Gold has arrived. Here in northern Ontario, the leaves are turning and we see vast streams of gold shimmering across the autumn landscape. There are flashes of red and brown as though a huge blanket has descended onto Mother Earth from the heavens. This is my favourite time of the year as it is not too hot or too cold and the wilderness beckons us to wander and wonder at the sights and scents of fall.
Leonard Peltier celebrated his 84th birthday on September 12, his first outside prison walls since 1976. Last January 19, just before he left office, US President Joe Biden commuted Peltier’s sentence to indefinite home arrest.
I am the product of many thousands of years of evolution, as are you.
My home community of Attawapiskat First Nation is holding a local election on August 29.
Jeronimo Kataquapit has made us all proud for his ability to live up to the title of his grassroots movement, Here We Stand – Call To Action.
I’ve been filled with a renewed sense of hope for the future through the work of filmmaker Jeronimo Kataquapit, who has made it his mission to highlight the connection that the people of Attawapiskat have to the land and its waters.
The Ontario government is pushing legislation to designate the Ring of Fire as a “special economic zone”. Bill 5 would eliminate regulations for major infrastructure, mining and resource projects.
As a First Nation person I have been terrorized by alcohol and drug addiction all my life. I grew up with this reality and continue to witness the effects of addictions today.
One of the last hunting trips I took with my father Marius Kataquapit was out onto our traditional lands next to the opening of the Attawapiskat River on the James Bay coast.
The Hudson’s Bay Company is on its way to being lost to the history books.
