February 14, 2013 Volume 40 Number 6

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What next?

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Idle No More has come to an impasse, as the movement takes a breath to reflect on its groundbreaking first months and figure out where to go from here. Wawatay News looks at the impact of Idle No More on one participant on page 9, the future of the movement on pages 10-11, and reflections from AFN National Chief Shawn Atleo as well as an APTN journalist on pages 12-13. Idle No More: what next?

ᑲᓴᐸᓇᑲ ᐅᑭᒪᑲᐣ ᐅᐃᐧᑭᑫᐣᑕᐣ ᑫᑯᓀᐣ ᑲᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᐃᐡᑲᐧᐱᒪᑎᓯᐨ ᐃᑫ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐁᑕᑯᓇᑲᓄᐸᐣ ᕑᐃᐠ ᑲᕑᐃᐠ ᐊᐧᐊᐧᑌ ᐊᒋᒧᐃᐧᓇᐣ

ᑲᓴᐸᓇᑲ ᐅᑭᒪᑲᐣ ᑲᐧᕑᑎᐣ ᐊᐣᑐᕑᓴᐣ ᐅᑭᔭᓂᒧᑕᐣ ᐅᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐁᑲ ᑲᑕᑲᐧᓂᐠ ᑭᐸᐦᐅᑎᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᓂ ᐊᐱ ᐊᐧᐁᐧ ᓂᔑᑕᓇ ᓂᐦᓱᔕᑊ ᐁᑕᓱᔭᑭᐃᐧᓀᐸᐣ ᐅᐡᑭᓂᑭᑫᐧ ᐁᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᐃᐡᑲᐧᐱᒪᑎᓯᐸᐣ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐁᑕᑯᓇᑲᓄᐸᐣ ᐃᒪ ᑲᓴᐸᓇᑲᐠ. “ᐊᒥ ᑲᐃᔑᓂᓯᑐᑕᒪᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᐃᐧ ᐊᓄᑭᓇᑲᐣ ᐁᑭᐅᑕᐱᓇᐨ ᐃᓂᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᐃᑫᐧᐊᐧᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐃᒪ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᐃᐧᑕᐸᓂᐠ ᐁᑭᐃᔑᐳᓯᐦᐊᐨ ᒋᑕᓇᐡᑭᓀᓂ,” ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᐊᐣᑐᕑᓴᐣ. “ᐊᔕ ᓂᔓᔭᑭ ᓇᐣᑕ ᓂᐦᓱᔭᑭ ᐅᑕᓇᐠ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐣᑐᒋᐊᔭᓯᒥᐣ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᐃᐧᑲᒥᐠ ᑫᑭᐃᔑᑭᐸᐦᐅᐣᑕᐧᐸᐣ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ. ᐊᑯᓇᐠ ᐊᐱᐣ ᐁᐧᑎ ᑭᔐᒋᐊᐧᐣ ᓇᓇᑕᐃᐧᑭᑫᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ

ᑲᑭᐊᓄᑲᑌᑭᐸᐣ, ᐊᒥ ᐊᐱ ᑲᑭ ᑲᐃᐧᓂᑲᑌᑭᐸᐣ ᐣᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᓇᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᐧᑲ ᒪᔑ ᑯᑕᐠ ᒋᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᐅᔑᒋᑲᑌᐠ, ᒥᐱᑯ ᐁᑕ ᐃᐁᐧ ᑲᑕᑲᐧᐠ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᐃᐧᑲᒥᐠ.” ᓫᐃᐅᓇ ᐊᐣᑐᕑᓴᐣ ᑭᐃᔑᓂᑲᓱ ᑲᓴᐸᓇᑲᐠ ᑭᐅᒋ ᐁᑲᐧ ᑭᐃᐡᑲᐧᐱᒪᑎᓯ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐁᑕᑯᓇᑲᓄᐸᐣ ᐃᒪ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐠ ᑲᐅᐡᑲᑭᓱᓂᐨ ᑭᔐᐱᓯᒧᐣ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᐅᑯᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔕᐠ ᑲᓂᑲᓂᐡᑲᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᑭᒋᒪᒪᓂᐃᐧ ᓇᓇᑕᐃᐧᑭᑫᐣᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂ ᐃᐧᓇᐊᐧ ᐅᑕᓄᑲᑕᓇᐊᐧ ᐁᓇᓇᑕᐃᐧᑭᑫᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᐧᐁᐧ ᑲᑭᐃᐡᑲᐧᐱᒪᑎᓯᐨ ᐃᑫᐧ. ᐊᐣᑐᕑᓴᐣ ᐃᑭᑐ ᓂᐦᓱᔭᑭ ᐅᑕᓇᐠ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᑲᐅᑭᒪᑲᓄᐸᐣ ᐅᑭᐸᑭᑎᓇᐊᐧᐸᓂᐣ $50,000 ᐅᔓᓂᔭᒥᐊᐧᐣ ᐁᑭᐅᐣᑎᓇᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᒧᒋᐱᒥᑕᐸᑌᐠ ᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᐃᐧᑲᒥᐠ ᒋᐃᓇᐧᑌᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᔑᐨ

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ᐃᒪ ᒋᐃᓇᐸᑕᑭᐣ ᑫᐃᔑᑲᓇᐁᐧᐣᑕᑯᓯᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᑕᑯᓂᑕᐧ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᒋᔭᐸᒋᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔕᐠ, ᐁᑲᐧ ᔕᑯᐨ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᒪᔑ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔕᐠ ᒋᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᐱᐣᑎᑫᑯᓯᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᐁᐧᓂ ᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂ. ᒥᓇᐊᐧ ᑕᐡ ᐊᐣᑐᕑᓴᐣ ᑭᑭᐁᐧ ᐅᑕᐱᓇᑲᓄᐸᐣ ᐅᑭᒪᑲᓂᐃᐧ ᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐅᑕᓇᐠ ᒥᑭᓯᐃᐧᐱᓯᑦ ᐃᓂᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᑲᑭᒥᐡᑲᐧᒋᐡᑲᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᓄ ᐊᐣᑐᕑᓴᐣᓄᐣ ᑲᑭᐅᑭᒪᑲᓄᐸᐣ. “ᐁᐧᓇᐠ ᐣᑭᐃᓀᑕᓇᐸᐣ ᒋᐸᑭᑎᓇᐠ $50,000 ᐃᐧᐸᐨ ᒋᔭᓂᑲᑫᐧᐅᐣᑎᓇᒪᐠ ᐃᐁᐧ ᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ (ᑲᐱᒥᑕᐸᑌᐠ ᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᐃᐧᑲᒥᐠ ᒋᐃᓇᐧᑌᐠ),” ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᐊᐣᑐᕑᓴᐣ. “ᐊᔕ ᑕᐡ ᐅᐁᐧ ᓂᐦᓱᔭᑭ, ᒥᐦᐅᐁᐧ ᑭᔭᐱᐨ ᐁᐱᐦᐅᔭᐣ ᐁᒧᒋᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᑕᐣ ᐃᐁᐧ ᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ.” ᐊᐣᑐᕑᓴᐣ ᐃᑭᑐ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔕᐠ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᑕᓇᓄᑭᐊᐧᐠ

ᐸᐣᐟ ᐊᐸᐢ ᐁᑲᐧ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᑕᔭᓇᐊᐧᓯᐣ ᑲᓇᐁᐧᐣᒋᑫᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐣ ᑲᑕᑯᓂᑕᐧ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ. “ᑲᐧᐃᐣ ᑲᓇᑫ ᒪᔑ ᒋᔭᐸᒋᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᐁᐧᓂ ᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂ ᑲᑭᐅᐣᑎᓂᑲᑌᑭᐸᐣ ᒋᔭᐸᒋᑐᐊᐧᐨ,” ᐃᑭᑐ ᐊᐣᑐᕑᓴᐣ. “ᒥᑕᐡ ᐁᑐᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔕᐠ ᑲᐅᑕᐱᓇᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐣ ᐃᒪ ᐱᐣᒋᑕᐸᐣ ᐁᔑᐊᓴᐊᐧᐨ ᒋᑕᓇᐡᑭᓀᓂᐨ. ᒥᑐᓂ ᑕᐡ ᐊᐧᐊᐧᓀᐣᑕᑲᐧᐣ. ᑭᐡᐱᐣ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᑲᑭᐊᐧᐡᑫᐧᐱᐊᐧᐨ ᓇᐣᑕ ᑲᐃᓯᓭᓂᐠ ᒋᑲᓇᐁᐧᐣᑕᑯᓯᐊᐧᐨ, ᒥᐱᑯ ᐃᒪ ᐱᐣᒋᑕᐸᐣ ᐁᔑᐳᓯᐁᐧᐱᓇᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᒋᐊᔭᓂᐨ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᐱᐣ ᓇᑫ ᐅᐸᑭᑎᓇᐊᐧᐣ ᐁᔭᓂᑭᐁᐧᐃᐧᓇᐊᐧᐨ, ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᑕᐡ ᐅᓇᓂᓴᓂᐦᐊᐊᐧᐣ ᐅᐁᐧ ᑲᑐᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ.” ᐊᐣᑐᕑᓴᐣ ᐃᑭᑐ ᐃᐁᐧ ᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ ᐊᔕ ᓄᒪᑫ ᑭᐅᐣᒋᑲᐧᔭᐣᑕᐣ ᒋᐊᐸᒋᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔕᐠ, ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐃᑭᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᐃᓇᓄᑭᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᔕ ᑲᔦ ᐅᑭᓇᐸᐱᑫᓯᑐᓇᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᓂᐱᓂ ᒥᓇ

ᐃᐡᑯᑌᐃᐧᔭᐱᓂ. ᑭᒋᒪᐡᑭᑭᐃᐧᓂᓂ ᒪᐃᑯ ᐃᐧᓫᓴᐣ, ᑲᓂᑲᓂᐡᑲᐠ ᓂᐳᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᓇᓇᑲᒋᑐᐨ ᐃᒪ ᑕᐣᑐᕑ ᐯ, ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᐊᒥ ᐁᐃᓀᐣᑕᐠ ᒋᑲᑫᐧᑌᐧᓇᓄᐊᐧᐠ ᓇᓇᑲᒋᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᒋᑐᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐊᐧᐁᐧ ᐃᑫᐧ ᑲᑭᐳᓂᐱᒪᑎᓯᐨ. “ᐊᒥ ᐁᔑᓂᓯᑐᑕᒪᐣ ᐅᐁᐧ ᑲᑭᐃᔑᐁᐧᐸᐠ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐁᑭᑕᑯᓇᑲᓄᐨ ᐃᒪ ᐁᑭ ᐅᐣᒋᐃᐡᑲᐧᐱᒪᑎᓯᐨ, ᐃᓇᔓᐊᐧᑌ ᑕᐡ ᐃᒪ ᓂᐳᐃᐧᐣ ᓇᓇᑕᐃᐧᑭᑫᐣᒋᑫᐃᐧ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐅᐣᒋᑕ ᐱᑯ ᒋᓇᓇᑕᐃᐧ ᑭᑫᐣᒋᑲᓄᐊᐧᐠ,” ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᐃᐧᓫᓴᐣ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐊᐱ ᑭᔐᐱᓯᑦ 5. ᐃᐧᓫᓴᐣ ᐅᐱᒥᐊᔭᒥᐦᐊᐣ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᐃᐧ ᓇᓇᑕᐃᐧᑭᑫᐣᒋᑫᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐃᒪ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐠ ᑲᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᐁᐧᓂ ᐅᒋ ᑲᑭᐃᐡᑲᐧᐱᒪᑎᓯᐨ ᐃᑫᐧ. ᐃᑫᐧ ᑲᑭᐃᐡᑲᐧ page 3

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Attawapiskat members blockade Debeers

Peawanuck Rangers rescue Ranger

Two separate blockades of the Debeers’ Victor diamond mine by Attawapiskat members have highlighted issues between the community and the mining company.

The first blockade of the road leading to Debeers, which started on Feb. 4, lasted three days before a meeting between the company, the First Nation and the members involved in the blockade resolved the dispute.

A second blockade started on Feb. 10 and was unresolved at press time.

The Peawanuck Canadian Rangers rode to the rescue again last week, the group third rescue so far this winter.

This time it was another Canadian Ranger who had to be saved.

Jason Metatawabin was halfway home from Peawanuck to his home in Fort Severn when his snowmobile broke down. The temperature was -40, with a windchill of -60.

After relatives worried he was overdue in Fort Severn, the Peawanuck Rangers took to the trail and found Metatawabin.

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Constance Lake youth

Hockey as healing

NAN plans for inquest

Students in Constance Lake are getting a more traditional education option.

Mamawamatawa Holistic Education Centre is offering a trapping course for high school credits, where students learn trapping, skinning and selling animal furs.

The program is involves Elders as teachers and includes many outdoor skills.

