Continue Reading... Algonquin Elder Albert Dumont – On holding circles, prayers and pipes
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Algonquin Elder Albert Dumont – On holding circles, prayers and pipes

In this 7-minute video, Dumont provides some helpful knowledge about coming together in circle, as well as about praying, and…

Continue Reading... On the loss of the National Aboriginal Health Organization
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On the loss of the National Aboriginal Health Organization

Final (former) CEO Simon Brascoupé on the work NAHO had been doing and what it will mean now that the…

Continue Reading... Idle No More: What does Chief Spence’s hunger strike mean?
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Idle No More: What does Chief Spence’s hunger strike mean?

Native peoples in this country have endured much worse than the disrespect Prime Minister Harper showed on Dec 21, tweeting…

Continue Reading... Aboriginal approaches to mental health
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Aboriginal approaches to mental health

Notes from a talk delivered by Carol Hopkins (Delaware First Nation of Moraviantown, Ontario) at the University of Ottawa, March…

Continue Reading... Aboriginal Understanding booklet
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Aboriginal Understanding booklet

A collection of articles on Indigenous self-determination and sovereignty, rights, resistance, language and culture. In two PDF versions (for either…

Continue Reading... “Canada’s dopest female MC”: Eternia profile (vid) preview for Women’s Worlds 2011
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“Canada’s dopest female MC”: Eternia profile (vid) preview for Women’s Worlds 2011

Her latest album, “At Last” with producer MoSS, was nominated for a Juno and has made the long-list for the…

Continue Reading... Beaver Pond Forest – Dominion article (PDF)
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Beaver Pond Forest – Dominion article (PDF)

This is the print version of an article I wrote for The Dominion on the Beaver Pond Forest / South…

Continue Reading... Cultural Appropriation
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Cultural Appropriation

So I was just at a workshop on ‘Cultural Appropriation’. I thought it’d be good, and it was, just not…