Book review: Staging Indigeneity: Salvage Tourism and the Performance of Native American History
Reviewed by Karl Hele Katrina Phillips’ Staging Indigeneity: Salvage Tourism and the Performance of Native American History explores three outdoor performances created by non-Indigenous that...
Book review: The Last President: Autobiography of a Residential School Survivor
Reviewed by Karl Hele The Last President: How Aboriginal and Treaty Rights Were Entrenched in the Canadian Constitution, is a fascinating autobiography of Chief Del...
Book review: Gaa-izhi-miinigoowizid a’aw Anishinaabe: What We Were Given as Anishinaabe
Reviewed by Karl Hele Lee Obizaan Staples and Chato Ombishkebines’ monograph is an excellent source for Anishinaabe seeking to learn about and potentially follow traditional...
Book review: The Hawk Shadow
Reviewed by Alex Hebert Winter is storytelling time for Anishinaabe. This is a great book to read with your little ones and dream of spring...
Book review: Brown Tom’s Schooldays
Reviewed by Karl Hele Brown Tom’s Schooldays is a marvellous fictionalized story of author Enos Montour’s experiences at the Mount Elgin Industrial School in the...
Book review: When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance
Reviewed by Caroline MacKenzie When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance by Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel with Sean Carleton is about Katsi’tsakwas’ experience at...
Letter to the Editor: There is no place for residential schooling denialism in Canada
Boozhoo Kina Weya, Greetings Everyone. We are deeply disturbed by some of the publications in the news recently on the Anishinabek Territory. Specifically, the news...
Book review: One Second at a Time: My Story of Pain and Reclamation
Reviewed by Karl Hele One Second at a Time: My Story of Pain and Reclamation is a heart-rending read of Diane Morrisseau’s life and pathway...
Book review: Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, A White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation
Reviewed by Karl Hele Sniderman and Sanderson in Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, A White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation offer an exploration...
Book review: Framing First Contact: From Catlin to Russell
Reviewed by Karl Hele Framing First Contact: From Catlin to Russell by Kate Elliot represents an exploration of American artists’ attempts to represent European and...
Book review: Surviving the City Vol. 3: We Are the Medicine
Reviewed by Caroline MacKenzie Surviving the City Vol. 3: We Are the Medicine is by Tasha Spillett with art by Natasha Donovan. The colouring and...
Opinion: Is It time to review Métis Nation of Ontario Relationship Agreements?
By Catherine Murton Stoehr Things have been said that cannot be unsaid: “The Chiefs of Ontario do not recognize the MNO [Métis Nation of Ontario]...
Book Review: The Rez Doctor
Based on a true story, The Rez Doctor depicts the journey of a young Indigenous man to fulfill his dream of becoming a doctor. It...
Book review: Between the Pipes
Between the Pipes by Albert McLeod with Elaine Mordoch and Sonya Ballantyne, is a coming-of-age graphic novel that spotlights toxic masculinity and homophobia in sport....
Ipperwash’s unsung hero
By Maurice Switzer Hugh Fraser is an unsung hero, an accolade he never sought but earned for ensuring that justice would be served in the...