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NAN talks education with Treaty #3 chiefs Rick Garrick Wawatay News

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Bearskin Lake‘s Sabrina Angeconeb goes up high to hammer a volleyball over the net during an Aboriginal Team Ontario tryout on Nov. 2 at Churchill High School in Thunder Bay for the 2014 North American Indigenous Games. Youth aged 13-19 years old from across northwestern Ontario took part in the tryout.

Nishnawbe Aski Nation recently met with Grand Council Treaty #3 about the federal government’s Proposal for a Bill on First Nations Education.

“There is a major change on the horizon that will affect us all as First Nations and also our education organizations — the status quo will not be an option,” said Deputy Grand Chief Goyce Kakegamic on the second day of Treaty #3’s fall assembly, held Oct. 22-24 in Lac Seul. “Today, as your neighbours from Nishnawbe Aski Nation, we see that we have a very important decision to make. We basically have two options from our perspective: that the changes will be made by us or change will be made for us.”

Kakegamic said many of NAN’s smaller schools will not be able to meet the requirements specified in the federal proposal, which was released on Oct. 22.

“We believe as Nishnawbe Aski Nation that we have an inherent right to educate our children given by the Creator,” Kakegamic said. “And we must never ever forget that, that we have that right as a nation. Any government that signs a treaty, it has to be a nation to a nation, government to government, so we had our governance and education system in place before the invasion.”

Kakegamic said the proposal would eliminate a number of current education programs, such as the First Nation Student Success Program that helps First Nation educators improve school results; the Education Partnerships Program that promotes collaboration between First Nations, provinces, Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada and other stakeholders to improve the success of First Nation elementary and secondary students in First Nation and provincial schools; and the New Paths for Education Program that funds projects and activities to improve the quality of education in

First Nation schools.

“We believe that we are going to have to aggregate, we’re going to have to change how we do business in our schools,” Kakegamic said.

AANDC Minister Bernard Valcourt said the proposal would put in place a system that is accountable to students, and ensures that First Nation students have access, like all Canadians, to a good education.

“Our government firmly believes that all First Nation students across Canada deserve access to a school system that meets provincial and territorial standards, while respecting First Nation culture, language, rights and treaties,” Valcourt said. “First Nation youth represent the fastest growing segment of the population in Canada yet they have one of the lowest graduation rates. This draft legislative proposal is a significant step forward, in the spirit of reconciliation, in pursing our shared goal with First Nations of closing the gaps between First Nations and all Canadians.”

MP Carolyn Bennett, the Liberal Party of Canada critic for Aboriginal Affairs, asked Valcourt why Aboriginal students receive substantially less funding than non-Aboriginal students in the proposal, during an Oct. 24 House of Commons session.

“Mr. Speaker, the government’s First Nations education proposal has received a failing grade from coast to coast to coast,” Bennett said during the session. “First Nations are rightfully frustrated. The proposal ignores the fundamental problem of equitable funding. Instead, it imposes new requirements on them with no new resources. Why does the minister still refuse to deal with the outright discrimination that exists when funding First Nations students?”

Bennett said that more bureaucracy, more paperwork and more power to the minister is not the answer for the two-thirds of First Nation students not completing high school.

See NAN page 16

ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᐅᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᑫᐠ ᒥᓇ ᒋᕑᐃᑎ #3 ᐅᑭᒪᑲᓇᐠ ᑭᐊᓂᒧᑕᒪᑐᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᐡᑭ ᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᑫᐃᐧ ᐅᓇᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂ ᕑᐃᐠ ᑲᕑᐃᐠ ᐊᐧᐊᐧᑌ ᐊᒋᒧᐃᐧᓇᐣ

ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᐅᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᑫᐠ ᓄᑯᒥᑫ ᑲᑭᓇᑭᐡᑲᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᒋᕑᐃᑎ #3 ᐅᑭᒪᑲᓇᐠ ᐁᑭᐊᓂᒧᑕᒪᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᐁᐧᓂ ᑲᓇᑕ ᑭᒋᐅᑭᒪᐣ ᑲᐃᐧᐃᔑᑲᑫᐧ ᐅᓇᑐᓂᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᐅᒋ ᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒋᑫᑕᒪᐃᐧᑕᐧ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓄᐃᐧ ᐱᒧᑕᒪᑯᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ. ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᑯ ᑕᑭᒋᐸᑲᓂᓭ ᐅᐁᐧ ᑲᐃᐧᔑᑲᑫᐧᐊᐣᑕᒋᑫᐨ ᑭᒋᐅᑭᒪ ᑲᑭᓇ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ

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ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᐅᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᑫᐠ ᒥᓇ ᒋᕑᐃᑎ #3 ᐅᑭᒪᑲᓇᐠ ᑭᐊᓂᒧᑕᒪᑐᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᐡᑭ ᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᑫᐃᐧ ᐅᓇᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂ

ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᑭᒋᐅᑭᒪᑲᓀᐢ ᑲᐧᔾᐢ ᑲᑭᑲᒥᐠ, ᓇᐦᐃᐃᐧᓂᐠ, ᐅᑭᐊᓂᒧᑕᐣ ᑲᓇᑕ ᑭᒋᐅᑭᒪ ᓄᑯᒥᑫ ᑲᑭᐸᑭᑎᓇᐠ ᐅᑐᓇᒋᑲᐣ ᑲᐃᐧᑲᑫᐧᐃᓇᑐᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᐃᐧ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᒉᕑᐃᑎ #3 ᐅᑭᒪᑲᓇᐠ ᑲᑭᑕᑲᐧᑭ ᒪᐊᐧᒋᐦᐃᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᐱᔑᑯᑲᐠ.

