Algonquin Elder News Today

By Edith Cody-Rice The Seven Gifts Project is a Mississippi Mills bicentennial project of truth and reconciliation between Canada's indigenous peoples and those who came to North America from outside the continent and largely occupied lands inhabited for thousands of years by earlier native c

This is the seventh in a series of columns about the Imagine – Learn/Inspire/Act Conference being held on Saturday, May 6 at the Almonte Civitan Hall. Previous columns have featured the various people giving presentations at the conference. This time the What Now Lanark County Committee is pleased t

What began as a Dene honour song in a public school has transformed into a national-looking organization doing the hard work of reconciliation.

An Every Child Matters banner covered the sign on the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway on Friday, as the federal government was urged to rename the road in Ottawas west end.

Albert Dumont, an Algonquin Elder, poet and storyteller, reflects on a complicated relationship with the Crown marked by past injustices like the pass system.

Eight spirit horses live on Mādahòkì Farm, a tourism and events destination run by Indigenous Experiences, where they are a living representation of the farm’s larger work of reclamation, education and celebration of Indigenous cultures and traditions.

When Claudette Commanda, an Elder from Kitigan Zibi, was an undergraduate student, she wasn’t shy about asking what programs and services the University of Ottawa had for Indigenous students.

A report for Tuesdays Ottawa Carleton District School Board meeting recommends naming the new school in the Fernbank neighbourhood Shingwaakon Public School.