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Treaty #3 elects new grand chief

Cutting the ribbon

White wins tight vote over incumbent Kelly

Photo: Linda Henry/Wawatay News

Linda Henry

Special to Wawtay News

Warren White of Naotkamegwanning (Whitefish Bay) has been elected grand chief of Treaty #3.

White beat incumbent Dianne Kelly and Kelvin Morrison of Nicickousemenecaning (Red Gut First Nation) during Treaty #3’s traditional selection and nomination process.

White won in the second round of voting.

White has served as chief of Naotkamegwanning since being elected in 2005.

During an interview, White stated he was overwhelmed and surprised by the outcome.

“I will seek guidance from the elders, listen to the chiefs and Elook up to the Creator for help,” he said. “I will do my best to travel to as many First Nations as I can.”

Photo by Christian Quequish/Speical to Wawatay News

Kingfisher Lake First Nation cut the ribbon on its new Omahamo store on May 31 with an opening ceremony. See story on page 10.

See Treaty #3 on page 3

ᑭᒋᒪᐡᑭᑭᐃᐧᓂᓂ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᒋᒪᒪᐃᐧ ᐊᓄᑲᑌᐠ ᓇᓇᑕᐃᐧᑭᑫᐣᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᑭᐊᐧᐊᐧᓂᐦᐃᑕᐧᐸᐣ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐠ ᕑᐃᐠ ᑲᕑᐃᐠ ᐊᐧᐊᐧᑌ ᐊᒋᒧᐃᐧᓇᐣ

ᑭᐸᑭᑎᓂᑲᑌ ᑎᐸᒋᒧᐃᐧᐣ ᒋᒪᑕᓄᑲᑌᐠ ᒋᒪᒪᐊᐧᓄᑲᑌᐠ ᓇᓇᑕᐃᐧᑭᑫᐣᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᑯᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᓂᓴᐧᓱ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐠ ᑲᑭᐊᐧᓂᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᐱᒪᑎᓯᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐁᐃᐡᑯᓄᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᐦᐊᔾ ᐢᑯᓫ ᐁᐧᑎ ᑕᐣᑐᕑ ᐯ ᐅᑌᓇᐠ. “ᓂᒥᓀᐧᐣᑕᒥᐣ ᑲᓂᑲᓂᐡᑲᐠ ᓂᐳᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᓇᓇᑲᑐᐨ ᑲᑭᐸᑭᑎᓇᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᐅᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᑫᐠ ᑲᑭ ᓇᑐᑕᒪᑫᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᐁᓇᑕᐁᐧᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᒋᒪᒪᐊᐧᓄᑲᑌᐠ ᓇᓇᑕᐃᐧᑭᑫᐣᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᒥ ᑫᑲᐱ ᐁᐃᓯᓭᐠ ᒋᔭᓂ ᒪᑕᓄᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐅᓄᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᓂᓴᐧᓱ ᐱᒪᑎᓯᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑲᑭᐊᐧᓂᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᒋᓇᓇᑕᐃᐧ ᑭᑫᐣᑕᑲᐧᑭᐣ ᒥᓇ ᒋᑭᔭᓂ ᒥᑭᑲᑌᐠ ᐊᓂᐣ ᑲᑭᐃᑭᓄᑫᐧᐣ ᑫᑭᐅᒋ ᑭᑫᐣᑕᒧᓂᑕᐧ ᐊᔕ ᒥᔑᓄᔭᑭ ᑲᐅᒋ ᐱᒥ ᑲᑫᐧᑌᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᐧᑯᒪᑲᓇᐠ

ᒥᓇ ᐱᑯ ᐃᒪ ᐅᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ,” ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᑭᒋ ᐅᑭᒪᑲᓀᐢ ᑌᕑᐃ ᐊᐧᐳᐢ. “ᒥᔑᐣ ᑲᑭᐱᐊᐧᓂᐦᐃᐧᑕ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐠ ᒥᐢᑕᐦᐃ ᑭᔭᓂᓭᑭᓯᐊᐧᐠ ᒥᓇ ᑯᑕᒋᐊᐧᐠ ᑌᑎᐸᐦᐃ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓇᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᑕᐡ ᐊᔕ ᑎᐱᓭ ᒋᑲᑫᐧ ᒥᑭᑲᑌᐠ ᐊᓂᐣ ᒪᔭᑦ ᑲᑭᐃᑭᓄᑫᐧᐣ ᐅᓄᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᐊᓂᒥᓭᐃᐧᓇᐣ.” ᒉᐟᕑᐅ ᐊᐣᑕᓴᐣ, ᑲᓴᐸᓇᑲ ᑭᐅᐣᒋ, ᑭᐳᓂᐱᒪᑎᓯ ᑲᐡᑲᑎᓄᐱᓯᑦ 2000 15 ᑭᑕᓱᔭᑭᐃᐧᓀ; ᑭᕑᐊᐣ ᐢᑕᕑᐊᐣᐠ, ᐱᑲᐣᒋᑲᒥᐠ ᑭᐅᐣᒋ, ᑭᐳᓂᐱᒪᑎᓯ ᐊᐧᐣᐸᑲᐃᐧᐱᓯᑦ 2005 18 ᑭᑕᓱᔭᑭᐃᐧᓀ; ᐸᐧᓫ ᐸᓇᒋᐢ, ᒣᐡᑭᑲᐧᑲᒪᐠ ᑭᐅᐣᒋ, ᑭᐳᓂᐱᒪᑎᓯ ᑲᐡᑲᑎᓄᐱᓯᑦ 2006 21 ᑭᑕᓱᔭᑭᐃᐧᓀ; ᕑᐊᐱᐣ ᐦᐊᕑᐳᕑ, ᑭᐁᐧᐃᐧᐣ ᑭᐅᐣᒋ, ᑭᐳᓂᐱᒪᑎᓯ ᒉᐣᐁᐧᕑᐃ ᐱᓯᑦ 2007 10 ᑭᑕᓱᔭᑭᐃᐧᓀ; ᕑᐁᒋ ᐳᐦᔑ, ᐊᐧᐸᓴᑎᑲᐠ ᑭᐅᐣᒋ, ᑭᐳᓂᐱᒪᑎᓯ ᑲᐡᑲᑎᓄᐱᓯᑦ

2007 15 ᑭᑕᓱᔭᑭᐃᐧᓀ; ᑲᔭᓫ ᒪᐧᕑᓱ, ᑭᐁᐧᐃᐧᐣ ᑭᐅᐣᒋ, ᑭᐳᓂᐱᒪᑎᓯ ᑲᐡᑲᑎᓄᐱᓯᑦ 2009 17 ᑭᑕᓱᔭᑭᐃᐧᓀ; ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᒐᐧᕑᑎᐣ ᐊᐧᐸᐢ, ᐁᐧᐱᑫᐧ ᑭᐅᐣᒋ, ᑭᐳᓂᐱᒪᑎᓯ ᒪᑯᐱᓯᑦ 2011 15 ᑭᑕᓱᔭᑭᐃᐧᓀ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᐅᒪ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᑲᑭᓂᑲᓂᐡᑲᑭᐸᐣ ᓂᐳᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᓇᓇᑲᒋᑐᐨ ᑭᒋᒪᐡᑭᑭᐃᐧᓂᓂ ᑭᐃᑭᑐᑯᐸᐣ ᒋᓇᓇᑕᐃᐧᑭᑫᒋᑲᑌᓂᐠ ᑲᑭᐳᓂᐱᒪᑎᓯᐸᐣ ᕑᐁᒋ ᐳᐦᔑ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᒉᐣᐁᐧᕑᐃ ᐱᓯᑦ 2009, ᐁᑲᐧ ᔕᑯᐨ ᐊᐱᐣ ᑲᑭᐃᐡᑲᐧ ᑲᑫᐧᒋᒪᐸᓂᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᐅᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᑫᐠ, ᐊᐧᐁᐧ ᑭᒋᒪᐡᑭᑭᐃᐧᓂᓂ ᐊᐣᐟᕑᐅ ᒥᐠᑲᐧᓫᐊᑦ, ᓄᑯᑦ ᑲᓂᑲᓂᐡᑲᐠ ᓂᐳᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᓇᓇᑲᒋᑐᐨ, ᐊᒥ ᑲᑭᐃᔑᐅᓀᐣᑕᐠ ᑲᑭᓇ ᐃᓂᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᓂᓴᐧᓱ ᓂᐳᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒋᐊᔑᒋ ᓇᓇᑕᐃᐧᑭᑫᐣᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ, ᐁᐧᓴ ᑫᑲᐟ ᐯᔑᑲᐧᐣ ᐁᑭᐃᔑᓇᑲᐧᑭᐣ ᑲᑭᐅᐣᑕᐱᓀᐊᐧᐨ. ᐸᓂᒪ ᑕᔭᓂ ᐃᐧᐣᒋᑲᑌ ᐊᓂᐣ

ᐊᐱ ᒥᓇ ᐊᐣᑎ ᑫᑕᓇᓄᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐊᐱ ᒪᔭᑦ ᐊᓂᑭᑫᐣᑕᑲᐧᐠ. ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᑭᓇᑐᑕᒪᐸᐣ ᓇᓇᑕᐃᐧᑭᑫᐣᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᒋᑐᒋᑲᑌᓂᐠ ᐃᐁᐧᓂ ᐅᒋ ᐅᑯᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᑭᐊᐧᑯᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᓂᓴᐧᓱ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐠ ᐁᑭᓇᑕᐁᐧᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᐣ ᑲᑭᐃᐣᑎᓂᑫᐧᐣ ᐅᑕᐊᐧᔑᔑᒥᐊᐧᐣ ᑲᑭᐊᐧᓂᐦᐊᐊᐧᐨ. “ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᐅᑭᑲᑫᐧᒋᒪᐣ ᑭᒋᒪᐡᑭᑭᐃᐧᓂᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᒋᐅᓇᑐᓂᐨ ᓇᓇᑕᐃᐧᑭᑫᐣᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑫᑯᓀᐣ ᐅᑯᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᓂᓴᐧᓱ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐠ ᑲᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᐳᓂᐱᒪᑎᓯᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᒋᐅᒋ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᑕᐧ ᐊᐧᑯᒪᑲᓇᐠ ᒋᔭᓂ ᓴᑲᑫᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ,” ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᐊᐧᐳᐢ. “ᐊᑯᓇᐠ ᓄᑯᒥᑫ ᑲᑭᔭᓂ ᐊᐧᐊᐧᓂᐦᐃᑕᐧ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐠ, ᑭᔭᓂᑯᑕᒋᐊᐧᐠ ᒥᓇ ᓭᑭᓯᐊᐧᐠ ᑌᑎᐸᐦᐃ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓇᐣ ᑲᐅᒋᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑲ ᐁᑭᑫᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᐣ ᒪᔭᑦ ᑲᐃᔑᐁᐧᐱᓯᐊᐧᑫᐧᐣ ᑲᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᐳᓂᐱᒪᑎᓯᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐠ.”

