Book review: The Game of Silence

Reviewed by Karl Hele As the sequel to The Birchbark House, The Game of Silence continues the story of Omakayas and her family on Lake...

Book review: The Birchbark House

Reviewed by Karl Hele The Birchbark House, by Anishinaabeg author Louise Erdrich, follows eight-year-old Omakayas though the course of a single year near Sault Ste....

Opinion: Alcohol and Indigenous people

By Keith Corbiere In a fact sheet published on Mar. 14, 2016, Statistics Canada reported that 36% of off-reserve First Nation people in Ontario were...

The Invisible Indian

By Keith Corbiere MONTRÉAL— When I first moved to Montréal in April of 2016, my mind was a whirlwind of possibilities. What would it be...

A letter to teachers on treaty education

Dear Fellow Educators, Treaty Education week is fast approaching. Treaties Recognition Week is the first week of November every year. The week was introduced in...

Open letter to the Anishinabek Citizens

I offered to write this letter to the people in our First Nations on behalf of the Restoration of Jurisdiction Department about the Anishinabek Nation...

Book review: Storm of Locusts

Reviewed by Karl Hele Storm of Locusts is the second volume in Rebecca Roanhorse’s Sixth World series. The novel picks up Maggie Hoskie’s story about a...

Book review: The Ojibwa

Reviewed by Karl Hele Michelle Lomberg’s The Ojibwa is part of the American Indian Art and Culture series. This book has plenty of colour illustrations...