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Cree rap group The NorthStars releases new song with important message

Nemaska's rap duo The NorthStars recently debuted a new song and music video dedicated to the struggles of Indigenous youth.

Juliette Danger

Jessica Matten stars in APTN police drama

While she’s had numerous offers to play characters that were essentially stereotypes of Native women, Jessica Matten finally landed her dream role in Tribal, a new APTN police series that “flips the switch” on the cop genre.

Amy German

Chaakapesh documents an orchestra’s unprecedented journey to the North

It was a project of almost unimaginable ambition: a world-class opera sung entirely in Cree, bringing a symphony orchestra to small Indigenous communities in northern Quebec.

Patrick Quinn

Seven must-see Indigenous-made films of 2019

“Best of” lists proliferate every December, and before we add to the annual offering of film favourites, here’s a short note on the selective, subjective celebration of cinema.

Ezra Winton

Handmade Indigenous crafts that will make your Christmas memorable

Over the last 10 years, many Indigenous designers and artisans have gone from running small side businesses to operating online boutiques through social-media platforms.

Amy German

Clay harvested from Nuuskan Island for pottery revives ancient tradition

NISK intergenerational project takes flight in Montreal

“We are in the time of prophecy: the youth are going to take Indigenous wisdom and resurrect it through their art and their stories because they are going to inherit what we leave behind.”

Patrick Quinn

The imagineNATIVE festival at 20

At the awards ceremony for the 20th imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival this year, Cree artist Kent Monkman – while giving out an award named in his honour – quipped that the featival was getting old, old enough to have sex.

Ezra Winton

Violent Ground picks up three awards for recent album

Many Indigenous stories have been passed down generations as songs. For Indigenous hip-hop group Violent Ground, music is still a way to share stories about their lives and experiences growing up in the Naskapi Nation of Kawawachikamach.

Ben Powless

Film depicts Kuujjuaq in the 1940s and 1950s

The highly anticipated Inuit-focused film Restless River premiered October 12 at Montreal’s New Cinema Festival to a lively reception.

Julie McIntosh

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