Never to be forgotten vigil held in Hagersville
HAGERSVILLE – Many people gathered to mark the fourth annual “Never to be forgotten vigil” held at Hagersville and Mississaugas of New Credit territory on…
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The art and reality of Native life: an interview with Carmen Moore
Carmen Moore is an accomplished actress from British Columbia of Wet’suwet’en, Scottish, and Irish ancestry.
Made on earth
Rick Sommers, who is of Aztec descent, is known as the artist who brought and taught “barn block art paintings” to Canada from Ohio. To…
Honouring the drum
The main concept behind Visioning, Toronto’s first socially conscious indigenous arts festival is the recognition that Indigenous nations of Turtle Island speak of this time…
Digging towards the light
2010 Juno award and 4 time Canadian Aboriginal Music Award winners the Digging Roots have released their new album “For the Light.” The Digging Roots…
Indigenous Hawaiians seek to save Mauna Kea from desecration
Mauna Kea advocates are seeking justice in Hawaii courts. Six plaintiffs have filed a notice of appeal in circuit court challenging the board of Land and Natural Resources’ (BLNR) on the April 12th decision by Judge Greg Nakamura to grant the University of Hawaii at Hilo a permit to construct the world’s second largest telescope, the Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT), atop Mauna Kea.
Moving forward through understanding for our children
This past Saturday the Central Wellington district high school (C.W.D.H.S) Aboriginal Club of Fergus, in union with other groups and businesses from the surrounding area, hosted the landmark event Truth and Reconciliation: What’s law got to do with it?
Andrea Mendard: Musician, Actress, Groundbreaker
You may have seen the multitalented Andrea Menard on the TV series Blackstone in her Leo nominated role as Debbie Fraser, or on other TV series such as Moccasin Flats and Rabbit Fall. You might have heard her as the voices of Kokum and Sarah on Wapos Bay or listened to her music on the radio or online. We caught up with Menard to ask her about some of her latest projects and initatives.
Indiginesse: an interview with Nathalie Bertin
AURORA – The Indignesse art exhibition featuring numerous Indigenous women artists will start May 7 to June 28, 2014 at the Aurora Cultural Centre, 22 church street, Aurora, Ontario. I spoke with the curator of Indigenesse, Nathalie Bertin.
Following the vision and journey of Taylor David
On March 28 Taylor David began his journey from Victoria, British Columbia that will end on June 21 in Ottawa. David states that “this walk is done to honor our grandmothers, grandfathers, brothers, sisters, and anyone affected by the residential school atrocity.
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library building literacy
SIX NATIONS – A group of Six Nations residents are pursuing community and financial support to get the Dolly Parton Imagination Library started for all of…
The healing journey continues
EDMONTON – The Truth and Reconciliation Committee’s seventh and final National Event took place in Edmonton, on March 27-30. As the committee noted, “There were more Indian Residential Schools in Alberta than in any other province. For 116 years, thousands of Aboriginal children in Alberta were sent to Indian Residential Schools funded by the federal government and run by the churches. They were taken from their families and communities in order to be stripped of language, cultural identity and traditions. Canada’s attempt to wipe out Aboriginal cultures failed. But it left an urgent need for reconciliation between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples.”
Youth connect with tradition through storytelling
The Indigenous Education Coalition (IEC) held their 7th annual storytelling event at the Antler River Elementary school on the Chippewa of the Thames territory this past Wednesday. The event had youth from the Standing Stone elementary of the Oneida of the Thames, Antler River elementary of the Chippewa of the Thames, and Kettle and Stony Point Hillside Elementary Schools from grades four to eight competing for the prize of best storyteller.
The Return Of Pi-wa-pisk-oo
Anna Faulds is Dene Suline from Lue’ Chok Tue’ (Cold Lake, AB) who grew up in and currently resides in Edmonton, Alberta. Anna appears on the APTN series Blackstone as Teresa the band council office manager. Anna is currently involved with the return of one of the most sacred items of the Cree and Blackfoot peoples – the Manitou Stone.
The most sacred of all Hawai’i is facing a genocidal threat
At the Anishnabek Educational Institute on Muncey Delaware Territory I met up with a Hawiian woman named Waimakalani Iona. She described a scenario all too familiar to Onkwehon:we people: the encroachment of her lands, a disregard for environmental issues and an ethnocentric and dismissive attitude towards her cultural beliefs.