Celebrate Aboriginal Solidarity Day this weekend at these ACE events
This weekend – Sunday June 21st – is Aboriginal Solidarity Day and there are a TON of events this year all across the province. Looking…
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Michelle Farmer’s Studio of Dance celebrates 40 years
For many young girls who grew up on Six Nations – dance was their first love. A love fostered by none other than Miss Michelle…
Welcome to Community Awareness Week
Victoria Day is May 18 this year and this welcomes the beginning of Six Nation’s 27th Annual Community Awareness Week (CAW). With over 60 events…
First Nations Rock at 2015 Juno Awards
The 2015 Juno Awards, which recognizes Canadian musical talent from across the country, was held in Hamilton this past weekend. Alongside the event were number…
Morningstar
Morningstar Mercredi is an accomplished author who wrote about her unflinching personal journey of abuse, racism and her triumph over trauma and childhood sexual exploitation in her memoir ‘Morningstar,…
Apikiwiyak opens a dialogue about coming home
It’s never a pleasant thing, turning the lights on in a dark place to see the mess that has been building up around you. All communities have their struggles and when governments and citizens alike only partly acknowledge these issues, how can anything become clean again? It takes a brave soul to want to turn that mirror onto ourselves and discuss what we see.
Chef Rich Francis could be Canada’s Top Chef
Tweets and shout outs are running rampant on Social Media today, cheering on Chef Rich Francis as he heads into the finale of Top Chef Canada as one of the three remaining contestants competing for the title of Canada’s ‘Top Chef’.
“When I first started out to do this I never wanted to reinvent the wheel,” said Francis at his home on Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. “This is just me expressing my perspective on how I see our food. It’s my story; take it or leave it. The people who do appreciate it see where I’m coming from.”
Benefit concert draws big crowd
SIX NATIONS: As the night went on, Yogi’s Barn saw more and more community members come out in support of the warriors in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, led by Shawn Brant, who blocked a portion of Shannonville Road in response to the federal government’s lack of concern for the growing numbers of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls across Canada.
Derek Miller headlines Free Concert for Tyendinaga Warriors
SIX NATIONS – Six Nations’ rocker Derek Miller is using his celebrity and his musician friends to raise awareness and funds to help the people of Tyendinaga who are on the front line of protests against the Harper Government’s lack of interest in calling for an inquiry into missing and murdered Native women.
Rhymes for Young Ghouls to premiere this week
Mik’maq director Jeff Barnaby’s debut feature film ‘Rhymes for Young Ghouls’ makes its’ theatrical debut this Friday at Cineplex Young & Dundas in Toronto.
Toronto show rocks the tar sands
Veronica Johnny of The Johnnys band,originally from Fort Chipewyan, held a benefit concert for the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Legal Defense Fund at the Rivoli in downtown Toronto on Sunday.
Ongwehowe talent nominated for Canadian Screen Awards
Six Nations very own Cheri Maracle got some great news this week; the talented actress is nominated by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television (ACCT) for ‘Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program or Series’ for her role as Sarah Bull in the APTN series “Blackstone”.
Artifacts of Residential Schools to be used in national memorial
A national monument commemorating the dark legacy of the Indian Residential School System and its devastating effects on indigenous identity is in the works.
David Suzuki to stand in mock trial for the coming faces.
On October 9th, David Suzuki released a video statement of his Carbon Manifesto in which he accuses corporations, the canadian government and its citizens of…