#AMINEXT? New campaigns highlight struggle for MMIW
It is depressingly numbing every time another name of a missing and murdered Onkwehon:we woman is spotlighted in the media. But as the number of…
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Understanding how BC Supreme Court ruling affects all Onkwehon:we
On June 26, 2014, the Supreme Court of Canada released its reasons in Tsilhqot'in Nation v. British Columbia. The decision is the first time that…
Make your choices, but now you know
My MC name is Sage, and I’m from Walpole Island First Nation (Bkejwanong Territory). I have 3 brothers and a beautiful sister. I had no…
Style House Salon, Open for Business
The opening of a new business is always a cause for celebration, and so it was especially for the Grand Opening of Style House Salon at 292 Dundas Street in London, Ontario.
Yoga in the Womb
Yoga is becoming more and more popular within our community. Although yoga is an ancient tradition from the East, its teachings are very similar to ours.
The search for “Good Living” from northern Ontario to Ecuador
In 2013, Darlene Necan, an Ojibwe woman of the Nation of Saugeen #258, built a cabin on her family’s trap line that she hoped would become a learning centre that could be used to educate natives and non-natives about their rich indigenous culture.
Despite NEB approval of Line 9, opposition continues
The Line 9 campaign in Southern Ontario has been a movement that has used civil disobedience, education, and grassroots organizing to oppose tar sands expansion.
Soaring: A Musical Antidote
These days my mind is filled with worry. I have been watching the events unfolding in the news concerning the Ukraine. I find it unbelievable that major super powers are taunting each other on Russia’s doorstep in the Ukraine.
There are other ways
The Indigenous economics supported by the Canadian power elite is the large-scale sale of natural resources and the re-sale of petroleum and tobacco products produced…
“Sometimes the law is an ass”
With Respect to All my Relations Let’s be clear here, the Kahnawà:ke residency Law that states anyone who marries a non-Mohawk or non-“Indian” automatically has…
Eating and living the diet of our ancestors
I am Anishnaabe kwe from the Ojibwe tribe with some Scottish ancestry. I grew up in a small village in Northern Ontario right on the…
What can we learn from the tailings pond disaster in British Columbia?
Let’s start off with the facts. 10 billion litres of water. 4.5 million cubic metres of metal-laden fine sand, which by the way is very…
There are No DNA Checkpoints under the Tree of Peace
Over the last few days I have been watching my community implode as members try to stop a woman from building her home. Why? Because she has a non-native husband. This issue brings out the worst in our people, and social media is hot with hate. Characterized by some as “a Nazi witch hunt”, this debacle is difficult to watch, yet much like a train wreck, it’s hard to look away, and that all the more so because my own family is affected. Community members are submitting names to a list of individuals living with non-natives in the territory and my sister and her partner are second down the line.
The rule of law vs. the rule of judicial discretion: the Tsilhqot’in Nation case
By the year 1897 constitutional law was settled in Canada based upon the interpretation in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council of section 109…
Stopping the Iron Snake
The Iron Snake, a film by Clifton Arihwakehte Nicolas, is thought provoking and frightening in its content. The footage of the tar sands and pipeline…