Alive and Well

Canadians are probably tired of hearing about the horror of residential schools and are getting uncomfortable. Everytime you turn on the news now there are…

Mohawk Geese

Starting right now, whenever you see a goose call it a Mohawk Goose, or maybe a Cayuga Goose — anything but a Canadian Goose. These…

Wood tick awareness

Anyone who has spent a decent amount of time on Six Nations has been bit by a wood tick. It’s inevitable. The wood ticks live…

‘Ello gov’na

When you receive a threatening letter from a lawyer it will usually read, “govern yourself accordingly” at the end as a tidbit of sobering advice.…

Crown Land: The Fraud of Crown Land

Crown Land is a 17th Century concept whereby certain lands and all derived from it are claimed to be subject to the ownership, jurisdiction and…

More likely than

If you happen to be an indigenous woman or girl in Canada, for no fault of your own, you are six times more likely than…

All the same height

There was a time more than 10 years ago when grassroots activists of Six Nations decided to take back what was rightfully ours. It caused…

Life after death

There have been two major car accidents in the last week with a number of fatalities and serious injuries. Sunday night a little girl was…

Could using banishment against addictions on reserve backfire?

When we were children our imagination about the future was limitless — that’s what made us so precious. Today that innocence embodies our own dreams…

We didn’t have it that bad

If you’ve been paying attention to the news on Six Nations lately it’s apparent that people are dying. Drug overdoses, car accidents, homicides, we’ve seen…

Mni wiconi: water is life

Looks like the warlords of the U.S. are flexing their muscles down at Standing Rock again. It seems like they are forgetting what happened to…

The Orenda Boyden wrote is not our Orenda

When I first learned about Orenda, it was when I was taught about traditional lacrosse sticks. I was told that a woman’s power and the…

Damn strait

Now and then the mainstream media reports on scientific findings about the “arrival” of indigenous people to the Americas. It goes something like this “Indigenous…

Demystifying the Two Row Times

Four years going strong and sometimes people wonder how we are a free paper. It’s kind of funny, but some think advertising is free too.…

Grounding in hope for 2017

It’s hard to keep positive when surrounded with indigenous news. Especially if you fancy yourself an empath — which several First Nations, Metis and Inuit…