Olympians to Know: Damien Hooper by Alex

At the beginning of the olympics, a tweet made the rounds both on Twitter and on Tumblr that neatly dissected Britain's brutal history of colonization and the irony of so many of those colonized nations coming back to the motherland to compete:

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Are You Listening To 'A Tribe Called Red' Yet? by Alex Snider

You should definitely be listening to A Tribe Called Red. They are Bear Witness, DeeJay Shub and DeeJay NDN, three Aboriginal dudes from Ottawa. Their sound is dubstep meets club meets Pow Wow drumming and singing meets hip-hop with even a little dancehall thrown in to create their signature brand of "Pow Wow Step". And their videos are awesome and full of subversive cleverness. And they've remixed Diplo! And they've got a show in Toronto on Friday!

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The Moral Thanksgiving Post: Things to Keep in Mind for Non-Aboriginal People by Alex Snider

As I'm celebrating Thanksgiving this weekend in Canada, here are some things that I'm thinking about (rather things that I think about everyday but seem particularly pertinent on Thanksgiving given the historical context):

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Friday Fiction: Tansi, Aanii, Ainngai, Tawnshi, Sekoh, Kwé Kwé! by Alex Snider

Eden Robinson

That is, hello in Cree, Anishinaabek (Ojibwa), Inukitut (Inuit), Michif (Métis), Kanien'gehaga (Mohawk), and Haudenosaunee (Iroquois)! You learn something new everyday! Or maybe six new things everyday! Or maybe you knew all those already in which case, did you know that when I do wind-mill stretches with my arms, my upper lip twitches? See, you do learn something new everyday!

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