Book review: Engaging Indigenous Communities: Resources, Rebellions, and Resurgence, Conference Proceedings
Reviewed by Karl Hele In 2010, Ontario Native Women’s Association ( ONWA) local Anishnaabekweweg of the North Shore and Dr. Karl Hele held a conference...
Strength and resilience: ‘Resilience doesn’t mean just to fight, it means to never quit’
By Tarah-Lynn Remillard Knowing what I know now, I wouldn’t change anything on my thoughts on what resilience is to me. It’s different for everyone. ...
Shiikenh: ‘Act Indian, not Indian Act!’
By Maurice Switzer Anishinabek Nation politics was only meaningful to the late former Anishinabek Nation Getzit Gordon Waindubence (Shiikenh) if it was grounded in Anishinabek...
Book review: Black Sun
By Karl Hele Rebecca Roanhorse’s latest literary work, Black Sun, shifts from monster hunters of the southwest to a fantasy novel based loosely on various...
Book review: The Politics of the Canoe
Reviewed by Karl Hele The Politics of the Canoe is a collection of essays designed to complicate and unsettle the canoe as an icon of...
Book review: Skraelings
Reviewed by Karl Hele Rachel and Sean Qitsaulik-Tinsley’s Skraelings is a wonderfully rich exploration of Vikings, Tuniit (Dorset people), and Inuit interactions aimed at pre-highschool...
Book review: Understanding First Nations: The Legacy of Canadian Colonialism
By Karl Hele Dr. Ed Whitcomb’s Understanding First Nations: The Legacy of Canadian Colonialism is an overview of First Nations issues in Canada up to...
Letter to the Editor: A grandfather’s story – Remembrance Day on Fort William First Nation
By Kateri Skaarup FORT WILLIAM FIRST NATION – He was 15 years old. Too young to enlist but yet he did anyway under a fake name....
Letter to the editor: Amherstburg: what’s in a name?
Previously published in the Windsor Star Tourism promoters call Amherstburg “one of the prettiest and oldest communities in Southwest Ontario!” Unfortunately, say historians, the picturesque...
Letter to the editor: Support for legal claim to challenge the ongoing impacts of enfranchisement
Greetings!! I am writing this article as a proud member and Councillor of the Henvey Inlet First Nation (HIFN). While I am currently a member...
Opinion: Time for truth
Trigger warning: readers may be triggered by the recount of Indian Residential Schools. To access a 24-hour National Crisis Line, call: 1-866-925-4419. Community Assistance Program...
Opinion: Bi-waabndamewizig Anishinabek Nation – Tourism and Economic Development
Submitted by the Anishinabek Nation Economic Development Department Throughout our exploration into areas of economic development, we have looked at things through a variety of...
Head of the Lake Purchase
By Dr. David Shanahan By 1805, the Crown had acquired almost all of the north shore of Lake Ontario around to Niagara, with the exception...
Opinion: Major parties ominously silent on Canadian oil
By Catherine Murton Stoehr The climate platforms presented by the three major parties in Canada’s 44th national election will not prevent or even substantially mitigate...
Opinion: Looking back on the Restoration of Jurisdiction process
By Mary Laronde In 1995, the Anishinabek Nation Grand Council Chiefs-in-Assembly decided to enter into self-government negotiations with Canada as a way to restore inherent...