Mollie Doodle visits Christian Island
By Sharon Weatherall BEAUSOLEIL FIRST NATION – “Mollie Doodle” the loveable Golden Doodle of a popular children’s book series is coming to Christian Island. A...
KSP creates Ipperwash Beach Management Working Group
CHIPPEWAS OF KETTLE AND STONY POINT FIRST NATION – The Ipperwash Beach Management Working Group continues to work cooperatively, and reconfirms that signs and safety...
Community Profile: Wikwemikong keeping the language alive
By Rick Garrick Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve has been creating Anishinaabemowin Apps, holding monthly language gatherings and implementing an Anishinaabemowin Literacy block to keep their...
Demonstrations to happen against ‘Round Up’
By Leslie Knibbs MISSISSAUGA #8 FIRST NATION – The Traditional Ecological Knowledge Elders Group (TEK) met on April 14 at Mississaugi First Nation to...
Artists honour Anishinaabe Mino Bidmaadiziwin through photography
By Julie Kapyrka PETERBOROUGH – Anishinaabe Kwe Georgie Horton-Baptiste and George Campana, photographers extraordinaire, share the beauty of their artistic talents at Peterborough’s SPARK PHOTO...
Kina Gbezhgomi designation: Anishinabek looking after our children
* The Mnidoo Mnising Anishinabek Kinoomaage Gamig drum group recited the preamble Ngo Dwe Waangizid to the Chi-Naaknegewin – the Anishinabek Nation Constitution. Elder Gordon...
Halton District School Board names new school ‘Oodenawi’
By Rick Garrick OAKVILLE – Oodenawi — an Anishinaabemowin word which means community — was a recent unanimous choice for the name of one of...
Pic River announces major investment in forestry
Investment will create jobs, support ongoing forestry initiatives and add supply stability for area mills PIC RIVER FIRST NATION – The Pic River First Nation...
Mississauga #8 celebrates ratified constitution
MISSISSAUGA #8 – Citizens and leaders from Mississauga #8 First Nation came together on April 2 to celebrate the successful ratification of the Misswezahging Constitution...
Opinion: Innergex renewable energy and thier goal – ‘Environmental’ – Part one of three
Innergex plans on building 50 to 60 Industrial Wind Turbines (IWTs) in the Merrick area near North Bay. Innergex Representative Francois Morin said “the exact...
The viability of remote FN communities – last in a series
Different Paths – Common Ground The viability of remote First Nations communities – Parting Thoughts By Beverly Sabourin and Peter Globensky This series of articles...
New Delaware Nation nature trail wins conservation award
MORAVIANTOWN – The Delaware Nation’s new nature trail in Moraviantown is being recognized for its conservation efforts of Carolinian habitats and species at risk. The...
Setting targets more important than hitting them
By Maurice Switzer Part-way through my first-ever archery lesson it struck me as sort of funny that a white guy was teaching an Indian how...
Ontario Regional Chief Beardy calls on CN rail to drop injunction against Grassy Narrows First Nation women
TORONTO – Ontario Regional Chief Stan Beardy is calling on CN Rail to immediately drop injunction laid against Judy DaSilva, a Grassy Narrows First Nation...
First Nations language-based Mental Health First Aid Program delivers results
NORTH BAY – A two-year agreement between Canadore College in North Bay, Ont. and the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities to deliver a First...