Anishinabek Nation hosts Treaties Recognition Week education events
ANISHINABEK NATION HEAD OFFICE (November 5, 2018)— Anishinabek Nation leaders and educators highlighted treaty education resources at a living library event held at the Harris...
Chippewas of Rama First Nation woman elected as NAIG Council president
By Sam Laskaris ORILLIA – Dale Tamara Plett got a bit more than she bargained for when she attended a recent annual general meeting in...
Anishinabek Nation remembers Wiikwemkoong Elder and WWII Veteran
By Rick Garrick WIIKWEMKOONG UNCEDED TERRITORY—Wiikwemkoong Elder Andy (Andrew) Manitowabi is fondly remembered by many for starting up Andy’s General Store and initiating plans to...
Koganaawsawin to staff up April 1
By Marci Becking BIINJITIWAABIK ZAAGING ANISHINAABEK – Social Services Director Adrienne Pelletier has big plans for Koganaawsawin. “We want a better deal for an Anishinabek...
Chief’s Island grave story
By Laurie Leclair On Thursday, November 8, 1923, a workman putting through a new sewer line across a property on St. Mary’s Street made the...
Victory and loss in the Robinson Huron Treaty Trial
By Catherine Murton Stoehr SUDBURY—The audience at a Robinson Huron Treaty trial panel was startled this week when, half-way into a measured, lawyerly PowerPoint presentation...
Nipissing First Nation could draft own cannabis law
By Kelly Anne Smith NIPISSING FIRST NATION—Nipissing First Nation (NFN) has the inherent right to its own cannabis law and could be drafting a new...
Anishinaabe University of Sudbury students presented with scholarship awards
By Rick Garrick SUDBURY—Three University of Sudbury Indigenous Studies students are looking forward to being able to focus more on their studies after being presented...
APTN launches new TV series featuring Indigenous arm wrestlers
By Rick Garrick THUNDER BAY—APTN recently launched Arm Nation: the TV Series featuring more than a dozen Indigenous arm wrestling competitors, including Brenden Lemmon-Mulvihill and...
Seven Fallen Feathers author kicks off CBC Massey Lectures Tour
By Rick Garrick THUNDER BAY—Seven Fallen Feathers author Tanya Talaga kicked off her 2018 CBC Massey Lectures Tour with a lecture on What Are the Keys...
Anishinabek keynote speakers bring cultural conceptualizations of wellness at FASD forum
By Rick Garrick THUNDER BAY—Pays Plat’s Christopher Mushquash and Wiikwemkoong’s Lisa Bishop were among the presenters at the Ontario Native Women’s Association (ONWA) FASD (Fetal...
Two Anishinabek Nation citizens to be recognized with Indspire Awards
By Sam Laskaris CALGARY – A leader in Indigenous law and a high-ranking public servant will be among the latest individuals to be recognized nationally...
‘I don’t believe we’re ready at all’ says Anishinabek Nation Grand Council Chief on new cannabis legislation
By Jennifer Pereira PICKEREL—“I don’t believe we’re ready at all. A few communities have put a moratorium in place and one community is looking at...
Preserving Indian Residential School legacy
“I’m a survivor of a Residential School so it’s important for me that each generation is aware of what has happened to us in the...
Chippewas of the Thames First Nation bans provincial sales of cannabis
LONDON (October 16, 2018)—Chief Myeengun Henry, of Chippewas of the Thames First Nation, says that the First Nation has decided to ban delivery of recreational...