Wampum Beads | Image Source: www.traditionalhands.com On Oct. 19 Canadians will elect a new federal government, and on that day they will decide whether or not they will be Idle No More. Successive governments have commissioned numerous reports, supposedly with the intention of reframing the relationshi...
Mikkel Gaup in Pathfinder, the film that trailblazed a path for a new generation of Sámi filmmakers to explore reconciliation and healing. | Image Source: mubi.com imagineNATIVE kicks off today Wednesday October 14 and goes until Sunday, October 18, 2015 with an Indigenous spotlight on the Sámi culture...
Many families and even cities are starting to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day instead of Columbus Day (or Thanksgiving Day here in Canada) due to the controversial history surrounding Christopher Columbus.| Image Source: huffingtonpost.ca Kim and Jordan Wheeler don’t celebrate Thanksgiving Day i...
In some North American Indigenous cultures the northern lights represent the dancing spirits of humans and animals | Image source: splitfeathers.blogspot.com The idea of soul loss and retrieval has popped up for me again and again in my research, dreams and life lessons. My understanding is not complete...
Serpent River’s Lorraine Rekmans is Running for the Green Party in the Leeds-Grenville-Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes Riding in Eastern Ontario. | Image Source: anishinabeknews.ca A former Anishinabek News editor originally from Serpent River First Nation is running for the Green Party in the Leeds—G...
Movie still from Spear | Image source: adelaidefilmfestival.org In 2001, Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, by Nunavut director Zacharias Kunuk premiered at Cannes Film Festival with critical acclaim and success, winning the Camera d’or for best first feature. In a recent poll done by TIFF insiders and academ...
Andrew Martin and Harley Legarde-Beacham star as Shane and David in Fire Song | Image Source: GAT Productions Media Fire Song is the first film exploring two-spirited themes written and directed by a two-spirited Indigenous director that is premiering at TIFF this year and has been selected to screen at...
Intersecting EM Vibrations | Image Source: Zainab Amadahy Curanderismo is the art of healing. While I am currently researching and practicing curanderismo from the southwest of the US and Mexico, I carry my own teachings, research and ideas about wellness into my studies. “Being Medicine” is a notion I...
The St.Lawrence River at Sunset. | Image Source: www.corewalking.com In 2000, author, and respected Midewin Elder, Eddie Benton (Ojibway) spoke at a large gathering in Pipestone, Minnesota where he prophesied that if society continues to neglect its responsibility for the waters -30 years from now an ou...
Medicine Man In The Shaking Tent by Daphne Odjig | Image Source: McMicheal Canadian Art Collection Jackson Beardy (Cree), Eddy Cobiness (Ojibway), Alex Janvier (Dene, Saulteaux), Norval Morrisseau (Ojibway), Daphne Odjig (Potawatomi, Odawa), Carl Ray (Cree) and Joseph Sanchez (Pueblo, Spanish, German)....
