Janelle and Jérémie Wookey, a brother-sister Franco-Métis filmmaking team, are hoping to receive 100 video submissions in 100 days from Métis youth across the country that will document what it means to be Métis. The videos will be part of a project called 100métis.ca.
Seven years ago, Janelle put her family on screen to tell the story of the last three generations of the Red River Métis: the hidden (her grandmother’s generation), the lost (her mother’s), and the found (Janelle’s generation).

March 4, 2016. In a headdress ceremony on Friday, the Tsuut’ina Nation bestowed the name of “Gumistiyi,” which means “The One Who Keeps Trying,” on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The headdress presented to Trudeau symbolizes accomplishment, respect, bravery and peace-building. "Mr. Prime Minister, your election has brought with it expectations, high ones, that the historical obstacles to recognition and achievement ... will finally be accomplished," said Tsuut’ina Chief Roy Whitney-Onespot.

Man charged 10 months after woman killed

March 4, 2016

Randy Hardy plans to attend the state funeral for former Progressive Conservative Premier Don Getty on Saturday.

“He will be sadly missed by those around my age, people with grey hair. We owe a great debt of gratitude to him,” said Hardy, president of the Metis Settlement General Council.

Getty passed away on Feb. 26 at the age of 82.

The second instalment of the “Indigenize or Die” series, which explored sustainable living from Indigenous points of views, began with a smudging ceremony in Toronto's OCAD University on March 2.

The series highlights the immediate dangers of climate change and of unhinged capitalism, and offers possible solutions through Indigenous teachings and practices.

“It's not a threat, it's a statement of fact,” said cohost Kevin Best of the series theme. “Unless people choose to re-Indigenize, to connect to the earth, to the spirit and to each other, we’re in big trouble.”

Trudeau, Bellegarde recognized in bonnet transfer ceremony

Opponents to the Site C Dam project in Treaty 8 territory launched a hunger strike outside the BC Hydro office in Vancouver on Thursday morning.

The hunger strike was organized immediately following the “aggressive” dismantling of the Site C/Treaty 8 Stewards of the Land Camp by the RCMP on March 1, according to Tamo Campos, who is the grandson of renowned scientist/environmentalist David Suzuki.

March 3, 2016

Kevin Littlelight credits the moccasin telegraph for bringing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Tsuut’ina Nation.

What Littlelight calls a “long campfire story” began shortly after Trudeau won the federal election in October.

Mike Auksi is more than happy with how his hockey career ended.
Auksi, a 34-year-old who lives in Toronto, finished off his playing days by participating in an Olympic qualifying tournament in Budapest, Hungary.

He decided to retire after representing Estonia in the Olympic qualifier, which concluded on Feb. 14.

Though he’s Canadian and his father George is Ojibwe, in 2010 Auksi was able to get his citizenship from Estonia, where his mother Juta was born. He was keen to become a citizen of Estonia so he could represent the country in international hockey competitions.

Lack of funding cancels Métis Spring Festival