A walk in the cold for the homeless

THUNDER BAY – Travelling down Memorial Avenue, in Thunder Bay, it’s about nine kilometres from the Dew Drop Inn soup kitchen in Port Arthur, to…

Six Nations announces participation in Pan-Am Games

OHSWEKEN – According to Six Nations elected chief Ava Hill, the community will be a very busy place this summer with its involvement in the…

Barriere Lake sues Aboriginal Affairs and Third Party Managers

OTTAWA – On January 30, 2015, the Algonquins of Barriere Lake commenced a legal proceeding against Canada and past and present third party managers for…

Tyendinaga Youth enjoy their new skating rink

TYENDINAGA – Tyendinaga has the beginnings of a new outdoor Olympic-sized skating rink. The idea was sparked when two long-time residents of Tyendinaga, Ogwari Brant and…

RCMP puzzled by Maritime tobacco trends

The RCMP have noticed a new trend in how contraband cigarettes reach the Maritimes provinces. According to an internal document, they have detected an increase…

Squaw Island – Why It Matters

On January 19 2015, the United States celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day – a federal holiday to honor the legacy of one of the…

Dene people holding the line

LALOCHE – On November 19th, 2014 a road block was established north of LaLoche, Saskatchewan by the Dene people of Ducharme. The people of this…

Unity Council Employees Donate Christmas Gifts

SENECA FALLS – Cayuga Nation employees at the Unity Council office delivered Christmas presents to two Seneca Falls families identified through the local Head Start…

Ojibway man’s native rights asserted

The U.S. government has recommended to dismiss charges of possessing wildlife without a licence against an Ojibway man from the Nippissing First Nation residing in…

Ohsweken man charged for “contraband” cigarettes

LONDON – Agents from the London Detachment of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) seized approximately 210,000 contraband cigarettes and a 2007 Chevrolet Avalanche belonging…

Cayuga Nation Schoolhouse unveiled

SENECA FALLS – The Cayuga Nation Unity Council recently unveiled its new Cayuga Nation Schoolhouse on Friday in Seneca Falls, NY. The intent of the…

Removal of barricades brings other Ipperwash issues to light

KETTLE POINT – Last Friday local Kettle Point band workers took down four barricades along the Ipperwash beach that were erected in 1973 by the Lambton Shores…

Indigenous woman seeks to change the name of Buffalo’s Squaw Island

BUFFALO, NY – A Mohawk woman has appealed to the Buffalo Common Council to change the name of “Squaw Island” – a name she and…

Faith Community supports Ojibway woman fined for building her own home

SCARBOROUGH – Members and supporters of West Hill United, a church in Scarborough, have taken exemplary action in support of Darlene Necan, an Ojibway woman…

Mass arrests as protestors try to stop Burnaby Mountain pipeline

BURNABY – An area on Burnaby Mountain is being occupied by Onkwehon:we people, residents of Burnaby and the lower mainland, and other allies in response…