Indigenous history Archives

Canada’s Indigenous Veterans

Written on November 13, 2020. Posted in News.

Zoogipon Ikwe didn’t know her great-grandfather served in the First World War until she began researching her own genealogy. “I put a post up about him on a website and this lady from Turtle Mountain contacted me and said ‘hey, we’ve been looking for this guy, he disappeared off our register. We...

‘[I]t’s inspiring to think about the leadership Indigenous students have shown on campus’

Written on November 13, 2020. Posted in News.

Following the racist incidents throughout the past year at Queen’s, Four Directions Indigenous Student Centre is installing a permanent display of Indigenous flags in front of the centre. The permanent installment of flags will be hung in front of both Four Directions buildings on two flagpoles, with...

History of Katarokwi

Written on November 13, 2020. Posted in News.

This territory was originally Ojibwe territory way back before anybody came and settled here. The Mohawks were in northern New York state, and then this was Ojibwe territory. It was a territory where we would come and hunt and leave again. It wasn’t really like a territory that we occupied all the...

Removing Indigenous history from Canadian curriculum is racist

Written on November 3, 2020. Posted in Editorials.

Recent proposals obtained by CBC suggest cutting references to residential schools and equity in Alberta’s school curriculums. This not only reflects the unjust pushing of a political agenda but is a disservice to children. Like it or not, residential schools and other violence against Indigenous...

Olivia Gilbertson explores her roots

Written on July 31, 2017. Posted in Arts.

Olivia Gilbertson has a mission: to explore her connection with her newly found Indigenous ancestry through painting, sculpture and textile works. Going into her final year of pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Art this coming Fall, Gilbertson, ArtSci `18, admits that she only began to bring together art...

The duality of Peter E. Jones

Written on September 30, 2016. Posted in Features.

It’s been a century and a half since The Indian Medicine-Man thesis was written, by Student No. 596. It’s not known when it was lost, but sometime between 1866 and now, it disappeared. It’s author, Dr. Peter Edmund Jones was the first Indigenous physician — in the sense of a licensed doctor...

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Canada’s Indigenous Veterans

‘[I]t’s inspiring to think about the leadership Indigenous students have shown on campus’

History of Katarokwi

Removing Indigenous history from Canadian curriculum is racist

Olivia Gilbertson explores her roots

The duality of Peter E. Jones

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