I’d like to talk about popular perceptions about native peoples and our relationship to the environment. Recently the CBC ran a story about the slaughter of 30 caribou in Northern Manitoba. Chief Joe Antsanen of the Northlands Denesuline First Nation and Grand Chief David Harper of the Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak Read more
I’d like to tell you a story about icewine. Icewine is pressed from grapes that freeze on the vine, and is an incredibly sweet and expensive dessert wine. Not everyone likes it, but I consider it a pretty decadent treat. Canada is the largest producer of authentic icewine in the Read more
Right now twitter, tumblr and Facebook are exploding with shocking news…apparently Justice Murray Sinclair, Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, has “change[d] [his] tune on residential schools as genocide“. As you can expect, it is upsetting a lot of people to hear that Justice Sinclair is reversing his earlier Read more
Stories and sayings attributed to Native Americans have been floating around probably since settlers stopped spending all of their time and energy on not dying. I am not entirely certain why stories that never originated in any indigenous nation are passed around as “Native American Legends”, but listener beware. You’ve Read more
Some people in the NDN tumblr community have coined a new meaning for the acronym NATO. Forget the imperialism, there is no room for that in the new NATO. Now it means Native Americans Take Over. There are a lot of concepts this acronym can stand for, but right now Read more