Edited by Jaime Black-Morsette. Highwater Press (2025). Fifteen years after the beginning of the REDress Project, visionary Red River Métis activist and artist Jaime Black-Morsette brings together memories, stories, and art in the anthology REDress: Art, Action, and the Power of Presence (Highwater Pres...
Featured Image: Partial view of Another Dream, a multi-media installation featuring Herd by Douglas Walbourne-Gough and Returning by Deantha Edmunds. Visual design and creation by Erienne Rennick. Photo credit: Jane Walker Indigenous artists and writers are leading a cultural revival and gaining momentu...
On a sweltering 40-degree summer day, Chuna McIntyre, a Yup’ik storyteller and dancer, is dressed in full regalia and performs a traditional song and dance inside the Louvre Museum, accompanied by the rhythmic beat of his hand drum. He is honouring a Yup’ik mask with his dance, offering a traditional gr...
Feature Image: Chief Willie Sellars digs a grave for community member Stan Wycotte who took his life on the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada. (Credit: Emily Kassie/Sugarcane Film LLC) Spanish is a small town on the north shore of Lake Huron, approximately 120 kilometres west of...
On a recent summer trip to North Vancouver, I spent a morning at Polygon Gallery, which is situated on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Not only did I get to see the Patkau Architects striking building i...
Our stories are written and reflected in our bodies. Our DNA, our memories, and our somatic experiences are a setting as vital as the external world through which we navigate. In Cree poet Dallas Hunt’s second collection Teeth, the titular body parts are pieces of autobiography that erupt from those pla...
Few writers are as prolific as literary virtuoso Billy-Ray Belcourt. His work is boundless –a brilliant mediation of the body, queerness, love and kinship. As a member of Driftpile Cree First Nation, Belcourt holds a PhD from the University of Alberta, and also received a Rhodes Scholarship and an Indis...
On March 8 International Women’s Day, the 4-part documentary series Women of This Land, premiered on CBC Gem. Directed by Stephanie Joline, Women Of This Land is a co-production between Princess Space Monster Films and Peep Media’s Jessica Brown and Jackie Torrens in association with CBC Maritimes, with...
In my hands I held centuries. When I was visiting the Nova Scotia Archives in Wikumkewiku’s September 2023, I looked over treaty documents under the helpful, watchful gaze of the archivists who worked there. The faded signatures of the 18th century Peace and Friendship Treaties were illuminated by warm...
Based on a collaborative audio-visual exhibition of the Truth and Reconciliation (TRC) Calls to Actions, Treaty Space Gallery and CIMADE Lab’s “94 Calls to Action,” which runs from January 15 to February 2, 2024 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, invites viewers to record a Call to Action in order to add their vo...
