Treating water like a relative
By Barb Nahwegahbow TORONTO – Dr. Deb McGregor takes her traditional responsibilities to water very seriously. A citizen of Whitefish River First Nation, McGregor is...
New award for First Nations books
TORONTO – First Nation Communities Read, in partnership with Periodical Marketers of Canada (PMC), is establishing a significant new book award. Beginning in 2014, creators...
Sharon honoured for storytelling
Freelance writer Sharon Weatherall receives a Debwewin Citations plaque from Maurice Switzer, director of communications for the Union of Ontario Indians. Weatherall was recognized for...
Survivor kept story from daughter
By Barb Nahwegahbow TORONTO – Krystine Abel learned about residential schools at high school, not at home from her mother Eve, who herself was a...
Wodob, e-m skojaaned adik lyrics
By Dany Riopelle You know DASHer and DANcer and PRANcer and VIXen gi-g(i)ken(i)maa DASHer miin(a)waa DANcer miin(a)waa PRANcer miin(a)waa VIXen COmet and CUpid and...
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School survivors died on city streets
By Christine Smith (McFarlane) TORONTO – Tucked away where no one can really see it in the heart of Canada’s largest city is a weather-beaten...
Books: Plants as teachers
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen...
Book review: Money isn’t everything
This is an emotional story about a group of homeless people – one woman and four men –who form a bond to survive on the...
Book review: Who were they fighting for?
Writing to Prime Minister Robert Borden in 1917, the Ontario Committee of the Allied Tribes declared, “We cannot say that we are fighting for our...
New adventure for Rabbit and Bear Paws
“Council of the Animals” – the sixth instalment in the popular Adventures of Rabbit and Bear Paws series – is now available. Chad Solomon’s graphic...
Fasting camp teaches respect
LONG LAC 58 – It was four years ago that Veronica Waboose, former Chief of this Superior Region First Nation, started thinking of ways that...
Film portrays knowledge transfer
By Barb Nahwegahbow TORONTO –Anishinaabe scholar Chantelle A.M. Richmond was frustrated with research done in First Nations communities that benefitted the researchers more than it...
Odawa app available
By Melissa Cooper WIKWEMIKONG – In the New Year, technology in the form of an Odawa language application will be shared with the world thanks...
Unity Gathering pays tribute to Tecumseh
By Greg Plain BKEJWANONG – The Anishinaabe and many other Nations gathered in Southwest Ontario First Nations for a week-long celebration that culminated Oct. 5th,...