Indigenous people are #NotYourMascot

Fans of the NFL and Indigenous people posted to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and any other medium they had using the hashtag #NotYourMascot to urge the…

Kahwatsire: Empowering New Narratives and Restoring Realities Call for Papers 10th Annual Indigenous and American Studies Storytellers of the Americas Conference

Haudenosaunee, Onkwehonwe, and allied scholarship will once again center this year’s 10th anniversary Storytellers Conference with the Kanienkeha (Mohawk) concept of kahwatsire: “all of our…

Akwesasne woman proposes Cornwall Island Mohawk Band Council

AKWESASNE –Cornwall Island (Kawehnoke) may one day have a different political governance structure if one local political activist has her way.

Ongwehowe talent nominated for Canadian Screen Awards

Six Nations very own Cheri Maracle got some great news this week; the talented actress is nominated by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television…

Back to Our Path is not a Trip Backward

Many of us are familiar with our expression Ohnkwe Ohnwe. It is what we use to describe ourselves as the original people of Turtle Island.…

The diaspora

We have been people of the Grand River for just over two hundred years now but there are a few problems with our situation.

True repentance

A cold autumn morning in my first year of high school, a girl named “Ang" taught me how to smoke. Ang was fourteen, and I…

2013 Akwesasne Year in Review

December 2012 – A federal search warrant raid on Dec. 18 on the closed Three Feathers Class II Casino resulted in the arrest of the…

Morning Coffee Thought: Settler Ally vs. Settler Brother/Sister

I’ve been struggling over this term “ally” for a long time now. Many “light skinned” people have approached me, wondering how to improve relations with…

GREAT’s gift to community

Each year the staff of Grand River Employment And Training (GREAT) and the Ongwehoweh Skills and Trades Training Centre (OSTTC) participate in a voluntary Dress…

Kindness is who we are, don’t mistake it for weakness

I have been blessed with knowing many great teachers and Elders over the years. Truth is, I would not be the person I am today…

Dignity

We have seen many instances in which someone has been given the opportunity to act graciously and with dignity only to rebuff the courtesy with…

The myth of untaxed “Indians”

OHSWEKEN – Canadian media portrays us as greedy, lazy, crooked, thugs that are a burden on the poor Canadian taxpayers. Sun Media, the National Post,…

Deer hunt at RBG this week met with organized opposition on social media

The Haudenosaunee Wildlife and Habitat Authority will be harvesting deer this week as part of a controlled hunt at the Royal Botanical Gardens Arboretum. From…

Two Row Times on Talking Radical Radio

[soundcloud id='121047930' color='#e0a8e6'] On this week's episode of Talking Radical Radio, publisher Jonathan Garlow talks about a new newspaper and website inspired by a new…