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Angela Misri in 150 Days of Turtle Island

Kent Monkman’s “The Scream”

If this haunting painting by Kent Monkman doesn’t stop you in your tracks, I don’t know what will. http://www.kentmonkman.com/painting/2017/1/20/the-scream

Angela Misri in 150 Days of Turtle Island

Language: Inuktitut, Inuttitut & Inuttut

Inuktitut is an Indigenous language spoken in the Canadian Arctic with approximately 34,000 speakers, located primarily in Nunavut and Québec.

It is called Inuttitut in Nunavik (Northern Québec), Inuttut in Nunatsiavut (Labrador) and…

Angela Misri in 150 Days of Turtle Island

Maryanne Pearce’s Database: An Awkward Silence

A database that lists 3329 murdered, missing indigenous women in Canada

Read these names, they are real women with families and loved ones, and this list just keeps growing.

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Treaties with Indigenous Peoples in Canada

A contentious issue but one that requires education and attention. Here’s an article…

Angela Misri in 150 Days of Turtle Island

Indigo — a short film by Amanda Strong

Angela Misri in 150 Days of Turtle Island

The Urban Rez: Viceland’s RISE

Part of the new VICELAND show Rise, The Urban Rez is episode five, and this is the chilling description…

Angela Misri in 150 Days of Turtle Island

Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada project

Announced in July, 2017, the goal is to create an Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada by taking the current Canadian map, erasing all the lines and redrawing it to reflect “Indigenous territories, trading routes, language groups, treaties, stories, art…

Angela Misri in 150 Days of Turtle Island

Dr. Leroy Little Bear

“Canada is a ‘pretend’ Nation.” — another RedX talk that is worth a [long] watch:

Angela Misri in 150 Days of Turtle Island

Artist Spotlight: Alyssa Delbaere-Sawchuk

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Artist spotlight: Yolanda Bonnell

Yolanda Bonnell is a performer and playwright of Ojibwe and South Asian descent, from Fort William…

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Like many Canadians, I’m of two minds when it comes to celebrating the Canada 150 because I want to be an ally to my First Nations brothers and sisters. This is my solution: 150 days of giving up my space to First Nations facts, artists, heroes and historical figures.

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