Lakeview School launches Ontario’s First Confident Learners Initiative
By Kelly Crawford M’CHIGEENG FIRST NATION – Kenjgewin-Teg Educational Institute’s First Nation Student Success Program launched Ontario’s only ‘Confident Learners’ at Lakeview School on December...
TRC report recommendations need real financial backing
UOI OFFICES (Nipissing FN) December 15, 2015 – Anishinabek Nation Grand Council Chief Patrick Madahbee agrees with Justice Sinclair’s comments regarding the number of indigenous...
Fort William Christmas party a hit with the kids
By Rick Garrick Fort William First Nation’s 12 Days of Christmas Children’s Christmas Party was a hit for about 300 children, parents and grandparents. “It’s...
Wahnapitae leads way in sustainable development
By Joey Krackle Wahnapitae First Nation’s Sustainable Development Department’s primary objective is to effectively manage our territory and development in order to ensure that there...
Niagara College, Anishinabek Educational Institute renew partnership
NIAGARA FALLS – Niagara College and the Anishinabek Educational Institute (AEI) have renewed a partnership aimed at providing high-quality academic programs for Anishinabek students. The...
Indigenous and Ingenious brings out the talented
By Christine Smith (McFarlane) TORONTO – Unique works by contemporary Canadian Aboriginal artists were the feature of the most recent Indigenous & Ingenious Show and...
You can’t learn if you don’t listen
By Maurice Switzer There’s a story about how, after the dust cleared at the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn, Cheyenne and Lakota women scouring...
Lakehead students discovering their history
By Rick Garrick Pic Mobert’s Melissa Twance discovered many treaties were signed with pictographs during her masters of education research project on pictographs as a...
Monument to First Nations WW I hero underway
NAUGHTON, Ontario – The Ontario Native Education Counselling Association (ONECA) today released a first glimpse of sculptures which will be part of the Francis Pegahmagabow...
Run Against Line 9
Muncey, Ontario (December 4, 2015) – Rachel Thevenard’s, of Kitchener/Waterloo area, “Run Against Line 9” is in support of Chippewas of the Thames First Nation’s...
The power of filing
By Rhonda Couchie With the advent of computers, the business world envisioned a paperless society, but we have long buried that ancient dream under heaping...
Acknowledge traditional territories: Educators
NORTH BAY, ON, Dec. 9, 2015 – The First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Education Association of Ontario (FNMIEAO) is endorsing the 94 Calls to Action...
Letter to the Editor: Aboriginal Housing
Re: Racial Profiling Dear Editor: A situation has been brewing in Manitouwaning,ON for the last four years, ever since I moved into Aboriginal Housing. Someone...
Stolen art and cultural treasures: An example from World War II
By Laurie Leclair An advertisement in the Globe and Mail on Saturday November 14th announced that a prominent art house would host an upcoming “Inuit...
‘Inquiry will show racism is alive and well in Canada’: Madahbee
GATINEAU, QC (December 8, 2015) – Anishinabek Nation Grand Council Chief Patrick Madahbee applauds the federal government’s announcement of an inquiry into murdered and missing...