BAY – Fort William’s Raili Saarinen cannot keep up with the demand for his Raali Alexander line of hand-sewn and...
Puppet play stars Rabbit & Bear Paws
PETERBOROUGH – Rabbit and Bear Paws are expanding their comic adventures off the printed page. Chad Solomon’s familiar graphic novel characters are the stars of...
Dibaajmowin: Beaver
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Wild rice weapon in food war
By Jennifer Sinclair Food has long been used as a weapon against First Nations. Hunger and malnourishment are powerful tools — strong enough to make...
Wild rice tasty….but not dry!
By Maurice Switzer TORONTO – It might not have been as flashy as the $75,000 casting pond, or the young woman who was sculpting animal...