OUR TIME IS NOW: Madahbee
UOI Offices –This year marks the 250th anniversary of The Royal Proclamation, a landmark document by which the British Crown recognized the nationhood of “the...
Statistics demonstrate First Nations potential
OTTAWA – Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo says the Statistics Canada data released May 8 from the 2011 National Household Survey...
Anishinabek flee flooding
Pic Mobert First Nation, located 270 kilometres north of Sault Ste. Marie, declared an emergency because of rising waters and the likelihood of flooding in...
Harper not learning from ‘mistakes of the past’
By Maurice Switzer First Nations know they have a good idea when the Harper government doesn’t want anything to do with it. That’s how it...
Entire school involved in pow-wow plans
By Sharon Weatherall BEAUSOLEIL FN — Students at Christian Island Elementary School put a lot of work into planning their annual pow-wow. Principal Angela Johnson...
It helps to love the sound, feel and weight of words
By Richard Wagamese I love dictionaries. I think I always have or at least I have ever since I fell in love with words. I...
Survivors adamant: It’s our turn to speak
By Karl Hele MONTREAL –Presentations by “settler” academics at times met heated responses from residential school survivors during a mini-conference on the Legacy of Residential...