October 14, 2010

Big winners at Michikan’s fall hunt PAGES 12 and 13 Vol. 37 #21

Sioux Lookout youth faces cancer ordeal PAGE 18

First Nation women recognized at awards PAGE 11 9,300 copies distributed $1.50

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Fort Severn barges forward Tom Terry Special to Wawatay News

Fort Severn residents have new hope for good food, healthy eating and local economic activities since the arrival of two band-chartered Moosonee Transportation Hudson Bay barges at the end of September.

Lower freight charges for fuel, food and materials mean the community of 400 people can begin to again utilize land-based food resources, as well as imagine and pursue a better lifestyle for themselves.

The first barge arrived on the evening of Sept. 29 and the second barge was ready to pull in after the first was finished unloading Oct. 1.

At one time, barges were able to drive upriver the entire six miles to the community from the coast.

But the aging Severn River is growing increasingly shallow and at present the barges must land within sight of Hudson Bay four miles downriver from the community landing.

The two barges were the first to arrive since 2008. Since then, the community has seen skyrocketing costs for necessities such as gasoline.

When supplies, such as gas, delivered by barge or on winter roads run out, gasoline is air delivered. As a result, the cost during much of 2009 and 2010 for gas was $3.75 per litre The significantly shortened winter road season in 2009 further contributed to the financial challenges for both the First Nation and its members, as well as for outside service agencies planning any capital or program delivery improvements in Fort Severn.

“It was really hard on people,” explained Fort Severn Chief Matthew Kakekaspan. “People didn’t get to go anywhere,” on the land for food, fuel wood gathering or cultural activities.

Access to country food resources to obtain necessary protein is essential for healthy eating on limited incomes in remote communities.

It is near impossible to properly feed a family on a typical food budget with groceries purchased exclusively from Northern Store outlets because of high prices, a reality in many remote communities.

The answer to healthy eating for most families is to supplement their protein from healthy land-based food resources.

But high fuel costs can often prevent most land-based activities. see COSTS page 22

Joe Beardy/Special to Wawatay News

Prayleen Nothing, Erin Bottle and her sister, Bee-oh, enjoy the activities at the boat launch as hunters bring in their ducks, geese and moose during Michikan Lake’s 2010 Severn River Fall Hunt Sept. 22.

ᐊᐧᔕᐦᐅᐠ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐠ ᑭᒋᒋᒪᓂᐠ ᑕᐅᒋ ᒪᐦᒋ ᐱᒪᐦᐅᑕᓱᑕᒪᐊᐧᐊᐧᐠ ᑕᐧᑦ ᑌᕑᐃ ᐊᐧᐊᐧᑌ ᐊᒋᒧᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐸᑭᑎᓂᑲᑌ ᐅᐁᐧ ᑎᐸᒋᒧᐃᐧᐣ

ᐊᐧᔕᐦᐅᐠ ᑲᑕᔑᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᒪᐡᑭᑯᐠ ᐊᔕ ᐅᑕᔭᓇᐊᐧ ᐅᐡᑭ ᐸᑯᓭᓂᒧᐃᐧᐣ ᒋᑌᐱᓇᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᐧᔭᐠ ᒋᐃᔑᓇᑲᐧᓂᐠ ᒥᒋᒪᐣ, ᑫᒥᓄᐡᑲᑯᐊᐧᐨ ᒥᒋᒪᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐅᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑫᐅᒋ ᒪᑕᓄᑲᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᔓᓂᔭᑫᑕᒪᓱᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᐊᑯᓇᐠ ᐊᐱᐣ ᑲᑭᑕᑯᔑᓄᒪᑲᑲᐧᐸᐣ ᓂᔑᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑲᐅᒋᔭᓄᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᒧᓱᓂ ᐱᒪᐦᐅᑕᓱ ᐦᐊᐟᓴᐣ ᐯ ᑭᒋ ᒋᒪᓇᐣ ᐊᐱ ᑲᔭᓂ ᐳᓇᑭᓱᐨ ᐊᐧᑌᐸᑲᐃᐧᐱᓯᑦ. ᐁᑲᐧ 400 ᑕᓯᓄᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᒪᐡᑭᑯᐠ ᐊᐧᔕᐦᐅᐠ ᑲᑕᔑᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᒥ ᐁᑲᐧ ᑫᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᑯᐊᐧᐨ ᒋᑭᐁᐧ ᓇᓇᓯᑲᒪᓱᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᐦᑭᐃᐧ ᐅᐣᑕᒋᐦᐅᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐱᑯ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᒣ ᒋᐅᒋ ᒥᓄᓭᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᐱᒪᑎᓯᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐃᒪ ᐃᓀᑫ ᒋᐅᒋ ᐁᐧᐣᑕᑭᑌᓂᐠ ᐱᒥᑌᓂ, ᒥᒋᒪᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐊᐸᒋᒋᑲᓇᐣ ᑲᐅᒋ ᑕᑲᐧᐦᐅᑕᓱᑕᒪᐃᐧᑕᐧ ᑭᒋ ᒋᒪᓂᐠ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᐱᐣ ᓂᐢᑕᑦ ᑲᑭ ᑕᑲᐧᐦᐅᑕᓱᑕᒪᐃᐧᑕᐧᐸᐣ ᑲᔭᓄᓇᑯᔑᓂᐠ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐊᐧᑌᐸᑲᐃᐧᐱᓯᒧᐣ 29 ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᑯᑕᐠ ᑭᐱᔕᑲᒣᐡᑲᒪᑲᐣ ᐊᐱ ᓂᐢᑕᑦ

ᑲᑭᐃᐡᑲᐧ ᐊᑲᐧᓇᓱᓇᓄᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᐱᒪᐊᒧᐃᐧᐱᓯᑦ ᑲᐅᐡᑲᑭᓱᐨ. ᐅᑕᓇᐠ ᐊᑯ ᑭᒋ ᒋᒪᓇᐣ ᑭᑲᐡᑭᐦᐅᒪᑲᓄᐸᓂᐣ ᒋᐅᒋ ᐱᒥᔭᒪᑲᑭᐣ ᑲᐃᔑᓂᑯᑕᐧᓱᑎᐸᐦᐊᑲᓀᔭᐠ ᓯᐱᐠ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐁᐧᑎ ᐊᐱᐣ ᓴᑭᑕᐊᐧᐣᐠ, ᐁᐧᑲ ᔕᑯᐨ ᑲᔭᓂᑫᑌᔭᐠ ᐊᐧᔕᐦᐅ ᓯᐱᐠ ᐊᓂᐱᒥᐃᐢᑲᑌ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᓄᑯᑦ ᐃᔑᓇᑕᐁᐧᐣᑕᑲᐧᓄᐣ ᑭᒋ ᒋᒪᓇᐣ ᒋᑭᐱᒋᒪᑲᑭᐣ ᓇᓀᐤ ᐦᐊᐟᓴᐣ ᐯ ᓇᐣᑕ ᓂᐅᑎᐸᐦᐊᑲᐣ ᓂᑲᑌ ᐊᐧᔕᐦᐅᐠ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᐅᓄᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᓂᔑᐣ ᑭᒋ ᒋᒪᓇᐣ ᐊᒥ ᐸᐢᑲᐣ ᐁᑭᐱᑕᑯᔑᓄᒪᑲᑭᐣ ᐊᑯᓇᐠ 2008 ᑲᔭᑭᐊᐧᐠ. ᒥᑕᐡ ᐊᐱᐣ ᑲᑭᔭᓂ ᒪᒋ ᐊᑲᐧᑭᐣᑌᑭᐣ ᐊᐸᒋᒋᑲᓇᐣ ᑐᑲᐣ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᑭᒋᐊᐸᑕᐠ ᑲᓴᓕᐣ. ᐊᑎᑲ ᐊᑯ ᑲᐱᑕᒪᐃᐧᑕ ᐊᐸᒋᒋᑲᓇᐣ ᑐᑲᐣ ᑲᓴᓕᐣ ᐃᒪ ᑭᒋ ᒋᒪᓂᐠ ᓇᐣᑕ ᐃᒪ ᐱᐳᓂ ᒥᑲᓇᐠ, ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᐱᐣ ᑲᓄᑌᒐᑭᓭᐊᐧᐨ, ᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐅᒋᑕᑯᐃᐧᑕᒪᐊᐧᐊᐧᐠ. ᒥᑕᐡ ᒥᓂᑯᐠ ᑲᑭᐃᓇᑭᑕᒪᐃᐧᑕ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ 2009 ᒥᓇ 2010 ᐃᐁᐧ ᑲᓴᓕᐣ $3.75 ᐯᔑᑯᒥᓂᑲᐧᑲᐣ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᓇᐱᐨ ᐊᒋᓇ ᑲᑭᐱᐳᐠ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ 2009 ᒥᐦᐃᒪ ᑲᑭᐅᒋ ᐊᓂᒥᐦᐃᑯᐊᐧᐨ

ᔓᓂᔭᓂᐠ ᐃᓀᑫ ᐃᑭᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᒪᐡᑭᑯ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐱᑯ ᐃᒪ ᑲᐅᒋᑎᐯᐣᑕᑯᓯᐊᐧᐨ, ᒥᓇ ᐱᑯ ᐊᑲᐧᒋᐠ ᑲᐅᒋᒪᑲᑭᐣ ᐊᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑲᐱᒧᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᐅᓇᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᑭᒋᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧᑫᑯᓇᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐱᑯ ᑲᐱᐅᓇᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᐃᓇᐣ ᐃᒪ ᐊᐧᔕᐦᐅᐠ. ᒥᑐᓂ ᐱᑯ ᐅᑭᐱᔭᓂᒥᐦᐃᑯᓇᐊᐧ ᐣᑕᓂᔑᓂᓂᒪᐠ, ᐃᑭᑐ ᐊᐧᔕᐦᐅ ᐅᑭᒪᑲᐣ ᒪᑎᔪ ᑲᑭᑫᔭᐢᐱᐣ. ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᑭᐅᒋ ᑲᐡᑭᑐᓇᐊᐧ ᓇᐣᑕ ᒋᑭᐊᐃᔑᐃᐧᓂᑎᓱᐊᐧᐨ, ᐁᐧᑎ ᐱᑲᐧᑕᑭᐠ ᒋᓇᓇᑕᐁᐧᒋᑫᐊᐧᐨ, ᓇᐣᑕ ᒋᓇᓇᑕᐃᐧᓂᓭᑕᒪᓱᐊᐧᐨ ᒥᓇ ᐱᑯ ᒋᐊᐃᑐᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᑐᑕᒧᐃᐧᓇᐣ. ᐅᐣᒋᑕ ᐱᑯ ᐃᓯᓭᓂ ᒋᑲᑫᐧ ᐅᐣᑎᓂᑫᑕᒪᓱᐊᐧᐨ ᐱᑲᐧᑕᑭᐃᐧᒥᒋᒪᐣ ᑫᑭᐅᒋ ᑭᔑᔕᐃᐧᐱᒪᑎᓯᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᐡ ᐁᑲ ᓇᐱᐨ ᐁᑭᔓᓂᔭᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ. ᑫᑲᐟ ᐃᑯ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᒋᑭᑌᐱᓭᐊᐧᐨ ᑎᐯᐣᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒥᓂᑯᐠ ᐃᐁᐧ ᑲᐃᓇᑭᐣᑌᑭᐣ ᒥᒋᒪᐣ ᐃᒪ ᑲᑦᐸᓂᐃᐧ ᐊᑕᐁᐧᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐠ ᒥᑐᓂ ᐱᑯ ᐁᑭᒋᐊᑭᐣᑌᑭᐣ ᐱᑯ ᐊᐣᑎ ᑲᐃᔑ ᐊᔭᑭᐣ ᐱᑲᐧᑕᐃᐧ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᑕᐡ ᓇᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᑯ ᐅᑐᒋᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᑯᓇᐊᐧ ᑎᐯᐣᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐱᑲᐧᑕᑭᐠ ᑲᐅᑎᓇᒪᓱᐊᐧᐨ

ᑫᑯᓇᐣ ᑐᑲᐣ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᔑᔑᒥᒋᒪᐣ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᔕᑯᐨ ᑭᐡᐱᐣ ᑲᐊᑲᐧᑭᐣᑌᐠ ᑲᓴᓕᐣ ᐁᑲ ᐅᐁᐧᓂ ᐁᑭᑐᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ. ᒥᐢᑕᐦᐃ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ ᑲᑭᐃᓇᑭᐣᑌᑭᐣ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ 2009 ᑲᔭᑭᐊᐧᐠ ᐸᐣᐟ ᐅᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᑫᐠ ᐅᑭᑐᑕᓇᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᒋᒧᒋ ᑎᐸᐦᐃᑫᑕᒪᐃᐧᑕᐧ ᐅᒥᓯᒥᐊᐧ ᑭᒋᐦᐊ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐅᑭᑐᑕᓇᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᐊᑎᐟ ᐁᑭᓂᓴᑭᐣᑕᒪᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᐱᑕᐦᐅᑕᓱᑲᑭᐣ ᐊᑎᐟ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ ᐁᑲ ᐁᐧᐨ ᒥᐢᑕᐃ ᒋᐃᓇᑭᐣᑌᑭᐣ. ᑲᑭᑫᔭᐢᐱᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐅᑐᓇᔓᐁᐧᐃᓂᓂᒪᐣ ᐅᑭᐅᓀᑕᓇᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᒋᐅᓇᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᓂᓴᑭᐣᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐊᑎᐟ ᐊᐸᒋᒋᑲᓇᐣ ᑫᑭᐅᒋ ᓂᓴᑭᐣᑕᒪᐃᐧᑕᐧ ᐊᐧᔕᐦᐅᐃᐧᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ. ᐃᓇᐱᐣ ᐸᑭᑭᓂᑲᓂᐠ 22

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

ᐧᐊᐧᐊᑌ ᐊᒋᒧᐧᐃᓇᐣ

Diabetes expo explores dangers of disease Xavier Kataquapit Special to Wawatay News

A presenter at the annual Diabetes Expo in Timmins Oct. 1 and 2 had some dire warnings for students attending his workshop.

“This is the first generation of Canadian children that will not outlive their parents,” said Chris Johnson, who also has diabetes.

“This is the first time in history that this will happen and part of it is due to an inactive lifestyle.”

To counter diabetes, he said it’s important to make sure kids are active.

