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Treaty 3 communities reclaim land

Aboriginal people underrepresented in mainstream media Newly released human rights report calls provincial news coverage ‘stark’ Rick Garrick Wawatay News

While Aboriginal people are usually “barely on the radar” at most print and online media outlets in Ontario, a Journalist’s for Human Rights report says Aboriginal stories spike during major events.

“It clearly shows that when there is a major event or the federal government is involved, that correlates directly to an increase in news stories,” said Robin Pierro, JHR’s international and domestic programs manager and lead writer of the report. “So things like the Idle No More movement and the hunger strike, these direct action initiatives, really did result in a spike in news coverage. I don’t want to encourage people to protest, but it is interesting to see that resulted in what I think Aboriginal people who were protesting wanted, which was the attention on a certain issue.”

The JHR report, Buried Voices: Media Coverage of Aboriginal Issues in Ontario, found that Aboriginalrelated stories accounted for “just 0.28 per cent” of all news stories produced by 171 print and online news outlets across Ontario from June 1, 2010 to May 31, 2013.

“...First Nations and Aboriginal people are seen as either noble environmentalists, pitiful victims or angry warriors...”

“There is nothing new in the fact that media do not tend to cover very much of First Nations issues,” said Maurice Switzer, communications unit director for the Union of Ontario Indians. “What they do tend to cover is what we would call negative or stereotypical.”

Switzer said the Royal Commission on Aboriginal People and the Ipperwash Inquiry both included sections on media coverage of Aboriginal issues.

“There is a famous quote in (RCAP’s) report, in which they said in the eyes of most Canadians, largely because of the media treatment or lack of it, First Nations and Aboriginal people are seen as either noble environmentalists, pitiful victims or angry warriors,” Switzer said.

Switzer said the UOI has held conferences to create more awareness of

Aboriginal issues and media coverage, noting they recently awarded the ninth Debwewin Citation, for excellence in storytelling on First Nations and Aboriginal issues in Anishinabek territory, to Jody Porter, a CBC journalist based in Thunder Bay. “The first thing we do is we cite good journalistic practices,” Switzer said. “We believe in criticizing bad reporting, but also saluting good reporting. By good, we don’t just mean things that are favourable to First Nations, we mean fair reporting.”

Switzer said the UOI is open to working with other organizations to make journalism the craft it can be.

“We’ve had several student interns who now work for the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, for Global television, for CBC,” Switzer said.

“That is a commitment that we made to that lack of (Aboriginal) representation.”

Rachel Pulfer, JHR’s executive director, said the JHR report included a number of “stark” findings. Released on Sept. 4, the report is available on the JHR website at www.jhr.ca.

“The really interesting piece of (the report) for us is simply the lack of coverage in print and online is stark — because the findings are so stark and the percentages are so small,” Pulfer said. “And also this interesting point that emerged where the commentary spikes during an event, and the commentary tends to trend pretty negative.”

The report found that the largest proportion of negative stories are opinion columns and editorials wherein Aboriginal people were criticized for their protests or direct action initiatives. Over the three years studied, there was an 11 per cent increase in the number of stories that portrayed Aboriginal people in a negative light.

“We’re not saying that people sitting in downtown Toronto are not entitled to their opinions, but having been myself a card-carrying member of the mainstream media, there is a difference between uninformed and underinformed opinions and informed opinion weighing in on a topic,” Pulfer said.

“Informed opinion is more valuable, so that’s what we’re encouraging the folks who do that kind of commentary and punditry on take on board, that rather than leaping into a panel discussion about a topic they are very far from, to make a few phone calls or look at a few studies just to have a frame of reference that is grounded in fact.” see Media Report page 15

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Treaty 3 community members came out Sept. 14 to Pithers Point in Fort Frances for Manoominikedaa Neyaashing. Organizers say it was an event that had over 30 fires roasting wild rice the traditional way but it was also an act of nationhood and reclamation over the land that is currently in dispute with the town of Fort Frances and the government. (See Page 5 for more.)

Ring of Fire in jeopardy, says Cliffs Critical all-weather road proposal rejected by commissioner Jamie Monastyrski Wawatay News

It’s one step ahead and two steps behind lately for the future development of the Ring of Fire.

The controversial proposal by Cliffs Natural Resources for an easement to build an all-weather road that would connect to the Ring of Fire was rejected Sept. 10 by Ontario’s Mining and Lands Commissioner in a 43-page ruling.

“The decision by the commission was very disappointing,” said Jason Aagenes, director of environmental affairs for Cliffs Natural Resources in an interview.

“We view the north-south corridor as critical to the Ring of Fire development as well as a key component of our project. This does jeopardize the viability of the project going forward unless it is resolved.”

The ruling found the easement breaches rival company KWG

Resources Inc.’s rights under Ontario’s Mining Act and that Cliffs did not demonstrate the 350-km road is in the public interest. The proposed road would cross over mining claims owned by KWG, an exploration stage company, which staked the ground in 2009 for a future railroad.

Regardless of the decision Aagenes said that Cliffs would move forward and consider all their options after further analysis of the decision.

“This is Crown land and in partnership with First Nations and the traditional land oversight that they possess, we feel that if the Ring of Fire is to proceed, this needs to be addressed by the government,” he said.

Cliffs applied for the easement to build the all-weather road to transport ore from its Black Thor deposit in the Ring of Fire, about 540 km northeast of Thunder Bay, to Nakina, On. Aagenes said that Cliffs put considerable effort into the proposal stating

that a road is a better option than the KWG railroad “idea” because the First Nations would benefit.

“The road would be the best option.

The road would allow First Nations to connect to the all-weather road system and create more economic benefit for the First Nation communities as well as other resource companies and government in the region. The province would benefit as a whole,” he said.

KWG formed a subsidiary, Canada Chrome, to oversee the railroad venture which would build a railroad from its isolated Big Daddy chromite deposit south 328 km to a point on the CN line near Nakina.

“We will continue to work with the First Nation communities, the province and other companies in the area to come up with a solution to overcome this significant roadblock,” Aagenes said.

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TRANSLATED WAWATAY NEWS BRIEFS ᑲᓇᑕ ᑭᒋᐅᑭᒪᑲᐣ ᐅᐃᐧᒋᐦᐊᐣ ᑲᑭᑫᑲᒥᐠ ᑎᐯᐣᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᒋᐅᔑᑕᒪᐃᐧᐣᑕᐧ ᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂ ᓀᑲᐃᐧᓴᑲᐃᑲᓂᐠ ᐁᐅᒋᐨ ᐊᔾᑕ ᑲᑭᑫᑲᒥᐠ ᐸᐱᐦᐅ ᒋᐃᐧᒋᒪᑯᔐᑭᔑᑲᓂᔑᒪᐨ ᓂᐦᓯᐣ ᐅᓯᓴᐣ ᐃᒪ ᐅᑐᐡᑭ ᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂᐠ ᐊᑐᐊᐧ ᐅᑌᓇᐠ. “ᐊᔕ ᐣᑕᓂᑭᒋᒥᓀᐧᑕᒥᐣ,” ᐃᑭᑐ ᑲᑭᑫᑲᒥᐠ, ᐊᔕ ᑭᐱᐅᐣᒋᑲᐯᔑ ᐊᑐᐊᐧ ᐊᑯᓇᐠ 1986 ᑲᐊᐦᑭᐊᐧᓂᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐊᓄᑭ ᐃᒪ ᒥᓇᐧᔑᐣ ᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂᐠ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯᑫᐧᐠ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐠ. “ᓂᐢᑕᑦ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᓂᐣᑭᐅᒋ ᑌᐯᐧᑕᓯᐣ ᑭᐃᐧᐣᑕᒪᑯᔭᐸᐣ - ᒥᐦᐅᐁᐧ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᓂᐢᑕᑦ ᓂᐣ ᑎᐱᓇᐁᐧ ᓂᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ. ᑲᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃᑲᓇᐣ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐃᐧᓇᐊᐧ ᑲᑭᐃᓯᓭᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᒋᑭᑌᐱᓇᒪᐣ ᒥᓇ ᓄᓯᓴᐠ ᒋᑎᐱᓇᐁᐧᐃᐧᓯᔭᐣ ᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ.” ᑲᑭᑫᑲᒥᐠ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᐧᑲ ᐅᑐᐣᒋᓀᑕᓯᐣ ᒋᑎᐱᓇᐁᐧᐃᐧᓯᐨ ᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂ, ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᑭᒧᒋᐊᐃᐧᐦᐊᓱ ᑲᐃᔑᑲᐯᔑᐨ ᓇᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᔑᐸᔭᑕᑫᐣᑕᑲᐧᓂᐠ ᐃᒪ ᐊᑐᐊᐧ ᐅᑌᓇᐠ. ᐅᑭᓇᓇᑯᒪᐣ ᑲᓇᑕ ᑭᒋᐅᑭᒪᑲᓇᐣ ᔕᐧᐣ ᐊᐟᓫᐃᐅ ᒥᓇ ᐅᑕᓄᑭᓇᑲᓂᒪᐣ ᑲᑭᐊᐧᐃᒋᐦᐃᑯᐨ ᒋᐅᔑᑕᒪᐊᐧᑲᓄᐨ ᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂᐠ ᓄᑯᑦ ᐅᐁᐧ ᑲᑭᓂᐱᓂᐠ.

ᑎᒥᐣᐢ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯᐃᐧᑲᒥᐠ ᑕᓱᔭᑭ ᓇᑐᒥᐁᐧ ᑭᔑᑌᐳᐃᐧᐣ ᑭᑐᒋᑲᑌ ᐁᑭᒥᓀᐧᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᒣ 100 ᐊᐊᐧᔑᔕᐠ ᒥᓇ ᑎᐯᐣᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑫᑯᓀᐣ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᔑᒥᓇᐧᔑᓂᐠ ᒋᔑᐊᐧᐸᐣᑕᐦᐃᑕᐧ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᔕᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐠ ᒋᒥᓀᐧᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᒋᑭᐁᐧ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᐊᐧᐨ? ᐅᐁᐧ ᑕᐡ ᐃᔑᓇᑫᐧᑕᒧᐃᐧᐣ, ᑭᐃᑭᑐᐊᐧᐠ ᑎᒥᐣᐢ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯᐃᐧᑲᒥᐠ ᐅᑕᓄᑭᐠ, ᒋᑐᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐁᒪᐧᔦ ᐊᓂᒪᒋᐃᐡᑯᓄᓇᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᒋᒣᑕᐁᐧᐃᔑᒋᑫᐦᐃᐣᑕᐧ ᑎᐯᐣᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᔑᐨ ᒋᑭᔑᑌᐣᐳᓇᓂᐊᐧᐠ, ᒥᓯᐁᐧ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᒋᒪᒪᐃᐧ ᑐᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᒣᑕᐁᐧᐃᔑᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒥᓇ ᒋᒪᒪᐃᐧ ᐃᐧᓯᓂᐊᐧᐨ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᐃᐧᐣᑭᐸᐧᑯᑭᐣ ᒥᒋᒪᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᒋᒪᒥᓂᑕᐧ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᔕᐠ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᐃᐧ ᐊᐸᒋᒋᑲᓇᐣ ᑫᐊᐸᒋᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᐊᐧᐨ. ᐊᐊᐧᔑᒣ ᒥᑕᓱᒥᑕᓇ ᑲᒪᓯᓇᐦᐃᑲᓱᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᐅᒋ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᑕᐧ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐠ ᑭᐃᔕᐊᐧᐠ ᓇᑐᒥᐁᐧᐃᐧᓂᐠ. ᐅᑕᓇᐠ ᐱᓯᑦ ᑲᐊᓂ ᐳᓇᑭᓱᐨ ᑲᑭᐃᔑᒋᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᐁᐧᓂ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᐃᒪ ᑲᑭ ᑭᔑᑌᐳᓇᓂᐊᐧᐠ, ᐊᐊᐧᔑᒣ 150 ᐃᐡᑯᓄᐃᐧ ᐸᐡᑫᐧᐊᐧᔕᐣ ᐁᑭᐱᓇᐦᐃᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓂᐠ ᑲᓇᑕᐁᐧᑕᐠ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᑲᐱᒥᐃᐡᑯᓄᐃᐧᐨ, ᒥᓇ ᑲᔭᐊᓂᐊᐱᒋ ᑭᑫᐣᑕᓱᐊᐧᐨ ᑭᐃᔑ ᐊᔭᑭᓀᒪᒥᓇᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐠ ᑲᑭᐅᐣᒋᐸᑭᑎᓂᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᔑᐨ ᑲᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᐧᐠᕑᐊᐣ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐊᓂᒥᑭᐃᐧ ᐃᐡᑯᑌᐃᐧ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ. ᓄᑯᑦ ᑲᐊᐦᑭᐊᐧᐠ ᐊᑎᐟ ᐦᐊᔾ ᐢᑯᓫ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓂᐠ ᑭᒥᓇᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᓯᐳᐱᑌᓂᐠ ᒪᓯᓇᐦᐃᑲᓇᐣ ᐊᔑᐨ ᒪᓯᓇᐦᐃᑲᓇᑎᑯᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑯᑕᑭᔭᐣ ᐊᐸᒋᒋᑲᓇᐣ.

