Sheshegwaning First Nation creates custom mobile communications app for pandemic response and vital community messaging
SHESHEGWANING FIRST NATION (July 26, 2021) — In the interest of providing immediate and accessible communications to their members, particularly while social distancing measures are...
Chippewas of Rama First Nation to expand community health and social services
By Colin Graf CHIPPEWAS OF RAMA FIRST NATION — Members of Chippewas of Rama First Nation will soon be able to get medical help and...
Multi Juno Award-winning blues artist gears up for new album release
By Colin Graf NASHVILLE— Winning Juno Awards number six and seven this June felt like “crossing the finish line of a really, really long race,”...
Canada’s Shame
By Joseph A. Miles We carved this land through granite, hewed her from the woods. We linked her coasts with tracks of steel to move...
Soar Above Stigma campaign launches to champion messages of kindness, acceptance, culture, and compassion for Indigenous communities
TORONTO— Today more than ever, First Nations people suffer in silence with the ongoing battle against stigmas that affect their lives and mental health daily....
Fort William First Nation hosts virtual pow wow
By Rick Garrick FORT WILLIAM FIRST NATION— A Sunrise Ceremony by Biinjitiwaabik Zaaging Anishinaabek Elder Jim Misquart was featured at the beginning of the Fort...
Letter to the editor: Truth, Reconciliation, and Healing
** Trigger warning: readers may be triggered by the recount of Indian Residential Schools. To access a 24-hour National Crisis Line, call: 1-866-925-4419. ** As...
No Pride in Genocide marchers call on protectors and allies to come together
By Rick Garrick THUNDER BAY — Biinjitiwaabik Zaaging Anishinaabek Elders Diane Hardy and Jim Misquart emphasized the impacts of Indian Residential Schools at the July...
The Walk of Sorrow brings awareness, healing and hope
By Rick Garrick THUNDER BAY — The Walk of Sorrow walkers from Saskatchewan have been stopping at former Indian Residential School sites along their journey...
Digitally-staged play an act of reconciliation
By Rick Garrick THUNDER BAY — Reconciliation was the focus of Magnus Theatre’s Stolen, Azhen digitally-staged online reading of a Collective Creation Project play presented...
Lakehead University continuing dialogue on residential schools
ORILLIA (JULY 14, 2021) — The recent discoveries of missing children and unmarked graves have brought a tragic history to our collective doors. On Monday,...
National skills agenda required to prepare Indigenous youth for digital future: RBC report
TORONTO (July 13, 2021) – Indigenous youth are growing four times faster than Canada’s non-Indigenous population, representing a vital influx of entrepreneurs, innovators, managers and...
Wiikwemkoong man completes journey to former Indian Residential School sites in Spanish
WIIKWEMKOONG UNCEDED TERRITORY– When 32-year-old Wiikwemkoong resident Michael (MJ) Eshkawkogan decided to run 147 km from his home to the former Indian Residential School sites...
Kettle and Stony Point family continue to search for Justice for David through new t-shirt campaign
By Colin Graf KETTLE AND STONY POINT FIRST NATION— The family of David Oliver hopes that putting the young man’s image on the backs of...
Keeping connected and making histories in The Lake Nipissing Beading Project
By Kelly Anne Smith NIPISSING FIRST NATION– A 5-metre long replica of Lake Nipissing is being created by beading artists of Dokis First Nation and...