Aniin! Interested in learning an Indigenous language? Here are two digital tools that might make it easier: The folks over at the Miyo Wahkohtiwin Community Education Authority have taken their Online Cree Dictionary and turned it into an iPhone/iPad app, free of charge. Not i-based but still just as cool is Isadore Toulouse’s dimdim-based Anishinabemowen (Ojibway) virtual […]
You most likely noticed some changes visiting our site today. That’s because we’ve re-launched mediaINDIGENA with a new look and a new logo. The logo is the work of Winnipeg-based graphic designer Sébastien Aubin (Cree) and we couldn’t be happier with his vision! We’re still working out some of the bugs so if you notice something is […]
A Chat with the Grand Council Chief of the Union of Ontario Indians On July 1, 2010, the province of Ontario implemented the Harmonized Sales Tax, combining the 8% Provincial Sales Tax and the 5% Goods and Services Tax for a single rate of 13 per cent at point of purchase. The new tax affects […]
Great article in this month’s UpHere Magazine. “Through Our Own Lens” is a look at the work of three Indigenous photographers from northern Canada, James Jerome (Dene), Peter Pitseolak (Inuit), and George “Kaash Klaõ” Johnston (Tlingit). We’ve seen many images of our history taken by outsiders, so to see the past through our own lens […]
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 […]
