The Indigenous Beat

Just one little word said it all. The newspaper report about some issues troubling members of the public concerning the pending Algonquin Land Claim depicted the sheer immensity of the proposed agreement.

There’s a fairly large consensus out there that cows are stupid. This is the normal reaction of anyone who has tried to use a car horn to get the attention of a group of them blocking a roadway.

First Nations know they have a good idea when the Harper government doesn’t want anything to do with it.

They say that, following the Battle of the Little Bighorn, women located George Armstrong Custer’s body and pierced his eardrums with sewing needles.

Probably the most important outcome of the Idle No More movement has been to pique the curiosity of Canadians about exactly what it is that is making the Natives so restless.

By Maurice Switzer Spring is a time when I usually find myself pondering life’s big questions.

For the past nine years Stephen Harper has been writing a book about the history of hockey in Canada.

That great editorial writer in the sky -- the Sun Media guru whose opinions are regurgitated verbatim every day in several dozen newspapers across Canada -- including our own North Bay Nugget -- has decreed that the answer to dealing with First Natio

A wise man once said that those who don’t learn from their past are doomed to repeat it. That sentiment perfectly fits the Indigenous concept of time as a moving wheel, rather than a straight line.

JOYCE ATCHESON Born Aug. 7, 1947, Port Arthur, Ontario. Died Nov. 22, 2012, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Joyce Atcheson had a laughing voice.