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Tecumseh, Shawnee War Chief was a charismatic leader, an orator and a respected war chief of the Shawnee Indians of Ohio. His vision for a Confederacy of Indians to stand united in the face of the expropriation of their lands and cultures was...
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The seeds of the War of 1812 (1812 - 1814) were sown in the Napoleonic Wars (1799 - 1815) between France and Great Britain. Napoleon, frustrated by...
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When the British North America (BNA) Act was passed in 1867, Canada became a country but remained a colony of the British Empire. The BNA Act...
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When it comes to Indigenous issues and politeness the big question for me is what should people do if they encounter a social situation in which...
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Middens are the heaps of shells, bones, utensils and artifacts that accumulated sometimes over thousands of years of Aboriginal Peoples' occupation...
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The Marpole Midden, just outside Vancouver, British Columbia, is believed to date back 4000 years. It is one of the largest pre-contact middens in...
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It is important for those who did not attend an Indian residential school to remember that the legacy of those dark halls did not end with Prime...
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Long before John Cabot arrived on the shores of Newfoundland in 1497, Mi’kmaq People occupied what we now know as the Atlantic provinces. Mi’kmaq...
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Myth #4: Indigenous Peoples receive free post-secondary education. Reality: To say that Indigenous Peoples receive free post-secondary funding is...
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A few years ago, while on a driving vacation in the United States, my travel companion and I had an opportunity to visit the Little Bighorn National...