New Indian & Northern Affairs Minister John Duncan issued a formal apology to the descendants of 19 Inuit families who were forcibly relocated from Inukjuak and Pond Inlet to Grise Fiord and Resolute Bay in the High Arctic during the 1950’s. According to the full statement: “The Government of Canada apologizes for having relocated Inuit […]
Awesome news out of Toronto and its international film festival, TIFF. The festival has recently announced that Winnipeg-based artist Caroline Monnet will be showing her experimental short Warchild at this year’s event. The film is produced by another Winnipegger, Kevin Lee Burton, an acclaimed artist in his own right. Warchild will make up part of the […]
Next year, Adam Beach will get to share the hi-ho-silver screen with none other than Harrison Ford in the upcoming movie “Cowboys and Aliens,” described as a mix of sci-fi and western genres. It’s due to hit screens July 29, 2011. According to movieweb.com, “the film takes place in 1870s Arizona, where a skirmish between […]
This installment of our weekly Tuesday sitdown on STREETZ 104.7 FM features a discussion between Rick Harp and THE WORD host Lady V about his latest post, “Does the war against Aboriginal women begin at home?” MI on STREETZ: Aug. 10, 2010 [audio:https://mediaindigena.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/MI-TheWord-Aug10-10_converted.mp3|titles=MI-TheWord-Aug10-10_converted]
You’ve probably heard via the news media that “Oka is heating up again.” That there are “rising tensions with Mohawks on the 20th anniversary of the Oka Crisis.” Maybe you’ve heard that “Mohawks are angry with a developer” who wants to build on land he says he bought, fair and square, but that the Mohawks […]
