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Nov 30, 2017
Sagamok Elders and Pow Wow
Trigger warning: residential school violence We sat with Harvey and Dolores on their porch in Sagamok, a few kilometres south of Massey along the Spanish River. At first it was...
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Nov 27, 2017
Sid, Co-Artistic Director
We met Sid Bobb in Nipissing First Nation west of North Bay, ON, and sat with him around a community firepit while wind blew off Nipissing Lake through the trees...
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Nov 21, 2017
A Resounding Voice
The poster was nestled among old photographs, Haida language booklets and maps of the Islands. A young man with his arms crossed, in black and white: “A stain on our...
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Nov 16, 2017
David, Trapper
I smelled the woodsmoke before I saw David’s camp. We were on a lonely stretch of gravel highway north of Eagle Plains, running alongside the Richardson Mountains that mark the...
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Sep 30, 2017
Every Child Matters
I heard while in Tuktoyaktuk that a local is advocating for the new highway between Inuvik and Tuk to be named ‘Freedom Road’ to commemorate three boys who in 1972...
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Sep 19, 2017
Simgigyet’m Gitanyow Vision
I stopped in Gitanyow on the Kitwanga River along the Stewart-Cassiar Highway. It was raining. The Gitanyow Historical Village and Band Council were closed because of a funeral, so I...
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Sep 13, 2017
Asia, Granddaughter
Asia was working at the Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre in Dawson City; a museum, cultural centre, gallery and gathering place for Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in people and culture. The Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in are...
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Jul 28, 2017
Lament for Confederation
Chief Dan George, who lived from 1899 to 1981, was a chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, as well as a poet, actor and activist. He was born Dan Slaholt but...
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Jul 12, 2017
Lianna, Inuk
I want to start by sharing this image of Lianna. It was rushed and not the easiest lighting but I think it captures her in a really accurate way: wearing...
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Jul 11, 2017
Ruth, President
I first met Ruth at Samara Canada’s EPC: IRL Forum in April. After we shared a cab and headed to different gates at the Edmonton airport—her bound for Arviat, Nunavut,...
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Jul 10, 2017
Shaylynn, Anishinaabekwe
“My name is Shaylynn Marsden. I’m from Beausoleil First Nation, otherwise known as Christian Island or Chimnissing in the language.” When she was telling me where she was from, Shaylynn...
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Jun 13, 2017
Nta’tugwaqanminen
I stopped in an administrative building in Gesgapegiag First Nation and unexpectedly found a book titled Nta’tugwaqanminen (Our Story): Evolution of the Gespe’gewa’gi Mi’gmaq. It was published by Fernwood Press...
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Jun 6, 2017
Gilbert Sark, Drum Keeper
We reached the band office in Lennox Island, a small building overlooking the waters of Malpeque Bay. The north coast of Prince Edward Island had been covered by low-hanging clouds...
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May 26, 2017
Paul Prosper, Chief of Paqtnkek First Nation
When we reached the exit off the Trans-Canada Highway, the rain had been falling on mainland Nova Scotia for a couple hours. Vehicles spun up a 100-km/h mist of water...
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May 21, 2017
Calvin White, Mi’kmaq Elder
“His name is Calvin White,” the text from Steph said, “and he’s an Elder in the Mi’kmaq community. He does a lot of speaking and storytelling and such all over...
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