Shawnee | Image source: AMPLIFY Top ‘Gender-Bending’ singer/ songwriter Shawnee (Mohawk) shares her story on APTN’ S Amplify about awakening her two-spirit identity while building a two-spirit sweat lodge in her community led by Ojibwe-Cree Elder and author Ma-Nee Chacaby. Before the airing, she shared...
Iskwe | Image source: AMPLIFY This week AMPLIFY’s episode is called Littlestar and will feature the very talented iskwē along with activist, Dr. Cindy Blackstock. Every week AMPLIFY showcases 13 Indigenous songwriters, their creative processes, and their thoughts on issues today. Iskwē speaks about the...
Cheryl L’Hirondelle on the APTN series AMPLIFY | Image source: APTN Cheryl L’Hirondelle (Cree/Halfbreed) and Lacey Hill are the first guests featured on the new APTN series AMPLIFY set to debut Friday, Sept 11 at 8 pm (EST) on APTN. Episode 2 features Lacey Hill and debuts at 830 pm (EST). AMPLIFY...
Still from Inconvenient Indian. Gail Maurice as Coyote | Image source: NFB I want the film to be a provocation. I hope it unsettles audiences. I hope it asks audiences to look at their conscious and unconscious biases. I hope it celebrates Indigenous culture in a way that’s surprising and nuanced...
Vance Banzo performs at the Gchi Dewin Festival. Photo Credit: Robert Snache Award winning actor and comedian Vance Banzo shared a pile of laughs at the Gchi Dewin Indigenous Storytellers Festival co-presented this past winter co-presented by MUSKRAT Magazine and ReZ Radio 91.3 FM. Banzo is a band membe...
Image Credit: Métis (Otipemisiwak) Artist, Christi Belcourt Indigenous research and scholarship is about infusing higher education institutions with eons of wisdom that was dismissed and discarded through colonization. Freelance writer Paul Fraumeni discusses the profusion of Indigenous wisdom at York...
Right, Olivia Iheme and other protesters march in Toronto (Photo by George Talusan, BlogTO). Left, protesters march in California (Photo by Ayrton Ostly, The Californian). Middle, the statue of Sir John A. Macdonald in Montreal is seen after being defaced amid a growing debate over how to view historica...
Hanky Panky by Kent Monkman, 2020. Scroll down to choose to view the uncensored image. Earlier this month, Cree artist Kent Monkman’s painting ‘Hanky Panky’ was unveiled on social media, intending to highlight the “Canadian (in)justice system” and the violence against Indig...
Students at Inuksuk High School. All photos by Tess Thurber. 2019 was a year to celebrate and reflect in Nunavut. It was the territory’s 20th anniversary and the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Supreme Court of Canada’s decision that began the process to decriminalize homosexuality in Canada. There has bee...
Co-presented by MUSKRAT Magazine and ReZ Radio 91.3 FM, Stephanie Pangowish, Anishnaabekwe (Ah-nish-nah-beh-kway) from Wiikwemkoong on Manitoulin Island busted a few guts at the 5th Annual Gchi Dewin Indigenous Storytellers Festival in Wasauksing First Nation and Parry Sound, Ontario this past winter. F...
