My 40 Years in Prison
By Leonard Peltier What can I say that I have not said before? I guess I can start by saying see you later to all of those who have passed in the last year....
Category: Onkwehonwe History
Iroquois Cosmology and the Clan System
By Tom Keefer SIX NATIONS – Tehahenteh is a Turtle Clan Kanien’kehà:ka elder from Six Nations who teaches the Kanien’kéha language. On February 3rd, 2016 he sat down to speak with Real Peoples Media about...
Gustafsen Lake’s Exiled
By Fernando Acre GUSTAFSEN LAKE – The 1995 Gustafsen Lake standoff was one of the most significant conflicts between Indigenous people and the Canadian state. Over 400 RCMP officers used helicopters, armoured personnel carriers and...
WGO 9 – The Deyodyohkwahnhasta – The People’s Wampum
ONEIDA OF THE THAMES – Episode 9 of the What’s Going On Podcast was recorded at Oneida of the Thames territory on May 6th 2015. A group of Rotiskenrakehte gathered to speak about the...
Demands grow for Gustafsen Lake inquiry
By Fernando Arce TS’PETEN TERRITORY – A group of Indigenous nations are asking the Canadian government to lead a national inquiry into the RCMP’s violent response during the 1995 Gustafsen Lake Standoff, better known...
The underlying importance of wampum belts
In this video, Alan Ojiig Corbiere discusses Wampum Belts and their direct relevance to the relationships between Indigenous peoples and Canada. Wampum Belts are living symbols of our treaty agreements and the honour of keeping...
Back to Our Path is not a Trip Backward
by John Kane January 14, 2014 Many of us are familiar with our expression Ohnkwe Ohnwe. It is what we use to describe ourselves as the original people of Turtle Island. The approximate translation...
Maroons, Seminoles, and the Real Resistance to Slavery in North America
The inside of a slave ship. 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...
You are on Indian Land
A FILM BY MORT RANSEN, 1969, 36 MIN 48 S The film shows the confrontation between police and a 1969 demonstration by Mohawks of the St. Regis Reserve on the bridge between Canada and the United...
LTN – The Kayenere:kowa in the Modern Context
With Matt Hill, John Kane and Paul Delaronde On this weeks episode John commemorates the anniversaries of two of the worst atrocities committed against Indigenous peoples in the US and talks about the development...