ᑭᑭᑕᐸᒋᐦᐊᒥᐣ ᒪᓄᒥᐣ ᑭᑕᓂᔑᓇᐯᐊᐧᑎᓯᐃᐧᓂᓇᓂᐠ ᑲᑭᑎᐸᒋᒧᐨ ᒉᓇ ᕑᐁ ᔪᕑᑲ ᒪᓄᒥᓂᑫᑕ ᓀᔭᔑᐣᐠ. ᑫᑲᐱ ᑭᐅᒋᒋᓭ? ᓂᒥᔓᑦ, ᓂᓴᐧᓱᒥᑕᓇ ᓂᐃᐧᐣ ᑕᓱᐊᐦᑭᐃᐧᓀ, ᐁᑲᐧ ᓄᐦᑯᑦ, ᓂᓴᐧᓱᒥᑕᓇ ᓂᐦᓯᐣ ᑕᓱᐊᐦᑭᐃᐧᓀ, ᐊᒥ ᑫᑲᐱ ᒋᑕᔑᒪᓄᒥᓂᑫᐊᐧᐨ

ᐅᐁᐧᑎᓀᑫ ᓂᑕᑭᒥᓇᐠ. ᓂᓇᓇᑯᑦ ᑕᐡ ᑲᐃᓯᓭᐠ ᒋᑭᒪᒪᐃᐧᑐᑕᒪᐠ ᐅᐁᐧ. ᒪᓄᒥᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᐯᐦᐃ ᑭᑭᐱ ᑭᑕᐸᒋᐦᐊᒥᐣ ᑭᑕᓂᔑᓇᐯᐊᐧᑎᓯᐃᐧᓂᓇᓂᐠ. ᐁᑲᓄᑫᔭᐣ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᑲᐱᐊᑲᔐᔑᔭᐣ ᐁᒪᒣᑕᐁᐧᔭᐣ ᐊᑲᐧᒋᐠ ᓂᑕᓂᑫᒥᔓᑦ ᐅᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐁᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒪᑭᐸᐣ ᐁᐸᐃᐧᐡᑲᐊᐧᐨ. ᒥᐊᐱ ᐃᐁᐧ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᓂᐢᑕᑦ ᑲᑭᐊᐧᐸᐣᑕᒪᐣ ᒪᓄᒥᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ. ᓂᐣᑭᓇᑐᒥᑯᒥᐣ ᑕᐡ ᓂᓇᐃᐧᐟ ᑲᐊᑲᔐᔑᔭᐣᐠ, ᐊᒋᓇ ᒋᑭᐱᒋᔭᐠ ᑲᐸᐸᒥᐸᑐᔭᐠ ᒥᓇ ᑲ ᑲᑲᓱᑕᑎᔭᐠ, ᒋᐃᐧᒋᐦᐊᔭᐠ ᑲᐸᐃᐧᐡᑲᐊᐧᐨ ᒪᓄᒥᓇᐣ. ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐣᑐᒋᑭᑫᐣᑕᓯᐣ ᐃᐁᐧ ᐊᐱ ᐁᐊᔭᒪᑲᐠ ᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑫᐃᔑᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒥᑎᓱᓇᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐯᑭᐡ ᑲᔦ ᒪᓄᒥᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ, ᑲᑭᐃᔑ ᐱᒥᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᑯᔭᐠ. ᔕᑯᐨ ᐊᑯ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑭᒥᓀᐧᑕᓇᐸᐣ ᐊᐧᐁᐧ ᑭᒋᐦᐊᐸᐣ ᐁᐊᐣᑕᐃᐧ ᒣᑕᐁᐧᔭᐠ ᑲᑕᔑ ᒪᓄᒥᓂᑫᐨ ᐁᐸᐸᐃᐧᐡᑭᑫᒪᑕᐊᐧᔭᐠ ᓴᓴᑭᓂᓯᐟ.

ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᐱᐊᐧᐱᑯᐠ ᐦᐊᔾ ᐢᑯᓫ ᐅᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᑯᓇᐊᐧ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓂᐠ ᒋᑭᔑᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓄᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᒉᑲᑊ ᐳᔐ ᐃᐧᑫᑐᐠ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐠ ᐁᐅᐣᒋᐨ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐅᐱᒥᐊᓄᑲᑕᐣ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓄᐃᐧᐣ ᐁᑲᑫᐧᑌᐱᓇᐠ ᒋᐊᓂᐱᐣᑎᑫᐨ ᑭᒋᐃᐡᑯᓄᑲᒥᑯᐠ ᓫᐁᐠᐦᐁᐟ ᔪᓂᐯᕑᓯᑎ. ᐳᔐ ᓄᑯᒥᑫ ᐅᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᑭᔑᑐᓇᐸᐣ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓄᐃᐧᐣ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᐱᐊᐧᐱᑯᐠ ᐦᐊᔾ ᐢᑯᓫ ᐃᒪ ᐃᐧᑫᐧᑐᐠ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐠ. 26 ᑕᓱᐊᐦᑭᐃᐧᓀ ᑭᓄᑕᓭ ᓂᔑᐣ ᑯᕑᐁᑎᐟᐢ ᒋᑭᐅᒋ ᑭᔑᑐᐨ ᐦᐊᔾ ᐢᑯᓫ ᑫᑲᐱ ᑲᑭᐃᓀᐣᑕᐠ ᒋᒪᐃᐧᓀᐦᐊᐠ. ᓄᒪᑫ ᑲᑭᐃᐡᑲᐧ ᐳᓂᐃᐡᑯᓄᐸᐣ, ᐊᒥ ᐊᐱ ᒉᑲᑊ ᑲᑭ ᑭᑫᐣᑕᐠ ᒋᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᑯᐨ ᑭᐡᐱᐣ ᑭᔑᑐᐸᐣ 12 ᐃᐡᑯᓄᐃᐧ ᒪᓯᓇᐦᐃᑲᓂ. ᑭᐃᑭᑐ “ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᓇᐣᑕ ᒋᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᐃᔑᒪᒋᓂᐡᑲᔭᐣ ᓂᐱᒪᑎᓯᐃᐧᓂᐠ. ᑭᐊᓂᒪᐣ ᒋᒥᑲᐊᐧᓄᑭᔭᐣ ᐁᑲ ᑲᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᑭᔑᑐᔭᐣ ᐦᐊᔾ ᐢᑯᓫ. ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᓂᑭᓇᑕᐁᐧᐣᑕᐣ ᒋᑭᔑᔭᑐᐣ ᒥᓇ ᒋᑲᑫᐧᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᑎᓱᔭᐣ ᓂᐱᒪᑎᓯᐃᐧᓂᐠ.” ᐅᑭᐅᑕᐱᓇᐣ ᑕᐡ ᑫᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᑲᐡᑭᑐᐨ ᒋᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᑯᐨ ᐅᐱᒪᑎᓯᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐁᑭᐊᓄᑲᑕᐠ ᒋᑭᔑᑐᐨ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓄᐃᐧᐣ. ᒉᑲᑊ ᐅᑭᐃᔑᐊᐧᐸᑕᐣ ᐅᐁᐧᓂ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᐱᐊᐧᐱᑯᐠ ᐦᐊᔾ ᐢᑯᓫ ᒋᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᑯᐨ ᒋᐱᒥᐃᐡᑯᓄᐃᐧᐨ. ᑭᐃᑭᑐ “ᑭᐯᔓᓇᑲᐧᐣ ᑲᑭᐃᔑᑲᐯᔑᔭᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑭᐁᐧᓯᓇᑲᐧᐣ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᐃᐧᐣ ᑭᐸᔭᑕᑫᐣᑕᑲᐧᐣ. ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᔦ ᓇᐱᐨ ᒋᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᒥᔑᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᑯᑕᑭᔭᐠ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓂᐠ ᒥᓇ ᓂᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᐱᒥᐊᐧᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᑯᒥᐣ. ᑭᐡᐱᐣ ᐁᑲ ᐊᔭᐨ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓄᐦᐃᐁᐧ, ᓂᑭᑲᓄᓇᒥᐣ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓄᐦᐃᐁᐧᐠ ᒪᒋᑭᑐᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᒥᓯᐁᐧ ᑲᓇᑕ ᐊᐦᑭᐠ ᒋᐅᒋᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᑯᔭᐠ.”

ᒋᐃᔑᓇᑭᐡᑲᒪᐣ ᐅᐁᐧ,” ᐃᑭᑐ ᒧᓂᔭᐢ. “ᓂᑭᒥᑲᑯ ᐁᐧᑎ ᐊᐊᐧᓯᑌ ᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂᐠ. ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᓇᑫ ᒋᐅᒋ ᑭᑫᐣᑕᒪᐣ ᐃᐁᐧ ᐊᐱ.” ᒧᓂᔭᐢ ᑭᓂᔑᐊᐧᑕᓂ ᓇᒪᐣᒋᓇᑫᐦᐃ ᐅᐡᑭᔑᑯᐠ ᐊᐱ ᑲᑯᐡᑯᓯᐨ ᑭᓀᐧᐡ ᑲᑭᐊᐧᓂᒥᑲᐃᐧᐨ. “ᐊᐱ ᑲᑯᐡᑯᓯᔭᐣ ᒪᐡᑭᑭᐃᐧᓂᓂ ᓂᑭᐃᐧᐣᑕᒪᐠ ᑫᐃᓯᓭᐠ ᓂᐡᑭᐣᔑᐠ ᑭᐡᐱᐣ ᐁᑲ ᒪᓂᔑᑲᑌᐠ,” ᐃᑭᑐ ᒧᓂᔭᐢ. “ᐱᓂᐡ ᓂᐦᓴᐧ ᓂᑭᐃᐧᐣᑕᒪᐠ ᑫᒋᓇᐨ ᒋᓂᓯᑐᑕᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᑭᐃᔑᐃᐧᐣᑕᒪᐃᐧᔑᐨ. ᒥᑕᐡ ᑲᐃᓇᐠ, ᑭᐸᑭᑎᓂᐣ ᑲᐃᔑᑭᑫᐣᑕᒪᐣ ᒋᑐᑕᒪᐣ, ᐁᑭᓂᓂᑌᓂᒥᔑᐨ ᒥᓯᐁᐧ ᓂᑎᑲᐧᓂᐠ ᒋᐃᔑᒪᑲᐠ ᑲᑭᐱᒋᐳᐃᐧᓭᐠ.”