A Right to Play program bringing hockey skills to youth visited a Thunder Bay prison last week.

Former NHL player John Chabot brought his skills and teachings to young men in the correctional facility, intending to develop leadership skills and communication skills with the youth so that they can take the skills to their communities when they return home.

Nishnawbe Aski Nation held a gathering last week to bring the families of seven youth who died while attending school in Thunder Bay together.

The gathering was intended to prepare the families for the joint inquest into the deaths, of which planning is underway now.

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Kasabonika chief questions police custody death Rick Garrick Wawatay News

Kasabonika Chief Gordon Anderson is highlighting his community’s lack of a jail cell after a 23-year-old woman died while in police custody in Kasabonika.

“I guess the NAPS (Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service) officer had to detain her for a while and put her in a police vehicle,” Anderson said. “We haven’t had a jail cell for the last two or three years. After (the Kashechewan inquest) they dismantled our cells here and we haven’t had anything, only the (NAPS) office.”

Leona Anderson of Kasabonika First Nation died while in police custody after being detained by a NAPS officer in the community on Feb. 1.

The Ontario Provincial Police’s Criminal Investigation Branch is conducting an investigation into the death.

Anderson said the community invested $50,000 into a modular unit police station with jail cells for NAPS to use about three years ago when he was serving a previous term as chief, but NAPS had not yet moved into the building. Anderson was re-elected as chief this past March after Eno H. Anderson served the community for the past term.

“People who are intoxicated or that need to be looked after, they just keep them in the police vehicle for a while and then take them home.”

-Chief Gordon Anderson

“I gladly contributed $50,000 towards getting this place (modular unit police station) in as soon as possible,” Anderson said. “But after three years now, I’m still waiting here just looking at the building.”

Anderson said NAPS is currently using a police office without jail cells located in the band office building. “(The modular unit police station) is still not being used,” Anderson said. “All they do is keep (people in custody) in a police vehicle. It’s very frustrating. People who are intoxicated or that need to be looked after, they just keep them in the police vehicle for a while and then take them home, which is also very dangerous.”

Anderson said the modular unit police station has been ready for use for some time, adding that the public works department had installed water and hydro.

A NAPS spokeswoman said NAPS has operational holding

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Kasabonika First Nation band office. cells in Kasabonika, but at the time of Leona Anderson’s death the holding cells were not operational.

Dr. Michael Wilson, regional supervising coroner in Thunder Bay, said there will likely be an inquest into the woman’s death.

“It is my understanding of the case that she was in custody at the time of her death, so an inquest is mandatory under the Coroners Act,” Wilson said on Feb. 5.

Wilson has since been corresponding with the OPP investi-

gators and the community leadership on the woman’s death.

“As well, I am going to be personally travelling to that community in the next few weeks to have further discussions,” Wilson said.

Wilson said the allegation that there are no jail cells in the community would be looked at.

“Clearly, how people who have been taken into custody are treated would be something that we would be looking at,” Wilson said.

A NAPS spokeswoman said

the OPP were called in to do the investigation because NAPS does not operate under the Police Services Act of Ontario, which stipulates that the Special Investigations Unit is responsible for investigating circumstances involving police and civilians that have resulted in a death, serious injury or allegations of sexual assault.

A post mortem was conducted on Feb. 3 in Kenora with the assistance of the Kenora OPP Forensic Identification Unit.

Attawapiskat members blockade Debeers winter road twice Rick Garrick Wawatay News

The DeBeers winter road has been blocked twice over the past week, an ongoing blockade that began on Feb. 10 and another from Feb. 4-6.

The first blockade was over employment rates among community members and the use of Attawapiskat’s traditional territory, while the second blockade was over a lack of compensation for the mine’s impacts.

“It’s the same issue as with (the first blockade),” said Danny Metatawabin, Attawapiskat’s impact benefit agreement coordinator, about the second blockade. “They have a trapline there

along with the other family.”

Metatawabin said the issues would be sorted out at meeting with DeBeers representatives.

“The mine manager is on his way tonight, so hopefully we’ll sort it out by tonight,” Metatawabin said on Feb. 11. “As per the agreement, the membership was supposed to have been informed that we’re not supposed to be doing any blockades.”

Metatawabin said the blockades prevented the delivery of fuel to the DeBeers Victor mine.

There are less than a dozen people on the second blockade, he said, noting there has been a mixed reaction to the blockade from community members.

“We’re trying to work with the

families or the people involved on the blockade,” Metatawabin said. “Hopefully, once we have a meeting tonight with them, we’ll bring this to a resolution.

The main message here is we all need to work together.”

Tom Ormsby, DeBeers’ director of external and corporate affairs, said the IBA has been in place since 2005.

“Any compensation that is directed towards those who may be impacted for a trapline, that compensation is paid to the community and the community is responsible for the distribution of that money to those who may have been impacted,” Ormsby said. “So it’s not actually something that we would do.

We just make that payment to the community and they distribute, so they’ll know better who’s got the traplines in the area and who may be impacted and who may not be.”

Ormsby said DeBeers representatives had already met and worked through the issues of the people on the first blockade.

Ormsby added that DeBeers has been working with the community since last July on how to maximize the benefits available in the IBA. Metatawabin said the first blockade began with four individuals before other community members joined in support.

He said the chief and council do not support the blockade,

since the IBA the community signed with Debeers allowed the company to set up the Victor Mine, the winter road, and ensure that its trucks could move on the roads without interference.

Metatawabin said for the last six months, the chief and council have been working with Debeers to address issues related to the memberships’ concerns.

“We do have a renewed relationships working group represented by some council members and Debeers officials,” Metatawabin said on Feb. 6, before first the blockade ended. “So we’re very close to resolving those issues that suddenly surfaced coming from the blockade.”

ᐃᑫᐧ ᑲᑭᐃᐡᑲᐧ ᐱᒪᑎᓯᐨ ᑕᓀᐣᑕᒥᐦ ᐃᐁᐧᒪᑲᐣ ᐁᑲ ᐁᑕᑲᐧᐠ ᑭᐸᐦᐅᑐᐃᐧᑲᒥᐠ From page 1 “ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᑎᐱᓇᐁᐧ ᐣᑲᐃᔕ ᐁᐧᑎ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐠ ᐃᐧᐸᐨ ᓇᐊᐧᐨ ᑭᔭᐱᐨ ᒋᔭᐣᑕᐃᐧ ᐊᔭᒥᐦᐊᑲᐧ,” ᐃᑭᑐ ᐃᐧᓫᓴᐣ. ᐃᐧᓫᓴᐣ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᐃᐁᐧ ᑲᐃᓇᒋᒧᓇᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐁᑲ ᑲᑕᑲᐧᐠ ᑫᐃᔑ ᑲᓇᐁᐧᐣᑕᑯᓯᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᑕᑯᓂᑕᐧ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᐃᒪ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐠ ᒥᐦᐅᐁᐧ ᑲᔦ ᑫᓇᓇᑲᒋᒋᑲᑌᐠ. “ᒥᐦᐅᐁᐧ ᑲᐸᔭᑌᓇᑲᐧᐠ ᒋ ᓇ ᓇ ᑲ ᑕ ᐊ ᐧ ᐸ ᒋ ᑲ ᑌ ᐠ ᐃᑭᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᑲᑭᑕᑯᓂᑕᐧ ᐊᓂᐣ ᑲᑐᑕᐃᐧᐣᑕᐧ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐁᑲᓇᐁᐧᓂᒥᑯᐊᐧᐨ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔕᐣ,” ᐃᐧᓫᓴᐣ ᐃᑭᑐ. ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᐃᐧ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧᐣ ᐊᓄᑭᓇᑲᐣ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔕᐠ ᑭᑲᓄᓇᐊᐧᐠ ᐃᐧᓇᐊᐧ ᒋᔭᓄᑲᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᓇᓇᑕᐃᐧᑭᑫᐣᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐃᐧᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᐃᐧ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᑕᓄᑲᑕᓯᓇᐊᐧ ᓇᓇᑕᐃᐧᑭᑫᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂ ᑲᐅᐣᒋ ᐱᒥᓂᔕᐦᐃᑲᑌᐠ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᐃᐧ ᐅᓇᔓᐁᐧᐃᐧᐣ, ᒥᑕᐡ ᐁᔑᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐃᒪ ᑭᒋᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᐃᐧ ᓇᓇᑲᒋᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᒋᐅᒋᐊᓄᑲᑌᐠ ᓇᓇᑕᐃᐧᑭᑫᐣᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑭᐡᐱᐣ ᑫᑯᐣ ᑲᑭᒋᐃᓯᓭᐠ ᑲᐊᔑᒋᓭᐊᐧᐨ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔕᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐱᑯ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᐃᒪ ᐃᓀᑫ ᐊᐃᐧᔭ ᑲᐅᐣᒋᐊᐧᓂᑐᐨ ᐅᐱᒪᑎᓯᐃᐧᐣ, ᑲᑭᐅᒋ ᑭᒋᒪᑭᐦᐊᑲᓄᐨ ᓇᐣᑕ ᐁᑭᑎᐸᒋᒧᓇᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐱᔑᑲᐧᒋᑐᑕᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐃᓀᑫ ᐁᑭᐃᔑᐊᐧᓂᑐᑕᐊᐧᑲᓄᐨ. ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᑭᔐᐱᓯᑦ 3 ᑲᐃᓇᑭᓱᐨ ᒥᔭᐤ ᐁᐧᑎ ᑭᓇᓇᑲᒋᒋᑲᑌ ᑭᓇᐧᕑᐊ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐃᑭᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑭᓇᐧᕑᐊ ᐅᐣᑌᓫᐃᔪ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔕᐠ ᑲᐊᓄᑲᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᑭᒋᒪᒪᓂᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᐃᐧᒋᑕᐧᐊᐠ. ᑭᐡᐱᐣ ᐊᐃᐧᔭ ᐊᔭᑫᐧᐣ ᑎᐸᒋᒧᐃᐧᓂ ᐅᐁᐧᓂ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᑲᐱᒥ ᓇᓇᑕᐃᐧᑭᑫᐣᒋᑲᑌᓂᐠ ᑭᑲᑫᐧᒋᒥᑯᓇᐊᐧ ᒋᐃᔑᑎᐸᒋᒧᔦᐠ ᑭᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑲᑕᑲᐧᐠ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᐃᐧ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧᓂᐠ.

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Colonial ideas behind racism Lenny Carpenter NEWS REPORTER

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here is no doubt the Idle No More movement has magnified the racist undertones within this country.

Just scroll down on any online news story related to the movement to read the comments that are bred from ignorance.

And then there’s the First Nations woman who was abducted in Thunder Bay. The perpetrators told her that Idle No More would fail and that “you deserve to lose your treaty rights.”

That statement – that we “deserve” any mistreatment we get – is perhaps the core thought behind all the racism First Nations people encounter.

After all, when settlers first arrived to Turtle Island centuries ago, most tribes still lived a hunter-gatherer lifestyle. The settlers perceived us as being intellectually inferior – or “dumber.”

This justified them taking a moral high ground and they proceeded to use their technologically superior weapons to massacre, dominate and suppress our people over the centuries.

The mindset of those early settlers is one that continues to exist today as we struggle to claim our inherent rights to this land and water, this Mother Earth we so dearly love.

That mentality of superiority affected me during my teen years, and I had this underlying shame about our people that I bottled up.

As I learned in my history classes about the great technological advances and innovations of the Egyptians, Romans, Greeks, and Chinese, I could not help but wonder why our people were unable to develop intellectually as these cultures overseas.

And I saw the struggles our people have today, with the alcoholism, low employment and graduation rates.

I was proud of the traditions of our culture, but ashamed at how we seem to be inferior to the rest of Canada.

Then I read Jared Diamond’s “Guns, Germs and Steel.”

In his Pulitzer-prize winning book, Diamond asserts that the indigenous peoples of Africa, Australia, the Philippines, and Turtle Island are not intellectually inferior

compared to the rest of the world.

Instead, the people of what is now Europe and Asia benefited from geography and environmental factors.

For instance, they had access to domesticated animals like horses, cattle, pigs and chicken, animals that continue to be the source of our meat.

The Incas of South America domesticated the llama for transportation, but almost no animal indigenous to Turtle could be tamed, let alone domesticated (the key difference being breeding in captivity).

For vegetation, the Eurasians (people of Europe and Asia) had wheat, barley and rice. They could be planted and harvested with relative ease.

The most notable agricultural product on this side is maize, but it was more difficult to plant. Where wheat and barley could be strewn over fields, maize had to be planted individually by hand.

These are among some of the advantages that allowed the Eurasians to establish settlements and advance themselves intellectually at a higher rate than indigenous peoples in other parts of the world, who mostly had to worry about day-to-day sustenance than sit around and work on ideas.

That is not to say that indigenous peoples had no innovations. The Mayans are the most notable example, thanks to doomsday prophecies in recent years.

