The Anishinabek Nation has just announced the winner of its 7th annual Debwewin Citation for excellence in reporting on First Nations issues. Laura Robinson won for her reportage on the 2010 Olympic Winter Games for Anishinabek News, an in-house publication of the Union of Ontario Indians (which, it should be noted, is the secretariat for […]
Honestly, I don’t even go looking for this stuff. Once again, the federal Indian Affairs Minister John Duncan has pretty much recanted the thunderous pronouncements he made as a Reform party critic. He’s made it a habit. In the Nov. 8 Toronto Star article, “Minister downplays despair on reserves,” Duncan was pushed for a “comment […]
Wanted to highlight a Nov. 6 Winnipeg Free Press column by Colleen Simard questioning the recent appointment of 7 Chiefs to the board of a southern Manitoba Child and Family Services (CFS) authority. According to the CBC, the southern CFS authority “oversees 10 child and family agencies… [with] 4,200 First Nations children in foster care.” […]
The Association for Canadian Studies out of Montreal recently commissioned a poll asking 1,500 Canadians “Which of the following groups played the most important role in founding Canada” — the British, the French, or, as they write, “the Aboriginals”? Leaving to the side the annoying (if common) usage of the term ‘the Aboriginals’ to refer […]
Political junkies and technophiles alike might enjoy this archive of a recent webinar conducted by the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) as part of their ongoing campaign to promote Native American voter participation within mainstream US politics. Known as Native Vote, organizers regard Indian Country [as] … an increasingly powerful voting bloc. In recent […]
