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...
Ashley Callingbull became the first Indigenous Mrs. Universe this year | Image source: whitewolfpack.com It’s amazing what can happen in the span of a year. Last year at this time Perry Bellegarde had just been elected as the new AFN National Chief. The Conservatives held a majority government and oppos...
The burning of the fire at the end of the Kensington Market Winter Solstice Parade | Image Source: Rebeka Tabobondung Winter Solstice gives birth to the new sun on the longest night of the year. It marks the first day of winter and the return of the sun as the days now get longer and ...
Two Eagles Grey by Alano Edzerza | Image source: www.edzerzagallery.com This holiday season, instead of going to a generic department store to buy gifts for your loved ones, why don’t you purchase authentically made, handcrafted goods from one of the many Indigenous owned and operated shops online? Not...
Noel Atlaha from the Apache First Nation addresses the racism in The Ridiculous Six and the Navajo actors who walked off set during production. | Image Source: Noel Altaha – Grand Canyon, AZ As you may have heard, the new Adam Sandler movie – The Ridiculous Six – has just been released...
Scene from dance production, Native Girl Syndrome | Image Source: Marc J. Chalifoux (nativeearth.ca) Storytelling and dance are revered tradition within Indigenous cultures which have evolved to include multidisciplinary performance and theatre. Scanning the landscape of the diverse body of works in pro...
Cover Art for sic-fi graphic novel, Red Eden | Image Source: nativenewsonline.net What if Native Americans were to use their casino wealth to settle Mars and terraform it into a pristine paradise, a “Red Eden” far from the woes of a ruined Earth? “Native Americans have transformed the land before,” said...
Book cover to Lost Children A Nation’s Shame a book about the survival of 60’s scoop victim Dr. Jacki Maurice. | Image Source: treaty4news.com Dr. Jackie Maurice survived, just barely, 18 years in the foster care system as part of the 60’s Scoop, and came out with a lot of questions: about h...
Cover of Children of the Broken Treaty written by Charlie Angus.| Image source: allevents.in Children of the Broken Treaty takes an in-depth look at the historical events leading up to an inspirational campaign led by the youth of the Attawapiskat First Nation and Shannen Koostachin, to have a school bu...
Making a Two Row Wampum Treaty Belt | tworowtimes.com TYENDINAGA – Following the success of her first documentary, The Creator’s Game: The Quest for Gold and the Fight for Nationhood in 2011, Tyendinaga Mohawk filmmaker and journalist Candace Maracle had the world premiere of her latest documentary, The...