And since the settlers have dominated our cultures and enforced racist policies like the Indian Act and the residential school, we have taken a while to “catch up,” to show the settlers that we are very much capable of being their intellectual equal.

In my journalist career, and my life experience in general, I have met many of our people who are lawyers, doctors, judges, psychologists, engineers, artists.

It has taken centuries but our people are awakening, showing that we are not intellectually inferior, that we do not deserve to be dominated by a foreign entity.

Idle No More is part of that resurgence, that uprising of our culture, as our people are stepping up.

The colonial attitude shown by those early settlers is alive today, but it is an exciting time for our people and I hope the momentum carries on because we do not “deserve” this continued mistreatment.

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Lake Helen drum group, 2005.

The gift of medicine Richard Wagamese ONE NATIVE LIFE

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’ve heard it said that morning is the universe shrugging itself into wakefulness. I like that thought. I like it because it suggests that it’s possible to be part of that event every day.

I like it because it promises a fresh start, with a new approach and a new spirit to every day. Just like waking up from a good, sound sleep, you become aware and then you rise and move into the day with hope, acceptance and open mindedness.

Or at least, you may. I remember days when mornings were painful haze. Some days were totally lacking in direction, motivation or inspiration. There were times in my life when a morning represented yet another in a line of bleak, despairing days devoid of anything resembling energy. But that was then.

These days in our mountain home morning is a reconnection experience like none I’ve ever known.

See, in our home we start every day with meditation,

prayer and a smudge with ceremonial medicines. Before we do anything we do this. We use sweet grass, sage, cedar and tobacco. It’s held in an abalone bowl, lit with a wooden match and fanned with a traditional eagle wing fan. It represents the creative, nurturing, healing energy of the universe. Creation.

Creator. Harmony. It represents our earnest desire to be a part of that vital affirming energy.

I bless my wife with it and then myself and then, in slow, measured, solemn steps, I carry that sacred medicine around the rooms of our home. I say a prayer as I have been taught. I offer thanks for everything that is present in my world and ask for nothing more. As I make that solemn walk through our home I connect to everything. I recognize it. I reclaim it. I comprehend that it is all a gift and I am grateful and I am filled with the knowledge that I walk in a particular grace.

That part of our mornings is special. Not only because we are approaching life in a spiritual manner but because we do it together. Another thing I’ve heard said is that spirituality expresses itself most strongly in community.

It doesn’t matter whether that community is two or 20. What

matters is a gathering of spirits, a meeting of hearts and minds in a purposeful approach to the energy of Creation. We are joined. We are made more. We are strengthened.

Then when life gets hold of us, when the busyness and the issues of our life lays hold of us and tugs it in wholly different directions, we’ll walk through a waft of that sacred smoke and remember. We remember how we started the day. We reconnect to the idea of prayer, meditation and peace – and we’re calmed.

That’s the particular gift of medicine – its lingering scent reminds us that we went into ceremony, we went into prayer, we went into peace and it allows us to bring those moments into the ongoing moments of our days and our lives. Or, at least to try our best to. We’re human.

We have failings. We are prone to choosing a different sort of energy at any moment and we forget. But the gift of medicine is in our home to return us to that morning place.

The smoke and scent inhabit a room. It lingers on your clothes.

It clings to your hair. When the travels of the day get you weary or irritated or anxious, there’s always that frail scent of medicine to bring you to

ceremony one more time. I’m grateful for that. It’s easy to be spiritual in a quiet room. It’s out in the world where the real tests are. The presence of medicine always returns us to our natural state – harmony. That’s not just a natural state for Native people.

It’s true for all of us.

Medicine burns when touched by fire. The smoke climbs higher, curling into the corners of the room where you sit watching it, following it with your eyes and there’s a feeling like desire at your belly and a cry ready at your throat. There’s a point where smoke will disappear and the Elders say that this is where the Old Ones wait to hear you, your petitions and your prayers, the Spirit World where all things return to balance and time is reduced to dream.

It vanishes. There’s a silence more profound than any words you’ve ever heard or read and when you close your eyes you feel the weight of ancient hands upon your shoulders and your brow and the sacred smoke comes to inhabit you and in its burn and smolder, a returning to the energy you were born in - and the room and the world is filled with you.

That’s the gift of medicine.

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Bringing this economy to its knees, then raising it back to its human feet Charles Wagamese Special to Wawatay News

We might be the ones most qualified for that raising up.

Haven’t we had that bended knee experience happen to our oikos/economy twice already - once by visitors and more recently by ourselves?

Thomas Paine and others who experienced our indigenous economic culture unsullied were amazed at its lack of rich and poor based in individual or class privilege. They took that back to Europe which sparked an age of enlightenment.

They however have never been able to fully translate that to the societal level we achieved.

It is interesting that the essential ingredients of our sacred duty to land and water is what is most mentioned by Idle No More (INM) on placards and in spoken transmissions.

Little mention is made to the First Nations Financial Transparency Act and the proposed First Nations Property Ownership Act. To me, it is amazing how generous and patient INM is with those aspects. Like the majority of us grassroots we continue to await our sharing ways to be strengthened and implemented by elected leaders who instead seem to move us further and further away.

What we have allowed to go on, may sacrifice our collective essence, this generations’ responsibility to leave intact for

those yet unborn.

In the maelstrom of toxic changes that befell us it is understandable that our grip on what we are got loosened.

Oikos is a long ago Greek word meaning household apparently. Neimin, - to manage - got added to the word Oikos to form the word ‘economy.’

What the Europeans encountered on Turtle Island was a means of societal providing that collectively put the interests of every single wigwamin and the people in them always…

It hurts me deeply as an Anishinabe to be culturally corrupted enough to abide poverty within my own small lodge and extended family… that money road we pave by our patience is the only one running through our economic communities today.

We have, however, ways and means to bring this false economy to its knees.

George Erasmus, described as a moderate, as head of AFN once warned Canadians we could do that nationally. This was back in the mid 80’s. So we know that already.

Not that it needs us to do it.

That oikos neimin is on its knees already - in fearful prayerful pose of shooniah/money at all costs.

On its knees morally - as it kneels on a permanent and growing underclass of poverty globally.

The real challenge is how to raise it up off its knees - to walk

in upright human dignity.

Is the demographic tsunami economists speak of this spiritual portal?

The Canadian baby boomer labour force is fast retiring. Who will replace them? The youthful population of Aboriginal people are the only internal source numerical enough to do that.

That leverage will vault us into a position as an absolute critical force we have not enjoyed since the fur trade de and military alliance stages of our ou relationship with non-Turtle -Tu ur tlee Islanders.

Will that opportunity rtu unity however simply turn our young young people into middle classs w wage age slaves?

Will those youth instead nsstead remember their sacred duty utyy aand nd help steer this country away away from its death road of climate liimatee change?

To me, unless we also address ad ddress the poverty rampant amongst mo ongst us first, immediately today ayy like likke our nearby relatives already do ad dy d o in actions like the White E Earth arth h Land Recovery, we will llikely ikkelyy just end up eating protest esst ffor or sustenance. From Graumeen um meen banks, to perma culture, ure, to o earth ships the ways and m means eans to provide our own necessities essiitiees without ransoming our essence sssence already exists.

A study once done of oill rrich ic h reserves concluded that it w would ould take more than money to re repair epair ourselves.

Instead of Gross National ation nal

Product let us at least consider the Happy Planet Index.

In 2006 the Happy Planet Index listed the south sea island, Vanuatu, as the happiest country in the world. Living according to tradition, the Vanuatu have a unique relationship to the land.

Their strong sense of culture and community played a significant role in putting them at the top of the index.

GDP hypnotized countries yp with wi th high rates of resource consumption rated cons co nsum umpt um ptio tion rate ted d as sad sad and and

rich comparatively.

Could INM be a tipping point?

Or will it instead fall prey to those interests who need so desperately to co-opt it?

Will its prayers and songs be appeased by adding to the 10 billion already spent annually and relatively fruitlessly in convincing us capitalism is the only choice there is?

There is a book called, “Accounting for Genocide, Canada’s Administrative Assault Indigenous People.’ on Indige

We are presently writing the last chapter voluntarily ourselves, daily, in our communities with the corporate partnership culture we have adopted.

To me, this is what INM senses profoundly.

It is breath taking the threshold you may have round danced us towards… To bring this economy to its knees, to raise it up to what human nature is also so capable of walking as.. and in…and always.

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Anonymous continues pushing police on assaults on First Nations women Stephanie Wesley Wawatay News

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On Jan. 28, Anonymous launched phase 1 of Operation Thunderbird – #OpThunderbird on Twitter – which many people thought would unleash an onslaught of embarrassing information on the members of the Thunder Bay Police Services (TBPS).

However, instead of divulging any information on TBPS, Anonymous posted a lengthy essay in which they explained that they “don’t need to d0x and hack – yet – condemning evidence is available a plenty in the public domain.”

The term “d0x and hack” refers to obtaining a person’s information, their documents, and Anonymous used the essay not to expose any documents but to shine a light on the public missteps that they feel TBPS and the justice system has made regarding First Nations people.

The essay was dubbed phase 1, with phase 2 surfacing later in the form of an interactive crime map that can be viewed online. The map documents occurrences like sexual assault, missing women, murdered women, and unidentified remains in Canada.

The essay starts off by speaking of an assault against a First Nations woman in Thunder Bay in February of 2008 that was similar to the one that took place this past December.

The assailant was caught and in February 2009 he was sentenced to a year in jail, then released after six months.

Anonymous lists off several occurrences in Thunder Bay involving the police service and First Nation people to help back their claim that the TBPS are apathetic towards cases involving First Nations people.

Overrepresentation of First Nations people in Thunder Bay’s murder statistics, mockpress releases sent out to the media making fun of the death of a Thunder Bay First Nations man, an officer on the Thunder Bay Police staff making a First Nations student remove Aboriginal-themed clothing during a field trip to police station, the drowning’s and deaths of seven First Nations youth in the city while attending high school, and the incident where a Thunder Bay officer dropped a First Nations student off in the outskirts of the city are all incidents listed

in the essay that Anonymous feels paints a picture of the relationship between TBPS and First Nations people in Thunder Bay. In the essay, Anonymous reiterates why they are so adamant with exposing what they feel is a lack of justice and responsibility towards First Nations women on the part of TBPS. “Many people have asked what Anonymmis (sic) wants in Thunder Bay and elsewhere. It’s really simple. We tweeted it out with a half dozen or so other Anon twitter accounts with the first announcement of the video: catch rapists or get out,” Anonymous said in the essay.

On Jan. 31, Anonymous posted another entry to their journal entitled “All Suspect Information” where they have posted tips that have come in from the public.

Phase 2 of Operation Thunderbird was launched on Feb. 5. Anonymous released an interactive crime map that shows various crimes against Indigenous women in North America, where they took place, and the status of the reports. The crimes listed are unsolved murder, solved murder, hopeful messages, unsolved verbal assaults, unidentified remains found, unsolved missing, and unsolved sexual assault (unsolved sexual assault numbers all races of women since police do not reveal the race of the victim).

The map also lists official and mainstream news stories relating to missing, murdered, and assaulted women, and gives users an option to report and map their own incidences.

There are 506 reports on the map as of Feb. 12.

Anonymous is now also in the process of distributing posters promoting the safety of indigenous women to various First Nations organizations and businesses, as well as shelters, in hopes of encouraging more women to come forward with any experiences they may have had regarding assault and abuse instead of remaining silent.

Anonymous’ original video has amassed over 28,000 views on Youtube since its release, and the groups Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women’s Twitter account has nearly 1,000 followers to date.

In a Twitter interview, Anonymous stated that phase 2 is ongoing with phase 3 coming sometime in the near future. No word yet on what phase 3 will consist of.

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Families prepare for upcoming inquest into youth deaths Shawn Bell Wawatay News

The families of seven Nishnawbe Aski Nation youth who died while attending school in Thunder Bay gathered to begin preparations for the joint inquest into the deaths.

A three-day meeting was held from Feb. 12-14 to allow families to meet each other, educate themselves on the process of the inquest and offer suggestions as to elements that should be included.

Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Deputy Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler said it is important for the families to not only be prepared for the inquest, but to be ready to support each other during what is sure to be an emotional and painful ordeal.

“This was a good opportunity to get to know each other, these families who have the common experience of losing a loved one,” Fiddler said. “There will be other supports in place (during the inquest), but they’ll be the main ones to support each other.”

Seven NAN youth died

between 2000 and 2011 while attending school in Thunder Bay. An inquest into the death of Reggie Bushie of Poplar Hill was halted in 2011 due to jury roll issues in Thunder Bay, at which point calls for a broader inquiry into the deaths of all seven youth came from NAN. While the joint inquest, which was called on May 31, 2012, was originally expected to start in the spring of 2013, northwest Ontario regional coroner Dr. Michael Wilson told Wawatay that a spring 2013 start date is unlikely.

“With the number of interviews and amount of investigation that is being done, it is likely not going to start in the spring of this year,” Wilson said.

While he would not commit to a start date, he did say it is in everyone’s best interest to have the inquest start as soon as possible.

