Alanis Obomsawin is Canada’s best known Aboriginal filmmaker. With her long list of over 30 documentarries, including Incident at Restigouche and Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, Obomsawin has spent the past three decades investigating the issues and problems faced by […]

If you are traveling to another community this summer, have a look at what’s going on and plan your trip accordingly. Among the Cree communities – in Quebec and Ontario – there are numerous activities, sports events, festivals and celebrations […]

Rain of the Children Vincent Ward (New Zealand, 110 min) In the late 1970s when New Zealand director Vincent Ward was 21, he spent two years working on a documentary about an elderly Maori woman and her schizophrenic son living […]

A year after Canada Economic Development cut $50,000 from the First People’s Festival’s budget, festival organizer André Dudemaine is still irate over the funding drop and claims that there was something much more sinister at hand. In 2008, just weeks […]

John Longchap became the Chief of Mistissini eight years ago and he has survived three terms in that position. A community-oriented man with a mind for business, Longchap is passionate about living a healthy lifestyle and enjoys both individual and […]

Paul Gull is the current Deputy Chief of Waswanipi as well as its Director of Natural Resources. Before getting back into municipal politics, Gull also served as Deputy Grand Chief under Ted Moses. He has also served as Chief for […]

Running for Grand Chief and hailing from Mistissini, Kenny Blacksmith is an ordained minister with a strong involvement with the church. Over the course of his career, Blacksmith has worked as a consultant in various capacities, was Commissioner of the […]

Running for the first time for Deputy Grand Chief, Lisa Petagumskum feels that this election was the time for her first foray into politics. Having worked at various levels of management within the Cree Health Board, Petagumskum prides herself on […]

If you thought the debate over creationism versus natural selection was simply about the origin of the species, you’d be wrong. According to the plans being talked up by Indian and Northern Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl, the federal government is […]

What is three months? Technically speaking it is 12 weeks or roughly 90 days or even 2160 hours but when I look back on my three months here in Chisasibi. I realize it has been much more than that. It […]