And the Juno for Best Aboriginal Album of the Year goes to … Murray Porter. The Turtle Clan Mowhawk’s jazz pianist’s unique mix of sounds on Songs Lived & Life Played got him the top spot in the aboriginal category…
April 2, 2012
Juno Award to Mohawk Blues Pianist Murray Porter
Actress Megan Mullally Fell in Love With Her Husband After He Navigated ‘Like an Indian’
Actress Megan Mullally fell in love with her hubby Nick Offerman after he heroically paddled their pontoon back to shore by dark of night, she told talk-show host David Letterman. The actress, who stars on Fox’s Breaking In, recounted the…
March 28, 2012
Tsunami Ghost Ship Spotted off Haida Gwaii Territory
A fishing vessel swept out to sea off Japan in last year’s post-earthquake tsunami has been spotted about 150 nautical miles off of the islands making up Haida Gwaii territory in British Columbia. This “ghost ship” heralds an earlier-than-anticipated arrival…
March 25, 2012
See the Fantastic Vochol, a Huichol-Beaded Volkswagen
The old Volkswagen Beetle is iconic in Mexico, its little dome ubiquitous in thousands of vehicles zipping around major cities and chugging along country roads. The Huichol Indians of Nayarit and Jalisco states are known for their intricate beadwork. What…
March 22, 2012
Fitness Takes Hold in Aboriginal Country With Just Move It—Canada
Aboriginals in Canada have joined their American Indian and Alaska Native cousins and are learning to shake their booty, traditionally speaking. The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) and Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) joined with well known fitness advocates on March…
March 20, 2012
Equinox Phenomena in Action: Video
Hooray! It’s spring! On this day, March 20, 2012, the day and night are almost equally long as the sun passes over the equator in what’s known as the vernal equinox. The ancient Pueblo of Chaco Canyon were proficient in…
March 19, 2012
Frolicking, Preying Animals Populate Discovery’s ‘Frozen Planet’
The cornucopia of images and lush cinematography, a mix of time-lapse photography and live action, that is Frozen Planet has finally arrived on our side of the Pond. This collaboration between the Discovery Channel and the BBC flashes back and…
March 18, 2012
Keeping Inuit Students Engaged: School Programs Incorporate Inuktitut, Day Care
Earlier this week we brought you Fiona Walton, a professor of education at Prince Edward Island University and recent winner of a 2012 3M National Teaching Fellowship, a prize bestowed annually by the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher…
March 17, 2012
From the Badlands to Alcatraz Screens Wednesday in Los Angeles
In 2003, two men from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Richard Iron Cloud and Armando Black Bear, came to San Francisco and became the first Lakota men to complete the swim from Alcatraz Island. They served as the inspiration for…
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