Wilson said the meeting with families was a good opportunity to start the process of communication that is so vital to having the inquest succeed.

“It is very productive that the families have every

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A Dennis Franklin Cromarty student says fairwell during a ceremony to honour the students who died in the McIntyre River since 2000. opportunity to have their voices heard,” Wilson said.

Also at the meeting was Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) detective inspector Peter Loree, who is overseeing the OPP’s reopening of the investigation into the seven deaths.

As for NAN’s role in the inquest, Fiddler said the organization will be there to do everything possible to ensure the families have all the support they need as the process unfolds.

And once the inquest

Thunder Bay police revamping Aboriginal Liaison Unit Shawn Bell Wawatay News

The Thunder Bay police plan to revamp its Aboriginal Liaison program in an attempt to have more cultural sensitivity training for all officers on the force.

Police Chief JP Levesque said that the department will soon approach the Aboriginal Liaison Advisory Committee with two new job descriptions for the two Liaison officers.

Under Levesque’s plan for the Aboriginal Liaison Unit, one officer will continue with the public advocacy role currently employed by the unit. The other officer’s position will be shifted away

from public advocacy into creating a diversity-training package and conducting cultural sensitivity training for officers on the force.

“One of the things I’m hearing from the Aboriginal leadership is to offer more of this kind of training from a historic sense, of this is why we’re here and this is how we got here.”

-JP Levesque

“Once we redo the diversity training package, we’ll offer it to everybody (on the force),” Levesque

said. “As soon as a new officer comes in the door, that will be one of the things we do.”

Levesque added that he has reached out to a number of Aboriginal leaders in Thunder Bay to help the Thunder Bay police with its diversity training, and has received positive response.

“One of the things I’m hearing from the Aboriginal leadership is to offer more of this kind of training from a historic sense, of this is why we’re here and this is how we got here,” Levesque said.

NAN Legal CEO Celina Reitberger, who has been spearheading her organization’s push to bridge the gap between First Nations

people in Thunder Bay and the city’s police force, said the efforts to revitalize the Aboriginal Liaison Unit are good, but should be done in conjunction with the Aboriginal Liaison Advisory Council (ALAC).

Levesque agreed, and acknowledged that he has not taken advantage of the ALAC as much as he should have so far during his time as police chief.

“We’re looking at certainly getting ahold of that committee,” Levesque said.

“And I don’t believe there’s a member of Nishnawbe Aski Nation on that committee, and there should be, so we’ll be making that invitation as well.”

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Garden River member sent hate mail over Idle No More action Belleau not backing down in rallying for change despite racist threats Stephanie Wesley Wawatay News

Lesley Belleau of Garden River First Nation has received hate mail after taking part in Idle No More-related activities and giving interviews about the movement to the local Sault St. Marie media. “The letter was delivered to another woman, a, L. Belleau who just so happens to live on the same street I did in Garden River,� Belleau explained. Belleau is currently in Peterborough working on her PhD. “The letter was then delivered by L. Belleau to my sister Belinda, who lives in Garden River.� “My sister opened the letters at my request,� Belleau explained. “She said the letter looked suspicious.�

Upon opening the letter, Belleau’s sister was horrified to find what was inside. “There were newspaper clippings of the articles and interviews I did for the local papers, they were defaced.

There was a photo of Shawn Atleo in there with crude sexual drawings all over it.� “I was horrified and disgusted,� Belleau said of the envelope’s contents. “To think that someone would take the time to cut out these articles and mail them, to put these extremely racist remarks on the articles. They even wrote ‘Lesley Belleau, stay away from the SOO or else’ with a picture of a gun drawn beside it.�

Belleau did not take the incident lightly. “I didn’t take it as a joke, especially with the rape of a First Nations woman in Thunder Bay that just happened,� she said. “It was grotesque, and it shows the extent of violence against Indigenous women.�

“The whole ordeal just shows how there are people out there who oppose anything related to Indigenous people and speaking the truth...� – Lesley Belleau

Belleau reported the incident to the Ontario Provincial Police as well as the Anishinabek police in Garden River. “They’re still working on it, finger prints have been sent off but no word so far on whether there’s been a positive identification,� she said.

Belleau explained that other First Nations organizations and people have also received similar hate mail, which they believe is being sent by the same person. “Letters were sent to the chief of Garden River, another to the Sault Indian Friendship Center, and another delivered to Rankin reservation, which is close to Sault St. Marie,� Belleau said. “The letters came

in the same envelope, like a Christmas one with holly on it.� “Whoever did it put a lot of time and effort into it,� Belleau said.

Even though receiving the letter was unpleasant, Belleau is not letting it coerce her into stepping away from Idle No More and other First Nationsrelated activities. “The whole ordeal just shows how there are people out there who oppose anything related to Indigenous people and speaking the truth,� Belleau said. “It absolutely did not make me want to step away from Idle No More.�

On blogsite DividedNoMore. com, owned by artist Christi Belcourt, Belleau posted an essay in response to the incident in which she said “it is important to let the perpetrators of such hate crimes to know that their actions are being monitored and does not create a bigger gap of silence for us as Indigenous people. This type of attack will never stop me from speaking.� “Indigenous women need to start stepping forward and speaking out more,� Belleau said. “The perpetrators are trying to create fear to further silence Indigenous women and Indigenous people.� “Be aware that there are people out there like this,�

Belleau said about the person responsible for the hate mail. “But it’s important to keep exposing it as well. Keep speaking out.�

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Pikangikum jingle dancer joins Idle No More rally Stephanie Wesley Wawatay News

On Jan. 28, Idle No More (INM) supporters convened at Parliament Hill in Ottawa for what was called the INM National Day of Action. Cheryl Suggashie of Pikangikum First Nation, and her friends from her university’s jingle dress program made the journey down to Ottawa for the protest.

“It sounds weird, but I was dreaming about it,” Suggashie said. She described seeing a sea of jingle dress dancers in three of her dreams throughout December.

Suggashie said she saw a “call for all jingle dress dancers” for the protest in Ottawa on Jan. 28 online. “That’s when it clicked. I thought, that’s where we have to go,” Suggashie said.

She called her friends who were in the Sault St. Marie jingle dress program with her, some having moved to different areas of the province, and four of them made the trip to Ottawa with their dresses.

Suggashie said she felt ner-

vous before they left for Ottawa.

“The night before we left I could not sleep because I was way too excited and nervous. I was thinking about all those dancers, and also meeting new people,” Suggashie explained.

“I was also thinking about Chief Spence; how I could not meet her yet but happy she was home with her family.”

Suggashie and her friends went to Victoria Island, the site of Spence’s hunger strike, when they arrived in Ottawa in the evening of Jan. 27.

“You could still smell the fire and tobacco, the burning medicines. I thought about the lone Jingle Dress dancer who danced in the legislature building when she was asked to wait outside, but she danced in the lobby, and I thought about all the women across Canada,” Suggashie said.

Suggashie and the other jingle dress dancers awoke early the next day to get ready, as she explained that it takes about two hours to do their hair and sort out the regalia.

“We drove downtown and it started to snow, we walked

out to Wellington and the wind picked up,” Suggashie said. “We stood in the National Archives building to warm up, it was a very quiet building so every time we moved our jingles would make a lot of noise echoing throughout the lobby,” she laughed.

The dancers then walked to Victoria Island, and were instructed to go to Parliament Hill to await the drummers and all of the other INM participants. “We waited for about 20 minutes and then the marshalls came and told us to go on the road. It was time!” Suggashie said.

“My anxiety kicked in along with crocodile tears. My stomach was in knots while we lined up to wait for the drummers to come closer. I could see them about 30 feet away coming closer and closer, and then the women started shouting and singing. I waved my fan up and never felt prouder,” Suggashie said.

Once the drummers arrived, the marshalls instructed the jingle dress dancers to turn around and march in front of them up

Submitted photo by Alice Beaudoin Photography

Cheryl Suggashie was one of four Jingle Dancers to travel from Sault St. Marie to Ottawa for the Jan. 28 Idle No More rally. Suggashie said she’s “never been prouder” than dancing at the rally.

Parliament Hill.

“It was loud. We all danced and drummed in harmony, it was amazing,” Suggashie said.

“We slowly got to the steps of Parliament Hill and stopped.

We were told to do the Healing Dance while Parliament was in session. We danced to a side

step song while our Elder was in the middle with her Eagle Staff, another proud moment I will never forget.”

After the dances, there were speakers which included INM founders, NDP party members, event coordinators, and the national chief.

“At this time my mind was still in awe about what had just happened that my ears were not paying attention to the speakers.

I wanted to keep dancing,” Suggashie said.

Suggashie remembered during one of the round dances that she was holding hands with a non-Anishinaabe man from out east who was fascinated with the whole event. He told her he had never been to a round dance before.

“When it was over he shouted for joy, clapped his hands and shook our hands, and he said thank you. I never realized there are people out there who never heard of a round dance, who think it is just for First Nation’s people but it is for anyone,” Suggashie said. “I realized then that there is still a lot of work to be done.”

Since her experience in Ottawa on Jan. 28, Suggashie said she wants to learn more teachings about the jingle dress, carrying the Eagle staff protocols, and especially fasting.

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Idle No More: What happens next?

Movement in transition as organizers re-strategize, build alliances

Idle No More timeline of events: Oct. 18: Bill C-45 is introduced to Parliament with the title, “A second Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 29, 2012, and other measures.”

More than 400 pages in length, it is also known as the second omnibus budget bill and changes the legislation contained in 64 acts or regulations, including the Indian Act, Navigation Protection Act, and the Environmental Assessment Act. Late-October: Four women in Saskatchewan (Jessica Gordon, Sheelah McLean, Sylvia McAdams and Nina Wilsonfeld) begin exchanging e-mails about Bill C-45. They express concern that the bill would erode indigenous rights.

They decide to hold an event in Saskatoon to protest the bill and turn to Facebook. They call the page “Idle No More” as a motivational slogan.

Pundits argue that Idle No More movement is dying but co-founders and organizers say it is in transition and they look forward to a resurgence in the spring and summer months

Nov. 4: Gordon is the first to use the #idlenomore hashtag on Twitter. Within weeks, it trends on Twitter and spreads over to other social media.

Nov. 10: The first Idle No More event, a teach-in, is held in Saskatoon.

Mid-November: More events are held in Regina, Prince Albert and North Battleford, Sask., and Winnipeg.

Dec. 5: Bill C-45 passes third reading and goes to Senate.

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On the surface, it appears that the Idle No More movement is waning in its support and momentum.

Following a flurry of activities in December and January that involved rallies, round dances, marches, flash mobs, blockades, fasting, and national days of action, February is quiet. Very quiet.

The top hit of a Feb. 11 Google news search, after two months of the movement making headlines with rallies, fasts and blockades, was a report that showed online activity related to Idle No More dropped by 84 per cent in the last four weeks.

But the lack of media attention and online activity is not indicative of where the movement is currently at, says one of Idle No More’s co-founders.

“If we’re talking about corporate media space, Idle No More looks like it’s not going too well,” said Sheelah McLean, one of the four women from Saskatchewan who began the movement. “If we’re talking about what I’m hearing about what’s activating communities, and coalition building, and how it’s just starting globally in different spaces…it’s growing and becoming more powerful.”

The idea that the movement is dying leaves some organizers in Winnipeg “bemused.”

Michael Kannon is one of more than a dozen activists who organizes events in the Manitoba capital in the name of Idle No More. Speaking to Wawatay News on Feb. 7, he noted that the last national day of action was Jan. 28.

“That was 10 days ago,” Kannon, a 47-year-old member of Brokenhead Ojibway Nation, said with a laugh. “We still have our active participants and we’re expanding.”

Indeed, in media terms, 10 days feels like eons, especially after the frenzy of activities that followed a month after the first Idle No More event in Saskatoon on Nov. 10.

McLean, Jessica Gordon, Nina Wilson and Sylvia McAdam organized a teach-in weeks after they learned that Bill C-45, also known as the second omnibus budget bill, was introduced into the House of Commons.

They were worried it would impact First Nations treaty rights since it changed aspects of several acts that affect First Nations. They also learned the bill was written with little to no consultation with Aborigi-

nal communities.

Wanting to raise awareness about the bill, they organized the teach-in and turned to social media to spread the word. They created a Facebook page and called it “Idle No More.” A movement was born.

A month later, rallies and events adopted the name in various cities across Canada as part of a national day of action.

The next day, on Dec. 11, Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence began her hunger strike. Citing poor living conditions and the pain she sees in the youth, she called on the prime minister and the Crown to meet with First Nations leaders to talk about their treaty relationship.

“If we’re talking about what I’m hearing about what’s activating communities, and coalition building, and how it’s just starting globally in different spaces…it’s growing and becoming more powerful.”

-Sheelah McLean Idle No More co-founder

Over the following weeks, thousands of community members across the country, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal alike, joined in on rallies and blockades. Many had taken up Spence as a figurehead or icon in the movement.

