Dressing a deer is important learning
By Maurice Switzer NORTH BAY — An Indigenous educator was telling the interviewer that, in his opinion, knowing how to dress a deer is probably...
Book review: The Stone Child: Book 3 of the Misewa Saga
Reviewed by Karl Hele The Stone Child: Book 3 of the Misewa Saga, the third volume of the Misewa Saga, picks up at the end...
Book review: The Peacekeeper
Reviewed by Karl Hele The Peacekeeper: A Novel (The Good Lands) is an excellent debut novel in a series for B.L. Blanchard who originally hails...
Honouring MMIWG2S+ on Red Dress Day beyond Turtle Island
By Kristin Crawford The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and Red Dress Day is a cause close to my heart. I am fortunate...
Book review: Country of Poxes: Three Germs and the Taking of Territory
Reviewed by Karl Hele Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay’s Country of Poxes: Three Germs and the Taking of Territory is a marvellous thought-provoking exploration of three diseases –...
Book review: Deadly Aim: The Civil War Story of Michigan’s Anishinaabe Sharpshooters
Reviewed by Karl Hele Sally Walker’s Deadly Aim: The Civil War Story of Michigan’s Anishinaabe Sharpshooters is a well written text that follows Anishinaabeg men...
Book review: Bad Cree
Reviewed by Kristin Crawford Sometimes, a title alone is enough to make someone pick up a book. Such was the case for me with the...
Book Review: Making the Carry: The Lives of John and Tchi-Ki-Wis Linklater
Making the Carry: The lives of John and Tchi-Ki-Wis Linklater by Timothy Cochrane is a gripping biography that details the amazing lives of John Linklater,...
Book Review: ‘Visions of the Crow’ an important story of identity
Reviewed by Alex Hebert Visions of the Crow offers a powerful and evocative exploration of identity, trauma, and healing through the lens of Indigenous experiences....
Cliff Cardinal’s one-man show a must-see
By Kristin Crawford TORONTO — Cliff Cardinal’s one-man show, The Land Acknowledgement or As You Like It, took me on a roller coaster of emotion....
Opinion: Representation matters
By Kristin Crawford Having recently signed up for dance classes, I found myself in need of a new pair of ballet shoes. I had heard...
Letter to the Editor: The need for more Boots on the Ground
By Steven Rickard I know that there are a lot of people who are bothered by the fact that homelessness has become another big issue...
Oolichan Moon: Oolichan fish important to the Nisga’a people
Reviewed by Alex Hebert Oolichan Moon is an educational children’s book written by Samantha Beynon and illustrated by Lucy Trimble. It is a story about...
Book review: Indians in Unexpected Places
Reviewed by Karl Hele Philip Deloria’s Indians in Unexpected Places is an excellent study of the interplay between white colonial expectations and Indigenous peoples’ challenges,...
Book review: Borders
Reviewed by Karl Hele Borders is a graphic novel drawn from Thomas King’s similarly titled short story published in his collection One Good Story That...