Concordia now offering First Peoples Studies Bachelor Degrees
By Karl Hele MONTREAL – Concordia University now offers a Major and Minor Bachelor’s degree in First Peoples Studies (FPST). First Nation students such as...
Creating Partnerships evening links business with First Nations
By Peter Gorrie TORONTO – The audience roared as Patrick Madahbee, Grand Chief of the Anishinabek Nation, described an incident on Manitoulin Island: A cruise...
UBCIC Denounces Canada’s Brutal Assault on Elsipogtog
COAST SALISH TERRITORY/VANCOUVER, BC, Oct. 17, 2013 – The UBCIC Executive and the UBCIC Chiefs Council stand in full support with Elsipogtog community and leadership...
Letter to Royal Canadian Mounted Police from Chiefs of Ontario
Royal Canadian Mounted Police National Headquarters Attn: Commissioner Bob Paulson 73 Leikin Drive, Ottawa, ON K1A 0R2 Sent Via Fax: (613) 993-0260 Dear Commissioner Paulson:...
Teachers give top marks to Rabbit and Bear Paws
TORONTO – Anishinabek author and children’s educator Chad Solomon has won the 2013 Children’s Literature Award sponsored by the Elementary Federation Teachers of Ontario (EFTO)....
Thunder Bay welcomes Aboriginal dollars
By Rick Garrick THUNDER BAY –Local businesses are being encouraged by the Chamber of Commerce to post “Status Cards Welcome” decals and to make their...
Throne Speech ‘colonial’: Madahbee
UOI OFFICES (Nipissing FN) October 17, 2013 – Anishinabek Nation Grand Council Chief Patrick Madahbee sees a colonial agenda in Wednesday’s Speech from the Throne....
Microfinance: A tool for nation-building
By Barbara Nahwegahbow TORONTO – Chief Isadore Day of Serpent River First Nation doesn’t see Serpent River’s microfinance strategy as letting the federal government off...
Ottawa supports Niigaan project: ‘Looking to the future’
By Greg Macdougall OTTAWA – Niigaan: In Conversation, a project in Ottawa that brings Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples together for dialogue and discussion, recently received...
Medicines everywhere we walk
By Rick Garrick FORT WILLIAM FN – Traditional healers once travelled for years to trade medicines and learn from one another on the slopes of...
Prior consent required for resource extraction
By Peter Globensky Successive governments in Ontario have not been able to connect the dots and realize that the future of resource development and extractive...
Book review: Planet problems
By Laura Dokis Ruby Bloom begins to amass a “galaxy” of planets when her grandfather gives her an unexpected gift. Her relationships with her mother...
Madahbee: Stop education ‘experiments’
UOI OFFICES (Nipissing FN) October 9, 2013 – The government of Canada must stop experimenting with the lives of First Nations children. Anishinabek Nation Grand...
Urgent Call for Support by Friday, October 11, 2013
Hupacasath Court Challenge to Canada – China FIPA The Hupacasath First Nation in British Columbia is seeking your urgent support to continue their legal challenge...
Christian Island kids walk for Terry Fox
By Sharon Weatherall BEAUSOLEIL FN –Christian Island Elementary School goes all out every year for Terry Fox. The entire 90-student school population participates in the...