An open letter to the Indigenous Peoples Movement

Dear Indigenous Peoples Movement, We need to talk about a serious issue threatening our livelihood and our collective inherit and treaty rights known as corporate…

Book review: A detective story set in the middle of an Indigenous insurgency

Demands of the Dead, By Justin Podur Reviewed by Megan Cotton-Kinch While I’ve always enjoyed a good detective novel, I’ve always felt like this genre…

TEIEHKWA’S JOURNEY

Dear editors, I would like to keep everyone informed of the health care plan developed for, and with, Teiehkwa. The following are reasons for my…

This Is What I Was Taught – Breaking Free from Lateral Violence

One of the most empowering things I was taught about when I was on my healing journey was something that professionals call Lateral Violence. This…

Understanding how BC Supreme Court ruling affects all Onkwehon:we

On June 26, 2014, the Supreme Court of Canada released its reasons in Tsilhqot’in Nation v. British Columbia. The decision is the first time that…

Decolonizing activism and organizing

There are so many genres of activism my head spins at the amount of rallies and protests that I have either been apart of, or…

The Creator doesn’t make garbage

Previously I’ve shared stories of the extreme bullying I endured in childhood while growing up down the bush. Sadly, my story is familiar to many…

Adoptees on the healing path

Thunderbird clan For Two Row Times Taking the Indian out of the Indian. Such is the kind of thing that the Children’s Aid Society did…

Canada’s wrongful conviction

As I reflect on the passing of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, I recall information shared with me by one Vern Harper. Vern is my only source…

There are other ways

Indigenous economics supported by the Canadian power elite is the large-scale sale of natural resources and the re-sale of petroleum and tobacco products produced by…

‘Hook’ing in public – History of ‘the Hook’

Perhaps it is because of the power of social media connecting Haudenosaune people beyond territorial gaps, but it seems to me that ‘the hook’ has…

There are other ways

The Indigenous economics supported by the Canadian power elite is the large-scale sale of natural resources and the re-sale of petroleum and tobacco products produced…

Recent article on the Mohawk Chapel.

Dear Editors, Thank you for the recent article on the Mohawk Chapel. You described some of the challenges we face in maintaining an edifice that…

The Kanienkehaka were the first to accept the Kaianerekowa, where are they? Iakonkwe

Dear Editors, The Kanienkehaka were the first to accept the Kaianerekowa, where are they? Iakonkwe, those who hold the family titles are not allowed to…

Late summer down the bush

I had a memory earlier this week of my Gramma Rovina. It was just a short little snippet of her sitting at the table chopping…