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By Shari Narine Windspeaker Contributor WINNIPEG
A box crafted with the pain that one grandmother suffered while attending residential school sat in the centre of the first sharing circle hosted by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission at the TRC’s inaugural national event in Winnipeg June 16 to...
By Shari Narine Windspeaker Contributor WINNIPEG
Paul Daniels sat by himself, the Assiniboine River his backdrop at the Forks National Park, as he ate a bagged lunch courtesy of the churches.
For Daniels, it’s the least the churches could do. He’s waiting on a hearing through the independent...
By Isha Thompson Windspeaker Staff Writer TORONTO
Indigenous activist groups kept their cool and stayed focused on the messages they wanted to convey at the G20 protests that took place on the streets of downtown Toronto in the last weekend of June.
One Native organization said their strategy was...
Windspeaker Staff
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, but if it’s clearly in need of repair, roll up your sleeves and ‘get ‘er done.’ And what is clearly broke is the hosting model being employed by the North American Indigenous Games Council.
Every year that the games...
Compiled by Debora Steel
MIKE METATAWABIN OF THE Nishnawbe Aski Nation writes in Wawatay News Online that the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico will damage the wintering grounds of the waterfowl that are an essential part of the diet of the Nishnawbe Aski people. Geese...
By Isha Thompson Sweetgrass Staff Writer WINNIPEG
Wanda Baptiste’s call for support from the chiefs across Canada resulted in the passage of Resolution 47 on the final day of the general assembly for the Assembly of First Nations.
Baptiste, a special project liaison worker at Maskwacis Cree, was...
By Shari Narine Sweetgrass Writer WINNIPEG
Leanne (Crowchief) Sleigh offered her moccasins “for all those people who walked the path before us” after she shared her experience of attending Indian day school.“Today I stand healed from the many hurts,” she said. But it’s been a long spiritual...
By Christine Fiddler Sage Staff Writer POUNDMAKER CREE NATION
On a hill overlooking a valley on the Poundmaker Cree Nation, community members and visitors gathered on July 2 to watch the historical moment of the 1885 ‘Battle of Cutknife Hill’ come to life.
Blasts from a single cannon and various rifles were...
By Isha Thompson Sage Staff Writer WINNIPEG
Saskatchewan Chiefs have drawn a line in the sand. They have united and are taking a stand against the federal governments current control methods over post-secondary education for First Nations.
Approximately forty chiefs and members of First...
By Shari Narine Sweetgrass Writer FORT NORMANDEAU
Until a few days before the Cree ceremony at Fort Normandeau, Florence Large didn’t know her father Daniel Large had attended the Red Deer Industrial School from 1895-1899.
“My dad never mentioned residential school,” said Large, who attended...
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