ᐃᒪ ᐅᒋ ᐸᑭᑭᓂᑲᓂᐠ 1 ᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᒪᒋᑕᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑯᑕᑭᔭᐣ ᐸᐸᒥᓯᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑲᐱᒥᐊᓄᑲᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᒣ ᑫᓂᔑᒥᓄᓭᓂᐠ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᔕᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐠ ᐅᐱᒥ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᐦᐃᑯᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑲᐅᒋᐱᒧᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᑲᒥᑯᐣ ᑲᑕᔑᐃᐡᑯᓄᐦᐃᑕᐧ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐅᐡᑭᒥᑲᓇᑫᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᐱᒥ ᐃᐧᒋᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂ ᑲᐅᒋᐱᒥ ᐸᐸᑭᑎᓂᐨ ᔓᓂᔭ ᒥᓇ ᓇᓇᑲ ᑲᐊᐃᓇᓄᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᒋᒥᓄᓭᑭᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᐦᐃᐁᐧᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐣ. “ᓂᑌᐯᐧᑕᒥᐣ ᑲᔦ ᒋᑭᒪᒪᐃᐧᐊᓄᑲᑕᒪᑭᐸᐣ. ᒋᑭᐊᐣᑕᒋᑫᔭᑭᐸᐣ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ ᑲᑭᐱᔑ ᐱᒧᑐᔭᐠ ᑭᑎᐡᑯᓄᑲᒥᑯᓇᐣ,” ᑲᑭᑲᒥᐠ ᐃᑭᑐ. ᑲᓇᑕ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᒪᒋᑕᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐅᑭᒪ ᐯᕑᓇᐟ ᐸᓫᑲᐧᕑᐟ ᐅᑭᐃᐧᐣᑕᐣ ᐅᐁᐧᓂ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᐃᐧᐃᔑᐅᓇᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᓂᑲᐣ ᒋᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒥᐣᑕᐧ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓂᐠ, ᒥᓇ ᒋᑫᒋᓇᐊᐧᑕᒪᐃᐧᐣᑕᐧ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ

ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓂᐠ ᑫᐃᐧᓇᐊᐧ, ᑐᑲᐣ ᐃᑯ ᑲᑭᓇ ᑲᓀᑎᔭᐣ ᑲᐃᓇᑭᓱᐊᐧᐨ, ᒋᑌᐱᓇᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᒥᓇᐧᔑᓂᐠ ᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᑫᐃᐧᓂ. “ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᒪᐡᑲᐃᐧᑌᐯᐧᑕᐣ ᑲᑭᓇ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓂᐠ ᒥᓯᐁᐧ ᐅᒪ ᑲᓇᑕ ᐊᐦᑭᐠ ᑲᑲᐯᔑᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᓀᐣᑕᑯᓯᐊᐧᐠ ᒋ ᑕ ᔑ ᐃ ᐡ ᑯ ᓄ ᐦ ᐃ ᑕ ᐧ ᑲ ᐱ ᒥ ᓂ ᔕ ᐦ ᐃ ᑲ ᑌ ᓂ ᐠ ᐱᑭᓯᑎᐯᐣᒋᑫᐃᐧ ᐊᐦᑭᐠ ᒥᓇ ᑯᑕᑭᔭᐣ ᑎᐯᐣᒋᑫᐃᐧ ᐊᐦᑭᐣ ᐅᒪ ᑲᓇᑕ ᑲᐃᓇᑌᑭᐣ ᐅᓇᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ, ᐯᑭᐡ ᒋᑭᒋᓀᒋᑲᑌᓂᐠ ᐅᑕᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᑎᓯᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ, ᐅ ᑎ ᔑ ᑭ ᔐ ᐧ ᐃ ᐧ ᓂ ᐊ ᐧ , ᐅᑕᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᐊᔓᑕᒪᑯᐃᐧ ᒪᐡᑲᐃᐧᓯᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ,” ᐸᓫᑲᐧᕑᐟ ᐃᑭᑐ. “ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐠ ᐃᐧᓇᐊᐧ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᑭᓂᐱ ᒥᔑᓄᐊᐧᐠ ᒥᓯᐁᐧ ᐅᒪ ᑲᓇᑕ ᑲᐊᐱᑕᑲᒥᑲᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᔕᑯᐨ ᓇᐊᐧᒋᓄᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᑭᔑᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓄᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ. ᐅᐁᐧ ᑲᑭᐅᓇᓯᓇᐦᐃᑲᑌᐠ ᐅᐡᑭ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑕᐃᔑᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒋᑫᒪᑲᐣ ᒋᐅᒋ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᒪᑲᐠ, ᑲᑲᑫᐧᑌᐱᓂᑲᑌᐠ ᒥᓄᐃᐧᑕᓄᑭᒥᑐᐃᐧᐣ, ᐊᓂᐡ ᐊᒥ ᑕᐱᐡᑯᐨ ᑫᓂᓇᐃᐧᐟ ᐁᔑᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᑕᒪᐠ ᑲᐃᓀᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐯᔑᑲᐧᐣ

