Derek Miller challenges the Canadian entertainment industry with TV show

Onkwehón:we artists have taken centre stage after more than one hundred years of misrepresentation and cultural appropriation in the entertainment industry. We are being seen…

Youth art show opens for Community Awareness Week

SIX NATIONS – Community Awareness Week included a special arts event this year celebrating the works of six aspiring young artists from Six Nations. Initiated…

Kaha:wi Dance Theatre’s World Premiere of Re-Quickening Comes to Harbourfront Centre’s Next Steps Series

Kaha:wi Dance Theatre’s much anticipated inter-disciplinary performance work honoring Onkwehón:we woman power is making its World Premiere at Toronto Harboufront Centre’s Next Steps Dance Series…

SN artists nominated for Hamilton Music Awards

HAMILTON – The Hamilton Music Awards, Conference and Festival is happening from May 27 to 29. Two local talents, Jace Martin and A.K. Mcleod, have…

Escape from the Fort McMurray wildfire

FORT McMurray – Gitz Crazyboy is a Blackfoot/Dene youth worker and land defender from Fort McMurray, Alberta, who has been fighting for the protective rights…

Indigenous play competes at 70 year old theatre competition

BARRIE — Ziigwen Mixemong is a Grade 12 student at Eastview Secondary School in Barrie, Ont. who is shedding light on missing and murdered Indigenous…

Keesic’s Trading Post brings back the traditional bartering system to Toronto Island

Mnjikaning First Nations artist Keesic Douglas wants to trade with you. Setting up shop at Artscape Gibraltar Point on Toronto Island, Keesic’s Trading Post is…

Language Class to livestream Mohawk Talkathon

OHSWEKEN — Just ahead of National Aboriginal Languages Day, Onkwawenna Kentyohkwa will be rocking their Mohawk language skills online via livestream from the classroom on…

Monthly drop-in launches for Six Nations LGBTQ2SI community

SIX NATIONS – Being accepted and loved for who we are is fundamentally important to all people. For many lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, two-spirited…

Six Nations hip hop artist shares taboo angst in new work

With a Mohawk-Jamaican heritage and an upbringing off the reserve, Chllly Chase speaks a lot of truth about identity and our current condition as a…

Kahnawake hosts their 4th annual Rotinonhsyón:ni Language Gathering

By Lindsay Monture The gymnasium of the Kahnawake Survival School beamed with shared Kanyen’kéha teaching and learning practices Monday during the 4th Annual Rotinonhsyón:ni Language…

The roots of our children: placenta burying in Rotinonhsyón:ni culture

SIX NATIONS – Last week, a viral photo and accompanying article on Facebook about the practice of placenta burying in Maori culture brought many Onkwehón:we…

Oheró:kon (Under the Husk) Rites of Passage has begun for Six Nations Youth

By Lindsay Monture Last Sunday marked the opening of the Oheró:kon (Under the Husk) Rites of Passage for a group of Six Nations youth making…

Generosity, Unity and Strength of Culture displayed at the Kahnawake Sing

By Lindsay Monture KAHNAWAKE – For some Rotinonhsyón:ni who have never had the chance growing up to know more about our culture and traditions, the…

Onkwawenna Kentyohkwa Graduates Bring the Mohawk Language to San Diego

By Lindsay Monture Six Nations Mohawk language teachers Karahkwenhawi Zoe Hopkins and Rohahiyo Jordan Brant made the most of their visit to San Diego this…