The words aboriginal, indigenous, native, primitive, adivasi, tribal and first nations are used almost synonymously although there are subtle differences […]
Native issues
Volume 23 Issue 4
Keena – Native Indian Artist
Keena – Native Indian Artist – 1949 – 1995 Keena was born to a Mohawk father and French-Canadian mother in […]
Indigenous Women of San Cristóbal: In Search of a Place in the Globalized World and Local Society
Editor’s note: San Cristóbal de las Casas, located in the central highlands of Chiapas, was catapulted into the limelight on […]
The Curse of the Corn People
More than half of the population of Guatemala is indigenous, heirs of an ancient culture and trustees of centuries of […]
Meditations on what it means to be indigenous
What is it to be indigenous? Indigenous to the land or to your self. Indigenous even to your heart. What […]
Shell’s Arctic Drilling Will Destroy Our Homeland And Culture
“Reprinted with implicit permission from Climatestorytellers.org, as per their stated policy for not-for-profit publications.” This week families across the country […]
A Mask
Unknown to perhaps many of us in this part of the world, there is a significant population of aboriginal people […]
Opinion
I have a Question…… Twenty-nine organizations in Canada came together on November 16th, 2010 to issue a joint statement in […]
Norman Bethune and Montreal
Norman Bethune was a world-reknowned Canadian surgeon, a passionate humanitarian, and a brilliant medical innovator. Born in Ontario in 1890, […]
To pull or not to pull the plug: That is the question!
Pain was his lot. He had to endure it constantly since . . . Well, he could not even remember […]
THE LOVE QUEEN OF MALABAR. Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das
THE LOVE QUEEN OF MALABAR. Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das. Merrily Weisbord, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal, 2010. In […]
3 Poems
De Maiz… Everyone is igualdad Said the man of the wise mind And the old hands He told me We […]
4 Poems
SAND PLAINS, 1848 When deer are mating: The clatter of antlers. Sound of the drum beating- Log house where the […]
What will the traveller see on the horizon? – From the meaning of Inuit place names & Superposition
What will the traveller see on the horizon? - From the meaning of Inuit place names This place is not […]
My hands can still plough the fields.
My hands can still plough the fields. He was a teacher, my younger boy He taught me to write my […]