Teachers give top marks to Rabbit and Bear Paws

TORONTO – Anishinabek author and children’s educator Chad Solomon has won the 2013 Children’s Literature Award sponsored by the Elementary Federation Teachers of Ontario (EFTO)....

Thunder Bay welcomes Aboriginal dollars

By Rick Garrick THUNDER BAY –Local businesses are being encouraged by the Chamber of Commerce to post “Status Cards Welcome” decals and to make their...

Throne Speech ‘colonial’: Madahbee

UOI OFFICES (Nipissing FN) October 17, 2013 – Anishinabek Nation Grand Council Chief Patrick Madahbee sees a colonial agenda in Wednesday’s Speech from the Throne....

Microfinance: A tool for nation-building

By Barbara Nahwegahbow TORONTO – Chief Isadore Day of Serpent River First Nation doesn’t see Serpent River’s microfinance strategy as letting the federal government off...

Medicines everywhere we walk

By Rick Garrick FORT WILLIAM FN – Traditional healers once travelled for years to trade medicines and learn from one another on the slopes of...

Book review: Planet problems

By Laura Dokis Ruby Bloom begins to amass a “galaxy” of planets when her grandfather gives her an unexpected gift. Her relationships with her mother...

Madahbee: Stop education ‘experiments’

UOI OFFICES (Nipissing FN) October 9, 2013  –  The government of Canada must stop experimenting with the lives of First Nations children. Anishinabek Nation Grand...

Christian Island kids walk for Terry Fox

By Sharon Weatherall BEAUSOLEIL FN –Christian Island Elementary School goes all out every year for Terry Fox. The entire 90-student school population participates in the...

In the end, we’re all foster parents

By Richard Wagamese Friends of ours are foster parents. They’ve been doing this for years and in that time they’ve positively influenced a lot of...