A man was taken to hospital with a gunshot wound after he was shot near Dundas and Wellington streets on Tuesday.
By Isabella Figueroa Nogueira
“Indigenous Activism in the Midwest: Refusal, Resurgence and Resisting Settler Colonialism” explores how Dakota and Anishinaabe communities in Minnesota continue their relationships to the land and challenge dominant settler narratives about ownership, belonging and identity.
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The judge also imposed an indeterminate sentence.
Every year as summer ends, Indigenous Michiganders head out onto lakes and rivers to collect wild rice, a staple food with cultural significance to these communities. Read the full story […]
By Victoria Witke
New research shows Anishinaabe fire practices shaped today’s Great Lakes ecosystems. The region’s forests never existed and can’t continue to exist without people – or fire.
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Building on a longstanding partnership with Indigenous nations, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources is intensifying its commitment to sowing manoomin, a native aquatic rice and staple of the Anishinaabe […]
By Anna Barnes
The Detroit River serves as an important geographic feature, connecting lakes St. Clair and Erie and creating a natural border between the U.S. and Canada. Despite its physical prominence in Detroit, its rich cultural significance is lost among many community residents. Programs are underway to address that disconnect.
A Free Press reader agrees with Coun. Susan Stevenson in "promoting Ontario’s recovery-oriented systems of care rather than London’s harm-reduction model."
Winter conditions in the Great Lakes are getting much shorter — by about two weeks fewer each decade since 1995
By Mia Litzenberg
Climate change is creating new challenges for Great Lakes coastal communities. To tackle these hazards, the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority launched the Lake Ontario Coastal Resilience Pilot Project last summer. Over the next four years, the project aims to engage communities in developing a coastal resilience plan.
The post New Lake Ontario initiative tackles climate hazards alongside Lakes Huron and Superior projects first appeared on Great Lakes Echo.
By Isabella Figueroa Nogueira
A recent collaborative study, conducted through the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission, the College of Menominee Nation in Kenosha, Wisconsin, nine tribal entities and academic researchers to understand how climate change threatens the lake sturgeon and to develop adaptation strategies rooted in tribal knowledge.
Chief's Corner, which isn’t licensed by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario, is back in business.