“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...
The sign for Culture Camp Forever| Image Source: Isaac Murdoch’s Facebook Nimkii Aazhabikong means Village of Thunder Mountain in Anishinaabemowin, the Ojibwe language. It’s the name given to a culture camp being built by a community of youth, Elders and activists beside Ompa Lake, Northern Ontari...
Image source: Huffingtonpost.ca For Mother’s Day this year, Barbara Kay went on a Twitter tirade, sharing her uninformed and outdated racist views on Indigenous issues with the world. Kay is a Canadian media figure with a lengthy career in journalism, most notably as a columnist with The National Post a...
A group of Anmeki Wajiw (Mount McKay) students from Fort William First Nation built and launched a 15-foot birch bark canoe last summer at Sandy Beach near Chippewa Park. Source: http://anishinabeknews.ca/ FORT WILLIAM FIRST NATION—The Fort William canoe builders who created an 18-foot birch bark canoe...
Liam Massaubi was a high school dropout who thought he would be working in a factory for the rest of his life or end up struggling like many of his childhood peers. Of course, that was before his massive success. Liam is now the poster child for the self-made entrepreneur. From starting a company in his...
Wangkajunga Elder, Spider on his ancestral land or Kurtal after he performed a rain dance.| Image source: putuparriandtherainmakers. com Putuparri and the Rainmakers follows an eight year journey with Tom ‘Putuparri’ Lawford (Wangkajunga) and his grandparents, Spider and Dolly, who are on th...
Film still of Angry Inuk | Image source: Qajaaq Ellsworth Angry Inuk contains important Indigenous messages the world needs to hear. Directed by Alethea Arnaquq-Baril (Inuit), the documentary seeks to inform audiences how animal rights groups, such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) a...
INAC Occupiers and activists exit the building to traditional drumming and singing | Image source: Erica Commanda “We’re here for the youth, that’s what it’s always been about,” said Idle No More activist, Carrie Lester (Mohawk). “So many times [Indigenous youth] voices have been swept under the...
A model of the planned Crazy Horse memorial | Image source: crazyhorsememorial.org The Crazy Horse Monument is set to be the largest monument in the world; larger than nearby Mount Rushmore, and taller than the Washington Monument. But that’s if it ever gets completed. The project has been in the works...
Berta Cáceres in the Rio Blanco region of western Honduras where she, COPINH, and locals maintained a two year protest to halt construction on the Agua Zarca Hydroelectric dam. | Image source: goldmanprize.org “They follow me. They threaten to kill me – to kidnap me. They threaten my family. That...
