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...
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...
Author and novelist, Waubgeshig Rice| Image source: Shilo Adamson In early December 2016, MUSKRAT Magazine and Rez 91 presented the first annual Gchi Dewin Indigenous Storytellers Festival, which paid tribute to the rich history, stories and storytellers from and around Wasauksing First Nation. Guest st...
The Wounded Knee Massacre should never be forgotten | Image source: nativenewsonline.net For the past 25 years, men and women on horseback and by foot have retraced the route Chief Big Foot followed with his people, before they were massacred by the U.S. 7th Calvary Regiment near Wounded Knee Creek on t...