ᐊᑕᐊᐧᐱᐢᑲᐟ ᑲᓯᓂᑫᐃᐧ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧᐣ ᐊᑎᐟ ᐅᐊᐧᐊᐧᓀᐣᑕᒥᐦᐃᑯᓇᐊᐧ ᐊᑕᐊᐧᐱᐢᑲᐟ ᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᐊᐧᑲᓇᐠ ᐯᔑᑯᐱᒥᑯᓇᑲ ᑭᐸᐧᑕᐃᐧ ᒪᒋᐃᐡᑯᓄᐊᐧᐠ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᑲᐱᒥᐊᓄᑲᑌᐠ ᐊᐧᓯᑲᓂᐱᒥᑌ ᑲᓯᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᑭᐃᔑ ᐊᐧᑲᑭᐸᑯᓂᑲᑌᑭᐸᐣ ᐯᔓᐨ ᑲᑕᔑᐃᐡᑯᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓂᐠ. ᒣᕑᐃᐊᐣ ᓫᐁᐣᐊᕑᐟ, ᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᐡᑭ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᑭᒪᐃᐧ ᐃᒪ ᐯᐦᓯᓇ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᑲᒥᑯᐠ, ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐃᐁᐧ ᐯᔑᑯᐱᒥᑯᓇᑲ ᐁᑲ ᑲᑭᐃᐡᑯᓄᓇᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᑭᐊᓄᑲᑕᐣ ᐁᑭ ᑲᐧᔭᐣᒋᐨ ᒋᔭᓂᒪᒋᐃᐡᑯᓄᐦᐃᑕᐧ ᓄᑯᑦ ᑲᒥᔑᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓂᐠ. “ᓂᑭᐊᒋᑕᐃᐧ ᓴᓯᐣᒋᒥᐣ ᓄᑯᑦ ᒥᓂᑯᐠ ᑕᓯᐣ ᑲᑭᐱᐣᑎᑫᓯᓇᐦᐅᑎᓱᐊᐧᐨ ᒋᐃᐡᑯᓄᐊᐧᐨ. ᐊᑎᐟ ᐃᒪ ᑲᐃᔑ ᐸᐱᑭᓯ

ᐃᐡᑯᓄᐦᐃᑕᐧ ᑕᐊᔭᐊᐧᐠ 38 ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓂᐠ, ᐁᑲᐧ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᑕᑌᐱᓭᓯᐊᐧᐣ ᑌᓴᐱᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑲᑭᓇ ᑫᐃᔑᐊᐱᐊᐧᐨ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᑲᐃᔑᐱᒋᐳᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐱᒥᑌ ᑲᑭᐊᓂᒥᓯᑌᔭᔑᑲᐃᐧᐠ ᐃᒪ ᐯᐦᓯᓇ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᑲᒥᑯᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐁᐧᑎ ᐊᑕᐊᐧᐱᐢᑲᐟ ᐊᑯᓯᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐠ ᐃᒪ ᐊᓇᒥᐠ ᑲᑭᐃᔑ ᐊᔭᑭᐸᐣ ᒉᐊᕑ ᓇᑯᒋ ᑲᐊᑲᔐᔑᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓂᐠ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᑲᒥᑯᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐃᒪ ᑕᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐅᐣᑕᐦᐅᐸᓂᑲᒥᑯᐠ. ᕑᐅᓯ ᑯᐢᑕᒋᐣ ᐯᔓᐨ ᐊᑲᐧᒋᐠ ᐃᔑᑲᐯᔑ ᐃᒪ ᑲᐃᔑᐱᒋᐳᐊᐧᑲᒥᑲᓂᐠ. ᐃᒪ ᐅᑌᓯᓴᑭᓂᑲᓂᐠ ᐅᐊᐧᐸᐣᑕᐣ ᐱᐊᐧᐱᑯᔭᐱᓂ ᒥᓇ ᒪᑲᑌᐁᐧᑭᓂ ᐁᑭᐊᑲᐧᑲᐦᐃᑲᑌᓂᐠ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᐃᑭᑐ ᐊᑯᓇᐠ ᐊᐱᐣ ᑲᑭᒪᒋᒧᓇᐦᐃᑫᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᑭᐊᓂᑌᐃᐧᑎᑲᐧᓀ, ᐁᐸᑯᒧᒪᐣᒋᐦᐅᐨ ᒥᓇ ᐁᑲ ᓴᐱᒪᐣᒋᐦᐅᐨ. ᐅᑐᐣᒋ ᓇᓂᓴᓀᐣᑕᐣ ᑲᔦ ᒋᐅᒋ ᒪᒋᑐᑕᑯᐊᐧᐨ ᑯᑕᑭᔭᐠ ᐁᐧᑎ ᑲᐅᒋ ᐯᔕᐧᐸᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᐃᔑᐱᒋᐳᐃᐧᔭᓂᐠ. “ᓂᐊᐧᐸᒪᐠ ᓇᐯᐊᐧᐠ ᐁᓇᓇᑲᒋᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᐣ ᐁᐱᒋᐡᑲᒪᑲᓄᑫᐧᐣ ᐱᒋᐳᐃᐧᐣ. ᓂᑭᐃᐧᐣᑕᒪᑯᐠ ᐁᐃᐧᐣᒋᑫᒪᑲᐠ ᓂᐦᓴᐧ ᐁᐱᒋᐃᐡᐸᑯᐡᑲᒪᑲᐠ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᑲᓄᑎᐣᐠ. ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᒥᓇ ᐁᐧᑎ ᐸᐣᐟ ᐊᐸᐢ ᐃᔑᑎᐸᒋᒧᐊᐧᐠ ᑭᐡᐱᐣ ᐊᐱᐣ ᑲᐃᐡᐸᑯᐡᑲᒪᑲᓂᐠ, ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᑕᐡ ᐃᐧᑲ ᐊᐧᐃᔭ ᓂᐱᐃᐧᐣᑕᒪᑯᓯᐣ ᐅᐁᐧᓂ.” ᑭᐃᑭᑐ, ᐅᑕᓂᓴᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐅᓯᓴᐣ ᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᓴᑭᒋᑯᓯᐸᓂᐠ ᐁᑭᐊᓂᐊᑯᓯᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐊᐱᐣ ᓇᐣᑕ ᐃᔑᔭᓯᐊᐧᐠ ᐊᑯᓇᐠ ᐃᒪ ᑲᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᓂᑲᑌᑯᓯᐊᐧᐸᐣ.

Lakehead signs law school protocol agreement with organizations

ᑫᐧ ᑭᐁᐧᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᑎᓱ ᑲᑭᐊᐧᓂᑐᐨ ᓇᐸᓀ ᐅᐊᐧᐱᐃᐧᐣ ᓀᐡᑲᐣᑕᑲ ᐁᐅᐣᒋᐨ ᐃᐧᓫᐳᕑᐟ ᒧᓂᔭᐢ ᑭᔭᐱᐨ ᑲᓄᑫ ᐸᑲᐣ ᐁᑭᐊᔭᐨ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᓂᔓᐱᓯᑦ ᑲᑭᓀᐱᒋᐊᐧᓂᒥᑲᐃᐧᐨ 2007 ᑲᐊᐦᑭᐊᐧᓂᐠ. “ᓂᑭᒥᓀᐧᑕᐣ ᒋᐊᔭᔭᐣ ᐁᐧᑎ ᓂᑕᒐᐠ ᑲᑭᐃᔕᐨ ᐊᐱᐨ ᐃᐧᐣ ᒋᐱᑭᐁᐧᐡᑲᔭᐣ ᐊᐦᑭᐠ,” ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᐅᑕᓇᐠ ᐅᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑲᑭᐱ ᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᑫᐸᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᓄᑯᑦ ᒪᒪᑕᐊᐧᐱᑯ ᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᑫᐃᐧᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᐃᒪ ᑲᐧᐣᐯᑐᕑᐁᔑᐣ ᑲᐧᓫᐃᐨ. “ᑭᒥᓇᐧᔑᐣ ᐃᒪ ᑲᑭᐊᔭᔭᐣ. ᒪᒋᐨ ᑲᑭᐃᓇᐱᔑᓇᐣ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᑲᑭᐊᔭᔭᐣ ᑲᐯᐦᐃ ᓂᐃᐧᒋᐃᐧᑯᐣ - ᓂᑭᐊᐧᐸᒪᐠ ᓂᔑᐣ ᑭᒋᐦᐊᐠ ᐊᐧᐱᒪᑐᑲᓂᐠ. ᑕᓴᐧ ᑲᓇᑭᐡᑲᒪᐣ ᐊᓂᒥᓭᐃᐧᐣ, ᓂᒥᑫᐧᓂᒪᐠ ᐁᐃᐧᒋᐃᐧᔑᐊᐧᐨ.” ᒧᓂᔭᐢ ᑭᓀᐱᒋᐊᐧᓂᒥᑲᐃᐧ ᑲᑭᐃᐡᑲᐧ ᒥᑲᓇᑲᓄᐸᐣ ᓇᓯᐱᐠ ᑕᐣᑐᕑ ᐯ ᐅᑌᓇᐠ. “ᓇᐦᐃᑕᐠ ᐃᑯ ᐃᒪ ᓂᑭᐊᔭ ᑲᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᐃᓯᓭᐠ

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Nishnawbe Aski Nation, Treaty 3, Robinson Superior and Métis Nation leaders signed a law school protocol with Lakehead University president Brian Stevenson and law school dean Lee Struesser on Sept. 4 to continue to develop programs appropriate to the needs of Aboriginal peoples in the future.

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Demeaning cartoon causing a stir Elders and leaders say the Hamhock Hazard character used to teach children about fire safety has to go Sharon Weatherall Special to Wawatay News

The Beausoleil First Nation chief and his community’s fire chief agree that Hamhawk Hazard has to go. “It is demeaning and stereotyping to portray a First Nations person to be very unintelligent,� said Chief Roly Monague, commenting on a controversial cartoon character being used to teach safety to children in materials that were approved

by Ontario First Nations Technical Services Corporation (OFNTSC). “Little kids will be reading this and we have been stereotyped enough in our lives.

