Book review: Land Too Good For Indians – Northern Indian Removal
Reviewed by Karl Hele Land Too Good For Indians offers the reader an examination of northern Indian removal that has largely escaped mainstream memory. Thus...
The ‘Site Specific’ art and politics of Aylan Couchie
By Catherine Murton Stoehr NORTH BAY – Nipissing University doesn’t host a lot of speakers who get quoted in the New York Times but last...
Long Lake drum group getting ready to travel with new songs
By Rick Garrick Long Lake #58’s Young Crew drum group of nine young drummers are enjoying the opportunity to learn new songs and travel to...
Healing through the arts with Maaniihs
By Kelly Anne Smith NORTH BAY – After giving an opening smudge for the Healing Through the Arts workshop, Maaniihs Mary Pheasant exclaimed, “My name...
First Nations beware of human traffickers
By Kelly Anne Smith NIPISSING FIRST NATION – Young women thrown overboard Great Lake ships after sexual abuse. Women trapped in relationships. Gangs targeting vulnerable...
The Ribbon Skirt: Symbol of surviving cultural genocide
By Kelly Anne Smith NIPISSING FIRST NATION – Hearing her mother’s wisdom, Tala Tootoosis became brutally honest about her own path – began to...
Giipkinaagewin! Bingo held to promote Anishinaabemowin
By Kelly Anne Smith NIPISSING FIRST NATION – Dabbers were raised and ready for the first ball to be called in the packed Nbissing Secondary...