#365Indigenous Archives

#365 Indigenous: Tanya Tagaq

Digital Illustration of Tanya Tagaq. Text reads "Tanya Tagaq #365 Indigneous

For RAVEN’s #365 Indigenous Series, Meet Tanya Tagaq: Inuk throat singer, composer, visual artist, advocate, writer and public speaker.

#365 Indigenous: DJ O Show

For RAVEN’s #365 Indigenous Series, Meet DJ O Show: Afro-Indigenous DJ, speaker, artist, leader and youth mentor.

#365 Indigenous: Buffy Sainte-Marie

digital illustration of Buffy-Sainte Marie. With text that reads "Buffy Sainte-Marie. #365 Indigneous"

In RAVEN’s #365 Indigenous series, meet Buffy Sainte-Marie: Cree singer-songwriter, activist, and icon.

#365 Indigenous: Julie Flett

In RAVEN’s #365 Indigenous series, meet Cree-Métis illustrator and author, Julie Flett.

#365 Indigenous: John Velten

In RAVEN’s #365 Indigenous series, meet John Velten: multi-disciplinary artist and creator, who is re-storying culture through his art.

#365 Indigenous: Louis Riel doesn’t need exoneration. Canada does.

In 2020, Canada was seriously considering pardoning Louis Riel – just in time for the 135th anniversary of his killing. But Métis leaders are resisting the drive.

#365 Indigenous : Freda Huson, A Stronghold for her People

Freda Huson was awarded the “Right Livelihood” award — known as the alternative Nobel — “For her fearless dedication to reclaiming her people’s culture and defending their land against disastrous pipeline projects.” Freda Huson is a chief (Dzeke ze’) from the Wet’suwet’en people in Canada who has been a leading advocate for Indigenous communities reconnecting with their…

#365 Indigenous: Honouring Lee Maracle (1950-2021)

Lee Maracle, a giant of Indigenous scholarship, poet and writer, mentor, activist, and Stó:lō matriarch, is dead at 71. Writing in the Globe and Mail, Marsha Lederman says that “legendary Indigenous storyteller Lee Maracle was a powerful writer – poet, novelist, essayist. She was also a fierce activist with an indomitable presence. If you spent…

#365 Indigenous: Pam Palmater

Dr. Pamela D. Palmater is a Mi’kmaw citizen and member of the Eel River Bar First Nation in northern New Brunswick. A practicing lawyer for decades, Palmater also holds the Chair in Indigenous Governance at Ryerson University. A formidable scholar, she has her Masters and Doctorate in law from Dalhousie University Law School, where she…