Indigenous

Dana Goertzen’s four-year journey to win the National Aboriginal Hockey Championship brought her closer to her heritage and created lasting memories.

How does a late-diagnosed Autistic navigate professionalism in a world built for allistics?

Morley Daniels is no stranger to career changes.

He’s worked manual labour jobs outside, installed satellites in Alberta, and until a few years ago, led a gang in Winnipeg’s North End. Now, he builds bridges for Pier Solutions as Step Up construction’s lead hand.

What happens when the stories we’re told about where we come from are full of holes and half truths? In her memoir, “Children Like Us: A Métis Woman’s Memoir of Family, Identity and Walking Herself Home,” Brittany Penner joins forces with her past selves to search for the truth about where she really comes from and who she is.

“Abinojii Mikanah” – it’s the name that’s been in everyone’s mouths, but not because they’re learning to pronounce and appreciate it. From historical and linguistic perspectives, there are many reasons for place names to change and move forward as society does the same.

Like many other Indigenous people, I have a complicated relationship with the education system. Racism, underfunding, and the legacy of residential schools make it harder for Indigenous students to graduate from high school and post-secondary, but innovative solutions can change this. This is how one Indigenous person and one Indigenous community has navigated the education system through three decades.

As an Indigenous woman, I often feel caught between two worlds. Intergenerational trauma, displacement, and my ongoing struggle for self-acceptance have lasting effects in a society that doesn’t fully accept me.

Every year there are headlines about Manitoba First Nation communities evacuating from natural disasters. For communities, the story continues long after the news cycle has moved on.

When life feels chaotic, we take a step back to see the full picture. We do the same to understand chaos on our planet — but the full picture has layers woven together by the Earth’s most ferocious force: the wind.

In the family tree, trauma’s roots run deep. After losing a family member to addiction, one young woman confronts the pain of her past and reconnects to her Indigenous identity.

Learning about where you come from is an important part of figuring out where you belong. But when I began unearthing the buried Métis roots of my family tree, inherited feelings of shame and guilt were also brought to the surface.

Beadwork for these three Métis artists is more than art — it connects them to their culture, identity, and ancestors.