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UNEARTHING SECRETS, GATHERING TRUTHS - BROKEN POETRY

UNEARTHING SECRETS, GATHERING TRUTHS – BROKEN POETRY

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...
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Biidaaban First Light: Seeing with Renewed Eyes

Biidaaban First Light: Seeing with Renewed Eyes

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...
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Whose Home and Native Land

Whose Home and Native Land

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...
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Review: You Will Wear A White Shirt

Review: You Will Wear A White Shirt

“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...
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NISHNAABEMDAA NOONGO - WHERE ARE YOU FROM?

NISHNAABEMDAA NOONGO – WHERE ARE YOU FROM?

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...
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SWEET COUNTRY: WARWICK THORTON’S WESTERN IN THE OUTBACK

SWEET COUNTRY: WARWICK THORTON’S WESTERN IN THE OUTBACK

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...
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