Heartfull Knowing: a Teaching and a Fundraiser
Submitted by Lynn Gehl In the Anishinaabeg tradition, the heart is an important repository of knowledge. Actually, in many ways the heart is a stronger...
Book Review: Red Dreams, White Nightmares: Pan-Indian Alliances in the Anglo-American Mind
Reviewed by Karl Hele Robert Owens’ Red Dreams, White Nightmares adeptly examines Euro-American fears of an Indigenous to create a Pan-Indian alliance to oppose American...
It is time to change Anishinabek education
By Patrick Madahbee Over the past 20 years, the Anishinabek Nation and Canada have been negotiating an education agreement which will allow First Nations to...
Kettle and Stony Point First Nation community member appointed to the Superior Court of Justice
Submitted by Mel Henry The Honourable Justice Jonathon C. George, an Ojibway of Pottawatomi descent, and citizen and resident of the Kettle & Stony Point...
Chaudière Falls is an Indigenous Cathedral
By Lindsay Lambert The Chaudière Falls and Islands have been the great Indigenous sacred and peaceful meeting place since time immemorial. From the archaeological record,...
Native mascots mock Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms
By Brad Gallant Native mascots mock Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Tonight Washington will again be featured on TSN Monday Night Football. The program...
Nature makes a pretty good classroom
By Maurice Switzer There are some fascinating learning opportunities available for anyone who has occasion to be awake at three o’clock in the morning. That’s...
With rights, come responsibilities
By Grand Council Chief Patrick Madahbee Fishing, since time immemorial, has always been about respect, responsibility and discipline. There has always been communal care for...
Ontario Regional Chief, Isadore Day calls on Canada and the US to end ‘Oil Centrism’
OPEN LETTER: From clearing the Plains in Canada to bulldozing Sacred Sites in North Dakota: Governments and industry collaborate to commit atrocities against our Peoples...
Letter to the Editor: Chief Miskokomon clarifies Walpole Island natural gas protest
Dear Editor, This letter is in response to your article dated August 30, 2016, “Walpole Island continues protest of natural gas.” I can appreciate that...
Learning indigenous language removes us from colonialism
By Chelsea Vowel I come from a community that historically, was multilingual. People spoke Michif, Cree, English and French, and many also spoke Stoney (Nakota)....
Top Ten Reconciliation Tips
By Maurice Switzer Dear Mister-now-Senator Murray Sinclair: Thank you for spending six years of your life to create an excellent report about how Natives and...
Opinion: Bob Rae must be eating lots of fish
By Maurice Switzer It’s really hard to debunk those old wives’ tales or urban legends that seem to have more staying power than the truth....
Opinion: Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls – police aren’t doing enough
By John Fox April 25 marked three years since Cheyenne Fox was murdered in Toronto. Cheyenne fell 24 stories to her death. At first...
Opinion: At the corner of Grief and misery – Where the present has no future
By Beverly Sabourin and Peter Globensky How much grief and misery mixed into the stew of destitution and poverty can a community endure and still...