Native issues

Volume 23 Issue 4
Stewards of the land
Editorial

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 setting them apart. The word aborigine or aboriginal is associated with Australia, indigenous makes us think of  Latin America even […]

Keena – Native Indian Artist
Art

Keena – Native Indian Artist

Keena

Keena – Native Indian Artist – 1949 – 1995 Keena was born to a Mohawk father and French-Canadian mother in 1949.  She was given up to be adopted and, until she was a young teenager, grew up in an orphanage. […]

Photo Essay

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 ancestral knowledge and traditions. However, to be an indigenous person in Guatemala means, more often than not, to be a […]

A Mask
Special Report

A Mask

Stan Swamy

Unknown to perhaps many of us in this part of the world, there is a significant population of aboriginal people living mainly in the central swathe of India for centuries. Their plight has been recently been brought to the forefront […]

Opinion
Editorial

Opinion

Rana Bose

I have a Question…… Twenty-nine organizations in Canada came together on November 16th, 2010 to issue a joint statement in response to Canada’s much postponed endorsement of the UN declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, originally adopted in 2007. […]

Norman Bethune and Montreal
Tribute

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, Bethune studied medicine in Canada and Britain. In 1925, he contracted tuberculosis, epidemic at that time. He recovered and dedicated […]

3 Poems
Poetry

3 Poems

Tomás Ramírez

De Maiz… Everyone is igualdad Said the man of the wise mind And the old hands He told me We are getting lost This is the way to find ourselves You grab this maiz You use the coa of free […]

4 Poems
Poetry

4 Poems

Ilona Martonfi

SAND PLAINS, 1848 When deer are mating: The clatter of antlers. Sound of the drum beating- Log house where the family lived. Planted maize, sunflowers, and squash. Plum-red forest berries, wild rice. To woo a yakon:kwe- A woman of the […]

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