Thunder Bay

Full of excitement, we began our journey from Nibinamik First Nation to Regina on May 3, flying first to Thunder Bay, then Toronto before finally arriving in Regina that evening.

Who is Larry Sutherland? Let's go back a little, maybe several years back. No, let's go back 40 years to 1963. That's the year Larry came to visit this world we call home.

The Dennis Franklin Cromarty (DFC) High School in Thunder Bay looks to increase its enrollment for next academic year by about 150 students, says Matthew Angees, executive director of the Northern Nishnawbe Education Council (NNEC).

Michele Alderton is a 51-year-old museum curator and although she has a humble attitude towards her work, she is now considered one of Northern Ontario's most influential women.

Former community leaders from Mushkegowuk territory are part of a "First Nations Governance Coalition" in Ontario that has been organized to support the federal government's First Nations governance act.

Diane Baskatawang has faced a challenge each day since March 8. Since then, she has thought, prayed and worried about her 23-year-old son who is serving in the United States Army.

Elder Lucy Kakegamic of Keewaywin First Nation is now working at Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School (DFCHS) in Thunder Bay as the school elder.

A new Indian Affairs provincial territorial organization (PTO) policy is being met with some degree of annoyance by Treaty #3 Grand Chief Leon Jourdain.

One day after my parents separated, when I was five years old, my mom went out drinking and did not come back. Strangers arrived and took me and my siblings away to the first of a succession of foster homes in which I would be placed. In one of the homes I was sexually abused repeatedly by my foster mother.

It has been said the next worldwide conflict, or say the eruption of violence in the Middle East, will not be waged over racial tensions or a battle for oil but for fresh water.

The message was loud - it came with the sound of a beating drum marched through downtown Sioux Lookout - and it was clear: "Don't mess with the health of our children and don't mess with the health of our elders."

Two women from Poplar Hill First Nation say history is getting in the way of good government in their community.

My story begins on June 9, 1954. I was born on the Pic Heron First Nation. My aunt Mary, a community midwife, delivered me at home.

David Dacoine of the Vancouver hip-hop music collective Tribal Wizdom is using his brand of music as a way to raise social consciousness among youth.

The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation has awarded its largest Thunder Bay area grant to Oshki Pimache-O-Win and Dr. Bruce Minore, director of the Centre for Rural and Northern Health Research at Lakehead University.