Wilmer Nadjiwon’s many battlesBy Stephen Bede Scharper Toronto Star November 4 2012“They were trees like these,” Wilmer Nadjiwon suddenly remembered one summer day several years ago, quietly carving a wood sculpture in his outdoor studio in Tobermory....

'When we opened our eyes, they has the land and we had the Bible'By David McLaren AWARE News Network September 10 2012In John Milloy’s A National Tragedy, there are before and after photographs of an Aboriginal boy. In the before photo, his hair is long. He is dressed in buckskins and beads and posed...

By Sara Ross, Orillia Packet & Times August 6, 2012 Rama First Nation’s longtime chief is going after her seventh term in the community’s upcoming election.A strong desire to see an end to the Coldwater-Narrows land claim prompted Sharon Stinson Henry to run again.“We’re almost there. We’re in the fi...

By Kristen Smith, Midland Free Press July 17, 2012 One of the largest land-claim settlement offers in Canadian history is inching closer to a resolution.In a July 7 vote, the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation voted 93% in favour of accepting the Coldwater-Narrows land claim....

By Douglas Glynn Midland Free Press July 16, 2012 CHRISTIAN ISLAND – Andrew Mixemong has gone home.At sundown Saturday – following a mid-day Midewiwin-Christian ecumenical service and burial – his Spirit began the four-day journey to meet his ancestors....

By Andrew Philips Toronto Star July 14 2012 CHRISTIAN ISLAND, ONT.—People from all walks of life gathered here Saturday to say goodbye to a ‘true warrior’ known for his love, compassion and happiness. Andrew Mixemong, 59, an Ojibwa, who was beaten to death outside a Midland restaurant last week while...

AWARE Simcoe July 9 2012  AWARE Simcoe members extend their deepest condolences to the family of Andrew Mixemong, his colleagues at the Georgian Bay Native Friendship Centre, and the people of Chimnissing (Beausoleil First Nation). “Our community is in mourning over the brutal attack of one of our me...

By DOUGLAS GLYNN QMI AGENCY July 8 2012MIDLAND, Ont. - Georgian Bay Native Friendship Centre president Andrew Mixemong died after a brutally beating Friday night at the rear of a downtown restaurant when he went to the aid of his wife, who was being harassed by two men....

Tree named in memory of Gord Leonard grows in Christian Island orchardBy Tiffany Ruffett July 7 2012A few centuries ago, the wave of immigration to this land brought a tremendous amount of upheaval and displacement for every Indigenous Nation on Turtle Island in the years which followed.  Contrary to...

CBC News Jun 4, 2012 First Nations people from Grassy Narrows, Ont., continue to suffer the effects of mercury poisoning more than 40 years after commercial fishing was closed, a new report shows.The report, released in English today in Toronto, outlines the long-term effects on people who lived alon...