Montreal Serai

December, 2010

Editorial

27-12-10

Stewards of the land Maya Khankhoje

The words aboriginal, indigenous, native, primitive, adivasi, tribal  and first nations are used almost synonymously although there are subtle differences  Read more…

Art

27-12-10

Keena – Native Indian Artist Keena

Keena – Native Indian Artist – 1949 – 1995 Keena was born to a Mohawk father and French-Canadian mother in  Read more…

Commentary

27-12-10

Indigenous Women of San Cristóbal: In Search of a Place in the Globalized World and Local Society Tomás Ramírez

Editor’s note: San Cristóbal de las Casas, located in the central highlands of Chiapas, was catapulted into the limelight on  Read more…

Commentary

27-12-10

The Curse of the Corn People Carmen Cordero Amores

More than half of the population of Guatemala is indigenous, heirs of an ancient culture and trustees of centuries of  Read more…

Meditation

27-12-10

Meditations on what it means to be indigenous Shanti Kumari Johnson

What is it to be indigenous? Indigenous to the land or to your self. Indigenous even to your heart. What  Read more…

Commentary

27-12-10

Shell’s Arctic Drilling Will Destroy Our Homeland And Culture Rosemany Ahtuangaruak

“Reprinted with implicit permission from Climatestorytellers.org, as per their stated policy for not-for-profit publications.” This week families across the country  Read more…

Commentary

27-12-10

A Mask Stan Swamy

Unknown to perhaps many of us in this part of the world, there is a significant population of aboriginal people  Read more…

Commentary

27-12-10

Opinion Rana Bose

I have a Question…… Twenty-nine organizations in Canada came together on November 16th, 2010 to issue a joint statement in  Read more…

Commentary

27-12-10

Norman Bethune and Montreal Anne Cimon

Norman Bethune was a world-reknowned Canadian surgeon, a passionate humanitarian, and a brilliant medical innovator. Born in Ontario in 1890,  Read more…

Short Story

27-12-10

To pull or not to pull the plug: That is the question! Pietro Ferrua

Pain was his lot. He had to endure it constantly since . . .  Well, he could not even remember  Read more…

Book Review

27-12-10

THE LOVE QUEEN OF MALABAR. Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das Maya Khankhoje

THE LOVE QUEEN OF MALABAR. Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das. Merrily Weisbord, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal, 2010. In  Read more…

Poetry

27-12-10

3 Poems Tomás Ramírez

De Maiz… Everyone is igualdad Said the man of the wise mind And the old hands He told me We  Read more…

Poetry

27-12-10

4 Poems Ilona Martonfi

SAND PLAINS, 1848 When deer are mating: The clatter of antlers. Sound of the drum beating- Log house where the  Read more…

Poetry

27-12-10

What will the traveller see on the horizon? – From the meaning of Inuit place names & Superposition Martyn Bryant

What will the traveller see on the horizon? – From the meaning of Inuit place names This place is not  Read more…

Poetry

27-12-10

My hands can still plough the fields. Priyanka Borpujari

My hands can still plough the fields. He was a teacher, my younger boy He taught me to write my  Read more…

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