Michelle Latimer directed Inconvenient Indian which debuted at TIFF this year | Image source: Toronto International Film Festival All Indigenous people have their own unique experiences living in a colonial state. Some are well connected to their homelands others not, some can speak their languages and...
A close up of the Bentwood Box created by Coast Salish artist Luke Marston. Art is a major factor in moving forward in the journey of reconciliation.| Image Source: www.the-peak.ca Canada Council for Arts has just revealed six provocative community based art projects as part of their new landmark {Re}c...
Participants in the Braids of Resistance workshops created braids to weave into a larger one, dedicating their portion to someone significant in their life. Ombaasin means “to be lifted by the wind” in Anishinaabemowin. The Ombaasin Collective is a team of word and image warriors which includes, Elwood...
What music inspires you to take action? We offer this inspiring soundtrack in solidarity with all people who are putting themselves on the frontlines to stand against systemic racism and colonialism with a special dedication to those at Burnaby Mountain and Ferguson. Let us know what music inspires you...
Painting: When Blackfeet and Sioux Meet by Charles Marion Russell Men have to love the land, before they love women. To use a popular academic term, Indigenous men are “unpacking” male privilege. Through closer examination and conversation, our men are looking at the roles and responsibilities they have...
Photo: Aaron Cohen/CMHR On September 20 the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) kicked off their opening with RightsFest – a multi-stage, 2-day festival that included Indigenous superstar Buffy Sainte-Marie, among other Indigenous artists. A Tribe Called Red (ATCR) was slated to perform, but d...
Photo: Phyllis Webstad …a day to recognize former residential school students, their losses, and the impacts residential school made on a child’s self-esteem. When she was just six-years-old, Phyllis Webstad—now 47—remembers when her grandmother purchased a brand new orange shirt for her. Webstad reca...
Photo: EFTO Voice A visual representation of strong and beautiful Indigenous women who have become ‘faceless’ victims of crime. by Jen MtPleasant Republished with permission from the Two Row Times A small group of agencies from Haldimand and Norfolk counties as well as people from Mississaugas of the Ne...
Photo: Satellite View of Kingston-Galloway/Orton Park in Scarborough, ON Tammy Reid has lived in Scarborough for more than a decade and says the area around Kingston and Galloway streets is dangerous for Indigenous women and girls. Reid—not her real name—says she knows one Indigenous woman who was beate...
