mediaINDIGENA‘s own Waubgeshig Rice has a stellar piece in today’s Facts & Arguments section of the Globe about the 1990 Oka Crisis. (Although I’m frankly baffled, to put it charitably, by the accompanying picture.) In “Oka helped us find our voice,” Waub nails it when he writes: “We learned what it truly meant to be […]
Aboriginal cartoonists are a rarity, and female Aboriginal cartoonists are rarer still. So it is with much pleasure that I stumbled upon the still-young Canadian strip Moosehead Stew, by Alina Pete, “a Cree girl from Saskatchewan.” Here’s a mini–bio I cribbed from one of her strips: My Indian Status card says I’m from Little Pine […]
The Canadian Press reports that the Canadian government has asked for, and received, yet another extension from the B.C. Court of Appeal for making court-ordered changes to the Indian Act that would remove some (but not necessarily all) of the sexist barriers to women passing their Indian Status on to their children. (As mediaINDIGENA has […]
Al-Jazeera English files this report of an amazing act of solidarity and support shown by an Ecuadorian Indigenous delegation towards the Houma people in the state of Louisiana, hit hard by the recent BP Oil Spill. As you’ll see in this AJE story, making the journey northward were representatives of the Assembly of Communities Affected […]
Now that photojournalist Scott Stephens has been released from temporary Toronto police custody at the G20 protests, we are able to release more of his photos. The gallery below depicts the progression of events after protesters gathered across the street from a makeshift detention centre in east-end Toronto, where hundreds of detainees were being held. […]