ᐊᐧᐁᐧ ᐯᔑᐠ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᐢ ᕑᐁᒋ ᐳᐦᔑ ᐊᔕ ᑭᑭᔑ ᐅᓇᒋᑲᑌᓂᐸᐣ ᒋᒪᑕᓄᑲᑌᓂᐠ ᒋᓇᓇᑲᒋᒋᑲᑌᓂᐠ ᐅᓂᐳᐃᐧᐣ ᒉᐣᐁᐧᕑᐃ ᐱᓯᑦ 2009, ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᐱᐣ ᑭᐳᓂᒋᑲᑌᐸᐣ ᐊᐱ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᒥᓇ ᑎᐸᑯᓂᑫ ᐅᑕᔭᒥᑕᒪᑫᐠ ᑲᑭᐱᒥᐃᐧᒋᐦᐊᐊᐧᐨ ᐳᐦᔑ ᑎᐯᐣᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐁᑭᑲᓄᑕᐠ ᑭᐡᐱᐣ ᑲᐧᔭᐠ ᑲᑐᒋᑲᑌᑫᐧᐣ ᑲᑭᐅᓂᓂᑕᐧ ᐃᒪ ᒋᐃᔑᐊᐱᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᓇᔓᐁᐧᐃᐧᑭᒪᔑᔑᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑫᐅᐣᒋᐱᒥ ᐃᐧᒋᑕᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᓇᓇᑕᐃᐧᑭᑫᐣᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ. ᑭᐃᔑᐃᐧᒋᑲᑌ ᑕᐡ ᐃᒪ ᓴᐱᕑᐃᔭᕑ ᑎᐸᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐠ ᑕᐣᑐᕑ ᐯ ᐅᐁᐧᓂ ᑲᑭᑲᓄᑕᑭᐸᐣ ᐊᐱ ᒍᓫᐊᔾ ᐱᓯᑦ 2011 ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐁᔭᓂ ᐱᒥᑲᐧᔭᐣᒋᓇᓄᐊᐧᐠ ᒋ ᒪ ᐦ ᒋ ᔭ ᓂ ᒧ ᒋ ᑲ ᑌ ᓂ ᐠ ᑲᐃᐧᓇᓇᑕᐃᐧᑭᑫᐣᒋᑲᑌᓂᐠ ᐳᐦᔑ ᑲᑭᐳᓂᐱᒪᑎᓯᐨ. ᐊᐧᐁᐧ ᑕᐡ ᑭᒋᒪᐡᑭᑭᐃᐧᓂᓂ ᓂᐳᐃᐧᓂ ᑲᓇᓇᑲᒋᑐᐨ ᑭᑭᔕᑯᓂᑫ ᐊᐧᑌᐸᑲᐃᐧᐱᓯᑦ

2011 ᑲᑭᐅᓂᓂᑕᐧ ᐅᓇᔓᐁᐧᐃᐧᑭᒪᔑᔑᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᒋᐃᔑᐊᔑᑕᐱᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑲ ᐃᓴᐣ ᑲᐧᔭᐠ ᐁᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᑐᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᑲᑭᐅᓂᓂᑕᐧ ᒥᑕᐡ ᐊᐱᐣ ᑲᑭᐳᓂᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᓇᓇᑕᐃᐧᑭᑫᐣᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ. ᐊᓇᐃᐧᐣ ᑭᐃᔑᐅᓇᒋᑲᑌᐸᐣ ᒪᑯᐱᓯᑦ 23 ᒋᔭᓂ ᒪᐦᒋᑕᔑᐣᒋᑲᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᒋᓇᓇᑲᒋᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐊᓂᐣ ᑫᑭᐃᔑ ᑲᐧᔭᑯᓇᑲᐧᑭᐸᐣ ᑲᐅᓂᓂᓂᑕᐧ ᐅᓇᔓᐁᐧᐃᐧᑭᒪᔑᔕᐠ, ᑭᐳᓂᒋᑲᑌᐸᐣ ᑕᐡ ᐱᓇᒪ ᐃᐧᐣ ᑭᒋᒪᐡᑭᑭᐃᐧᓂᓂ ᒋᐅᓀᐣᑕᐠ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᑲᑭᐃᔑᑲᑫᐧᑌᐧᐸᐣ. ᐅᐁᐧ ᓇᓇᑕᐃᐧᑭᑫᐣᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑫᐊᐱᐦᐃᐣᑕᐧ ᐅᓇᔓᐁᐧᐃᐧᑭᒪᔑᔕᐠ ᐃᐧᓇᐊᐧ ᒪᐡᑯᐨ ᐅᑲᑭᑐᑕᓇᐊᐧ ᒋᐅᓀᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᑫᑯᓀᓇᐣ ᑫᑲᐧᑫᑌᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᑫᑭᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᒪᑲᑭᐣ ᐁᑲ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᒣ ᒥᓇᐊᐧ ᐅᐁᐧ ᒋᐃᔑᐁᐧᐱᓯᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓂᐠ ᐁᐧᑎ ᓄᐱᒪᑲᒥᐠ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐠ ᑲᐱᐅᐣᑐᓭᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᓇᑕᐃᐧ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᐊᐧᐨ.

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ᐊᐧᔾᐟ ᑭᐅᑕᐱᓇᑲᓄ ᒋᑭᒋᐅᑭᒪᑲᓂᐃᐧᐨ ᒋᕑᐃᑎ #3 ᐊᐧᕑᐃᐣ ᐊᐧᔾᐟ ᓀᐅᑎᑲᒥᑲᐧᓂᐠ (ᐊᐧᔾᐟᐱᐡ ᐯ) ᑭᐅᑕᐱᓇᑲᓄ ᒋᑭᒋᐅᑭᒪᑲᓂᐃᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᒋᕑᐃᑎ #3 ᑎᐯᐣᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ. ᐊᐧᔾᐟ ᐅᑭᐸᑭᓇᐊᐧᐣ ᑲᑭ ᑭᒋᐅᑭᒪᑲᓂᐃᐧᓂᐸᐣ ᑕᔭᐣ ᑫᓫᐃ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᑫᓫᐱᐣ ᒪᕑᐃᓴᐣ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᒋᕑᐃᑎ #3 ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᐃᔑᒋᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᐅᓂᓇᐊᐧᐨ ᑫᓂᑲᓂᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᑲᐱᐣᒋᐁᐧᐱᓂᑲᓄᐊᐧᐠ. ᐊᐧᔾᐟ ᑭᐸᑭᓇᑫ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐊᐱ ᓂᔕᐧ ᑲᓇᓴᐱ ᐱᐣᒋᐁᐧᐱᓂᑲᓂᐊᐧᐠ. ᐊᐧᔾᐟ ᑭᐱᐅᑭᒪᑲᓂᐃᐧᐸᐣ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐠ ᐃᒪ ᓀᐅᑎᑲᒥᑲᐧᓂᐠ ᐊᑯᓇᐠ ᐊᐱᐣ ᑲᑭᐅᓇᑭᒪᑲᓄᐸᐣ 2005 ᑲᔭᑭᐊᐧᓂᐠ. ᐊᐱ ᑲᑭᐅᑕᐱᓇᑲᓄᐸᐣ ᒋᐅᑭᒪᑲᓂᐃᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᓀᐅᑎᑲᒥᑲᐧᓂᐠ, ᐊᐧᔾᐟ ᑭᐊᔓᑕᒪᑫᐸᐣ ᒋᓂᑲᓂᔭᓄᑲᑕᑭᐣ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓯᐃᐧ ᐊᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ, ᒋᑭᐁᐧ ᒥᓇᐧᔑᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓄᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐊᐧ ᒥᓇ ᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᑫᐃᐧᐣ, ᐊᑯᓯᐃᐧ ᐸᒥᐦᐃᑯᐃᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐱᑯ ᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃᑲᓇᐣ ᒋᔭᓂ ᐅᐣᑎᓂᑲᑌᑭᐣ.

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ᓇᐧᕑᐊᐣᐟ ᐅᑕᓄᑭᐠ ᑲᐃᓂᑕᐧ ᑲᑦᐸᓂ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᒥᐱᑯ ᑫᐃᔑ ᐱᒥᐃᐧᒋᑲᐸᐃᐧᑕᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᐅᑭᒪᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐠᓫᐃᑊᐢ ᐅᑕᓄᑭᐣ ᐊᔕ ᑲᑭᐅᓇᐸᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᒋᐅᔑᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᒥᑲᓇᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐁᐧᑎ ᐃᓀᑫ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᒥᓇ ᔕᐊᐧᓄᐠ ᒋᐅᑎᑕᒧᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐱᐊᐧᐱᑯᑲᓂᐠ. ᓇᐧᕑᐊᐣᐟ ᐃᐧᐣ ᒪᔭᑦ ᐅᑭᒪᒋᑐᓇᐸᐣ ᐊᐧᐸᓄᐠ ᒥᓇ ᓀᐣᑲᐱᐦᐊᓄᐠ ᐃᓀᑫ ᒋᐅᒋ ᐃᓇᒧᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᓂᐃᐧᐣ ᒪᑕᐊᐧ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓇᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐱᐊᐧᐱᑯᓇᐣ ᑲᐊᔭᑭᐣ ᐅᑲᓯᓴᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂᐠ. ᐃᑭᑐ ᓇᐧᕑᐊᐧᐣᐟ ᑲᑦᐸᓂ ᒥᐊᐱᐣ ᐁᑭᐊᐧᓇᓭᓂᐠ ᐅᑐᓇᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᑕᐡ ᒋᑭᐁᐧ ᓇᓇᑲᒋᑐᐨ ᐊᔕ ᑲᑭᐃᔑ ᐅᓇᒋᑫᐸᐣ ᒋᐃᓇᒧᒋᑫᐨ ᐊᐧᐸᓄᐠ ᒥᓇ ᓀᐣᑲᐱᐦᐊᓄᐠ ᐊᐱ ᐠᓫᐃᑊᐢ ᒥᓇ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᑭᐃᐧᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᐁᐃᐧᒋᑲᐸᐃᐧᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᒋᐅᔑᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᒥᓇ ᔕᐊᐧᓄᐠ ᐃᓇᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ.

