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The Urbane Indian
I look out my window and can’t help but notice that winter is beating a hasty retreat and spring is rapidly invading, spreading across the land like a canoe full of voyageurs and black robes.
The beginning of spring marks the start...
In the recently tabled federal budget, the government has committed to look more closely at private property ownership of reserve lands, claiming it is the only way First Nations can achieve their full economic development potential.
“I think it’s...
Photo Caption: Cee Jai Julian (right), a former sex worker in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, addresses an April 10 press conference, with Battered Women’s Support Services worker Lisa Yellow-Quill.
A coalition of interested groups have rejected...
Most people who survive a heart attack change their diets and cut back on strenuous activities; after surgery, they are almost as good as new.
But not Don Patrick Martin, a classically trained musician from the Mohawk First Nation of Kahnawake....
It seems to us that the Aboriginal Affairs ship being captained currently by MP John Duncan has been set adrift by its political master, Prime Minister Stephen Harper. It’s not only just off course; there seems to be no course charted at all, and...
The Supreme Court of Canada has called on the British Columbia Court of Appeal to reconsider its finding that five First Nations on Vancouver Island have a right to sell fish harvested in their traditional territories.
In a decision that has even...
Beat Nation is an exhibit at the Vancouver Art Gallery that features a variety of artists who juxtapose different visions of Aboriginal culture with urban youth and hip hop aesthetics.
The exhibit, which features more than 20 artists from different...
Next month, amateur boxer Wayne Bourque will be inducted into the Wood Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame in his hometown of Fort McMurray.
“It’s nice to be remembered and I am very honoured,” said Bourque, who has lived in Toronto for over two decades. He...
Hope and hopelessness is what Cree Elder Lillian Shirt says came through as relatives of missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls made dolls in memory of their loved ones.
“The hope that their loved ones are somewhere out there, that they...
An overwhelming victory by Alison Redford and the Progressive Conservatives was a surprise, admits Driftpile Chief Rose Laboucan, who is hopeful it won’t mean the same old same old for First Nations.
“I’m hoping that the premier will have an open...
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