How to celebrate spring in your Indian Car

Is it just me or was this winter absolutely gruelling? Six entire months of cloudy snow and gray skies are just too much for anyone…

Scone Dogs & Seed Beads: The Hot Wing Hurl

I don’t get manliness. While I respect it in all of its forms there are things that confuse me. Case in point: the Garlow Hot…

You CAN overcome bullying – with “the love among us”

For the first time in twenty years, this fall I went back to the school where I was bullied. As soon as I stepped into…

Spring will bring victory for Six Nations

Something beautiful lit up in my spirit recently and I had an a-ha moment: I am certain that this is going to be a victorious…

Makayla Sault and how the media failed Canadians

In our area – two girls, both 11, were diagnosed with leukaemia in 2014. Makayla Sault was diagnosed in January 2014 with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia…

Scone Dogs & Seed Beads: Pond Skating at Night ‘Down the Bush’

Like many other families on the rez, a lot of my relatives live on a family plot that has been with us for generations. Ours…

My ‘Why’ – Curveball and the June Bugs

Breast cancer was never on my radar. It was never even a consideration. In fact out of everyone that was in my circle of friends…

What if Six Nations never existed?

Although I am born and raised a Six Nations rez girl, my matrilineal ancestry is not Haudenosaune but British. My parents settled onto Six Nations…

To vote or not to vote: that is the question

There are many people who abstain from federal politics on our territory. This position of abstinence is rooted in the atrocious act of the way…

New perspectives on old traditions

I had a really great visit with a woman from my community earlier this month. She told me that she doesn’t do Christmas. “What?!” I…

My five cents worth on injustice before my morning coffee

It was a cold and peaceful morning. My alarm went off and gently beckoned me, ‘Rise and shine sweetheart! It’s 7am! Time to get up,…

Soar above the storm like an eagle

This weekend as I was daydreaming and looking out my window the sunny skies suddenly began to change and a huge storm rolled in. Black…

A quiet and snow-covered gift

One of my favorite visualizations of the Rez is how quiet it gets in the winter. Close your eyes for a minute and dream it.…

When non-native people are afraid of the rez…

When I was in high school I became friends with this Iranian kid named Pej. He was first generation Canadian. His parents fled Iran because…

Overcoming lateral violence through love

My daughter is going through a phase of being afraid to fall asleep on her own. Every night for the last few weeks she has…