Reading about this incredible soon-to-be 100 year old Oneida language advocate, I have to ask: what excuses will you and I come up with today, tomorrow and the day after that for not doing all we can to revitalize our indigenous languages? Now a great-great-grandmother, [Maria] Hinton may be one of a few fluent Oneida speakers […]
Last month, the Chief of one of Canada’s largest First Nations opted not to run again after serving just one term. For 8 years, Marcel Balfour held political office with the Norway House Cree Nation (on-reserve population: 5,500), located about 850 km north of Winnipeg, MB. First voted in as Councillor in 2002, Balfour […]
Made refugees from our own territories, we’re hardly ‘immigrants’ to cities A new study from the Environics Institute highlights the fact that many Aboriginal people who live in cities “have no plans to return to their home reserve,” reports the CBC. Leaving aside for the moment just how complicated it would be for most of […]
With all due respect to the criticisms leveled against those who have seemingly run the First Nations University of Canada into the ground, there are those who suggest the province is itself no stranger to such secrecy and opacity. Take this Mar. 26 letter to The StarPhoenix: A 2007 report to the McCall Review identified […]
In an attempt to both raise awareness and possibly assist with the investigation of missing and murdered Aboriginal women in this country, I have drawn on the power of Google Maps. It is simply scandalous that, as of July 2009, the past three decades have seen over 520 indigenous women disappear or die violently in […]
