Welcome to AMMSA.COM, the news archive website for our family of Indigenous news publications.
Established in 1983 to serve the needs of northern Alberta, Windspeaker became a national newspaper on its 10th anniversary in 1993.
Clad in woodland camouflage pants, black shirt and Native Pride cap, Daryl Redsky stoops down on the gravel road spanning the Manitoba-Ontario boundary and lets out an excited shout as the wind picks up along what his First Nation has dubbed “Freedom Road.”
It’s the embryo of what he and others in Shoal Lake 40 hope are the isolated reserve’s long-dreamt link to the outside world, and…
Very few writers in Canada can actually make a living from
their writing. Writer Drew Hayden Taylor is one of those writers. A member of Curve Lake First Nation near Peterborough, Ont., Taylor is a novelist, playwright, short story writer, and television script writer. In a recent interview, the handsome, blue-eyed writer said, “I don’t have a day job. Writing is my full-time job and I’m…
Four 15-foot totem poles are now at home at the entrance to the Saanich Peninsula Hospital telling all who enter the facility that this is the territory of the WSÁNEĆ First Nations communities and that the hospital is committed to culturally safe care.
An unveiling ceremony was held July 7. The poles were created from a log felled in Huu-ay-aht territory on West Coast of Vancouver…
A housing project for the Elders of Flying Dust First Nation
in Saskatchewan has created opportunities for Flying Dust First Nation youth to
obtain training and skills in building and ensures the homes are both
adequately built and meets the needs of the community.
Flying Dust First Nation, located 300 km northwest of
Saskatoon, and Habitat for Humanity Canada…
Comedienne was more than just a bunch of laughs
When Jodi Taylynn Belcourt attended a healing group led by
Julie Collette Bull, her life was in shambles and she had a large chip on her
shoulder.
“I wanted to leave, but Julie told me I would smile one day
and be happy,” Belcourt wrote in a Facebook tribute to Julie. “She asked me to…
Grandmother Josephine Mandamin is walking again, despite a knee replacement 18 months ago. She continues her sacred Water Walks with a team of people who, this year, are following the great migration route of the Anishinaabe people. The group will be gathering at all seven stopping places
where they will smoke the pipe and drum and share stories with whomever wishes to be a part of the…
Release: At the 41st Annual General Assembly (AGA), delegates of the Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) met in Montreal on July 11th and 12th to elect their new President.
Close to 80 Aboriginal women representing their respective Provincial/Territorial Member Associations (PTMAs) attended the AGA and on July 11th elected Ms. Dawn Lavell Harvard, Ph.D of the Ontario Native…
Jewelian Blackbird is hoping to continue representing Canada in taekwondo events right up to the highest levels of the sport.
And the 16-year-old, who lives in Walpole Island, Ont., is proving she just might have what it takes to get there.
Blackbird, who has Mohawk/Ojibwe ancestry, has already made one national team. In 2013 she was a member of the Canadian cadet (12-14) squad…
Duane Jacobs has certainly racked up his share of coaching and managerial accolades in the past dozen years. But Jacobs, who is Cayuga and grew up in Ohsweken, Ont., will become a hall of famer later this year for his playing abilities.
Jacobs, 49, is one of six individuals who will be inducted into the Ontario Lacrosse Hall of Fame.
The class of 2015 was announced on July 3.…
Winnipeg will be hosting this year’s Canadian Native Fastball Championships. The national tournament will be held at the Buhler Recreation Park. Games will begin on July 31 and continue until Aug. 2. Teams will be competing in top honours in five categories. This will include the senior men’s and senior women’s categories, which will offer $13,000 and $10,000, respectively, to the winning…
A pair of Aboriginal teenagers were among those who were selected at the recent NHL Entry Draft held in Florida.
Ethan Bear, from the Ochapowace First Nation in Saskatchewan, was selected in the fifth round, 124th overall, by the Edmonton Oilers.
And Ryan Pilon, who grew up in Duck Lake, Sask., home to the Beardy’s and Okemasis Willow Cree First Nation, was also chosen in the…
After spending the past five seasons coaching in the professional ranks, Rocky Thompson is heading back to the junior level. Thompson, a 37-year-old Cree, was named as the head coach of the Windsor Spitfires, who competed in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), in early July.
Thompson, who was born in Calgary, had spent the past year serving as an assistant coach with the National Hockey…
Study shows suicide numbers high in cluster of Ontario First Nations
There were 31 suicides by Aboriginal people in Ontario in 2013, more than double the number in 1991, according to research conducted by Gerald McKinley, a postdoctoral fellow at Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. However, McKinley said the deaths are occurring in clusters in seven…
The 39th annual BC Elders Gathering, hosted by the Tsawout First Nation and the WSÁNEC Elders of North Saanich, attracted about 4,000 participants to the Panorama Centre on the Saanich Peninsula July 7 to July 9.
Grand Entry of the Elders who attended was held in the centre’s massive indoor tennis courts building, and it was still too small to hold everyone who wanted to attend opening…
Larry Loyie and Lynn Thompson feel differently about the words spoken in the apology by their home provinces’ premiers. But what they do agree on is that the words are only as strong as the actions that follow them.
On June 18, Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger apologized to families impacted by the Sixties Scoop and became the first province to issue such an acknowledgement.
“Today…