“We have to work like hell to get kids up and off their butts and to be physically active.”

Johnson, a public speaker known as Dr. Laugh, held six workshops on the first day of the Diabetes Expo.

He spoke to youth about the importance of humour, self esteem, respect, team building, sport and physical education in regards to healthy child development.

The two-day event featured youth programs, public workshops, health care and cooking demonstrations, guest speakers and children’s activities. The first day focused on local school children from the Timmins area, including a group from the Mattagami First Nation.

First Nation health care organizations played an important role in organizing and supporting the annual event and for good reason.

About 20 per cent of the Aboriginal population live with diabetes and the prevalence of type 2 diabetes is three to five times the national average.

Non-Native and First Nation health care professionals and community organizers pooled their resources and energies in staging the expo with the strategy of providing as much information as possible about diabetes in an exciting, entertaining and educational way.

Close to 300 elementary school students took part. They came from St. Paul Elementary, Pinecrest Elementary and W. Earle Miller School in Timmins and from the Mary Jane Naveau Memorial School in Mattagami First Nation. They participated in physical activity workshops and healthy snack demonstrations .

“We want to start early to teach children healthy eating habits and physical activity,” said Claudia Gorenko, a registered dietician at Porcupine Health Unit.

Jake Sarazin, principal of Mary Jane Naveau Memorial School in Mattagami First Nation, accompanied six students from his community to take part in the expo.

“It is very important for our children to learn about the disease of diabetes,” said Sarazin.

“There is a high incidence of this disease in the Native community so it is good to educate our children so that they can make good choices.”

Xavier Kataquapit/Special to Wawatay News

Health professionals and educators worked together to create the annual Diabetes Expo in Timmins Oct. 1 and 2. Front, from left, Claudia Gorenko, Porcupine Health Unit, Julie St. Onge, Canadian Diabetes Association and Peggy Claveau, Wabun Health Services. Back, from left, Martha Clementino, Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Martin Paul, Porcupine Health Unit, Chris Johnson, presenter, Tracey Michel, YMCA, Karen Sutherland, Timmins Native Friendship Centre, Holly Pontello, Diabetes Education Centre and Richard Aubin, Métis Nation of Ontario.

Elizabeth Etherington who is originally from Attawapiskat First Nation shared her story as a diabetic. Etherington, who works with the Timmins Native Friendship Centre’s Lifelong Care Program, has lived with type 2 diabetes for the past 14 years.

“I was diagnosed in 1996 and at first I did not accept having this disease and I lived in denial of my condition for many years,” said Etherington.

She explained part of her motivation to change her diet came from learning more about her cultural past through healing lodge ceremonies and the guidance of traditional people.

“Instead of sugar drinks,

I began having water more often because I realized this was something our Creator had given us,” said Etherington. “It was natural and it came from the land. I learned that one of the ways to stay healthy was to eat more natural foods like our people did in the past.”

Since January she lost 25 pounds and has managed to bring her diabetes under control through a more natural and moderate diet with plenty of exercise.

Karen Sutherland, also of the Timmins Native Friendship Centre and a Diabetes Expo committee member, explained diabetes awareness and healthy lifestyles is a critical message for

Aboriginal people.

“I think it is important for us to have events such as this, especially for our children,” Sutherland said. “We have to teach our youth about diabetes because they will be impacted the most by this disease. It is our responsibility now to make sure that they have all guidance they need for the future.”

Diabetes is on the rise and a report in early September released by the Canadian Diabetes Association detailed the growing number of Ontarians affected by diabetes.

According to the report, about 1.2 million people in Ontario were diagnosed with type 1 or type 2 diabetes in

2010, or about 8.3 per cent of the population. The number of people with diabetes in Ontario is expected to rise in the next decade to account for almost 12 per cent of the population by 2020.

Across the country, First Nation leaders, health care organizations and health professionals are actively involved in programs to prevent and treat diabetes.

The high rate of diabetes in First Nations predisposes Aboriginal people living with this disease to higher rates of heart disease, kidney disease, blindness, amputations and infectious disease, expo organizers said.

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ᐧᐊᐧᐊᑌ ᐊᒋᒧᐧᐃᓇᐣ

Film highlights impact of suicide in KI Rick Garrick Wawatay News

“We’re broken, broken from the past and it’s like a ripple effect that needs to stop and the real healing begin.”

Those were the words of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug’s Tina Sainnawap as she described the story of her eight nieces and nephews, whose parents had committed suicide, during the beginning of Andree Cazabon’s documentary film 3rd World Canada.

Sainnawap attended the film’s Sept. 30 premiere at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto and its Oct. 2 screening during the Bay Street Film Festival in Thunder Bay. “It was emotional for me because it brought back the pain of losing my sister to suicide and the pain of how my nieces and nephews must have felt when their parents committed suicide,” Sainnawap said about the premiere in Toronto, which she attended with two of her nieces and three community members.

“I’m not sure how my nieces were – they didn’t say much.”

Sainnawap first felt angry when she learned about Cazabon’s plans to interview her nieces and nephews about the deaths of their mother, who committed suicide more than four years ago, her second common-law husband, who committed suicide a month and a half prior to their mother, and her first husband, who had committed suicide years before.

“At first I wasn’t aware of what she was doing, but the first thought that came to my mind at the time was anger because my nephews and nieces have been through a lot and now somebody was filming them and asking them questions,” Sainnawap said. “I just felt like she was going to hurt my nieces and nephews.”

Sainnawap hopes the film will open other’s eyes so they will seek healing for all their pain.

“It’s so important to stress a positive outlook on life no matter what happens in life,

to move on and heal from it,” Sainnawap said. “It takes determination, commitment and courage to bring change to your life. It also takes hard work and perseverance during the healing process.”

“What’s baffling about the film is that I certainly didn’t go out of my way looking for the most tragic story I could find – I just stumbled upon it.”

– Andree Cazabon

Cazabon said she first learned about suicide orphans during a visit to the Treaty 3 community of Ojibways of Onigaming near Fort Frances.

“It blew me away,” Cazabon said. “After that visit in Onigaming, I decided to showcase this issue but in a remote community. So that’s how my journey

Years of work leads to health authority launch James Thom Wawatay News

The last federal “Indian” hospital in Canada has been closed.

As part of the launch of the Weeneebayko Area Health Authority (WAHA) Oct. 1, the federal Weeneebayko General Hospital in Moose Factory was integrated with the provincial James Bay General Hospital in Moosonee.

WAHA falls under provincial jurisdiction, explained Lawrence Martin, director of communications and community relations for WAHA. “After many years of working to improve the health of our people, we have achieved the next important step and WAHA is now a reality,” said WAHA chairman Leo Loone.

The framework for Weeneebayko was signed in 2007 following more than a decade of work, Martin explained.

The creation of WAHA paves the way for the integration of hospital services. Under WAHA, patients and users can expect more efficient and culturally appropriate health care services, Martin said.

“Everything was integrated (Oct. 1) but there’s still a lot of work to do,” Martin said. “For example, we’re still looking at how to amalgamate the (information technology) department ... between the two sites.

“Also, we’re getting everything organized when dealing with five different unions. They all received their first WAHA payments this week.”

Martin said the integration will allow for better co-ordination of federal and provincial programs and services, as well as better access to community health services and programs to address local health issues such as diabetes, mental health, and suicide prevention.

WAHA brings about a large political change, Martin explained.

It is the only health authority responsible for all health and medical issues in its catchment area in the province, he

said. That makes it responsible not just for hospital services, but also long-term care, community care and other services required to improve the health of area families.

Federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq called the agreement historic.

“By integrating federal and provincial hospital services and programs under a First Nation controlled organization, local residents will see real and positive change in health care deliver y, focused on community needs,” Aglukkaq said.

Martin explained WAHA will be governed by a communitybased regional board.

WAHA will also enter into a service accountability agreement with the North East Local Health Integration Network (LHIN), which is responsible for planning, funding and integrating health care services in an area spanning Parry Sound southwardly to White River in the West and Attwapiskat to the North.

Peter Vaudry, North East LHIN chairman said it is clear a lot of work went into the agreement.

“Today’s historic event is a result of a respectful and thoughtful approach of many people,” Vaudry said. “It represents a collective and genuine response to better meet the health care needs of people living along the Hudson and James Bay coasts.”

Under WAHA, some health care issues will be easier to deal with, Martin said.

“It was hard with two different policies in place,” Martin said. “Ambulances were a provincial (policy) and we were federal. Now, we’re all provincial.

“In the next few months, management will review, plan and implement more changes and improvements,” Martin said.

Discussions have already taken placed about building a new small hospital in Kashechewan, but those are future goals, he said.

with the film began.”

Cazabon said 3rd World Canada is the most important film she has made so far. Her four other films, including Wards of the Crown, the Best Socialpolitical Documentary at the 2006 Golden Sheaf Awards, have been seen by more than one million viewers over the past decade on television and at film festivals across Canada.

“What’s baffling about the film is that I certainly didn’t go out of my way looking for the most tragic story I could find – I just stumbled upon it,” Cazabon said. “I’m left to wonder what other stories I would have found in communities not as prosperous as KI.” The 50-minute film, which was shot in KI around the time of the KI 6 sentencing, jailing and eventual release, looked into the First Nations suicide issue through the story of eight siblings who were orphaned in a community struggling with Third World conditions after their parents committed suicide.

The KI 6 – Chief Donny Morris,

Deputy Chief Jack McKay, Head Coun. Cecilia Begg, Councillors Sam McKay and Darryl Sainnawap and band member Bruce Sakakeep – were sentenced March 17, 2008 to six months in jail for civil contempt of court after disobeying a court order allowing junior mining exploration company Platinex Inc. to access KI traditional territory.

They were released May 23 after serving 68 days after an agreement was reached between the community, the government of Ontario, and Platinex Inc. to allow the KI6 to attend their sentencing appeal at the Ontario Court of Appeal May 28 in Toronto, where the judges reduced their sentences to time served.

Ontario reached an agreement with Platinex in December 2008 to settle the on-going litigation over the company’s Big Trout Lake Property in return for $5 million and potential future royalty interest on the property. In addition, the government withdrew those lands from staking and mineral explo-

ration.

Cazabon said the point of the film is not to bring people to the point of tears.

Cazabon said while some may feel like going home and pulling a covering over their heads and saying this is too big, what is needed is action.

“If our eyes are opened to the suffering that is happening in KI and many other First Nations communities across the country, when we start to fix it, we also start to fix ourselves,” Cazabon said. “Ultimately, what is really wrong is legislation that treats First Nations people as a trust responsibility of the federal government. That doesn’t just hurt First Nations people, it hurts all of us.”

The film was shot with the participation of Tikinagan Child and Family Services, KI and the Mamow-Sha-way-gi-kay-win: North South Partnership for Children through funding from the Law Foundation of Ontario, Atkinson Charitable Foundation, Laidlaw Foundation and Ontario Arts Council.

Top prize

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Ryan Nothing and Johnny Kitchenese brought in four moose and ducks to win the 2010 Severn River Fall Hunt Sept. 22 in Michikan Lake and a cash prize of $10,000. See story and full results on pages 12 and 13.

SIU clears officers in Lac Seul shooting Brent Wesley Wawatay News

The Special Investigations Unit recently cleared three OPP officers in the May 9 shooting death of Lac Seul’s Brian Gray.

Gray was killed after a stand off with an OPP emergency response team dispatched to the community of Whitefish Bay on the Lac Seul First Nation.

According to Ian Scott, director of SIU, the three officers were justified in using lethal force either in self-defence or to prevent the death of a hostage.

“Mr. Gray represented an imminent threat to the lives and

safety of all those around him,” Scott said.

According to the SIU report released Oct. 1, events around the shooting death unfolded during the early morning hours of May 9 as follows: Lac Seul Police Service informed the OPP of shots fired

by Gray near the residence of George Carpenter, 54.

As the OPP was mobilizing, further reports came in that someone was shot, Gray was holding a gun to his own head and six people remained in the residence.

Shortly after, another report said Gray went to his own house

for more ammunition and returned to Carpenter’s home where more shots were fired.

Around 6 a.m. a woman at the scene was treated with a gunshot wound to her hand.

When the OPP emergency response team arrived at 8 a.m., with the three officers in question, they were told Gray was still armed in the residence and Carpenter was dead.

More than an hour later Gray came out of the house holding another man hostage with the muzzle of a rifle against the back of the hostage’s head.

At this time, police shouted demands for Gray to drop his

weapon and get down on the ground.

However, Gray did not comply with the commands. When he fired a shot into the air, his hostage dropped to the ground.

Gray let out a loud scream and was then shot several times by the officers.

Still conscious, Gray was handcuffed and taken to an ambulance nearby. He was then transported to the Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre where he died.

Three investigators and two forensic investigators were assigned by the SIU to probe the incident.

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Commentary

Waging war on diabetes Xavier Kataquapit UNDER THE NORTHERN SKY

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received good news this weekend thanks to my visit to the Diabetes Expo in Timmins where a community health nurse provided on the spot glucose level blood tests for visitors.

I am aware of the high rate of this disease with First Nation people. To top it off I have family members who are living with diabetes so I had plenty of reason to get tested.

In the past I did not seriously consider getting a glucose test, partly out of fear that I may have the disease already. The Diabetes Expo made it easy so I sat down to get tested. In a minute I had my result.

All I could think of while I was being tested was that I had consumed this huge breakfast of bacon, eggs, home fries and coffee. Like most people these days I don’t exercise enough as I watch way too much TV and spend hours at the computer.

I was worried my levels would jump completely off the scale.

Thankfully, my blood sugar level registered 5.8, within the healthy normal range.

When I got up from the test, I felt like celebrating and chowing down on something really tasty. It was such a relief to know I was on track with my sugar levels. Due to the fact that I have several family members and friends who have to deal with diabetes, I have tried my best over the past few years to eat moderately and to keep my sugar and fat intake down. I try to stay away from foods with lots of the white poison (sugar) and my big breakthrough was cutting back on soda pop, chocolate bars and candy.

When it comes to the blood glucose test, I think many people have the same counter intuitive fear that what we don’t know won’t hurt us. Even if people have not been diagnosed with diabetes and they don’t feel symptoms of the disease, they could still have high glucose levels. People can be living with a condition known as prediabetes, where an individual has a high glucose level but is just short of an actual diagnosis of the disease. It means that someone with pre-diabetes is on their way to having the fullfledged disease if they don’t get a handle on their diet and general health.

During the two-day Diabetes Expo, I had an opportunity to listen to health professionals, front line health care workers and people living with diabe-

tes communicate about this disease. They made it clear diabetes is on the rise throughout the country. The rate is much higher for Aboriginal people.

