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Local Youth Walk the Road to Reconciliation

Cornell Pashe Indigenous Community Coordinator Portage Urban Indigenous Peoples’ Coalition There has been plenty of talk about ‘building...

A Painful Legacy

Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country....

Healing through Education

Alma Scott was taken to the Fort Alexander, Manitoba, Indian residential school when she was just five years old. “We got taken away by a...

Losing my Language

Imagine speaking a completely different language than your parents. How would you tell them when you were hungry? If you were hurting?...

Circles for Reconciliation

A recent ‘letter to the editor’ in this publication highlighted the depth of ignorance some local citizens continue to have about...

Education is your Buffalo

How many of you grew up hearing that First Nations people don’t pay taxes? Or that people on reserves get everything handed to them? Guy...

Breaking the Stigma

Cornell Pashe Indigenous Community Coordinator Portage Urban Indigenous People’s Coalition A heart attack that occurs when the left...

Nothing for Free

Cornell Pashe Indigenous Community Coordinator Portage Urban Indigenous People’s Coalition Of all the myths surrounding First Nations...