Canada – The Illusion
Words By The Fire
There is an old teaching our people carried, soft as a feather, sharp as a winter star: When you rob a person of their humanity… you surrender your own. In…
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Whispers of the Night Feather
In the time before time, when the stars were still being named and shadows had not yet learned to lie, there lived a sacred owl named Nokoma, meaning She Who Sees All. Nokoma was not an ordinary owl. Her feathers shimmered with the colors of earth and fire, of sky…
John Gonzalez -
Standing Bear Network
Message to the United Nations on it’s 80th anniversary
Never again shall we walk the path of destruction
Ontario
An intimate look at life alongside grizzly bears
At recess, Abby Burtnick watches her Grade 4 and 5 students play in the schoolyard that borders an aspen and spruce forest in the Village of Haines Junction, Yukon. Known…
Aamjiwnaang First Nation already worried about proposed Alberta to Ontario oil pipeline
Aamjiwnaang First Nation has had it’s share of environmental struggles. For decades the community has lived with toxic surroundings from chemical valley, where roughly forty percent of Canada’s petrochemical industry…