White elected Treaty #3 Grand Chief

Ring of Fire East-West corridor in trouble

Warren White of Naotkamegwanning (Whitefish Bay) has been elected grand chief of Treaty #3.

White beat incumbent Diane Kelly and Kelvin Morrison of during Treaty #3’s traditional selection and nomination process.

White won in the second round of voting.

White has served as chief of Naotkamegwanning since being elected in 2005.

When elected as Naotkamegwanning chief, White said his priorities were youth programming, revitalizing the community’s school and curriculum, health care and housing.

Noront Resources has said it will work with the Ontario government and Cliffs Resources on a north-south transportation corridor to the Ring of Fire.

Noront was the main driver behind an east-west highway that would have connected four Matawa communities and the mines to Pickle Lake.

Now Noront says it was forced to reevaluate the east-west road after Cliffs and Ontario announced support for building the northsouth route.

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ᒪᒪᐣᑕᐱᐊᐧᐱᑯᐣ ᑲᐸᐸᒧᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐅᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᑯᓇᐊᐧ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓂᐠ ᑲᐊᐸᒋᑐᐊᐧᐨ

ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᐅᑭᒋᐦᐊᐃᐧᐡᑲᒪᑫ ᑭᐳᓂᐱᒪᑎᓯ

ᑭᒪᒋᒋᑲᑌᐸᐣ ᐊᑕᐊᐧᐱᐢᑲᐟ ᒋᒥᓂᑕᐧ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓂᐠ ᒪᒪᑕᐊᐧᐱᑯᐣ ᑲᐸᐸᒧᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐃᑭᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐊᐱᑕ ᑲᐊᐱᒋᐡᑲᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐅᑭᐃᔑᒥᑲᓇᐊᐧ ᐁᐅᐣᒋ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᑯᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓄᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ, ᒥᐦᐅᐁᐧ ᐯᔑᐠ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᒪᒪᐤ ᓂᐦᓱᔕᑊ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑌᑎᐸᐦᐃ ᑲᓇᑕ ᑲᑭᐸᑭᑎᓂᑲᑌᐠ ᒋᑕᔑ ᑲᑫᐧᒋᒋᑲᑌᐠ. ᐅᑯᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓂᐠ 1 ᐊᑯᓇᐠ 8 ᑲᐊᐱᒋᐡᑲᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᐊᑕᐊᐧᐱᐢᑲᐟ ᑭᒥᓇᐊᐧᐠ ᒪᒪᑕᐊᐧᐱᑯᓂ ᐅᐁᐧ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᑲᑭᐱᒥ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᐃᐧᔭᑭᐊᐧᓂᐠ. ᑲᐊᓂᑫ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᑭᒪᐃᐧᐨ ᐁᐧᔾᐣ ᐸᐧᐟᐢ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᔕᐠ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑭᒥᓀᐧᑕᓇᐊᐧ ᐅᐁᐧᓂ ᒪᒪᑕᐊᐧᐱᑯᓂ ᒥᓇ ᐊᔕ ᐅᑕᓂ ᑲᐡᑭᑐᓇᐊᐧ ᒋᐊᐸᒋᑐᐊᐧᐨ. ᐯᔑᐠ ᒪᒪᐣᐊᐧᐱᐠ ᒋᒥᓇᑲᓂᐃᐧᐨ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᐡ ᑭᐃᔑᐅᓇᒋᑲᑌ ᐅᐁᐧ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᑭᒪᒋᒋᑲᑌᑭᐸᐣ ᒋᔭᐸᒋᑕᒧᓂᑕᐧ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓂᐠ ᒥᓯᐁᐧ ᐅᒪ ᑌᑎᐸᑲᒥᐠ.

ᒍᓴᔭᐢ ᐱᐟᓫᐊᕑ, ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᐅᑭᒋᐦᐊᐃᐧᐡᑲᒪᑫ, ᑭᐳᓂᐱᒪᑎᓯ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᒪᑯᐱᓯᑦ 30 ᑲᐃᓇᑭᓱᓂᐨ. ᓀᐣᑲᐃᐧᓴᑲᐃᑲᓂᐤ ᑫᑌᐅᑭᒪᑲᐣ ᐅᑭᓂᓯᑯᐣ ᔓᑲᐊᐧᐱᓀᐃᐧᓂ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᐯᑭᐡ ᑲᑭᐱ ᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᓂᓂᐃᐧᐨ ᐅᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ, ᐱᐟᓫᐊᕑ ᑭᐱᓂᑲᓂᐡᑲᒪᑫᐸᐣ ᐃᒪ ᐅᑭᒪᑲᓇᐠ ᑲᐅᒋ ᐱᑭᓯᒪᒪᐊᐧᓄᑭᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑭᐃᐧᒋᑕᐧᐸᐣ ᐁᔭᓂᐅᐡᑭᒪᒋᒋᑲᑌᐠ, ᒥᓇ ᐃᒪ ᑭᐱᐊᐧᐃᐧᒋᑕᐧ ᑲᔭᓂᐱᒥ ᐊᓂᒧᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᒋᐅᔑᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᒥᓄᔭᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᐡᑭ ᐊᑯᓯᐃᐧᑲᒥᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᑭᐱᒥ ᑭᑭᓄᐡᑲᒪᑫ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᒪᐡᑭᑭᐃᐧ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᐃᐧᓂᐠ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᑭᐱᑭᒋᐦᐊᐃᐧᐡᑲᒪᑫ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᓂᑲᓂᐅᒪᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐱᑯ ᑭᒋᐦᐊᐠ ᑲᐃᔑ ᒪᒪᐊᐧᐱᐊᐧᐨ.

NAN spiritual leader passes Josias Fiddler, Nishnawbe Aski Nation Elder, passed away on May 30.

The former chief of Sandy Lake First Nation died from complications with diabetes.

In addition to being a leader of his community, Fiddler was chair of a founding tribal council, a driving force behind the creation of the Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre and an advisor at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine. He also was a spiritual leader for the NAN Executive Council and was active on the NAN Elders Council.

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Laptop program getting high marks Warren White (top left) was elected grand chief of Treaty #3, beating out incumbent Diane Kelly. An international program that provides laptops for every student in an elementary school is getting rave reviews in Attawapiskat (top right), where it is being piloted. The east-west highway some First Nations want to see in the Ring of Fire (middle) looks to be off the table after Noront said it will support the north-south route. And NAN Elder and spiritual leader Josias Fiddler (bottom, right) passed away.

A memorial was held in Thunder Bay before Fiddler’s body was returned home to Sandy Lake.

A program that gives laptops to elementary school students is getting a lot of praise from Attawapiskat, one of 13 communities across Canada the program is being tested in.

Students from grades 1-8 in Attawapiskat were each given a laptop of their own this school year. Vice-principal Wayne Potts said the children love the computers and they are getting really good at using them.

The One Laptop per Child program has given computers to students in countries all across the world.

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Whitefish Bay chief elected for Treaty #3 Linda Henry

Special to Wawatay News

The new grand chief of Treaty #3 is Warren White of Whitefish Bay First Nation.

He will hold this position for a term of four years.

The selection process began at 10 a.m. on May 30, during the Treaty #3 assembly. First to be nominated was the incumbent Grand Chief Diane Kelly, by Chief Kim Sandy of North West Angle #37. There was a long silence before Chief Earl Klyne of Seine River came forward to nominate Warren White.

Soon after, Councillor Tyron Kabatay of Seine River nominated Chief Calvin Morrison of Redgut as the third candidate.

Each candidate had a chance to address the crowd before the chiefs and councillors present made their selection.

During the former grand chief ’s election speech, she remarked on while in office, the Grand Council’s deficit had come into the black.

“It was an absolute honour,” Kelly said of her term in office. She said she had worked diligently on imple-

menting Treaty rights, ensuring education come forth to people, did a judicial review, gathered Elders to ask for direction.

Kelly made her speech while holding feathers and paper in her hands. She ref lected that the paper she held represented the way of the future and the feathers represented a link to the past. Kelly also ref lected how Grand Council was no longer a ser vice agency, but one that has become an advocate for the people of Treaty #3.

White spoke mostly in the Anishinabe language. He spoke of always seeking the aid of the Elders and chiefs.

He also spoke of being guided by the Creator and following the traditional ways of the people, if he were to make it in as Grand Chief.

White said he would deal with issues head on and visit as many First Nation communities as possible.

In his speech, Morrison talked of helping the people and finding solutions to social issues. He told the crowd he wanted to assist youth. He said he had been a chief for fourteen years and knew

Photo by Linda Henry/Special to Wawatay News

Newly-elected Treaty #3 Grand Chief Warren White stands proudly with his daughters Misty and Tracey shortly after the traditional selection process, held in Naongashing (Big Island) First Nation May 29-31. what is involved in dealing with government.

Shortly after the speeches

were done, lunch was served, leaving everyone waiting.

After lunch everyone again

gathered in the roundhouse, while all the chiefs, councillors and proxies were taken

outside. The voters later filed into the roundhouse, one by one with their name-tags on.

They stood behind the person who they deemed was the best to hold the position as grand chief. Among the three candidates, the least amount of supporters stood behind Morrison. He went on to shake the other candidates’ hands. His supporters then left the roundhouse, before coming back in for round two to make another selection.

The second round was a close count between White and Kelly, but in the end White won.

Once the procedure was complete, people came forward to congratulate the new grand chief. His daughters Misty and Tracey stood beside him, smiling and looking so proud of their father.

The inauguration began shortly thereafter.

During an interview, White stated he was overwhelmed and surprised by the outcome.

“I will seek guidance from the Elders, listen to the chiefs and look up to the Creator for help,” he said. “I will do my best to travel to as many First Nations as I can.”

Treaty #3 grand chief selection: an election with no secret ballot Linda Henry

Special to Wawatay News

The traditional process of selecting a new grand chief into Grand Council Treaty #3 began in 1997.

Since then, the practice of secret ballot has not been done.

