Music

Rapper Tall Paul Represents His Culture

Stephanie Woodard

December 14, 2011

In “Prayers in a Song,” rapper Tall Paul starts out singing in English, then shifts to the language of his Leech Lake Ojibwe ancestors, Anishinaabe...

Sunday Fun at NMAI: Mohawk Cello and Poetry

ICTMN Staff

December 09, 2011

'Tis the time of year to be out in the shopping trenches, and what better way to take a break of a Sunday than to stop by the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) for "an ...

Vincent Schilling

The Voices of Our Native Youth Are Talking, But Are We Listening?

I have been writing as a correspondent for Indian Country Today Media Network for quite a few years and I was honored, to say the least, when ICTMN’s Opinion/Editorial editor Ray Cook asked if I would like to contrib...

December 03, 2011

Manito Ahbee Festival Churns Toward Aboriginal People's Choice Music Awards

Vincent Schilling

November 03, 2011

Singers Ali Fontaine, Gabriel Ayala and other stars are on hand in Manitoba this week for the sixth annual Manito Ahbee Festival, the lead-up to the Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music...

First Peoples' Festival Featured Indigenous Culture in a Cityscape

Gale Courey Toensing

August 18, 2010

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...

Political Party! Celebrating UNDRIP and Indigenous Culture in Montreal

Gale Courey Toensing

September 13, 2011

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...