Since 2022 a growing number of Indigenous trading posts and cannabis shops have opened up on traditional Indigenous territories off-reserve. Anishinaabe, Algonquin, Chippewa, Mohawk, Mississauga, Mi’kmaq, and Oneida entrepreneurs have all opened up shops off reserve on their traditional territory. At 4pm on Sunday, July 9th, 2023 join us for…
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PRESS RELEASE – NEWSWIRE.CA – MAY 9 2023 OTTAWA, ON, May 9, 2023 /CNW/ – Medicine Wheel Natural Healing became the first Anishinaabe sovereign cannabis dispensary in Canada when it opened its doors in Alderville First Nation in 2017. Now, with the support of former National Chief Delbert Riley, Medicine Wheel Natural Healing has opened a new location…
The Rowan Proclamation of 1854 builds on the Royal Proclamation of 1763, and defends and protects Indigenous property and business on unceded Indian lands. On November 24th, 2022 join 420 North, Flint and Flower, and media sponsors Dispensing Freedom and Real People’s Media to discuss attempts by Indian Act Band…
www.DispensingFreedom.com is hosting a Zoom meeting on Thursday Sept 8th, (6pm in the Maritimes, 5pm in Ontario, 3pm in Alberta, and 2pm in BC time) to hear from spokespeople from the Burnin Grass dispensary in Samson First Nation and to get reactions from others on the call about what happened…
From Real Peoples Media June 13, 2022 On June 3, 2022, Gene Hill visited the 1701 Iroquois Trading Post on Kingston Rd, in Scarborough Ontario. The 1701 Iroquois Trading Post is a sovereign Indigenous store retailing cannabis, tobacco, fish and other Indigenous products. Uncle Gene met with Ken Hughes, Kanenhariyo…
Credit Medicine Wheel, Tyendinaga Mohawk War Chief Kanenhariyo, and Hereditary Crane Clan Chief Delbert Riley on Monday, April 4th at 7pm.
Former National Chief Del Riley will deliver a presentation entitled: “Decolonization, ‘Moderate livelihood,’ and cannabis as an aboriginal right” at 5pm on March 16th at the Legends Gaming Center in Millbrook First Nation. Chief Del Riley is a Hereditary Crane Clan Chief of the Chippewa Nation, a two term Chief of the Chippewas…
Join Ken Hughes Sr., a spokesperson for the Mississaugas of the New Credit Medicine Wheel – a sovereign Indigenous cannabis dispensary operating on traditional territory in downtown Toronto – to discuss the politics and possibilities of the Indigenous cannabis industry moving from the reserves to the cities.
From Montana Standard by Paul Hamby & Rob Chaney May 27 2021 The Montana Legislature has ended this year with several bills making their way to Gov. Greg Gianforte that will have a lasting effect in the state’s Indian Country. Throughout the 2021 legislative session, 12 Indigenous people took their…
Riley, with a lifetime of leadership at every level of Indigenous politics – local, regional, national and international – is now turning his mind to the issue of cannabis, and believes that Sections 25 and 35 of the Constitution Act can be used to protect the Indigenous right to use cannabis as a medicine and means of economic sustenance.