Canada created the Indian Act

Canada’s Indigenous constantly battle. They battle the pandemic, poverty, racism, targeted police attacks, different levels of government oppression and their own reserve “leadership”. Sadly Canadians…

Baby Rabbit Nests: a successful rescue

About a month ago I was raking grass in my yard right after it was cut, when I came across what appeared to be a…

Canada Day is a day to remember that Canada was made into a legal country

By Thohahoken Doxtater “If it wasn’t for your people Canada would not be a nation today,” said the late-Sylvannus General, last of the old time…

Why are First Nations Indigenous rising across the land?

While under the COVID 19 pandemic, Trudeau’s Liberal government has continued implementing zoom forced tactics, verbalizing policy without concrete funding and looking at legislation that…

Indigenous women take over Victoria Park in Kitchener

By Cory Bilyea KITCHENER – Two women and a girl have taken over part of Victoria Park in Kitchener, to make it known that there…

There is no reconciliation if First Nations are not allowed to live.

Rallying cries are loudening across Canada for two First Nation Indigenous deaths that have stirred talks of racism, policing and the role of local, regional…

Red Jacket Defends Native American Religion, 1805

The Senecas, members of the Iroquois Confederacy, fought on the side of the British in the American Revolution. Red Jacket, also known as Sagoyewatha, was…

Rez geography: Do you know where to find…?

By Doug Whitlow I’ve been feeling a bit nostalgic of late and one could assume other people are as well as we have all been…

An Open Letter to Canadians: Canada Must Commit to Action against Systemic Racism

We stand on the precipice of change. We are looking down an untravelled path that will lead us from the darkness of hate and racism…

Column: Disconnecting as a means of truth-seeking

What a time to be alive! There are so many new and old ways of life (and the understandings of life) floating around us and…

Who speaks for the Indigenous First Nation peoples on reserve?

As the Covid19 lockdown took effect in March and April, activists were reporting pipeline construction activity continuing in BC. The BC government did nothing to…

Mixed messages coming from Canada

The original people, the first inhabitants of this land have been facing increased challenges during the COVID 19 pandemic. There are still stories about infected…

Is the desire for Community Standards naturally taking shape on Six Nations?

Sometimes — when the world is swirling in chaos, it just takes a little quiet time to gather together all the details and suddenly you…

Nature has eyes

A beautiful woman once told me that moths are messengers of the dead (more pleasantly put: of the other side, the spirit world). I used…

Indigenous heroes past and present

SIX NATIONS — Over the generations, the people of the Five Nations, now Six Nations, have been known for their social and political insight as…