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Winnipeg Free Press By: Fakiha Baig, The Canadian Press Posted: EDMONTON - What business school teaches in four years, Jacob Faithful says he learned in four months. Young Spirit Singers co-founder Jacob Faithful stands for a portrait inside the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon on Sunday, Jan. 20, 2019. Faithful, a member of the Frog Lake First Nations in Alberta, is opening the first mask manufacturing plant on a Canadian reserve that is fully owned and operated by Indigenous people. THE CANADI...

"We already spent enough money to get the machine imported from China to here in Canada. And then on Feb. 22, we're going to start making our own masks in Frog Lake," Faithful, 42, said in an interview with The Canadian Press. Frog Lake First Nations is run by a band government about 200 kilometres northeast of Edmonton. Born and raised on the reserve, Faithful says life hasn't been easy for him and for the community's approximately 1,800 other members. "It's a hard life to live with no opportunity on the Nation. I always wanted to be a part of the solution to a lot of things that were bad...

"We already spent enough money to get the machine imported from China to here in Canada. And then on Feb. 22, we're going to start making our own masks in Frog Lake," Faithful, 42, said in an interview with The Canadian Press. Frog Lake First Nations is run by a band government about 200 kilometres northeast of Edmonton. Born and raised on the reserve, Faithful says life hasn't been easy for him and for the community's approximately 1,800 other members. "It's a hard life to live with no opportunity on the Nation. I always wanted to be a part of the solution to a lot of things that were bad...

Fakiha Baig Young Spirit Singers co-founder Jacob Faithful stands for a portrait inside the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon on Sunday, Jan. 20, 2019. Faithful, a member of the Frog Lake First Nations in Alberta, is opening the first mask manufacturing plant on a Canadian reserve that is fully owned and operated by Indigenous people. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Kayle Neis January 30, 2021 - 7:00 AM EDMONTON - What business school teaches in four years, Jacob Faithful says he learned in four months. The Alberta man from the Frog Lake First Nations says he's worked th...

iPolitics ‘Water sustains us, flows between us, within us, and replenishes us. Water is the giver of all life, and, without clean water, all life will perish.’ —Assembly of First Nations “No human being, no animal or plant, can live without its water,” says Dawn Martin-Hill, co-founder of the Indigenous Studies program at Hamilton’s McMaster University. Martin-Hill, who also teaches at McMaster, lives on Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve, about 30 km southwest of Hamilton. It’s where her mother, who was a part of the ’60s Scoop, grew up before fleeing to the U.S. to raise...