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  • Pale imitation

    In the town near my reserve, there's a Junior C hockey team called the Chiefs, which I don't think was a conscious decision to honour...
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  • Wab Kinew to lead the Assembly of First Nations?

    There is a vacancy atop Canada's leading aboriginal political organization, the Assembly of First Nations (AFN), and it's been said that nature hates a vacuum....
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  • Get over it

    Whenever I write about residential schools or the colonization of North America, the usual response is "Stop living in the past!" It seems that a...
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  • Our home and native land

    When I wanted to do something interesting last weekend, a friend suggested I head to the lakefront and check out the tall ships that had...
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  • Drew Hayden Taylor on why feds should treat scandal-prone Senate the way they do First Nations

    Every morning I wake up, turn on the radio and hear the latest update on the Senate. As someone who's spent 25 years in theatre,...
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  • Same reason, different season

    DREW HAYDEN TAYLOR: Ojibway, Curve Lake First Nation, Ontario, playwright and author, currently writer-in-residence, Ryerson University It's a well-known fact that native people prefer to...
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  • Sweat, dont swipe

    With everyone in withdrawal from the rites of the season, I can't help thinking about how much the rituals of my own heritage have changed.[rssbreak]My...
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  • Sovereign smoke-up

    Somewhere south of Grand Bend is a place forever emblazoned on the aboriginal psyche.[rssbreak]To many, its name is no different from Oka or Gustafsen Lake...
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  • Playing Indian

    HOW: ENGAGEMENTS WITH THE “HOLLYWOOD INDIAN” at Trinity Square Video (401 Richmond West), to October 25. 416-593-1332.imagineNATIVE 2008 tells the rest of the world what...
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  • Quiz for the minister

    Sometimes it seems these white boys can't hold down a job for very long. Last week, the very capable minister of Aboriginal Affairs, Michael Bryant,...
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  • Crossing the line

    For ontario police commissioner Julian Fantino, the native community of Tyendinaga, near Belleville, may have become his own personal Waterloo. Or maybe Little Big Horn...
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  • I buy Harps apology…

    Rating: NNNNNThe anishnawbe word for apology is aabwehyehnmigziwin. Thats what PM Stephen Harper delivered last week to residential school survivors. Paraphrasing the immortal words of...
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  • In mourning and mad

    Rating: NNNNNI’m sure everybody felt the same way I did when I first heard the news. Two children on the Yellowquill First Nation in Saskatchewan...
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  • Ipperwash, on Indian time

    Rating: NNNNNWhat a Christmas present for the people of the Kettle and Stony Point reserve: their own provincial park. I bet you Santa just about...
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  • Let’s ban the Bible

    Rating: NNNNNRecently the Catholic School Board in Halton Region pulled The Golden Compass, a children's novel by Philip Pullman, from the shelves.Supposedly not because of...
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