Jolene Banning is an Anishinaabe-kwe writer, storyteller, and activist. She has spent over a decade working at CBC Radio in Thunder Bay, establishing a weekly entertainment column. Her writing explores Anishinaabe resilience and culture, and how these intersect with colonialism in northwestern Ontario. She lives on her traditional territory of Fort William First Nation.
They go by different names like the waagijiipizin or moss bag, the tikinagan or the cradleboard. They are all baby carriers that the Anishinaabe have...
THUNDER BAY—Every Mother’s Day for the last four years, Olivia Pelletier celebrates by grabbing a garbage bag and hiking Anemki Wajiw (also known as Mount...