Teaching lodge and live concert cap off National Aboriginal Day celebrations
By Rick Garrick THUNDER BAY—A teaching lodge and an open air concert by Classic Roots were among the events featured at Thunder Bay’s National Aboriginal...
Grandmothers honoured at Maamwi Kindaaswin Festival
By Kelly Anne Smith NORTH BAY – Grandmothers are everything. The important message is from Richard Assinewai, a Wikwemikong Unceded Territory citizen and the Head...
‘Indigenous Thought and Mobility in a Contentious World’ theme for this year’s CINSA
By Karl Hele For the third time since the relaunching of the Canadian Indigenous Native Studies Association (CINSA) in 2015, participants attended a three-day conference...
Help this Sixties Scoop survivor look for his birth family
By Barb Nahwegahbow Sixty-year old Timothy Marks is a Sixties Scoop survivor and he’s looking for his birth family. He knows he is Mohawk and...
Medicines part of school learning space
By Rick Garrick THUNDER BAY – Traditional drum songs and the planting of four traditional medicines highlighted the June 23 grand opening of the Indigenous...
Anishinabek Nation Governance Agreement vote projected for Spring 2019
By Laura Barrios SAULT STE. MARIE, ON—Many First Nations across Canada are taking back control over the way they govern their communities. The member First...
AEI Nipissing Campus sees 16 graduate
By Bobbie Maxwell NIPISSING FIRST NATION–The Anishinabek Educational Institute’s Nipissing Campus celebrated the achievements of 16 graduates at a ceremony held at Nbisiing Secondary School...
Village fundraising campaign launched
(NORTH BAY, ONT.) – Today, Canadore College’s president George Burton and The Village’s co-chairs, Judy Sharpe and Mark Deacon unveiled the campaign plans for...
Kingfisher Lake students visit Toronto
By Barb Nahwegahbow TORONTO—Shaun Quequish, a Grade 8 student from Kingfisher Lake First Nation, had one word to describe Toronto – confusing. He and 11...
‘I am hopeful for Canada 200’ says Art Jacko on Canada’s next milestone birthday
Submitted by Art Jacko They say its Canada’s 150 birthday this weekend. Below are two statements made by First Nation leaders, first at Canada 100...
Fur harvesting: learning the skills of our ancestors
By Lisa Robinson NIPISSING FIRST NATION—The Lands and Resources Department at the Union of Ontario Indians participated in a Fur Harvest, Management and Conservation course...
Bannock on a stick a hit at National Aboriginal Day Celebration
By Kelly Anne Smith NIPISSING FIRST NATION – Many people gathered at Nbisiing Secondary School in Duchesnay Village on the summer solstice to celebrate the...
Nation flags on permanent display at Toronto’s City Hall
By Barb Nahwegahbow The Indigenous presence in Toronto, past and present became more visible with the permanent installation of First Nations, Inuit and Metis flags...
OPINION – Canada 150: Coming Home
By Catherine Murton Stoehr Canada 150: Coming Home – previously published in Origins – Ohio State University One hundred and fifty years ago, this July...
Superior Strategies expanding
By Rick Garrick THUNDER BAY – Superior Strategies owner Jason Thompson is expanding his Red Rock Indian Band-based quality management consulting and training services business...