The Gchi Dewin Festival brings national Indigenous and non-Indigenous presence to northern Ontario’s Anishinaabe territory and Parry Sound region. The annual storytelling festival, now in its fifth year, happened on November 28-30, 2019. The festival is free to the public and takes place at the Charles...
Mixed Blessing by Rebecca Belmore, 2008, is featured on Facing Monumental at the AGO | Image Credit: Erica Commanda Facing Monumental honours the lifetime works of Rebecca Belmore (Anishinaabe), a multi-disciplinary artist that creates works addressing the issues of our times. The exhibit features photo...
George Alexander (Muscogee Creek), paints with a youth at the Sacred Stone Camp | Images by Jaida Grey Eagle Lakota photographer Jaida Grey Eagle shares her experience with art and activism from the protector camps near Standing Rock. The Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, where Grey Eagle i...
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...
Non-Indigenous history is an invention of dominant society, written to exclude Indigenous values and view while claiming to be an objective and accurate portrayal of the chronology of events, when in reality it is a tool of domination. But what a strange phenomenon that the very strange phenomenon of th...
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...
My son and I were working on a stop-motion animation that involved drawings etched in flour. We took a closer look, to really consider the items that we are so quick to put in our bodies on our bodies. My son and I were working on a stop-motion animation that involved drawings etched in flour. ...