Gein Wong, Barbara Manitowabi and Bob Goulais at The Justice for Colten Boushie Vigil | Image source: Stan Williams Last Saturday February, 10th 2018, Indigenous community members and their allies gathered together to honour the life of Colten Boushie in a vigil at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto. Col...
Joseph Mandamin waits for the arrival of Edward George, who is paddling alongside the Water Walkers to raise awareness for water issues in the Great Lakes. Across Turtle Island Canada Day 2017 marked a day of Indigenous celebration of cultural survival, protest, and ceremony from over 150 years of colo...
“The state is invisible; it must be personified before it can be seen, symbolized before it can be loved, imagined before it can be conceived” Department of Canadian Heritage[1] Rebeka Tabobondung Indigenkaus (my name is) Wasausking Ndonjaba (I come from) Amik Dodem (I am Beaver clan) This simple statem...
Water Protectors in Protest on Highway 1806 | Image source: Ashley Nadjiwon This story was written by Sterlin Harjo and originally appeared in the November 16 edition of The Tulsa Voice. What kind of warrior am I? How had I not suspected her? I was so busy deflecting shade being thrown at me from oil .....
National First Nations Youth Council Gifts Quilt to Carolyn Bennett, Minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs at Assembly of First Nations Youth Summit | Image source: Two Row Times This past summer more than 200 First Nations youth from across the country gathered in Niagara Falls for a National You...
November 2015, the CBC covered the installation of a new historical plaque in Ottawa’s Beechwood Cemetery (i). The plaque stands by the grave of Duncan Campbell Scott, replacing the one erected in 2011 to honour Scott’s contributions to Canadian literature as one of the “Confederation poets”. Scott was...
In some North American Indigenous cultures the northern lights represent the dancing spirits of humans and animals | Image source: splitfeathers.blogspot.com The idea of soul loss and retrieval has popped up for me again and again in my research, dreams and life lessons. My understanding is not complete...
“Heartbeat of A Warrior: Aboriginal Men’s Writing, Art & Culture” is a small collection of poetry, photography and art that was borne out of a few years work at “Sagatay” a Native men’s program through a Native Men’s Residence – Na-Me-Res based in Toronto. Emily Pohl Weary, a local Toronto wri...
Intersecting EM Vibrations | Image Source: Zainab Amadahy Curanderismo is the art of healing. While I am currently researching and practicing curanderismo from the southwest of the US and Mexico, I carry my own teachings, research and ideas about wellness into my studies. “Being Medicine” is a notion I...
Image Source: Liz Lott The dance theatre performance “When Will You Rage?” is powerful and provoking. It draws you in with statements of tragedy and violence against Indigenous women. It moves in and out of pain, trauma and anguish- obstacles that strength and determination can overcome. “When Will You...