ᒋᔑᒥᓄᓭᐊᐧᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ ᑐᑲᐣ ᐃᑭᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᓀᑎᔭᐣ ᑲᐃᓇᑭᓱᐊᐧᐨ.” ᐊᓄᑭᓇᑲᐣ ᐅᑭᒪᐅᓂ ᑫᕑᐅᓫᐃᐣ ᐯᓂᐟ, ᓫᐃᐳᕑᐊᓫ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑲᓇᑕ ᑲᐊᓄᑭᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ, ᐅᑭᑲᑫᐧᒋᒪᐣ ᐸᓫᑲᐧᕑᑐᐣ ᐊᐣᑕᐡᐃᐧᐣ ᐁᐅᐣᒋᐃᑭᑐᒪᑲᐠ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓂᐠ ᐃᐧᓇᐊᐧ ᓇᐱᐨ ᐸᐣᑭ ᔓᓂᔭᐣ ᒋᒥᓂᑕᐧ ᐊᐱᐨ ᐃᐧᐣ ᑯᑕᑭᔭᐠ ᑲᐃᓇᑲᓀᓯᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᑲᐃᓇᓯᓇᐦᐃᑲᑌᐠ ᑲᐃᐧᐅᓇᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐅ ᐡ ᑭ ᐅ ᓇ ᑯ ᓂ ᑫ ᐃ ᐧ ᓂ ᐠ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᑲᑭᐊᓂᒧᒋᑲᑌᑭᐸᐣ ᐅᐱᒪᐊᒧᐧᐃᐱᓯᑦ 24 ᑲᐃᓇᑭᓱᐨ ᐃᒪ ᑭᒋᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐠ. “ᑭᐣ ᑲᐊᔭᒥᔭᐣ, ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᐃᐧᐃᔑᐅᓇᑕᒪᑫᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓄᐃᐧ ᐱᒧᑕᒪᑯᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᑭᐊᓇᐁᐧᐣᒋᑲᑌ ᒥᓯᐁᐧ ᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃ ᑲᐊᐱᑕᑲᒥᑲᐠ ᑲᓇᑕ ᐊᐦᑭᐠ,” ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᐯᓂᐟ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᑲᑭᐅᑲᐧᐱᐦᐃᑎᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑭᒪᐠ. “ᑲᐃᐧᓂᐣ ᑲᐧᐣᑕ ᑫᑯᓂ ᑲᐅᐣᒋ ᐊᐧᐊᐧᓀᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ. ᐅᑭᒪᐅᐣ ᑲᐃᐧᐃᔑᐅᓇᒋᑫᐨ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᐱᓯᐢᑫᑕᓯᐣ ᒋᒪᒋᓴᐦᐃᐁᐧᒪᑲᓂᐠ ᐁᑲ ᒪᔭᑦ ᒋᔑᒥᓂᑕᐧ ᔓᓂᔭᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᑕᑯᐨ ᐁᑲᑫᐧᑐᑕᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐣ

ᐅᐡᑭ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐁᓂᑲᑫᐧ ᐅᓇᑕᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᑫᐱᒥᓂᔕᐦᐊᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑲᐧ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᓇᑫ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ ᐊᐣᑎ ᑫᓂᔑᐱᒥᐃᐧᒋᐦᐊᐨ ᒋᔑᐊᔓᑕᒪᐊᐧᐨ. ᑫᑯᓀᐣ ᑭᔭᐱᐨ ᐁᐅᐣᒋᑐᑕᐠ ᑭᒋᐅᑭᒪ ᐁᑲ ᓇᐣᑕ ᐁᐃᐧᐃᔑᑲᑫᐧ ᒪᒥᓄᐱᑕᒪᑫᐨ ᑲᐱᒥ ᒪᒋᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒥᐣᑕᐧ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓂᐠ ᐁᑲ ᐃᑲᐧ ᑫᐃᔑᑌᐱᓭᐊᐧᐨ ᔓᓂᔭᐃᐧ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐃᓀᑫ?” ᐯᓂᐟ ᑭᔭᐱᐨ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᒣ ᐊᓇᑭ ᑕᑲᐧᑭᐣ ᐅᑭᒪᐅᓂ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ, ᐊᐊᐧᔑᒣ ᐊᓇᑭᒪᓯᓇᐦᐃᑲᓂᐊᐧᐠ, ᒥᓇ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᒣ ᐊᓇᑭᐅᑲᑫᐧ ᒪᐡᑭᐃᐧᓯᐃᐧᓂᐨ ᑭᒋᐅᑭᒪ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᒪ ᑕᑭᐅᐣᒋᒪᑲᓯᓄᐣ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᒣ ᐊᐱᑕ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓂᐠ ᐁᑲ ᑲᑭ ᑭᔑᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓄᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ. “ᑲᐧᓱᕑᐱᑎᑊ ᐅᑭᒪᐠ ᐃᐧᓇᐊᐧ ᑕᑭᑲᑫᐧᔕᑯᑎᓂᑫᐸᓂᐠ ᒋᑭᐱᑎᓇᒧᐊᐨ ᐅᐁᐧᓂ ᐁᑲ ᑲᒥᓇᐧᔑᓂᐠ ᑫᓂᒪᒋᑐᒋᑫᒪᑲᓂᐠ ᐅᓇᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂ, ᐁᑲᐧ ᑕᐡ ᒋ ᑭ ᐅ ᓇ ᐱ ᐦ ᐃ ᐁ ᐧ ᐊ ᐧ ᐸ ᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᑕᓇᐱᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒋᐊᐧᐁᐧᓇᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᑫᑭᐊᓄᑭᐊᐧᑫᐊᐧᐨ, ᒋᐅᓇᐸᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᒥᓂᑯᐠ ᔓᓂᔭ ᑫᐃᔑᐱᒥ ᐸᐸᑭᑎᓂᐨ

ᑫᐱᒥᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᑯᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐃᐧᓇᐊᐧ ᒋᐱᒧᑕᒪᓱᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓄᐃᐧ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ,” ᐃᑭᑐ ᐯᓂᐟ. ᐊ ᓂ ᔑ ᓂ ᓂ ᐃ ᐧ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓂᐠ ᐁᒪᒪᐊᐧᓄᑲᓂᑕᐧ: ᑲᑭᐅᓇᓯᓇᐦᐃᑲᑌ ᑫᐃᓇᑌᐠ ᐅᐡᑭ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᐃᐧ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑫᐊᐸᒋᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᒥᔑᐣ ᑭᐊᒋᑲᑌᐊᐧᐣ ᑫᑭᐅᐣᒋᐅᑕᐱᓇᒧᐊᐧᐨ, ᑐᑲᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᒋᒪᒪᐊᐧᓄᑲᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᒋᐅᓇᓴᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑫᐱᒥ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᐃᐧ ᓂᑲᓂᐡᑭᑫᑕᒪᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᓇᓇᑲ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᐃᐧ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑫᒥᓂᑕᐧ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓂᐠ ᒥᓇ ᑫᐊᐸᑕᑭᐣ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᑲᒥᑯᐣ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐃᑭᑐᒪᑲᐣ ᐁᐃᐧᐃᓇᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐃᑭᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᑲᐅᓇᑐᓇᐊᐧ ᒋᓇᑯᒥᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᐃᐧ ᐅᑕᐱᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑲᐸᐸᒥᓯᐊᐧᐨ ᒋᑕᔑᐃᐡᑯᓄᐦᐃᑕᐧ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓂᐠ ᐊᑲᐧᒋᐠ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐠ ᓇᐣᑕ ᒥᓇ ᒋᐱᒧᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐱᐣᒋᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐠ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᑲᒥᑯᓂ ᒥᓇ ᒋᐅᓇᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᒋᑎᐱᓇᐁᐧ ᐱᒧᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᐃᐧᓂ, ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᐱᐣ ᐅᐁᐧ ᑲᐃᐧᐊᐸᑕᐠ ᐊᓇᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᒪ ᐅᑲᐅᐣᒋ ᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒥᑯᓇᐊᐧᓯᐣ. ᑲᑲᓇᑕ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐣ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᑭᐊᔭᑭᓀ ᑲᑲᑫᐧᒋᒥᐁᐧ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᒣ 600 ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒥᓯᐁᐧ ᑲᓇᑕ ᒥᓇ ᑯᑕᑭᔭᐠ ᑲᐅᒋᐸᐸᒥᓯᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᐊᐃᓇᓀᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᑭᓇᓇᑭᐡᑲᑎᓇᓂᐊᐧᑭᐸᐣ, ᐊᐊᐧᔑᒣ 54 ᒪᒪᑕᐃᐧᐱᐊᐧᐱᑯᐠ ᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᒪᐊᐧᒋᐦᐃᑎᓇᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᑲᑭᑕᑎᐸᒋᒧᑕᑎᓇᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐁᑭᐊᐧᐃᐧᐣᑕᒪᑲᓄᐊᐧᐠ ᒪᓯᓇᑌᓯᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒪᒋᑭᑐᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐃᒪ ᐱᐊᐧᐱᑯᐠ ᑲᑭᐊᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᑲᑫᐧᒋᒥᐁᐧᐃᐧᓇᐣ 631 ᐅᑭᐸᑭᑎᓇᓇᐊᐧ ᐅᓇᑫᐧᐁᐧᔑᒥᐁᐧᐃᓂᐊᐧ. ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᑭᒋᐅᑭᒪᑲᐣ ᐢᑕᐣ ᐯᕑᑎ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐊᕑᐅᑲᐧ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯᐠ ᑭᒋᐅᑭᒪᑲᐣ ᑲᐧᕑᐟ ᐱᑐᕑᐢ, ᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᐅᐣᒋ ᐱᒧᑐᐨ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᐃᐧ ᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐅᑭᒪᑲᓇᐠ ᑲᒪᒪᐃᐧᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᐃᔑᐃᐧᒋᑕᐧᐨ ᑲᐊᐱᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᐃᐧ ᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂ, ᐅᑭᐃᔑᓂᑲᑕᓇᐊᐧ ᐅᐁᐧᓂ ᑲᐃᐧᑲᑫᐧ ᐃᓇᒋᑫᓂᐨ ᑭᒋᐅᑭᒪᐣ ᐊᐣᒋᑯ ᐊᐱᐣ ᑕᐅᐣᒋ ᐊᔐᓭᐊᐧᐠ ᑫᓄᒋ ᐱᑯᐱᓂᑯᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ. “ᐊᔕ ᓂᑭᐸᑭᑎᓇᒥᓇᐸᐣ ᐊᓂᐣ ᑲᐃᔑᓇᑕᐁᐧᐣᑕᒪᐠ ᒋᔑᓇᑲᐧᐠ ᓂᐱᒥᑲᑫᐧᒋᒥᑯᐃᐧᓂᓇᐣ ᓇᐊᐧᐨ ᑫᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᓇᐦᐃᐡᑲᑯᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᒋᓂᐅᓇᑕᒪᑯᔭᑭᐸᐣ ᒋᓇᐦᐃᓭᐠ