Organized over social media, flash mobs and round dances occurred seemingly everyday in malls and other public places during the holiday shopping season.

The rallies culminated on Jan. 11, when Prime Minister Stephen Harper met with a small contingent of chiefs in Ottawa to discuss First Nations issues. Harper had agreed to the meeting without mentioning Idle No More nor Spence’s hunger strike, and Spence boycotted the meeting since the governor general would not be present.

Thousands rallied that day in at least 30 Canadian cities, and more in smaller communities. In Ottawa, more than 3,000 people marched to Parliament Hill and converged around the building where Harper was meeting the chiefs.

The meeting did not produce any positive or concrete results.

Less than two weeks later, Spence ended her fast.

A global day of action took place on Jan. 28, but most would say not with the same fervor and zeal that accompanied earlier rallies.

Now, a country waits to see where the movement goes from here.

Dec. 10: National Day of Action. A month after the first Idle No More event, rallies are held in cities across the country, including Vancouver, Toronto, Thunder Bay, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Regina, Whitehorse and Winnipeg.

Dec. 11: Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence begins her hunger strike on Victoria Island in protest of Harper government eroding treaty rights. Demands meeting with prime minister and “the Crown,” represented by the governor general.

Spence is only aware of the Idle No More movement but is not an organizer or spokesperson.

Impact of hunger strike When Idle No More began to gain momentum, it garnered criticism from media and politicians for its lack of focus and direction.

Being a grassroots movement, there was no central voice or base for organizers to follow.

And then Spence began her hunger strike.

Though she never spoke for or organized an event in the movement, Spence would be indelibly linked to Idle No More over the course of her fast.

Idle No More supporters saw a figurehead to rally around. Many showed up to rallies and events with signs expressing support for Spence and thousands made the pilgrimage to Victoria Island to see her.

But Spence also provided politicians and pundits a figure to attack and discredit in hopes of negating the rising intensity of the movement.

Two of the movement’s cofounders have mixed feelings about Spence’s hunger strike and its impact on the movement.

Both McLean and Gordon agree that Spence was instrumental in bringing some of the issues behind the Idle No More movement to the national spotlight.

“For her to ask Harper and the governor general to meet with chiefs and have a dialogue...it was essential to see how that consultation process isn’t happening,” McLean said.

But as people questioned the validity of her fast and her leadership’s financial accountability, Spence brought some negative press to the movement.

“The downfall of her hunger strike is the targeting of Aboriginal people and Aboriginal stereotypes,” said Gordon, a member of Pasqua First Nation, located in Treaty 4 territory The co-founders also feel that Spence’s fast nearly overshadowed the movement.

“While I think it was essential, it started to look like it wasn’t a movement of thousands of people,” McLean said.

“I don’t think (the Canadian

Dec. 14: Bill C-45 is passed and receives royal assent. It is now known as the “Jobs and Growth Act, 2012.”

Dec. 21: Ottawa holds its first Idle No More rally, with a march that begins on Victoria Island. Rallies are also held in different parts of Canada.

Meanwhile, members of Aamjiwnaang First Nation in southern Ontario blockade a CN railline in protest of Bill C-45. They later announce support of Idle No More and Spence and declare blockade will end once Spence’s demands are met.

Mid-late December: Events continue over Christmas holidays, with many flash mobs and round dances taking place in malls during the shopping season.

Dec. 27: It is reported that there had been 30 Idle No More protests in the United States, and solidarity protests in Stockholm, Sweden, London, UK, Berlin, Germany, Auckland, New Zealand, and Cairo, Egypt.

Jan. 2: Idle No More founders release mission statement and manifesto. The movement declares First Nations to be sovereign and that treaties were made on nation-to-nation basis; that First Nations receive unequal share of benefits from resource development; and that resource development leads to “poisoned water, land and air.”

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Drummers help to pump up the crowd before commencing the march from Victoria Island to Parliament Hill on Dec. 21, the first Idle No More rally in Ottawa. The movement seems to have died down over recent weeks but two Idle No More co-founders and organizers say it is in transition as organizers regroup and re-strategize. Idle No More began began in the dead of winter and co-founders Jessica Gordon and Sheelah McLean look forward to seeing more participation and direct action in the spring and summer months.

“It’s about First Nations using constitutional rights and duty to consult to stop the Crown. It hinges on First Nations rights to help protect the environment, which affects everybody.”

-Michael Kannon, an organizer in Winnipeg on the core of the Idle No More movement

public was) easily making connection between her callout to address these issues and the same callout by grassroots people.”

When Spence ended her fast, many wondered how the movement could sustain without a figure to rally around.

But Gordon feels the end of the fast has re-empowered grassroots people and given them the opportunity to examine themselves and their role within Idle No More.

“It’ll push people to look on their own inside,” she said.

“What are the issues that I hold dear? What should I do?”

In transition The Idle No More movement is a mere four months old and Gordon feels the

movement is still developing.

“It’s always so far been in its baby stage,” she said. “We’re slowly building up, figuring out better structures and how to mobilize people.”

One of the co-founders of the Thunder Bay chapter of the movement agreed that Idle No More is regrouping.

“The movement is now strategizing, in tandem, with organizers from across Canada,” said Robert Animikii Horton, a member of Rainy River First Nations. “We are not divided, but actively diversifying our strategies.”

That is not to say the movement has been inactive since the Jan. 28 rally. Horton recently travelled to several communities in Treaty 3 territory in northwestern Ontario to provide teach-ins about

“the legislations, our sovereignty and treaty rights that protects the lands we share from massive environmental degradation.”

Meanwhile in Winnipeg, Kannon said there are always three to four active members of the local group leading teach-ins within the city.

The founders have called for Feb. 21 to be National Indigenous Rights Education Day, when they hope grassroots organizers will hold teach-ins about indigenous rights.

A look at the events listed on the Idle No More website show a number of events are planned in various cities and communities across the country.

The movement is also building alliances, as environmental and activist groups press to support the cause.

But Kannon emphasized that despite many non-Aboriginal supporters joining the cause because of its focus on environment issues, Idle No More at its core is an indigenous movement.

“It’s about First Nations using constitutional rights and duty to consult to stop the Crown,” Kannon said. “It hinges on First Nations rights to help protect the environment, which affects everybody.”

And while Bill C-45 has since

been passed, Horton said there are more bills being read.

“Canada is completely forgetting or downplaying Bill S-6, The First Nation Education Act, Bill S-2, Bill S-207, Bill S-212, Bill C-428, Bill S-8, and Bill C-27, which all function together like a jigsaw puzzle that takes direct aim at First Nation people, our sovereignty, and our treaty rights,” Horton said.

is a grassroots movement and some organizers in different regions have eschewed the participation of elected chiefs in their events.

“If we’re able to mobilize this quickly, and this big in the dead of winter, can you imagine spring is going to look like?”

-Jessica Gordon Idle No More co-founder

Branching off The movement also appears to have branched off in some areas of the country.

Angela Bercier was asked to help organize the Dec. 21 rally in Ottawa, but the 31-year-old from Long Plain First Nation was committed to helping Spence in her hunger strike.

And while she would help to organize the Jan. 11 and Jan. 28 Idle No More rallies in the city, Bercier said her experience on Victoria Island with Spence was a “spiritual awakening” and felt that Idle No More is more than the legislation being discussed on Parliament Hill.

“It’s about Chief Spence and that spiritual awakening and carrying on her work,” Bercier said.

Idle No More maintains that it

cier said. “But we all need to all work together. We can’t exclude leadership and show division.”

Bercier said any events she

But during her fast, Spence said the grassroots people and the leaders need to unite, together with the youth, in order to achieve their goals.

Bercier had helped to organize a youth summit in Winnipeg on Feb. 5. It was initially under the Idle No More banner but as the summit approached, its name was changed to Indigenous Nation Movement Youth Forum to better fit with Spence’s vision, according to Bercier.

The organizers had invited chiefs to the forum to engage the youth.

“I respect what the (Idle No More) founders are doing, keeping it grassroots,” Ber-

plans in the future will be in line with Spence’s work.

Looking to spring When Idle No More began to emerge, some compared it the Occupy movement that began in September 2011 in New York City.

Most involved in the Idle No More felt it was not a fair comparison, including Kannon.

“The Occupy movement died down as winter set in,” he said. “We started in the dead of winter.”

The upcoming spring has many excited for the movement, especially the founders.

“If we’re able to mobilize

this quickly, and this big in the dead of winter, can you imagine spring is going to look like?” Gordon said. “There’s going to be tons of people out there.”

McLean said grandmothers have told her they would be more active when temperatures warm up, while noting that classes will end in April, enabling more youth to be more involved.

Gordon said she is looking forward to seeing what actions and activities the movement will take in the upcoming months.

“I really like the rallies and round dances, but we should target more places like industries, banks and corporations,” she said.

The founders have never spoken for or against direct actions like blockades, so long as they are peaceful.

“It always comes down to people and their heart, what they feel is best for their communities,” Gordon said. “It’s not us to say yes or no. I’m sure when the time is right, it will be time for certain actions.”

Jan. 3: After two weeks and after two court injunctions are filed, the Aamjiwnaang rail blockade is dismantled.

Jan. 4: Prime Minister Stephen Harper agrees to meet with a small group of First Nations leaders on Jan. 11 but does not mention Spence or Idle No More. Spence announces she will boycott meeting since the governor general is not involved.

Jan. 5: Protests shut down multiple border crossings throughout Canada, including Blue Water Bridge in Sarnia, International Bridge in Cornwall, and the Peace Arch crossing in Surrey, B.C. Jan. 11: Rallies are held in cities, towns and communities across Canada and various parts of the world.

In Ottawa, marchers gather outside building where Harper is meeting with chiefs but the rally proceeds peacefully to Parliament Hill. Spence and chiefs later meet with governor general. Spence leaves unsatisfied with meeting and continues hunger strike.

Jan. 12: Council of Canadians National Chairperson Maude Barlow, author/activist Naomi Klein, and singer Sarah Slean return their Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medals as a sign of solidarity with either Spence, Idle No More or both.

Jan. 16: The Journey of Nishiyuu begins. Six youth from Whapmagoostui-Kuujjuaraapik, located along the Hudson Bay coast in Quebec, set out on a 1,500 km journey to Ottawa in support of Idle No More.

Jan. 24: Spence officially ends her hunger strike after 44 days after she and First Nations and federal opposition leaders sign 13-point declaration of commitment to press government to address longstanding issues.

Jan. 28: World Day of Action. Rallies are held in at least 30 cities. In Ottawa, the rally gathers outside Parliament Hill as MPs return to the House of Commons after a month-and-ahalf break.

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An ‘amazing, inspiring accomplishment’ AFN National Chief Shawn Atleo has been involved in some Idle No More rallies, and watching from the outside on others. But as he tells Wawatay’s Rick Garrick, through it all he has been inspired by what the grassroots people across the nation have accomplished so far.

Wawatay (WWT): How would you describe the Idle No More movement, and what it has done to date?

National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo (SA): It is an amazing and inspiring accomplishment of coming together of our people, of the idea that we may be very diverse. In the events I have attended, it’s not just First Nations citizens, it’s been other indigenous peoples from the Metis and Inuit communities, it’s been mainstream Canadian citizens who are concerned and supportive.

I know that our leaders for decades have been struggling to have our issues be on the forefront of the national consciousness and there has always been a real thirst for our people to be helping to drive the change required. So I think all of those are incredibly important aspects — the idea of being very self-aware about

the issues that face each and every single one of us as First Nations, as indigenous peoples.

WWT: How has leadership been trying to connect to grassroots people since the Idle No More movement took off?

SA: I know there has been deep respect for the grassroots nature of the movement — that is just that, it is a movement. So I know leaders have had discussions amongst themselves as well as with the grassroots about their place, welcoming invitations as I have when rallies have been held. I have been proud to march in support of the people as they have brought their messages to the public and to Parliament Hill. I’ve been thankful to speak with groups and have discussions with them about how we capture the old ways of inclusiveness and that leaders have always throughout

the history of our peoples recognized that the strength of each leader is only matched by the willingness to listen and to follow what it is that the people want.

I believe that with the external imposition of things like the Indian Act, the disconnection of our people from their homelands, the artificial provincial and territorial boundaries that have been placed, and the lack of things like funding for homes and schools in our villages have helped to create divisions and that our people are saying we must be united in overcoming these divisions, including between ourselves and between the people and the leadership.

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I think it is a very powerful moment for all of our people to think about and act on — the reconnecting of our people and overcoming divisions we didn’t create.

WWT: Why do you think grassroots people feel the leadership has let them down?

SA: There is a shared sense of the frustration about moving forward and accomplishing the changes that are required that go back now really for decades if not generations. You’ll recall that back in 2010, the Auditor General at the time, Sheila Fraser, had finished doing a 10-year audit and said at the time that the conditions were getting worse in our communities. That Amnesty International released a report just two months ago that said there was “a grave human rights crisis facing First Nations in Canada.”

