Don’t throw Boydens out with bathwater!
By Maurice Switzer Anishinabek broadcaster Jesse Wente was shedding tears. He was participating in a CBC radio debate with Walrus magazine editor Jonathan Kay about...
Nokomis Mandamin leads walk For the Earth and Water
By Lynne Brown GARDEN RIVER FIRST NATION—At 6:00 am, April 20, 2017, on Spirit Mountain, Duluth MN, USA, Anishinaabe (Ojibway) Grandmother and respected Elder Josephine...
Munschtime! at YPT has something for everyone
By Barb Nahwegahbow TORONTO—A story based on an Inuit tale, A Promise is a Promise, is one of five stories that are part of a...
Biigtigong Language Project underway
By Rick Garrick BIIGTIGONG NISHNAABEG—Biigtigong Nishnaabeg has created a Biigtigong Language Project website to share information about the Biigtigong Dictionary, verb charts, audio and video...
Louis Riel the opera revived for Canada 150 celebration
By Kristin Grant TORONTO—In the late 19th century, Métis leader Louis Riel prophetically proclaimed that “my people will sleep for one hundred years, but when...
Aamjiwnaang Heritage and Culture group bring organized dance to community
By Colin Graf AAMJIWNAANG FIRST NATION—As the powwow music streams through the speakers, three-and-a-half-year-old Theo Wolfe, dressed in a headdress handmade by his grandmother, follows...
Where the streets have an old name
By Rick Garrick TORONTO—Two historic Indigenous trails in the Toronto area are marked with Anishinaabemowin signs at the corners of Spadina and Dupont, Spadina and...