ᐁᑲ ᐃᐧᑲ ᑲᑌᐱᓭᐨ ᔓᓂᔭ ᑫᐱᒥᐊᓄᑭᐊᐧᑫᔭᐠ ᐁᓂᒪᐧᔦ ᑭᔑᐅᓇᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑐᓇᒋᑲᓂᐊᐧ, ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᑲᐯᐦᐃ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᑲᐧ ᒋᑭᐱᐅᐣᒋ ᐱᓯᐢᑭᑕᑯᔭᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐱᓯᐣᑕᑯᔭᐠ ᑭᑎᓯᓭᐃᐧᓂᓇᐣ,” ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᐯᕑᑎ. “ᒥᐢᑕᐦᐃ ᐅᑭᒋᔑᐦᐃᑯᓇᐊᐧ ᐊᐣᒋᑯ ᐊᐱᐣ ᑲᑭᐸᑭᑎᓂᑲᑌᓂᐠ ᐃᐁᐧᓂ ᐅᓇᒋᑲᓂ, ᐁᑲᐧ ᔕᑯᐨ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᒣ ᐅᒪᐡᑲᐁᐧᐣᑕᓇᐊᐧ ᒋᑲᑫᐧᓇᑲᓇᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑲ ᒋᔕᐳᓂᑲᑌᓂᐠ ᐊᐱ ᒉᐣᐁᐧᕑᐃ ᐱᓯᑦ 2014 ᐊᐦᑭᐊᐧᓂᐠ ᐁᐃᐧᐅᐣᒋ ᑕᑭᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᐊᓱᐡᑲᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᓀᑎᔭᐣ ᑲᐃᓇᑭᓱᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᓂᓯᑕᐃᐧᓇᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᑎᐯᓂᒥᐁᐧᐃᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑭᐸᑯᐡᑭᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᒪ ᐊᐦᑭᐠ ᒋᑭᐳᓂᒋᑲᑌᑭᐸᐣ.” ᑲᓇᑕ ᑭᒋᐅᑭᒪ ᑕᐱᐦᐅ ᒋᐱᓇᓇᑫᐧᐁᐧᔑᒋᑲᑌᓂᐠ ᐊᓂᐣ ᑫᐃᔑᓂᑲᑕᒧᐊᐧᑫᐧᐣ ᐅᐁᐧᓂ ᐅᑐᓇᒋᑲᐣ ᐊᓂᐅᐡᑭᓭᓂᐠ ᒉᐣᐁᐧᕑᐃ ᐱᓯᑦ 2014. “ᐊᔕ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᐱᑭ ᐸᔭᑌᐃᐧᐣᑕᓇᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᑲ ᐃ ᔑ ᐊ ᐧ ᐸ ᑕ ᒧ ᐊ ᐧ ᐨ ᑲᑕᓀᑕᒥᐦᐃᑯᐊᐧᐨ ᑭᒋᐅᑭᒪᐣ ᑲᐃᐧᐃᔑᐅᓇᒋᑫᓂᐨ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᑲᐃᓀᑕᑯᓯᐸᐣ ᒋᑭᐃᐧᒋᑐᐸᐣ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓄᐃᐧ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᐃᐧᐣ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂ,” ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᑲᓇᑕ ᑭᒋᐅᑭᒪᑲᐣ ᔕᐧᐣ ᐊᐟᓫᐃᐅ. “ᐊᔕ ᑲᔦ ᓂᑭᐱᑲᑲᓄᑕᒥᐣ ᑫᑯᓀᐣ ᐃᐁᐧ ᑲᑭᐱᓇᓇᑕᐁᐧᐣᑕᒪᐠ: ᒋᓂᑲᓂ ᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒋᑲᑌᓂᐠ ᐅᑌᐸᑯᑕᑯᓯᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᒥᓇ ᑫᐃᐧᓇᐊᐧ ᑫᓄᒋ ᑲᐡᑭᐦᐅᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᒋᐱᒧᑕᒪᓱᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᐃᐧ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂ. ᐃᓀᑕᑯᓯᐊᐧᐠ ᑭᑕᐊᐧᔑᔑᒥᓇᓂᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓂᐠ ᒋᐊᔭᐊᐧᐨ ᒋᒥᓇᐧᔑᓂᐠ ᑫᑕᔑᐃᐡᑯᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᒥᓇ ᒋᒥᓇᐧᔑᓂᐠ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓄᑲᒥᑯᐊᐧ ᐯᑭᐡ ᑲᔦ ᑲᐯᐦᐃ ᒋᐱᒥ ᑌᐱᒋᓭᓂᐨ ᔓᓂᔭᐣ ᒋᐱᒥᐊᓄᑲᑌᓂᐠ ᑲᓇᓄᑌᓭᓂᐠ ᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᑫᐃᐧ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ ᐊᔑᐨ ᐃᒪ ᒋᐅᒋ ᐃᐧᒋᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᒪᐡᑲᐃᐧᐱᒧᓂᑎᓱᒪᑲᑭᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒋᐅᒋ ᐅᓇᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᐃᓇᐣ ᑫ ᐱ ᒥ ᑎ ᐸ ᐸ ᒋ ᑫ ᒪ ᑲ ᑭ ᐣ ᑭᑕᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᑎᓯᐃᐧᓂᓇᓂᐠ ᒥᓇ ᑭᑎᔑᑭᔐᐧᐃᐧᓂᓇᓂᐠ. ᐅᐁᐧ ᐃᓇᓄᑭᐃᐧᐣ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐅ ᑭ ᒋ ᓀ ᑕ ᒥ ᐦ ᐃ ᑯ ᓇ ᐊ ᐧ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᒥᓇ ᓂᑲᓀᑕᑲᐧᐣ ᐅᐁᐧ ᒋᒪᑕᓄᑲᑌᐠ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᓇᑕ ᑭᒋᐅᑭᒪ ᓇᑕᐁᐧᐣᑕᑯᓯ ᑲᐧᔭᐠ ᒋᔑᐱᒥᐃᐧᑕᒪᑫᐨ ᐅᑕᓄᑭᐃᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᔐᒪᐠ ᒋᔭᓂᐃᐧᑕᓄᑭᒥᑯᔭᐠ ᑲᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧᔭᐠ. ᑲᐧᔭᐠ ᒋᑲᑫᐧᑐᑕᒪᐠ, ᓄᑯᑦ ᐃᑯ.”

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Lakehead University teepee slashed at ceremonial grounds

Rick Garrick/Wawatay News

Lakehead University’s Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux is questioning the motivation behind the recent slashing of a teepee on the university’s ceremonial grounds in Thunder Bay.

Rick Garrick Wawatay News

The motivation behind the recent slashing of a teepee at Lakehead University’s ceremonial grounds is being questioned

by Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux, the university’s vice-provost Aboriginal Initiatives.