So while the rest of the world and the rest of the country is beginning to understand about our frustrations and challenges, our people have been feeling these frustrations for a long, long time. And right now First Nations leaders in each village and each community receive transfer payments, receive funding that is on a grant basis on the part of government, and receive this in a very arbitrary manner. So it’s created, I think, a very difficult cycle that has us really facing incredible difficulties to achieve change.

There’s been a pattern of finger pointing and blaming, especially on the part of governments to First Nations, for things like accountability.

It still seems to be the pattern on the part of government to blame First Nations, when I witness First Nations leaders doing everything they can, every single day, very often being faced with really impossible decisions like

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whether to fund resources for clean drinking water when housing is required, or to have the school repaired when there is needs for child welfare funding. It’s been a near impossible pattern that we have been subjected to and I think all leaders have been making good faith efforts.

This movement is really the external extrusion of frustration that we’ve been feeling for a long time and in fact so many of us have known that especially with the growing youth population that this country needs to recognize that it must invest in those young people.

And for us as First Nations, it means finding a way to recognize and respect our diversity and to support one another in our efforts. That poses a challenge too, but it’s always something that the Elders encourage us to come back to.

WWT: What do you see in the future with Idle No More movement and some of the issues they have raised?

SA: One of the powers and strengths of Idle No More is its grassroots nature and raising awareness between and amongst all of us as First Nations citizens and as people of nations will continue to be very important. I believe that this momentum and the strength of our people standing up will continue until

the day when we feel that our rights are being recognized, respected and implemented, until the day when our people are enjoying a standard of living that we know that we deserve, when we receive a fair share of the wealth and resources of our lands, when our children are supported to learn their language and culture, when those most vulnerable, especially the women and children and Elders, that they feel safe and secure in their homes and in their communities, and when our nations are being rebuilt in a manner that reflects our history.

I think that we have reached a tipping point or turning point at this juncture and should all be thankful for it. Of course it’s challenging, because achieving real change, it must be challenging. And we must be prepared to rise to the occasion, to accept the challenges that pushing for change demands of all of us. Becoming aware of our own rights and responsibilities is really the important first step and then acting on those to take care of both our territories and to take care of each other within our communities becomes most critical, recapturing those laws and re-implementing them and knowing that no outside government, including a Canadian government, they can’t and will not stand in the way of our people exercising our rights and our laws.

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‘There’s anger with the status quo’ Tim Fontaine, a reporter with APTN’s Halifax bureau, was born and raised in Winnipeg and spent a number of years living in Ottawa before moving to the east coast. He has been covering the Idle No Movement since its early days, and offers his perspective on the movement itself and where it may go from here.

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Wawatay News (WWT): To go back to the beginning, in December when Idle No More first got going, what were your thoughts on how much momentum it might have?

Tim Fontaine (TF): Personally, I was sort of cynical about it. I didn’t know where it was going to go, or how far it was going to go. I thought well, it’s another one of those flash in the pans. I think it was a few weeks after that, when it wasn’t slowing down over Christmas, that was when I really knew something very large is going on.

WWT: I remember having the same thought, after Christmas, after New Years came, and it was still going, maybe something big is happening…

TF: I think the Aboriginal media, even they didn’t know.

But we covered it and we stuck with it, and then the mainstream media sort of picked up on it. Suddenly it had become a big story, but it had been there for quite awhile. And then it just kept growing and growing. Certainly I didn’t expect it to get to

the size it is now. And the scale, and sort of going international.

I don’t know what indication it is when something goes international like that, but to see the name and the word Idle No More being mentioned in other countries is pretty amazing because it doesn’t happen all that often.

WWT: You covered some of the big rallies in Ottawa.

What was the sense on the ground there, and what was it like to be there as a reporter?

TF: You got a sense of the scale of this movement when you saw literally thousands of people walking down Wellington to the Prime Minister’s office. You realized, something big is happening here. It was anger and frustration at a system that wasn’t working anymore. And I don’t mean just the government. I’m talking about First Nations governments, the AFN, about all these things, there was frustration about the way life is for First Nations.

That was the sense I got from it, and that was what made it different as well.

A lot of the times there is anger directed at one thing.

C-45 is the easiest target. C-45 was an indication of what

people perceive as the government’s stance on First Nations.

We’re going to make changes and there’s nothing you can do

“I don’t think its going to go all in the same direction. I think each region, each nation is going to start figuring out, ok, this is what we want. And that’s probably what should happen, because we’re not one people.”

-Tim Fontaine

WWT: After having been in Ottawa and then going back to Halifax, do you get the sense there’s a similar thought process about Idle No More, a similar vision that ties it across the country?

about it. But that wasn’t just what the anger was directed at. There was anger over everything, over every aspect of First Nations life. That’s when I realized that this movement isn’t just about politics, it isn’t just about legislation or anger with the government. It’s anger with the status quo, anger at what’s happening in our communities, what’s happening in our towns, our communities and our families. It is about changing everything. And I think all media is having a hard time with that, because we want the simplest possible explanation. Say in one

TF: No, I don’t think so. I know that the situation in Micmac communities is very different than what is happening in Manitoba. Just in terms of economic development, the relationship with chiefs, all of that is very different. In Manitoba and Saskatchewan, I think we saw elected officials purposely excluded from Idle No More.

You’re seeing a divide there, there’s a lot of labeling going on.

He or she is an Indian Act chief, and we’re the people and this is a people’s movement. That’s still being worked out. I don’t see that sort of division happen-

it’s a whole. It’s not one large movement. Its one banner that they can all carry, but in each region I think it’s very specific for what’s going on there.

Speaking for what I’ve seen here, I think that’s what’s happening but it could be far different in BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan.

ing on the east coast. In the very beginning they invited the chiefs not to lead the movement here but to stand with the people. A lot of chiefs responded to that.

So when you go to Idle No More movements here you’ll see the chiefs standing with the people.

And some of the aims of Idle No More in this area, it’s a lot more about bringing both Canadians and First Nations together to look at an unjust system. It’s not so much that we’re mad at Canada as a whole, at least on the east coast.

line what it is you guys are mad about. That was what I heard somebody say. And it can’t be done like that. I think that’s the most frustrating thing for reporters covering it, is to have to realize there isn’t just one thing, there’s no one leader, no one spokesperson, it’s a movement coming from within communities. It’s a pretty amazing thing to see.

WWT: As a reporter, what are you guys looking for in terms of next steps?

TF: Well we’re also doing a bit of reflecting ourselves, and thinking how do we cover these things now? We can’t have the same story of a rally every night. As reporters we’re looking for the next step, what are some goals and other things?

People want change. Reporters want change too, because we don’t want to keep telling the same stories. I think we’re looking for how they’re going to advance this movement. I think we’re going to be hearing that pretty soon. Personally I don’t think it’s going to go all in the same direction. I think each region, each nation is going to start figuring out ok, this is what we want. And I think that’s probably what should happen, because we’re not one people.

WWT: The number of rallies has tapered off over the past month. Do you think the energy of Idle No More has peaked?

TF: I don’t know. We at APTN were discussing that as well and trying to figure out if that’s what it was. And I don’t think so. It’s almost like a moment of reflection. People feel that this movement has to evolve, that there has to be a next step. I think that’s what is going on right now. There’s a bit of reflection, and a bit of looking back and saying how do we move this forward? I think that’s what they’re trying to figure out here.

I hate saying Idle No More as a whole, because I don’t think

Jingle Dancer inspired by Ottawa rally Continued from page 9 “People were commenting on the weather that day,” Suggashie said. “Sure it snowed hard but we were all reminded it is another form of water, and that weather would not stop First Nations from doing what they have to do, that our ancestors had survived through in all types of weather conditions.”

Suggashie also wants to pay more attention to her dreams.

Since her time in Ottawa, she feels that she dreams differently now.

Her trip to Ottawa taught her more about grassroots movements, and she learned that that they can be started by anyone.

“While living in Sault Ste. Marie, I used to wait for people to organize this or coordinate that, only because the thought of not being from this area I thought I was not allowed to. But it is quite the opposite; one of the local chiefs reminded me of that,” Suggashie said.

Suggashie said that she went to Ottawa mostly for her children, whom she wanted to show

that they are capable of doing anything and also for her late great-grandmother.

“I remember her being on APTN saying that no one wanted to learn the Traditional teachings anymore; I would want her to be proud of me too,” Suggashie said.

“I think this event is one of my most inspiring, I doubt it will be the last. I’m more motivated now, not as scared as I used to be, and I also found out who my main supporters and true friends are,” Suggashie laughed. “It’s a great feeling.”

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Canadian Rangers rescue one of their own Peter Moon Canadian Rangers

With the rescue of one of their own, Canadian Rangers in Peawanuck have completed their third successful search and rescue mission of the year.

Ranger Jason Metatawabin set out to travel back to his home in Fort Severn on February 6 after spending several days visiting relatives in Peawanuck. He was about half way through the usual six-hour journey when his snowmobile broke down.

The temperature was –40C with heavy winds driving the windchill down to about –60C. “I wasn’t too worried,� he said. “I didn’t have the spare parts for my machine I usually carry but I had everything else.

I had my pots, emergency gear, and I had caribou meat.�

To get out off the frigid wind on the open tundra, he made two trips on foot and carried the survival gear he needed into the tree line, which was about three kilometers away, and where there was plenty of firewood.

He built a big fire to melt the deep snow to the ground and spread the embers, placed spruce boughs on the warm ground to retain the heat, built windbreaks, made tea, cooked some caribou ribs, and settled down in his sleeping bag to wait for the rescuers he knew would come looking for him.

The search for him began when worried relatives contacted the police and the Rangers and said he was

overdue. The Rangers set up command posts in both Fort Severn and Peawanuck and a two-person Ranger search team set out from each community.

Master Corporal Mike Koostachin and Ranger Thomas Mack from Peawanuck found Metatawabin’s abandoned snowmobile at 1.50 a.m. and followed his tracks into the tree line, where they found him comfortable and warm next to his fire. The Rangers took him back to the nursing station in Peawanuck where he was quickly released unharmed. “Jason had been exposed for 20 hours to minus 40 degree weather with strong winds,� said Sergeant Matthew Gull of Peawanuck. “He had everything with him for an emergency.

He had a chain saw, axe, food,

“Everyone travelling in the North should be as well prepared as he was for an emergency.� – Sergeant Jamie Stirling, OPP

everything. He’s a Canadian Ranger, he knows how to travel.

He was unharmed. My two Rangers finished up with some minor frostbite. It was a good outcome.� “That he was unharmed is a rarity,� said Sergeant Jamie Stirling, provincial search and rescue coordinator with the Ontario Provincial Police. “When you look at those temperatures and the environment he was in that’s

incredible. But he was well prepared for an emergency and well trained by the Rangers. Everyone travelling in the North should be as well prepared as he was for an emergency.�

The OPP had a search team and a helicopter ready to join the mission at first light, he said, but the successful nighttime search made their involvement unnecessary.

In January, Rangers in Peawanuck participated in two successful search and rescue missions that saved the lives of three men from the community.

(Sergeant Peter Moon is the public affairs ranger for 3rd Canadian Ranger Patrol Group at Canadian Forces Base Borden.)

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BRIEFS Gravelle takes over Northern Development and Mines Thunder Bay-Superior MPP Michael Gravelle is taking over as minister of Ontario’s ministry of Northern Development and Mines (MNDM).

Gravelle was announced as MNDM minister on Feb. 11, as new premier Kathleen Wynne was sworn in and her new cabinet announced.

Sudbury MPP Rick Bartolucci had previously announced he would be stepping down as minister and leaving politics at the end of his current term.

Wynne also announced that Ontario’s ministry of Aboriginal Affairs would become an independent ministry in her government.

David Zimmer, MPP for the Toronto riding of Willowdale, becomes the new minister of Aboriginal Affairs.

Gravelle’s previous position at Natural Resources will be filled by David Orazietti, the MPP for Sault Ste. Marie.

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All parties in the Canadian parliament have agreed to make the economic outcomes of First Nations, Inuit and Metis people a central focus of Budget 2013.

An opposition motion moved by the NDP critic for Aboriginal Affairs was passed Feb. 5 with all party support.

The motion stated “that the House, recognizing the broadbased demand for action, call on the government to make the improvement of economic outcomes of First Nations, Inuit and MĂŠtis a central focus of Budget 2013, and to commit to action on treaty implementation and full and meaningful consultation on legislation that affects the rights of Aboriginal Canadians, as required by domestic and international law.â€?

Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn Atleo said the parliamentary support is welcome for First Nations, as bands across the country continue to seek “transformative� change in the relationship with Canada and Canadians. “First Nations have clearly demonstrated that the government of Canada cannot continue to make decisions and pass legislation without full and meaningful consultation regarding its impact on Treaties and Aboriginal rights,�

Atleo said in a press release. “This approach only furthers unilateralism that contributes to the broken system we must swiftly act now to move away from.�

Atleo added that in his view the government’s motion affirms calls to improve the relationship between First Nations and Canada. “I urge the government of Canada to provide tangible investments and movement on its commitments to First Nations in Budget 2013,� Atleo said.