The procedure comprises of six processes. They are the setting, opening, nominations, speeches, selection and the inauguration.

Within the setting, a traditional drum sits in the center, along with other sacred items placed in a certain way as directed by the Elders present.

Certain traditions are followed.

For example, a smudge using sage to purify the atmosphere and clear people’s minds.

At the opening process, one beat of the drum is sounded off. People (the voters, comprising of chiefs, councillors and proxy) are led in with a song, and given tobacco ties, along with name tags. An opening prayer is done and then an explanation of the process.

During the nomination proceedings, a chief, councilor or proxy offers tobacco to the candidate, explaining why she/ he has chosen this candidate.

The candidate takes tobacco accepting the nomination. This

process has a set time limit.

After the electoral officer has verbally sounded off the first, second and third set time limit, one drumbeat is heard after each one.

Next, speeches are held.

They, too, are on a time limit of 10 minutes.

In the selection process, each of the candidates face towards the drum. The chiefs, councilors and proxies file into the room, and stand behind their choice. The candidate who has the least supporters is asked to leave the room and re-enter. Once they come back into the room, they make their way to the second choice. This

Photo by Linda Henry/Special to Wawatay News

Warren White’s supporters line up behind him during the selection process at the Treaty #3 grand chief election.

Coroner calls for joint inquest into student deaths in Thunder Bay Rick Garrick

Wawatay News

A joint inquest has been announced for the seven Nishnawbe Aski Nation youth who died while attending high school in Thunder Bay. “We are pleased that the chief coroner granted NAN’s request for a joint inquest and that we finally have a process that will examine all seven deaths and answer some of the questions the families of these youth and their communities have been asking for years,” said Deputy Grand Chief Terry Waboose. “The loss of so many young lives has caused great fear and apprehension across NAN First Nations and it is time that the truth is uncovered as to the cause of these tragedies.”

Jethro Anderson, from Kasabonika Lake, died in November 2000 at age 15; Curran Strang, from Pikangikum, died in September 2005

at age 18; Paul Panacheese, from Mishkeegogamang, died in November 2006 at age 21; Robyn Harper, from Keewaywin, died in January 2007 at age 19; Reggie Bushie, from Poplar Hill, died in November 2007 at age 15; Kyle Morrisseau, from Keewaywin First Nation, died in November 2009 at age 17; and Jordan Wabasse, from Webequie, died in May 2011 at age 15.

The office of Ontario’s previous chief coroner had called for an inquest into the death of Reggie Bushie in January 2009, but after consultation with NAN, Dr. Andrew McCallum, Ontario’s current chief coroner, decided to expand the discretionary inquest to include all seven deaths, due to their similar circumstances.

Details regarding the date and location of the inquest will be announced when information becomes available.

NAN had called for a joint inquest because the families of the seven youth had been

“We finally have a process that will examine all seven deaths and answer some of the questions the families of these youth and their communities have been asking for years.”

-NAN Deputy Grand Chief Terry Waboose

asking for answers into the deaths of their children.

“NAN has requested that the chief coroner commence a joint inquest into the deaths of seven of our youth to help the families and their communities obtain the closure they so rightfully deserve,” Waboose said. “Since the most recent deaths, apprehension and fears have grown across NAN First Nations as to the real cause of these tragedies.”

The inquest into the death of Reggie Bushie was sched-

uled for January 2009, but it was delayed after NAN and legal counsel for the Bushie family questioned the validity of the selection process for the jury.

Evidence on the validity of the jury roll was presented in July 2011 during pre-inquest hearings into Bushie’s death at the Superior Court of Justice in Thunder Bay. The coroner then ruled in September 2011 that the 2011 jury roll was legally invalid and the inquest could not proceed.

Although hearings were scheduled for May 23 to look into the validity of the 2012 jury roll, the hearing was adjourned to allow the Chief Coroner of Ontario to consider NAN’s request for a joint inquest.

An inquest jury may be able to make recommendations aimed at preventing further deaths among students from remote northern communities.

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is done until there is one candidate left standing.

People congratulate the winner.

An inauguration ceremony is done with much pomp.

One person had said the winner is to be sitting upon the floor. A headdress is placed upon the winner’s head, a blanket is wrapped around the person and women stand him/her up. Next he/she is given the Treaty #3 staff. A song is sung and the winner dances in a clockwise pattern, he/she goes around the circle once, others join him/her after he/she has completed the circle.

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Freddie Huk Richard Wagamese ONE NATIVE LIFE

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ou meet a lot of people on your way through this life. By the time you get to 55 like me you’ve met a ton of folks. Some of them are fringe dwellers and never really get a foothold in your story and others become fixtures in your tale.

The trick is that you have to learn to meet everyone openly because you never know when someone special will walk in unannounced.

Age gives you that grace. But when you’re young it’s easy to miss their influence.

When I was 17 I met one of those unforgettable characters. I was working under age in the tavern of a dilapidated old hotel call The Embassy in St. Catharines, Ont. The owner liked me and gave me the job because he could see that I needed it. The tavern at The Embassy was a seaway bar and sailors from ships on the St. Lawrence Seaway came in to drink and relax.

The place could be tough and hard but I could make people laugh and the clientele took to me right away.

I hadn’t been there long before I met Huk. His full name was Fred Huculak and he’d been around a long time.

He was fully inked with tattoos and carried a thousand stories. I lived in the room directly beneath his on the third floor. He liked me for some strange reason, found me easy to talk to and we became friends.

When I wasn’t working we’d cook together, share a few beers and Huk would tell me stories. He’d been to jail a few times, lived on the street in various cities, wandered the country, worked various times as a lumberjack, a welder, a camp cook and had spent many years on the boats on the Seaway.

He was tough, a coarse talker and he had the respect of a lot of rough people.

Freddie was the first real rounder I ever met.

He looked out for me.

He made sure no one ever messed with me in the tavern and he watched my back whenever things got wild in there like they tended to do a lot of times. Having Huk behind you was definitely a good thing when the bar fell into mayhem and the fists would fly.

I’d been on the carnival and had seen a few good tilts

by that time but nothing like a room full of drunken seamen could create.

He cared about me but Huk had issues of his own.

He was a speed addict and prone to two week methamphetamine benders that eventually saw him crippled by wild paranoia and I would have to talk him down sometimes or make sure he ate or nurse him through the withdrawals when he went cold turkey.

It was a hard way to get to know a person but it brought us closer.

I was pretty much a lost kid back then. I’d left home after only finishing Grade 9 and confronted the street, welfare, unemployment and the hard life of the disenfranchised.

I was searching for meaning, for identity, for a place to hang my hat and a peg to hang my life upon.

It wasn’t an easy search.

I was lonely and scared and prone to the typical craziness of youth.

Once after a wild party that ended badly, I sat with Huk and told him about it.

We sat there having lunch and a drink and I tried to make him laugh about the episode.

He just sat silently for a long time. Then he said, ‘You got more in you. You’re bigger than this.’ He looked at me with clear, hard blue eyes and I nodded even though I was young and naïve and didn’t really understand what he meant. But his words had weight.

I left shortly after that in a $100 car to explore Canada.

He walked out with me and stood in the parking lot and waved until I disappeared.

No one ever waved goodbye to me before. I had to clench the wheel until the bruised feeling eased into something gray and manageable.

Almost 40 years later I think I understand.

Bards sometimes sit in crummy rooms scoffing a six pack and a hoagie, smoking roll-your-owns and drowning in old mariner tales.

What makes this country tick for kids like I was then are guys like Huk, tough as hell and ‘givin’ ‘er’ the best they can and letting young guys know they got better in them because they learned somehow to see contrast through the gloom.

Pass it on the best you can because what you know is what you know.

You’re a richer man for seeing what you’ve seen and a port in the fog is still a port, regardless. Thanks Huk.

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Health: paddle your own canoe Joyce Atcheson COLUMNIST

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he answer to a healthy good life is found within.

“We each come with our own canoe,” says Elder Renee Hill, from Six Nations, as she asks me to be her helper at a children’s caregiver conference.

Talking about our purpose, our learning, our beautiful and wonder-filled body, our life, she adds, “We must learn to paddle our own canoe.”

She reminds us we cannot go forward in life with a foot in two canoes; we must stick with our own and learn how to meet the challenges given us.

Her teaching continues: each of us has an intact canoe at birth. It gets sturdier and we get more skilled at paddling as we learn and grow.

Hanging a sign on my neck that says ‘fat,’ she says our canoe remains solid until negative things punch holes in it.

Saying the words Renee adds more signs: stupid, unreliable, worthless, ugly, pimpled face, wild, stingy, greedy, you can never do that, afraid.

My shoulders slump as I wear these words; my smile disappears.

Telling me she does not believe this of me, this is a teaching, her words continue: dumb, aggressive, drunk, alone, cold, disgusting, damaged, nasty, jealous, heartless, repulsive.

Hearing Renee’s voice in these words I feel the shame; my knees buckle.

“Now how do you feel?” she asks.

“I can’t stand under this; I feel hopeless.”

Standing with her arm around me she explains.

Every time negative is given or received, these words and

feelings puncture our being, our canoe. It begins to leak; our ability to survive drops.

Our canoe will sink unless we do something to repair it.

“It is important that we remember we are never too old to have holes punched in our canoe. Be kind to one another, support each other, say good things,” she says. “Take time for yourself, do what brings you good feelings and does not hurt another.”

I remove the signs but not the teaching. I think of times in my life when those words led me to believe I was ‘not good enough’.

Today I have ways to repair my canoe and I learned one way from Vernon Morris who told me about how his dad’s health improved when he went to the land to sleep in a tent.

Just a few nights on the land and he was walking again.

Many times I ate shore lunches on the islands in Kitchenuhmaykoosib or made tea at Sandy Banks and my health improved.

Today I live beside the ocean that laps the shore where Irish moss winks its shiny eyes at me and I know I am being healed.

The words I think and feel are positive.

I see mainstream health care finding fault -- you’re diabetic, you’re hypertensive, you’re fat, you’re not eating properly, you’re not walking enough, you’re old…

These are labels hung on your neck; they’re not you. We are much more than a disease; it does not define who we are.

Meanwhile bioscience medicine and educators say to stay healthy and successful we need positive self-esteem.

Stress, a negative outlook, and feelings of inadequacy lead to poor health or poor abilities at school.

Talk about teaching one thing while doing the opposite!

It’s time to paddle our own canoe, repair the leaks and make ourselves whole again.

Kanawayandan D’aaki brings Biimadzewin; it is our key to healthy lives.

