There’s a lot of tradition in the Cree-language album Nehiyaw Nikamonak: Oyoyowin ohci Nanaskomowin (Cree Songs: Howls from Gratitude), produced by the Northwest Territories Cree Language Program and the NWT Métis Nation. But Kyle Napier, who manages the Cree Language […]

Waskaganish’s Ryan Erless is no stranger to the James Bay Highway (JBH). He’s traveled up and down the 620 kilometres of the decaying two-lane road too many times to count. Like many Crees, Erless knows the highway’s most infamous potholes, […]

Montreal’s Aboriginal Day began with a group of young people carrying painted figures with huge, oversized heads on their shoulders down Place d’Armes in Old Montreal. Swaneige Ber carried a giant figure whose face looked like the sun, with human […]

When Gregory Louttit and his girlfriend Marjorie Herodier made the long drive to the Ottawa area for Amnesia Rockfest, they were hoping to hear some of the biggest names in music – Tenacious D, System Of A Down, Rob Zombie […]

Wemindji’s golden opportunity for the creation and operation of the Éléonore gold mine – detailed in the Opinagow Collaboration Agreement – finally became public June 19, save for the deal’s financial terms. It’s been more than four years since Goldcorp, the […]

Most of my non-Native friends find it funny that I can sit through a really bad movie. The fact is that for the first 15 years of my life all I got to see were mostly bad movies. The luxury […]

I let go with a hard drive, propelling the golf ball a mere 75 metres, slicing a bit to the right, as the other golfers attacked the golfballpickerupper vehicle – a modified ATV driven by a combat-hardened kid. Looking a […]

It’s been a hectic couple of weeks. Anyone who has moved and changed addresses recently knows what I mean. Everything starts out well and follows a well-thought-out plan. But as they say about the best-laid plans of mice and men, […]

While the Cree have been hard at work to see the Broadback River and the area surrounding it declared a protected area, a new campaign has been launched by the Quebec chapter of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS). […]

When Kelly Bosum brought her toddler in for day surgery at Montreal’s Ste-Justine children’s hospital to have tubes put into his ears, the last thing she expected was to have her Aboriginal heritage insulted. According to Bosum, however, she has […]