This series is dedicated to our Native boys, soon to be Native men who did not receive all of our traditional Cree teachings… What happens when you take two urbanized Cree teenagers from Toronto and send them on a life-altering quest to thirteen distinct Indigenous communities? This is the premise of fi...
“…Kill the Indian in the child…I want to get rid of the Indian problem… Our objective is to continue until there is not a single Indian in Canada that has not been absorbed into the body politic and there is no Indian question…” — Duncan Campbell Scott, Deputy Superintendent General of...
We are waking up to our history from a forced slumber. We are waking up to our history from a forced slumber We are breathing it into our lungs so it will be part of us again It will make us angry at first because we will see how much you stole from us and ...
Poetry from the author of A Really Good Brown Girl. Dear John: I’m still here and halfbreed, after all these years you’re dead, funny thing, that railway you wanted so badly, there was talk a year ago of shutting it down and part of it was shut down, the dayliner at least, ‘from sea to ...
Short story by critically acclaimed author, Lee Maracle. This happened on a Thursday. The dogs, all thirteen of them unclothed rattled along quarrelling on their way to Highway 409 Barrie bound, were stopped by a security guard riding his bicycle. He bellowed at the dogs, which stopped nipping, biting a...
An excerpt from Cherie Dimaline’s new collection of short stories. all the small things that collect at the bottom of a day “if you have ever drawn up your last plan on an old shirt cardboard in an Eastside hotel room of winter with last week’s rent due and a dead radiator you’ll know...
Visual Art by Tannis Nielsen I was invited to take part in a show curated by both Luke Parnell and Jason Jenkins. Each artist involved was given a pair of “Van” shoes to manipulate whichever way we were inclined. When I thought of the title “red runners” I thought of the things we have been ...
Interview with lawyer and advocate for the rights of Indigenous Peoples, TRC Commissioner Chief Wilton Littlechild. At THE MEETING PLACE – truth and reconciliation gathering hosted by Toronto Council Fire Native Cultural Centre in June 2012, TRC Commissioner Chief Wilton Littlechild brought to light the...
Interview with Darlene Ritchie, President of Toronto Council Fire Native Cultural Centre. Darlene Ritchie discusses the motivation to host the MEETING PLACE – truth and reconciliation gathering held May 30th – June 2nd 2012. Ritchie shares how Council Fire acted to move healing forward on their own term...
Interview with J’net Cavanagh on Truth & Reconciliation. J’net Cavanagh shares how she and her siblings survived the “60’s scoop” and how the Truth & Reconciliation Commission must expand its mandate to include impacts of the still severely flawed child welfare system in Canada.
