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…

Traditional Wellness Coordinator helps community members to reconnect to culture

SIX NATIONS – Cindy Martin digs out a resource from her desk that she has used for years to help people envision their personal journey.…

Six Nations mother connecting with ancestral foods for a better future

For the last seven weeks Six Nations woman Julee Green has been a participant in the Healthy Roots Indigenous Wellness Challenge. She has stopped eating…

Reflect on thanksgiving for spiritual well-being

Central to Haudenosaune tradition is the responsibility of giving thanks. Typically it is done through a prayer called the Thanksgiving address or Ganohonyo’k. These are…

New cookbook from SOADI helps to “walk the talk”

One of the results of colonization on indigenous people has been that many of our people have moved away from traditions, such as community building,…

Mohawk teacher from Tyendinaga reversing diabetes through indigenous foods

Tyendinaga Mohawk Karihwawishon Joe Brown has been participating in the Healthy Roots Indigenous Wellness Challenge for just six weeks and has already seen big changes…

“Log off and live” – Establish a no technology time in your home

Over usage of electronic media in our day-to-day lives has many people questioning the long term and potentially detrimental effects that these items have on…

The medical geology of Lyme Disease

Ebola, HIV, measles. It has become trendy to blame “superbugs” for health imbalances, and the Borrelia bacteria associated with Lyme Disease is no exception. However,…

Celebrating indigenous wellbeing in Gayogoho:no

One of the biggest challenges anyone in life faces is learning how to love yourself. Perhaps even more so for indigenous people. Historical trauma and…

Lacrosse star Johnny Powless using indigenous food to up his game

Six Nations man Johnny Powless, now a professional lacrosse player for the Vancouver Stealth has been considered a lacrosse phenomenon in sports news across all…

Undetermined child deaths and the “sickcare system”

The Office of the Chief Coroner (OCC), the Death Under Five Committee (DU5C) and the Pediatric Death Review Committee (PDRC) collectively strive to appropriately assign…