Category: Contributors

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Understanding our great peace

  Article 24 of the Kayenere:kowa states: The chiefs of the League of Five Nations shall be mentors of the people for all time. …they shall be proof against anger, offensive action, and criticism....

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Janie Jamieson Jewel’s cause

By Tom Keefer SIX NATIONS – Janie Jamieson is well known on the Territory of the Six Nations of the Grand River. She was one of the three women that initiated the reclamation of...

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That which speaks to us

By Kelly MacNaughton I have a deep frustration at the lack of knowledge amongst our people. I have always felt a need to ‘fill in the gaps’, when I see that someone doesn’t have...

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Earthship build at Six Nations is completed

By Tom Keefer SIX NATIONS – Over 50 volunteers organized by Earthship Biotecture gathered on Saturday July 30th, 2016 to hand over the key to the Earthship they have been building for Francine Doxtator over...

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Colonialism at Costco

By Kelly MacNaughton ANCASTER – I recently had a horrifying incident occur to me on an outing to purchase phones for my husband and I at a Costco in Ancaster, Ontario.  The young man...

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Season 3 of the WGO Podcast

SIX NATIONS – The What’s Goin’ On Podcast, also known as the WGO Podcast is one of the primary podcasts of Real People’s Media. Our first two seasons were focused on following Kanenhariyo, a...

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Genocide, Racism and Canada Day: An Algonquin-Anishinaabekwe love letter

By Lynn Gehl Gii-Zhigaate-Mnidoo-Kwe Living in Canada as I do, I encounter proud Canadians all the time, more so around the time of Canada Day celebrations.  The commonly held view put forward by these...

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Israel and democracy: Reflections on the timing of Ontario’s Bill 202

By Michael Keefer The latest attempt of the Zionist lobby in Canada to shut down attempts to organize peaceful pressure against the state of Israel’s systematic violations of international law came at what must...

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Pot Activists denounce police crackdown

Toronto Police raid 43 medical marijuana dispensaries By Fernando Arce (with files from Tom Keefer) TORONTO – On May 26th, Toronto police carried out a major raid on medical marijuana dispensaries in the city....

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An interview with Hazel Hill on the HDI

By Tom Keefer SIX NATIONS – There has been a lot of controversy over the Haudenosaunee Development Institute (HDI), a creation of the Haudenosaunee Chiefs Confederacy Council in Six Nations. On May 16th, Kelly MacNaughton...