Category: Issues

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Mohawk Loran Thomson Witnessed Chevron’s Dirty Hand in Ecuador

August 9, 2015 Following the historic Eagle and Condor encounter in Washington, when over 100 Haudenosaunee people came to show their support for the indigenous peoples of the Amazon negatively affected by Chevron, Mohawk...

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Sakej Ward – Decolonizing the Colonizer

In this speech, Sakej Ward talks about decolonization in relationship to the original people of the land you are living in. He argues that a central aspect of any process of change requires the...

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Maroons, Seminoles, and the Real Resistance to Slavery in North America

by Russell Maroon Shoatz Long before the founding of the country, Africans were transported to what later became known as the United States of America. Some came as free individuals and companions of the...

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Audio and Photos from the Venezuelan Ambassador’s visit

    The Historic Visit of the Venezuelan Ambassador to the Mohawk Longhouse OHSWEKEN – One of the most significant diplomatic events of 2015 in Iroquoian country was the meeting of the Venezuelan Ambassador...

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Indigenous knowledge lives within Indigenous languages

By Caroline VanEvery-Lefort @Karenniyo77 Since the inception of residential schools in Canada, Indigenous people have suffered a serious blow to our communities and our ways of life, the most prominent loss being the loss...

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At the Intersection of Black and Native Hip-Hop

TORONTO – Wasun is one of Toronto’s most most politically active Hip Hop MCs. He has spent much of his life involved in political efforts to advance the struggles of grassroots people. In December of...

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Open Letter to PM of Canada Justin Trudeau

December 25, 2015 Kwey Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Re:  Reconciling the Nation-to-Nation Relationship Congratulations on winning the election and on becoming Canada’s 23rd Prime Minister.  I am an Algonquin Anishinaabe-kwe of the Ottawa River...

Ka’nikonriyo Podcast

The Ka’nikonriyo (Good Mind) Podcast is hosted by Kelly MacNaughton and Tom Keefer. Each week the podcast covers issues and concerns of Onkwehon:we people and their allies, with a focus on current events and...

The “What’s Going On?” Podcast

FULL WGO PODCAST TRACK LIST The full tracks of the WGO Podcast are available below on the RPM Soundcloud account. WGO Podcast seeks to “Polish the Chain” The origins of Real People’s Media stem...

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Ecuador’s Indigenous Movement at Crossroads

By Fernando Arce ECUADOR – In 1990, almost 80,000 people flooded the streets of Chimborazo, a central Andes province in Ecuador, in one of the most popular indigenous uprisings of that country. It was...