Book review: Warriors & Nations: Voices from the Original Peoples
Reviewed by Karl Hele Jean Miso’s Warriors & Nations: Voices from the Original Peoples is a powerful collection of stories from Indigenous veterans across Canada ranging...
Book review: Numbered Treaties A to Z
Reviewed by Alex Hebert At first look at the book Numbered Treaties A to Z, I was impressed with the eye-catching illustrations. By introducing information...
Letter to the Editor: Find a way to restore wholistic health
Addendum to a keynote by Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux One year ago, I was asked to do a keynote for the Chiefs of Ontario Health Conference. I...
Nenookaasi Mawadishiwe: Hummingbird Visits is a great book for language learners
Reviewed by Alex Hebert It’s surprising what you can learn by being observant in your own back yard. Author and illustrator Erin Leary watched hummingbirds...
Book review: ‘We Need Everyone’ challenges children to find their gift
Reviewed by Alex Hebert The world needs everyone to participate in their way with their special gift. This is what makes the world work. We...
Book review: The Wild Horses of The Chilcotin: Their History and Future
Reviewed by Carrie MacKenzie The Wild Horses of The Chilcotin: Their History and Future by Wayne McCrory is a non-fiction book that outlines two decades...
Book review: The Seven Nations of Canada, 1660-1860
Reviewed by Karl Hele Jean-Pierre Sawaya’s The Seven Nations of Canada is a well-researched examination of the Quebec’s domiciled nations. Originally published in 1998 in...
Book review: The Seven Generations and the Seven Grandfather Teachings
Reviewed by Karl Hele James Vukelich’s The Seven Generations and the Seven Grandfather Teachings is a marvellous discussion of some of the fundamentals of Anishinaabeg...
Book review: The Sky Watched: Poems of Ojibwe Lives
Reviewed by Karl Hele Linda LeGarde Grover’s The Sky Watched: Poems of Ojibwe Lives is a moving collection of poems that reflects the Anishinaabeg of...
Book review: The Portal Keeper: The Misewa Saga, Book 4
Reviewed by Karl Hele David A. Robertson’s latest book in the Misewa Saga, The Portal Keeper, continues to expand the world of Aski and the...
Book review: Aki-wayn-zih: A Person as Worthy as the Earth
Reviewed by Karl Hele In Aki-wayn-zih: A Person as Worthy as the Earth, Baxter deftly weaves together a complex argument that is immensely readable and...
Book review: Indigenous Ingenuity: A Celebration of Traditional North American Knowledge
Reviewed by Karl Hele Deidre Havrelock and Edward Kay’s Indigenous Ingenuity: A Celebration of Traditional North American Knowledge, designed for young readers, explores Indigenous Science,...
Opinion: Buffy’s legacy is the real deal
By Maurice Switzer There were only about 500 of us sitting on the infield of a baseball stadium at the foot of Bathurst Street near...
Letter to the Editor: An open letter to the 44th Parliament of Canada re: Bill C-53
Before voting on Bill C-53, An Act respecting the recognition of certain Métis governments, and to give effect to treaties with those governments and to...
Book review: Inventing the Thrifty Gene: The Science of Settler Colonialism
Reviewed by Karl Hele Travis Hay’s Inventing the Thrifty Gene: The Science of Settler Colonialism is a wondrous exploration of the bonds between settler colonialism and...