“The state is invisible; it must be personified before it can be seen, symbolized before it can be loved, imagined before it can be conceived” Department of Canadian Heritage[1] Rebeka Tabobondung Indigenkaus (my name is) Wasausking Ndonjaba (I come from) Amik Dodem (I am Beaver clan) This simple statem...
Kū-kŭm storefront + braised venison tenderloin. All photos: Sarena Johnson Kū-kŭm is boldly entering the culinary scene as Tkaronto’s first Indigenous fine dining restaurant. Located at 581 Mount Pleasant Rd., this uptown neighbourhood gem boasts Indigenous traditional cuisine in a casual fine dining a...
Wampum Weaving Stories workshop| Image credit: Matt McGregor Winter marks the storytelling season and this past January MUSKRAT Magazine and Rez 91.3 FM co-presented the 2nd annual Gchi Dewin Indigenous Storytellers Festival: Under the Spirit Moon in Wasauksing First Nation and Parry Sound, ON. Gchi De...
A group of Anmeki Wajiw (Mount McKay) students from Fort William First Nation built and launched a 15-foot birch bark canoe last summer at Sandy Beach near Chippewa Park. Source: http://anishinabeknews.ca/ FORT WILLIAM FIRST NATION—The Fort William canoe builders who created an 18-foot birch bark canoe...
Four Faces of the Moon | Amanda Strong TORONTO—When Alanis Obomsawin learned that she was receiving the Clyde Gilmour Technicolor Award from the Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA), there was a feature of the award that made her very happy. She was able to pick a young filmmaker to receive $50,000...
Norval Morrisseau, Animal Unity, 1978 | source: Joyner Canadian Fine Art Within Indigenous arts, activism, and communities there is no doubt that power lies both within the intergenerational passing down of knowledge and our blood memory. Here is a list of inspirational families who demonstrate familial...
Fireworks fill the night sky above the Oceti Sakowin Camp as Native Americans and other protestors celebrate (Scott Olson | Getty Images) OCETI SAKOWIN CAMP, Standing Rock, North Dakota – A thousand voices around the Sacred Fire went up in cheers and cries of “mni wiconi (water is life)” Sunday afternoo...
Two-row wampum belt of the Haudenosaunee. | source: https://uwaterloo.ca/arts/events/integrating-knowledges-truth-and-reconciliation-summit As Ontario unveiled the first ever Treaties Recognition Week, historian Dr. Catherine Murton-Stoehr gave an easy to understand lecture on Treaties. Murton Stoehr ga...
“Lack of…” by Erika Iserhoff from Indian Giver: Truth Telling and Narratives of Representation Arts Exhibition | Image Source: Sage Paul In October 2016, The Aboriginal Curatorial Collective (ACC) welcomed community members to OCAD University for a forum and discussion in downtown Toro...
MUSKRAT Magazine’s Akeesha Footman interviewed esteemed researcher, teacher, artist and author Dr. Jenny Kay Dupuis, about her new book, I Am Not A Number. Dr. Dupuis along with co-author Kathy Kacer, crafted a powerful book based on the life of Dupuis’ grandmother. The story brings to light a terrible...
