Indigenous Identity in the Corporation of Canada

Congratulations on the birth of your new baby and welcome to the corporation of Canada! Soon the corporation will be handing out all the identification…

Don’t Ever Point. Ever.

If you want to go for a walk on the rez you don’t get sidewalks and stoplights, just ditches and culverts. So when my daughter…

Another day to live excellently

Two years ago my husband and our kids moved in with family. In one of those moments that can only be described as “divine intervention”…

A major pain in the rear

This week the entire staff of the Two Row Times was nominated in the “Winter Challenge 2014”. For those of you who don’t know this…

That’s what you get

Nothing beats Six Nations in the spring. When I was a kid it was always exciting the first time you got to play outside without…

The Drums of War

Pow Wow season is quickly approaching and everywhere you look across Indian Country, moms and aunties are pulling out the big guns to get everyone’s…

If I never had to wash another dish

You know those hard times when it’s a “whatever’s-left-in-the-cupboard-is-what’s-for-dinner” kind of night? That’s what’s cooking in my household this month. For lunch today my daughter…

My True Rez Shoes

The year I had my mastectomy I treated myself and bought a pair of Rez Hoofs. These hand painted boots are made by a couple…

Kawayo’t – Her name means Resting Canoe

No matter where you go in Haudenosaune territory, somewhere along the path is the art of Arnold Jacobs. His murals decorate buildings everywhere, and his…

Community Living Gift Shop gets revamped

Ronatahskats, the Community Living Gift Shop on Chiefswood Road has been renovated, and is moving forward in a new adventure, building a social enterprise where…

Honouring Dick Hill

When someone who inspired foundational change in the community leaves us, it is very important to take the time to acknowledge such a loss. Such…

Pay It Forward 2014

So there’s this kid I know of, well he’s not a kid actually. More of a young man. His name is Ascension. His mama and…

True repentance

A cold autumn morning in my first year of high school, a girl named “Ang" taught me how to smoke. Ang was fourteen, and I…

The happiest kids on Sour Springs Road

Every year down on Six at New Years you will hear folks greeting each other with a festive “Nu-yah! Nu-yah!”. For some it is just…

Tis the season for decolonization of christianity

What do you know about the very First Christmas? Maybe you’ve heard the Bible story; an angel, a pregnant lady, some shepherds with donkeys and…