I spoke to Chris Johnson, a presenter and public speaker known as ‘Dr Laugh’, about why diabetes education and public awareness was so important.

He repeated a message I heard from other health care workers during the two-day event.

The rise in the number of people living with diabetes or pre-diabetes in the next few decades will mean this generation of young people will be the first to not outlive their parents.

In a recent report by the Canadian Diabetes Association, it said by 2020, one in four people in Ontario will be living either with diabetes or pre-diabetes. Since Aboriginal people are more susceptible to this disease, it is also thought that there will be a higher rate of diabetes in the Native community. This is a life-threatening situation.

I also had an opportunity to speak with Elizabeth Etherington from Attawapiskat. She was open in talking about her diabetes, which was diagnosed in 1996.

Her story was like many I had heard from First Nation people in the Far North. She went into denial about her disease for a long time and never did much to slow or stop the progression.

After watching others around her suffer with this disease, she decided to take responsibility for her own health.

Her message of hope for others is based on her rediscovery of cultural and traditional knowledge. She learned from traditional teachers to look at her life in a natural way more closely connected to the land and the environment.

One change was in drinking water instead of juice or pop.

She began to see drinking pure water was a gift from the Creator that is natural and healthy.

Soon after, she began to apply this traditional view to the rest of her diet and it has helped in managing her diabetes. Along with a regular routine of exercise, over the past eight months, she has lost 25 pounds.

Even though I may have tested for a moderate blood glucose level, I need to do a full test to be sure of my health. I plan on taking care of myself by getting more physical exercise and cutting back on sweets and junk food. Thanks to Elizabeth I am reminded natural foods and good old-fashioned pure water is the way to go.

My people lived this way for thousands of years and diabetes did not exist. Perhaps it is time to return to the traditions and cultural ways of our ancestors as a matter of survival.

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Bonding with Two Skunks Richard Wagamese ONE NATIVE LIFE

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hen I was in my late 30s I traveled to the Temagami area of northern Ontario. There was a retreat there for Native men who had experienced cultural dislocation, who’d been displaced from themselves and their identity. Because I’d been a product of foster homes and non-Native adoption I went to spend 10 days reconnecting to traditional ways and teachings.

We were guided by a team of Elders and healers. For the most part those of us who travelled there were city dwellers, more used to the pace of urban life than the bush or reservation. Most of us did not speak our language. The majority had never had any link to the bush ways of their people or the traditional teachings that guided them. None of us had ever directly faced the issues of our displacement.

As soon as we arrived we were paired up in tents. My tent mate’s name was Paul and he was a 39-year-old half-Cree man from northern Quebec.

He lived in Montreal, worked as a pastry chef and had never been beyond the city in his life.

Like me he had been taken away from his people as a toddler.

Unlike me he had been in

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more than 20 foster homes by the time he was 16. He’d come to the camp to begin the journey back to tribal identity.

On the first day of sessions, we were asked to choose an animal to use as our name for the length of our stay. We were to tell the group why we had chosen the animal we had. I called myself Wandering Bear.

I said I admired the bear for his ability to live alone for great lengths of time yet still crave family and togetherness.

When it came Paul’s turn he said that he was a skunk.

He sat with his head down, staring at the ground, clasping and unclasping his fingers. He said he chose a skunk because they’re scavengers, rooting around for whatever they can find.

“What’s lower than a skunk?” he asked.

“I don’t know,” one of the guides replied. “Two?” From that day on he was Two Skunks.

We travelled a great journey in those ten days. We learned to build fires without paper and matches. We learned to set gill nets, clean fish, shoot rapids in a canoe, snare rabbits, read animal tracks and build a bow and arrows in the traditional manner. We spent a night alone in the bush, building lean-tos from spruce boughs. But we also learned about the spiritual way that guided all of those practices.

There were sweat lodge ceremonies, prayer and smudging circles, tobacco offerings, drumming circles and a lot of

talk. Each of us spoke about growing up without the benefit of our Native identity. Each of us shared stories of displacement, awkwardness, the struggle to fit in and to belong.

We talked of where our trails had taken us and how we felt about where we’d been.

Two Skunks spoke so quietly we had to strain to hear him.

Over the course of days he shared about the sexual abuse he’d suffered at the hands of a foster father. He’d never spent a whole year in any one home.

When he was sixteen and old enough to be on his own he went to the streets of Montreal.

He sold himself there. To men.

He drank and drugged. He stole and went to prison where he sold himself again just to survive.

He talked of hating his skin.

He spoke of wanting sometimes to just scrape it off, how he felt betrayed by it and how no one had ever given him any answers about where he came from, who his people were and who he was supposed to be. He spoke of never feeling honest or deserving or worthy.

But the Elders took him in their hands. They had healing ceremonies for him and we all got to attend. They gave him permission to cry about it all and he did. In the sweat lodge he cried for himself and prayed hard for the ability to forgive himself. Then he prayed for the forgiveness of the ones who hurt him. At nights we talked quietly in our tent and he spoke of the incredible feeling of light that was beginning to

shine in him.

Then one day, he asked me to come along with him and an Elder. We walked deep into the bush and Two Skunks made tobacco offerings and gave thanks for everything that had ever happened in his life. He thanked the universe for the gifts of those teachings.

Then he put those offerings in the ground, returned them to earth and sang a prayer song.

When the retreat was over we hugged and went our separate ways. He wrote me sporadically through the years.

He joined a drum group in Montreal, started to learn his language and attended talking circles and sweat lodges every week. He wrote about feeling happy, about being connected, about finally feeling Indian.

But like all things time and distance become time and distance he never wrote again.

Then, one day, a letter arrived. It was written by a woman who said she was Paul’s wife. She was a Cree woman and they’d been married four years and had a young daughter named Rain.

Two Skunks had died of complications from diabetes. He was 44. But he’d become a traditional dancer and singer.

He helped guide a traditional camp in her community and he spoke his language fluently.

When he died he was buried in the traditional way.

I sat with that letter in my hands for a long time. Then I went deep into the bush, returned it to earth and gave thanks for the teaching.

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LETTERS First Nations need to be ‘managers and beneficiaries’ over land use planning in Far North To the Editor: Even in the explanatory notes, and in the main body of the proposed Bill 191, the area of interest is referred as the Far North area.

For the Ojibway and Cree Nations, it is their homelands.

Their common heritages, languages and territories bestow their sovereignty and nationhood status. These sovereign nations signed a treaty in 1905 and 1929 with another sovereign nation represented by the Crown of England.

Today, the Far North area is the Treaty 9 territory. Bill 191 fails to recognize this historical, legal, international, and political status of our homelands.

The successor state for upholding treaty obligations is Canada. It is responsible for upholding the honour of the Crown. They are responsible for protecting our treaty relation-

ship, just as the Cree and Ojibway Nations are upholding their responsibilities. Canada needs to intervene, as well as be at the table.

Bill 191 passed third reading in the legislature last month and will be enacted into law when it receives royal assent by the Lieutenant Governor. What is alarming is Ontario proclaiming support of Bill 191 by First Nations who are currently participating in community-based land use plans.

These land use plans will be integrated into Bill 191 after it passes.

In essence, these land use plans are already implementing Bill 191 before it becomes law. It is up to each Indigenous community or tribal council to determine how they will respond.

Bill 191 was heralded as a dynamic environmental policy to fight climate change and

First Nation youth answer to job shortages in Canada To the Editor: Anyone thinking seriously about the future of our region – and Canada – will start asking questions about the education of a key group of youth.

Firstly, Canada’s population is getting older. Retirements will create shortages in many trades and professions. Should governments plan for this?

Should they help youth get the education to do those jobs?

Most of us see this as a government responsibility.

Secondly, what major group of Canadians is growing the fastest? Which has the youngest average age? Which group has only about two-thirds as many members finishing a post-secondary education?

Look again: a young population, growing fast, with people ready for post-secondary training. This is the profile of Canada’s First Nations. Their median age is 27, compared to non-Aboriginals at 40.

Thirdly, one group of Canadians experiences more poverty, disease, unemployment and bad housing than the average.

Should governments be helping these Canadians work their way out of these problems?

Each year the number of potential students grows. Each year the costs increase. As a result, the number of students who are denied help grows year by year.

Note the question didn’t say ‘solve all these problems for them.’ It also didn’t say ‘treat them like children who can’t manage themselves.’

The question was about offering the support people need to improve their own situation.

OK, let’s review. We need more people with work skills.

First Nations people need more education, training and jobs.

And there are a lot of them, with more coming.

Governments, and especially the federal government, should be able to put that picture together. Get those youth into training and education programs. But the federal government doesn’t seem to get the connection.

For example, the Post-Secondary Student Support Program provides funds to send First Nations youth to post-secondary training and education.

Lawyers, professors, carpenters, miners, teachers and nurses – there are First Nations people in all of those jobs. There could be more.

So why is the government weakening and underfunding this program at the time of greatest need and opportunity?

Why keep First Nations youth out of school? We need to be helping employers and First Nations youth, not hindering them.

Here are some facts from a recent report on this: • First Nations poverty will cost Canada up to $11 billion per year by 2016. Yet the current government is effectively reducing an investment known to rein in poverty.

• Since First Nations took direct control of their postsecondary funding, graduating students increased dramatically from about 3,600 in 1977-78 to 27,500 in 1999-2000.

• A cap was put on postsecondary funding in 1996-97.

Does this make sense for the fastest growing group of students in Canada?

• Since that cap, the number served decreased by 20 per cent from 27,500 down to 22,000 in 2008-2009. More than 10,000 students were denied access from 2001 to 2006.

Each year the number of potential students grows. Each year the costs increase. As a result, the number of students who are denied help grows year by year.

The government is ignoring their needs; ignoring Canada’s need for more trained and educated workers. It is ignoring the opportunity to help people improve their own lives and ignoring the opportunity to reduce the need for costly social programs. It is also ignoring the workforce needs of Canadian employers.

For these students, for employers, for taxpayers and for the good of the Canadian economy, I will push the government to make smart investments like these.

This is about common sense.

If First Nations youth prosper it will help all of northwestern Ontario to prosper.

Bruce Hyer MP Thunder Bay-Superior North

global warming. Their answer to this problem is to protect 225,000 square kilometres of forest as a carbon bed and sequestration to appease the environmental groups and force them to support Bill 191 at the expense of the Indigenous nations.

It is also an economic policy to open Treaty 9 to resource development. They have continued approving mining claims, forestry licenses, roads and energy development to the general public while Bill 191 is being debated and passed. If this is the case, then what will be left for the First Nations’ land use plans after Bill 191 becomes law?

In numerous sections it states Bill 191 has exceptions such as “...the right to acquire, use or occupy public land or to carry out activities on public land if the person exercising the right acquired it before the day the

plan comes into force...” and Section 11 (1) states “ no person shall undertake any of the following developments in the area except if the required authorization for the development has been obtained before the day this Act comes into force.”

The present communitybased land use plans will be approved only if they do not affect authorized developments and only if they meet the government’s strategy and policy statements.

In addition, they have to be approved by cabinet of the Ontario government including the premier.

The government should have called a moratorium on resource development and permits for new initiatives until after Bill 191 was passed. Perhaps the Cree and Ojibway nations can declare this moratorium until their positions are recognized

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by Ontario. It would include suspension of their community based land use plans, MOUs and negotiations with developers.

There are many other concerns on the bill but what is more important is the absence of Indigenous rights, jurisdiction and treaty relations.

Bill 191 does not have provisions on how First Nations will share in the future decision making over their lands; nothing on resource management, conservation and environmental protection; nothing on enforcing their plans.

There are no guarantees how natural resource revenues and benefits will be shared by the private and government sectors.

The only aspects of future involvement is being on advisory boards and review of land use plans every 10 years. This is not good enough!

The Cree and Ojibway Nations residing in the Treaty

9 region must have a collective strategy based on unity of purpose. Some of this strategy has already been aired by our leaders but, they need to follow through with their public statements or risk loss of integrity.

One option is to develop our own collective regional development plans and land use plans that will guide resource development and related infrastructure in our territory. It’s time.

We don’t need the permission of foreign governments to do this. We have to start exercising our authority and jurisdictions as governments.

If Ontario, Canada or its capitalist system wants to get involved, they can do so as partners and investors.

But we have to be the managers and beneficiaries of the change we desire.

Dean Cromarty Wunnumin Lake

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Your views on the Far North Act from wawataynews.ca Through micro-film, I was reading an article in Wawatay News from 1990. The Ontario government released new policy guidelines for Native self-government and in it, it specified land use planning and economic development as areas where they were going to consult Aboriginals on those issues. We can still clearly see today, that hasn’t happened. The appointment of a coordinator by McGuinty with regards to the Ring of Fire is another example, again without the consultation from the Aboriginals sector. Why don’t Aboriginals trust government? Well, there’s your answer.

TMillard We need to invoke our Anishinaabe bagitinigewin. Our traditional laws in our language supersede any legislature in North America or in the world for that matter. Our language is our power. We need to use our language to protect our lands and waters.

We will need to use our language because our knowledge and values are imbedded with a sacred bond. We will lose our lands and culture if we don’t stop foreign companies and governments coming into our territories to take out our resources. These resources need to be developed by us in our own way and time. These resources can fund our languages and other First Nations endeavours as we see fit for our children’s future.

Eli Baxter First of all, I do not need the legislation to tell me that I have a voice. My voice was granted to me by our forefathers who signed the treaty. Secondly by signing the treaty our forefathers allowed another government to come in and share our land, by that virtue we are a government who must exercise our rights to be at minimum joint-decision makers on our own lands.

Raymond Ferris

Misiwe Minoyawin Wawatay Native Communications Society has partnered with the Northern Nishnawbe Education Council to launch the Misiwe Minoyawin (Health For Everyone) project.

Misiwe Minoyawin’s goal is to demonstrate to Aboriginal youth in northern Ontario, especially the communities Wawatay serves in Nishnawbe Aski Nation and Treaty #3, how healthy lifestyle choices can boost overall well-being.

The 18 month project will focus on the issues of substance abuse, tobacco use, healthy eating, maintaining an active lifestyle and mental health.

It will do this through a recipe book, videos, a community-based ad campaign contest and a youth role model campaign.

Recipe Submissions: The recipe book will address healthy eating by promoting proper and culturally appropriate nutrition and healthy eating habits. We want YOU to submit your recipes to be included in this cookbook. The only guidelines are that all recipes include traditional foods and methods to prepare meals that are low in saturated fats and rened carbohydrates.

