mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+glitchInform. Impact. Inspire... Canada's source for Indigenous News. Windspeaker.com reports on the nuts and bolts of Indigenous Nation Building, and Windspeaker Buffalo Spirit pours the foundation. News, Sports, Culture, Entertainment, Indigenous worldview and perspective.
“It's very profound when you can move a bunch of men that have been chronically homeless for quite some time and get them into really nice affordable housing, a place that they can call their own…”
"Whether the summer of 1812 or the spring of 2026, Canada's #Indigenous people have always been the first and last line of defense against American annexation… we will never bend the knee to foreign tyrants or their useful idiots." —Chief Allan Adam
‘Where I come from, the land, the water, the earth is not given to us by our parents. It is loaned to us by our children.’
#Indigenous #FirstNations #climate #UN #environoment #RingofFire #Ontario #resourcedevelopment
“I used to tell people that burrowing owl populations in B.C. are basically on life support. If it weren’t for programs like the one at Upper Nicola … we wouldn’t have any owls in B.C.”
#Indigenous #FirstNations #conservation #SpeciesatRisk #Owls
“I wondered why I was so afraid of becoming an artist and leaving a good job. I started to cry. I realized that I had just been in a country where there was no unemployment insurance, there was no welfare, yet the people were happy. I was no longer afraid.”
“It just horrified me that he was buried in a pauper's grave… That's what surprised me that #Canada would treat a #veteran, a World War I veteran, in that way.”
“They reached out to us really, really early on. We were really impressed with that early engagement … So, we had that time to kind of develop a relationship and were able to formalize our partnership in time to get a bid in.”
“It's about creating opportunities for future generations. It's about creating long-term economic benefits that will help to support the priorities identified by our First Nations.”
“During those years of high school, they were home and they had the chance to be on the land, to hunt and fish, or to just wander into the wilderness with their families, Elders and traditional people. They were exposed to the language and the culture, and they were made to feel proud of who they are…”
#Indigenous #FirstNations #education
https://www.windspeaker.com/under-northern-sky-xavier-kataquapit/celebrating-graduates-attawapiskat
“Seeing a decline in instances of police violence against #Indigenous people would show #police are taking the (Police Accountability Unit) seriously and that they know they cannot get away with actions that are not respectful.”
#FirstNations #BritishColumbia #RCMP #policing #justice
“The language in the settlement agreement was very strategic and specific about climate resiliency, being culturally appropriate and sustainable. That’s what allows us to do these unique Lubicon standards that we know aren’t being applied in other Indigenous communities.”
#Indigenous #FirstNations #climate #infrastructure #housing #wildfires #Alberta
“I honour our ancestral artists and their art practices while also trying to bring in something new so it's fresh for me as well as for the audiences. I try to bridge both of those experiences intentionally.”
“…our play areas were the small gravel parking lots near our homes or the muddy wet muskeg patches that dotted our neighbourhood... Active ditches filled with wastewater were everywhere and we all knew how to navigate past every outhouse...”
#Indigenous #FirstNations #Ontario #summer
https://www.windspeaker.com/under-northern-sky-xavier-kataquapit/hot-summer-days-attawapiskat
“I had no intention of anything. I just wrote down what I had in my mind. I didn't even intend it to be a book. It’s just simple language, just simple writings of me and when I was in the bush.”
“There’s more bone tools here than I’ve ever seen in any other project I’ve ever worked on.”
#Indigenous #FirstNations #MooseJaw #Saskatchewan #agriculture #cultivation #pottery
“The story of Chikabesh that I remember from my childhood describes how his family tells him not to look at the full moon because it is dangerous…One night, when he goes about his work, a voice from high above gently calls out to him...”
“Our language is really struggling and I came to the realization that if our language died, that would be our history too.”
#Indigenous #FirstNations #history #books #language #Maliseet
“The grind is coming. But there is excitement all over the place.”
#Indigenous #hockey #Sports #U21championship #Toronto
https://www.windspeaker.com/news/sports/national-tournament-more-doubles-participation-second-year
“I think people resist things until they know the benefits that they can get from doing something…Everybody listens to a radio called WIIFM. What's In It For Me?”
“While we celebrate this approval, the work of implementation is just beginning. We’re moving from a system of crisis to a system of care.”
#Indigenous #FirstNations #CHRT #childwelfare #Ontario #discrimination
“You know, the music business itself 30, 35 years ago was this incredible machine that was quite a beast… It's a machine that once it starts to roll, it rolls like crazy and you're just hanging on for dear life.”
#Indigenous #Inuit #music #Vancouver #throatsinging #PIQSIQ #SusanAglukark
“I'm certain that we will teach and we will help people unlearn their baloney because, my gosh, those racist tropes and generalizations about us are alive and well in Canada.”
#Indigenous #FirstNations #film #documentary #PowellRiver #BC
“Art can be a very valuable destabilizing agent” to culture and “shake up the foundations a little bit.”
#Indigenous #FirstNations #storyteller #acting #art #VPL #Vancouver #libraries
“We’ve been told when we’ve met with Elders before that we really need to be putting Cree into our work and so that’s what we’ve been doing.”
#Indigenous #Métis #music #women #composers #orchestra #Toronto #HearingherVoice
“Working with the horse puppet, specifically, it feels like a real horse. (The puppeteers) have this amazing control over where they can breathe together and they can make the ears move and the tail move. They’re just so synchronized in the way that the three of them move this giant puppet.”
#Indigenous #FirstNations #Inuit #theatre #TSO #Toronto #RedSky
Efforts to equate provincial political disputes with the inherent and constitutionally protected rights of First Nations misrepresent the legal foundation of this country and disregard the role of Treaty as the basis upon which #Alberta exists today.
“I want them pondering what they've just seen and thinking about it—who is right and who is wrong and… how could this have been handled better.”
“I am able to help businesses get from point A to point Z, literally overnight pretty much. And I have so many skillsets in terms of being able to train and develop my staff, which are now actually doing the capacity building.”
“We worked for a year-and-a-half to circumnavigate all of their rules so that we could use their rules for our benefit rather than against us.”
“It's been amazing. This opportunity is pretty special… We're having a lot of fun and enjoying it.”
“I love those fans already. It’s one of the most passionate fan bases out there. So, I’m looking forward to getting started and I can’t wait to see what the future holds.”
“In a recent public post by Joe Louttit, a community leader and organizer of the Peacekeeping program, an estimated $3.5 million street value of drugs and alcohol was prevented from entering the community this past year.”
#Indigenous #FirstNations #Attawapiskat #Ontario #addiction #harmreduction
https://www.windspeaker.com/under-northern-sky-xavier-kataquapit/every-step-towards-future-counts
Job Board: Manager, Knowledge Mobilization and Communications https://www.windspeaker.com/job-board/14902
Job Board: Community Investment Program Specialist https://www.windspeaker.com/job-board/14942
Job Board: Senior Program Advisor / Conseiller principal en programmes; conseillère principale en programmes https://www.windspeaker.com/job-board/14725
Job Board: Registered Practical Nurse https://www.windspeaker.com/job-board/14742
Job Board: Social Work Care Manager https://www.windspeaker.com/job-board/14743
“Cornwall is just a hop, skip and a jump away from us and that was considered a hotbed for minor lacrosse back in my younger days. But they would not allow us to play over there.”
#Indigenous #FirstNations #Sports #lacrosse #Ontario #halloffame
https://www.windspeaker.com/news/sports/first-nations-lacrosse-legend-be-inducted-ontario-hall-fame
Job Board: Peer Support Worker Part-Time https://www.windspeaker.com/job-board/14741
