Five years ago today, on September 13, 2007, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) was ratified ...
MONTREAL—The Montreal First Peoples’ Festival—the city’s signature celebration of indigenous peoples’ art, history and cultures—took place in a brand new outdoor festival space tha...
MONTREAL—Drumbeats echoed, dancing filled the Place des Festivals, and children frolicked in the fountains...
It’s time! “A peaceful, joyous cultural event, drumming to the earth's heartbeat,” Montreal First Peoples’ Festival organizers said in their inaugural media release...
Gale Courey Toensing
October 12, 2011
It is a novel idea: Gather in a library a group of individuals who represent stereotypes where people can “borrow” and “read” them instead of books...
There was a whole lotta booty-shakin' goin' on at the Montreal First People's Festival in early August during a parade celebrating the first year of Canada's adoption of the United...
For more than two hours on a sunny summer morning in early August, hundreds of young men and women, wearing elaborate headdresses, intricately beaded, ribboned and appliquéd regali...
MONTREAL—A lost Navajo sheepdog and a Maori gang member who decides to take a day off would not on the surface of things seem to have much in common...
A lost Navajo sheepdog. An Amazonian Tribe, 15 years later. A Tlinlit entrepreneur...
Gale Courey Toensing
July 28, 2011
Montreal is North America’s festival city during the summer, and one of the most exciting is the First Peoples’ Festival...

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