UN urges States to do more to respect treaties
GENEVA – States need to do more to honour and strengthen their treaties with indigenous peoples, no matter how long ago they were signed, UN...
Ask Holly: Septic tank tips
My conversations with readers can be interesting and sometimes quite intimate. The topics are as diverse as the people I speak with. I usually don’t...
Call me anything but ‘colonized’
By Maurice Switzer When it comes to Indigenous peoples, it’s pretty well open season for name-callers. And we’re not talking here about locker-room slang like...
Art honours fallen warriors
‘Honoring the Spirit of Chief Wabighijack’ is a recently-completed painting by Zoey Wood-Solomon. The acrylic-on-paper work, measuring 26X32 inches, depicts a young Chief and his...
‘Gap in education funding perpetuates gap in learning’: Madahbee
By Kelly Crawford and Marci Becking UOI OFFICES – Anishinabek Nation Grand Council Chief Patrick Madahbee says that the federal government is not putting money...
Book Reviews: Teaching atrocities
By Laura Robinson As the Truth and Reconciliation Commission works through the final year of bearing witness to the testimonies of survivors of residential school...
Exhibit explores tangled relationships
By Shirley Honyust LONDON, Ont. – For Dolleen Manning, a major difference between Indigenous artists and others is their sense of being connected to other...

