Cuthand, Doug

Discusses the inequity of federal funding to First Nations Child and Family Services Program in comparison to provincial agencies and off reserve child welfare programs.

Argues that poverty plays a huge role in the rising number of AIDS cases within the Saskatchewan Aboriginal community.

Presents an overview of individual vs collective rights as they pertain to First Nations.

Hurricane Stan (2005), which affected mostly poor Indians and left hundreds dead and missing, occurred between two other natural disasters and virtually went unnoticed and poorly reported on.

Advocates that the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations should support the gun registration law.

Discusses the difficulties regarding jurisdictional responsibility for the health care epidemics facing Aboriginal Peoples.

Argues that chiefs should be leaders and not administrators, further arguing that by governments turning things over for bands to deal with, chiefs become like Indian agents.

Discusses Canadian government's actions and policies towards First Nations in the aftermath of the Northwest Resistance.

Humorous commentary on First Nation politics and customs.

Argues that the September 2004 announcement increasing funding to Aboriginal health care must be accompanied by healthy diets and exercise.

Discusses the significance of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's long-awaited apology to residential school survivors.

Comments on the summer of 1990, CBC documentary Indian Summer, The Oka Crisis about the land defence by Mohawks of Kanehsatake against police and military powers.

Describes Black History month and suggests a need for a similiar honor to acknowledge the contributions made by the First Nations and Métis people.

Comments on community contributions by Gino Odjick, a hockey player from Maniwaki, Quebec, Billy Two Rivers, a former wrestler from Kahnawake, and Darren Zack, a fastball pitcher from Garden River First Nation.

Comments on the differences in the media's treatment of Caucasian and Aboriginal criminal victims.

Examines the significance of horses in First Nations' culture, spirituality, and hunting success.

Examines recent First Nations business ventures in Saskatchewan.

Discusses how Bill C-21 demonstrates the differences between First Nations and the federal Conservative government. It also explores group rights as opposed to individual rights.

Encounters with elitism and not in my back yard (NIMBY) attitudes, coming from Christian schools in Saskatchewan.

Describes a Métis family who lost two sons while serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II.

Analyzes the relative absence of protests of civil disobedience in Canada compared to the United States, arguing that Canadian culture leans more to negotiation and referendums rather than violence.

Commentary on the power struggle between staff and the Board at the First Nations University of Canada (FNUC) located in Saskatchewan.

Columnist comments on the political interference by the Board of Governors, consisting mostly of chiefs, in the affairs of the FNUC.

Examines the resignation of the chairperson on the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Speculation on the economic and political ramifications of a rumoured move by all or part of the Federal Department of Indian Affairs.