Poetry: A Song for Spring

  A Song For Spring   Drip drop, drip drop The dryness beneath me, the wetness atop. My umbrella shields me from the rain The...

Monument honours and educates

On the side of the Indian Residential School monument facing West are ten plaques which educate and honour Anishinabek children families and communities. The first...

Dancers can tell stories

By Rick Garrick TORONTO – The graceful kicking and twirling fancy shawl dance moves of Jennifer Meness highlighted the 35th annual Toronto Storytelling Festival. “It...

Anishinaabe immersion

By Andrea Crawford SUDBURY -- The Ojibway Cultural Foundation’s yearly spring conference is the perfect place to come if you  want to understand what it’s...

Words cure any pain

By Albert Dumont OTTAWA -- Recently at the Singing Pebble bookstore I spoke about what it was that created the poetry I write. I shared...

Lots of miigwech’s to all contributors to Anishinaabemowin-Teg

By Martina Osawamick Aanii! Miishigo zhiseg wii-maawnjidiyiing! Anishinaabemowin-Teg enchiiyaang gmiigwechwi’aanaa Wikwemikoong bemaadzijig sa gii bi naadimaagewad maanda gii-mi wiikgchitooyaang zhoonyaa gii-mi "bingoyaang oodi 2012." Miigwech...

Education: The new moose

By Monique DuBray NIPISSING FN --For years, Indigenous people had many reasons to hunt moose for other reasons than to provide food.The animal’s fur was...

Artists and musicians gather at Nbisiing

By Monique DuBray NIPISSING FN – Dozens of local and visiting Anishinaabe artists gathered  Feb. 23 to put their talents on display in the auditorium...