TORONTO, ON (July 14, 2015) — Planet IndigenUS returns to Harbourfront Centre and Woodland Cultural Centre, its co-producing partner, July 31 – August 9. This contemporary 10-day festival showcases over 300 Indigenous artists from around the globe. For ten years Harbourfront Centre and Woodland Cultural...
Benny Walker | Image Source: American Music Week Winnipeg, MB – With the help of the Canada Council for the Arts, Aboriginal Music Manitoba (AMM) is bringing three international artists to Winnipeg for five days of one-on-one mentor meetings with local musicians and acts performing at Aboriginal Music W...
(Ottawa, ON) – Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Perry Bellegarde met today with premiers in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador and delivered the message that all governments – including the federal government – must work together collaboratively with Indigenous peoples on real ac...
Synopsis: Native Americans speak about the Earth as our Mother and the impacts of oil and gas drilling on tribal lands in the United States, particularly on The Blackfeet Nation in North Central Montana. Outside entities target territories where unemployment hovers at 70%, promising wealth and prosperit...
Retired police officer Sargent Ernie Louttit of the Saskatoon City Police | Photo By: Gord Waldner, The StarPhoenix Release Date: July 15, 2015 Retired Police Sergeant Ernie Louttit takes you back to the streets of Saskatoon in his second book, a street cop’s view of the realities of dealing with prosti...
Image Source: www.requiemofwater.com Requiem of Water is an act of remembrance to the spirit of water that has been forgotten. Water is our life-sustaining gift, connecting all living things – without it, there is no life. Contrary to our past, today’s developed technological society has bec...
Ottawa, April 29, 2015 – The Canada Council for the Arts, the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation and The Circle on Philanthropy and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada (The Circle) today announced the launch of a new, cross-sector funding partnership to support artistic projects that explore the ongoing process...
Jeff Barnaby, Michelle Latimer, Kent Monkman & Caroline Monnet create new short films for Toronto festival July 13, 2015 – Montreal – National Film Board of Canada (NFB) The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will premiere new shorts by four of this country’s renowned Aboriginal filmmakers at the...
The youth of the Wabano Center for Aboriginal Health have been offered the incredible opportunity to attend the Pan Am games taking place in Toronto, July 13th – 15th. Throughout the year, the youth have made consistent effort to make healthy life choices and have shown high levels of leadership i...
Two triumphant youth | Image Source: Scott Duncan For the first time in the 200 year shared history in the Gatineau Valley, history, indigenous and non-indigenous youth will join together to paddle along the Gatineau River in a powerful and ground-breaking show of solidarity between the two communities....
