Tannis Nielsen has been a part of the Toronto arts community for over twenty years. Her work includes research, teaching, and a range of visual arts. Her art focuses on anti-colonial theory, natural law/Indigenous governance, Indigenous arts activism(s), and the relative investigations of Indigenous sci...
Jim Dumont is an internationally renown Elder, speaker and traditional knowledge keeper, also known as the Gichi A:ya: the Elder of the Elders in the Eastern Doorway of the Three Fires Midewiwin Lodge. In 2011, Jim was awarded a Doctorate of Sacred Letters the first of its kind at the University of Sudb...
Newcomer, Black and Indigenous queer rapper Prado is a sharp and fierce voice for Black and Indigenous Women of Colour. She dropped her debut album, Prado Monroe EP, on June 18, 2021, a day just before Juneteenth. “Juneteenth is a day that stands for the emancipation of enslaved black people, the libera...
Silla and Rise | Photo by Tangent Silla and Rise have just released their new single: Pandemonium, a song featured on their third album that will debut later this fall. The group now comprises DJ Rise Ashen and Inuit throat singing trio Cynthia Pitsiulak, Charlotte Qamaniq and newcomer Charlotte Carleto...
Courtney Montour listening to filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin’s 1984 recordings of Mary. | Credit NFB Mary Two-Axe Earley is an iconic Indigenous woman warrior who took on the Canadian government to fight for the rights of Indigenous women. There was a time in Canadian history that if an Indigenous wom...
One of Ours centres around Josiah Wilson, a young Haitian teen who was adopted into a Heiltsuk family in BC. In 2016 he was racially profiled at the All Native Basketball Tournament and barred from playing. After mediating the case just before it going to the BC Human Rights Tribunal, Josiah got reinsta...
Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy, by filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, made its debut at Hot Docs Canadian Film Festival on April 29 and will stream online via the festival until May 9. It also streams across Canada through the DOXA Documentary Film Festival in Vancouver until May 16. The fil...
In Spirit to Soar we see Anishinaabe author and journalist and podcaster, Tanya Talaga, return to Thunder Bay after an inquest into the deaths of the seven Indigenous children in her acclaimed book, Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City. Her personal story of reconnect...
Tara Williamson | Image credit: Scott Benesiinaabandan Poet, provocateur, singer, and songwriter Tara Williamson (Anishinaabekwe/Nehayowak) just dropped her single album, Almost, in March 2021. Watch out for her album, Enough, to be released in June. Thematically it touches on the subjects of relationsh...
Dr. Sheryl Lightfoot | Image source: Paul Joseph/University of British Columbia Dr. Sheryl Lightfoot (Anishinaabe/Lake Superior) has been appointed to the prestigious position of United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP). She will be the first Indigenous woman from Cana...