This kind of stuff in this day and age is not well received.�

Chief and council support the stance of Fire Chief Allan J. Manitowabi – who said the caricature has no cultural significance – and have asked OFNTSC to have the Hamhawk Hazard name and character changed. “I was shocked and surprised to see this material had been sent out to tribal councils,� said Manitowabi, who began his fight to change the depiction after he first saw it in an electrical booklet that was published

in 2010. “At the time I inquired by phone to see where this had come from and found it had been OFNTSC approved.�

The OFNTSC Fire Program provides First Nation Fire Prevention Officers with technical advisory services for fire prevention, code interpretation, emergency service vehicles, and community fire prevention issues. Manitowabi said the corporation has overseen the creation and distribution of numerous fire prevention materials and brochures using Hamhawk Hazard without consultation and approval by First Nations fire services personnel. “Speaking with Elders from our community, they feel the material is scary for kids and is putting constraints on how we see ourselves,� said the fire chief. “They say the picture is derived from negative portrayals through caricature and is misleading of the culture of First Nations – it presents flawed imagery of Native people.�

Community Elders say if the materials were produced using provincial and/or government funds, there is a clause in the use of federal funds that stipulates those resources are not to

be used to promote prejudice, racism, stereotyping or any kind of put-down from one group to another groups based on race, colour, creed, or culture.

In November 2011 the First Nation’s chief and council sent a letter of concern about the Hamhawk Hazard booklet.

The following month OFNTSC executive director Bob Howsam responded, saying the booklet would be examined and changes made.

In a recent interview, Howsam confirmed that his office is aware of Manitowabi’s concerns, noting that the electrical booklet – which is part of a series of booklets on First Nation children’s safety – “is no longer active.� He said it will not be reprinted, but other booklets in the Hamhawk Hazard campaign will continue to be handed out to First Nation communities who request materials.

Howsam – former Regional Director General, Ontario South for Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, said the Hamhawk campaign received financial support from INAC. (Article first published by Anishinabek News at www. anishinabeknews.ca)

Ring of Fire court challenge dropped by Matawa in favour of negotiation Wawatay News Staff The Matawa First Nations are dropping a legal challenge and instead engaging in negotiation over Ring of Fire environmental assessments.

The communities announced this week that they will rely on negotiation and working with their hired negotiator Bob Rae instead of a judicial review of the Cliffs chromite project federal comprehensive study environmental assessment (EA) process. “We never wanted a judge to decide our future if we could avoid it,� said Chief Sonny Gagnon of Aroland First Nation. “Like we always said, we want to determine our own solutions, by negotiation. When we started the court case there

was no negotiation table so we were pushed into a corner.

There’s a forum for discussions with Ontario now and it’s going to look at the environmental assessment question as well as other issues.�

Marten Falls First Nation Chief Eli Moonias announced earlier that they too will withdraw from court challenge stating that they are committed to the development of a “sound and complete community-based environmental assessment process that will safeguard traditional lands and the environment to the highest standards.� “Our community is proud to be taking the lead on an assessment that will ensure that the Ring of Fire builds a legacy of which generations of Marten Falls youth can be proud of,�

said Chief Eli Moonias.

Discussions with Ontario began this summer with Bob Rae representing the Matawa communities and Frank Iacobucci negotiating for the province.

Cliffs distributed their own new release stating they were committed to engaging in active and productive discussions with potentially affected First Nation communities. “We’re determined to be a good partner and will continue to work with First Nations who may be impacted by the project and to understand their concerns and priorities, and to respond to them,� said Bill Boor, Cliff Natural Resources senior vice-president of strategy and business development.

Beausoleil First Nation Fire Chief Allan J. Manitowabi said the caricature has no cultural significance and has asked OFNTSC to have the Hamhawk Hazard name and character changed.

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Wawatay News SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

ᐧᐊᐧᐊᑌ ᐊᒋᒧᐧᐃᓇᐣ

From the Wawatay archives 16-5th Avenue North P.O. Box 1180 Sioux Lookout, ON P8T 1B7 Serving the First Nations in Northern Ontario since 1974.

Wawatay News is a politically independent weekly newspaper published by Wawatay Native Communications Society.

ᓂᐢᑕᑦ ᑲᑭᒪᑕᓄᑲᑌᐠ 1974 ᐁᐅᒋᐊᓄᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᑭᐧᐁᑎᓄᐠ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᑕᐃᑦᔑᑫᐧᐃᓇᐣ. ᑕᓱᓂᔓᐱᒥᑯᓇᑲ ᐅᔑᒋᑲᑌ ᐧᐊᐧᐊᑌ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐧᐃ ᐊᒋᒧᐧᐃᓇᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑲᐧᐃᐣ ᐅᓇᔓᐧᐁᐧᐃ ᑲᓇᐧᐊᐸᒋᑫᐧᐃᓂᐠ ᒋᐃᔑ ᐸᐸᒥᓯᒪᑲᐠ ᐧᐊᐧᐊᑌ ᐊᒋᒧᐧᐃᓂᑫᐧᐃᓇᐣ.

ACTING CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER James Brohm

Commentary

The boy inside will always remain Richard Wagamese ONE NATIVE LIFE

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here are things that come to you in life that you don’t expect. Sometimes the sudden surprises are difficult and demand the most of you in order to navigate your way to peace with them.

Other times all they ask you is reflection. All they ask of you is a commitment to time in order to flesh out your insides with the definitive impact of their arrival. As I get older I’ve become better at both but much prefer the latter.

There’s a picture that occupies a special place on my desk.

It’s within easy reach. I take it down now and then and look at it. It’s an old black and white photo obviously taken with an early 1960s model Kodak camera. It’s grainy and faded.

But there’s a quality of light in it that makes it magical. It’s a picture of a small boy and girl with their arms around each other.

The boy in the picture wears a half smile. He’s standing in a fenced backyard squinting at the camera as though it’s something alien and he’s unsure of what to expect. He’s wearing pants rolled up four inches at the hem, suspenders and a nondescript shirt. His runners are worn and old looking. He’s small with a severe brush cut.

The girl beside him is the same height. She’s dressed in saddle shoes with white socks, cowboy style jeans rolled up mid calf. Her hair is cut in a tomboy style with long bangs and she’s smiling at the camera like a thing she’s used to.

It’s 1963. The girl is my foster sister. I am the kid with the rolled up jeans and suspenders.

I am a foster kid and I’m nearly seven years old. That means the photograph is nearly 50 years old and it’s the first time I have ever seen it. The kid in the picture has been a stranger until now. When I look at him there are pangs of regret, of loss and of a time in my life that I never really fully occupied.

Oh, I know who he was. Years of therapy have allowed me to see him in my mind’s eyes. I’ve held him, comforted him. I’ve told him that everything would be all right, that he was safe and that he wasn’t going anywhere alone anymore. I talked to him about dark and lonely nights.

I spoke to him about how light when it comes can chase the darker things away.

I spoke to him about permanence and home, belonging and security.

Through all of that, I know him and he knows me.

But I had never seen him.

I had never seen the squint, the rough home hair cut, the outsized jeans and the face unfamiliar with smiles or the idea that something could be captured forever. He had only ever been a sea of feelings I carried from all those years.

They were feelings of losses I couldn’t understand, of an emptiness at the core of me I had carried all my life but had never found the words for.

They were feelings of losses I couldn’t understand, of an emptiness at the core of me I had carried all my life but had never found the words for.

He sits squarely in my palm like a treasured thing now. I have the photograph. It’s mine to keep.

I never knew that it was possible for someone to give you years. I never knew it was possible for someone to transport you through time and space.

Yet they did and the boy in the picture lives in every line and squint and half smile of the man I am at fifty six.

See, I was a foster kid. I was a small Ojibway kid cut off from everything that was supposed to be mine. I was lonely and filled with pain. You can tell that by the eyes.

No one knew that about me then. I was just a kid. I existed in files; files that no one shared with my foster family, me, school teachers or anyone who had anything to do with me. No one, not even the kid in the picture himself, knew his history.

No one knew about my night terrors. No one knew about pain I carried in my body. No one knew how damaged I had been by things I was defenseless against as a toddler and an infant. The terms, Children’s Aid and care, didn’t seem to apply much to me or thousands of other foster kids, then or now. As long as they exist only in files that will never change.

The boy in the picture lives in me. He just doesn’t carry the pain anymore. I comfort him very day.

I heal him and he heals me.

Together we give ourselves a new past by creating a better day today.

I belong somewhere. I’m loved. I smile at cameras. The child is father to the man.

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Customers purchase goods from the local store in Pikangikum.

Why is this lake long and narrow?

Andy Fyon ONTARIO BENEATH OUR FEET

Lakes are bodies of water deep enough to contain water for long periods of time.

Looking at a map of Ontario, it is easy to see that there are many lakes across the province, especially in the north. In fact, there are about 250,000 lakes in Ontario, covering about 15 per cent of the province. This is about one third of all the freshwater on the surface of the Earth. These lakes were filled with water in the last 10,000 years.

Lakes of different sizes and shapes were created by a number of natural geologic processes that started millions to billions of years ago and continue today.

How does geology control where lakes form?

The rock that makes up the Hudson Bay and James Bay lowlands consists mostly of limestone and dolomite.

These rocks dissolve rather easily in water. The rock to the south and west of the lowlands however, is very old, hard rock that we call the Precambrian Shield. Most of the shield rock was created one to three billion years ago. Over the

millions and millions of years, the shield rocks were cut by geological faults. A fault is a zone in the earth along which blocks of rock slide past each other. Geologists note that an ancient fault often occurs down the centre of, or along the edge of, these long narrow lakes. The fault can run for many kilometres across the surface of the land.

How did a fault prepare the land for long, narrow lakes?

The force of the geological faulting broke the hard Precambrian Shield rock into tiny pieces and crushed some of the rock into clay. This fault rock is much softer than the unfaulted Precambrian Shield rock.

Long after the faults were active, during the last great ice age, an ice sheet covered all of Ontario. The ice sheet was up to two kilometres thick. This ice sheet, called a glacier, did not just sit on the surface of the earth. The glacier moved very slowly across the land. The grinding weight of the glacier on the land acted like sand paper and it carved many large and small depressions into the surface of the land. When the glacier rode over an especially weak zone of rock, such as a narrow fault zone, the glacier scraped and dug out the soft broken fault rock, but left the hard, unfaulted shield rock.

The result was a long,

narrow surface trench in the land. When the glacier melted about 10,000 years ago, the freshwater collected in the trench to create a lake.

So, many long, narrow lakes formed along ancient fault trenches from water that melted from the glaciers.

What other kind of lakes are there?

Glaciers also dug bowls into the land and filled the bowls with water when they melted.

The Great Lakes in Southern Ontario formed this way.

Most of the water in the Great Lakes is the original water that came from the melting glacier 10,000 years ago!

Kettle lakes formed on top of deposits left behind by the last glaciers. When the glacier melted, blocks of ice (some as large as apartment buildings) broke off and sat in the sands and gravels. When this ice block melted, a round, shallow lake formed, called a kettle lake.

Lakes are also created when a river channel winds across the land, like a snake, eroding deposits left by the glacier. This type of river can turn on itself, like a bow tie, and cut off a piece of the river channel. This isolated piece of river becomes an oxbow lake.

There are also rare lakes that form where a large piece of rock from outer space, called a meteorite, crashed into our planet and impacted the earth.

Usually these lakes caused by this impact are round or banana-shaped. Lakes created this way in Northern Ontario include Wanapitei Lake near Sudbury, lakes in the Brent Crater east of Mattawa, and Skeleton Lake in the Muskokas.

