First Nations Newspapers

There are many fine newspapers published by first nations companies and organizations. This list of web links offers a small selection of what is available. Click on the links to view the web pages. In most cases some or all of the issues of the paper are available to readers on the site. If not you can always subscribe!!

First Perspective - The First Perspective (National News) and The Drum (Manitoba & North West Ontario News) are published together every three weeks by Taiga Communications Inc. at Peguis First Nation, Peguis, Manitoba. Click on the link below to go to the Taiga site.

http://www.firstperspective.ca/

Urban NDN - at the moment this excellent periodical is a monthly but it is well worth a look. Publisher Colleen Simard has created a publication that is passionate and positive about indigenous people and what they have to offer.

http://withoutreserve.typepad.com/urban_ndn/

Nunatsiaq News is an English-Inuktitut weekly newspaper that has served the people of [Nunavut] and the Nunavik region of Arctic Quebec since 1973. A wonderful service on this web site is an archive of past issues going back to 1995 which can be searched. Put in a search phrase - Rankin Inlet for example - and get dozens of articles that mention that place.

http://www.nunatsiaq.com/

Native American Times provides a daily digest of news coverage that is specifically tailored to the Native American perspective with the understanding of special issues, such as as sovereign rights, civil rights and government-to-government relationships with the federal government.

http://nativetimes.com/

The Aboriginal Multi-Media Society is an independent Aboriginal communications organization committed to facilitating the exchange of information reflecting Aboriginal culture to a growing and diverse audience. The papers included in this site include Windspeaker, Alberta Sweetgrass and Saskatchewan Sage and parts of these papers are available to be read on line. There are parts of the site that have not been updated for some time.

http://www.ammsa.com/ammsa.html