“It is a very big disappointment and nobody expected that,” said Wesley-Esquimaux, a Chippewa of Georgina Island band member who signed

on with the university this past July. “Of course, the question to me was, do you think it was racially motivated? All I can say to that is it’s a teepee.

It’s one of those things that is very closely associated with the Native community, no matter where you are in Canada. But I would prefer to think otherwise.”

Thunder Bay Police are currently investigating the incident, noting a sharp object was used to cut a number of vertical slits on the backside of the teepee.

A Thunder Bay Police press release said it was unknown when the damage was inflicted, but anyone with information on the incident is asked to call police at 684-1200 or Crimestoppers at 623-8477 or to submit a web tip at www.tipsubmit.com.

Wesley-Esquimaux has also been subjected to three other disturbing incidents since taking on her new position at the university: the stoning of her car in August and two eggings

of her home in September and July.

“About four weeks after we moved in the house was egged for the first time,” WesleyEsquimaux said. “It was done at night because I remember we were reading and it was dark.

We saw that in the morning and thought, well, OK, (it was) kids roaming around the neighbourhood.”

Wesley-Esquimaux and her husband, who live in a Thunder Bay suburb, cleaned up the mess the next day and forgot about the incident. But then her car was stoned about a month later, to the tune of about $1,500 in damages to the door.

“They threw a large rock at my car during a mid-afternoon,” Wesley-Esquimaux said.

“Steve washed the cars and they were sitting on the driveway.

About one o’clock in the afternoon he went to the market, but when he came back around three there was a rock on the driveway.”

Wesley-Esquimaux’s first

reaction to the incidents was disbelief.

“That’s never happened to me before, anywhere,” Wesley-Esquimaux said. “And I’ve lived in a lot of places.”

Wesley-Esquimaux ran for federal parliament in the York-Simcoe riding in southern Ontario for the Liberal Party of Canada during the last federal election, she was previously an assistant professor at the University of Toronto and is a former advisory member of the Mental Health Commission of Canada.

“There’s two questions: is this about racial divisions or social exclusion?” WesleyEsquimaux said. “Or is it about kids who have too much time and not enough supervision?”

Wesley-Esquimaux feels it is important to be conciliatory during these types of incidents as opposed to being angry and just pushing people further apart.

“We need to do something to bring those people together, showing them we are not so dif-

ferent,” Wesley-Esquimaux said.

“We want healthy children, we want education, we want our families to be well, we want the same things as other human beings.”

Wesley-Esquimaux said “a lot of people” in Thunder Bay are realizing a conversation needs to take place in the community.

“Here’s an opportunity for us to actually get involved and go beyond the norm and actually start to speak to each other about what we might do differently,” Wesley-Esquimaux said.

Wesley-Esquimaux said a Thunder Bay resident offered to donate a teepee to the university to replace the slashed teepee after hearing about the incident, but her staff are still planning to look into repairs for the slashed teepee.

“If it’s possible, then next spring we will hold a community feast and have all of Lakehead or all of Thunder Bay invited to come and actually paint the teepee so we have a coming together.”

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Five Keewaytinook Okimakanak communities and AECOM, a Fortune 500 company, have joined the Wataynikaneyap Power partnership group to help develop a new transmission line to service remote First Nation communities.

“Our communities require a reliable power source to be able to participate in economic development opportunities taking place in the region,” said Peter Campbell, KO’s executive director. “We look forward to benefiting from this very important infrastructure project – now and into the future.”

Deer Lake, Keewaywin, McDowell Lake, North Spirit Lake and Poplar Hill joined the partnership, which includes 13 other First Nation communities and Goldcorp, on Oct. 8 during a signing ceremony in Thunder Bay. “We are pleased to welcome the five KO communities, who joined our company today,” said Margaret Kenequanash, board chair of Wataynikaneyap Power. “Our communities see the merit of getting off diesel and having a reliable source of energy to enable community growth and to be able to participate in the economic opportunities throughout the region.

We look forward to working with all of the communities.”

AECOM, working in association with PowerTel and Deutsche Bank, signed a memorandum of understanding on Oct. 17 to help build the transmission line by providing design, construction and finan-

cial services for the project.

“AECOM and our project partners share Wataynikaneyap Power’s vision to bring grid transmission connections to other remote areas in the region,” said Damien Tholomier, AECOM’s regional energy business line leader in Canada.

“We are excited that this work will improve residents’ quality of life while creating infrastructure that meets the highest technical and professional standards.”

Wataynikaneyap Power is planning to complete a new transmission line to Pickle Lake, subject to approval by provincial authorities. The line will eventually be connected to the 15 remote First Nations communities that are currently serviced by diesel generation.

“We view it as one project, broken into two phases,” Kenequanash said. “Phase one is connecting up to Pickle Lake — the in-service date for that is targetted as 2015. (For) connection to the remotes, our target date is 2017.”

Kenequanash said the project is currently on schedule.

“Wataynikaneyap is going to be securing a transmission partner who will build the line,” Kenequanash said.

The Ontario Power Authority determined the cost of diesel generation in remote communities is three to 10 times more than the average cost of power in Ontario. As well, the use of diesel generation rather than transmission power results in significant health, safety, environmental, social development and economic impacts.

“The projection is that it will

be very costly in the future if we continue with the status quo,” Kenequanash said. “Most of our communities are already on load restrictions, so they can’t connect their new housing and there are a number of other factors, with winter road issues and climate change, that are really preventing our communities from being able to access different business opportunities or economic development opportunities.”

Kenequanash said the communities are developing the Wataynikaneyap Power project to have ownership and control of the transmission line.

“It’s part of developing capacity at the community level,” Kenequanash said. “If we are going to make headway in terms of how we develop our governance and financial structures as First Nations people, we have to start developing these initiatives with the intent of owning them. How else are we going to develop future opportunities for the next generation?”