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Owned by alcohol Joyce Atcheson

Special to Wawatay News

Neglect, abuse, drugs and alcohol form the foundation of this woman’s past and her path to recovery.

Although she’s changed the names to protect innocent people, Peggy MacTaggart’s story is true.

Typical of many of us, her Mishomis helped her for the first years of her life but he remained at home in northern Ontario and she didn’t. “… he still was able to instil a small seed of integrity within me that flourished in spite of me. My negative and self-destructive way of living did not come about from a lack of moral direction.”

Born a ‘half-breed’, and ridiculed at school by both races, Bobbie thought God must not be a ‘half-breed’ and she was doomed. This attitude led her to more selfdestruction.

Alcohol stalked her early

life; her parents drank and she watched the f lies crawl into the slobbery mouths of drunken people sprawled on the f loor amid filth, broken furniture, vomit and empty fly-filled bottles.

Alcohol use also allowed her and her cousin to become the recipients of an uncle’s sexual urges. The part that hurt was that they were not believed; they were accused of lying.

The self-loathing she learned from the many putdowns of her young life led her to choose men in her life who continued the abuse.

This story is gut-wrenching in places in its graphic portrayal of how alcohol and drugs erode young children’s lives, self-esteem, and very being. MacTaggart pulls no punches as she shows you ‘God Don’t Make No Junk.’

The story isn’t negative; its images remind readers of the reality of life when alcohol rules. Through her abuse and

Editor, I wish you had of picked a different title for the article you wrote about the First Nation students graduating from Pelican Falls.

The title, “Monkey see, monkey do” really was belittling their accomplishments. I know that was not the intention. I wish you could have

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Re: Pelican Falls graduation, May 24 Wawatay News

I have for some time been thinking just how to express my sincere disbelief at Wawatay issue of May 24, 2012 regarding Pelican Falls Graduates. Large print of “Monkey see, Monkey do” is a complete insult to the dedicated years of hard work, years away from parents, community, daily use of first language as part of life and the dedication of professionals who

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helped these students reach this monumental stage of their dreams. Such a deplorable way to thank them.

What this type of coverage says to potential grads of Pelican Falls High School is your goal that reached wasn’t worth it, nor should coverage be of any importance. Go home, stay in the forest like all those (monkey) creatures. Someone in that office, perhaps the editor, allowed this article as

is to pass, they approved of it before publication. To me, it’s a complete out right shame, deplorable headline that warrants discipline to the person responsible.

A complete apology in your up coming issue should at least be done to graduates, parents and communities at large.

just stuck with what is underneath that title, which reads, “20 Pelican Falls First Nation High School graduates to continue setting good example.”

I know that was the message being conveyed. However, with the cheesy choice of “Monkey see, monkey do”, the powerful examples they are setting was not celebrated. Instead, it was cheapened.

I have read many articles

by Adrienne Fox and am surprised at this title choice. It was too bad someone approved it.

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Anne Andreassen Grade 2 teacher Poplar Hill, ON

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Editor’s Note:

Wawatay News regrets any misunderstanding resulting from the choice of headline on the Pelican Falls graduation story and photo spread. The quote “Monkey see, monkey do” came directly from the valedictorian speech at the ceremony. The choice of that phrase as a headline was meant as a testament to the positive role models that the graduates are and have been for youth in all the communities. It was in no way intended to deride their accomplishments.

Wawatay News put a large emphasis on the graduates from both Pelican Falls and Dennis Franklin Cromarty high schools during the May 24 newspaper, as we wanted to do our part in acknowledging their significant accomplishments. The graduates truly are an inspiration for all of us and are deserving of much praise, attention and coverage. We wish the graduates all the best as they continue on their future journeys.

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attend medical appointments at the Weeneebayko General Hospital in Moose Factory while Moose Factory residents go to Moosonee to shop or board the train that goes south.

The Moosonee public docks had been installed by Transport Canada until four years ago, when the responsibility fell to the Moosonee town council to fund its installation and maintenance. Last fall, the council decided it would no longer install the docks unless “users” of the docks - namely the taxi boat drivers - would each pay a fee of $400.

Moosonee councillor Bob Gravel said it costs $40005000 a year to install and maintain the docks, which the town paid for the past few years. Since there are about 10-12 parking spots available on the docks, the $400 fee paid by each taxi driver would cover the costs.

“We’ve been trying to implement this for the past four years and we’ve had a lot of resistance,” Gravel said. “I’m trying to explain to people that the town can’t keep taking it out of general revenues.”

Gravel said the town has a limited budget, struggled last year and cannot afford to keep paying for the docks.

“It is adding up, and it’s unfair to the taxpayers,” Gravel said. “So what we’re trying to do is recover the costs by having the users pay a nominal fee and this is not uncommon to any community in Ontario.”

As of May 31, Gravel said only two boat drivers have paid the fee and the council would like at least 75 per cent of the docking fees to be paid before it installs the docks.

Since taxi boat drivers are unlicensed, some residents and boat drivers have questioned how the town will ensure that only those who paid will have a parking spot on the docks.

But Gravel said there is by-law enforcement in the town.

“We understand it’s going to be tricky, but we do have bylaw enforcement capability,” Gravel said.

Gravel said he has to take a boat everyday and understands the concern of the community members.

“It’s not the safest, but... from a risk-management standpoint, we have checked with our insurers and we feel this is the right way to go, though we don’t have the best comfort in pursuing this.”

He has even witnessed “almost daily” the difficulty of some elderly passengers in boarding the boats.

“It’s very unfortunate and I’m very uncomfortable with that,” Gravel said. “But again, the position of the town is that we just cannot continue to pay out of the general revenues of the town to pay for these docks.”

Gravel said the council “may bring this back to the table and reexamine it” at the next council meeting, which is June 11.

In the meantime, residents and hospital patients will have to continue to board boats without a dock, and it will involve a lot of risk, Clark said.

“Last week, there was a gentleman who was discharged from the hospital and he had bilateral amputations and he had his artificial legs on, and he had to come on the boat and make his way out of the canoe and go up the bank,” Clark said. “It really puts (the Elders and patients) at a high risk for fall and they could sustain fractures. It’s not safe at all.”

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Noront Resources says it will work with Cliffs Resources and the Ontario government on building a north-south transportation route to the Ring of Fire.

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by Noront president and CEO Wes Hanson during a speech to a New York mining investment seminar, puts a damper on speculation of an east-west road corridor connecting the Ring of Fire and four Matawa First Nations to Pickle Lake.

Noront was the main industry proponent of an eastwest corridor.

Hanson said his company’s decision to reevaluate its proposed transportation corridor was “unfortunate,” but said Noront was forced to do so after Cliffs and Ontario committed to building the north-south corridor.

“One of the reasons we selected this (east-west) routing was largely because of social responsibility. We were trying to work with First Nations,” Hanson said. “But now we have a company with an $8 billion market cap committed to building the north-south route, and Ontario government support committed to building the north-south route.

“We’re more than happy to coordinate with them,” Hanson said, adding that the northsouth route will be cheaper for Noront as it is a shorter distance to get the materials to market.

Hanson said Noront plans to start discussions with both Ontario and Cliffs to see how the three parties can cooperate on building the north-south transportation corridor.

On May 9 Cliffs announced its plans to go ahead with the $3.3 billion chromite mine in the Ring of Fire, a north-south transportation route to connect to Highway 11 near Nakina and a processing plant in Sudbury.

The announcement was met with outrage from First Nation leaders across northwestern Ontario. Many of the leaders wanted the processing plant

built in Greenstone to keep jobs and benefits in the region.

Following the announcement Nishnawbe Aski Nation Deputy Grand Chief Terry Waboose said he will advise the chiefs of the region to look at reevaluating support for mining in the region.

“It’s obvious the province and Cliffs haven’t been listening to First Nations, and what their concerns and their aspirations are,” Waboose said on May 9. “Today is a classic example of development going ahead without adequate consultation, input and consent from our First Nations.”

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Nibinamik, Neskantaga, Webequie and Wunnumin – had also signed an agreement to work together on building and operating an east-west or northsouth transportation route, a plan that had been previously endorsed by Noront.

Hanson said the company will delay its feasibility study for up to two months as it reassesses costs based on the northsouth route.

He told the New York audience that Cliffs had a “significant backlash” against the north-south route from First Nations in the region, but that the problems can be worked out over time.

“It’s just communication, and making sure (First Nations) understand the message and opportunity that development of this region offers for their community,” Hanson said.

Neskantaga Chief Peter Moonias has said he will die before allowing the mine or road to be built on his First Nation’s traditional territory.

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Urban Powwow

Long-time dancers, in conversation with photojournalist Chris Kornacki, describe how powwows can help bridge gaps between cultures. Images from the annual Canada Day powwow on Mount McKay, hosted by Fort William First Nation, provide the backdrop.

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“Things are changing here (at DFC), and he was a big part of that,” Kejick said. “I’m really going to miss him.”

Fiddler passed away on May 30 in Thunder Bay. A viewing was held on May 31 at Dennis Franklin Cromarty First Nations High School in Thunder Bay. On June 1, Fiddler’s body was transported to his home community of Sandy Lake for a June 2 funeral at the Thomas Fiddler Memorial High School.

Teri Fiddler, Josias’s wife, said he was in a better place during the May 31 viewing.

“He passed with great dignity,” Teri said. “He would smile and be really happy when he mentioned people who had passed on ahead of him. He died with great dignity as the great man he was.”

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NAN Elder Josias Fiddler, right, performs a smudging ceremony in 2011 along with former Attorney General Chris Bentley for Thunder Bay’s new courthouse near the Victoriaville Centre. Fiddler passed away at age 63 on May 30 in Thunder Bay. helped her after her nephew committed suicide a few years ago and she decided to do a suicide prevention walk and start talking about suicide.

“I wanted to start putting an end to our youth committing suicide and killing themselves,” Kejick said.

Josias was remembered as a friend, Elder, father and teacher

by Grand Chief Stan Beardy.

“He was involved with his community and NAN from the very start and has had a lasting legacy on everything he was involved with,” Beardy said.

“There are many that will mourn his passing.”

Josias’s accomplishments include being chair of a founding tribal council, driving force behind the creation of the Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre and advisor at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine.

He was also a spiritual leader for the NAN Executive Council and was active on the NAN Elders Council.

“He never let go of that original vision the founders had of Grand Council Treaty 9 and NAN,” Beardy said. “He picked up on what those original leaders envisioned and kept it strong to this very day. This shows how deep his involvement and commitment was to the betterment of our communities.”

