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‘A visceral way of connecting with your culture’: How Isaruit Inuit Arts brings country food to urban Inuit in Ottawa
For Ottawa’s urban Inuit, weekly drop-in meals at Isaruit Inuit Arts are a taste of home in the south.
“A tree has rights”: Albert Dumont’s fight to protect land
Albert Dumont, an activist, spiritual advisor and writer from Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation, has consistently fought for human rights and environmental protections in Ottawa. [Photo © Olivia Grandy]In hospitals, prison harmony circles and on city streets,...
How the Pikwàkanàgan First Nation is combating moose population decline in Algonquin park amid climate change
John Paul Kohoko sets up trail cameras in Algonquin Park as part of the Anishinaabe Moose Committee’s initiative to monitor moose populations on the Ontario side. [Photo provided by the Anishinaabe Moose Committee]Hunters from Pikwàkanagàn are working with the...
Battling a hungry beetle, this Mohawk community hopes to keep its trees — and traditions — alive
Basketmaking using black ash trees has been a part of Kanien’kehá:ka culture for as long as anyone can remember. An invasive beetle and climate change are threatening its future By: Nicole Dainty, Nadja Radakovic, Madison Eldridge, Hannah Daramola Angello...