This cookbook will also create an awareness of unhealthy modern eating habits and hopes that the book will aid in building healthy eating habits to lower the risk of diabetes, which is prevalent among First Nation peoples in northern Ontario.

Another aspect of this recipe book is the soliciting of the legends/stories behind the traditional foods in the submitted recipes: wild rice, berries and wild game for example.

For more info contact: Chris Kornacki Misiwe Minoyawin Project Co-ordinator 807.344.3022 (ofce) 1.888.575.2349 (toll free) 807.344.3182 (fax) chrisk@wawatay.on.ca Funding provided by the Ontario Ministry of Health and the Healthy Communities Fund

Grassy Narrows clan mothers won’t back down from MNR To the Editor: Our community is repairing washouts and beaver damage to nearby back roads to facilitate our ongoing use and enjoyment of our traditional territory.

The back roads are used

by Grassy Narrows members to access hunting, trapping, wild rice and berry picking areas, medicine gathering and ceremonial site access, and for access to the Ball Lake fishing lodge.

For generations the lodge has been a key source of employment for our community, but since the mercury poisoning of the English-Wabigoon River System, the lodge has had minimal economic development benefits for us.

We the grandmothers, mothers, and clan mothers of the Anishinabek will be at the Slant Lake blockade site to make sure there is safe passage for the road workers to enter into our natural territories and to make sure there is no harassment of any kind from any person or organization so the workers can complete their work as instructed by our people.

We the Indigenous peoples of this land sanction the work of these road repair people in any shape or form. Any question on work activities will be directed directly to us at the blockade site and no form of communication or harassment will be handled by the workers.

As our community stated in our moratorium call on Jan. 17, 2007: From time immemorial we, the Asubpeeschoseewagong Anishnaabek (Grasy Narrows Oijibway) have occupied, cherished, and gained sustenance from, our traditional territory. This land is integral to our identity and existence as Anishnaabe people. As the Indigenous people of this area, we retain our language, our culture, our land, our governance, and our spirituality.

On this basis we assert our innate sovereignty and our inalienable right to self determination on our traditional lands.

Our land and these inherent rights are given by the Creator and only the Creator can take them away.

In addition to these inherent rights we also have rights recognized in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, other international and national law, in our treaty and in Supreme Court of Canada rulings.

We the Anishinabek have never given up jurisdiction on our natural territories. We agreed to share the lands with the newcomers, but we will never give up our inherent right to use and protect the land,

water and the forests.

We never agreed to be subject to provincial permitting processes that restrict our access and use of our own territory. Even the Canadian courts have recognized this right. Our people have fought and won on the question of using our territory.

In spite of this Ontario again claims we need a permit and threatens to stop our road repairs.

Ontario claims the permits are for the safety of people and the environment.

The same province that permitted Reed Paper to dump 20,000 pounds of mercury into our river, decimated our fishing livelihood and culture and still refuses to acknowledge our mercury poisoning, claims to be stopping minor road repairs for our safety and for the Fisheries Act? The same government that permitted the industrial clearcut logging of the forests we depend on, the aerial spraying with herbicides and who still refuses to respect our right to say no, claims to be protecting our environment.

This hypocrisy is so flagrant it is shameful. It is an attempt to rob us of our livelihood, our health and our culture.

We have had enough of your permits. They serve only to protect the profits of the corporations, they have never protected us or the environment.

We will never cease fulfilling the duty given to us by the Creator to use and protect our land, air, and water.

The road repairs are part of a process of reclamation and revival for Grassy Narrows where our people are using the land on our territory to empower ourselves, to sustain our families, revive our culture and heal our community.

We are rebuilding what has been taken away from us by decades of provincial permits.

We demand that the government immediately take responsibility for the mercury poisoning of our people and correct this injustice once and for all.

We demand that industrial logging cease on our territory.

Enough harm has been done to our people, we will take of our territory and determine our own future.

The Ministry of Natural Resources attempt to stop maintenance of the roads is an attack on our community’s self sufficiency. It is another attempt by the province to assert unilateral control over the territory in violation of our inherent and treaty rights.

We will not allow it.

The clan mothers of Grassy Narrows

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Citing a willingness to learn from one another, Wasaya Group Inc. and Lac Seul First Nation have signed an agreement to explore joint venture partnerships and economic activity in the region.

While no specific ventures have been discussed yet, Wasaya Group president and CEO Tom Kamenawatamin said one area of great interest to his organization is learning more about tourism and tourist camps which Lac Seul has operated for decades.

“We want to learn their knowledge (about tourist camps) to pass on to our tourism operators,” Kamenawatamin said. “Lac Seul has experience in this sector. That’s what

A pair of wellness workers have been hired in Kashechewan to help develop programs and provide tools and mentoring to help community youth reach their full potential.

The initiative was announced Oct. 5.

“The well-being of youth is a priority for Kashechewan First Nation,” said Chief Jonathan Solomon. “I am pleased that we have been able to partner with Ontario to hire two Youth Wellness Workers in the community.

Youth from my community frequently raise recreational opportunities and sports as a priority and I look forward to building our partnership.”

The workers will develop programming to promote leadership skills, self esteem and physical activity among the youth in Kashechewan. They were hired from within the community.

“Sport and recreation programs improve the quality of life of youth,” said Minister of Health Promotion and Sport Margarett Best. “The youth wellness workers in Kashechewan will enrich the lives of Aboriginal youth in building capacity for health and wellness, selfesteem and confidence, as well as being role models for youth in their communities.”

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The agreement was announced Sept. 12 and had been in the works for about a year through discussion between Lac Seul Chief Clifford Bull and Kamenawatamin.

Sam Manitowabi, general manager of economic development for Lac Seul is excited about the prospect of working with Wasaya.

“Our community will benefit from the additional opportunities open to us as a result of this willingness to work together,” Manitowabi said. “Wasaya is a major corporation and service provider to northwestern Ontario, specifically the Sioux Lookout and Red Lake areas.

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Opportunities abound thanks to the agreement, Manitowabi said.

“I think many synergies will be created,” he said. “I think we can provide Wasaya a place to operate out of and if that happens Lac Seul First Nation will have added to its economic base leading to further opportunities within the community.”

Bull and Kamenawatamin said other sectors where partnerships could be possible are transportation, training, forestry, distribution systems and fuel.

Kamenawatamin is confident the alliance between Lac Seul and Wasaya will lead to major economic benefits to both partners.

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“These relationships have resulted in having a major impact on the lives of First Nations and others who have benefited and utilized our companies and non-profit services over the years,” Kamenawatamin said.

Bull said the agreement will open Lac Seul to additional markets.

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Wasaya Group, Lac Seul to team for economic development

Wasaya Group president and CEO Tom Kamenawatamin, left, and Lac Seul Chief Clifford Bull recently signed an agreement to pursuit mutually beneficial economic development opportunities.

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Beyond the Hurt James Thom/Wawatay News

Canadian Red Cross casual trainer Tamara Simon, second from right, discusses abuse, violence and bullying with several Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School students. The student participants, including Katrina Meekis, left, Chanelle Keno and St. John Kakegamic, right, were chosen because they are in the school’s leadership class or are recognized leaders from within the student population. Royal Bank of Canada sponsored the twoday Beyond the Hurt Peer Facilitation training session at the school Sept. 29-30.

Financial transparency already in place for chiefs

Participate Information Centre Rescheduled Review of Draft Contingency Forest Management Plan Kenora Forest 2011-2012 Contingency Forest Management Plan The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) and Miitigoog Limited Partnership and the Kenora Local Citizens Committee, invites you to attend an information centre. This information centre is being held as part of the detailed planning of operations for the 2011-2012 Contingency Forest Management Plan for the Kenora Forest. Please note the date change for the information centres to November 22 and 23 as listed below.

The Contingency Forest Management Plan is required to accommodate an adjustment to the Forest Management Planning Schedule allowing the synchronization of the planning schedules for the Kenora Forest and the Whiskey Jack Forest for April 1, 2012.

This Contingency Forest Management Plan is required to support harvesting, renewal and tending operations for the one-year period of April 1, 2011 to March 31, 2012. Areas will be planned for harvest and accessed in a manner that is consistent with the approved strategic direction.

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First Nation leaders support the spirit of a private members bill aimed at publicly disclosing their salaries and expenses, but they don’t support the bill itself.

Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Grand Chief Stan Beardy said he supports the need for accountability and transparency between First Nations and its members. He said its one of the reasons NAN distributes its financial audit on an annual basis. However, Beardy does not support legislation introduced by the federal government that will only increase the “reporting burden on our communities.”

How to Get Involved During preparation of the Contingency Forest Management Plan, two formal opportunities for Aboriginal and public involvement are provided. This “Stage 1” notice is:

“I’m not against it. But I’m not sure it is a good idea.”

• To invite you to review and comment on the Draft Contingency Forest Management Plan and • To request additional contributions to the background information to be used in planning.

– James Mamakwa

To assist in your review of the Draft Contingency Forest Management Plan for the Kenora Forest, related information and maps will be available at the information centres to be held at the following times and locations: POSTPONED POSTPONED

October 14, 2010 October 15, 2010

Kenora Best Western Lakeside Inn Sioux Narrows Community Centre

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Can’t Make It? The Draft Contingency Forest Management Plan will be available on the Ministry of Natural Resources public web site at http://ontario.ca/forestplans and for a 30-day period November 22, 2010 to December 22, 2010, following the information centers, at the following locations: Weyerhaeuser Company Ltd. Office 1000 Jones Road, Kenora, Ontario Robert (Bob) Boyce, R.P.F. Tel.: 807-548-7249

MNR Kenora District Office 808 Robertson Street, Kenora, ON Ian Pyke, R.P.F. Tel.: 807-468-2559

Comments on the Draft Contingency Forest Management Plan for the Kenora Forest can be sent to Ian Pyke at the Ministry of Natural Resources Kenora District Office, by December 22, 2010.

You may request formal issue resolution by contacting Robert (Bob) Boyce (Plan Author) as per the issue resolution process described in the 2009 Forest Management Planning Manual (Part C, Section 6.1.4).

Stay Involved A final opportunity to inspect the approved Contingency Forest Management Plan before it is implemented will take place during the “Inspection of the Ministry of Natural Resources-approved Contingency Forest Management Plan” (Stage 2) which is tentatively scheduled for January 2011.

If you would like to be added to our mailing list and be notified of these consultation opportunities, please contact Lil Anderson at 807-468-2578.

Ministry of Natural Resources is collecting your personal information and comments under the authority of the Crown Forest Sustainability Act. Any personal information you provide (address, name, telephone, etc.) will be protected in accordance with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act; however, your comments will become part of the public consultation process and may be shared with the general public. Your personal information may be used by the Ministry of Natural Resources to send you further information related to this forest management planning exercise. If you have questions about the use of your personal information, please contact Steve Duda at 807-468-2543.

For further information, please contact any of the following individuals during normal office hours: Ian Pyke, R.P.F. Area Forester Ministry of Natural Resources 808 Robertson Street P.O. Box 5080 Kenora, ON P9N 3X9 Tel.: 807-468-2559 E-mail: ian.pyke@ontario.ca

Robert (Bob) Boyce, R.P.F. Plan Author Weyerhaeuser Company Ltd. 1000 Jones Road P.O. Box 1930 Kenora, ON P9N 3X8 Tel.: 807-548-7249 E-mail: Bob.Boyce@weyerhaeuser.com

Mr. Henry Dribnenky Kenora Local Citizens Committee c/o 42 Ryerson Avenue Winnipeg, MB R3T 3S2

“Rather, there should be a targeted approach toward mutual accountability between governments and citizens – and one that supports strong First Nation governments,” Beardy said.

Saskatoon-Rosetown-Biggar MP Kelly Block introduced the private members bill, the First Nations Financial Transparency Act, Oct. 1.

She said salaries and expenses paid to First Nation chiefs and councillors should be publicly disclosed like those of other elected representatives in Canada.

Under terms of the bill, chiefs and councillors would be responsible for disclosing their salaries and expenses publicly.

This could be done through an annual report or annual general meeting of community members, she said.

The statements would be audited and published on the Indian Affairs website.

Kasabonika Lake Chief Eno H. Anderson said leadership in his community is upfront about their salaries and expenses.

“We’re audited every year,” Anderson said. “The annual report to community members includes all this information.

“I agree, the membership has a right to know the salaries.

We’ve been doing that for at least 10 years.”

Kingfisher Lake Chief James Mamakwa was split on the merits of the bill.

“I’m not against it,” he said.

“But I’m not sure it is a good idea.

“No one has come up and asked me what my salary is. But it is listed in our audit.”

The Assembly of First Nations has come out against the bill, calling it “ill-conceived.”

The bill will cause additional burden on First Nations already required to file thousands of reports annually, said National Chief Shawn Atleo.

The bill “appears to be part of a troubling series of insinuations about First Nations peoples, based on misinformation and a lack of understanding as to what the real accountability issues are,” Atleo said in a statement.

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Illegal airport strips economic opportunities Webequie may lose potential benefits from Ring of Fire region: Matawa CEO Adrienne Fox Wawatay News

An airstrip built illegally in the Ring of Fire will strip some economic opportunities away from Matawa First Nations said David Paul Achneepineskum, chief executive officer for Matawa First Nations.

Environmental Commissioner of Ontario Gord Miller released his annual report Sept.

22 and noted the Ontario government is turning a blind eye on illegal construction of mining-related projects in the Ring of Fire.

Miller said the Ministry of Natural Resources halted a Class Environmental Assessment (EA) process in September 2009 after a fly over inspection of a site west of McFauld’s Lake revealed the construction of a mining camp and airstrip.

Despite being served with a warrant under the Public Lands Act, the mining company was allowed to continue the Class EA process in mid-October 2009.

Achneepineskum said communities like Webequie lose the benefits of being a hub. “(Webequie) was a jump off point to the claims,” Achneepineskum explained.

Mining exploration companies used the community’s airport for storage and as an

aircraft base. The communities also provided accommodation and food.

And it’s those provision of services that helped bring much needed money into the communities that sit within or near the largest chromite deposit in North America. Chromite is used to make stainless steel.

“I think the Ontario government hase really been very disrespectful of our communities.”

– David Paul Achneepineskum

Achneepineskum foresees the illegally built airstrip becoming the epicentre for a small town.

“So our community’s airstrips are going to be bypassed for any kind of economic benefits,” he said.

The annual report released by the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario contains nothing new for Matawa First Nations.

“The issues and concerns that the commissioner brought up have always been expressed by our chiefs.”

