Onkwehonwe Week in Review April 20 2016

Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould calls for an end to the Indian Act During an emergency debate, held last Tuesday in the House of Commons in…

Panama Papers

With the political fallout after the leaking of the “Panama papers”, in the UK, Prime Minster David Cameron received much criticism from the media for…

“Suicide is genocide”: INAC takeovers rock the Canadian landscape

In response to the spate of suicides in Attawapiskat this past week, Indigenous activists, alongside activists from Black Lives Matter, took over the Indigenous and…

Remembering Caledonia: Our Next Step Forward

By Kahehti:io, aka Little Hiawatha, Rotiskaré:wake My time at Kanohnstaton was spent on various tasks aside from merely placing my body on the land to…

Onkwehon:we Week in Review: April 6 2016

First spelling bee for First Nations kids held in Saskatchewan   On April 8, 2016, 148 Indigenous students from 21 different First Nations across Saskatchewan…

Re: Nine people dead in a house fire in Pikangikum First Nation.

Dear Editor, Today I read a horrible news headline which none of us should ever have to read. Nine people dead in a house fire…

Emergency planning for Onkwehonwe communities: The answer is in the knowledge we possess

By Thohahoken OHSWEKEN — The time for talking and philosophizing is over. We’re being distracted from what we are facing. It is now time to…

Canadians obligated to support indigenous languages

By Amos Keye Jr. and Dr. Carrie Dyck In Canada’s Indian Residential School system, the 53 Indigenous languages spoken in Canada were suppressed, even demonized,…

Onkwehon:we week in Review: March 30th 2016

Indigenous language immersion houses popping up across the country Onaman Collective, an arts based group, has been busy helping to rejuvenate Indigenous language through immersion…

New adoption “law” is a farce

The amount of people disgusted by a recent decision to make adopting a non-Native child “an offence,” where a Mohawk couple would lose their rights,…

“It’s Only A Month Away”

In regards to what I will be facing in the upcoming month; I already submitted two letters of recommendation and an essay to the Miss…

Onkwehonwe Week in Review: March 23

Justice Murray Sinclair accepts appointment to Canadian Senate Appointed by the Liberal government on March 18, Justice Murray Sinclair accepted his “sacred” appointment to the…

Former Chief concerned with non-natives “Grants, etc., of reserved lands void”

Letter to the Editor, The behind the scenes relationships and joint ventures of the local business community recently came out of the shadows and should…

A case for sovereignty

Posthumously by Alma Greene SIX NATIONS ‑ It has been said by revisionists with obvious vested interest, that Six Nations or any of it’s member…

What Ontario Land Registry?

BRANTFORD – Not very many people living in Ontario are aware that there is no such thing as the Ontario land registry, which registers and…