By Thohahoken On Friday February 24, 2017, the temperature will be 19 C. “All my intuitions are saying this is not right,” one grandmother writes.…
There is no singular event or time that provides easy answers for the ongoing trauma that the original people have felt, still feel and will…
6. The Canadian Invasion of Haudenosaunee Territory Charles Stewart, the new Superintendent of Indian Affairs under the MacKenzie King administration, does not seem to have…
By Elizabeth Doxtater The media (even some native media) describe us as ‘Native Canadian’ or ‘Canadian First Nations’. We are neither. This Canadian adjective can…
By Thohahoken Last week, Justin Trudeau’s government tried to stop Ontario Superior Court Justice Edward Belobaba from issuing a ruling promised for February 15, 2017…
According to the customs of the Mohawk Nation, the author Joseph Boyden is a fraud, an impostor, an imposition and an impediment. One who has…
The first time I travelled to Santa Fe, New Mexico, my family’s kind and openhearted Hopi friends told us to “not purchase Kachina dolls” when…
At the beginning of the Revolutionary War the Iroquois tried to remain neutral but it did not take them long to realize that neither the…
Challenge and Triumph is an artwork created to represent Six Nations of the Grand River at the 2015 Pan and Para Pan American Games in…
In light of the recent death of Mohawk activist, Bill Squire representing the Mohawk Workers, we thought it would be fitting to offer this posthumous…
TORONTO — Joseph Boyden’s recent public statement and interviews about his indigenous roots are too vague and don’t fully address the heart of the controversy…
Science in part is about asking questions then looking for an answer with an open mind, but apparently in Ontario today some questions can get…
In a series of stories in national and local newspapers we learn that fentanyl, one of the most potent opioids, is being manufactured and sold…
As these ceremonies are sacred to our people, I will not be describing them or speaking of their contents or purpose. Kaianerehserako:wa (guy-yan-nay-leh-say-la-go-wah) or the…
I started out alone on a Friday into the darkness of an early December evening; heading due north out of Santa Fe, New Mexico, into…