Laughing with the wrong people: insights into ego and tricksterism
To be honest, I don’t know what “tricksterism” is. The way that I understand it is that the word represents a colonial understanding of one…
Opinion
Statement from the Chief Public Health Officer of Canada
Each year, I release a report on the state of public health in Canada. This year, I have chosen to focus on family violence in…
The Path Begins
Imagine camps along a flowing riverbed with children playing, elders and families talking, eating and laughing. Forests stand tall and proud providing shade, fuel and…
KKKolumbus Day of Action. Eagle and Condor unite against DAPL.
Official Statement from Red Warrior Camp October 10, 2016. By Red Warrior Camp via Censored News At 6:30 a.m. a Sunrise Prayer Ceremony honouring the…
Life in the slow lane: an old turtle’s view of the world
Is it just me, or ever since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released their report in 2015, is there a bandwagon effect towards healing the…
Representation, and taxation without proper representation
If I do not have a right to tax my neighbor, how can I assign that right to the government to tax my neighbor? Magic!?…
Mu WÎyan Î’uch: Thunder Woman speaks
How many natives were encouraged to vote in the last federal election? Trudeau and his team of vetted “aboriginals” were standing together against the tyranny…
Onkwehonwe Week in Review: September 28th 2016
Indigenous nations across Turtle Island sign mutual defence treaty to protect against tarsands expansion Chiefs lined up to add their names and their nations to…
Six Nations Confederacy on the global stage in 1942
SIX NATIONS – In both Canada and the United States, there is an assumption that the American Indian population is something they can put all…
Notification after the fact is the new public consultation
Doug Whitlow Sometime ago, the Canadian government declared that all Aboriginal communities/First Nations had to be properly consulted prior to any development occurring on or…
The horn of the serpent
Tad McCallum A unique political institution developed in colonial North America. The Covenant Chain was an alliance or federation between British America, then principally New…
Akwesasne Mohawks expelled from the Mushhole and other bad memories
By Doug George-Kanentiio I was a student at the Mohawk Institute (a.k.a. the "Mushhole" for its unique brand of watery porridge) in Brantford, Ont. from…
Onkwehonwe Week in Review: September 21, 2016
Winnipeg MP breaks ranks with Liberal caucus over controversial Site C project The Justice for the Peace Caravan has recently traveled from British Columbia…
Decolonizing our lives with Conscious Intention
By Mike Myers I recently had a conversation with my brother about a workshop he attended focused on “Conscious Discipline” which is described as: “Conscious…
Disambiguation (Indigenous Identity)
History is not only a University academic subject or “His Story”. History is awareness of self as an on going function of life that begins…