Category: In The Issue

Meenwach’heewouwan Maskinnou walkers on the road to healing

Meenwach’heewouwan Maskinnou walkers on the road to healing

The Meenwach’heewouwan Maskinnou walkers are on the healing path – the healing path that represents the name of their group and the reason they are snowshoeing from Moose Factory to Chisasibi. Inspired by Christine Chewanish, the group of walkers includes […]

Gimme shelter – Cree Nation housing crisis

Gimme shelter – Cree Nation housing crisis

The Cree Nation Government is launching efforts it hopes will address the crisis-level lack of decent, affordable housing. CNG hopes to more than double the existing housing stock by building 5250 new units over the next 15 years. “It’s a […]

Fruit of the land

Fruit of the land

James George, manager of Whapmagoostui general store Whale-mart, readily admits that his store offers similar products to those available at the Co-op and the Northern Store in town. The difference, he says, is that Whale-mart is 100% Cree-owned. And what […]

Nanook of the future

Nanook of the future

Tanya Tagaq sold out two nights at Montreal’s Place des Arts, and both shows ended with standing ovations. However difficult Tagaq’s music may be for some listeners, she is loved by others. Cambridge Bay’s Tagaq and her band were in […]

Algonquin artist Nadia Myre recovers Indigenous identity

Algonquin artist Nadia Myre recovers Indigenous identity

In the middle of the darkened exhibition space is a large horizontal video screen two feet above the ground. Standing over it, you watch two pairs of hands – one on either side of the screen – diligently working away […]

The ballet of reconciliation

The ballet of reconciliation

The Royal Winnipeg Ballet is currently touring Going Home Star, a new production that finds its subject matter in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. This intriguing blend of European art form and Aboriginal narrative is the first of its kind […]

Marked for life – new documentary revives the art of traditional Inuit tattoos

Marked for life – new documentary revives the art of traditional Inuit tattoos

Back in 2005, when Iqaluit filmmaker Alethea Arnaquq-Baril was considering a traditional tattoo in the style common for Inuit women until the mid-20th century, she could find only one living woman who still had tattoos – a 104-year-old Elder named […]

A strong stand for the Cree hunter – Paul Dixon

A strong stand for the Cree hunter – Paul Dixon

At this critical time, a reassessment of the past is needed to reinforce a future that we as a people want to see. Since the 1930s, when the Cree involvement as slaves-on-chains in forestry began it can rightly be said, […]

To the rescue: Air Creebec and Propair partner up to provide medevac services

To the rescue: Air Creebec and Propair partner up to provide medevac services

Air Creebec is part of a winning bid to provide medical evacuation services in Quebec. Air Creebec President Matthew Happyjack announced February 5 that the company had joined forces with Rouyn-Noranda-based Propair Inc. to provide emergency medical evacuation (often abbreviated […]

Montreal Boat Show makes waves for boat lovers

Montreal Boat Show makes waves for boat lovers

Montreal’s annual Boat and Water Sports Show swamped Place Bonaventure February 4-7, hosting close to 300 exhibitors from across Quebec and Ontario and showing off over 450 different watercraft across 300,000 square feet of showroom. Powerboats, inflatables, pontoons, personal watercraft […]