Exciting children’s books provided for First Nations’ local libraries

GoodMinds.com supports First Nations Community Libraries in several ways. One of the ways we help is by offering a selection of book titles chosen by…

Onkwehonwe Week in Review: February 11 2015

Scoop victims launch Class-action lawsuit REGINA – The Merchant Law Group, in Regina, is representing over 1,000 victims of the ’60s Scoop’, and served the…

02/11/15: An open letter to Stephen Harper

Good day. Allow me to introduce myself; my name is Laurel Curley and I’m from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory in southern Ontario.…

The Two Row Wampum is a history to be honored, not abused

“The Two Row Wampum opposes integration; Aboriginals are an underdeveloped stone age people; Aboriginal medicine – otherwise known as traditional quackery; Customary law is logically…

Spring will bring victory for Six Nations

Something beautiful lit up in my spirit recently and I had an a-ha moment: I am certain that this is going to be a victorious…

Residential Schools History Book Launched in Toronto

Residential Schools, With the Words and Images of Survivors, is a book documenting and honouring the history of the survivors and former students who attended…

Onkwehonwe Week in Review: February 4 2015

Cree Survivor finally finds a home PRINCE ALBERT – A Cree woman whose legs were amputated after a vicious attack last year, has finally found…

More than enough anger to go around in Kearns debacle

For a Children’s Environmental Health specialist, reading the more than 200-page RWDI Consulting Engineers & Scientists report on the November 2014 three-day test burn of…

Makayla Sault and how the media failed Canadians

In our area – two girls, both 11, were diagnosed with leukaemia in 2014. Makayla Sault was diagnosed in January 2014 with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia…

Onkwehonwe Week in Review January 28, 2015

Trappers seek to stop mineral exploration SASKATCHEWAN – A group of First Nation trappers calling themselves the Northern Trappers Alliance has been camping alongside Highway…

Law, faith and tradition

Dear editors, I am seething after reading the article by Rosie Di Manno in the Toronto Star titled “Law, faith, and tradition – none of them…

For those who read the story “Concerned over Incinerator”

Well I got myself in trouble again over a story written in The Brantford Expositor last Friday, Jan 23rd. For those who read the story…

Luv, Respect N Defiance

Recently there was a murder in Oneida Territory. A man was shot dead by a masked intruder in his home. Nobody has been arrested. Police…

Scone Dogs & Seed Beads: Pond Skating at Night ‘Down the Bush’

Like many other families on the rez, a lot of my relatives live on a family plot that has been with us for generations. Ours…

Celebrating Ongwehowe Authors (Continued)

The Rotinonshonni: A Traditional Iroquoian History Through the Eyes of Teharonhia:wako and Sawiskera by Mohawk scholar Brian Rice offers a comprehensive history based on the…