Oneida Youth on Parliament Hill, December 2018. Photo by Brandon Doxtator Yesterday I saw misery, pain and Yesterday I saw my people take a stand for justice Today I saw arrests, and treaty rights being stepped on Today I saw my brothers and sisters forcibly removed from their land Tomorrow I will see r...
Back at the beginning of winter biboon, MUSKRAT Magazine and ReZ Radio 91.3 FM co-presented the well-attended 5th Annual Gchi Dewin Indigenous Storytellers Festival in Wasauksing First Nation (Lighting the 7th Fire at the Gchi Dewin Indigenous Storytelling Festival) and Parry Sound, Ontario. Over the ne...
Shawn Leonard. Image Credit: aptn.ca Being the publisher of MUSKRAT Magazine, an online Indigenous arts magazine, a lot of invitations come my way; and for the most part; I connect interested MUSKRAT writers to cover these amazing events. But just recently I got a really special invitation. It was an in...
Image Credit: Highwater Press, 2020 Lisa Boivin’s I Will See You Again thoughtfully and carefully carries readers through her oldest brother’s death overseas, and shares her personal story of bringing him home. This is an illustrated children’s book, a visual letter-poem, rooted in family, love, and hea...
Image source: Christi Belcourt A few days ago, I attended the annual regional gathering of Dehcho K’ehodi Stewardship and Guardian program at the Liidlii Kue Regional High School in the Dehcho region of Denedeh (Northwest Territories, Canada) as part of my work with the Dechinta Centre for Research and...
The Canadian Senate | Image source: Clayton Windatt I wanted to take a moment to reflect a bit on relationship building in the arts and how the term “Cultural Diplomacy” has begun to occupy a greater amount of space in my life. Relationship building is complicated, and has intricate details that impact...
Montreal-based Innu poet Maya Cousineau-Mollen published her first book in French, “Bréviaire du matricule 082,” with Éditions Hannenorak, this past fall. Her powerful collection, which has already sold out of its first print run and is going into a second edition, explores anger, identity, allyship, ho...
The Gchi Dewin Festival brings national Indigenous and non-Indigenous presence to northern Ontario’s Anishinaabe territory and Parry Sound region. The annual storytelling festival, now in its fifth year, happened on November 28-30, 2019. The festival is free to the public and takes place at the Charles...
Smudge, Don’t Judge: Assisting Two Spirit/Trans Survivors of Violence is a ten-minute film resource for community workers made to honour the memory of Alloura Wells, a Trans woman who went missing in July 2017. The narrator reminds us that Wells was murdered and her body discovered not by police, who kn...
Zeegwon Shilling is a 14 year old, up and coming Anishinabe singer and musician who is expanding his knowledge and love of performing music. Last year in November, a video featuring him performing Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah went viral on Facebook with over 100,000 views in 3 days. Zeegwon recently made...
