Reconciliation: ‘Respecting other truths’
By Christine Smith (McFarlane) TORONTO – Respecting other peoples’ truths are at the heart of attempts to create reconciliation between First Peoples and others who...
Work for the water continues
By Vicki Monague BEAUSOLEIL TRADITIONAL TERRITORY – The Mnidoo Gaaming Bimooseyang Water Walk lasted 17 days, starting at Cedar Point, Ontario on June 21 and...
Contact North keeps students closer to home
By Heather Campbell SUDBURY – More students are choosing to stay in their community and tap into thousands of college, university, high school, and literacy...
Missing women represented by 600 moccasins
By Mary Annette Pember Indian Country Today “Walking With Our Sisters” is a commemorative art installation to honor the lives of missing and murdered Indigenous...
Grandmother Moon smudge available
In support of women, the Union of Ontario Indians FASD Program will be test running a new promotional item called “Grandmother Moon Medicine”, a form...
Wikwemikong Tourism furthers training with hiking trail development
By Melissa Cooper WIKWEMIKONG – The Tourism Department of the Wikwemikong Reserve is diversifying its service portfolio, providing training and trail development services to other...
UN urges States to do more to respect treaties
GENEVA – States need to do more to honour and strengthen their treaties with indigenous peoples, no matter how long ago they were signed, UN...
Ask Holly: Septic tank tips
My conversations with readers can be interesting and sometimes quite intimate. The topics are as diverse as the people I speak with. I usually don’t...
Call me anything but ‘colonized’
By Maurice Switzer When it comes to Indigenous peoples, it’s pretty well open season for name-callers. And we’re not talking here about locker-room slang like...
Art honours fallen warriors
‘Honoring the Spirit of Chief Wabighijack’ is a recently-completed painting by Zoey Wood-Solomon. The acrylic-on-paper work, measuring 26X32 inches, depicts a young Chief and his...
‘Gap in education funding perpetuates gap in learning’: Madahbee
By Kelly Crawford and Marci Becking UOI OFFICES – Anishinabek Nation Grand Council Chief Patrick Madahbee says that the federal government is not putting money...
Book Reviews: Teaching atrocities
By Laura Robinson As the Truth and Reconciliation Commission works through the final year of bearing witness to the testimonies of survivors of residential school...
Exhibit explores tangled relationships
By Shirley Honyust LONDON, Ont. – For Dolleen Manning, a major difference between Indigenous artists and others is their sense of being connected to other...
Youth discuss suicide at safeTalk training
By Heather Campbell SUDBURY – Having the skill to talk about suicide can make a significant impact in communities is the message shared by the...
Ontario tax exemption: Your rights as a First Nation citizen
By Kevin Restoule As a First Nation citizen, you have many rights, some of which are affirmed by the federal and provincial governments through the...