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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. Merrily Weisbord, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal, 2010. In […]

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

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 This place is not […]

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