Be ready for when winter comes
I once had a good conversation with a American Anthropologist from Akwesasne. He was a very intelligent gentleman, but he couldn't get over the fact…
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Onkwehonwe Week in Review April-8-2015
Ojibway man walking from Victoria to Ottawa VICTORIA – On Saturday, March 28th, an Ojibway man from the Curve Lake First Nation started a five-month…
Onkwehonwe Week in Review: April 1 2015
Compensation sought for residential day-scholars KAMLOOPS – The Tk’emlups te Secwepemc (or Kamloops Indian Band) and the Sechelt Indian Band are in the middle of…
Freedom, a poem by Tewasarake
Freedom is a beautiful Mohawk woman singing by the river. Freedom is a doe laying in the trees. Freedom is a willow seed. floating on the breeze. It is sacred for all. Just that talk of touching it. Would make us think of war.
How to celebrate spring in your Indian Car
Is it just me or was this winter absolutely gruelling? Six entire months of cloudy snow and gray skies are just too much for anyone…
Onkwehonwe Week in Review March 11 2014
Tentative settlement of billion dollar lawsuit NUNAVUT – A Nunavut land-claims group which sued Ottawa in 2006 for $1 billion, for allegedly failing to fund…
Peace, power and reason
Inside the bowels of the “just-us” system of incarceration I found something out. The old people at longhouse always told me hats-sqay/you see. Ya gotter…
Scone Dogs & Seed Beads: The Hot Wing Hurl
I don’t get manliness. While I respect it in all of its forms there are things that confuse me. Case in point: the Garlow Hot…
Onkwehonwe Week in Review: March 4 1015
Indigenous MP comes out against Liberal support of Bill C-51 OTTAWA – Cree NDP MP Romeo Saganash is blasting the Liberals and their leader, Justin…
Onkwehonwe Week in Review: March 4 2014
Inuit rights case to be heard in Toronto TORONTO – A Federal Court challenge to offshore seismic surveys by the Inuit of Clyde River will…
You CAN overcome bullying – with “the love among us”
For the first time in twenty years, this fall I went back to the school where I was bullied. As soon as I stepped into…
Onkwehonwe Week in Review February 18 2015
TRC calls for Vatican to rescind 15th century Papal Bulls of Discovery The Truth and Reconciliation Committee of Canada, which is currently examining the impact…
Onkwehonwe Week in Review: February 11 2015
Scoop victims launch Class-action lawsuit REGINA – The Merchant Law Group, in Regina, is representing over 1,000 victims of the '60s Scoop', and served the…
Spring will bring victory for Six Nations
Something beautiful lit up in my spirit recently and I had an a-ha moment: I am certain that this is going to be a victorious…
Onkwehonwe Week in Review: February 4 2015
Cree Survivor finally finds a home PRINCE ALBERT – A Cree woman whose legs were amputated after a vicious attack last year, has finally found…