And while Miller had strong recommendations for a revamped Mining Act, Achneep-

ineskum said any changes to the Act would do nothing to benefit First Nations.

“Really, will modernizing the Mining Act change anything at all?” he asked.

“It’s nice that Aboriginal and treaty rights are mentioned in the document but it really doesn’t have any kind of foundation or footing. They’re just nice words that are put there.”

And Achneepineskum said any changes that do happen to the Mining Act won’t touch mining companies actively working in the Ring of Fire now.

“They’re going to be exempt from (any new regulations) until those regulation are in place, maybe in 2011 sometime.

It’s really going to be too late.

“I think the Ontario government has really been very disrespectful of our communities,” Achneepineskum added.

Miller said the Ontario government’s planned mining regulation update should require exploration plans and permits to include environmental impact assessments.

“The environment is an afterthought when the government regulates mining in Ontario,” Miller said.

“We need to consider the environment upfront and during all stages of mining activity, including the planning of areas where mining is inappropriate.”

Public Notice – Transfer of Health Records On October 1, 2010, James Bay General Hospital and Weeneebayko General Hospital are intended to combine and become a new hospital under the Ontario Public Hospitals Act. The name of the public hospital and new corporation will be the Weeneebayko Area Health Authority.

If you are a patient, or former patient of the James Bay General Hospital or Weeneebayko General Hospital, for continuity of care purposes, your records will become the responsibility of the Weeneebayko Area Health Authority.

Current programs and services will not be affected and your records will remain condential in compliance with the Personal Health Information Protection Act and the Quality of Care Information Protection Act. If you have any questions about the transfer of your records or if you would like information on how to request access, disclosure or correction to your health record, please contact: • Weeneebayko Area Health Authority and Weeneebayko General Hospital Violet Loughery, Manager, Health Information Services & Chief Privacy Ofcer: Tel. 705-658-4544 ext. 2233 Fax: 705-658-5641 Email: violet.loughery@wha.on.ca • James Bay General Hospital Thierry Sereau, Assistant Executive Director-Patient Care and Chief Privacy Ofcer: Tel. 705-336-2341 Fax: 705-336-2637 Email: thierry.sereau@jbgh.org

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Bishop Lydia Mamakwa blesses Wasaya Airways LP’s newest aircraft, a Dash-8 which can transport nearly 50 people per flight. While this plane will be used primarily for transporting miners to and from Musselwhite Mine, Wasaya announced Oct. 7 plans to purchase a second Dash-8 which will have reduced seating capacity but greater storage space. It is expected to join the fleet by the end of November.

Wasaya launches Dash-8 service to Musselwhite James Thom Wawatay News

Gil Lawson had a fun commute from work to Wasaya Airways Oct. 7 for a press conference.

He was one of the passengers on the Dash-8 aircraft purchased through an arrangement between his employer, Musselwhite Mine, and Wasaya.

“This is my commuting car,” Lawson, general manager of the mine, joked during a press conference for the plane’s launch at the Wasaya Hangar in Thunder Bay. The plane was purchased primarily to transport miners to and from Musselwhite.

It has been in service for more than two weeks. Wasaya and Musselwhite have partnered for staff transport since 1997.

“Wasaya has provided us with tremendous service,” Lawson said. “Prior to this, we used smaller aircraft to transport

staff. This will make it easier.”

With the $7.5-million US deal now complete, Wasaya Airways is turning its attention to acquiring a second Dash-8 to complement its existing fleet.

That should be done by late November, Wasaya Airways president and CEO Tom Morris said.

“Dash-8 planes are all equipped to fly into gravel runways,” Morris said. “They are great aircraft to meet the needs of our communities.”

These aircraft can land in lower cloud ceilings and accommodate more passengers and cargo than other planes in the fleet. Other features include easier cargo loading, lower stance and better fuel efficiency.

Morris anticipates it will be modified to seat either 38 or 29 people.

In contrast, the plane transporting the miners seats more than 48 people.

Wasaya Group Inc. board

chairman Hez Sakakeep sees Dash-8 service as an important step in Wasaya’s growth.

“Wasaya is a lifeline to our communities,” Sakakeep, who hails from Kingfisher Lake, said.

“We play an important role in the lives of the people.”

From grocery delivery to medical supplies, fuel and recreational vehicles, Wasaya delivers it all. But now, it will be easier with the Dash-8 aircraft, he said.

Nishnawbe Aski Nation Grand Chief Stan Beardy was one of the many dignitaries at the Dash-8 launch, along with several chiefs from Wasaya’s owner communities.

Beardy stressed the importance of supporting First Nation business during his remarks.

“Wasaya is one of our enterprises that are very successful,” Beardy said. “Wasaya is an indication of what we are capable of. If we are successful, all of us will benefit.”

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Wasaya Group Inc. board chairman Hez Sakakeep, left, Nishnawbe Aski Nation Grand Chief Stan Beardy, Wasaya Airways LP president and CEO Tom Morris and Wasaya Group Inc. president and CEO Tom Kamenawatamin disembark Wasaya Airways’s newest plane, a Dash-8.

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Carnival inspires Gabby’s Spudz & More Rick Garrick Wawatay News

“The best fries in Thunder Bay.” That was how Gabrielle Cross’s fast food takeout business – Gabby’s Spudz & More – was described during the 2010 First Nations Women’s Day dinner and awards ceremony, held Oct. 5 by Beendigen Inc. Crisis Home and Counselling Services in Thunder Bay. “It was an honour to be in the presence of such great women,” said Cross, one of 19 women honoured for their achievements during the awards ceremony.

Cross, whose family is originally from the Treaty 3 community of Sagkeeng First Nation in Manitoba, opened up her business at the corner of Walsh St. and Franklin St. four years ago to serve fries, burgers, hot dogs, milkshakes, nachos and perogies.

“We have large homemade perogies, we have lean homemade burgers and we make the Coney sauce each morning,” Cross said.

A former carnival worker, Cross had always wanted to go into business.

“I knew there was money

to be made in french fries, so I always wanted to have a little joint that sells a really good bag of fries,” Cross said. “It’s fabulous working for yourself.”

Cross credits the Paro Centre for Women’s Enterprise for helping her prepare to go into business.

“I’ve been a member of Paro for four years now,” Cross said, explaining she meets with a group of women on a monthly basis as part of a circle.

There, they discuss their business and get guidance on business plans.

Beendigen nominated Geraldine Mamakwa, Jennifer Perrault, Kathy Labradour, Jessica Warburton, Sabrina Ogemah, Jamesina Sugarhead, Kristan Dewey, Kalinda Hardy, April Genno, Tara Porter, Brenda Kejick and Pauline Tait for awards.

Lakehead Public Schools nominated Carolyn Chukra and Rachel Mishenene for awards.

Biidaajiwun Community Health Outreach Centre nominated Syndyn Baxter and Sharon Johnson for awards.

Anishnawbe Mushkiki nominated Teresa Magiskan for an award and Oshki-Pimache-OWin nominated Rhonda Goodman for an award.

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Oshki-Pimache-O-Win Education and Training Institute student Rhonda Goodman, right, celebrated her award along with her daughter Karianne and Estelle Howard, Oshki program and student services coordinator, during the 2010 First Nations Women’s Day dinner and awards ceremony Oct. 5.

Time to put literacy first James Thom Wawatay News

The key to improving literacy levels in First Nation youth is starting early.

Sharla Peltier, a speech language pathologist who works fora school board in Sudbury, shared this information during the inaugural Inspiring Language, Literacy and Learning Among First Nation Children conference in Thunder Bay Sept. 30-Oct. 1.

“You need to focus on the early childhood years from toddlers up to six years old,” she said.

It is important to see the needs of the youth and recognize if there are any possible issues forming.

She said there will be cues if a child is having problems with speech, language, hearing and non-verbal communication.

And it’s important to work with First Nations youth in a culturally appropriate way.

“Pay attention to the values, goals and hopes of the child and family,” said Jessica Ball, of the University of Victoria’s School of Child and Youth Care.

Added Martha McClelland, chairwoman of the conference’s organizing team and a speech language pathologist with the Thunder Bay Health Unit: “The certain norms and guidelines can’t apply for everyone. We have to recognize the oral language storytelling instead of books in some cases.”

McClelland was thrilled to be able to bring in Peltier and Ball to present.

“We want people with passion and expertise in their fields,” McClelland said. “These are the people who can equip our participants with the tools they need to work with youth in their own communities.”

Participants totalled 135 for the conference, the first of its kind, McClelland said.

They included teachers, resource teachers, early childhood educators and development workers from across the province including Long Lake #58 and Ginoogaming.

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Bearskin Lake Coun. Tommy Fiddler looks over the tally of moose heads brought in during the 23rd Annual Fall Hunt in the community. The team of Ryan Nothing and Johnny Kitchenese claimed the $10,00o top prize.

Feeding a community through the fall hunt Joe Beardy GUEST COLUMNIST

H

istory is full of great quotes.

My late grandfather Sandy Beardy gave us a great one: ‘When people go upon the land to hunt, they sacrifice their own safety. But they also know if they kill a duck then that person can feed his family. But when they shoot a moose then they can feed a whole community.’

Those words relate to our community of Michikan Lake.

The tradition of sharing your good fortune with your family and neighbours is still a practice being passed down.

Michikan Lake’s 23rd Annual Fall Hunt is an example of the dedication and determination of our cultural upbringing as hunters once again gathered at the local boat launch to seek their good fortunes on a twoday hunt.

It’s Sept. 22 and 6:30 a.m. A gunshot disturbs the still darkish landscape along the Severn River signalling the start of the great hunt. Twenty-seven boats, each carrying two hunters, roar into action and slowly disappear into purplish skyline.

While the hunters are out, the rest of the people tend to other duties planning each detail for the five-day feast at the traditional site.

The second day brings a lot of anticipation to the people who have come together again at the traditional grounds to start cooking for the starving hunters expected to arrive by 5 p.m.

“I bet you Philip is asleep by the shoreline somewhere while ducks are flying by,” says a voice from one of the teepees.

“Michael will probably walk right by a moose standing beside him in the bush because he has video games playing in his head,” comes a comment from another teepee.

It’s 5 p.m. and people emerge from their smoke filled teepees and proceed down to the shoreline where the boats will be arriving soon. A group of five boats are spotted coming around the two points a mile from the main shore and this has everyone scrambling to one side each trying to guess who is occupying them. The boats come in by twos and threes until by 6 p.m. when everyone is reported in.

It’s an awesome sight because the majority of boats are hauling a moose while some are carrying three or four.

The noise from the crowd is echoed with ‘oh’s and awes’ as the hunters carry the heads of the moose from their boats and place them along the shore.

The check-in point is soon lined with moose heads as the count is now 18 moose shot.

Bags of ducks and only a small percentage of geese are tallied up by the hunters committee and volunteers.

Here they dine on fresh hot

tea and snacks and some share stories of their adventure while the crowd laughs at each escapade.

The next day is set aside for those hunters retrieving the moose they had shot. Float planes are ordered in for those that travelled far to bring in their moose. People start cooking early at the teepee site to feed those hunters going on the boats. It’s an all-day event cleaning and preparing the game that was brought in, but everyone works together to make this a success.

The evening brings the whole community together for a feast and to be thankful for a successful hunt. The day has also brought in another six moose that were shot by the hunters going out to bring in their kill.

Saturday morning reveals another beautiful day as people scramble in and out of the two stores buying their extras for the feast that will take place that evening.

It’s a day filled with excitement as this evening’s feast will also be the time when the winners for the hunter’s fest will be announced.

At the traditional grounds moose after moose are hauled into the main building where the food is being distributed for each of the teepees.

It’s 6 p.m. and the community has once again blanketed themselves at the main field of the traditional grounds awaiting the awards to be announced. The majority of the people have already guessed the three main winners.

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Sheila Trimble cuts a moose leg for the community feast as her brother Brent Beardy looks on.

Overall standings of 2010 Fall Hunt Ryan Nothing and Johnny Kitchenese $10,000 Terry Peters and Eric Peters $5000 Archie McKay and Shayne McKay $2500 Solomon Fox and Colleen Meekis $1250 Roy and Sally Brown $625 Randy Fiddler and Leon Beardy $175 Richard Moskotaywenene and Jeffrey Fiddler $175 Alec McKay and Donnelly McKay $350 George Kamenewetamin and Rodney McKay $350 Henry McKay and Aaron McKay $350 Bruce Kamenawatamin and Eddie Brown $350 Randy McKay and Willy McKay William Meekis and Victor Fox Thomas Beardy and Raymond Beardy Leon Kamenawatamin and Stuart Kamenawatamin Eugene Kamenawatamin and Galius Fiddler Brian Fox and Calvin Fox Ivan Beardy and Philip Bottle Vernon Chapman and Quentin Chapman Wesley Nothing and Brent Beardy Gordie Moskotaywenene and Jeffrey McKay Lawrence McKay and Jacob Kamenawatamin Malachai Kamenawatamin and Leonard Kamenawatamin Lance Trimble and Edward Gray Lawson McKay and Walter McKay Wayne Brown and Fred Brown Robert Kamenawatamin and Micheal Kamenawatamin

339 points 280 270 181 153 121 (4 species) 121 (4 species) 104 (3 species) 104 (2 species) 102 102 71 68 64 45 42 40 33 31 29 29 29 20 20 17 14 2

Most species Roy and Sally Brown

$175

7 species

Most rabbits Roy and Sally Brown

$116.50

1 rabbit

Most partridge Thomas Beardy and Raymond Beardy

$350

10 partridge

Skunk prize Robert Kamenawatamin and Micheal Kamenawatamin

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Paint your way to improved health

NADF raises funds for cancer

Northern Stores launch healthy eating campaign Debbie Mishibinjima Special to Wawatay News

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Wally Bannon, Nishnawbe Aski Development Fund senior development officer, brought his granddaughter Maloree Bannon to the CIBC Run For the Cure Oct. 3 in Thunder Bay. The Bannons were part of the NADF team Bank For Bust which raised more than $4,000 for breast cancer research, education and awareness. Across Canada, $33 million was raised including $133,000 in Thunder Bay, where 900 people participated.

Northern Stores across the Nishnawbe Aski Nation territory now feature a new national campaign geared towards improving the overall health of Aboriginal Canadians.

The Paint Your Plate with Colour campaign was launched by 136 Northern and Northern Mart stores across Canada with an overall goal of encouraging individuals to make healthier choices when grocery shopping.

