by Muria Myhre As a shop owner it is extremely important to know just what an impact your merchandise and advice have on your customers. What you tell a customer that a product does is often repeated to several of that customer’s friends and family. I know that a lot of times we are approached...
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HAPPY NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH, aka The Appropriation Season
by E.M. Lunsford Wait, you didn’t know it was Native American Heritage month? You’re not alone! And until recently, you’d never have known it by the White House declarations. Native American Heritage Month was begun in 1990 by President George H. W. Bush. Until then it varied from a day to a week long in...
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11 Indigenous Canadian Children’s Books To Read To Your Children
by Margaret Kingsbury In honor of Canadian History Week (Nov. 18-24) and Native American Heritage Month (November), we’ve gathered these eleven children’s books by Indigenous creatures to celebrate the rich cultures of Indigneous persons from Canada. While some of these children’s books tell stories from the past, others place Indigenous peoples in contemporary times. It’s...
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Mama Took A Gun To Work
It was a half-day for me. The old man had to go to the firehouse, and since the last time He let me come there and we had to have a conversation about my access to the fire pole, it wound up better if I went to work with Rosalita. Well, that, and when Fireman...
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Dear Straight People: Sex Isn’t Everything — What NOT to Say to Your Ace Friends
by Laila Winters It’s been several years since I emerged from the proverbial closet, first as bisexual and then as a full-fledged lesbian (identity is a confusing thing). From the very beginning of my journey into flannel and combat boots, I was fortunate to have champions in my corner, especially after a friend accidentally outed...
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Does Social Media Protect Predators?
By E.M. Lunsford *names have been changed as there is now an active criminal investigation. Well, I’m suspended on Twitter again. Did I do it? Yes, I did. What did I do? I was mean/abusive/harassing someone. Who? A man who was endlessly harassing another Native American woman. I admit it it. I am mean. I...
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Friday’s Forgotten Books: Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
Moon of the Crusted Snow introduces us to an Anishinaabe community in northern Ontario, where some of the Indigenous residents still hunt and fish and hold to the ways of their people. Others have lapsed into complacency, coddled by the creature comforts they’ve become accustomed to. The first sign that anything is wrong is when...
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A Grassroots Effort to Bring Perma Red to the Television Screen
by Chris La Tray “Native women need to tell their own stories. Now is the time for those stories to rise. Perma Red is only the beginning.” —Debra Magpie Earling Debra Magpie Earling, a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, is a writer and professor at the University of Montana. She published her...
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20 Canadian Women Writers Who #MakeAnImpact
This year’s theme for Canadian Women’s History Month is #MakeAnImpact. The works and lives of these twenty women writers show how women continue to shape and make an impact in Canada’s and the world’s literary scene. These books span genres from fantasy to contemporary to memoir. Some of these authors have only one or two...
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Barbara Winkes on the Critical Life Events that Shaped Her and Her Latest Release and Work in Progress
Sandra Ruttan: What’s your new book/work in progress about? Barbara Winkes: I have just introduced the all new covers for my Carpenter/Harding series. The next release will be #9, Implications, in which the protagonists Jordan Carpenter and Ellie Harding have to solve a murder that happened a long time ago. At the moment I’m writing...