How about Tecumseh Day?

A Niagara Falls man has launched a petition to redesignate Victoria Day as Tecumseh-Norton-Brant Day. “Its purpose is to honour all the First Peoples who...

Awards night for Native grads

SUDBURY – Cameron Debassige of Barrydowne College was a big winner, taking home a new laptop computer from the June 6 Annual Aboriginal Secondary School...

First Nations kids poorest in Canada

OTTAWA – Indigenous children in Canada are over two and a half times more likely to live in poverty than non-Indigenous children, according to a...

Canadore grad wins volunteer award

NORTH BAY – Recent Canadore College  graduate Annette Chiblow is the 2013 recipient of the prestigious Lieutenant Governor’s Community Volunteer Award. The award recognizes an...

Our students’ dreams matter, too

Over 100 community members — including Cooper Taylor  and Patrick Gunsolus –turned out to support the June 11 “Our Dreams Matter Too” walk in Curve...

Honoured alumna ‘walking history book’

By Rick Garrick THUNDER BAY — Lakehead University has recognized their “walking history book” with an Alumni Honour Award. “I feel like I’m a walking...

Fisheries centre has new manager

By Maureen Peltier NORTH BAY– At June’s  Annual Grand Council Assembly of the Anishinabek Nation in Munsee-Delaware,  Anishinabek/Ontario Fisheries Resource Centre chairperson Cliff Meness introduced...

Idle No More inspired ‘Nish boys

MONTREAL – Two Anishinabek Nation boys are winners in the 2013 Canadian Aboriginal Writing and Arts Challenge conducted by the Historica-Dominion Institute. Robert McCue, 16,...

Bursary helps Wiky youth pursue carpentry

TORONTO – A Wikwemikong youth is the 2013 recipient of the Bill Messenger Memorial Bursary, awarded by the Ontario Federation of Indian Friendship Centres to...

Students learn two very important words

By Sharon Weatherall BEAUSOLEIL FN — Participants in the 4th Annual Christian Island Elementary School Pow-Wow learned two very important words in Anishinaabemowin — and...

Youth participate in Grand Council Assembly

By Jon Cada MUNSEE DELAWARE NATION – There were some youthful faces at this year’s Anishinabek Nation Grand Council Assembly in Munsee-Delaware Nation in June....

Anishinabek meet with Premier

Anishinabek Nation leaders joined members of the First Nations Political Confederacy in a June 12 meeting with Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, Madeleine Meilleur, Minister of...