HOW DID OUR HOMELAND BECOME SOMEONE ELSE’S COUNTRY??? WITH APOLOGIES TO THE ANCESTORS
The Saint John River Valley that our people have always known as the Wulustuk River Valley is our homeland and has been so for thousands and thousands of generations. At the time of contact our Ancestors referred to it as Ski-gin-ee-weekog or “our Indian Homeland”. Our people were...
Hidden history comes to light
For over 100 years Canada’s Indian, Metis and Inuit children were taken from their families and sent to institutional settings called residential schools, sometimes forcibly, sometimes under threat of incarceration if parents did not cooperate and always with the deception that what was being done was in the best...
Neqotuk Health Center
The Neqotuk Health Center at Tobique First Nation provides a holistic healing environment for all patients who visit the clinic. By embracing and displaying community cultural aspects, this health center celebrates Aboriginal art, history and traditions. The spiritual aspects of patients’ health issues are addressed along with the physical....
Pussy-Willow
Pussy-Willow Where the south sun shines And starts the melt And plays its warming rays And bonny breezes billow, Where tufts of grass are greening And insects strive to stir An early fly will stretch and lie On a neat and natural pillow, Where I am pleasantly reminded Why’th...
WE’RE ALL DUNROAMIN’
GREAT SCOT! One very disturbing condition that we see all too frequently is that in which an outdoor dog suffers from an embedded collar. This situation has many upsetting implications. They include the fact that the collar was placed on the dog when he was much smaller and he...
Operation Desert Dog Re-Cap
Hi, my name is Martin, or as my current foster family calls me, Valentine. Guess when they brought me home? I’m not sure if I should tell everyone my real name or not. Maybe I’ll just keep them guessing. Besides, they can call me anything they want – I...
New Brunswick Green Party
“It’s all about the next generation” and “Getting to a sustainable future” are phrases which basically define the corner stone on which the New Brunswick Green Party is built. It doesn’t take long to discover that there are no easy or quick fixes to decades of various Government decisions...
“Hey man…what’s happening?”
The Old Man in the Hat Gomer Pyle, a 1960’s television sitcom character, favourite opening line was “Surprise, Surprise, Surprise”. Well, NB Liquor has recently reported that profits are down. That’s too bad. Maybe we are finally listening to the folks at the Department of Health and are living...
Local Family Creates Crafts Together Cellar Dweller Crafts
Doug and Sheila McKinley, along with their son Logan and daughter Cheyanne, operate Cellar Dweller Crafts out of their home in Rowena. Doug makes a wide variety of wood crafts, shelves and wooden ornaments and takes custom orders. Sheila, who is the Art Instructor at Southern Victoria High School,...
Hilery Hargrove Opens New Law Office in Plaster Rock
Barrister Hilery Hargrove has opened a law office in the Village of Plaster Rock. With his main office still located in Bristol, he will be open for practice two days a week in Plaster Rock. Hilery’s mother Polly Giberson was born in Weaver. She grew up on the...