Republished with permission from RPM.fm What does it mean to be Indigenous in the 21st century? More importantly, what does it sound likeThese are questions we’ve been asking since RPM started and every day we see the evidence all around us. Native artists are everywhere—making incredible music, buildin...
Indigenous Warriors who lost their lives defending their lands and nationhood For this Remembrance Day and week, MUSKRAT Magazine invited visual artist and oral historian, Philip Cote to share his research and art that honours 100 Indigenous Warriors [excerpt below] who lost their lives defending their...
“Time is not on our side…leaders must act,” Fortunately, Indigenous people have been organizing against the negative impacts of resource extraction since contact… The Fifth Assessment of the Synthesis Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was released on November 2, 2014...
Now we’re at a point where people from Indigenous Nations are telling their stories…They have no shackles, they can make any kind of film that they want. The 2014 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival is celebrating its 15th anniversary of showcasing Indigenous cinema and media arts. MUSKRAT Magazin...
Painting: When Blackfeet and Sioux Meet by Charles Marion Russell Men have to love the land, before they love women. To use a popular academic term, Indigenous men are “unpacking” male privilege. Through closer examination and conversation, our men are looking at the roles and responsibilities they have...
Photo: Aaron Cohen/CMHR On September 20 the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) kicked off their opening with RightsFest – a multi-stage, 2-day festival that included Indigenous superstar Buffy Sainte-Marie, among other Indigenous artists. A Tribe Called Red (ATCR) was slated to perform, but d...
Photo: Phyllis Webstad …a day to recognize former residential school students, their losses, and the impacts residential school made on a child’s self-esteem. When she was just six-years-old, Phyllis Webstad—now 47—remembers when her grandmother purchased a brand new orange shirt for her. Webstad reca...
Photo: Cosmos Image How can treaties be honoured if they were never honourable to begin with? Alanis Obomsawin (Abenaki) has been in the business of documenting Indigenous people and resistance movements for over forty years, with 43 documentary films under her belt. Her latest film Trick or Treaty? The...
Photo: Clayton Thomas-Muller took on the role of co-MC of the opening Unity March of the Peoples’ Social Forum. Photo Essay from Activist and Photographer, Ben Powless The Peoples’ Social Forum (PSF) took place in Ottawa (unceded Algonquin territory) August 21-24, 2014, with over several thousand...
