Told by Joseph Guanish, Kawawachikamach Translated and transcribed by Brian Webb When you were young, who told you the stories and legends? Our grandmother, of course, the one who raised me. She was the one who brought me up. My […]

ᒍᓯᕝ ᑯᐙᓂᔥ ᐋ ᒌ ᑎᐹᒋᒧᑦ, ᑳᐙᐙᒋᑲᒫᒡ ᐱᕌᔨᓐ ᐌᑉ ᐋ ᒌ ᐃᑣᔥᑎᒫᑎᐦᒃ ᑭᔮ ᑭᔮ ᐋ ᒌ ᒥᓯᓂᐦᐊᐦᒃ ᑳ ᒌ ᐅᔅᒋᓃᒌᐅᔨᓐ, ᐊᐙᓐ ᑳ ᒌ ᐹᐦᑑᑦ ᒫᓐᐦ ᐋ ᑎᐹᒋᒧᑦ ᑭᔮ ᒫᒃ ᐋ ᐋᑎᔫᐦᒑᑦ?   ᒍᐦᑯᒥᓂᐤ ᑮᑆ᙮ ᐊᓂᔮ ᑳ ᐱᒥᓂᑦ᙮ ᐊᐃ ᑮᑆ, ᑖᐹ ᓂᐅᐦᒋ […]

Elderoth is a Montreal-based heavy metal band comprised of singer and lead guitarist Collin McGee (a member of the Cree Nation of Wemindji), rhythm guitarist Denis Stoisin and drummer David Gagné. Recently, the band released their first self-titled album. Although […]

Over a decade after discovering the markers of a large diamond deposit, the Renard mining project is closer to realization. The Quebec ministry of natural resources issued Stornoway Diamond Corporation a 20-year mining lease for the project last week. Stornoway […]

Just hours after the Innu blockade of Route 138 was broken by police intervention, the Innu Band Council Uashat mak Mani-Utenam (ITUM) issued a statement regarding its community’s actions. “The [ITUM] is not surprised by the latest overflow of anger […]

Bullying has taken over the headlines lately after the recent suicide of Amanda Todd in British Columbia. But there are many more cases that go unreported, with the rate of suicide among Native youths six times the rate of non-Aboriginal […]

The standard view on museums is that it’s a one-way street in education – people go to them to learn. But Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural Institute (CCI) has decided on going a different way in helping, through the use of apps […]

On October 22, Romeo Saganash, NDP MP and an early contender in the leadership race of the party, took medical leave to recover from his dependence on alcohol. The Quebec MP for Abitibi–Baie-James–Nunavik–Eeyou made the request after an incident on […]

The fourth annual Timmins Diabetes Expo October 18 and 19 has helped strengthen the fight against diabetes in northern Ontario. Aboriginal organizations and area health-care agencies have been working together for four years in prevention, awareness, education and support concerning […]

Standing on 80 acres of land owned by his friend in Manitoba last April, Cree actor and director Erland Campbell had an idea – let’s film a western. Equipped with nothing more than a digital camera and a .16 gauge […]