Project of Heart is an award-winning educational project designed for school, community, multi-cultural or faith-based groups to understand the history of Indian residential schools and to build respectful relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. The six-step process takes learners through an educational experience of learning the history, the impacts, and the contemporary manifestations of the residential school experience.
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Algonquin College: The Mamidosewin Centre
The Mamidosewin Centre is an Ottawa-based service administered through Algonquin College. The aim of the center is to “create a welcoming space for Aboriginal students on campus, as well as offer an opportunity for students, staff and faculty to learn more about Aboriginal culture.”
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Beat Nation
The Beat Nation –Hip Hop as Indigenous Culture is a project, funded through Heritage Canada’s Gateway Fund. The website focuses on the development of hip-hop within communities of Indigenous youth. Continue reading “Beat Nation”
Two Row Times
The Two Row Times is an Indigenous newspaper that aims to reach out to Aboriginal communities across Canada and the United States. Though the publications have articles written for or about other Indigenous nations, the Two Row Times is primarily for Haudenosaunee community members. It is currently distributed in every reserve in Ontario, as well as many non-Native communities as well.
Turtle Island News
Turtle Island News is Canada’s only national Native weekly newspaper, published every week at the Grand River Territory of the Six Nations in southern Ontario. It is a politically independent newspaper that is wholly owned and operated by Linda Powless, who had a lot of experience working in mainstream media from the CBC to national newspapers. The publication now has a circulation of about 20,000 newspapers weekly, and is “Canada’s most respected national native weekly newspaper with a growing national and international readership.”
Aboriginal Multi-Media Society (AMMSA)
The Aboriginal Multi-Media Society is an Aboriginal communications society dedicated to serving the needs of Aboriginal people throughout Canada. Incorporated in 1983 under the Alberta Societies Act, AMMSA has been able to reach out and maintain Indigenous audiences like few others societies have.
CBC News – Indigenous
CBC News (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) is a national public radio and television broadcaster in Canada. CBC Indigenous focuses on the latest news and current affairs from Indigenous communities across Canada. The news covers a variety of topics, including current issues and events in Indigenous communities.
Indian Country News
Indian Country Communications is an independent, Aboriginal owned and reserve-based television and news website based in Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe Reservation in Northern Wisconsin. Although it is based in the United States, its location allows for the sharing of Indigenous news from both the United States and Canada.
Nunatsiaqonline.ca
Nunatsiaq News is based in Iqaluit and it is one of the most highly read newspapers in Nunavut and other parts of Northern Canada. Though Nunatsiaq News was once only a newspaper, a website for the paper has been created so that the events, issues, and editorials mentioned in their newspaper can be accessed in an online format as well. In addition to promoting Indigenous news, the newspaper and the website provide links to many support lines, many oriented towards Inuit and other northern youth.