This being exactly mid-February in our commercialized world, I’ve been spotting a lot of those fat cherubs flyin’ around with bows and arrows of late. It got me wondering about that baby/weapon combo which, you have to admit, is not exactly normal. Give that baby a few years of hanging on to that bow and arrow and what you […]
He says he was late getting it out last year, but Goldtooth & Co.’s message of “love and recognition to all Native women in our lives” bears repeating this year, just in time for Valentine’s Day 2011. I’ll let the dudes “speak” for themselves. [ Song: Mishka,”Love and Devotion” ]
Northern News Services reports that a team of First Nations artists recently took first place at this year’s Carnaval de Québec snow sculpting competition with their 13-foot tall depiction of a raven transforming into a woman. The win means the crew — composed of Randy Sibbeston, Dewy Smith and Dylan Smith — will go on […]
Just an amazing, all-around awesome story out of the Muskoday First Nation in Saskatchewan, courtesy of The Star-Phoenix. The article details efforts by the community, in partnership with Heifer International Canada, to pursue “Indigenous organic gardening, agroecology and organic food entrepreneurship” via the Muskoday Organic Growers Co-op. According to the Star-Phoenix, the Co-op’s roots (no […]
And they said it couldn’t be done. Actually, no one said that: it’s just one of those clichés that come to mind when you pull together an anniversary entry like this. There was no ‘They’ then or now acting as naysayers. Indeed, the only They that matters is You — our audience, many of you […]
