Beaded Apache-Black fringe boots from The Whetung Ojibwe Centre | Image source: Whetung Ojibwe Centre The holidays have arrived and 2020 has been an exceptionally tough year for all of us. Despite not being able to gather with our loved ones in large groups, we can still show our affection in the form o...
Image credit: nicksherman.ca This week on APTN’s, AMPLIFY, Nick Sherman examines the challenges of living in Thunder Bay as an Indigenous person. The northern Ontario city is notorious for being racist towards Indigenous people—and it is deadly. It’s where 7 Indigenous youth died under similar circumsta...
Shawnee | Image source: AMPLIFY Top ‘Gender-Bending’ singer/ songwriter Shawnee (Mohawk) shares her story on APTN’ S Amplify about awakening her two-spirit identity while building a two-spirit sweat lodge in her community led by Ojibwe-Cree Elder and author Ma-Nee Chacaby. Before the airing, she shared...
Iskwe | Image source: AMPLIFY This week AMPLIFY’s episode is called Littlestar and will feature the very talented iskwē along with activist, Dr. Cindy Blackstock. Every week AMPLIFY showcases 13 Indigenous songwriters, their creative processes, and their thoughts on issues today. Iskwē speaks about the...
Cheryl L’Hirondelle on the APTN series AMPLIFY | Image source: APTN Cheryl L’Hirondelle (Cree/Halfbreed) and Lacey Hill are the first guests featured on the new APTN series AMPLIFY set to debut Friday, Sept 11 at 8 pm (EST) on APTN. Episode 2 features Lacey Hill and debuts at 830 pm (EST). AMPLIFY...
Still from Inconvenient Indian. Gail Maurice as Coyote | Image source: NFB I want the film to be a provocation. I hope it unsettles audiences. I hope it asks audiences to look at their conscious and unconscious biases. I hope it celebrates Indigenous culture in a way that’s surprising and nuanced...
Vance Banzo performs at the Gchi Dewin Festival. Photo Credit: Robert Snache Award winning actor and comedian Vance Banzo shared a pile of laughs at the Gchi Dewin Indigenous Storytellers Festival co-presented this past winter co-presented by MUSKRAT Magazine and ReZ Radio 91.3 FM. Banzo is a band membe...
Hanky Panky by Kent Monkman, 2020. Scroll down to choose to view the uncensored image. Earlier this month, Cree artist Kent Monkman’s painting ‘Hanky Panky’ was unveiled on social media, intending to highlight the “Canadian (in)justice system” and the violence against Indig...
Co-presented by MUSKRAT Magazine and ReZ Radio 91.3 FM, Stephanie Pangowish, Anishnaabekwe (Ah-nish-nah-beh-kway) from Wiikwemkoong on Manitoulin Island busted a few guts at the 5th Annual Gchi Dewin Indigenous Storytellers Festival in Wasauksing First Nation and Parry Sound, Ontario this past winter. F...
Oneida Youth on Parliament Hill, December 2018. Photo by Brandon Doxtator Yesterday I saw misery, pain and Yesterday I saw my people take a stand for justice Today I saw arrests, and treaty rights being stepped on Today I saw my brothers and sisters forcibly removed from their land Tomorrow I will see r...
