There is a lot of literature on how to achieve your desires in life. Much of it focuses on setting S.M.A.R.T goals: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time-based. For some folks, SMART works well. Funders and businesses like to see SMART goals in proposals and strategic plans. But many oth...
Photo: BBC.com Ever feel like you’re in a rut? Unsure about how to make change? Waiting for that key ingredient to arrive before you move, only it never comes? We all get stuck now and then. Feeling stuck can be frustrating and depressing. Here are some mindset hacks to break out of your stuckness. See...
Implement UNDRIP Poster at Idle No More rally on July 1, 2017 | Image source: Erica Commanda While 2017 marked Canada 150 celebrations across the country, there were many powerful actions across Indigenous Country that ignited an important counter narrative: Canada is our home ON Native Land. Let’s take...
Traditional storyteller and knowledge keeper Esther Osche on stage at The Stockey Centre for Performing Arts. | Image source: Meg Wallace It was a packed house, even though the weather outside was frightful during the 3rd Annual Gchi-Dewin Indigenou Storytellers Festival, December 7-9 at The Stockey Ce...
Maori Grandmother Sharon Heta and Anishinabe Elder Shirley Williams, taken at the 2014 Trent Women’s Gathering themed: Celebrating Our Relationships with Water. | Image source: Zainab Amadahy You already know how to survive white supremacy or you wouldn’t be reading this. But are you thriving? Be...
Film still from Sweet Country| Image source: ImagineNative.org This 2017 ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival was nothing short of exciting with screenings like the innovative opening dramatic feature, Waru to the compelling one hour documentary Indictment: The Crimes of Shelley Chartier. The festiv...
Image source: Erica Commanda Anishinaabeg: Art and Power, is an impressive exhibit being showcased at the Royal Ontario Museum until November 19, 2017 which features artifacts and contemporary art that tell the history of the Anishinaabeg People. The exhibit was curated by Anishinaabe historian, Alan Co...
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...
Image source: Montréal First Peoples’ Festival From August 2nd to 9th the 27th Annual Montréal’s First Peoples’ Festival celebrations kicks off with a special screening of short films by Indigenous filmmakers. This years festival theme is reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people...
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls The first hearing for the National Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Inquiry (MMIWG) is being held in Whitehorse, Yukon this week. Much like the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), the National Inquiry is off to a rocky start with many...
