The time is now: Talks launched to support Anishinabek Nation’s Health Transformation strategy
By Laura E. Young SUDBURY – Having secured an education system reflective of its culture, the Anishinabek Nation is transforming the way it does health...
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...
Anishinabek Nation brings treaty rights to the forefront in Lands and Resources Forum
NORTH BAY (February 5, 2018) – For the second year, Grand Council Chief Patrick Wedaseh Madahbee welcomes First Nations, citizens, government, industry and academia to...
Wikwemikong joins international light festival as holiday destination
By Kathleen Imbert After Amsterdam in Holland and Lyon in France, Wikwemikong Unceded Territory in Canada has its own winter light festival. The annual winter...
Stoneypoint was protecting water, land
“How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the...
‘Aftershock’ features last generation of Residential School survivors
By Colin Graf AAMJIWNAANG FIRST NATION – Reconciliation is something that needs to take place not only between racial communities in Canada, but also within...
NWAC reprimands media for perpetuating damaging stereotypes in Tina Fontaine murder trial
February 1, 2018 –The Native Women’s Association of Canada is adamantly opposed to the media’s use of victim-blaming rhetoric and negative, unfounded stereotypes in their...
Significant victory for First Nation children in care
Chiefs of Ontario convince Canadian Human Rights Tribunal to order Canada to fund Band Representative Services and Mental Health Services (Ottawa, February 1, 2018) Today,...
Biinjitiwaabik Zaaging Anishinaabek and Red Rock artists part of Converging Lines exhibit
By Rick Garrick THUNDER BAY – Birch bark is featured in the work of two artists from the Northern Superior Region at the Thunder Bay...
Anishinabek Nation and Ontario sign Letter of Commitment
TORONTO (January 31, 2018) – Anishinabek Nation Grand Council Chief Patrick Madahbee and Chris Ballard, Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, met today to...
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...
Koganaawsawin: Monumental progress for First Nations Child Well-Being
By Lynne Brown SAULT STE. MARIE – Adrienne Pelletier, Director Social Services for the Anishinabek Nation, gave a powerful keynote address on the first morning...
Heroes in Health make great things happen in our communities
By Lynne Brown SAULT STE. MARIE –The third annual Anishinabek Health conference took place at The Quattro Hotel and Convention Centre in Sault Ste. Marie,...
Chiefs to confront federal government on lack of progress in standards of living
LONDON, ON (Jan 25, 2018) – On January 29th the Chiefs of the Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians will be meeting with critics, ministers,...
Ontario to double number of entrants for National Aboriginal Hockey Championships
By Sam Laskaris MEMBERTOU FIRST NATION – Thanks in large part to officials from one of the world’s longest running and largest Native youth tournaments,...