Kenequanash emphasized that for any development to happen in the north, there has to be mutual engagement and support.

The Wataynikaneyap Power 230 kilovolt power transmission line project was first announced in December 2011.

“My community can no longer afford the cost of expensive diesel power,” said Wunnumin Lake Chief Rod Winnepetonga at the time. “Together our communities must move quickly to bring transmission line connectivity.”

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The traditional protocols employed during Grand Council Treaty #3’s chief assemblies will no longer be fully funded by the federal government due to funding cutbacks.

“That’s been time immemorial, but they’re not going to destroy our culture,” said Treaty #3 Ogichidaa Warren White during the Treaty #3 Chiefs Fall Assembly, held Oct. 22-24 in Lac Seul.

“We’re going to keep it up and the chiefs have endorsed and supported some funding to keep them in our chiefs’ circle.”

White said the traditional protocols include “ceremonies through our drums and our eagle staffs and our Elders,” which are one of the fundamental aspects of Treaty #3.

“We were just told two days ago about what our funding limits are going to be, what was cut,” White said. “There was a lot of cuts — 50 per cent in a lot of the areas they fund. But as you can see, the chiefs are still behind the Anishinabe nation and the Ogichidaa’s political office. We will come through; we will work together and support one another and also support the nation.”

White plans to consider some of the chiefs’ recommendations,

including charging companies and government officials for meetings, suggested during the assembly to provide funds for the organization.

“That’s a difficult decision, but I’m in demand all over the place,” White said. “Now that there is some guideline or direction we must take, we will do it.”

White said the chiefs are “adamant” that they want to keep the Treaty #3 political office operating to protect and preserve their treaty rights.

“I believe they are trying to silence the political movement of our national leaders, our regional chiefs and also our grand chiefs,” White said.

When asked for information, an Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada official referred to a September 2012 press release that contained a quote from the former minister.

The press release stated that Regional Aboriginal Representative Organizations will either have funding reduced by 10 per cent or have a ceiling up to $500,000 applied to their core funding. Reductions are based on current 20122013 funding levels. Treaty #3’s current core funding is $245,331 and its 2014/2015 funding will be $220,798, according to an AANDC backgrounder.

AANDC also indicated there would also be gradual reductions in the amount available for proposal-based project funding.

Lac Seul Chief Clifford Bull said the federal government funding cutbacks indicate it is important for all First Nation provincial territorial organizations to become more self-sustaining rather than relying on governments.

“We need to be selfsustaining, self-sufficient at our political offices,” Bull said. “If someone wants to meet with the grand chief, the government or whoever, his expenses (should be) paid for by the person who wants to meet him.”

Bull said it is important to keep meeting and negotiating with governments.

The chiefs also recommended that Treaty #3 should lobby the World Trade Organization and the United Nations.

“We signed a treaty to share and live in peace and harmony and share the resources,” White said. “The time has to come when we have to stand up.”

Attended by 22 of the 28 Treaty #3 chiefs, the assembly was held in the Lac Seul Events Centre, which was officially opened this past August.

“Every community in Treaty #3 should have a building like this,” White said.

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n October, the bridge from Thunder Bay to Fort William First Nation was set on fire, igniting some ill-thought posts on Twitter from local youth. The “tweets” about the bridge being burned did not go unnoticed, and a blogger posted screencaps of the tweets to an essay about Canada’s racism epidemic.

The essay caused a lot of debate from city residents via Facebook on whether the tweets were or were not racist.

Racism is definitely a subject people aren’t scared of voicing their opinions about, especially online. I sometimes avoid the comment section of any story online relating to First Nations because I know nothing good can be found there.

But unlike hurtful remarks mostly hidden behind screen names, the tweets and comments made relating to the bridge were coming from people in Thunder Bay – people you know, people you grew up with, people you go to school or work with.

The original tweeters from the essay have since deleted or locked their Twitter accounts after the initial backlash from the public.

Lesson learned? Maybe.

Maybe not.

It’s really up to those tweeters to decide how they want to portray themselves. Besides, they are young and probably naive as to the power their tweets can have on social media.

But what of those older folk who are unaware of the power they have as leaders?

In early November, two kids from Fort William First Nation were at their school discussing their food, and a high-ranking school official asked them “did you buy that before or after you burned the bridge down?”

It was only after the kids complained to the guidance counsellor about the hurtful question that the official apologized.

She said she “just wanted to get to know them better.”

How do you get to know anyone better when you already have ideas on who they are based on their race?

How do the children in the school get to know each other better, and respect each other, when they see a high-ranking school official ask such a stupid question to their peers based on their race?

Maybe those children will see that official, who is in a position of power, treating their peers badly based on their race and think, “Hey, it’s probably okay for me to do it, too.”

There is this activity that

was created by an elementary school teacher in Iowa named Jane Elliot in the late 1960s called the Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Exercise. The exercise was aired on PBS in a documentary called Eye of the Storm. Elliot devised the exercise as a way to teach her Grade 3 students about discrimination and prejudice after Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. Being in a town where the population was made up of white people, there was only one way she could think of to really show children what discrimination and prejudice was.

Elliot divided the classroom into two groups consisting of students with blue eyes and students with brown eyes.

The students with brown eyes were given collars to wear to visually set them apart from their peers. She, a person in a position of power as their teacher, then told them that the blue-eyed students were better, and they were smarter than the brown-eyed ones. In a matter of minutes, the students came to believe this as truth after being told so by their teacher.

Suddenly, children with different coloured eyes were no longer friends.

Suddenly the brown-eyed students with the collars became withdrawn, they lost confidence and did not do as well with their studies that day as they normally did.

On the second day of the exercise, the roles were reversed and it was the blue-eyed children who had to wear the collars. Once Elliot informed the brown-eyed students that they were now better and smarter than the blue-eyed students, the blue-eyed students began exhibiting the same withdrawn behaviour the brown-eyed ones had the day before.