There are many ways that geology influences the size and shape of a lake. Understanding how a lake forms helps explain lake water quality, depth, and colour. These lake-forming processes create different habitats for fish, plants, animals, and even people.

So, the next time you look at a lake, think about the complex geological history that shaped the land, created the landscape, and created the lake — all part of the “Ontario beneath our feet.”

About the author: Andy Fyon is the director of MNDM’s Ontario Geological Survey. For more information about the geology of Ontario: http://www.mndm.gov.on.ca/ en/mines-and-minerals/ geology.

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Asserting nationhood by occupying land, cooking rice Jana-Rae Yerxa Special to Wawatay News

Manoominikedaa Neyaashing.

Finally! My grandfather who is 74-years-old, and my grandmother who is 73-years-old, will finally get to roast rice on this part of our land for the very first time.

I am grateful that we will get to do this together. Harvesting and preparing manoomin (rice) has always been a way of life for Anishinaabeg. I remember as a young child playing outside my great grandfather’s house and watching him prepare the rice as he would dance on it. This was my first introduction to manoomin.

He always welcomed us young ones, to take breaks from running around and playing hide and seek, and to dance on the rice. I didn’t realize it then that these were teachings of responsibility that he, along with manoomin, were instilling in us. Needless to say, our breaks from play were always welcomed, from the old man, to what seemed like ‘cooler’ play as we took off our shoes placing

our little feet in the deep holes that were dug into the ground as we, too, danced on the rice.

As a kid growing up in the 1980s, the year 2009 seemed so far away. So far away, that to my young mind, it was questionable if it would ever arrive.

This was a year that many Anishinaabeg in my area had looked forward to for a very, very long time.

As far back as I can remember I knew this to be true just as my father knew this to be true; just as my grandfather and grandmother knew this to be true; just as my great grandfather knew this to be true; and who knows who else before him. With the much anticipated arrival of the year 2009, came the long awaited end of an unjust 99 year lease of Anishinaabeg land, where the Town of Fort Frances would no longer hold possession of our land and the land would finally be returned - or so we thought.

In 1910, our land was leased to the Town of Fort Frances.

Despite the expiration of the lease on May 1, 2009, the town is maintaining that the land belongs to the municipality. So,

four First Nation communities: Couchiching; Mitaanjigamiing, Nigigoonsiminikaaning, and Naicatchewenin are currently in dispute utilizing the land claims process, against the Town of Fort Frances, and the federal and provincial governments, to fight for what we have always known to be ours.

The dispute over land involves 35 acres commonly known as Pither’s Point Park.

‘The Point,’ as it is often referred to, has become a popular recreational area near Rainy Lake. What’s ironic about the land I am speaking of is that after the lease came into effect it was renamed Pither’s Point Park after an Indian Agent Mr. Pither. Actually, I guess it’s not really that ironic at all because that is what in fact happens through the occurrences of colonial processes - the erasure of Indigenous place names with colonial ones in an attempt to present the illusion of legitimacy and connection to place.

Engaging in the politics of recognition through colonial court processes for external validation of what we already know in the case is disempowering and full of frustration.

Through on-going colonial assaults and the naturalization of colonialism, our battle is not only in the physical realm and takes place over disputes about land but has also become a psychological war zone for our own minds. Our minds have become disinfected with colonial mentalities which perpetuate and reinforce our disconnection from our Anishinaabeg ways of life which are rooted in land-based practices.

The psychological battle, that some of us have not even awoken to yet, limits our capacity to think outside the

Over 30 fires burned at Pithers Point in Fort Frances, ON last week as community members from four First Nation communities: Couchiching; Mitaanjigamiing, Nigigoonsiminikaaning, and Naicatchewenin came out in solidarity, celebration and nationhood to harvest rice. colonial constructs where we strongly buy into the politics of recognition. One of the clearest ways we have been conditioned through colonial assaults is to look externally for resolution rather than living up to each of our own responsibilities as Anishinaabeg. This is where we begin to buy completely into the colonial court system to acknowledge that the land is ours or leave the responsibility only to ‘band council’ to act, while simultaneously negating to acknowledge or even tap into our own responsibility and power.

This is not a critique of chief and council or even a critique of our dissatisfaction with present day realities.

However, it is to highlight the importance of what we centre as well as the strength that comes with living our words by

stepping up, being responsible and engaging in a politics of accountability rather than a politics of recognition. When we are coming from a place of politics rooted in accountability, which is encouraged through thinking critically and living consciously, space is created where we become aware of our connection, making it possible to honour relationships.

That is why on Sept. 14, 2013, Manoominikedaa Neyaashing, happened. This is a momentous event for Anishinaabeg. In my opinion, it is one of the most powerful acts we could engage in, as Anishinaabeg, to live our responsibility and to be accountable to our ancestors, the land and one another.

On the Saturday we occupied our traditional lands, where our ancestors have

always gathered, and we are prepared manoomin with one another. We centred our own Anishinaabeg interpretations of treaty and asserted our own notions of nationhood.

Jana-Rae Yerxa, is Anishinabe from Little Eagle and Couchiching First Nation and belongs to the Sturgeon clan.

Activist. Writer. Social Worker.

Former professor. Current student. She is committed to furthering her understanding of Anishinabe identity and resurgence, especially through land based practices, as well as deconstructing Indigenous/settler relations in the contexts of colonization and decolonization. JanaRae is currently enrolled in the Indigenous Governance Program at University of Victoria.

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National chief helps build home for Kakekagumick family Rick Garrick Wawatay News

Sandy Lake’s Ida Kakekagumick is looking forward to spending Christmas with her three grandchildren in their new Habitat for Humanity home in Ottawa.

“We’re getting excited,” said Kakekagumick, who has been living in Ottawa since 1986 and currently works at the Minwaashin Lodge - Aboriginal Women’s Support Centre.

“At first I couldn’t believe that this was happening — this is my very first home. Habitat for Humanity has made it a reality for me and my grandchildren to own a home.”

Kakekagumick never thought she would own a home, noting she has been renting a home in a “quiet neighbourhood” in Ottawa. She appreciated the help from National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo and the Assembly of First Nation staff as they helped build her home this summer.

“It was awesome seeing him over there working with his hardhat on and his boots,” Kakekagumick said. “What’s amazing is the number of volunteers, corporate sponsors, organizations — they (take time) out of their work day, they bring their staff and they come (to the site) for the day.”

Kakekagumick said about 2,000 volunteers helped build the three Habitat for Humanity homes being built in Ottawa this summer.

“I’ve taken vacation leave in order to work on my house,” Kakekagumick said, noting she put in about 400 hours of

“sweat equity” volunteer time over the past year. “You’re supposed to work 400 hours in the community, it doesn’t matter where, so I worked at their restore for a year. Every Saturday I would go there and work the day and then (I worked) 100 hours just for the build.”

Atleo and the AFN staff volunteered due to the critical shortage of housing for First Nation families living on and off-reserve.

“Addressing First Nations housing needs requires a unified effort by all sectors of the public and all levels of government,” Atleo said. “By working together, we can ensure all First Nations families and children have access to safe, secure and affordable housing. We are happy to be participating on another build with our partners at Habitat for Humanity. We look forward to our continued cooperation in implementing their Aboriginal Housing Program in First Nations across Canada.”

AFN entered into partnership with Habitat for Humanity to help provide housing alternatives to First Nations people both on and off reserve and to raise awareness of the critical housing needs facing First Nations citizens and families.

“The Aboriginal Housing Program has made real progress in the year since National Chief Atleo and the AFN joined forces with Habitat for Humanity Canada to bring affordable homeownership to more Aboriginal families,” said Kevin Marshman, president and CEO of Habitat for Humanity Canada.

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Though the spill site is being cleaned up, Rosie Koostachin is worried about the possible side effects to her health living beside a contaminated diesel fuel site.

Remediation site taking a toll on residents Richard Spence Special to Wawatay News

Students in Attawapiskat started school studies a week late due to an ongoing diesel fuel contamination clean up effort located in a fenced off area next to their classrooms.

Marjon Lenart, the new principal of Vezina Secondary School, said he used the extra week to prepare for above average enrollment at the school.

“We were a little overwhelmed by the amount of kids signed up for classes.

Some classes have as many as 38 students and we don’t have enough desks for all of them,” he said.

The contamination zone sits

between Vezina Secondary School and the Attawapiskat General Hospital underneath what was once the JR Nakogee Elementary School and the community water treatment plant.

Rosie Koostachin’s backyard borders the contamination zone. From her deck she can see over the chain-link and black tarp perimeter fence. She said she experiences headaches, nausea and exhaustion since the dig began. She is worried about the possible side effects of living so close to the spill site.

“I see those men who do the air monitoring. He tells me the readings have spiked three times due to the wind. He says they tell the band office if the

readings go up, but no one there has contacted me,” she said.

She said her daughter and grandchildren moved out of the family home due to flu-like symptoms that they no longer experience since moving.

The old school was closed in 2000 but according to Wayne Turner, executive director of Attawapiskat First Nation, the first signs of trouble were noted in 1977. Students would often complain of migraines, dizziness and nosebleeds during the more than two decades that classes at Nakogee Elementary remained in session.

Lead engineer Brian Feherty of Feherty and Associates Engineering was contracted by

Seeking Letters of Intent

Appel de lettres d’intention

Lake Simcoe/South-eastern Georgian Bay Clean-up Fund

Fonds d’assainissement du lac Simcoe et du sud-est de la baie Georgienne

Environment Canada’s Lake Simcoe/South-eastern Georgian Bay Clean-up Fund is seeking Letters of Intent for projects to help protect and restore the health of Lake Simcoe and South-eastern Georgian Bay.

Le Fonds d’assainissement du lac Simcoe et du sud-est de la baie Georgienne lance un appel de lettres d’intention proposant des projets de protection et de restauration de la santé écologique du lac Simcoe et du sud-est de la baie Georgienne.

The Fund will consider projects that reduce phosphorus inputs, restore habitat or add to the scientific understanding of the lake and Bay for decision making. Projects will be considered in a two-stage process. Those successful in the Letter of Intent stage will then be asked to submit a detailed project proposal. The detailed proposal will undergo a more extensive review process.

Le Fonds examinera les projets qui visent à réduire les apports en phosphore, à restaurer l’habitat ou à faire progresser les connaissances scientifiques sur le lac et la baie aux fins de prise de décision. L’examen des projets se fera en deux étapes. Les promoteurs de projets dont la lettre d’intention a été retenue seront priés de déposer une proposition de projet détaillée, laquelle fera l’objet d’un examen plus approfondi.

Successful applicants may receive one-third of total project costs from the Fund, and in some cases up to two-thirds of the costs may be considered.

Letters of Intent describing proposed projects and partners must be received no later than October 7, 2013.

To find out how to apply or for more information, please contact: Lake Simcoe/South-eastern Georgian Bay Clean-up Fund Environment Canada 4905 Dufferin Street Toronto ON M3H 5T4 Telephone: 416-739-5908 Email: ls-gbfund@ec.gc.ca

Le Fonds pourra accorder aux projets retenus un financement correspondant au tiers des coûts associés aux projets. Dans certains cas, un montant allant jusqu’aux deux tiers de ces coûts pourrait être envisagé.

Les lettres d’intention décrivant les propositions de projets et de partenariats doivent être reçues d’ici le 7 octobre 2013 au plus tard.

