The Canadian government continues to move forward with genocidal legislation framed as beneficial for the original people. Canada is still attempting to rewrite the historic…
Since the coming of the settler colonizers, the original people have been at odds trying to express their relationship to the land. For the colonizer,…
Tina Fontaine, Helen Betty Osborne, Cindy Gladue—all names of First Nation women that have been killed in their own land. These women were killed because…
Gerald Stanley, a Saskatchewan farmer held that gun that killed Colten Boushie. This is a perspective on what happened the day Colten Boushie died. Colten…
The dizzying calendar speed and final celebration of colonial holidays rushed the Assembly of First Nations to pass a resolution at their 2017 December meeting…
What is there to say about the year in review for the original peoples of this land wrongfully called Canada? This year is just another…
The Assembly of First Nations and the newly divided department of Indigenous services DISC formerly Indian and Northern affairs have attempted to reduce the treaty…
The grassroots have had to remind the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) and other First Nation representative organizations that the power and direction of any…
Canadians are once again screaming and throwing tantrums over the original people refusing to be stereotyped. The cries of ethno-policing and cultural appropriation are put…
The original people of this land moved or settled in particular areas with specific reasons. Some nations moved, some stayed closer to settled lifestyles. The…
It holds the memory and the understanding that has always been on this great island. It is the memory that speaks of a land filled…
The history of this great island is not contained in textbooks that recount settler fallacies. The history of Turtle Island is in the land and…
Ignorance, arrogance or intimidation? First, let’s put the simple facts out there: in all of the legalese, questions of fairness, who is regulating who, what…
This topic is surfacing again with Canadian mainstream media. A recent issue of Write published an editorial by Hal Niedzviecki where he states that he…
Prior to settler colonials infecting the original ways of the Indigenous, the First Peoples had sustainable systems and communal ways that worked for centuries. In…