Telling Our Stories: Elder Vern Harper speaks with Gary Wassaykeesic
Elder Vern Harper is a respected Indigenous elder who lives in Toronto. He was interviewed by Gary Wassaykeesic and Zach Ruiter for Real Peoples Media on January 11th of 2017.
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Our Man in London: The Scandal of the Donald Trump ‘Golden Showers’ Dossier
By Michael Keefer During the past weeks and months, the US media have been agog over one revelation after another of supposed Kremlin skullduggery in tipping the US presidency—the rightful inheritance, needless to say,...
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,...
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...
Winter at Unist’ot’en 2016-2017
Check out this new documentary short about the life and purpose of the Unist’ot’en Camp, December 2016, produced by Listening and Remembering.
The late bird gets the worm – the sweet spot for LP applicants
Certain recommendations in the Task Force Report might mean that future applicants won’t face the same start-up costs as established LPs. By Tanis Adams | Reprinted from Lift.co The latest recommendations released by the...
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...
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...
