After #OccupyINAC what’s next?
In the wake of the #OccupyINAC movement, and with rumblings coming from sources within the Trudeau government saying that they are planning to repeal the Indian Act, the question of “what’s next?” is being...
Category: Truth and Reconcilation
Occupy INAC Day 3 Media Roundup
Watch the OccupyINAC Toronto Livestream for all the latest updates. TORONTO – An occupation by a group of Indigenous activists and their allies continues into its third day in the occupied offices of Indigenous and...
Truth, reconciliation and clan families
[Artwork credit: “Clan Mothers” by Stan Natchez.] By Tom Keefer One of the most important things that I have learned in spending the last 10 years working with Onkwehon:we people is the significance of...
Acknowledging on Whose Land We Live
GROUP URGES LOCAL TOWNSHIPS TO ACKNOWLEDGE INDIGENOUS LAND RIGHTS By Matthew Behrens An hour south of Ottawa, the picturesque heritage town of Perth – voted Ontario’s prettiest community by TVO viewers – is celebrating...
The Apology
This song was made in memory of and dedicated to the 50 000 + First Nations children who were murdered/went missing in Canada’s residential school holocaust. The song is also dedicated to any person...
Open Letter on the murder of Jon Styres
SIX NATIONS – The following open letter was sent by Six Nations resident Janie Jamieson to the Attorney General of Ontario and to various local Six Nations politicians. The letter concerns the gunning down of...
Pipeline “Sabotage” and Trudeau’s Aboriginal Policy
By Dru Oja Three times in the last month, activists have shut down Enbridge pipelines carrying tar sands bitumen. The main target has been Line 9, a long-existing pipeline that began flowing west to east in November....
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...