Pour tout renseignement supplémentaire, notamment sur la manière de présenter une demande, veuillez vous adresser au : Fonds d’assainissement du lac Simcoe et du sud-est de la baie Georgienne Environnement Canada 4905, rue Dufferin Toronto (Ontario) M3H 5T4 Téléphone : 416-739-5908 Courriel : ls-gbfund@ec.gc.ca

Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC) to execute the clean up. He said the job presents unique challenges.

“This is the biggest project of its kind in Ontario, if not Canada,” he said. Nearly 100,000 liters of diesel fuel leaked from underground pipes over three decades, he said and the scale of the project required intensive preparation before shovels could break ground and remove contaminated soil. He said the first step was to map the contaminated area.

In 2008, Thunder Bay-based firm True Grit Consulting, did preliminary soil tests of areas around the suspect diesel tanks.

The results defined five separate areas in need of immediate remediation. Both JR Nakogee School and the water treatment centre were within contaminated zones. The structures had to be demolished before the clean up could start. Project manager Mary Johnson said contaminated soil is moved to a bio-cell containment centre on the riverbank just outside Attawapiskat. At the school site, the pit was dug to a depth of 4.5 metres in the deepest areas. Contaminated soil was relocated to lined bio-cell containment pits near the bank of the Attawapiskat River. She said the project has experienced unavoidable set backs but continues to make progress, “wet weather is our biggest delay,” she said.

Right now, the contamination sites are quiet. Workers are on a break before beginning the fill-in and leveling part of the project. Students are back in classes and Lenart said there is time to make up for missed classes.

“We are well within meeting the minimum of 110 hours required per course. Even if we were behind, there are always ways to make that up. We’re absolutely safe,” he said.

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Fall harvest at LU teaches guests about First Nations culture Crystallee Mouland Special to Wawatay News

It was a time to honour the season.

The annual and popular event that celebrates the harvest from the summer crops was held at Lakehead University, Sept. 14.

Hundreds of attending guests learned about the Anishinabe people’s Thanksgiving of September, when a full harvest of items like berry fruits, wild rice grains, hazelnuts, and pickerel fish, goose, small game and herbal medicines and teas are gathered and all living things are thanked for sacrificing themselves.

The event is put on by the Lakehead University Aboriginal Initiatives and Aboriginal Cultural and Support Services.

Elders and community members demonstrated and taught visitors about moccasin making, beadwork, tee-pee making, fish smoking, sacred medicine collecting, hide tanning, and wild rice harvesting, curing and parching, bannock making and fishing practices throughout the day.

Helen Pelletier a beadwork demonstrator said, “It’s a good way for students and the community to get orientated with our culture.”

People tasted delicious bannock, wild rice stew and fish samples and enjoyed a variety of family activity stations. The festival provided an opportunity to show some of the regional Anishinabe traditional way of life and to promote culture understanding in a supportive environment.

Brian Stevenson, president and vice-chancellor of Lakehead University attended the event for the last four years with his wife and daughters.

“The first thing I really like is the Aboriginal community.

Many of the students and faculty on the campus come and participate here,” he said. “It’s a time to come together and celebrate First Nation culture and history and to learn about the kinds of food and how food has been prepared and other cultural activities. It brings the whole community together and that is the part I like the most.”

Stevenson said the harvest is a great meeting place to learn about and celebrate Aboriginal culture.

“This event has always been successful because we always invite new students to come.

There are a number of new students here learning about our Aboriginal peoples here in Thunder Bay and northwestern Ontario. It’s successful because it brings people together. It celebrates the coming fall and the harvest.”

Elder Freda MacDonald gave the opening prayer which was followed by a welcoming greeting by Stevenson and Yolanda Wanakamik, Aboriginal outreach/recruitment worker on behalf of Dr. Cynthia WesleyEsquimaux the vice-provost (Aboriginal Initiatives).

Fall harvest festivals often include games, dancing, and food celebration and drum circles. The Thunder Mountain Singers were the guest drum group of the day

photos by Crystallee Mouland

Topleft: Elder Ella Gagnon prepares her fish for the hungry masses; Helen Pelletier teaches the finer points of beading; Elder Bob McKay talks to Nicole Dovie from Rainy River and Janet Ramsey from Marathon about the importance of a strong fishing net. Below: The entire Trout enjoys the annual Fall Harvest event that included presentations on beading and mocassin making and the sampling of fresh bannock, walleye strips and wild rice and corn soups.

INSPECTION Inspection of Approved Slash Pile Burning Abitibi River Forest The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) invites you to inspect the MNR-approved Prescribed Burn plan for slash pile burning that will be carried out in the Abitibi River Forest (see map).

As part of our ongoing efforts to regenerate and protect Ontario’s forests, some recently harvested areas have been selected to be burned under the strict guidelines of the MNR Prescribed Burn Planning Manual. The Prescribed Burn will reduce the area covered in slash piles while increasing the area available for regeneration and reducing the fire hazard. The burn is scheduled for ignition between October 1, 2013 and December 24, 2013.

Information about this Prescribed Burn project, including specific locations and maps, is available for public viewing at the office of First Resource Management Group Inc. and the District MNR during normal business hours and the MNR public website at ontario.ca/forestplans beginning September 19, 2013.

ServiceOntario locations within the Abitibi River Forest provide access to the Internet: ServiceOntario 143 Fourth Avenue Cochrane

ServiceOntario Main Floor, 33 Ambridge Drive Iroquois Falls

ServiceOntario Unit 110, 38 Pine Street North Timmins For more information or to discuss the Prescribed Burn project, please contact: First Resource Management Group Inc. Wayne Pawson Office Hours: 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

P.O. Box 920 Englehart, ON P0J 1H0 tel: 705-544-2828 e-mail: wayne.pawson@frmg.ca Ministry of Natural Resources Office Hours: 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Cochrane District Cory Wiseman, R.P.F. P.O. Box 730 2-4 Highway 11 South Cochrane, ON P0L 1C0 tel: 705-272-7195 e-mail: cory.wiseman@ontario.ca

Timmins District Nikki Wood, R.P.F. P.O. Box 910 5520 Highway 101 East South Porcupine, ON P0N 1H0 tel: 705-235-1339 e-mail: nikki.wood@ontario.ca

Kirkland Lake District Andrew MacLean, R.P.F. 10 Government Road Kirkland Lake, ON P2N 3K4 tel: 705-568-3242 e-mail: andrew.maclean@ontario.ca

Renseignements en français : 705 272-7196 Cochrane, 705 235-1314 Timmins, 705 568-3222 Kirkland Lake.

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Fort Albany’s Whitney Edwards, Muskrat Dam’s Julaine Trudeau and Whitesand’s Jordan Kwandibens helped launch the Welcome Path video on Sept. 10 at the Thunder Bay Indian Friendship Centre for students transitioning from their northern communities to high school in Thunder Bay.

Welcome Path video launched to help students’ transition Rick Garrick

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First Nation students moving to Thunder Bay for their education now have another tool to help them with their transition — the recently-launched Welcome Path video.

“We need more resources like this for our youth coming from First Nation communities,” said Julaine Trudeau, one of the actors in the video who originally moved from Muskrat Dam to attend high school in Thunder Bay. “I know how difficult it is and how much more support needs to be out there for youth who are making that transition.”

Although Trudeau’s father and brother moved down to Thunder Bay with her when she attended high school, she said it was still a difficult transition.

“The culture shock was really huge,” Trudeau said. “I think I adapted really well, but a lot of youth still have a really challenging time. So I’m trying to do my part in making that transition a little bit easier.”

Trudeau had difficulties with the Thunder Bay transit system and with how outgoing people were in Thunder Bay.

“Where I come from, I was really reserved and I had a hard time looking people in the eye,” Trudeau said. “And paved roads and walking on the sidewalk was huge, because we don’t have paved roads in Muskrat.”

Launched by the Thunder Bay Suicide Prevention Task Force (TBSPTF) on Sept. 10 at the Thunder Bay Indian Friendship Centre, the Welcome Path video was developed to alleviate the stress and anxiety many students experience when moving to Thunder Bay to continue their education journeys.

“In my job as the Wasa-Nabin Aboriginal youth worker, I’d like to try to take them off the beaten path of the Intercity Mall, their high school and show them different parts of the city,” said Anthony Shapwaykeesic, chair of TBSPTF’s Youth Education and Engagement committee, noting locations around Thunder Bay such as the Centennial Botanical Conservatory, Mission March or Mount McKay. “They need that quiet time, especially one-on-one, for anyone to say how they are actually feeling.”

Trudeau and the other Aboriginal actors also helped with the writing and directing

of the video, which took about a month to complete.

“I liked the way the students were able to engage and take it in a direction all by themselves,” Shapwaykeesic said. “I think they got their message across — it was by them and we were just the people behind the scenes.”

Whitney Edwards, one of the actors originally from Fort Albany, hopes the video will encourage more Aboriginal students to pursue their education goals in Thunder Bay. “Instead of not attending school and being a dropout, we want them to do good and finish high school,” Edwards said.

The video project was developed with information gathered from surveys, youth workshops and conversations with both First Nation adults and youth about their experiences when moving to Thunder Bay. “We’re hoping to show people from the north that there is a community here that they can get engaged in,” said Lisa Smith, coordinator of TBYSTF, “that they’re welcome to be a part of and that people are here to be supportive of them.”

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Indigenous Peoples’, human rights, and faith organizations are calling on Canada to ensure that indigenous peoples can freely decide for themselves whether and when resource development projects will take place on their traditional lands and territories.

In a statement released on the eve of the sixth anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, indigenous peoples’ and civil society organizations say it is time to end the colonial practice of imposing development decisions on indigenous peoples.

“Decisions about the land go to the very heart of who we are as Indigenous Peoples,” said Perry Bellegarde, chief of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations and Saskatchewan regional chief of the Assembly of First Nations. “We need to be able to make our own decisions, with full access to all the relevant information and without pressure or coercion, to ensure that the land is used in a way that reflects our

values and our needs. We will always promote processes that unite us in finding long-lasting solutions.”

The UN Declaration affirms indigenous peoples right of selfdetermination and requires that governments obtain the free, prior and informed consent of indigenous peoples in decisions about resource development on their lands.

Canada is at the heart of a contemporary global rush for resources.

Although Canada officially endorsed the UN Declaration in November 2010, Canada has continued to claim that the UN Declaration should have no effect on development decisions.

The joint statement points out Canadian courts have already concluded that human

rights declarations, including the UN Declaration, and other international instruments are “relevant and persuasive” sources of interpretation of human rights in Canada.

“The unprincipled opposition to the UN Declaration is just another example of Canada’s double standard on human rights and rule of law when it comes to indigenous peoples,” said Ellen Gabriel, indigenous rights activist.

The joint statement notes the growing international acceptance of the right of free, prior and informed consent, including its endorsement by a number of influential industry organizations.

Canada is at the heart of a contemporary global rush for resources. An estimated threequarters of the world’s mining and mineral exploration companies are headquartered in Canada. Canada’s national Economic Action Plan is intended to support the development of an estimated 600 new largescale resource extraction projects in the next decade.

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Ten Eabametoong community members learned about operating remote fly-in outpost camps during a five-day training boot camp this past August at Ozhiski Lake Camp, owned and operated by community member Weiben Slipperjack.

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Eabametoong entrepreneurs off to boot camp at Ozhiski outpost

Location: 313 Sanders Road West, Sioux Lookout, ON

Wawatay News Staff Eabametoong First Nation delivered a specialized tourism development and training program this August for 10 community members who were interested in learning about operating their own hunting and fishing camp outposts.

