National Chief Promotes Self-Assimilation
By Grand Chief Gordon Peters Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians Perry Bellegarde, the National Chief for the Assembly of First Nations has confirmed that…
Opinion
Tewasarake – Love is like rain
By Bubzy Martin War and Peace, male and female, left handed and right handed twins. In the spirit of the Two Row Wampum. In the…
Northern Fun: Deer Lake
HOLLYWOOD, ON – Tuesday morning we were off to Deer Lake. It was a short flight (only about 15 minutes) from Sandy Lake so we…
Onkwehonwe Week in Review: Week of September 23
Shoal Lake 40 First Nation Part of World Wide Health Study Destined for United Nations Human Rights Watch, a non-governmental organization has initiated a worldwide…
Re: Amusement Park Construction
Unfortunately, I was off sick when Troy Montour and his partner Daniel Carrasco (owner of REXLAR, an excavation & land rehabilitation company) came to Council…
Come Together
Sago Akwatsire: The cry from the Indigenous public should go out if anything ever makes us feel and look like we are worth two cents.…
Northern Fun: Pikangikum
PIKANGIKUM – As we travelled from community to community we were warned about staying overnight in Pikangikum. We were told how rough it was, how…
Sandy Lake, Deer Lake, Pikangikum, Cat Lake
NORTHERN ONTARIO – Last week, I had the pleasure, honour, privilege, and opportunity to travel with the Dreamcatcher Foundation to four fly-in communities in Northern…
Northern Fun: Sandy Lake
SANDY LAKE, ON – We arrived in Sandy Lake on Monday afternoon. Our tiny little plane landed on the dirt runway and on one hand…
RE: Fake Mohawk and Other Such Silliness
I wanted to take a few moments to respond to last week’s TRT article written by Jim Windle on the loss and change of the…
Letter to the Editor Re: Mohawk Language
Languages begin to die when they are no longer passed on from parent to child. That started happening to the Mohawk language here a long…
Love, Respect and Defiance: Ashes to Ashes
By: Bubzy Martin Sago, Ashes to ashes, let us give thanks for the faces in the earth that have yet to be born. Tread lightly,…
Onkwehonwe Week in Review – Week of September 16
By Danielle Boissoneau Conservative Director ousted from board after racist comments Sue MacDonnell, former police sergeant with the Toronto Police Services, was on the Board…
An Open Letter on the 20th Anniversary of the Shooting Death of Dudley George
On September 6 it will be 20 years since Anthony “Dudley” George, an unarmed First Nation man, was shot by the Ontario Provincial Police and…