“What we are hoping is that it will highlight some of the choices in 20 different sections of the store,” said Suzanne Hajto, healthy eating coordinator at the North West Company, who designed the campaign over the past two years.

“We want it also to allow for repeated exposure to nutrition messages. For example, one such message is: ‘Frozen (food) is just as healthy as fresh.’”

Some of the most commonly reported preventable diseases affecting Aboriginals include: type 2 diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease and hypertension.

Community members face numerous challenges in remote communities to buying healthy food.

One community member from a James Bay community, who wanted her name withheld, said all too often, the fresh

fruits and vegetables that arrive into the store are overripe. She cites berries, tomatoes, bananas and lettuce as being some of the overripe foods.

“We know that the healthier people are, the more healthier our communities are.”

– Suzanne Hajto

The most common fresh fruits stocked are apples, oranges and bananas. Sometimes strawberries, blueberries, pineapples or pears would be available. A bag of apples or oranges cost her $10 to $12 per bag. She also mentioned that yogurt, at her Northern Store, was rarely available. When it was, it cost $10-$12.

Another community member said canned or frozen items would also be near the expiry date of their shelf life or even past the expired date.

“I have seen canned baby food that was moldy,” he said.

Given the challenges to access healthy food, solutions are at the forefront of the campaign.

There are three elements to the campaign. The first is the exposure to signs encouraging healthy eating. The second involves ‘Healthy Bites’ which

are recipes developed by Hajto and featured every month.

Lastly, health resources available to health care workers and educators were developed that are geared toward northern populations.

Hajto said the ingredients featured in the recipes she developed will be on sale for one week of every month. It is a good time for people to stock up when the items are more affordable.

If community members find they are lacking a particular item in their stores, they can make demands as customers to have that item stocked in the store.

“They will have the power to allow it to get to the stores more often,” Hajto said.

The success of the campaign will be monitored by Hajto through community consultations this fall. She will also check the website to monitor which recipes have been downloaded or have had hits on them.

“It’s a really positive step forward that 136 stores across Canada are going to display health and nutrition messages to create a more positive nutrition environment,” she said.

“We know that the healthier people are, the more healthier our communities are.”

For more information visit www.northernstores.ca/recipes.asp or www.northmart.ca/ recipes.asp.

Healthy alternatives Suzanne Hajto, healthy eating coordinator at the North West Company suggests the following snacking tips for healthier eating.

Instead of chips, choose low fat popcorn.

Instead of fries, chose a baked potato with salsa on it.

Instead of coffee with cream and sugar, have coffee with milk and avoid the sugar.

Instead of candy, choose dried fruit like cranberries.

Instead of white bread with butter, choose whole wheat bread and use mustard for flavour.

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Ontario Regional Chief Angus Toulouse said a one-size-fits-all approach will not address the epidemic of prescription drug abuse in First Nations communities.

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He said all levels of government must work with First Nations to modify the strategy as outlined in Ontario’s recently introduced Bill 101, an act to provide for monitoring the prescribing and dispensing of certain controlled substances, which was tabled Sept. 15 in the Ontario Legislature.

“First Nations communities have to be involved in determining what approaches will work for them,” Toulouse said. “Their readiness to support change will help them advise funding agencies as to what resources and supports will be required to address the programming needs for a First Nations strategy.”

Toulouse said First Nations want to address the prescription drug abuse issue and have declared a state of emergency in regards to the epidemic.

As part of this effort, chiefs have engaged physicians in an open dialogue to address the problem.

Deer Lake Coun. Darryl Mamakeesic said his community has been holding community information sessions on prescription drugs and encouraging those who are addicted to prescription drugs to go out to treatment centres.

“We try to get them to go to treatment centres but you can’t really do anything unless they are willing to seek help because you can’t force them,” Mamakeesic said. “But if they are willing, we get them help at treatment centres.”

In August, Sandy Lake Chief Adam Fiddler said his community uses both land-based and structured programs to help

those who are addicted to prescription drugs.

Meanwhile, Nishnawbe Aski Police Service continues to report progress in the battle over prescription drug abuse.

NAPS officers in Sandy Lake seized about $12,400 worth of OxyContin prescription pills Sept. 28 and charged a 20-yearold woman with possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking.

NAPS officers in Wapekeka charged a 48-year-old woman with possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking Sept. 27.

Wapekeka First Nation Band Security Peacekeepers called for assistance and turned over $16,800 worth of OxyContin prescription pills.

NAPS seized about $20,000 worth of OxyCodone prescription pills at the Thunder Bay International Airport Sept.

22 and charged a 19-year-old female from Webequie with possession for the purpose of trafficking.

In Deer Lake police also seized about $17,200 worth of OxyContin and Percocet pills with the assistance of Band Airport Security Sept. 14. A 27year-old was charged with possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking.

Ring of Fire coordinator irks NAN Brent Wesley Wawatay News

The appointment of a coordinator for the Ring of Fire region has Nishnawbe Aski Nation Grand Chief Stan Beardy disappointed Ontario failed to consult First Nations on the decision.

Premier Dalton McGuinty was in Thunder Bay Sept. 30 to announce Christine Kaszycki as coordinator for the Ring of Fire region.

Kaszycki has served as assistant deputy minister of the mines and minerals division for the Ministry of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry.

The Ring of Fire, about 70 kilometres east Webequie First Nation, is a hotbed for mining exploration.

It’s an area the province believes has potential to create jobs and enhance economic development in northern Ontario.

“Northerners are working hard to build strong communities and contribute to a prosperous Ontario. We’re working with northerners, Aboriginal communities and mining partners to fully realize the Ring of Fire’s potential,” McGuinty said in a release shortly after his announcement.

The Ring of Fire is home to a potentially huge chromite deposit, a mineral used to create stainless steel. The province said it has the potential to be North America’s only supplier of chromite.

But the premier’s announcement of Kaszycki as coordinator

has Beardy feeling left out of the decision. He is disappointed the province failed to consult NAN First Nations despite continuous talk of a new relationship with First Nations.

“We are disturbed that the premier can express his willingness to create a true partnership and yet leaves us out of this critical process,” Beardy said.

“We should have been a part of the selection of the person to fill this critical position.”

Beardy is still standing strong behind previous statements of no development in NAN territory without consent of First Nations.

“We are not against resource development however we want to be full participants in all aspects of the process,” Beardy said.

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Chief Clarence Louie encourages people to support Aboriginal businesses. “Every Aboriginal business needs paying customers,� said the chief of the Osoyoos Indian Band to a standing-room-only crowd Sept. 21 at Lakehead University. “Businesses don’t stay open without paying customers.�

“We’re not looking to become millionaires through economic development. We just want a decent standard of living.� – Clarence Louie

He said it’s not enough to provide verbal support, it’s financial support that is needed. “And that means digging into your own pocket.�

Louie, who led his community to prosperity since 1984 by building and managing a multi-faceted corporation that owns nine highly successful businesses, is a sought-after

speaker. “We’re not looking to become millionaires through economic development,� Louie said. “We just want a decent standard of living, and have a decent savings account for future generations.�

Louie said it is important to be creative and hire advisors to succeed. “We have advisors – no one is a know-it-all, no one can be an island unto themselves,� Louie said.

The most successful people in the world, he said, all have financial or legal advisors. “You need a team of advisors to help you as a First Nation.�

Louie said his community employs people from 35 other First Nations. “I always go up to them and ask ‘where are you from, how did you end up here?’ and usually it’s the same story: ‘where I come from there are no jobs.’�

In January, the Globe and Mail named Louie one of the top 10 nation-builders of the past decade. He was also named to the Order of British Columbia in 2006. “We have to support our Aboriginal entrepreneurs, especially if they are your own people,� Louie said.

Lake Helen’s Cindy Crowe is following a spiritual path during her councillor-at-large election campaign in the upcoming Thunder Bay municipal election Oct. 25. “I’ve been receiving ceremonies and gifts since I received that vision to run,� Crowe said.

She is the owner of Cindy Crowe Consulting and community coordinator of the Waabi-Ma’iingan (Grey Wolf) Traditional Teaching Lodge, a Thunder Bay organization dedicated to helping rebuild cultural and spiritual connections and to help youth and Elders connect.

Crowe is looking to bring together First Nation communities in the Ring of Fire region with the City of Thunder Bay to develop business opportunities. “I see myself as the connector, as the bridge,� Crowe said. “They need to feel like they can trust the city council and have faith in what they are doing and

vice versa. “The city of Thunder Bay, they need education on how to work and have a relationship with the First Nations community. That is very important.�

The Ring of Fire is an area near Webequie and Marten Falls First Nations that is a hotbed of mineral exploration activity.

During her six years in business with Cindy Crowe Consulting, she has worked with a variety of clients, including the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Nishnawbe Aski Nation, various First Nations and businesses and the government. “I’m quite excited about my business,� Crowe said. “I can be independent, I can pick and choose the contracts that match my traditional values. I don’t have to take a contract that I couldn’t support personally.�

Crowe emphasizes the need to develop more employment opportunities in the city and region. “I have three sons that have

all had to move out west to work,� Crowe said. “That is really discouraging. I know there are a lot of families out there in that same situation where possibly their partners have had to leave home and go out west to find work.�

Crowe is looking for the diversity of the city to be represented in the workforce, noting the Aboriginal population continues to grow rapidly in Thunder Bay. “That is part of the education work that needs to happen,�

Crowe said. “The diversity of the region needs to be recognized, acknowledged and supported. In the Grey Wolf Teaching Lodge, that is our greatest mandate: to be inclusive. “I feel I’m the right person to bring those messages forward and hopefully to create some harmony in city council.�

Crowe also wants the city to provide free bus passes and time at recreation centres for people in need. “It’s important for children to

have those recreational activities,� Crowe said. “We have a complex in this city, why not use that complex?�

She said the Canada Games Complex could set aside certain days for families and youth. “The system is there, why not utilize it?�

Crowe also wants to see more interaction between Elders and youth. “Why not bring the youth and the Elders together, instead of keeping them apart?� Crowe said. “They are all isolated right now.�

Crowe is calling for more consultation with the grassroots people by the city on potential developments. “Talk to the people in your community,� Crowe said. “Find out what they want.�

Crowe emphasized the need for more affordable housing in the city. “There isn’t good quality affordable housing available,�

Crowe said. “There isn’t enough safe housing.�

Funding supports crime victims in Kash James Thom Wawatay News

Kashechewan First Nation received $76,000 to help victims of crime have greater access to community services for healing.

Funding for the program, Education Project for Teens aimed at youth aged 12-18, was announced Sept. 30. “Our youth are a treasured and vital part of our community and future leaders,� said Kashechewan Chief Jonathan Solomon. “Keeping them safe and giving them the tools to have a healthy community and the best future we can give them is our top priority.�

Through the Aboriginal Victims Support Grant Program,

Kashechewan First Nation Health Services will provide support and education to more than 200 youths who are victims or at risk of becoming victims of sexual assault.

The new project uses workshops and weekend retreats to foster intergenerational support by bringing community and adult caregivers together to work towards the common goal of reducing the incidence of sexual assault. “On behalf of the community, thank you for this grant that will give youth at risk the tools to stay safe and seek help,� said Health Services health director Leo Metatawabin. “With this grant, it’s just a beginning to a long road of healing.�

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Brendan Babcock is undergoing his second round of treatment for a rare form of cancer, cutaneous T cell lymphoma.

“He was diagnosed in April,” said his mother, Leah Menzies, a constable with Nishnawbe Aski Police Service in Sioux Lookout.

“It’s an aggressive type (of cancer) and they have to do a bone marrow transplant.”

Menzies said during a Sept.

6 interview a bone marrow donor has now been found for her son’s treatment. During his first round of treatment he received a transplant of umbilical stem cells, which did not take. She said there weren’t any bone marrow donors available anywhere in the world that matched her son for the first transplant, so the doctors used umbilical stem cells. Stem cells are more plentiful in bone marrow compared to an umbilical cord.

“We don’t know where he (the donor) is from, but we do know it is a male,” Menzies said, explaining the stem cells were to be harvested from the donor Sept. 7.

The transplant was to take place Oct. 8.

Menzies said the transplant is similar to a blood transfusion, as the stem cells look like a bag of blood.

“But when they harvest the stem cells from the donor, they give the donor a set of shots over five days,” Menzies said.

“The whole process leading up to that is so amazing to hear about. Somebody from Winnipeg flies to wherever in the world this donor is, picks up these stem cells and flies all the way back to Canada.”

Menzies said the transplant is actually done in her son’s hospital room.

“They hang the bag of stem cells and it’s like a blood transfusion. It just goes into his (intravenous) line and into his body.”

Menzies said the stem cells travel through the body to where they are needed.

“From there it takes Brendan three weeks or so to engraft (make new blood cells).”

Menzies and her 15-yearold son have been in Winnipeg since May awaiting a transplant.

On July 19 Babcock underwent an umbilical cord stem cell transplant after a bone marrow donor could not be found anywhere in the world.

“An umbilical cord was donated,” Menzies said. “At that time there was no bone marrow donor available so the doctors used these umbilical cord stem cells for his transplant and then he would have been able to go home three months later,” Menzies said. “But we found out in September that (transplant) did not take, so Brendan is going on to his second transplant.”

Menzies and her son will likely be in Winnipeg for another three months as he recuperates.

“I’m a single mother – I need to be here for my son,” Menzies said, explaining she has applied of Employment Insurance benefits but has not yet received any to date. “My service has been amazing, they granted me an unpaid leave for as long as I need to be with my son and they have also been very supportive.

They had all the officers donate overtime hours so I was able to be covered from May, for at least a month.”

Menzies said the Ontario Provincial Police and NAPS officers in Sioux Lookout have also been very supportive, especially with the organization of a spaghetti dinner which raised about $3,000 towards her expenses,

and her sister’s friend also organized a social for her.

“We’re just trying to make it through day by day,” Menzies said.

Menzies would appreciate any support from the community, noting she still has to pay rent on her apartment as well as $1,000 per month for a special apartment in Winnipeg for patients such as her son who still have to remain in isolation while not in hospital.

“Brendan is only allowed to be in the (special) apartment or in the hospital,” Menzies said.

“Every time he goes back and forth he has to wear a mask because his immune system will be right down to zero. He has to wait for all his counts and cells to come right back up again.

“After one year, after the transplant, he has to be reimmunized for everything again. At this time he is very susceptible to any kind of infection and the doctors give him all types of medication to help with that.”

Menzies has not been working since May but was covered for four weeks under a shortterm disability.

“Since then I haven’t been getting paid,” Menzies said.

