Setting resolutions as an indigenous person
We’ve officially reached the second week of January. This means that most New Year’s resolutions are already in gear. And the most common New Year’s…
Opinion
The Happiest Kids on Sour Springs Road
Every year down on Six at New Years you will hear folks greeting each other with a festive “Nu-yah! Nu-yah!”. For some it is just…
NPR airs inaccurate story about Indian Child Welfare Act
The Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) issued the following statement after National Public Radio broadcast and published “Native American Adoption Law Challenged As Racially Biased”…
The plot to assassinate Joseph Brant
An ancient document reveals a feud between Mohawk families over the Haldimand Tract lands SIX NATIONS — A number of weeks ago we published a…
Allegiant to Law of the Land
In becoming a naturalized Canadian citizen you must recite the oath of citizenship, which some view as offensive to their values. In an attempt to…
First Nation Land
The land in this stolen country is “owned” by the original people. They agreed to share this land with the newcomers. The newcomer, who fought…
Six Nations Right to Hunt group says protesters barricade violates indigenous rights
After successfully surpassing the goal of 1,500 online signatures, the Supporters of Haudenosaunee Right to Hunt delivered their signed petition to the Regional Municipality of…
Head: Building the soil and standing strong
By Paula Hill I was outraged when I read “Peter Khill found not guilty of murder.” I raged inside and it gushed out of me…
2ROW Gamers Video Game Review: ‘Total War: WARHAMMER’ for PC
You may not know it but ‘Warhammer’ by Games Workshop is a really fun table top game with an enormous universe filled with legend and…
Hooking in public: The history of ‘the hook’
Perhaps it is because of the power of social media connecting Haudenosaunee people beyond territorial gaps, but it seems to me that ‘the hook’ has…
Journalism organizations urge the Muscogee Nation to reinstate its free press act
The Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) and other free press advocates condemn the Muscogee (Creek) Nation's decision to repeal it’s press freedom law. The move…
Op-Ed: The Death Knock – ethics in reporting
The more that numbers are used to represent people, the less human those numbers become. That is fact. The media, especially non-indigenous media, has created…
The Rebirth of Day of the Dead in Mexico
Oaxaca, Mexico — Salvador Cortez Santiago is seated at edge of a large window in his colonial era home on a quiet street in the…
Walking with the Honduran Migrant Caravan
It’s Saturday morning and dawn is breaking over the main square in Ciudad Hidalgo, a small city in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas that…
Anatomy of a new industry
SMITH FALLS – The talk about the horrors of letting the marijuana monster out of its cage in your community has now changed to, “how…