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WOLF SONGS & FIRE CHATS
You dream yourself into being. That may sound esoteric and fraught with New Age mysticism or some earthy tribal spirituality, but it’s true nonetheless. I’ve discovered this truth over the course of the last 10 years especially. It was going on years before but only in this last decade has it become a foundational truth of my life.
When I was being…
THE URBANE INDIAN
a First Nations writer of fiction and non-fiction, and frequent lecturer on the university/college and conference circuit, I am commonly asked about my political persuasion. Do I swing left, right, or am I more ambidextrous?
Once, as I sat on a panel between former Prime Minister Paul Martin and former Lieutenant Governor James Bartleman, I was asked the first…
Experience Cape Breton
Cape Breton’s five First Nations - Membertou, Eskasoni, Chapel Island, Waycobah and Wagmatcook – are working together to ensure authentic when it comes to experiencing the Mi’kmaq culture and way of life. Tourism ventures on the small island range from the economic support of local, Native arts and crafts artisans to the support of summer cultural…
Monument of apology to Nutak and Hebron communities
Nutak, Labrador
In August 2012, the federal government unveiled a monument consisting of three separate plaques, each in English and Inuktitut marking an apology that was issued in 2005 by the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador to the Inuit of the former Nutak and Hebron communities, closed…
Jardins de Métis National Historic Site of Canada
Grand-Métis, Québec
The Jardins de Métis national historic site is an English-inspired garden created by Elsie Reford from about 1926 to 1958. The property, which covers approximately 18 hectares, is located on the banks of the St. Lawrence and Métis Rivers between the towns of Mont-Joli and Matane…
Tombstone Territorial Park
North of Dawson City, Yukon
Tombstone Territorial Park is memorable for its black granite peaks, idyllic alpine lakes and subarctic tundra landscapes and is an icon among Yukon destinations. The Dempster Highway bisects Tombstone, making wildlife, birds and tundra walks accessible to even roadside explorers. For…
The Hamlet of Arviat, Nunavut
Visit the Hamlet of Arviat and be prepared to be captivated by strong traditional culture and beautiful landscape. The hamlet recently received $105,100 from the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency to grow its tourism and the results have been impressive. The Margaret Aniksak Visitor’s Centre has interpretive exhibits of the…
SPIRITS OF THE LAND, AIR AND WATER:
ANTLER CARVINGS
Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, Brunswick, Maine
April 11, 2013 - February 23, 2014
Carvings of drummers, dancers, acrobats and spirits of all sorts are on view in the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum’s newest exhibit, Spirits of Land, Air, and Water: Antler Carvings from…
BUFFALO BILL HISTORICAL CENTER
Cody, Wyoming
The Buffalo Bill Historical Center weaves the varied threads of the western experience—history and myth, art and Native culture, firearms technology and natural history—into the rich panorama that is the American West. Its Plains Indian Museum has the Paul Dyck Plains Indian Buffalo Culture Collection,…
EXHIBIT 1812
St. Catherines Museum, St. Catherines, Ontario
April 6 - Aug. 18, 2013
The St. Catharines Museum is hosting a popular travelling exhibit titled 1812 this spring and summer. The exhibit was first housed at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. But now a travelling version of the exhibition will be shown at various…
SAKAHAN: INTERNATIONAL INDIGENOUS ART
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
May 17 - Sept. 2, 2013
What is being billed as the largest survey of contemporary Indigenous art organized by a national institution is on display in Ottawa. Sakahan: International Indigenous Art has opened at the National Gallery of Canada. The…
ABORIGINAL MUSIC WEEK
Winnipeg, Manitoba
August 16 - 21, 2013
Organizers of Winnipeg’s Aboriginal Music Week are hoping its festival grows substantially this year thanks to a switch to summer-time dates. The music festival, celebrating its fifth year, had traditionally been staged in November. But the 2013 festival has been…
BLUE PRINTS FOR A LONG WALK
Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Winnipeg, Manitoba
May 30 - June29
A walk of almost 250 kilometres retracing steps her grandfather took when he ran away from a residential school is the inspiration for an Ontario-born artist who has an exhibition in Winnipeg.
Lisa Myers, who has…
Portraits of Saskatchewan Indian leaders
Assiniboine Gallery, Legislative Building, Regina
The 15 pastel portraits of Saskachewan’s Indian leaders are back on the walls of the Legislature after having received new preservation quality matte boards. Edmund Morris was commissioned in 1909 by Saskatchewan’s first premier, Walter Scott, to do the work…
Drive the Trails of 1885
Why not get acquainted with the sites of the 1885 Northwest Resistance through a self-guided tour? These trails mark the significant events of the Northwest Resistance in 1885, a turbulent and formative time in Canadian history. There are three Trails of 1885 driving tours already planned out. A Drive through Battle River Country includes the Battlefords, Cut…