Still a speaker after 60 years in city
By Barb Nahwegahbow TORONTO – It was the late 1950’s when Mary Fox left her home on Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve and set out for...
Anishinabek education needs ‘two sneakers’
By Marci Becking NIPISSING FN – Anishinabek Nation interim youth rep Quinn Meawasige likens an Anishinabek Education System to having one foot in a...
Ring of Fire First Nations to share in revenues
THUNDER BAY – Ontario Regional Chief Stan Beardy extended his congratulations to the nine Matawa member First Nations and the Ontario government on the Ring...
Reconciliation: changing what we say about each other
By Murray Sinclair Special to CBC News Now that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s seventh and final national event is over, some have asked, “What’s next?” From...
‘Redskins’ help keep racism alive: United Nations
GENEVA – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, James Anaya, has called on the owners of the Washington Redskins Football team...
Learning Clan system builds Anishinabek Nation unity
By Tammy Desmoulin SAULT STE. MARIE, MI – Learning the Anishinabek Nation clan system is the first step towards building unity within the nation. Anishinabek...
‘We need a real say in how our kids are taught’: Madahbee
UOI OFFICES (April 14, 2014) – Just promising more money for First Nations education won’t make it better, says Grand Council Chief Patrick Madahbee, unless...
Helicopter changed Ocean Bell’s life
By Barb Nahwegahbow TORONTO – It was the helicopter hovering over her head that changed Ocean Bell’s life. Just 13 at the time, she was...
Enimkii robot caught judges’ eye
By Marci Becking NORTH BAY – Their decision to create a defensive robot helped students from Nbisiing Secondary School earn the coveted Judges award in...
She escaped but lost her right to education
By Beverly Anne Sabourin & Peter Andre Globensky The Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission recently completed four years of public hearings recording...
Friendship Centres drop the ‘Indian’
OTTAWA – The Ontario Federation of Indian Friendship Centres officially became the Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres on April 1, 2014. The name change...
Helping Native patients navigate cancer care system
By Norm Tollinsky Northern Ontario Medical Journal Special to the Anishinabek News “Too often in the past,” says Alethea Kewayosh, director of Cancer Care Ontario’s...
Chiefs of Ontario faces 80% chop
By Martha Troian TORONTO – The Chiefs of Ontario (COO) organization is faced with an 80 per cent cut to its core funding beginning...
Equinox, new Cree teen superhero, joins DC Comics lineup
Metropolis’s Superman and Gotham City’s Batman are getting a brand-new colleague from Canada this spring: a teenage Cree superhero hailing from Moose Factory, Ont. Read...
A Tribe Called Red is the first indigenous group to win outside of the Aboriginal music category
By Angela Sterritt – CBC news On Sunday night at the Juno Awards, A Tribe Called Red made history. When the electronic powwow drum group...