CHRT says Jordan’s Principle applies to all First Nation children
OTTAWA – On May 26 the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT) has again ruled that Canada has yet to comply with previous orders to implement…
EDT asks incomplete applicants to resubmit for 2018
SIX NATIONS – In February 2017, the Six Nations of the Grand River Economic Development Trust (EDT) announced that $1.5 million was slated for community…
Our Sustenance Farmer’s Market kicks off with a bang
SIX NATIONS – Our Sustenance Farmer’s Market kicked off the official opening of its outdoor season earlier this month with a great turnout. The event brought…
Regional Chief Isadore Day statement: For the sake of our children and youth it’s time to put reconciliation into action
First Nation children and youth are dying senseless and needless deaths in ever increasing numbers. The latest incident was the discovery of a 14-year-old child’s…
Mohawk Village Park to turn sorrow into peace
EAGLES NEST/BRANTFORD – Restorations continue with the Mohawk Institute, a.k.a. Mush Hole, building as it transitions into a museum designed to preserve the evidence behind…
Hope for First Nations education
HAGERSVILLE – A major study released on May 30 offers hopeful recommendations for First Nations education programs in Ontario, focusing on children with special needs. The…
Woodland Cultural Centre announces First Nations Art 2017
BRANTFORD – The Woodland Cultural Centre (WCC), a leader in the field of First Nations museum exhibitions, artistic endeavors, research facilities and cultural programming, presented…
Letter to the editor: Marketing in bad taste
She:kon! Skennen'kó:wa ken? Thohahente yontiats. Kanyen'kehá:ka ní:'i nok wakenáthen. Tsi Kenhteke nitiwaké:non. I was in the Cobourg Branch of CIBC on May 17 to cash…
Cultural desensitization keeping Canadians blind
The Canadian website Huffington Post defines the concept of White Fragility as "the thing that restricts our knowledge, shuts down conversations before they start, and…
Alive and Well
Canadians are probably tired of hearing about the horror of residential schools and are getting uncomfortable. Everytime you turn on the news now there are…
Iroquois Spirit Game
Written by Chezney Martin with notes from Jayson Koblun The sports community and rest of the Turtle Island is eagerly awaiting the release of the…
Mohawk Geese
Starting right now, whenever you see a goose call it a Mohawk Goose, or maybe a Cayuga Goose — anything but a Canadian Goose. These…
Ten of the greatest lies in American-Indigenous history: Part two
An article by Doug George-Kanentiio, Akwesasne Mohawk, that the Two Row Times has broken up into several sections that will run through the next few…
Decolonize — Revillagize
There is ongoing talk about the process of ‘decolonization,’ however the phrase may be outdated and a bit misleading. The definition of the word…
Canadian literature sucks
Author Megan Kinch is a settler Canadian who grew up in Scarborough, Ont. It’s time we were honest about the sub-par, elitist, racist, garbage that…