Carmen Moore as Susan in Rustic Oracle | Image source: Jeff Weddall For Indigenous audiences, and specifically anybody that has gone through something that my character has gone through, I hope that they feel heard. I hope they feel understood. I hope they feel supported and not dismissed. Sonia (the di...
Renae Maihi, Judith Schuyler and Alanis Obomsawin in Sydney Australia in 2017 at the Winda Film Festival, an Aboriginal Australian film festival. | Image source: Renae Maihi I was profoundly changed by my 2 years living in Canada. It wasn’t the Canada I saw numerous times during the film festivals I att...
“Windigo” by Norval Morrisseau, 1964. MUSKRAT Reflections for a New Year Yes, this is another reflection piece for 2020. No, it will not be a list of events you can easily find with a Google search. Still, no year in review can skip over the impact of the COVID-19 virus that has, at minimum,...
Michelle Latimer directed Inconvenient Indian which debuted at TIFF this year | Image source: Toronto International Film Festival All Indigenous people have their own unique experiences living in a colonial state. Some are well connected to their homelands others not, some can speak their languages and...
Beaded Apache-Black fringe boots from The Whetung Ojibwe Centre | Image source: Whetung Ojibwe Centre The holidays have arrived and 2020 has been an exceptionally tough year for all of us. Despite not being able to gather with our loved ones in large groups, we can still show our affection in the form o...
dark hair from darker place the drum i remind feel the drum the beat her heart the heart (is) the river gains strength behind the stories behind your story behind her stories behind the drum i remind feel hold tell scream stand loudly the rush the waters (are life) lead the way the waters ...
Image credit: nicksherman.ca This week on APTN’s, AMPLIFY, Nick Sherman examines the challenges of living in Thunder Bay as an Indigenous person. The northern Ontario city is notorious for being racist towards Indigenous people—and it is deadly. It’s where 7 Indigenous youth died under similar circumsta...
Red Sky Performance | Image source: Bruce Zinger with artwork by Andy Moro. Red Sky Performance presents the world premiere of Flow, a performance created in response to the 1941’s children’s book Paddle to the Sea – a book told from a White lens featuring Indigenous characters. The showcase premiered o...
Autumn Peltier in The Water Walker | Image source: Seeing Red 6Nations The Water Walker tells the powerful journey of Autumn Peltier, a young Anishinaabe girl who is following in the footsteps of her late great-aunt and water defender, Josephine Mandamin. The short documentary follows Peltier as she get...
