It’s a dog’s life
By Jolene Banning Chaga is a traditional medicine used by my ancestors forever and a day. It is known for curing cancers. It is smoked...
Jingle Dress healing dance featured at Pow Wow
By Rick Garrick TORONTO—The 10th Annual George Brown College Four Sacred Colours Pow Wow featured a jingle dress healing dance and a drum presentation on...
Indigenous students take centre stage to perform on the devastating effects of suicide
By Rick Garrick TORONTO—Three Indigenous students from the Centre for Indigenous Theatre are creating a play about the devastating effects of suicide pacts for performance...
Lambton Shores open house brings neighbouring communities together
By Colin Graf KETTLE & STONY POINT FIRST NATION—Residents and their neighbours from the municipality of Lambton Shores took time last weekend to visit together...
Historical recounting of the settlement of the Canadian West hits the stage tonight
By Rick Garrick MONTREAL—Curve Lake writer Drew Hayden Taylor is looking forward to seeing his “ironic, iconic and sardonic” comments during the upcoming production of...
Human Rights Arts Festival showcases Indigenous short films
By Carrie MacKenzie KINGSTON—As part of the Isabel Human Rights Arts Festival, Queen’s University hosted An Evening of Indigenous Short Films on March 22. These...
Indigenous children’s book celebrates book launch, three-year partnership and sacred medicine
By Laura Young SUDBURY—In an era where smoking and tobacco are seen as vile, it’s sometimes lost that tobacco is actually a sacred medicine in...