The five-day training boot camp was held at the Ozhiski outpost which is situated on Eabametoong First Nation and owned and operated by community member Weiben Slipperjack.

The participants were transported by floatplane from Eabametoong First Nation dock to the camp. The training curriculum covered 14 core competencies for operating a remote fly-in outpost. Some of the topics included: site selection, camp constructions, furnishings. water systems, boats, motors, insurance, reservations, packaging and promotions, customer service, safety and law, moose hunts, river trips, and ecotourism.

Lewis Nate, the economic development officer of Eaba-

metoong First Nation, coordinated the project and believes that the success of growing Eabametoong’s tourism industry lies in its ability to attract visitors, offer products and services and provide an exceptional hunting and fishing experience.

“This can only be achieved by building capacity at the community level to establish a network of camp outposts with trained and passionate camp owners,” he said.

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Neskantaga citizen rebuilding life after losing eye in 2007 attack Rick Garrick Wawatay News

Neskantaga’s Wilfred Moonias can still recall being in a different plane of existence during a two-month coma in 2007.

“I preferred to be out there where my spirit went to instead of being back here on Earth,” said the former community leader and computer instructor at Confederation College. “I was in a wonderful place. The last scene that I saw while I was out always stays with me — I saw two Elders in a white tent.

Every time I encounter difficulties, I feel their presence.”

Moonias fell into the coma after being badly beaten in the Bay Street area of Thunder Bay. “I was in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Moonias said.

“I was found at the back of the building. I was completely out of it.”

Moonias lost his left eye due to infection after coming out of the coma.

“When I woke up the doctor told me what the result was going to be on my left eye if he didn’t take it out,” Moonias said. “He ran that by me three times to make sure I heard him and understood what he was saying. I told him to do what you have to do, because he was afraid for the infection to spread all over my head.”

Nishnawbe Aski Nation Deputy Grand Chief Goyce Kakegamic remembers visiting Moonias in the hospital at the time.

“You wouldn’t have recognized him,” Kakegamic said, noting Moonias is a close friend. “The family members were there and I was glad they called me. We didn’t think that he would survive. But you know, he came out (of it).”

Kakegamic said Moonias had

Neskantaga’s Wilfred Moonias lost his eye after a 2007 attack in Thunder Bay. been living life to the fullest before the attack.

“It was devastating to the family,” Kakegamic said. “But with a lot of people praying for him and the medical care today, he survived.”

Moonias has since had a partial transplant on his right eye, in 2009.

“Last year my body rejected the tissue and I was blind for almost a week before I regained my sight,” Moonias said. “This year, back in May, I was working at Crupi Consulting and all of a sudden I had an infection in my eye so I couldn’t go back to work.”

Moonias said his right eye sees better on some days and “not that great” on other days.

“Last week it was pretty good,” Moonias said. “It’s more clear some times. (Other times) it’s bleary, really bleary. I think it’s more likely the weather affects the eye.”

Moonias said the doctors were looking at operating on

his eye again to open it up more so he could see better.

“They were supposed to open my eye a little bit more because when I open it a little bit, I can see a little more,” Moonias said.

“The other suggestion was to have glasses, but I won’t be entitled to them until next year in February.”

Moonias lost his last pair of glasses while in a bank in Thunder Bay. Moonias said nobody has ever been charged with his attack, but he still calls the police every so often to ask if any further information has turned up.

“Some people actually know something about it, but they don’t want to say anything,” Moonias said. “That’s what I’ve been hearing.”

Moonias said his eye condition doesn’t affect him now — he just accepts the situation he is in and moves on with his life.

“I was into computers before the incident happened,” Moonias said. “I’m looking for work in the same field again, or I might try administration.”

Moonias feels his family has been affected more than he was by the loss of his left eye.

“They don’t really see me doing things like the way I used to do before, mainly workwise,” Moonias said. “It’s hard to find work. One of my boys told me that he sees quite a few people judge me by what happened to me.”

Although he lost his eye, Moonias feels he is better person now than before the attack.

“I feel like I know more than ever before,” Moonias said.

“You have to accept the things you cannot change and move on.”

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Virtual learning provides an ‘at-home’ education experience Cutting-edge Internet high school is one of the first in the province to offer accreddited courses Crystallee Mouland Special to Wawatay News

Academic opportunities are virtually a click away at Keewaytinook Internet High School.

The cutting edge high school was the first virtual schools to offer accredited high school courses.

At first only Grade 8 courses were offered but 13 years later the school offers a full range of locally developed courses, which apply to grades 9 to 12.

It also offers college and university prep courses and the best part is that students living in isolated, remote communities throughout northern Ontario can access it.

Keewaytinook Internet High School (KIHS) is in partnership with 18 First Nation communities and is always willing to expand its partnerships with communities where there is a need for schooling. The KIHS focus is to ensure students are set up for success and have structured the academics and operations of the school around the word ‘success.’

“We want to make it really difficult for students to not want to succeed,” said principal Darrin Potter. “I say, let’s give them every opportunity to succeed. I always encourage students to try and if they are uncertain about school, they can come back and check out our program again. I really believe we have something for people and we can move students along in their educational journey.”

The school has a multitude of systems and strategies in place to ensure graduation occurs.

The student ratio is one to 12 students for every teacher. Students can work at their own pace with a good support network of coaches, online course applications, tutoring and teachers in the classroom, by video or teleconferencing or by emailing. Educational plans can be based around a person’s needs or goals. Students have the opportunity to access any of KIHS teachers throughout Canada.

“I really believe we have something for people and we can move students along in their educational journey...”

Darrin Potter

Programs are designed to match the students in northern Ontario. “With the small teacher to student ratios, the teacher has a lot of time to work with individual students,” Potter said. “Our programs are geared towards First Nations students and they are developed by our teachers for the community they are working in. It’s developed right in our programs because the community knows what the students respond to better.”

The opportunity for a student to stay in their home community to work and be an active family and community member is the school‘s number one benefit.

“We try to give students an experience within the community with a local teacher. This

will give students cultural and traditional experiences,” said Potter.

There is no cost to a student enrolled with Keewaytinook Internet High School. The accredited courses and academic setting is the same as any registered high school with the Ontario Ministry of Education.

As the school continues to increase its grade offerings and enrolment, more and more students are graduating with their high school diploma and continuing their education. “A lot of our students go on to something like college, university or an apprenticeship,” Potter said.

Students are exposed daily to working in a digital and technical setting. They gain valuable skills from this experience.

Aaron Hardy from Rocky Bay is the main IT support for KIHS and a classroom assistant at Fort William First Nation.

“We try to stay competitive,” he said. “We have at least one computer per student, good videoconferencing, video and photo cameras equipment and iPads with different applications on it for numeric and literacy students.”

The computers have virtual chemistry labs, photo and video editing and conferencing.

Online platforms like Breeze and Illuminate are used by the school to host virtual courses.

With the accessibility, number of students able to attend a virtual class, wider variety of instructor opportunities and cost effective benefits, KIHS is looking forward to the new Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) northwestern Ontario broadband expansion initiative to bring high speed Internet to

more northern Ontario communities.

“We are trying to go wireless in every community to expand the Internet,” Hardy said.

“Hopefully by the time spring comes next year, most communities will be on NAN fibre-optic Internet, instead of the satellite Internet.”

“Typically if a student reaches age 13 in northern communities they would need to move to Thunder Bay or

Sioux Lookout or wherever for high school. Our Internet program provides the opportunity and the ability for students to remain at home. The focus of the program is to stay at home to get their education and give them that benefit,” Potter said.

The virtual or physical classroom support and experience at schools like the Fort William First Nation campus offers a different experience than the traditional classroom setting.

Students are able to work independently, student interaction occurs in an effective and engaging way; classes can be recorded and viewed at a later time, and they have the benefit of working from home with flexible scheduling.

KIHS is taking every step to ensure remote communities’ students are able to obtain the same educational prospects as urban communities.

Internet high school helps mature students Crystallee Mouland Special to Wawatay News

Jacob Boucher is a Fort William First Nation member and is continuing the road to success by entering into his first year at Lakehead University.

Boucher is a recent graduate of the Keewaytinook Internet High School (KIHS) at Fort William First Nation. The 26-yearold was two credits away from graduating high school before deciding to take a break.

After being out of high school for a few years, Jacob realized it would benefit him to complete his Grade 12 high school diploma.

“I was not getting anywhere in life,” he said. “It was hard to find a job with no Grade 12. I just wanted to get it done and do something with my life.”

So he took action and KIHS was a perfect fit.

“It was close to where I was living and it seemed like an easy atmosphere. The school was quiet. There weren’t a lot of students and we were actually

Jacob Boucher studies often and is now moving on to pursue a post-secondary education. able to get help. If the teacher at school was not available, we were able to phone teachers throughout Canada to get help,” he said.

Boucher explained that the school was fun. He was able to meet a lot of new people. The

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His first post-secondary interest was an architectural college program before deciding to attend university. His decision to attend university came from excelling in his college preparation English courses. He wants to focus his studies in psychology because “I like listening to people. I always wondered why people think and talk the way they do. I am just interested in it.”

To help Jacob obtain his diploma he said he would study alone and study often.

He focused on school and he changed some of his past activities and learned to create art to help him relax. He said the atmosphere at the college and cultural centre was positive and supportive.

Jacobs’s advice for people who have not completed high school is ‘its never too late.’

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Aboriginal centre planned for LU Students encouraged to follow seven teachings Rick Garrick Wawatay News

Lakehead University has plans to build a new Kendaasiwin Centre on the site of the oldest residence building on campus.

“The Ogimaawin Aboriginal Management Council has a dream ... and that is to build a special building called the Kendaasiwin Centre,” said LU president and vice-chancellor Brian Stevenson during the LU Aboriginal Student Orientation on Sept. 11. “That will be a building for Aboriginal people and it will be a building for non-Aboriginal people to learn about our history, culture, language, art and to hold our archives of our culture in the north, particularly the archives of all the First Nations and Métis communities.”

Stevenson encouraged First Nations, Métis and Inuit people to attend LU, noting they are the future of the province and country.

“When you come to Lakehead University, you come to a place where you are not only welcome, you are vital to us and to our life,” Stevenson said.

“We have over 1,200 self-identified Aboriginal students — that is one of the highest rates in the country. But it’s not enough. I want more and more Aboriginal students to come.”

Stevenson said he wants Aboriginal students to feel comfortable while at LU. “You start a journey with Lakehead today, and it is a journey that will last a lifetime, not only the next four years or six years,” Stevenson said.

“You are going to be leaders, you are going to be mentors, you are going to show the way to a whole generation of young children.”

Stevenson noted that Aboriginal people have the highest growth rate in the country.

“They need to be sitting where you are sitting in five years and 10 years and 20 years and 30 years,” Stevenson said. “It’s only going to happen if we do it together.”

Mishkeegogamang’s Rachel Mishenene, a Nanabijou Aboriginal Graduate Enhancement role model with teaching experience in elementary, secondary and post-secondary levels, also encouraged students to pursue their education goals. She has already earned a diploma in Aboriginal Law and Advocacy, a bachelor of arts and a masters in education and is working towards a doctorate in education.

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Rachel Mishenene, a role model with teaching experience in elementary, secondary and postsecondary levels, encouraged other students to pursue their education goals. work. But it’s going to be a lot of good work, work that will help you on your journey.”