Menzies encourages people to sign up as a bone marrow donor through the Canadian Blood Services website at www. blood.ca.

“It’s very easy, all you have to do is fill out an application online and they mail you a swab kit for your cheek,” Menzies said, explaining she has already registered. “You swab your cheek, you send it back and then you’re on the registry.”

Menzies also encourages people to donate blood, as her son has already received about 10 blood transfusions and 15 platelet transfusions during his treatment.

Police investigate Fort Hope death Police are investigating the death of 38-year-old James Wasawa of Eabametoong First Nation.

The investigation began Sept. 27 after Nishnawbe Aski Police Service were called with a report of the deceased man at about 8 a.m.

The Ontario Provincial Police North West Region Crime Unit, under the direction of the OPP Criminal Investigation Branch, was called in to assist in the investigation at the request of NAPS. A post mortem examination took place Sept. 28 at the Thun-

der Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre.

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Wawatay Native Communications Society has partnered with the Northern Nishnawbe Education Council to launch the Misiwe Minoyawin (Health For Everyone) project.

Misiwe Minoyawin’s goal is to demonstrate to Aboriginal youth in northern Ontario, especially the communities Wawatay serves in Nishnawbe Aski Nation and Treaty #3, how healthy lifestyle choices can boost overall well-being.

The 18 month project will focus on the issues of substance abuse, tobacco use, healthy eating, maintaining an active lifestyle and mental health.

It will do this through a recipe book, videos, a community-based ad campaign contest and a youth role model campaign.

Recipe Submissions: The recipe book will address healthy eating by promoting proper and culturally appropriate nutrition and healthy eating habits. We want YOU to submit your recipes to be included in this cookbook. The only guidelines are that all recipes include traditional foods and methods to prepare meals that are low in saturated fats and refined carbohydrates.

This cookbook will also create an awareness of unhealthy modern eating habits and hopes the book will aid in building healthy eating habits to lower the risk of diabetes, which is prevalent among First Nation peoples in northern Ontario.

Another aspect of this recipe book is the soliciting of the legends/stories behind the traditional foods in the submitted recipes: wild rice, berries and wild game for example.

For more info contact: Chris Kornacki Misiwe Minoyawin Project Co-ordinator 807.344.3022 (office) 1.888.575.2349 (toll free) 807.344.3182 (fax) chrisk@wawatay.on.ca About the logo: This logo illustrates the natural foods aboriginal people had sustained themselves on to live healthy lives.

The geese are food from the sky, moose and wild rice from the land, and fish from the water.

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Aboriginal author Sandi Boucher, the executive director of Volunteer Thunder Bay, has sold about 600 copies of her book Honorary Indian to people from as far away as Texas and Ireland. Boucher shared her mother’s teachings – her mother is originally from Couchiching First Nation – in the daily inspirational guidebook.

Mother’s teachings take form in inspirational book Rick Garrick Wawatay News

Sandi Boucher has gathered her mother’s teachings into a daily inspirational guidebook to share with others.

“Everything stems from when my mom passed away,” said Boucher, whose mother was originally from Couchiching First Nation near Fort Frances but lived in Hudson with her husband and children for many years. “She had all these amazing teachings and I am her only daughter and I only have one daughter.”

Boucher said she passed on her mother’s teachings to her own daughter, but after working in employment and training for many years, she realized there were so many women out there who had never received similar teachings or an example of a strong woman.

“I actually felt selfish,” said the owner of meno bimahdizewin consulting group and executive director of Volunteer Thunder Bay. “I thought I need to share these and I had no idea of the reaction the book would get. I thought if I helped five women, I would be really happy – the book was promoted only through my website and word of mouth and I’m nearing 600 copies (sold) since January.”

Boucher’s book, Honorary Indian, has been sold so far to customers in Newfoundland, British Columbia and Texas.

“A woman in Ireland ordered it off the website (www.sandiboucher.ca),” Boucher said.

Boucher lives and breathes the medicine wheel and its four colours every day.

“We’ve heard from the white segment for a long time now, but the red segment has really strong teachings to share as well that could help the other

colours,” Boucher said. “The whole premise of the book is to make you an honourary Indian for a day and I’m going to show you how we look at the world.”

Boucher said the daily inspiration format of the book provides people with a daily reminder of First Nation teachings.

“If I’m going to change how you think, it’s a process,” Boucher said. “It’s not something that is going to happen overnight. If I can get you thinking differently for even five minutes every day, it becomes a habit.”

Boucher first had 300 copies printed in Mississauga after receiving positive feedback from the inspirations she had been sharing on social networking Internet site Facebook.

“I had been working on writing a book for the past 10 years.

It was just going nowhere so I finally decided to get serious and finish it,” Boucher said.

“In March of 2009, out of the blue I got a call from a woman who found me on Facebook and said she wanted to publish my book. I never could have done it without her. Her design team came up with the cover and she helped me select the format inside.”

Boucher is “thrilled” with the work.

“To me it looks like an old diary,” she said, explaining the way it looks handwritten like a journal. “Because it is very personal, it’s written about my life, it fits, it totally fits,” Boucher said.

Boucher said her mother had survived a lot of hard times during her life.

“She grew up in a time period where it wasn’t easy being Indian and definitely not an Indian woman,” Boucher said.

“And my own personal path, I

survived the domestic violence and I survived extreme poverty.”

Boucher said if her mother’s teachings were able to help her mother and herself through their tough times, then they should be able to help others through a tough day at work.

“Absolutely everything happens for a reason, even the bad stuff,” Boucher said. “When I do my workshops, I explain to people you have got to stop asking why is this happening to me and change it to what is the lesson here.”

She said to not take things personal.

“God, Creator, whatever you want to call him, is not out to get you and is not out to ruin your life. If something is happening, what can you learn from it? Are you doing the same old things to yourself and not liking the results?”

Boucher said her mother’s spirit is alive and well in her book.

“It is touching women,” Boucher said. “I was just the vehicle. I had the means to write and pass on those words of wisdom and I’ve had women from the northern communities and women from Toronto relate to that book.”

Boucher said she once delivered a workshop to a group of women from diverse backgrounds, including university professors and homeless women living in poverty.

“By the end of the day, we were just women,” Boucher said. “Everyone had taken down those walls of their defined little roles and we were all just women, worried about our kids, trying to figure out our partner, trying to get through day to day, and that’s what the book does: it helps you realize you are not alone.”

APCMA, Manito Ahbee fast approaching Nico Suggashie Wawatay News

With voting closed, the fifth annual Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Awards (APCMA) is set for Nov. 4 and 5 in Winnipeg, Man. The first night of the awards, RBC Oshkii awards night, will be at the Fort Garry and the main award show, hosted by Lorne Cardinal, takes place at the MTS Centre Nov. 5.

Both shows will showcase the finest in Aboriginal music and will give awards for various categories. APTN is set to air both

nights.

The awards are part of the Manito Ahbee Festival, a celebration of the art, music, and culture of Aboriginal people. It lets people who come know that the culture is fresh, modern and relevant as the new millennium starts.

Aside from the awards, there is also an international powwow competition Nov. 6 and 7 at the MTS Centre.

This year the powwow will be webcast live on www.powwows.com.

The powwow also includes a Miss Manito Ahbee Pageant,

giving Aboriginal girls the chance to become a role model and the opportunity to travel, meet new people and attend different powwows across North America.

The weeklong festival also includes an education conference to be held at the Convention Centre Nov. 4.

The theme of this conference is Saving Our Mother Earth.

Students ranging from Grade 7 to Grade 12 can take part in workshops such as Native languages, traditional medicines, Aboriginal literature and digital storytelling.

NORTHERN ONTARIO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (“NOSM”) The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) is a pioneer in Distributed Community Engaged Learning (the first Canadian Medical School in the 21st century). With the first graduating class in 2009 and full accreditation, NOSM serves as the Faculty of Medicine for Lakehead University in Thunder Bay and Laurentian University in Sudbury.

We are seeking an academic leader to join the Senior Leadership Group for the school.

Director, Aboriginal Affairs Reporting to the Associate Dean, Community Engagement, the Director of Aboriginal Affairs is a member of the Senior Leadership Group. The role of the Aboriginal Affairs Director is to act as primary liaison between NOSM, Aboriginal groups, communities and stakeholders and provide leadership in Aboriginal issues.

Senior management experience, preferably in health or education, will be of great benefit as you manage and maintain day to day activities and events as well as provide longer term direction for the Aboriginal Affairs Unit. You will champion the Aboriginal component of the School’s recruitment strategy and interprofessional education strategy ensuring they are well developed and effectively implemented.

An ambassador for program support and development, you will seek program funding through the preparation and submission of operating grant applications and proposals to government agencies and other external funding agencies. Your extensive knowledge of Aboriginal culture, opportunities and challenges, coupled with your strong consultative and collaborative approach will enable you to liaise for the Medical School with northern aboriginal communities and health professional groups across Northern Ontario.

Strong project management skills are required as you contribute to, and monitor academic and administrative developments of NOSM, ensuring that NOSM programs and activities are sensitive and responsive to the needs of Aboriginal communities, students and prospective students. Overseeing the efforts to recruit Aboriginal students into medicine, you will develop programs to increase the Aboriginal applicant pool in collaboration with the Office of Admissions and Learner Recruitment.

Another exciting opportunity involves working with the Associate Dean Research to develop Research projects related to Aboriginal community and health issues, potentially leading to the development of a Research Institute.

Successful candidates will be an expert in Aboriginal and current mainstream education and health issues; Aboriginal culture(s); current and emerging issues related to Aboriginal affairs and in leveraging existing and new relationships with various stakeholders (e.g., Aboriginal communities, groups, other universities, medical schools, relevant governmental levels and services). A Master’s degree (health, education) from a recognized university with Canadian accreditation or its equivalent in knowledge and experience is required.

NOSM is the Medical School for Northern Ontario, therefore a passion for living and traveling through Northern Ontario and working with rural communities is essential. The ability to communicate in French and Ojibway or Cree will be considered an asset.

Additional information regarding the Northern Ontario School of Medicine is available at www.nosm.ca

SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION IN CONFIDENCE TO: Phelps Talent and Executive Search 401 Bay St, Box 14, Toronto, ON M5H 2Y4 nosm@phelpsgroup.ca Application Deadline: October 22nd, 2010 For additional information regarding these opportunities, please contact: Jayson Phelps PHONE: 416.364.6229 ext 105 FAX: 416.364.5643 NOSM is committed to equity in employment and encourage applications from all qualified applicants, including women, aboriginal peoples, members of visible minorities and persons with disabilities. While all responses will be appreciated and handled in strictest confidence, only those being considered for interviews will be acknowledged.

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CALL for PROPOSALS KWAYACIIWIN EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTRE in Sioux Lookout, Ontario is managing the development and delivery of the First Nations Student Success Program (FNSSP) with participating First Nations in the Sioux Lookout district.

FNSSP targets 3 key areas, with a focus on literacy, numeracy and student retention: • School success planning • Student learning assessments • Performance measurement Kwayaciiwin Education Resource Centre invites proposals for the following: 1. To develop an overall district-wide framework and policy for assessing student achievement that includes both formative and summative assessments, classroom assessments and standardized testing.

The framework and policy includes Immersion and non-Immersion schools.

2. To develop student learning assessment instruments relevant to First Nations students in the elementary grades with a focus on literacy.

3. To develop a training program for teachers and administrations in the Sioux Lookout district in the implementation of the Student Learning Assessments and Assessment Policy.

4. i) To develop surveys for consultation with communities to gather information for the draft performance measures of student success, and ii) To consult with communities on the draft performance measures.

5. To develop a performance measurement system and policy based on the community consultations, including the structure, cycle, specific measures, methodology and reporting protocols.

Timeframe for completion of project activities: March 2011 Deadline for proposal submission: October 29, 2010 For more information call: Margaret Angeconeb, FNSSP Coordinator, (807) 737-7373 ext. 21 Please submit proposals by email to: mangeconeb@kerc.ca

NADF is seeking a qualified individual to join its team as

NADF is seeking a skilled individual to join its staff as

SPECIAL INITIATIVES ADVISOR

FINANCE OFFICER

Nishnawbe Aski Development Fund (NADF) is a non-profit, independent, Aboriginal-owned and operated financial institution that provides business, financial services and economic development to Aboriginal people living in northern Ontario.

Under the direction of the President/CEO, the Special Initiatives Advisor will provide resource sector support services enhancing First Nations (Treaty #9) capacity to meaningfully engage and participate with prospective resource development opportunities (energy and mining) where economic benefit will ultimately be derived to First Nations.

Qualifications: • Business/Commerce university degree and related work experience; • Awareness and knowledge of existing and emerging resource sector activities and initiatives in northern Ontario; • Experience in developing and establishing partnerships and joint ventures; • Excellent report and proposal writing skills; • Ability to prioritize and meet deadlines; • Excellent organizational skills; • Strong communication (verbal and written) and public relation skills; • Strong problem identification and problem solving skills; • Excellent computer and software skills; • Knowledge of and commitment to the services provided by NADF; • Knowledge of the people, culture and history of First Nations in northern Ontario; • Ability to speak Cree, Oji-Cree or Ojibway is an asset; and • Ability to travel as required.

LOCATION: CLOSING DATE: APPLICATIONS:

Thunder Bay, ON Friday, October 22, 2010, 12:00 p.m. EDT Please send a resume, including three (3) work references to:

Nishnawbe Aski Development Fund 106 Centennial Square, 2nd Floor Thunder Bay, ON P7E 1H3 Attn: Harvey Yesno, President/CEO Fax: (807) 623-1224 or e-mail: hyesno@nadf.org

We thank all those who apply however, only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

(Temporary – 13 month contract)

NADF is an Aboriginal financial institution serving Aboriginal people, including Métis, in northern Ontario. The Finance Officer performs bookkeeping functions, including maintaining the payables and receivables systems, and provides clerical and administrative support to the Finance Manager.

