Rolling with the punches and building positive energy
W hether you’re entranced by the visuals or tearing up the dance floor to a new genre described as “Pow Wow Step,” the show put…
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A Warrior approaches
It was two weeks before Halloween last year when a blockade organized by the Mi’kmaq Warriors Society was confronted by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The blockade in New Brunswick was in response to shale gas exploration by SWN Resources Canada, a Houston-based firm.
Debunking colonialism with Jennifer Keith
Jennifer Keith My youth was much like that of anyone who grew up in a farming community. My comfortable, middle-class existence consisted of swimming in…
Keeping our word
In recent weeks, Neil Young’s Honour the Treaties tour has brought much attention to the important issue of treaties and First Nations land rights in…
Native studies’ winter colloquium series brings Wab Kinew to campus
Last Wednesday, indigenous Canadian educator and broadcasting personality Wab Kinew spoke at the University of Manitoba’s Aboriginal Student Centre as part of the native studies…
Under the moon of winter are living stories
January is the time to tell stories. Taking a page from the national traditions of Cree and Anishinaabe culture, the local Indigenous Writers Collective (IWC),…
Aboriginal suicide a growing epidemic
Michael Lee The crisis at Neskantaga, a community 480 km northeast of Thunder Bay, has been a growing concern of mine as of late. On…
Jason Baerg goes back home and into the future
Visual artist Jason Baerg has recently gone back to his hometown of Sarnia, Ontario—a place in which he has not lived since 1995—as part of…
Spell Indian. Spell genocide. Spell artist.
Director. Mentor. Producer. Cinematographer. Editor. Writer. Actor. Cinematic artist Darryl Nepinak, a Saulteaux man from the Ojibway Nation who grew up and lives in Winnipeg,…
CREATE H2O
The University of Manitoba has just announced CREATE H2O, a research project supported by the U of M’s Centre for Human Rights Research with contributions…