Amelia’s Story
As told by Volker Kromm, Executive Director of the Regional Food Distribution Association. Orginally published at the Ontario Association of Food Banks. There are many corners of our region that I will never see,...
Category: Contributors
The Legacy Grows: Medical Cannabis in Tyendinaga
By Tom Keefer TYENDINAGA MOHAWK TERRITORY – Business is booming at Legacy 420, Tyendinaga’s first medical cannabis dispensary. Day after day, from morning until night, the parking lot and storefront at 5965 Old Hwy...
Gary Wassaykeesic at Black Lives Matter protest in Toronto
Reposted from the blog of Michael Toledano with permission. March 30, 2016. Every day Gary Wassaykeesic climbs onto this statue at Toronto Police headquarters, unfurls the Two Row Wampum, Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and Unity flags, and...
John Kane on PBS’s Insight program
While Native American tribes of New York continue the struggle to educate people about their culture, the state is helping to move cultural relations forward. Insight discusses tribal economics and politics.John Kane’s interview starts...
Gary Wassaykeesic’s forty year quest to find his mother’s murderer
Originally Published on Sep 8, 2015 on Net News Ledger THUNDER BAY – Gary Wassaykeesic says that he felt that the world stopped and everything went quiet. After thirty-nine years, Gary Wassaykeesic was standing in a...
Let’s Talk Native rings in the New Year
LTN rings in the New Year! Matt, Lou and I start making the case for what needs to happen in 2017. We are not the only ones who are not fans of peaceful protests....
Gary Wassaykeesic – Telling our stories
TORONTO – Gary Wassaykeesic is a survivor of the Canadian residential school system and a long time activist working for justice for Indigenous people. In this interview he talks about his initiative to document the...
Jerry Sandy on Fran’s Earthship
Jerry Sandy is an Onondaga man from Six Nations. He and members of his family put on a feast to feed the 50 or so volunteers that were involved in building the Earthship for...
Apocalypse and Accountibilty: d’bi.young anitafrika on her new Afro-futurist dub-opera
By Tom Keefer d’bi.young anitafrika talks with Real People’s Media about Bleeders, her new Afro-futurist dub-opera which is currently playing in the Toronto Summer Works festival. d’bi talks about her creative process, the play’s...
Jewel’s Cause and the Oneida Circle: An interview with Donna Keuhl
Donna Keuhl is the founder, CEO and Director of Oneida Circle, an organization created to empower and educate youth in combatting abuse and bullying. In this interview, recorded on June 30th, 2016, Donna speaks...
