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...
Letter to the editor: Lynn Gehl Re: ‘6(1)a All the Way!’
Finally, after years of completing family oral history, archival research, and taking legal action against Indian and Northern Affairs Canada’s (INAC) Unknown/Unstated Paternity policy, I...
Opinion: Two Odysseys: Pimooteewin/Gállábártnit
By Kristin Crawford TORONTO— After seeing my fair share of opera’s in French, Italian and German over the past 20 years, I was super excited...
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...
Performance and memory: 1832-1932 Anglican centenary celebrations at Garden River
By Karl Hele During the first week of September 1932, Garden River First Nation undertook a celebration of the 100-year anniversary of William McMurray’s arrival. The...
Opinion: Harris, Trump, and deadly political rhetoric
By Maurice Switzer When I think of Donald Trump – which I try to do as seldom as possible, especially on a full stomach – ...
Letter to the Editor: A place of beauty called Anemki Wajiw
I just wanted to thank the Anishinaabe people for allowing me the honor of going to their sacred place of Anemki Wajiw. I was on...
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...
The conflict of values: Who is winning? Who are the real losers?
* This is the first part of a two-part series on the conflict between Indigenous and Western values and approaches to the natural world and...
Seeing beyond the Indian Act through self-governance
Notes for an address by Lance Copegog, Beausoleil First Nation Anishinabek Nation Governance Gathering July 30th, 2019 Good afternoon, youth, Elders, leadership, delegates and community...