Onkwehonwe Week In Review: Week of October 28, 2015

Kahnawake Mohawks Block Train Tracks On October 22, 2015, a group known as Kahtihon’tia:kweniyo or Protectors of the St. Lawrence River, blocked CN Rail traffic…

Onkwehonwe Week in Review: Week of October 21, 2015

Ballots Run Out in 2 First Nation Polling Stations On October 19, polling stations across the country opened for the final day of voting in…

Onkwehonwe Week in Review: Week of October 14

Inquest into 7 First Nations Students Deaths Heard in Thunder Bay Between 2000 and 2011, seven First Nations students, who were attending school in Thunder…

Neskantaga declares health crisis over contaminated water

THUNDER BAY, ON – Leadership suspects poor water quality for continued infections in young children in the community. With limited access to health professionals, no…

Love, Respect and Defiance: Eye of the Tiger

Sago Skennako, So let’s have strength in our heart and minds so we can be the independent free spirits that Sonkwaiatison the Great Natural Spirit…

Onkwehonwe Week in Review: Week of September 30, 2015

By Danielle Boissoneau  How Well Meaning White People Made a Mess of the Inuit Written Language NUNAVUT — There are over 50 000 Inuit people…

Tewasarake – Love is like rain

By Bubzy Martin War and Peace, male and female, left handed and right handed twins. In the spirit of the Two Row Wampum. In the…

Onkwehonwe Week in Review: Week of September 23

Shoal Lake 40 First Nation Part of World Wide Health Study Destined for United Nations Human Rights Watch, a non-governmental organization has initiated a worldwide…

Come Together

Sago Akwatsire: The cry from the Indigenous public should go out if anything ever makes us feel and look like we are worth two cents.…

Love, Respect and Defiance: Ashes to Ashes

By: Bubzy Martin Sago, Ashes to ashes, let us give thanks for the faces in the earth that have yet to be born. Tread lightly,…

Onkwehonwe Week in Review – Week of September 16

By Danielle Boissoneau Conservative Director ousted from board after racist comments Sue MacDonnell, former police sergeant with the Toronto Police Services, was on the Board…

Skywoman

Sago Akwatsire, The Onkwehonwe community in London are on the march protesting the missing and murdered brothers and sisters. There were Iroquois ceremonial songs in…

Love, respect and Defiance: Power is Sacred

Many times we get into rough waters as the Haudenosaunee family. Sometimes with each other we quarrel. When we do this we’re playing into a…

Onkwehonwe week in Review – Week of July 15, 2015

First Nations Leaders Call for Language Recognition OTTAWA — The call for official recognition of First Nations languages was made by National Chief of the…

The soil of my ancestors

The property my parents live on has been in my family for a long time. My great aunt Emily’s father Wunyadeh grew cucumbers on that…