As children ran through the fountains at Montreal’s Place des Festival, gleefully dancing around a sacred turtle sculpture beneath a sky-high artistic representation of a teepee, A Tribe Called Red mix pulsed the speakers and local Native artisans flogged their […]

Another crazy weekend at Montreal’s Osheaga music festival came and went from July 31 to August 2 as Evenko celebrated the 10th anniversary in Parc Jean-Drapeau, where the event has grown into one of the biggest, most diverse musical experiences […]

We somehow still believe that there is an abundance of wildlife on this planet. The facts show us that this is not the case. Still, all of us, including my people right across this country, tend to think that somehow […]

August is such a busy month for most of us Eeyouch. There’s the CNG’s annual general assembly and that can be heavy and long but that is democracy at its best. I am currently sitting at Kuujjuarapik Airport waiting for […]

Absenteeism among Cree students was a hot topic at this year’s Annual General Assembly in Oujé-Bougoumou. The rates have dropped but still remain high at 19%. Grand Chief Matthew Coon Come said this would always be an issue, “because … […]

Cree internet subscribers are increasingly fed up with the inferior telecommunications services provided to their communities. Now the Cree Nation Government (CNG) and the Eeyou Communications Network (ECN) are taking action to improve broadband access for the Crees. A CNG-ECN […]

Life for a young person today is a challenge. They live in such a fast-paced world where much is expected of them. Back when I was a boy in my home community of Attawapiskat, I was outside most of the […]

Looking at the moon, clean and bright against the sunny sky in the crisp, deep blue openness of a July moment, made me remember Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon. It was July 20, 1969, and even though […]

By the time you read this, Stephen Harper will have triggered the longest, and most costly, federal election in Canada’s history. Under the Conservative’s fixed-election law, which Harper ignored back in 2011, the next vote is scheduled for Oct. 19. […]

Shane Perley-Dutcher weaves things together. As a Maliseet man who grew up largely off the Nekootkook (Tobique) First Nation to which he belongs, Perley-Dutcher has woven strands of his ancestral identity with experiences of present-day Maliseet culture, as well as […]