Calling Down the Sky cover art | Image source: mcnallyrobinson.com April is poetry month and lately Indigenous poets have been front and centre in the news. Halifax just appointed their first Mi’kmaw Poet Laureate, Rebecca Thomas, who is known for her powerful slam poetry. Thomas grew up in Moncto...
Michif Women Packers by Leah Dorion | Image source: Leah Dorion/Eagle Feather News In speaking to many school children, talking at conferences, and lecturing at community events I often am asked by my audience members, “What has your art career taught you? It seems many people are intrigued by the life...
Wendy Red Star, “Apsa’olooke Feminist,” 2015. | Image source: Wendy Red Star When the Portland (Ore.) Art Museum initially planned to highlight Edward Curtis’ prominent, yet controversial, photographs from his published works in The North American Indian, Deana Dartt, curator of Native Ameri...
Little Moose – Mozoons by Anishinaabe artist Donald Chretien | Image source: Donald Chretien. NIPISSING FIRST NATION — The Cultural Events Organizer has a great time at work, especially when it’s the 4th Annual Nipissing First Nation Artist Gathering and Art Show. Jules Armstrong designed the eve...
Carole Daniels (Cree) has been nominated for three awards at the Saskachewan Book Awards | Image source: Eagle Feather News. The shortlist for the 2016 Saskatchewan Book Awards was announced today in Regina and Saskatoon. The shortlist celebrates excellence in books from a wide range of genres and dive...
Clayton Samuel King’s Wassabmosakwe (Walks Far Woman) painting. King has an exhibit on at the First United Church | Image source: whitebearart.com TORONTO — “As an artist, I’m never short of ideas,” artist Clayton Samuel King told people gathered for the opening of his exhibition at First Unitari...
TORONTO – Opening on Feb. 9, Young People’s Theatre presents Mistatim by Red Sky Performance. Written by Governor General Award-wining playwright Erin Shields, based on a concept by Sandra Laronde, tells an intercultural story about reconciliation, friendship and the taming of a wild horse. “I wanted to...
A buffalo jump with Miss Chief Eagle Testickle in The Rise and Fall of Civilization | Image source: kentmonkman.com Kent Monkman’s art speaks to the resilience of Indigenous people who survived generations of cultural genocide. The Cree artist uses paint, film, performance and installation to instil his...
Image design by: Clayton Windatt With the newly elected Canadian government making big promises for the arts ecology of Canada, it would appear that opportunities for First Nations, Inuit and Métis artists and organizations will increase by 2017. The new Prime Minister has given some tall orders to Cana...
Dancers from Making Treaty 7 | Image Source: www.makingtreaty7.com We are all treaty people. That is the message that Making Treaty Seven Cultural Society wants to convey to all Canadians, Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike. From the voices of Indigenous people, the production recounts the historical e...
