Jules Koostachin at book launch at the Pow Wow Cafe in Toronto | Image credit: Mahiigan Koostachin Jules Koostachin is one of those authors who started writing intuitively in an attempt to process pain and, coincidentally, created a medicine from which we can all benefit. It’s hard not to honour someone...
Crystal Johnson aka Crystal Love in Black Divaz | Image source: imaginenative.org Black Divaz dives into almost nearly uncharted territory, giving audiences a glimpse of what it’s like to be a drag queen in Indigenous Australia. Directed by Adrian Russell Wills, the film follows six contestants in their...
Biidaaban | Image source: imaginative.org Futurist artists and writers regularly depict post-apocalyptic worlds as terrifying but Biidaaban First Light calls our attention to the utopic flowering within dystopia, and in so doing provides us with a metaphor for this moment in time. Many futurists never c...
Scene from SGaawaay K’uuna (Edge of the Knife) | Image source: tiff.net In SGaawaay K’uuna (Edge of the Knife), we are treated to a passionate and transformative performance from newcomer Tyler York, who portrays a Haida man that turns into the Gaagiixid- the wild man. The film premiered at TIFF in Sept...
Reconciliation is an ongoing conversation, and requires an unlearning to break apart colonialism, and relearn the pre-contact, pre-colonial gaze and history of Turtle Island. The latest exhibition at Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Whose Home and Native Land is a collaborative effort between curatorial staff...
“You Will Wear A White Shirt: From the Northern Bushes to the Halls of Power” is a biography written by Senator Nick Sibbeston. Sibbeston grew up in Fort Simpson-a remote northern community in a home with his mother and grandmother. He recalls how life with his mother and grandmother were idyllic- “a yo...
Album cover for Evolution – Don Amero’s new album | Image source: donamero.ca The ultra talented singer/songwriter Don Amero turned country singer just released his sixth album – Evolution. Amero has been on the Canadian music scene since 2007 and has garnered acclaim for his engaging...
Tantoo Cardinal stars in Falls Around Her | Image source: tiff.net Falls Around Her follows an Anishinaabe musician named Mary (Tantoo Cardinal) as she returns to her home community to rest and recharge after many years of touring internationally. Directed by Darlene Naponse (Anishinaabe), the film make...
In a conversation with himself Miskwaanakwad teaches us how to ask and respond to the question of where we are from – a big thing in Indian Country. Miskwaanakwad Rice is Anishinaabe from Wasauksing First Nation, an island along the shores of Mnido Gamii in Anishinaabe Akiing. Like many Anishinaab...
Sweet Country poster | Image source: Présence Autochtone This year the 2018 Montreal First Peoples Festival presented two special screenings of the award-winning Australian Indigenous directed film, Sweet Country. After winning critical acclaim at both the Venice Film Festival and the Toronto Internatio...
