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"Le gouvernement québécois déposera une loi pour faire de juin le mois commémorant l'histoire des Premières Nations. Le projet de législation sera soumis à l'Assemblée nationale, cette semaine."

"First Nation Communities Read has revealed Richard Wagamese’s Indian Horse (Douglas & McIntyre) as the winner of the annual community-reading program.

Public libraries in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, B.C., the Yukon, and Northwest Territories will promote the program with a poster featuring Indian Horse. "

"The latest houseware trend is classic Americana — and a real conversation piece.

Just ask Bushwick resident Mariette Lamson, whose unique living room decor stunned one of her pals during a recent visit.  

“You seriously have a tepee in your apartment?” the surprised friend said in  amazement. "

"From one of Canada's most exciting new Metis voices comes a book whose recurring themes include the complexities of identity, belonging/not belonging, Aboriginal adoption, loss and abandonment, regret and insecurity.

A deadbeat dad tries to reconnect with his daughter after 22 years away. A selfish poet has been scarred by an upbringing that leaves him emotionally distant from his children and spouse. A pot-smoking middle-aged man undertakes a modest quest for meaning following a brush with mortality. A fourteen-year-old girl struggles to come to terms with her feelings of abandonment.

The characters are often fragile, sometimes unlikeable, but ultimately can be identified or sympathized with. At the centre of the stories are notions of identity and belonging, and the complex relationships between children and parents, both those who are real and those who are just pretending."

ISBN: 9781550505467

Released: April 2013

"Inaugurée le 17 mai, l’exposition Sakahàn présentera au-delà de 150 œuvres créées par 80 artistes contemporains à travers le monde, ce qui en fait le plus vaste événement jamais consacré à l’art contemporain indigène.

On y retrouvera peintures, photographies, sculptures, estampes, dessins, vidéos, performances et installations extérieures."

"First Peoples Worldwide, an indigenous-led organization dedicated to the mission of promoting Indigenous economic determination and strengthening Indigenous communities, is organizing PROUD TO BE INDIGENOUS WEEK during the Permanent Forum.

They will be hosting several events in New York City, but since most indigenous people will not make it to New York, First Peoples is running an online campaign to allow indigenous peoples everywhere to engage with UNPFII and each other."

The Cree of northern Quebec are writing a startlingly different story than their cousins in Attawapiskat and Keshechewan on the western shore of James Bay, with decent schools and development rather than flooding and despair.

"Told in the words of Isaac, a Choctaw boy who does not survive the Trail of Tears, HOW I BECAME A GHOST is a tale of innocence and resilience in the face of tragedy. From the book's opening line, "Maybe you have never read a book written by a ghost before," the reader is put on notice that this is no normal book. Isaac leads a remarkable foursome of Choctaw comrades: a tough-minded teenage girl, a shape-shifting panther boy, a lovable five-year-old ghost who only wants her mom and dad to be happy, and Isaac s talking dog, Jumper. The first in a trilogy, HOW I BECAME A GHOST thinly disguises an important and oft-overlooked piece of history."

 Release date: June 18, 2013

Publisher: The RoadRunner Press

ISBN: 978-1937054533 

The director behind a TV series being shot in Kahnawake says she wants to show Canadians what it means to be a Mohawk woman.

It seems we are on the verge of a tepee trend -- here's a look at ten tepees that American Indians neither made nor lived in.

"Well-respected aboriginal leader and former Manitoba MLA and MP Elijah Harper died early this morning.

He was an MLA for Rupertsland for 11 years (1981 to 1992) and held a cabinet post in 1986 and 1987.

He is most well known for standing in the Manitoba Legislature in 1990, raising a single eagle feather, and voting against the Meech Lake Accord, which led to the accord’s demise."

"Si vous trouvez que le travail de l’artiste de Calgary, Terrance Houle, est irrévérencieux, politiquement incorrect et carrément effronté, veuillez adresser vos reproches, ou félicitations, à sa mère. 

Houle est le premier de plusieurs artistes des Premiers peuples dont les œuvres seront présentées dans la nouvelle exposition permanente au Musée McCord, Porter son identité. La collection Premiers Peuples.

Inaugurée le 3 mai 2013, elle aborde les identités sociale, culturelle, politique et spirituelle des Premières Nations, des Inuits et des Métis par le truchement du vêtement."

"At the CCBC, we define "multicultural" literature as books by and about people of color: African and African Americans, American Indians, Asian/Pacific and Asian Pacific Americans, and Latinos. This listing introduces 50 essential books and a range of authors and illustrators for children. "

Jeffrey Veregge is a designer and artist who studied traditional coastal Salish art after growing up on a reservation in the American pacific northwest.

Students at We'koqma'q Mi'kmaq School in Nova Scotia realize the need to keep their language alive.