Sandy Lake Chief Bart Meekis said many chiefs told him how Josias had helped them over the years during the last NAN Chiefs Assembly in Timmins.

“I don’t think there was a word

for giving up in his vocabulary,” said Frank Beardy, a former Muskrat Dam chief. “He just encouraged people to continue working and to continue going forward.”

Frank remembers the time Josias held a fast in Sioux Lookout to raise awareness about the need for a new hospital, which eventually led to the construction of the Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre.

“It was from that time on that we took up that cause,” Frank said. “It was a very difficult journey because there were times in those 30 years that a lot of our chiefs and a lot of our Elders were totally against that concept of amalgamating the non-native hospital with the Native hospital.”

Frank said Josias “just kept at it” until Meno Ya Win was built.

“Now today, you see the proof of his labour,” Frank said.

“Because there is a brand-new beautiful hospital in Sioux Lookout, and the board of directors is mostly Native people.”

The grandfather rocks placed in front of Meno Ya Win was just one of Josias’s suggestions.

Frank encouraged people to remember Josias whenever they go into Meno Ya Win. “We are told by our Elders that in this life we are just travelling through and we go on a spiritual journey after we leave here,” Frank said. “Josias has embarked on that spiritual journey. We’ll see him again after we have completed this path the Creator has given us here on Earth.”

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Victoria Lackie’s Grade 3 class in Attawapiskat show off the laptops they received as part of the One Laptop per Child program. The program has pilot projects running in Attawapiskat, Eabametoong and Whitefish River First Nations in northern Ontario, as well as 10 other schools across Canada.

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Attawapiskat students thriving with laptops Shawn Bell

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The vice-principal of Attawapiskat’s elementary school says the community’s students are getting a “leg up” on their academic challenges, thanks to an international laptop program being piloted in First Nations across Canada.

Wayne Potts, vice principal at the J.R. Nakogee School, said the One Laptop per Child program, which provides a personal laptop computer for every grade one to eight student in Attawapiskat, has been a rousing success.

“It really made a difference in our school,” Potts said. “The kids are just loving them, and the teachers are very excited about this learning tool.”

The One Laptop per Child program was created to provide computers for children in some of the least developed countries on the planet. Uruguay became the first country to implement the program when its government purchased 100,000 computers in 2007. Since then laptops have been given to students in schools across the world, from Afghanistan to India, Rwanda to Peru.

Over the past year The Belinda Stronach Foundation has been bringing the program to Canada, providing laptops to 13 First Nation schools in seven provinces and two territories as a pilot project.

The laptops are built rugged, with low power consumption and low memory requirements, specifically for use by children in remote communities.

Attawapiskat was one of three schools in northern Ontario testing the project; Eabametoong First Nation and Whitefish River First Nation also were given laptops for elementary school children.

Jennifer Martino of the Belinda Stronach Foundation has been involved in bringing the program to Canada. Martino travelled the country over the past few months, spending time in nearly all of the pilot communities including Attawapiskat, where she helped teachers plan lessons using the computers and gauged how the children were reacting to the laptops.

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Prior to working on Canadian pilot projects, Martino was involved in implementing the program in Uruguay, where it has grown in five years to every student in the country between grades one and six owning a laptop.

Martino also helped implement the program in Peru, where the government has committed to purchasing three million laptops for school children.

In comparison to those two South American countries, Canada’s pilot programs are tiny. So far 2,600 laptops are being used across 13 schools, with another 900 computers coming over the summer.

Yet from her experiences over the past few months, Martino is just as positive about the impact the program is having in Canada as it is in South America.

“Here (in Canada) children have more access to technology, even in remote communities,” she said. “But access to technology in general is not equitable across the country. This program is designed to bridge that gap.”

Martino said that when children do not have access to technology, whether they are in Canada or a developing country, they fall behind when it comes to continuing their education or getting a job later in life.

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she said. “Children in this program end up better prepared to continue on with studies and get employment opportunities.”

Potts agreed, pointing out that many of the students in Attawapiskat have already surpassed their teachers in terms of what they are able to do on the laptops.

“Kids these days are visual learners, and they are all into technology,” he said. “These laptops really captured their attention.”

The Ontario government’s Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs, the Bank of Montreal and mining company Vale are currently funding the pilot program.

Martino said that in most countries where the program has become widespread, governments take the lead on purchasing the computers and distributing them into schools.

She said the hope is that either provincial or federal governments will get on board to help take One Laptop per Child from a pilot to a full-fledged program in Canada.

Potts said that if Attawapiskat is any indication, the program would be a good fit in every school in the country.

“There are so many facets that make this such a great idea,” he said. “I think that in this day and age that for all schools in the country, and especially our First Nations in the North, to have these laptops is such a boost.”

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lars in funding, and we received some support from the Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs,” said Mamakwa.

Kingfisher Socio-Economic Development Corporation (SED) is situated in Kingfisher Lake, with Isaac Sainnawap at its head.

The company is a non-profit corporation belonging to and serving the needs of Kingfisher Lake.

“With the old store, we basically ran into a situation where it was no longer able to accommodate the needs of our community – it was built over thirty years ago,” said Sainnawap.

Sainnawap said the new stateof-the-art facility could potentially bring in members of different communities, increasing community revenue.

Donna Brunton, a professional planner and project manager for Shibogama First Nation Council, held a very involved role in making the store a possibility. She worked with Kingfisher Lake chief and band council and Hez Sakakeep, a First Nation band administrator and project manager for the First Nation on getting the store up and running.

“It takes a lot of people, a lot of energy, and a lot of effort to make these types of facilities happen,” said Brunton.

Before the new store opened, community members sometimes

had to wait a week before a shipment of essential goods came in.

“It’s sad when you don’t have enough refrigeration to supply milk to your people. It’s not acceptable,” said Brunton.

She said the new store has all the tools necessary to keep goods fresh and safe – something the old store lacked.

“We’ve been running this store as a First Nation business for thirty years, and having this store now shows the determination of our people and that we mean business,” said Sakakeep.

The store sits by the Kingfisher Lake band office, water treatment plant, and the Omahamo Hotel and Restaurant.

The community crowded into the store as soon as the ribbon was cut to open it.

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The Municipality of Sioux Lookout and the Arts, Culture & Heritage Committee invite you to the second

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A week-long army exercise to test the skills of Canadian Rangers, held on Springwater Lake, 50 kilometres north of Geraldton, was “a huge success,” according to the camp commandant.

Exercise Geraldton Ranger was attended by 58 Canadian Rangers from 19 First Nation communities across northern Ontario. Twenty one of the Rangers were female. There were also 13 army personnel from the headquarters of 3rd Canadian Ranger Patrol Group at Canadian Forces Base Borden, and 21 other support staff from the Canadian Forces.

“It was a huge success,” said Captain Craig Dewell, “because of the number of Rangers who turned out for the camp and because they enjoyed what the camp offered.”

Canadian Rangers are part-time army reservists in Canada’s remote and isolated regions. In northern Ontario, there are 550 Rangers in 23 First Nation communities. They are often first responders in emergencies, such as search and rescue missions and when communities are evacuated because of forest fires and flooding.

“The Rangers already possessed a range of individual Ranger skills but this exercise was an opportunity for us to test those skills and find out at what level they were at in their skills,” Captain Dewell said. “As well, it was a way for them to hone their skills and develop them, specifically with regards to first aid, and especially on the shooting range. Some of the newer Rangers had never fired the Lee-Enfield .303 calibre rifle the Rangers currently use.”

In addition to shooting, the Rangers conducted navigational exercises using freighter canoes, learned paddle canoe skills, practiced ground search and rescue, completed a demanding cross-country trip on all-terrain vehicles, competed in bicycle races and in archery, and challenged each other in mock paintball battles.

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Top: Ranger Terry Ostamus of Kingfisher Lake, right, a qualified army shooting coach, instructs Master Corporal Pamela Chookomoolin of Peawanuck on the shooting range.

Bottom: A Canadian Ranger drives through swamp water during a challenging cross-country all-terrain vehicle ride.

For the first time in Ontario, much of the training was run

by Ranger sergeants and master corporals, who provided the instruction at eight training sites. They were also responsible for organizing and managing their sites. Full-time army instructors were at each site only as mentors.

Sergeant Roy Cutfeet of Kitchenuhmaykoosib was in charge of instruction on the shooting range. An expert marksman, he competed as a member of the Ranger rifle team from northern Ontario in the last two annual Canadian Forces Small Arms Competitions.

“It’s been really rewarding for me to pass on the knowledge the army gave to me as a member of the rifle team,” he said. “It’s been challenging and I’ve enjoyed it.

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correct techniques and proper principles of marksmanship. A lot of the Rangers don’t know, for example, that when it rains you should aim slightly below your target because rain makes the bullet rise. I didn’t know that until the army told me and I found out that it was right, the bullet does rise.”

During each phase of the training the Rangers were presented with unexpected and realistic first aid situations, such as a simulated gunshot wound, an arrow in the chest, or a fall from an allterrain vehicle.

“There were different types of unexpected injuries to challenge them,” Captain Dewell said. “It was up to them and their own Ranger instructors to deal with each situation.

They did a good job. After each one we reviewed their mistakes with them so they could learn from them.”

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WAPEKEKA EDUCATION AUTHORITY Requires These Positions: 1) TEACHING PRINCIPAL 2) SPECIAL EDUCATION RESOURCE TEACHER POSITION: Wapekeka Education Authority (WEA) requires a teaching principal and special education resource teacher at Rev. Eleazar Winter Memorial School (REWMS) for the 2012-13 school year: • Principal will teach grades 7 / 8 students and assume administrative responsibilities with office support.

• Special Education Teacher will be responsible to provide special education support services to the students.

REWMS is a band-operated school that offers kindergarten 4’s to grade 8 program with 94 students.

POSITION SUMMARY: The teaching principal will be required to teach and operate the school under the direction of Wapekeka Education Authority (WEA). He / she will provide educational and instructional leadership in the school to ensure that all students are learning and properly educated. He/she will be supervised by the Education Director and accountable to the Wapekeka Education Authority.

He / she is expected to implement the approved curriculum and supervise the teaching and support staff as per policies.

The special education resource teacher will be responsible to provide special education support services to the students, staff and parents ranging from preventative consultation to individual assistance. He / she will work closely with the all the teachers to ensure effective delivery of the special education program in the school. He / she will report to the principal and accountable to WEA. QUALIFICATIONS: Preference will be given to those with qualifications and/or administration experience at the band-operated schools. Knowledge and experience in ESL, Literacy, Special Education and Native Studies. Proper qualifications are required for both positions. Teaching and/or administrative experience in a northern First Nation setting are considered definite assets.

