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...
Pic Mobert to be six times bigger
PIC MOBERT FN – Citizens of this northwestern Ontario First Nation hope that expanding their land base by 500% will...