May 01, 2025

The Strawberry Ceremony: Rites of Passage by Jillian Kerr Traditionally, the strawberry ceremony is for girls after their first menstrual cycle. However, today it is offered to folks who identify as two spirit and to those who didn’t have the opportunity to participate as...

April 03, 2025

by Esther Anne, Policy Associate II, Catherine Cutler Institute, University of Southern Maine and REACH volunteer and Amanda Hollander, Training Specialist, Office of Child and Family Services State of Maine, and REACH volunteer.   Since April is Child Abuse Prevention Month and since Wabanaki...

February 06, 2025

by William Eric Altvater   Some First Nation Chiefs are victims of shenanigans, not unlike the swindle behind the purchase of Manhattan. The federal government needs the support of Indigenous peoples to expand nuclear power generation capacity in Canada.  For millennia, the cornerstones of...