Candidates must be a member in good standing with the Ontario College of Teachers or eligible for membership. Applications must include a covering letter, resume, supporting documentation and three references including most recent employer.

In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act, applicants must provide a signed and dated statement authorizing Shibogama Education personnel to contact references prior to the interview date. Candidates selected for an interview are required to furnish a criminal convictions clearance check.

TERM: Annual Renewable Contract SALARY: Commensurate based on qualification and experience CLOSING DATE: Friday, June 22, 2012 at 4:30 p.m.

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Lands & Resources GIS Technician - Develop GIS setup to print maps, input data and provide a help desk for First Nation planners in remote communities by distance. Coordinate training by video conference and update websites.

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It is important to recognize what young Aboriginal people are doing in the community, said Sharon Smith-Baxter.

“There’s so much going and having so much positive stories about the challenges they overcame and how they’ve faced adversity and how they did with it, what they’re doing with their art and culture,” she said.

“So many students are shy and acknowledging them makes a huge difference not only those students but for people watching and admiring them.”

On May 17, nearly 50 youth were recognized at the Northwestern Ontario Aboriginal Youth Achievement and Recognition Awards 2012 in Thunder Bay. The youth received awards in a variety of categories such as peer mentorship, advocacy & activism, athletics, artistry and personal achievement.

In its ninth year, the awards started off as a career fair until one of the organizers, Sandra Kakeeway, came up with a idea that she wanted to acknowledge the youth in the community. “The awards are the result of her vision,” Smith-Baxter said. Kakeeway passed away a few years ago but the awards event lives on, Smith-Baxter, who has been on the awards committee since its inception, said. There is an award in her honour called the Sandra Kakeeway Cultural Award given to youth who have “shown dedication to the preservation and understanding of the Anishinabe culture.”

This year, the awards committee introduced a new category called Heritage Keepers.

“We pulled it out because a lot of people were being nominated because a lot youth are now looking at preserving their Native language and keep up with traditional crafting,” Smith-Baxter said. “I think that’s really important because it could easily fade away and no

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Advocacy and activisim award winners: Adrienne Morris, Elton Beardy, Hailey Jewel McKay and Casie Ann Mathewson Lenny Carpenter/Wawatay News

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“Thanks for the award, eh?” said Dieter Moore of Whitesand First Nation when receiving an academic award at the Northwestern Ontario Aboriginal Youth Achievement & Recognition Awards May 17 in Thunder Bay. The Grade 10 student was among 47 recipients of an award in various categories.

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Above: Jordan Meekis of Sandy Lake and Natasha Rose BobrowskiBanning of Fort William received artistic awards. Absent: Sara Kanutski.

Right: Grade 3 student Matthew Waboose of Eabametoong First Nation shows off his violin skills during the youth awards. longer exist.” annual awards gets bigger Cody Kowtiash of Gull every year. This year they Bay First Nation and Jasmine received more than 120 nomiEdwards of Northwest Angle nations. #37 First Nation were the “Every year we keep more first recipients of the award. and more nominations and Kowtiash is doing his best to it’s a very big thing and a very learn Ojibwa language while positive impact on the youth in Edwards began to bead after our community,” she said. “It’s doing a school project. huge and well-received by the Smith-Baxter said the community.”

Storytelling at ONECA conference Rick Garrick

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Brenda Mason’s stories about working with students with mental illness were a hit during the Ontario Native Education Counsellors Association’s 28th Annual Conference.

“Her format was storytelling and the oral traditions that she brought from her childhood that she heard from her grandparents and so on,” said Roger Chum, an Aboriginal learning unit counsellor at Canadore College and Moose Cree band member. “And applying that to the four models of the medicine wheel, the physical, mental, spiritual and emotional.”

Chum said Mason’s presentation on Strategies for Supporting Students with Mental Illness was “so touching because it was so simple.”

“It’s the way our people work with each other; we look at it in a holistic sense,” Chum said.

“We look at the individual in all those aspects. We don’t say ‘you’ve got a mental issue, that’s it.’”

Mason, a Sandy Lake band member, described her experiences during 21 years in the mental health field.

“I talked about what mental illness is and what it is not,” Mason said. “I offered some suggestions on how to work with people to prevent the illness and to support students.

Chelsy McGowan of Fort Albany First Nation received an academic award for her studies in the Native Nurses Entry program at Lakehead University. An A-average student, she aspires to enter the Northern Ontario School of Medicine.

That’s what they need — to be supported.”

Held May 28-30 at the Valhalla Inn in Thunder Bay, the conference also featured the rollout of a Transitions website and toolkit for students, parents, teachers, education counsellors and communities aimed at improving education results.

“Our First Nation students come from communities that are obviously challenged by the quality of the education and the resources to have that smooth transition to college or university.”

-Robert Chum, Aborignal learning unit counsellor Canadore College

Chum was involved during the research stage of the Transitions project by providing information about challenges at the college level.

“Our First Nation students come from communities that are obviously challenged by the quality of the education and the resources to have that smooth transition to college or university,” Chum said. “It will be a great resource with input from far and wide across Ontario and a lot of quality feedback.”

Cindy Fisher, ONECA’s president and a Pic River band member, said the Transitions toolkit is a “one-stop shopping” resource for students, parents, teachers, education counsellors and communities on transitions from preschool to elementary, elementary to secondary, secondary to postsecondary, between institutions, postsecondary to home and/or postsecondary to career.

“There are different tips on how to make that transition possible,” Fisher said. “We all know there are great difficulties when you go out into the world and then come home. There is a transition phase because you are the only one who has changed, really.”

Eric Kamenawatamin, a counsellor with Nodin Child and Family Intervention Services, called for a conference to raise awareness of the current education situation facing First Nations youth.

“Right now, the way it looks is that we’re failing our youth with the education system that is in place and we are graduating high school students who are not prepared for college and university,” Kamenawatamin said. “With this conference, I’m hoping it will raise more awareness so that we can set up some sort of plan address this issue.”

The Transitions website and toolkits are located at www. oneca.com/transitions.

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Peer Mentorship award winners include Clayton Kitakijick, Danielle Yellowhead, Whitney Edwards and Krystal Brizard-Yanke.

ONTARIO FIRST NATIONS TECHNICAL SERVICES CORPORATION EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY Infrastructure Specialist Thunder Bay Service Centre Ontario First Nations Technical Services Corporation (OFNTSC) requires an Infrastructure Specialist for the Toronto Service Centre. The mandate of the Corporation is to provide technical and enhanced advisory services to the Unaffiliated First Nations in Ontario. The primary role of the Infrastructure Specialist will be to conduct new housing inspections, provide advisory services regarding O & M, Minor Capital, some aspects on Major Capital and utilization of Training Resources. The Infrastructure Specialist will report directly to the Operations Manager.

DUTIES: • Assist and advise Unaffiliated First Nations in the asset information activities comprising of the asset inventory system managed by AANDC; • Conduct inspections on new housing at the required stages of construction as well as renovations • Assist and advise Unaffiliated First Nations in understanding the level of information required in inventory collection and verification of the Integrated Capital Management system (ICMS) and the Capital Asset Management System (CAMS) including asset condition reporting system (ACRS); • Assist and advise clients in the planning and development of Maintenance Management Program related to First Nations Capital Assets.

STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS: • Must have a College Diploma in the Civil Engineering or Architectural Technology/Technician or other related specialty.

• Designate Inspector Certificate or training in the Building Science required.

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• Experience in theory and practices in operation and maintenance of community building, water and sewer systems, landfills/refuse sites, roads/bridges and other community services.

• Must be self motivated with good oral/written communication skills.

• Ability to operate computers and a variety of software applications such as Microsoft Word, Excel, and AutoCad would be an asset.

• Valid Ontario Drivers License.

• Ability and availability to travel.

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Friday June 22, 2012, 4:30 p.m. (EST)

Please mark very clearly on the envelope “INFRASTRUCTURE SPECIALIST” and Email, Mail/Fax your resume/Curriculum Vitae to: Brian Staats, CRSP, Operations Manager Ontario First Nations Technical Services Corporation 111 Peter Street, Suite 606, Toronto, Ontario, M5V 2H1 bstaats@ofntsc.org For a detailed job description, contact Reception (416) 651-1443 ext. 221 or email reception@ofntsc.org We thank all applications, however only those receiving an interview will be contacted.

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Nolan said.

When the Kings began their playoff run, Nolan said she watched nearly every game.

“It’s all very exciting,” she said.

Her highlight to date of Jordan is his performance in Game One of the Stanley Cup Final.

In the first period, Jordan checked a New Jersey defender behind the net, causing a turnover that fell on Jordan’s stick.

He passed it out front to teammate Colin Fraser, who scored the first goal of the Stanley Cup Final.

“I’m kind of praying and hoping that he scores the winning goal in the Stanley Cup Final,” Nolan said, laughing. “That would be something and he’s come a long way. Even getting where he’s at now, everyone’s just so proud of him.”

It is sentiment shared by the Garden River community, she said, especially with the Kings being one win shy of taking it all.

“I think everybody is just gearing up to have the Stanley Cup visit Garden River,” she said. “This is the community and all Native people are gonna be just welcome and it’s just going to be one big celebration.”

Though the Kings have a good chance, Nolan realized she might be getting ahead of herself.

“I can’t predict the future but I’m rooting for LA,” she said.

Regardless of the outcome, Nolan said it was been great seeing her nephew excel.

“We’re a hockey family. Our boys played hockey as well,” she said. “It’s just extra pride when it’s your own family (in the Final). Your heart just bursts with pride.”

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Senior and Youth Integration Worker (5 month position) Duties: • Provide aboriginal seniors the opportunity to become more involved within the community through activities and workshops geared towards the interaction of seniors and youth.

• Provide educational sessions for seniors of all ages to participate in skills (crafts), history, culture and heritage through teachings and ceremonies.

• Schedule workshops for the purpose of teachings and storytelling, which would be video recorded for prosperity.

• Network with other community programs to involve the participants of seniors.

• Promote volunteerism among the seniors and other generations.

Requirements: • Extensive experience working with Aboriginal communities and organizations.

• Ability to speak anishinaabeg language.

• Knowledge of Aboriginal values, traditions and practices.

• Coordinate and/or facilitate workshops, activities.

• Superior verbal and written communication.

