By Vanessa Thomas In order to make room for their expansion in Canada, Europeans killed natives, like the Micmac and Beothuks, who they saw as impediments to their expansion in places like Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. But in this century, aboriginals do not live in fear of being hunted, killed and scalped for 10 pounds […]

By Vanessa Thomas A musky scent is released into the halls of Jorgenson Hall as Mark Bell burns traditional sweet grass in room 345A, the office of the Aboriginal Student Circle (ASC). Weekly meetings are home to a purification ritual called smudging, meant to cleanse the mind, body and spirit. Besides being a place to […]