Image Source: Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada When the news came out about the remains of 215 children being found at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in B.C many people were shocked. It’s tragic that 215 children’s lives were taken away much too soon. This is genocide, plain...
In Anishinaabe culture, it is believed that newly born infants and community Elders are the closest to the spirit world. The process of giving birth carries spiritual teachings, ceremonies, and the power to transform parents, families, and communities. However, oftentimes Indigenous parents face barrier...
Remember this kid? Zeegwon Shilling (Anishinaabe) is now 15 years old. He has entered an original song called “Get You” which he wrote and recorded for CBC Music’s Toyota Searchlight 2021 competition. Chii miigwetch (Big thanks) for all the support voting in the competition. Miigwetch to the many...
Courtney Montour listening to filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin’s 1984 recordings of Mary. | Credit NFB Mary Two-Axe Earley is an iconic Indigenous woman warrior who took on the Canadian government to fight for the rights of Indigenous women. There was a time in Canadian history that if an Indigenous wom...
One of Ours centres around Josiah Wilson, a young Haitian teen who was adopted into a Heiltsuk family in BC. In 2016 he was racially profiled at the All Native Basketball Tournament and barred from playing. After mediating the case just before it going to the BC Human Rights Tribunal, Josiah got reinsta...
Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy, by filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, made its debut at Hot Docs Canadian Film Festival on April 29 and will stream online via the festival until May 9. It also streams across Canada through the DOXA Documentary Film Festival in Vancouver until May 16. The fil...
In Spirit to Soar we see Anishinaabe author and journalist and podcaster, Tanya Talaga, return to Thunder Bay after an inquest into the deaths of the seven Indigenous children in her acclaimed book, Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City. Her personal story of reconnect...
Tara Williamson | Image credit: Scott Benesiinaabandan Poet, provocateur, singer, and songwriter Tara Williamson (Anishinaabekwe/Nehayowak) just dropped her single album, Almost, in March 2021. Watch out for her album, Enough, to be released in June. Thematically it touches on the subjects of relationsh...
Section 35 founder, Justin Louis | Photo by Nadya Kwandibens Due to unprecedented times worldwide, the shift from in-person events has turned to virtual and online streaming. The biennial Indigenous Fashion Week Toronto (IFWTO) presented 15 designers showcasing innovative and choreographed runway prese...
Dr. Sheryl Lightfoot | Image source: Paul Joseph/University of British Columbia Dr. Sheryl Lightfoot (Anishinaabe/Lake Superior) has been appointed to the prestigious position of United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP). She will be the first Indigenous woman from Cana...
