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...
Between the years 1915 and 1918, several members of the Rama First Nation worked with George E. Laidlaw, a retired army colonel and semi-professional archaeologist in an ethnographic project aimed at the preservation of Anishinabek stories. Together, the team was able to collect and recount over 100 sto...
Colonization Road Premiere’s at imagineNATIVE film + Media Arts Festival October 23rd, 2016 MUSKRAT Magazine’s Akeesha Footman caught up with actor, producer, singer and director Michelle St. John to learn more about her new documentary Colonization Road. The powerful documentary follows hilarious...
Once upon a time, there was a young Woods Cree girl. Her name was Wapihti ‘White-tailed Deer’. On her tenth season of life, she is given a green ribbon. It is an offering to the sacred guardian, Newo-Mistatim (four-horse). This guardian dwells inside the ‘Land of the Dancing Deer’. It is a magical meado...
Excerpted from the forthcoming book Islands of Decolonial Love, published November 2013 by Arbeiter Ring Publishing. i did not want to drive onto the rez in a brand new white volvo turbo 680 or whatever the fuck it was called. “why don’t we drive in my truck, i’ll submit the travel claim, it’ll be easie...
The trip Lee writes about in the following journal was an International cultural exchange funded through the Canada Council for the Arts that took place in December 2012. The Canadian Indigenous participants came together for this project through common interests in developing international Indigenous a...
Short story by critically acclaimed author, Lee Maracle. This happened on a Thursday. The dogs, all thirteen of them unclothed rattled along quarrelling on their way to Highway 409 Barrie bound, were stopped by a security guard riding his bicycle. He bellowed at the dogs, which stopped nipping, biting a...
An excerpt from Cherie Dimaline’s new collection of short stories. all the small things that collect at the bottom of a day “if you have ever drawn up your last plan on an old shirt cardboard in an Eastside hotel room of winter with last week’s rent due and a dead radiator you’ll know...
Recent fiction from the author of “Red Rooms”. Pearl Harbor hit Sault Ste Marie like a traveling midway, bringing fresh blood, cheaply made toys and the crash and sparkle of a hope that can only be delivered on shiny trucks driven by cigar chomping toughs. In 1941 this place must have looked...
