by Oscar Baker | Apr 11, 2018
I’m at my mothers wake. My heart still feels shattered. I’m a shell of myself with no time to mourn, I’m still trying to make sure all the guests are taken care of. I have to make sure my elders don’t slip on the icy driveway and steps. My sogi Vina (aunt) says a...
by Oscar Baker | Mar 13, 2018
Angee Acquin dreams one day of being a little old woman with traditional regalia and shawls hanging over head in her tent, her grandchildren running around and laughing in her home in St. Mary’s. But the 41-year-old youth support worker now worries that may not be the...
by Oscar Baker | Mar 13, 2018
People under oppression should be kind to one another because any form of oppression bends the soul. I hate seeing people use my family’s pain as stories to say Canada isn’t as oppressive to Indigenous people as the United States is to the Black population. My mother...
by Oscar Baker | Feb 14, 2018
Eleven-year-old Kendra Levi-Paul is asking the Government of New Brunswick to have a heart and fully enact Jordan’s Principle to guarantee First Nations children equal access to education, health care and social services in Canada. Standing on the steps of the...
by Oscar Baker | Feb 2, 2018
A chair made of nails sits in the room, inviting children to have a seat. It’s a science experiment, one of many at Science East in Fredericton and on this particular day the grades three through five students from Chief Harold Sappier Memorial Elementary...
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