Four Faces of the Moon by Amanda Strong won Best Animation film at Montreal First Peoples Festival | Image source: tiff.net Présence Autochtone/First Peoples’ Festival wrapped up this week celebrating not only the First Nations and Indigenous presence in and surrounding the city of Montreal, but also th...
Xemi Manibusan | Image source: Carlos Bernate, ICMTN Director, actor and writer Xemi Manibusan fights for accurate and respectful Native Two-Spirit representation in the D.C arts scene Xemiyulu ‘Xemi’ Manibusan is an Indigenous, Two-Spirit theatrical director, actor and author in Washington D.C. redefin...
Award-winning Nishnaabeg writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s collection of writings This Accident of Being Lost is a provocative and relevant adventure of poetry, song and prose. A journey in getting lost, in all kinds of ways, Simpson’s work is incredibly economical, with each word seeming...
Indigenous poetry has always been a place of unearthing, witnessing and healing. Gregory Scofield’s Witness, I Am (Nightwood Editions, 2016), embodies a Cree Sacred Story, revisions Metis identity, and evokes the critical issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women through poetics. Scofield, who is R...
Photo Credit: TSO/Jag Gundu Tagaq’s voice evokes the land and sky, as the ancestors move through her. Inuit throat singer and artist Tanya Tagaq is a life force. At the world premiere of Qiksaaktuq with Toronto Symphony Orchestra for New Creations Festival on March 4 at Roy Thompson Hall, she was...
Interland Memories no.3. Digital Print, 2014 | Image Source: WIOT Magazine Our communities are much like the ecosystem of rivers and lakes. Without new ideas flowing in, they cannot sustain bimaadiziwin. As an artist who is lucky enough travel and do residencies all over the world, one of the most meani...
Bad Medicine, 84″ x 126″, Acrylic on canvas, 2014 Kent Monkman is brilliantly critical of Canada 150 in his latest exhibition, Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience (Currently headed to Calgary on a three year national tour). Monkman has deployed Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, his drag que...
Cover Photo: Centre, black and white drawing by Rene Meshake Narrative by Kim Anderson Artwork, word bundles and poetry by Rene Meshake “In 1492, Columbus set sail from Spain. In 2014, Rene took a flight to Spain. In between my name was changed to number 23 at the Indian Residential School. I didn’t kno...
‘Neechi Superhero’ illustration by Meky Ottawa Reflections on the damage we do by relying on the same oppressor who beats us down. Globally, we witness Indigenous peoples putting their bodies and lives on the line as defenders of the land. Globally, we hear Indigenous peoples stating the obv...
Wampum Weaving Stories workshop| Image credit: Matt McGregor Winter marks the storytelling season and this past January MUSKRAT Magazine and Rez 91.3 FM co-presented the 2nd annual Gchi Dewin Indigenous Storytellers Festival: Under the Spirit Moon in Wasauksing First Nation and Parry Sound, ON. Gchi De...
