• February 28

  Sons of Membertou – Mi’kmaw Gathering Song

  

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  The Sons of Membertou bookended the 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festival’s Indigenous Voices of the Americas program,...

  The Sons of Membertou bookended the 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festival’s Indigenous Voices of the Americas program, with performances in the opening ceremony as well as the final featured concert in the National Museum of the American Indian’s Potomac Atrium. Austin Christmas, J.R. Isadore, John MacEwan, and Graham Marshall represented the Mi’kmaw musical group at the Festival, joined by dancer Maisyn Sock. It was especially...

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• May 7

  “Hey, You Kids, Get on Our Lawn!” Your Invitation to a Totally Teen Summer

  

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  “You were on Connor’s Hottest Girls at School list.” “What about you?” “Actually, I was on...

  “You were on Connor’s Hottest Girls at School list.” “What about you?” “Actually, I was on both—his and Craig’s.” “Hope you told them the whole thing’s messed up.” Eva hadn’t. She wanted to be seen as “one of the boys.” Rachel, my research partner, and I wrote this exchange on one side of a brick. We wrote “Pick-Me Girls” on the other side. Then...

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• April 15

  Ayisha Knight-Shaw Supports Deaf Access in a Native Space

  

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  Ayisha Knight-Shaw chuckled when I asked how she found herself working in accessibility. “I’ve always been...

  Ayisha Knight-Shaw chuckled when I asked how she found herself working in accessibility. “I’ve always been in the field of accessibility, to be honest!” she signed. We sat face to face, swathed in the amber light filtering through the branches above us, and boxed in by the tents of the Indigenous Voices of the Americas program at the 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Sitting next...

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• April 9

  Dairy tariffs—Pascal Thériault weighs in

  

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  US President Donald Trump says Canada has been imposing sky-high tariffs on imported American dairy products. Agronomist...

  US President Donald Trump says Canada has been imposing sky-high tariffs on imported American dairy products. Agronomist and economist Pascal Thériault, Director of the Farm Management and Technology Program at McGill, spoke to CBC and Global News to give key context on this issue in their reporting:Published: 9 April 2025

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