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…

Before there was Angry Birds, there was Angry Giibwanisi.

I’ve led a very tumultuous life of drugs, violence death, and abuse. Some inflicted upon me, and worse, times when I’ve unilaterally inflicted it upon…

 Onkwehonwe Week in Review: January 21, 2015

Human Rights Watch report discovers culture of abuse inside RCMP TORONTO – Human Rights Watch has published a report blasting the RCMP not only for…

Luv, respect and defiance: A column from prison

I knew this man last year. The inmates called him “Chief” which is a common name for aboriginal inmates. In the shady paranoid world of…

Let’s celebrate surviving Sir John A. Macdonald

On January 11, Prime Minister Stephen Harper led Canada in a celebration of Sir John A. Macdonald, saying, “Without Sir. John A. Macdonald, Canada as…

Who paid who to jump in their playpen?

I am glad that the referendum on alcohol didn’t pass. But my question is who paid elected council to push for the referendum in the…