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Windspeaker
Windspeaker - Canada's National Aboriginal News Source
publishing since March 1983.
Contributing Editor: Debora Steel
Windspeaker is Canada's most widely distributed Aboriginal news publication and the most effective means of reaching Canada's Aboriginal people.
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Photo Caption: Cee Jai Julian (right), a former sex worker in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, addresses an April 10 press conference, with Battered Women’s Support Services worker Lisa Yellow-Quill.
A coalition of interested groups have rejected...
The Heiltsuk First Nation is demanding that the National Energy Board’s Northern Gateway pipeline joint review panel return to the coastal community and give them back the day-and-a-half lost in hearings last month.
“Right now we are in discussions...
“It’s one thing for governments to be able to close our doors, but they can’t close our minds,” said Satsan Herb George, executive director for the National Centre for First Nations Governance.
Almost two weeks after the federal budget was brought...
On March 31st, after two years of preparation by his extended family, Maxwxwadziy, Chief George Shaughnessy conducted a Kwixella to memorialize 5 family members and to name those born since his last potlatch in Alert Bay in 2006. The Kwixella, which...
Despite getting injured mere minutes before her gold-medal match, Daley Forbes was able to persevere and win yet another Canadian wrestling championship.Forbes, an 18-year-old who lives in Port Alberni, B.C., captured the gold medal in the juvenile...
A major victory was won on April 18 when a federal court ruled that the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal failed to give a thorough airing to the issue of discrimination in federal funding to child welfare services on reserve. The court has ordered a...
The dunnvillechronicle.com reports that community officials in Haldimand County, Ont. were so concerned about a rally scheduled to mark the sixth anniversary of the OPP raid on Douglas Creek Estates that they met hoping to put restrictions on rally...
Wayne Pamajewon is unhappy right now with his community’s custom election and Elders tribunal processes.
Upon the recommendation of its Elders tribunal, Shawanaga First Nation held a by-election for chief earlier this year. Pamajewon participated in...
Dear Editor:We are at a tipping point in the progression of human history and are now making the final decisions that will lead to the slow suicide of our species or its salvation. For too long we have walked heavily on this earth and our massive...