Mishenene also encouraged students to follow the seven teachings during their post-secondary education years.

“Live with love; love yourself and take care of your body, mind and spirit,” Mishenene said.

“Live with courage. When you feel that times are tough and you are afraid, look within yourself and honour your heart by doing the right thing for yourself and for others.”

“Live with wisdom. Know that we are born with gifts and that through these gifts we share, we learn from each other.”

“Live with honesty. Be honest with yourself and know that your true colours that lie within you are yours and that which you make.”

“Live with truth. Learn from your mistakes and from the hardships of others. Be yourself wherever you are and speak the truth that comes from your heart.”

“Live with respect. We are the children of this earth and we are descendants of a strong nation of people. Always do what is good for you, your people and our earth.”

“Live with humility. We are all equal in many ways, but our life’s journeys and gifts are diverse and unique. Share your stories and your gifts with others and know that we are all equal.”

Timmins students Constance Goodwin, Javen Goodwin and George Sackaney Jr. prepare for battle in the laser tent supplied by the Timmins Native Friendship Centre for its annual BBQ.

Timmins BBQ helps students prep for school Crystallee Mouland Special to Wawatay News

What’s the best way to get children and youth excited about returning to school?

The answer, according to the Timmins Native Friendship Centre (TNFC), is to kick off the school year with a family friendly carnival and barbeque, where the community can share in a variety of activities and food and ensuring children have most of the necessary back-to-school supplies they need.

Over 100 registered clients of the TNFC attended the annual barbeque the last week of August.

At the barbeque over 150 backpacks filled with gradeappropriate supplies were given out to youth by the TNFC in partnership with the Cochrane District Social Services and Five Nations Energy.

This year a few high school

students received zippered binders filled with the necessary pens, pencils, paper and supplies.

The program started eight years ago to ensure children and youth were well prepared for the new academic year. In order to receive a backpack a person needs to be a registered client of TNFC. Stephanie Williams a support worker of the TNFC explained the centre tries to help alleviate the cost of families on fixed incomes and who have tight budgets.

“We hold the event to help families and kids go back to school with most of what they need,” she said.

With the grand opening of the new TNFC building, the centre has a lot more space enabling organizers to host a mini barbeque carnival. “This year we had inflatable laser tag, a rock wall and bouncers. We hosted activities for two hours

before we had the barbeque and started handing out the backpacks,” she said.

“The kids were pretty excited. They really enjoyed the little carnival crew that came in.

It was something different than what they were used to and it was really nice to see them smiling and having fun,” she said.

For children settling back into school Williams offered this advice: “Stay in school and stay safe. Attend classes daily and pay attention. Respect your teachers, parents and peers and do your homework.”

Families who would like more support services can register for an age specific program with the TNFC. If a family is an active client they can register to receive a backpack next year and participate in parent support, child bonding, cultural, child nutrition and parenting classes throughout the year.

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Parents prepare for the school year Crystallee Mouland Special to Wawatay News

Back to school is a time when most parents are getting routines, strategies, special needs, academic and social plans and supplies ready to support their children in the new school year.

The Richmond-Saravia, Legarde and Pelletier families are masters at supporting their children during this time but also balancing parenthood and work while completing their own post-secondary education.

Michelle Richmond-Saravia is originally from Pic River First Nation and now resides in Thunder Bay with her husband and three boys Julio, Emerson and Cruz. In 2012, she completed her master thesis of education with a focus on how the land is significant to First Nations youth learning and health.

While parenting for the last seven years and completing grad school, Richmond-Saravia has worked as a sessional lecturer and curriculum writer at Lakehead University and taught at Oshki-Pimache-O-Win Education and Training Institute.

Richmond-Saravia is most excited about enrolling her two eldest children this year which means more of a break for her. “I think this year is going to be exciting because we have our two older children enrolling in grade two and JK,� she said. “I

have another little one at home.

It is a break for me to get organized again. I look forward to them being cared for by a caring school and also engaged in more activities.�

The opportunity for children to learn at school and have some separation from their parents is beneficial for everyone involved, Richmond-Saravia said. However, school should match parents and their children’s learning expectations and a families cultural planning. Choosing the right school to enroll a child in can contribute to a successful lifelong learning opportunity and the school Richmond-Saravia’s boys are attending offer excellent cultural programs and support systems for their family. “You need to trust in the school itself. I know we have made a good decision with the schools we have chosen,� she said. “There are a lot of culturally-appropriate opportunities for our kids to feel mentored by the school and I think it will be a really good opportunity for them.�

Every parent has tips and tricks to help set their children and family up for success during the academic year. And Richmond-Saravia is no different. “Tell your child to ask a trusted adult for support or help at school if they’re having a concern. Teach your children how

to advocate for themselves by giving them proper sentences to use to ask for help at school and ensure they engage with their teachers,� she said. “Encourage children to always be with other children and not to be alone. When you are alone things can happen.

So, stick to a buddy system. Siblings should take care of each other at school when they can.�

It has been Richmond-Saravia’s experience that talking with the school faculty and being present and involved with children at their school sets them up for success. “You need to find tangible ways to get involved in your kids school. And children need parental support to succeed. It’s a different experience for kids in school today. I feel a parent needs to develop a good relationship with their kids and the people they are interacting with,� she said. “If you don’t feel your child is number one at school, it’s time to rethink about where your child is going to school. And you need to have your child in a place where they are in that circle of belonging because that’s really important. You don’t want your child to be in the backrow looking unimportant.

You want your child to shine.

So if that means moving then I totally say, move on.�

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Reena Legarde from Lac des Mille Lacs First Nation and her husband Mel Legarde from Long Lake #58, currently live in Thunder Bay and are active in their child Seth’s education. husband Mel Legarde from Long Lake #58, currently live in Thunder Bay and are active in their child’s education. They believe in building a healthy foundation for a child is the first step in a child’s education.

Legarde is a reintegration counselor in youth justice and her education is in the child and youth field. She is a full time working mom, traditional dancer and involved community member. She works hard at providing an exceptional cultural education foundation for her son and setting cultural

examples for other families. “Have communication with teachers,� she said. “If there are any concerns it’s good to address them. Children can tend to go under the radar if they are struggling.� “Make sure the proper resources are there for your children. I think all children have that right. Parents don’t always recognize they have a voice. They can advocate to make sure they are being heard in the school system.�

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Legrade who is currently a student at Confederation College and works part time said, “It is important for dad’s to get involved with their kids at all times with everything. You want to make sure children are developing normally and they are interacting really nicely with other kids.�

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Indigenous film festival features films on Attawapiskat, Nibinamik youth Wawatay News staff

The Lesser Blessed The film is a provocative and moving portrait of one man’s journey from adolescence into adulthood. Featuring stunning performances from newcomer Joel Evans, Benjamin Bratt (Law & Order), Kiowa Gordon (The Twilight Saga), and Tamara Podemski (Four Sheets To The Wind).

A documentary on an Attawapiskat youth’s push for equitable funding for education in First Nations communities will open the fifth annual Biindigaate Indigenous Film Festival Sept. 27-29 in Thunder Bay. The film, called Hi-Ho Mistahey!, chronicles the youth-driven initiative called Shannen’s Dream to drive the federal government to make First Nations educational standards on par with the rest of Canada.

“It’s a film about the injustices and unfairness of federal government policies,” said festival director Lenny Carpenter. “Yet it showcases the drive and voice of First Nations youth.”

Directed by the prolific Aboriginal director Alanis Obomsawin, Hi-Ho Mistahey! recently premiered at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival.

Ordinary Woman, Extraordinary Dreams The documentary chronicles Maggie Sofea’s journey to Summer Beaver to reconnect with her family, community, traditions and culture. And she also pays a visit to the site of her accident for the first time. She has spent the last 12 years in a wheelchair after a swimming accident during a family camping trip near Summer Beaver.

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from page 1 made the trek to visit the First Nation territories or communities and had a live glimpse of what’s happening on site,” said former deputy grand chief Mike Metatawabin, one of the commentators involved in the report. “They took the time to see first hand and actually sat down with real life people who provided real life experiences.”

The third recommendation called for journalism schools and media outlets to make an effort to create more opportunities for Aboriginal people to work in media by providing training opportunities, fellowships and jobs as reporters.

“There are a few media outlets that are mandated to have certain Aboriginal reporters, but there are so many media outlets that don’t,” Pierro said.

“By having more job opportunities for Aboriginal people and reporters in the media, I think that we can also try to get the coverage to become more balanced.”

The fourth recommendation called for a broader scope of media coverage of Aboriginal people beyond crisis situation, such as stories on healthcare, education, housing and culture.

Based in Toronto, JHR began operations in 2002 to strengthen independent media in sub-Saharan Africa by building the capacity of local journalists to report ethically and effectively on human rights and good governance issues.

This past June, JHR launched its first media development program in Canada in partnership with Wawatay Native Communications Society in a number of northern Ontario communities. The program focuses on improving non-Aboriginal Canadian’s understanding of Aboriginal issues and creating job opportunities for Aboriginal people in media.

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Remembering Inninimowin is another film related to Attawapiskat. Directed by Jules Koostachin, the documentary depicts the filmmaker’s attempt to re-learn Cree, her first language.

Koostachin attends Cree classes in Toronto before venturing north to her grandmother’s community to discuss the state of the language.

“We’re very excited to show what Aboriginal and indigenous filmmakers are doing out there,” Carpenter said. “There’s a lot of good work being produced, and in different formats. But it’s the stories that matter. It’s our stories.”

This year’s Biindigaate Indigenous Film Festival features more than 30 indigenousmade films, an art show featuring the contemporary and traditional art, and a music concert on Sept. 28.

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“That is something that we feel very strongly would vastly improve the balance of that kind of commentary,” Pulfer said. “It would ensure that rather than just a media episode covering a protest, there is also more articulate commentary coming from those who are frustrated, saying what they want, what they need, why they need it, why it’s valuable and why the rest of Canada needs to take these requests and claims much more seriously.”

The report included four recommendations, including the expansion of journalism school curriculum to include courses that teach effective and ethical reporting on Aboriginal issues and people.

“I think we really have to start from scratch with the journalism schools,” Pierro said.

“This is an ongoing issue, historically there has always been underrepresentation of Aboriginal people in the media, so it’s not something we are going to fix overnight. But I think that by targeting the next generation of journalists in journalism schools, we’re able to encourage them to study Aboriginal history and issues so that when they are reporters they understand what they are covering in the Aboriginal community.”

The second recommendation called for working journalists to foster relationships with Aboriginal people by seeking out new sources for stories and actually visiting the communities they are reporting on.

“Some of the best articles that have been printed have been by the reporters who

Biindigaate will also feature films from not only in northern Ontario, but across Canada and the world.

The festival closes with Millets Back Home, a documentary from Taiwan about the lost tradition of harvesting a grain in a remote village still being practiced by the filmmaker’s grandmother.

“It’s a warm heartfelt film, and I think it will resonate with those in the region who harvest manomin (wild rice),” Carpenter said. “It also deals with a teen who must leave the village so he can go to high school.

So a lot of First Nations people in the city, or even across Canada, can relate to it.”

Midway through the festival, Biindigaate will feature Ordinary Woman, Extraordinary Dreams, a documentary about Maggie Sofea, a Nibinamik youth who was paralyzed after a swimming accident. In the film, Sofea visits her community and returns to the site of her accident for the

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