• Working knowledge of computer software programs.

• Valid driver’s license and access to vehicle is preferable.

• A current Criminal Reference Check and Vulnerable Sector Check.

DEADLINE: Friday, June 8, 2012 Send resume & cover letter or drop off at: NeChee Friendship Centre PO Box 241, 1301 Railway Street Kenora, ON P9N 3X3 We thank all applicants however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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Nolan said she did not see much of Jordan while he grew up in southern Ontario but at times his family visited Garden River.

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Garden River First Nation is experiencing ‘LA fever’ thanks to its own Jordan Nolan, who is part of a Los Angeles Kings team that is one win away from winning the Stanley Cup. His aunt Barbara said the community is “gearing up to have the Stanley Cup visit Garden River.” almost,” she said, laughing. “He might’ve been born on hockey skates.”

With Jordan’s father Ted having played in the NHL for three seasons before embarking on a coaching career, hockey has always been a part of Jordan’s life, Nolan said.

“It instilled in them that area of interest and he played hockey all through childhood,” Nolan said, noting that Jordan’s older brother Brandon was also drafted by an NHL team

(New Jersey Devils in 2001 and Vancouver Canucks in 2003) before injuries forced him to retire.

Nolan was able to watch Jordan play in the Ontario Hockey League when he played for the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds for two seasons before he was drafted and moved to play for the Monarchs.

“We tried to follow as much as we can. We were aware of where he was at, but he’s too far, too much traveling for us,”

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Organizers of the second annual Raising Awareness Together golf tournament were overwhelmed by the positive turnout the event got last year.

But they have not let success slow them down. Almost immediately after last year’s tournament, planning was underway for this year’s event.

After all, the organizers know that their efforts are aimed much higher than just hosting a successful golf tournament.

“Our goal has been the same the whole time, to raise awareness about prescription drug abuse,” said Mike McKay of the Independent First Nations Alliance, one of the tournament’s organizers. “The feedback we’re getting and the interest we’re getting is good, and we’re grateful that all those people are interested.”

McKay and the two other organizers – Travis Boissoneau of Nishnawbe Aski Nation and Adrienne Morris of the Chiefs of Ontario – were each struck in their own way by the devastating effect of prescription drug abuse on their families, friends and communities.

In McKay’s case, it was a trip he took to his home community of Bearskin Lake a few years ago that got him thinking of what he could do to bring attention to the epidemic.

During that trip, he said, it really hit home just what community members were going through because of drug addictions.

“I was frustrated and upset,” McKay reflected. “At that time it seemed like no one was doing anything about it.”

McKay’s frustration eventually led to last year’s successful tournament, where 96 players participated and the organizers raised $5,000 towards a drug treatment program and after care program at Dennis Franklin Cromarty (DFC) High School in Thunder Bay. As Boissoneau explained, by targeting DFC’s program the organizers were thinking of the communities across the North.

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The Raising Awareness Together golf tournament takes place at Fort William Country Club on June 22. Last year 96 golfers participated. The tournament is raising money for Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School’s drug treatment program and raising awareness about prescription drug abuse across the North.

DFC program is unfunded, and can use all the help it can get.

“Knowing students who came to school and didn’t know how to get help or where to go, we saw that it is up to us to show them we’re there for them,” Morris said.

DFC’s suboxone program has treated 35 students since it was set up last year, with twothirds of them completing the program. Eight students who completed the program have now gone on to graduate high school.

Meanwhile, as McKay noted, the efforts to get the word out about the dire effects of prescription drug abuse in communities seems to be growing.

He pointed to recent walks by Lyle Fox, William Mekanak and members from Slate Falls First Nation, and the crosscountry bicycle tour two members of Sandy Lake are on right now, as examples of other individual efforts to raise awareness.

“With all this awareness, I think it will be easier for people to come out and say they have a problem and get treatment for it,” McKay said.

“I’m proud that in Bearskin Lake there is a treatment centre there now,” he added. “One day I’d like to see every community have access to these programs, at a community level.”

The Raising Awareness Together golf tournament takes place on June 22 at Fort William Country Club in Thunder Bay. Registration must be done by June 15. For more information call Travis Boissoneau at (807) 625-4938.

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All mammal species are considered to be typical in the region Prince’s Pine and there were no provincially or federally listed species recorded t Three bird and one reptile species of special concern are found in the Project area (Canada warbler, Bald eagle, Common nighthawk and Snapping turtle) t One provincially rare plant species is found in the Project area (Assiniboia sedge) t One culturally important plant is found in the Project area (Wild rice) Additional Terrestrial Biology field work is planned for this summer to ensure the entire Project area is covered, and to specifically identify wild rice habitat and abundance.

We look forward to sharing the results of the baseline data collection with you over the coming months.

We will also host an Open House in Atikokan this summer to give you an opportunity to be updated in person on the baseline data and the Project planning process.

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The deep geological repository for the long-term management of Canada’s used nuclear fuel is a multiple-barrier system designed to safely contain and isolate used nuclear fuel from people and the environment. It is the culmination of more than 30 years of research, development and demonstration of repository concepts in Canada and other countries such as Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and France. The repository will be constructed at a depth of approximately 500 metres, depending on the geology of the site, and will consist of a network of placement rooms for the used fuel.

Used nuclear fuel will be transported to the repository site where it will be repackaged into corrosion-resistant containers for placement in the repository and sealed with bentonite clay.

A centre of expertise for technical, environmental and community studies will be created at or near the site. It will build on the extensive research conducted at Canadian universities and with international partners to become a hub for scientific collaboration.

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Le dépôt géologique en profondeur destiné à la gestion à long terme du combustible nucléaire irradié canadien est un système à barrières multiples conçu pour confiner et isoler de manière sûre le combustible nucléaire irradié de la population et de l’environnement. Cela représente l’aboutissement de plus de 30 années de recherche, de développement et de démonstration sur la conception d’un dépôt au Canada et ailleurs tels qu’en Suède, en Finlande, en Suisse, au Royaume-Uni et en France. Le dépôt sera construit à une profondeur d’à peu près 500 mètres, selon la géologie du site, et consistera en un réseau de salles de mise en place pour combustible irradié.

Le combustible nucléaire irradié sera acheminé vers le site du dépôt, où il sera remballé dans des conteneurs résistants à la corrosion pour être placés dans le dépôt et scellés à l’aide d’argile de bentonite.

Un centre d’expertise où seront réalisées des études techniques, environnementales et communautaires sera créé sur le site ou à proximité. Il s’appuiera sur les recherches approfondies menées par des universités canadiennes et des partenaires internationaux pour devenir un carrefour de collaboration scientifique.

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2. Main shaft complex – The main shaft and service shaft will be used to convey used fuel containers, equipment, personnel and sealing materials to the deep repository.

3. Placement rooms – The underground repository consists of a network of access tunnels and placement rooms covering an area of about 2.7 kilometres by 2.2 kilometres at a depth of about 500 metres.

1. Installations en surface – Les installations en surface recevront et remballeront le combustible irradié dans des conteneurs résistants à la corrosion pour être placés dans le dépôt. Le projet nécessite une superficie réservée d’environ 600 mètres par 550 mètres pour les bâtiments de surface et d’environ 100 mètres par 100 mètres pour le puits de ventilation.

2. Complexe du puits principal – Le puits principal et le puits de service seront utilisés pour acheminer les conteneurs de combustible irradié, l’équipement, le personnel et les matériaux de scellement vers le dépôt souterrain.

3. Salles de mise en place – Le dépôt souterrain consiste en un réseau de tunnels d’accès et de salles de mise en place occupant une aire d’environ 2,7 kilomètres par 2,2 kilomètres à une profondeur d’environ 500 mètres.

Safety of people and the environment is always the number one priority. The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission will review and assess the project and site locations, and ultimately, it will be responsible for issuing licences authorizing the project to proceed through different phases of development.

The design of the deep geological repository includes a period of extended monitoring following placement operations to confirm the long-term safety and performance of the repository. The used fuel containers will also be retrievable at all times. The NWMO, the host community and the regulator will determine when it is appropriate to backfill and close the repository, and will determine the nature and duration of postclosure monitoring.

Sean Russell is the Director of Adaptive Phased Management Repository Research and Development at the Nuclear Waste Management Organization. He has worked more than 30 years in Canadian programs for managing used nuclear fuel and low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste. He provided key technical support to the NWMO for the development of conceptual designs and cost estimates for various approaches to the long-term management of nuclear fuel waste, and was one of the principal authors of the NWMO’s 2005 Final Study and recommendations to the Government of Canada, Choosing a Way Forward: the Future Management of Canada’s Used Nuclear Fuel.

“Ask the NWMO” is an advertising feature published regularly in this and other community newspapers to respond to readers’ questions about Canada’s plan for managing used nuclear fuel over the long term and its implementation. The Nuclear Waste Management Organization welcomes your questions. Please forward your questions to askthenwmo@nwmo.ca.

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La conception du dépôt géologique en profondeur prévoit une période prolongée de surveillance, suivant les activités de mise en place, afin de confirmer la sûreté et l’efficacité à long terme du dépôt. Les conteneurs de combustible irradié demeureront récupérables en tout temps. La SGDN, la collectivité hôte et les autorités de réglementation détermineront ensemble à quel moment il sera approprié de remblayer et de fermer le dépôt et détermineront la nature et la durée de la surveillance post-fermeture.

Sean Russell est le directeur de la recherche-développement pour le dépôt de la Gestion adaptative progressive à la Société de gestion des déchets nucléaires. Il a travaillé pendant plus de 30 ans pour des programmes canadiens de gestion du combustible nucléaire irradié et de déchets de faible et moyenne activité. Il a fourni à la SGDN un soutien technique de premier plan pour la mise au point des modèles conceptuels et l’estimation des coûts liés aux diverses approches de gestion à long terme des déchets de combustible nucléaire, et il a collaboré à la rédaction en 2005 de l’Étude finale de la SGDN et aux recommandations formulées au gouvernement du Canada, Choisir une voie pour l’avenir : L’avenir de la gestion du combustible nucléaire irradié au Canada.

« Demandez-le à la SGDN » est un encadré publicitaire qui paraîtra régulièrement dans ce journal et dans d’autres journaux de la collectivité pour répondre aux questions que se posent les lecteurs sur le plan canadien de gestion à long terme du combustible nucléaire irradié et de sa mise en oeuvre. La Société de gestion des déchets nucléaires attend vos questions. Veuillez envoyer vos questions à demandez@nwmo.ca.

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