Meadowlarks released in 2025 set in Canada
"Four siblings, torn apart by the Sixties Scoop, reunite for one week."
Heartbreaking but important to watch.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35537918
(1/6)
#canadianhistory #firstnation #movie #greatmovie #cree #Wetsuweten
They Are Dying. And #Canada Is Watching.
#Mikisew #Cree’s own health study confirms what the community has always known: the #OilSands are killing them. If governments and industry don’t act, they say they will shut it all down.
by Brandi Morin
Apr 13, 2026
Excerpt: "The findings confirmed what this community has carried in their grief, in their graveyards, for generations: cancer rates in Fort Chipewyan are at least 25 percent higher than the rest of Alberta. Since 1993, there have been 149 documented cases — and that number, Tuccaro says, is a gross underestimate. People who leave the community for treatment are no longer counted in local statistics. Factor those in, and the real number for Mikisew Cree members alone, he estimates, is closer to 250 to 300."
#CanadaPol #FortChipewyan #MikisewCreeFirstNation #NativeAmericanNews #TarSands #BigOil #FirstNations #EnvironmentalRacism
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"Award-winning Cree composer and cellist Cris Derksen, who had strong ties to Manitoba’s arts community, has died following a car crash in northern Alberta. They were 45.
Derksen, originally from Treaty 8 territory in Alberta, composed the music for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s 2024 production of Cameron Fraser-Moore’s ballet Tel: Wild Man of the Woods. According to reports, the crash occurred while Derksen and their wife, singer Rebecca Benson, were travelling home from Derksen’s father’s funeral. Benson was reportedly left in critical condition in hospital."
Derkson also founded the Indigenous Classical Gathering at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, served as artistic advisor for the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, and chaired the equity committee for Orchestras Canada.
Some fab free book scores.
Calling My Spirit Back by Elaine Alec
Elaine Alec, is a #Syilx & #Secwepemc author, based in Kamloops, BC.
https://www.elainealec.com/books
Whose Land Is It Anyway? A Manual for Decolonization provides a variety of Indigenous perspectives on the history of colonialism, current Indigenous activism and resistance, and outlines the path forward to reconciliation.
Originally released as a free e-book, the audio version features renowned Indigenous writers Taiaiake Alfred, Glen Coulthard, Russell Diabo, Beverly Jacobs, Melina Laboucan-Massimo, Kanahus Manuel, Jeffrey McNeil-Seymour, Pamela Palmater, Shiri Pasternak, Nicole Schabus, Senator Murray Sinclair, and Sharon Venne. The late Arthur Manuel’s writings are read by his grandson, Mahekan Anderson. FPSE has been proud to partner with Nuxalk Radio to produce the audio version of this essential work.
https://fpse.ca/resources/whose-land-is-it-anyway/
My Indian Summer by Joseph Kakwinokanasum
A novel about survival, reconciliation and identity set during the summer of 1979.
https://www.strongnations.com/store/10103/my-indian-summer
Joseph Kakwinokanasum is a member of James Smith #Cree Nation. Kakwinokanasum's work has been published in the 2022 anthology Resonance: Essays on the Craft and Life of Writing, the Humber Literary Journal and Emerge.
Kakwinokanasum was shortlisted for the 2020 CBC Nonfiction Prize.
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, by Michael Ondaatje, won the 1970 Governor General's Literary Award. Ondaatje's hauntingly disturbing evocation of the life and death of the 19th-century American outlaw placed him in the forefront of the new generation of Canadian poets emerging in the 1970s. The Collected Works commences with a list of 20 men killed by Billy the Kid and a foreshadowing of his own death. Using a highly visual, visceral poetic style featuring violent surreal images of madness and men killed in gun fights, shifts in time and perspective, and impressionistic fragments of Billy's existence, Ondaatje traces his capture, escape and eventual death at the hands of Pat Garrett, the "ideal assassin." Following the publication of The Collected Works by House of Anansi in 1970, a dozen major productions of a stage adaptation were held across Canada.(from The Canadian Encyclopedia)
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/the-collected-works-of-billy-the-kid
#books #bookstodon #ReadMoreBooks #Decolonization #Booklovers #Paperbacks #Literarature #DecolonialReading #DecolonizeYourMind #FreeBooks
“Craig is a tremendous coach and an even better person. This decision is more reflective of an organizational shift and an opportunity for a fresh start than it is an evaluation of Craig.”
#Indigenous #Cree #sports #hockey #NHL #Toronto
https://www.windspeaker.com/news/sports/maple-leafs-fire-berube
Battle of Frenchman’s Butte (May 28, 1885)
On May 28, Cree warriors dug in at Frenchman’s Butte resisted an attack by Middleton’s Alberta Field Force in northern Saskatchewan. Although government forces withdrew, it had little strategic effect after Batoche’s fall. 🇨🇦 #NorthWestRebellion #FrenchmansButte #Cree #Canada #Colonization
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