Canada’s finance minister Jim Flaherty has gone on record saying that Budget 2013 will avoid “risky spending� and keep taxes low.

Parents, relatives, friends and community members filled the Sena School gymnasium in North Caribou Lake for a ceremony marking the opening of the community’s new Junior Canadian Ranger patrol.

“This is an awesome moment for our community,” said Councillor Swanson Kenequanash.

“It is going to help our youth to keep out of trouble. It will teach them the traditional uses of the land and how to look after themselves.

“They are going to train with an older group, our Canadian Rangers. That’s going to be a really good thing for the community.”

The opening of the patrol in North Caribou Lake brings the number of Junior Rangers to 750 in 20 communities across northern Ontario. Across Canada there are 3,450 Junior Rangers in 126 remote and isolated communities.

The program emphasizes safety on the land and water and in personal lifestyles for youth aged 12 to 18.

Lieutenant-Colonel Morley Armstrong, commanding officer of the Canadian Rangers in northern Ontario, welcomed the 35 new Junior Rangers and said the patrol’s opening was “a great day” for northern Ontario. He urged the new Junior Rangers to have fun while they took part in their training.

“I’m hoping to have a lot of fun,” said Junior Ranger Myles Halfaday, 12. “It’s been a lot of fun so far. We’ve already been snowmobiling, setting traps, and got our new uniforms. A lot of my friends have joined. Yeah, it’s going to be fun.”

All the new Junior Rangers received a surprise gift of $50 at the opening ceremony. “That shows the appreciation of chief and council,” said Councillor Kenequanash. “We are showing our gratitude to them for what they have completed during their first days of training and lets them know that we believe in them.”

Master Corporal Ivan Wapenisk was appointed the Canadian Ranger in charge of the new Junior Ranger patrol.

“I’m looking forward to working with them,” he said. “I believe it will be good for them and for our community. To be involved in a program like this will do something good for them on the inside. This will be our biggest youth program.”

Captain Caryl Fletcher, officer commanding Junior Rangers in northern Ontario, said the community response was impressive. “I was surprised and happy at seeing so many people turn out,” he said. “The gym was full, five members of the band council turned up, and a lot of Canadian Rangers were there, too. It’s a great start.”

Rangers and Junior Rangers worked together to prepare the food for the feast that followed the inaugural ceremony.

The Junior Rangers’ first four (Sergeant Peter Moon is the public affairs ranger for 3rd Canadian Ranger Patrol Group at Canadian Forces Base Borden.)

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

NADF is seeking a qualified individual to join its team as the Human Resources Manager.

Under the direction of the Executive Director, the Human Resources Manager is responsible for supporting effective management of employee recruitment, selection, retention, health and safety and performance assessment/ development, and training.

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LOCATION: Thunder Bay, ON CLOSING DATE: Friday, February 22, 2013 at 4PM (EST) APPLICATIONS: Please send a resume, including three (3) work references to: Nishnawbe Aski Development Fund 200 Anemki Place Fort William First Nation, ON Attn: Dawn Willoughby, Executive Assistant Fax: (807) 622-8271 E-mail: dwilloughby@nadf.org We thank all those who apply however, only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

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from left Chief Roger Wesley, Gavin Wesley, Shane Wesley,Gabriel John-George, Dalton Baxter, Corey Stephens, Sonny Sutherland, Ken Neegan, Brandon Taylor. The students are learning traditional bush skills and earning high school credits for their efforts.

Constance Lake students earn credits while learning trapping from Elders Patrik Lowen and Martin MacPherson Special to Wawatay News

Mamawamatawa Holistic Education Center in Constance Lake First Nation is offering its students a more traditional option while earning credits towards their high school diploma.

The vision of the course is

to introduce students to the culturally relevant process of trapping, skinning, and selling animal furs while involving Elders as teachers to the youth.

It has become much more.

Students are learning outdoor skills like preparing for winter hiking trips and recognizing animal tracks but also learning about conservation regulations and policies that are in place to

sustain animal populations.

Student Sonny SutherlandTaylor says that he “ really likes to make his own traps and catching marten.”

So far students have been able to trap weasels, marten, mink, fisher, and beaver.

Students also made a field trip to the Annual Fur Harvesters Auction in North Bay where the students were able to witness

the fur market culture first hand.

The program has built positive relations between the youth and elders in the community and students are getting to use their visual and experiential learning skills. The school is now hopeful that the youth will carry on the tradition of trapping in the area.

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Youth at the Justice Ronald Lester Youth Centre had a chance to learn the game of hockey last week, as Right to Play hopes to inspire them to take the lessons of sport back to their communities when they go home.

Former NHL hockey player John Chabbot brought his skills and teachings to the Justice Ronald Lester Youth Centre in Thunder Bay.

Youth grow through hockey program Lenny Carpenter Wawatay News

Youth held in custody at a Thunder Bay youth detention centre had the opportunity to learn hockey and life skills from a former First Nations NHL player from Feb. 4-6.

John Chabot, who played in the NHL for nine years in the 1980s, instructed about a dozen First Nations youth at the Justice Ronald Lester Youth Centre.

The hockey camp was part of the Hockey for Development program, which was created out of a partnership

between Right to Play and the Ministry of Children and Youth Services (MCYS).

By learning the game of hockey, Chabot said, youth in secure custody can develop important life skills, including fitness, nutrition, teamwork leadership and goal setting. “The level of hockey is good, the understanding and acceptance is good,� Chabot said as the youth practiced behind him. He said one youth only knew how to skate but never played hockey before the camp. “Now he’s learned how

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to shoot, handle the puck,� he said. “His confidence has grown.�

Chabot is a member of Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation in Quebec but grew up in urban areas. But while most of the youth in the camp are from isolated communities, he said they faced similar challenges as individuals.

Hockey, and sports in general, is a way to allow the youth to share more common ground. “Hockey is great equalizer that way,� he said. “We teach them hockey can be used to tool as something else. So for

us, (the program) would be a success no matter what.�

Lauren Simeson, sport for development manager at Right To Play, said the program was successful after seeing the youth develop skills and participate in off-ice leadership skills activities. “They’ve developed strong leadership skills, and they’re coming out of their shell and setting goals for themselves,� she said.

The program is the second time Right To Play and MCYS have partnered up to provide a sports camp for youth in the centre. Last September,

they organized a week-long lacrosse camp, where professional lacrosse players were brought in to work with the youth.

Zoltan Kovacs, a probation manager with MCYS and former Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds coach, said the lacrosse program went “very well� and said they plan on holding it again but this time at a youth detention centre in Fort Frances in June. “The ministry is excited about our partnership with Right To Play,� he said. “We want to help these kids who are in conflict with the law.�

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Chevrolet Canada donated the pickup truck for a shootout event, which involves contestants whose name has been drawn shooting a puck from centre ice at a five-inch by four-inch hole in the middle of a hockey goal. The shootout is scheduled for 8 p.m. on the final day of the tournament, just before the midget A-side final game.

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Northern Bands Tournament The Northern Bands Hockey Tournament has been reestablished for 2013 with two former National Hockey League

players invited to attend: Wayne Babych and Thomas Steen.

“It’s just for an attraction — just to have somebody there,” said Robert Kakegamic, one of the tournament organizers from Sandy Lake. “First time it (the Northern Bands Hockey Tournament) was in Red Lake in the olden days, ... in the 1960s. Then they moved to Sioux Lookout. Then about 10 years ago or something like that they moved to Thunder Bay, (where) they had it for a couple of years and then they stopped at that time.”

Twenty-four teams have signed up as of Feb. 8 for the tournament, which is scheduled for March 11-16 in Dryden. Tournament organizers are looking for 28 teams to compete for $65,000 in cash and prizes, with the A-side champions taking home $25,000, the A-side runners-up $15,000, the B-side champions $10,000, the B-side runners-up $7,000, the C-side champions $5,000 and the C-side runnersup $3,000.

The tournament’s eligibility rules stipulate that it is open only to previous Northern Bands Hockey teams from remote communities in the Tikinagan Child and Family Services catchment area.

All team players must be band members of the community they are playing for, with permanent residency. Team players with permanent residency who are currently residing out of the community due to education and/or employment are eligible.

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Tournament organizers are looking for 32 teams to compete for $44,000 in prizes, with the A-side champions taking home $18,000, the A-side runners-up $12,000, the B-side champions $5,000, the B-side runners-up $4,000. the C-side champions $3,000 and the C-side runners-up $2,000.

The Lac Seul Eagles won the A-side championship in 2012 5-4 over the Michikan Mavericks, the Sandy Lake Chiefs won the B-side championship 9-8 over REZ 64 and the Bamaji Ice won the C-side championship 7-4 over the Pikangikum Moose.

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“That’s not fair to the people who are living in the north.

It’s not fair to be competing against those kind of players.”

Kakegamic said the tournament gives hockey players from the northern communities an opportunity to have “excitement” and exhibit their hockey skills.

“It’s just to have fun out there,” Kakegamic said.

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ᑲᑭᒋᐱᒪᑫᐧᐸᐦᐃᑲᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᒪᑎᓭ ᐅᐅᐁᐧ ᑲᐱᒥᑯᓇᑲᐠ ᕑᐃᐠ ᑫᕑᐃᐠ ᐊᐧᐊᐧᑌ ᑎᐸᒋᒧᐃᐧᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᔕᐠ ᑲᐱᒪᑫᐧᐸᐦᐃᑫᐊᑲᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᐡᑭᑕᐸᐣ 2013 ᑲᑌᓴᐧᓇᑭᑎᔦᐨ ᑕᑲᑫᐧ ᐸᑭᓇᑲᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᐃᐃᐁᐧ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᔕᐠ ᐱᒪᑫᐧᐸᐦᐃᑫᐊᑲᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᒐᑲᐧᑭᓯᐨ ᐱᓯᑦ ᐯᔑᑯᔕᑊ ᓀᐃᐧᐨ ᓂᓴᐧᓱᔕᑊ ᐃᓇᑭᓯᐨ ᐃᐃᒪ ᑐᕑᐊᑎᐣ᙮ ᔐᐳᓫᐁ ᑲᓇᑕ ᐸᑭᑎᓂᑫ ᑲᑌᓴᐧᓇᑭᑎᔦᓂᐨ ᐅᐡᑭᑕᐸᓇᐣ ᒥᐡᑯᐨ ᒋᑲᑫᐧᐸᑭᓇᑲᓂᐊᐧᓂᓂᐠ ᐃᑫᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐁᑕ ᑫᒥᑯᓇᑲᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᑕᑲᑫᐧᑕᑲᐧᐁᐊᐧᐠ᙮ ᐊᐱᑕᐦᐃᐧᓯᑲᐧᑦ ᑕᐅᒋ ᒪᒋᑕᐊᐧᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᓂᐃᐧᒥᒋᒐᐣ ᒥᓇ ᓂᔭᓄᒥᒋᒐᐣ ᑕᔭᐱᒐᓂ ᑫᐃᔑ ᑲᑫᐧᐱᓇᐦᐃᑫᐊᐧᐨ᙮ ᐁᐃᓇᓀᐤ ᐃᓯᓭᐠ ᐊᐣᑎᐱᑲᐠ ᐃᐡᑲᐧᔭᐨ ᐁᐱᒪᑫᐧᐸᐦᐃᑲᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐃᐃᐁᐧᑭᔑᑲᐠ ᐊᒥᐁᐧ ᐸᐢᑲᐣ ᑫᑐᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐊᒪᐧᔦ ᑭᒋᒧᓀᐃᐦᑲᓂᐊᐧᐠ᙮ ᓂᓴᐧᓱ ᒥᑕᓇ ᓴᑲᓱᔕᑊ ᒪᒪᐤ ᑕᓴᐧ ᑕᒧᓀᐅᑎᐊᐧᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐯᔑᑯᔕᑊ ᐃᓇᑭᓯᐨ ᑲᑕᑲᐧᑭᓯᐨ ᑕᐅᒋᒪᒋᑕᐊᐧᐠ᙮ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᒣ ᓂᐦᓱᒥᑕᓇ ᑲᐃᔑ ᑕᑎᐸᓂᓯᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᐱᒪᑫᐧᐸᐦᐃᑫᐠ ᑕᒧᓀᐅᑎᐊᐧᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᓂᔑᐣ ᐱᒪᑕᐦᐁᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑕᔭᐸᑕᓄᐣ᙮ ᑭᔭᑦ ᐱᑯ ᓂᐃᐧᐣ ᐸᑲᐣ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐣ ᐅᑲᑭᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᑯᐊᐧᐣ ᐅᑫᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᔭᑲᔐᔑᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑲᐧ ᑲᒥᑎᑎᐊᐧᐨ ᑭᔭᑦ ᐱᑯ ᓂᔑᐣ ᐸᑲᐣ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐣ᙮ ᓂᔭᓄᔕᑊ ᐃᓇᑭᓯᐨ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐯᔑᑯᔕᑊ ᒥᓇᐱᑕ ᐃᓯᓭᐠ ᑕᐃᔑ ᒪᒋ ᓴᓴᑭᑕᑯᐁᐧᐸᐦᐅᑎᐊᐧᐠ᙮

