Celebrate Canada Day by listening to 10 incredible voices that have been featured on the Red Man Laughing Podcast. Republished with permission from The Red Man Laughing Podcasts It’s (just about) Canada Day – Happy Birthday, ya miserable ol’ prick. You’re turning 147 this year, w...
Photo: Satellite View of Kingston-Galloway/Orton Park in Scarborough, ON Tammy Reid has lived in Scarborough for more than a decade and says the area around Kingston and Galloway streets is dangerous for Indigenous women and girls. Reid—not her real name—says she knows one Indigenous woman who was beate...
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” -Søren Kierkegaard by Naomi Brisley Republished with permission from Indian Country Today Media Network (ICTMN) I think we can all agree that words carry incredible power and their meanings are often ti...
Harper employs spin doctors such as rogue Min. Valcourt to craft a false picture about Indigenous leadership and its relationship with Canada. This Week Minister Valcourt’s office stated that without cooperation of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) for Bill C-33, a 1.9 Billion dollar trust for First N...
Photo: Crystal Schick/WINNIPEG FREE PRESS This past Sunday March 30, 2014, fans of A Tribe Called Red (ATCR) celebrated with the group as they took home the JUNO prize for Breakthrough Group of the Year. The hard earned, and well-deserved win was especially poignant since the group was competing outside...
“…while oil companies are let off the hook, northern communities will be left to deal with the fallout of a spill that will all but destroy our ability to sustain ourselves off the land. This clearly undermines northern peoples’ right to a healthy environment and sustainable development, two...
The year 2013 began with the promise of a revitalized Indigenous resistance movement. Most agree resistance has been ongoing since contact, however in this instance it was happening as the phenomenon of Idle No More, and was in some ways, the most unifying Indigenous led movement social media had ever s...
Idle No More Offers Up Meaningful-Co-Existence, Happiness, and Human Survival. “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] What is your title [2] to the land that is know...
Melina Laboucan-Massimo, member of the Lubicon Cree First Nation, discusses the impacts of the Tar Sands project on her family and her traditional territories. Melina shares about the significance of the land for her and the roots of her strength and knowledge. Melina points out that the Tar Sands is a...
