Sharing graphite mine wealth
By Marlene Bilous HENVEY INLET FN – The communities of Wasauksing, Dokis and Henvey Inlet signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Ontario Graphite Limited...
Women leave Beausoleil First Nation on water walk
By Sharon Weatherall Walking 30 kilometres and 10 hours a day around Georgian Bay, a group of Anishinabe women and supporters hope to create awareness...
How about Tecumseh Day?
A Niagara Falls man has launched a petition to redesignate Victoria Day as Tecumseh-Norton-Brant Day. “Its purpose is to honour all the First Peoples who...
Awards night for Native grads
SUDBURY – Cameron Debassige of Barrydowne College was a big winner, taking home a new laptop computer from the June 6 Annual Aboriginal Secondary School...
First Nations kids poorest in Canada
OTTAWA – Indigenous children in Canada are over two and a half times more likely to live in poverty than non-Indigenous children, according to a...
Canadore grad wins volunteer award
NORTH BAY – Recent Canadore College graduate Annette Chiblow is the 2013 recipient of the prestigious Lieutenant Governor’s Community Volunteer Award. The award recognizes an...
Our students’ dreams matter, too
Over 100 community members — including Cooper Taylor and Patrick Gunsolus –turned out to support the June 11 “Our Dreams Matter Too” walk in Curve...
Honoured alumna ‘walking history book’
By Rick Garrick THUNDER BAY — Lakehead University has recognized their “walking history book” with an Alumni Honour Award. “I feel like I’m a walking...
Fisheries centre has new manager
By Maureen Peltier NORTH BAY– At June’s Annual Grand Council Assembly of the Anishinabek Nation in Munsee-Delaware, Anishinabek/Ontario Fisheries Resource Centre chairperson Cliff Meness introduced...
Idle No More inspired ‘Nish boys
MONTREAL – Two Anishinabek Nation boys are winners in the 2013 Canadian Aboriginal Writing and Arts Challenge conducted by the Historica-Dominion Institute. Robert McCue, 16,...
‘Our kids deserve the right to their culture’: Hare
TORONTO – Anishinabek Nation leaders have told provincial government officials that their children in care deserve the right to their culture. “We need to leave...
Bursary helps Wiky youth pursue carpentry
TORONTO – A Wikwemikong youth is the 2013 recipient of the Bill Messenger Memorial Bursary, awarded by the Ontario Federation of Indian Friendship Centres to...
Students learn two very important words
By Sharon Weatherall BEAUSOLEIL FN — Participants in the 4th Annual Christian Island Elementary School Pow-Wow learned two very important words in Anishinaabemowin — and...
Youth participate in Grand Council Assembly
By Jon Cada MUNSEE DELAWARE NATION – There were some youthful faces at this year’s Anishinabek Nation Grand Council Assembly in Munsee-Delaware Nation in June....
First Nations policing should be funded by the feds, not the province
TORONTO – Serpent River Chief Isadore Day Wiindawtegowinini says that while he’s appreciative of the provincial funding in the Ontario budget, it’s the federal government...