Mining: ‘More benefits, less paperwork’
By Marlene Bilous FORT WILLIAM FN –Lake Superior region Chiefs are looking for more benefits and less paperwork related to mining activities on their traditional...
UN planning 2014 World Indigenous Conference
NEW YORK – While there have been encouraging responses to human rights concerns of indigenous peoples and to helping States and other stakeholders address them,...
Use healthy food as a reward
By Sarah Blackwell NORTH BAY – The cooler weather has arrived, school has started and parents are back in their regular work routine. So what...
Ojibway cuisine more than Kraft Dinner
By Richard Wagamese There’s something to be said for the old phrase “the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.” It had to...
Elsipogtog First Nation says shale gas dispute goes beyond feuding with companies
CBC NEWS – The chief of the First Nation at the centre of an ongoing dispute over shale gas development says his community will go to court...
Education Act repeats mistakes, threatens futures: Madahbee
UOI OFFICES (Nipissing First Nation) October 25, 2013 – Grand Council Chief Patrick Madahbee says, if implemented, the Harper government’s First Nations Education Act would...
Board selection for Kinomaadswin Education Body begins
By Kelly Crawford Two Regional Education Council (REC) meetings took place in the month of September; the REC #2 meeting took place on September 16-17...