Qualifications: • Bookkeeping or accounting diploma, or minimum two years experience performing computerized data entry and financial duties; strong bookkeeping skills • Computer literacy: knowledge and proven experience in computerized accounting (Adagio preferred); experience using spreadsheet programs (Excel preferred); and proficiency in a word processing program (minimum 30 – 40 WPM, Word preferred) • Strong oral and written communication skills • Knowledge of and commitment to the services provided by NADF, Aboriginal issues, and the economy in northern Ontario • Fluency in an Aboriginal language would be an asset LOCATION: Thunder Bay, ON CLOSING DATE: October 22, 2010, 5:00 p.m. EDT APPLICATIONS: Please send a resume and cover letter including three (3) references relevant to the required qualifications to: Mari Bishop, CA, Finance Manager Nishnawbe Aski Development Fund 106 Centennial Square, 2nd Floor Thunder Bay, ON P7E 1H3 Facsimile: (807) 622-8271 Email: mbishop@nadf.org We thank all those who apply, however, only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

This position is partially funded by Industry Canada / FedNor

Employment opportunity Manager – energy strategy

Wawakapewin First Nation

Wawakapewin First Nation

Community Economic Development Officer

Operations and Maintenance Manager

REQUIRES

Nishinawbe Aski Nation is seeking an Energy Strategy Manager to take responsibility for ensuring the goals and objectives of the Ontario Region Off-Grid Energy Strategy are achieved.

The Manager plays a substantive role in the development of the strategy and is responsible for providing information to NAN on all aspects of policies and initiatives that will affect energy issues within the territory. Furthermore, the manager is responsible for supporting First Nation grass roots energy initiatives and projects. The manager will work closely with NAN staff, Chiefs, government officials and other third parties.

Interested applicants are required to submit a cover letter, resume and three references. The deadline for applications is 4:00pm EST October 22, 2010. For complete information including job description, please visit www.nan.on.ca or call (807) 625-4941 www.nan.on.ca

REQUIRES

Location: Wawakapewin First Nation (Long Dog Lake)

Location: Wawakapewin First Nation (Long Dog Lake)

Salary: Negotiable to commensurate with experience

Salary: Negotiable to commensurate with experience

Closing Date: October 29th, 2010 3pm Central/Standard time The Community Economic Development Officer is responsible for facilitating, promoting and ensuring community and economic development in order to secure opportunities for economic and business development and increase local employment.

RESPONSIBILITIES • Facilitate community and economic development planning in order to identify and establish economic development opportunities • Identify opportunities for community economic development • Secure funding for economic development activities and programs • Assist local organizations, businesses and individuals with establishing economic and community development plans, businesses and projects • Promote the community in order to expand economic development opportunities • Perform other related duties as required Please forward cover letter & resume to: Chief & Council Wawakapewin First Nation PO Box 477 Sioux Lookout, Ontario P8T 1A8 Fax: (807) 737-4226 Tel: (807) 737-2662 Email: paigem@wawakapewin.ca Wawakapewin First Nation wishes to thank all applicants in advance. However, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Closing Date: October 29th, 2010 3pm Central/Standard time Directs, oversees and participates in the departmental program work plans; assigns work activities, operations and maintenance projects and programs; monitors work flow and project status; reviews and evaluates work products, methods and procedures; implements needed work process and automation improvements, and methods for improving community maintenance.

RESPONSIBILITIES • Visits job sites to oversee work in progress and provide needed direction • Responds to major emergencies during and after hours as needed • Reviews O&M staffing, equipment, and supply needs • Develops, plans and implements goals and objectives for the operations and maintenance department Please forward cover letter & resume to: Chief & Council Wawakapewin First Nation PO Box 477 Sioux Lookout, Ontario P8T 1A8 Fax: (807) 737-4226 Email: paigem@wawakapewin.ca Wawakapewin First Nation wishes to thank all applicants in advance. However, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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Costs rise waiting for barge shipment from page 1 Higher costs for basic essentials during 2009 contributed to the band initiating a fuel wood program for community Elders.

The band also implemented a First Nation subsidized, discounted barge freight rates on certain goods for other shippers. Kakekaspan and council decided to offer discounted rates on certain supplies so greater savings could be passed along to Fort Severn consumers.

One example of the subsidy is lower fuel freight rates offered to the Northern Store for their gasoline haul. By agreeing to the discounted freight rates, the Northern committed to offering lower cost fuel to band members. It is expected bargedelivered gasoline will now cost around $2 a litre, compared to an estimated cost of $2.50 a litre if the barge freight discount was not in place.

Band staff are responsible for all aspects of maximizing

the barge capacity and making it a cost-effective exercise at $153,000 for a single barge shipment.

These responsibilities include: scheduling the barge charter; pre-payment of all charter costs; arrangements for the ordering, payment and shipping to Moosonee of all bandrequired goods; and facilitating and billing at $0.50 a pound for all other barge shipments by community members and outside agencies which need to economically ship goods to Fort Severn.

A single barge shipment is normally sufficient to supply the community with a year’s worth of fuel, dry goods, building materials and any new vehicles the band, community members or outside agencies may require.

The 2010 season required two full and separate barge loads to meet the community’s needs.

The community expects the next barge in 2011.

Cost comparison Thunder Bay Safeway

Fort Severn Northern Store

Apples Carrots Oranges Green Peppers Potatoes Bread Milk 2 litres

$3.71/kg $1.74/kg $3.28/kg $4.38/kg $2.84/kg $3.49 $2.58

$5-8/kg $5-8/kg $5-8/kg $5-8/kg $5-8/kg $3.99 $5.59

Fuel

Shell $1.054/litre

Northern Store $1.99/litre

Tom Terry/Special to Wawatay News

Fort Severn recently received its barge shipment after a two year wait. Some of the unusual shipments to make the more than 850 kilometre ocean-going trip from Moosonee to Fort Severn included: materials for the new $2.3 million Nishnawbe Aski Police Services detachment building; doors, windows, plywood and insulation for band housing; a brand-new snow groomer for the community’s ice road to Peawanuck and Shamattawa; and a new sewage truck for the community. Chief Matthew Kakekaspan looks on as the barge is unloaded.

ᓂᔓᐊᐦᑭ ᑭᑕᔑᐱᐦᐅᐊᐧᐠ ᒋᒪᒋᔭᐸᑕᓂᐠ ᑭᒋᒋᒪᓂᐠ ᒋᐅᒋ ᐱᒪᐦᐅᑕᓱᑕᒪᐃᐧᑕᐧ ᐅᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐃᒪ ᐅᒋ ᐸᑭᑭᓂᑲᓂᐠ 1

ᐊᑎᑲ ᐃᐁᐧ ᐯᔑᑲᐧᔦᐠ ᒋᓂᓴᑭᐣᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᑲᐱᑕᒪᐊᐧᑲᓄᐨ ᑲᑦᐸᓂ ᑲᐃᓇᑭᐣᑕᒪᐊᐧᑲᓄᐨ ᐱᒥᑌᓂ. ᒥᑕᐡ ᐅᐁᐧᓂ ᑲᑭᐃᔑ ᓇᑯᒧᐨ ᑲᑦᐸᓂᐅᑭᒪ, ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᒋᓂᓴᑭᐣᑕᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᐧᔕᐦᐅᐠ ᑲᑕᔑᑫᐊᐧᐨ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᑕᐡ ᓄᑯᑦ ᑭᒋ ᒋᒪᓂᐠ ᑲᐅᒋ ᑕᑯᐃᐧᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᑲᓴᓕᐣ ᑕᐃᓇᑭᑕᒪᐊᐧᐊᐧᐠ $2 ᐯᔑᑯᒥᓂᑲᐧᑲᐣ, ᐊᐱᐨ ᐃᐧᐣ $2.50 ᑭᐡᐱᐣ ᐁᑲ ᑭᒋ ᒋᒪᓂᐠ ᐅᒋᑕᑯᐃᐧᒋᑲᑌᓂᑭᐸᐣ. ᐃᐧᓇᐊᐧ ᑕᐡ ᐸᐣᐟ ᐅᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᑫᐠ ᐅᑭᐊᓄᑲᑕᓇᐊᐧ ᒋᒪᑕᓄᑲᑌᐠ ᑭᒋ ᒋᒪᓂᐠ ᒋᑭᐁᐧ ᐊᐸᒋᒋᑲᑌᐠ

ᒥᓇ ᒋᐅᒋ ᐁᐧᐣᑕᑭᐣᑌᑭᐣ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ ᑲᐅᒋᑕᑯᐃᐧᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒪᒪᐤ $153,000 ᐯᔑᑯᓇᐠ ᐃᓇᑭᑌ. ᒥᑕᐡ ᐅᐁᐧ ᐁᔑᐸᐸᒥᓯᒪᑲᑭᐣ ᐃᓇᓄᑭᐃᐧᓇᐣ: ᐅᓇᒋᑲᑌ ᐊᓂᐣ ᐊᐱ ᑫᐊᓂᔑᒪᒐᒪᑲᐠ ᑭᒋ ᒋᒪᐣ, ᓂᑲᐣ ᑎᐸᐦᐃᑲᑌ ᑲᐱᓇᑐᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᒋᒪᐣ, ᓂᑲᐣ ᓇᑐᒋᑲᑌᐊᐧᐣ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ, ᑎᐸᐦᐃᑲᑌᐊᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐃᔑᓂᔕᐦᐃᑲᑌᐊᐧᐣ ᒧᓱᓂᐠ ᐸᐣᐟ ᑲᐅᒋ ᓇᑐᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ, ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐊᓄᑲᑌᐊᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᒪᓯᓇᐦᐃᑫᐦᐊᐊᐧᐠ $0.50 ᐯᔑᑯᑎᐸᐱᐡᑯᒋᑲᐣ ᐃᓇᑭᐣᑕᒪᐊᐧᐊᐧᐠ ᑯᑕᑭᔭᐠ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑲᐅᒋᐊᐧᐨ ᒥᓇ ᐊᑲᐧᒋᐠ ᑲᐅᒋᐊᓄᑲᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑲᓇᓇᑐᓇᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑲ ᒥᐢᑕᐦᐃ ᑫᐃᔑᒣᑎᓂᑫᐊᐧᐨ

ᑫᑯᓇᐣ ᑲᐃᔑᓂᔕᐦᐊᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᐧᔕᐦᐅᐠ. ᐯᔑᑯᔭᑭ ᐱᒥᑌᐱᓭᐊᐧᐠ ᐯᔑᑯᓇᐠ ᑲᓴᓕᐣ ᑲᐱᑕᐦᐅᑕᓱᒪᑲᐠ ᑭᒋ ᒋᒪᐣ, ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᔑᐨ ᒥᒋᒪᐣ ᑲᐸᐣᑲᐧᑭᐣ, ᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂ ᐊᐸᒋᒋᑲᓇᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐱᑯ ᐅᐡᑭ ᐅᑕᐸᓀᓴᐣ ᑭᐡᐱᐣ ᐸᐣᐟ, ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑲᐅᒋᑎᐯᐣᑕᑯᓯᐊᐧᐨ ᓇᐣᑕ ᐊᑲᐧᒋᐠ ᑲᐅᒋᐊᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᑭᐡᐱᐣ ᑲᓇᑕᐁᐧᑕᓂᒪᐊᐧᐨ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᓄᑯᑦ 2010 ᑲᔭᑭᐊᐧᐠ ᑭᓇᑕᐁᐧᑕᑲᐧᐣ ᓂᔕᐧ ᒋᐱᑕᐦᐅᑕᓱᒪᑲᐠ ᒥᑐᓂ ᐱᑯ ᑭᑭᐡᐳᓀᐦᐅᑕᓱᒪᑲᓄᐣ ᒥᓂᑯᐠ ᐃᒪ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑲᑭᐃᔑᓄᑌᓭᑭᐣ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᐅᓄ ᐊᑎᐟ ᐁᑲ ᓇᐱᐨ ᑲᐱᒥᐃᐧᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐅᒪ 850 ᑭᓫᐅᒥᑐᕑᐢ ᑲᐊᐱᓯᓇᑲᐧᐠ

ᑭᒋᑲᒥᐠ ᑲᐅᒋᐱᒥᔭᒪᑲᐠ ᑭᒋᒋᒪᐣ ᒧᓱᓂᐠ ᑲᑭᐅᒋᒪᒐᒪᑲᐠ ᐁᐧᑎ ᐊᐱᐣ ᐊᐧᔕᐦᐅᐠ: ᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂ ᐊᐸᒋᒋᑲᓇᐣ ᑲᐃᐧᐅᐡᑭ ᐅᔑᒋᑲᑌᐠ $3.2 ᒥᓫᐃᔭᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᐃᐧ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧᑲᒥᐠ, ᐃᐡᑲᐧᑌᒪᐣ, ᐸᐸᐳᐃᐧᓇᐣ, ᓇᐸᑭᓴᑯᐠ, ᓴᓴᐸᐧᐦᐃᑲᓇᐣ, ᐅᐡᑭ ᑲᐸᐸᑲᑕᒧᐡᑭᑫᐨ ᐅᑕᐸᐣ ᒋᐃᔑᐊᐸᑎᓯᐨ ᔑᒪᑕᐊᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐱᐊᐧᓇᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐅᐡᑭ ᒧᐊᐧᐳ ᐅᑕᐸᐣ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᒋᐃᔑᐊᐸᑎᓯᐨ. ᒥᑕᐡ ᐅᓄᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ ᑲᑭᐊᔑᒋ ᐳᓯᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᑲᐸᐣᑲᐧᑭᐣ ᒥᒋᒪᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐱᑯ ᑲᓴᓕᐣ ᒋᑌᐱᓭᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐸᓂᒪ ᒥᓇᐊᐧ ᐃᔕᒪᑲᐠ ᑭᒋᒋᒪᐣ 2011 ᐊᐦᑭᐊᐧᐠ.

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ANNOUNCEMENT Bottle on stride

On October 15th at 9:00 am to 12:00 pm Wawatay Radio will be doing a live broadcast of the Hospital Opening.

Wawatay Television will also be doing a live video stream of the event on www.wawataynews.ca

Wawatay Radio Network 89.9 FM in Sioux Lookout and 106.7 FM in Timmins or Bell TV Channel 962.

James Thom/Wawatay News

Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School student Charlissa Bottle runs up the path toward the halfway point of the course. Bottle, from Mishkeegogamang and Kevin Smith, from Sachigo Lake, participated in the senior cross-country running races Oct. 6 at Kamview Nordic Centre in Thunder Bay. Bottle placed 21 out of 39 competitors and completed the five-kilometre race in 31:23, about 10 minutes off the lead time. Smith placed 18 out of 20 with a time of 40:38. It was his first 7.5kilometre race.

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Booking Deadline October 28th, 2010

Distribution Date November 26th, 2010

The distribution date for the next magazine is scheduled for November 26th, 2010. To meet this deadline, our ad booking and material deadline is October 28th, 2010.

Sagatay subscriptions are now available, if you would like a copy of this magazine, please contact us and we will send one to you for your enjoyment. If you have any questions, or would like to book an ad, please feel free to contact us.

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