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OPPORTUNITY TO INSPECT DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL STUDY REPORT HARDY DAM The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) is inviting comments on a Draft Environmental Study Report (ESR) regarding alternatives for the future of the Hardy Dam, located on the shoreline of the Rawn Reservoir, within the Township of Atikokan. ᑲᑭᒋᐱᒪᑫᐧᐸᐦᐃᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑲᑕᑲᐧᑭᐣ ᐅᐅᐁᐧ ᑭᒋᐱᒪᑫᐧᐸᐦᐃᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᒪᒋᒋᑲᑌ ᐅᐅᐁᐧ 2013 ᑲᔭᑭᐊᐧᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐳᑕᓇᐠ ᐅᑭᒋᐱᒪᑫᐧᐸᐦᐃᑫᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐁᐧᐣ ᐸᐦᐊᐱᐨ ᒥᓇ ᑕᐧᒪᐢ ᐃᐡᑎᐣ ᑕᐱᔕᐊᐧᐠ᙮ “ᐅᐅᐁᐧ ᐱᑯ ᒍᒋᒪᒧᐣᒋᑫᐣᑕᑲᐧᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐱᑯ ᐊᐧᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᒋᑕᔑᐱᔕᐊᐧᐨ,” ᐃᑭᑐ ᓫᐊᐸᐧᐟ ᑲᑭᑫᑲᒥᐠ ᐊᒪᐧᐁᐧ ᐱᔑᐠ ᑲᐊᓄᑲᑕᐠ ᓀᑲᐃᐧᓴᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂᐠ ᐅᒋ᙮ “ᓂᐡᑕᑦ ᒥᐢᑯᓴᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂᐠ ᐅᐅᐁᐧ ᑭᒋᐱᒪᑕᐦᐁᐃᐧᐣ ᑭᐅᒋᒪᒋᒋᑲᑌᐸᐣ ᐁᐧᐡᑲᐨ ᐳᑕᓇᐠ ᓇᐣᑕ ᐱᑯ 1960’s ᑲᔭᑭᐊᐧᐠ᙮ ᐊᐧᓂᓇᐊᐧᑲᐠ ᐊᐱᐣ ᑭᐃᔑ ᐊᑎᓂᑲᑌᐸᐣ᙮ ᒥᑕᓱᔭᑭ ᐅᑕᓇᐠ ᐊᐱᐣ ᑕᐣᑕᐯ ᑲᑭᐃᔓᒋᑲᑌᑭᐸᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᓇᐱᐨ ᐊᒋᓇᐃᐧᐢ ᑭᒣᑕᐊᐧᓂᐊᐧᓄᐸᐣ ᐊᐱᐣ ᑲᑭᑭᐱᒋᓭᑭᐸᐣ᙮” ᓂᔑᑕᓇ ᓂᐃᐧᔕᑊ ᐊᔕ ᓇᑯᑕᒥᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᐅᐁᐧ ᐁᐃᓇᓀᐤ ᑲᑭᓇᑭᓯᐨ ᑲᑕᑲᐧᑭᓯᐨ ᐱᓯᑦ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒪᔭᑦ ᐯᔑᑯᔕᑊ ᓀᐃᐧᐨ ᓂᑯᑕᐧᓱᔕᑊ ᒥᑭᓯ ᐱᓯᑦ ᑲᐃᐧᔑᒣᑕᐊᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ᙮ ᐅᑐᓇᒋᑫᐠ ᓂᔑᑕᓇ ᐁᐃᓇᓀᐃᐧᔕᑊ ᐅᓇᑕᐁᐧᓂᒪᐊᐧᐣ ᐅᐱᒪᑫᐧᐸᐦᐃᑫᐣ ᐊᔕ $65,000 ᐊᔭ ᒪᒪᐤ ᔓᓂᔭᐣ ᑫᔭᐸᑎᓯᐨ᙮ $25,000 ᑕᒥᓇᑲᓄᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᑭᒋᐸᑭᓇᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑲᐧ $15,000 ᑲᐸᑭᓇᐃᐧᑕᐧ᙮ $10,000 ᑕᒥᓇᑲᓄᐊᐧᐠ ᑭᓂᐊᓂᑫ ᐸᑭᓇᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑲᐧ $7,000 ᑲᐸᑭᓇᐃᐧᑕᐧ᙮ $5,000 ᑕᒥᓇᑲᓄᐊᐧᐠ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᒐᐸᔑᐡ ᑲᐸᑭᓇᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑲᐧ $3,000 ᑲᐸᑭᓇᐃᐧᑕᐧ᙮ ᑎᑭᓇᑲᓂᐤ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓇᐣ ᐁᑕ ᑕᐸᑭᑎᓇᑲᓄᐊᐧᐠ ᒋᒧᓀᐃᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᑕᐱᐡᑯᐨ ᐅᑫᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᑕᓇᐠ ᑲᑭᐱᒧᓀᐅᑎᐊᐧᐸᐣ᙮ ᑲᐃᐧᒧᓀᐅᑎᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᐦᐃᐠ ᒍᒋᑎᐯᓂᑕᑯᓯᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐱᑯ ᐃᐃᒪ ᒋᐃᔑᑲᐯᔑᐊᐧᐨ᙮ ᑭᔭᑦ ᐱᑯ ᑲᔭ ᐊᐧᓴ ᑲᐅᑕᒥᐡᑯᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᒥᓇ ᐸᑲᐣ ᑲᑕᓇᓄᑭᐊᐧᐨ ᔕᑯᐨ ᐱᑯ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᒍᒋᑎᐯᓂᑕᑯᓯᐊᐧᐨ ᑕᐸᑭᑎᓇᑲᓄᐊᐧᐠ ᒋᒧᓀᐃᑫᐊᐧᐨ᙮ “ᔕᑯᐨ ᔕᐊᐧᓂᐃᐧ ᐅᐱᒪᑕᐦᐁᐠ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᑕᑭᒧᓀᐃᑫᓯᐊᐧᐠ ᑕᐱᐡᑯᐨ ᐅᑫᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑫᑲᐟ ᑲᑭᑌᐱᓇᒥᐊᐧᐨ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᐃᐡᐸᐠ ᑭᒋᐱᒪᑫᐧᐸᐦᐃᑫᐃᐧᐣ,” ᐃᑭᑐ ᑲᑭᑫᑲᒥᐠ᙮ “ᑲᐧᓂᐣ ᒋᒥᓂᓴᐦᐃᑯᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑫᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᑲᑲᐯᔑᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᓴᑦ ᐁᓇᐃᓂᐨ ᔕᐊᐧᓄᐠ ᑲᐅᒋᓂᐨ᙮” ᑲᑭᑫᑲᒥᐠ ᐃᑭᑐ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᑕᒥᓀᐣᑕᒥᐊᐧᐠ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᒧᓀᐃᐧᑎᐊᐧᐨ ᒥᓇ ᐱᑯ ᒋᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒪᑲᓄᐊᐧᐨ᙮ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯᐃᐧ ᑭᒋᐱᒪᑫᐧᐸᐦᐃᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᓂᐦᓱᔕᐱᔭᑭ ᐊᔕ ᐅᐅᐁᐧ ᐅᒋᑭᒋᐱᒪᑫᐧᐸᐦᐃᑲᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᑭᓯ ᐱᓯᑦ ᐯᔑᑯᔕᑊ ᓀᐃᐧᐨ ᓂᓴᐧᓱᔕᑊ ᐃᓇᑭᓯᐨ ᐃᔓᓇᑌ ᒋᐃᔑᒣᑕᐊᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ᙮ ᓂᐦᓱᔕᑊ ᐊᔕ ᐅᓇᑯᑕᓇᐊᐧ ᐁᐃᐧᐱᔕᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᐃᐁᐧ ᒥᑲᐧᐨ ᓴᑲᓱ ᑲᐃᓇᑭᓯᐨ ᑲᑕᑲᐧᑭᓯᐨ ᐱᓯᑦ᙮ ᑲᐅᓇᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᓂᐦᓱᒥᑕᓇ ᓂᔓᔕᑊ ᐅᓇᑕᐁᐧᓂᒪᐊᐧᐣ ᒋᐱᒧᓀᐃᑫᓂᐨ ᐊᔕ $44,000 ᒥᓂᑯᐠ ᐊᔭ ᔓᓂᔭᐣ ᑫᔭᐸᑎᓯᐨ᙮ $18,000 ᑕᒥᓇᑲᓄᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᑭᒋᐸᑭᓇᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑲᐧ $12,000 ᑲᐸᑭᓇᐃᐧᑕᐧ᙮ $5,000 ᑕᒥᓇᑲᓄᐊᐧᐠ ᑭᓂᐊᓂᑫ ᐸᑭᓇᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑲᐧ $4,000 ᑲᐸᑭᓇᐃᐧᑕᐧ᙮ $3,000 ᑕᒥᓇᑲᓄᐊᐧᐠ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᒐᐸᔑᐡ ᑲᐸᑭᓇᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑲᐧ $2,000 ᑲᐸᑭᓇᐃᐧᑕᐧ᙮ ᐅᐱᔑᑯᑲᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᑭᐸᑭᓇᐊᐧᐊᐧᐣ ᒥᒋᑲᓂᓴᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᐅᑕᓇᐠ ᑲᑭᔭᑭᐊᐧᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᓀᑲᐃᐧᓴᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᑭᐸᑭᓇᐊᐧᐊᐧᐣ ᐃᔭᐱᒪᑐᓂᐊᐧᐣ᙮ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐱᒪᒋ ᐅᑭᐸᑭᓇᐊᐧᐊᐧᐣ ᐱᑲᐣᒋᑲᑦ ᒧᐢ᙮ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᐊᐧᓯ ᐱᐳᓂᐠ ᐅᐱᔑᑯᑲᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᒥᓇ ᑭᐸᑭᓇᑫᐸᓂᐠ ᐁᐦᐊᐣ ᐅᑭᐸᑭᓇᐊᐧᐊᐧᐣ ᐃᔭᐱᒪᑐᓂᐊᐧᐣ᙮ ᐱᑲᐣᒋᑲᑦ ᐅᑭᐸᑭᓇᐊᐧᐸᓂᐣ ᐅᐱᔑᑯᑲᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ 2010 ᑲᔭᑭᐊᐧᐠ᙮ ᐃᔭᐱᒪᑐᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᑭᐸᑭᓇᐊᐧᐸᓂᐣ ᐅᐱᔑᑯᑲᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ 2009 ᑲᔭᑭᐊᐧᐠ᙮

! n o o s g n i Com The Embrace Life Forum March 6-8, 2013

Contact: Charles Wilson, (807) 623-8228 cwilson@nan.on.ca Nishnawbe Aski Nation/Embrace Life

The draft ESR is prepared in accordance with the requirements for Category C projects as per the Class Environmental Assessment for MNR Resource Stewardship and Facility Development Projects document. It describes the process for the analysis of alternatives, selection of a preferred option, the development of a site plan, and an evaluation of environmental effects.

A copy of the draft ESR will be available for review during normal business hours at the MNR Atikokan $UHD 2I¿FH RU DW WKH 015 7KXQGHU %D\ 5HJLRQDO 2I¿FH MNR will host a Public Open House for the project on Thursday, February 21, 2013, from 2:00 8:00 pm at Riverview United Church Hall, 169 Pine Crescent, Atikokan. Visitors are welcome to view displays, examine background reports, and discuss the project with MNR staff.

Comments and personal information regarding this proposal are collected under authority of the Environmental Assessment Act to assist MNR in making decisions. Comments not constituting SHUVRQDO LQIRUPDWLRQ DV GH¿QHG E\ WKH Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act will be shared among MNR and others as appropriate, and may be included in documentation available for SXEOLF UHYLHZ 3HUVRQDO LQIRUPDWLRQ ZLOO UHPDLQ FRQ¿GHQWLDO XQOHVV SULRU FRQVHQW WR GLVFORVH LV REWDLQHG For inquiries, comments, or requests regarding the ESR, or to be placed on the project mailing list, please contact: Kevin Brown, P. Eng., Sr. Project Engineer Ministry of Natural Resources - Northwest Region 435 S. James Street Thunder Bay, ON P7E 6S8 Tel: 807-475-1342 Fax: 807-473-3023 E-mail: kevin.brown2@ontario.ca

Sheldon Haw, Integrated Resource Mgmt Technical Specialist Ministry of Natural Resources – Fort Frances District 108 Saturn Avenue Atikokan, ON P0T 1C0 Tel : 807-597-5026 Fax : 807-597-6185 E-mail: sheldon.haw@ontario.ca

Comments must be received within the 30-day comment period, which expires March 21, 2013.

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