What’s trending: July 20, 2016

Melania versus Michelle — who said it better? A video comparing a speech Donald Trump’s wife Melania made at the Republican National Convention with a…

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Anishnabe singer Nikki Shawana is stirring hearts online after video circulated this weekend of her first place performance in the Ann Arbour Pow Wow hand…

#NotYourTonto goes VIRAL during Oscars

A ‘Twitter Storm’, targeting the Academy Award nomination for Disney’s “The Lone Ranger” went viral on Sunday during the Oscars. The film was controversially nominated…

Indigenous people are #NotYourMascot

Fans of the NFL and Indigenous people posted to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and any other medium they had using the hashtag #NotYourMascot to urge the…

Cleveland General tells history of Plank Road

Cayuga Royanni (Chief) Deyotowehgoh (Cleveland General) of the Wolf Clan tells the history of Plank Road now known as Highway #6 of Ontario. This land…

Political prisoners denied basic human rights

The Elsipogtog protest against fracking seems to be over for everyone except Mi’kmaq men Aaron Francis and Germaine Jr. Breau who have been held in…

The difficult sayings of Nelson Mandela

The Facebook community has been remembering the Mandela the revolutionary man and anti-colonial freedom fighter this week.

UK Music Video depicts Rez life

Drum and bass artists Chase & Status have released a new album “Brand New Machine” December 4, 2013 and the music video premiere for single…

Neil Young Honours the Treaties

Neil Young has announced that he will perform 4 benefit shows in Canada to raise money for the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) Legal Defense…

Winnipeg Student Kicked Off Bus For Wearing Sweater – “Got Land? Thank An Indian.”

Gelsey Sumner, a female high school student in Winnipeg, says that she was kicked off a bus for wearing a sweater with the message “Got…

Demonstrators Set Up Frack Site Outside B.C. Premier Home

Noting B.C. Premier Christy Clark’s support for fracking, demonstrators with the Vancouver Coast Salish Rising Tide group set up a mock fracking site protest outside…

Iconic Indie Rock Veteran Lou Reed Dies at 71

Musician Lou Reed, who was seen as a pioneer with the group “The Velvet Underground” in the late 60’s and early 70’s and who had…

B.C. Councillors Call Proposed Change to Reserve Policy “Scary” and a “Real Threat”

In the latest edition of “Settler Panic,” Councillors this week in Richmond, B.C. talked openly about their fears of potential changes to the Federal Reserve…

Hooded Wyoming Wolf Hunters Image Goes Viral

A photo went viral this week of a men wearing hoods while standing around an American flag and holding up the corpse of a dead…

UN Special Rapporteur encounters Idle No More revival

The United Nations has dispatched James Anya, a law professor and special human rights envoy to assess the situation of indigenous peoples within Canada. Anya…