Preventing Lyme Disease – what you need to know

It is the time of year that woodticks take over our territory. Although finding a tick on you or your children is a common thing…

Mammograms for Six Nations women on Community Awareness Week

The Screen For Life Mobile Unit, a full screening clinic that travels the province will be on Six Nations this month during Community Awareness Week,…

Holistic health food and nutrition store opens on Six Nations

A new health food and nutrition store has opened on Six Nations territory offering holistic nutritional supplements, organic and indigenous foods and self-care products. Life…

Healing the heart by healing the mind

The Good Mind, or Ganigonhi:oh, is a well-known concept in Haudenosaunee tradition that calls on the use of kind, loving and compassionate thoughts as a…

Wahta Nikarontoten

Once again the maple trees have followed their original instructions by providing that sweet water after a long, cold winter. When the temperature hovers above…

The holistic approach to being a First Nations dietitian

Twelve weeks on a traditional foods diet. Though it sounds challenging it’s exactly what four Haudenosaune participants – three of them from Six Nations –…

Children’s health starts with real food and a united community

I had the privilege of attending the International Meeting on Indigenous Child Health this past weekend in Ottawa. It is good to know that so…

Screening for colon cancer is simple and could save your life

A mobile cancer screening detection unit will be coming to Six Nations this May. The Screen For Life Coach is a 45 foot bus which…

Yearning for Spring

March is here and we are beginning to feel the weather change. Not big changes yet, but enough to prompt our thoughts to warmer weather…

Seed starting: a step by step guide

Seeds are chosen, and your inner gardener is calling out to them to get ready to start growing! Here are few tips to get ready…

The duty to consult and children’s environmental health

What does the aggregate industry’s Duty To Consult have to do with children’s environmental health? In terms of sand and gravel deposits within the Haldimand…

Maple sap gathering time: a step by step guide

There is a sweet spot right around mid-March when the sun sticks around a little longer during the day, the snow slowly begins to melt…

Creating positive outcomes using mindfulness

A key attribute in the process of making change and simply living in the present moment is called “mindfulness.” This concept is not cultivated nearly…

Reztoring pride and eradicating diabetes: An interview with SOADI youth co-ordinator Marie Bowering

Can you tell us about SOADI’s youth diabetes program? The youth program with SOADI started in January 2010. We needed a way to engage youth…

How gardening heals: growing white corn as cultural reclamation

For nearly 40 years, Sagoyesatha has been planting white corn on his family’s plot of land on Sour Springs Road. He returned to Six Nations…