I have been meaning to write this for weeks now, but I needed the time to distance myself from my reaction to seeing Jeff Barnaby’s film, “Rhymes for Young Ghouls” . I’m not sure how successful I’ve been, given that Read more…
In February of this year, I was asked to come to the Faculty of Law at McGill to do a guest lecture on Aboriginal and Indigenous property. It was a fantastic class, I had a lot of fun, there were Read more…
I am cross posting this from a new website, sakihitowinlearning.ca. I want to keep the âpihtawikosisan blog for a wide variety of writings, while the sâkihitowin learning site is dedicated to language. All our goings on in the Cree classroom Read more…
Despite the plethora of informative articles about the ongoing struggle at Elispogtog First Nation, north of Moncton, New Brunswick, and the RCMP raid there on October 17th, most mainstream media outlets have been underemphasizing some very important aspects of the Read more…
To hear non-Indigenous people tell it, we’ve been teetering on the edge of extinction since not too long after Contact. That narrative hasn’t changed much over the years, though the cause of our cultural and perhaps even physical demise has Read more…