She questioned why the brown-eyed students were doing much better in their studies today than yesterday, and they proudly told her it was because all they could think about yesterday was the collar around their necks.

At the end of the day, Elliot discussed the issue of discrimination based on appearances with the children, and they all agreed it was wrong to judge a person based on their skin colour. She then allowed the children to remove their collars and throw them in the garbage, which they happily did.

Elliot then asked her students if they would ever judge a person based on their skin colour again, to which they replied “no!”

I think it would be beneficial if the official from the school in Thunder Bay watched the Eye of the Storm documentary.

It would be beneficial for a person like her to know what its like to walk in those students’ moccasins.

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The First Snow Xavier Kataquapit UNDER THE NORTHERN SKY

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am always thrilled at the sight of the first snowfall.

A few days ago I awoke to my day and was pleasantly surprised to see outside my window that there was a soft fresh blanket of snow covering the pines and forest floor.

In my remote cottage near the great James Bay, winter comes early and this first snow provides a reality check that freezing temperatures and icy roads are on the way.

It was obvious to me this past week that the weather was going to turn cold as I could see it in the colour of my campfire, in a soft ring around the moon and in the frantic comings and goings of An-nee-koh-cha-sh (squirrel) as he readied for winter.

Still, I never really feel that winter has arrived until that moment when I climb out of bed and witness for myself

that the fluffy stuff has once again turned the world into a Christmas postcard.

We humans are not so different from our animal and bird friends when it comes to getting ready for winter.

Like them we begin to sense the cold weather coming and we do what we must to get ready for it. In northern towns all across Canada people are fixing up their homes to make them more cozy and weatherproof. They are also getting out the snow blowers and all sorts of shovels that they will need close at hand for the coming tons of white, fluffy and often wet and heavy snow.

Those living in the far north are making sure their water lines won’t freeze, cleaning the wood stove chimneys, ensuring that there is a sufficient stockpile of cut and split firewood and sealing up any leaks in floors, walls and windows. We have more in common that we like to admit with the Amisk (beaver), An-nee-koh-cha-sh (squirrel), Mah-keh-shoo (fox), Mahee-kan (wolf) and all those creatures of the northern forest. All of us are trying our

best to be ready to survive the blizzards, minus 20 or 30 below zero temperatures and hazardous conditions.

Perhaps Mah-s-kwa (bear) has the best idea in terms of dealing with winter. They simply curl up in a nice cozy place and drift off to sleep with a full belly until spring. Then again maybe Niska (Canada goose) has the right way of thinking with an escape flight to warmer climates in the south.

I warmly recall the first snow when I was a child back up north in Attawapiskat.

That day was very special for myself and the others in our little remote community. It meant that freedom was on the way. As a remote, fly-in community we have few roads to travel on in the spring, summer and fall. That meant that we were really tied down to our town. You would think we Cree would love the short summer season we get but in general we all prefer winter.

In the summer we can’t leave town and we must put up with millions of mosquitoes, black flies, dear flies and all sorts of nasty flying creatures primarily

interested in sucking the blood out of us.

Winter brings us a frozen land with lots of snow and our lakes and rivers turn into highways that we can travel over on snow machines of all sizes and sorts. The frozen season also allows us to construct the winter road and that means we have an ice highway out of town to other communities along the James Bay coast and the route south to Moosonee. It really is a big deal to all of us to be able to jump into a truck and drive to the train station in Moosonee and then go by rail to Cochrane, Ontario. From there we can access highways, trains and flights to anywhere in the province, country and even the world.

So, my awakening to the first snow of the year will always mean freedom, the excitement of moving across the land on snow machines and being able to find a peaceful spot under the cover of towering pines where I can build my fire and enjoy some piping hot tea. www.underthenorthernsky.com

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Room in a crisis: housing in Attawapiskat Richard Spence Special to Wawatay News

Monique Sutherland’s first day as Attawapiskat’s housing manager was in June of 2008. She says she received no special training, the files were scattered, she had no staff and not long after she started the community was forced to declare a housing crisis after a catastrophic sewage backup left many homeless.

Despite the turmoil, Sutherland says, she has persevered in the post longer than her predecessors, established a more efficient record keeping system and oversees a staff of tradespeople but still cannot meet demands.

She says the 2009 backup was the tipping point, but the roots of the housing crisis grow deeper and at current rates it will be years until needs are met. “We keep on it but it could (be) 10 or 15 years.”

Attawapiskat would have to evacuate again in 2013 after spring floods damaged many homes, including the temporary residences of nurses and teachers working in the community.

An anonymous source at the hospital says lack of available housing has created a critical shortage of permanent nurses and emergency relief staff, who come to the community on short-term contracts. They have been forced by circumstance to sleep on the ward in beds typically occupied by the patients they care for.

Sutherland says band members struck by the shortage have options but wait lists are long and space is limited. “A lot of people end up having to go to relatives’ houses which are already overcrowded. If they

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An emergency shelter trailer complex in Attawapiskat First Nation. can’t (stay with relatives), they go to the homeless shelter but it’s full so they have to put up tent frames.”

She also has advice for offreserve band members with thoughts about returning home: “Stay where you are.

You’re welcome to visit, but as it sits we have no houses available.”

Denise Okimaw is a resident of the emergency shelter trailer complex on the eastern edge of Attawapiskat First Nation.

She says she pays almost $500 a month to share a single room

with her teenage son and has lived here for the last four years. Most days, she wakes early, eats breakfast then fills a mop bucket and cleans the kitchen and bathroom common areas she shares with more than 50 neighbours. She used to be paid for this work but recent cutbacks led to her layoff.

The kitchen is a barren linoleum floor between empty countertops and cupboards near the main entrance. There are no plates, no cups, no tables, no chairs, the sink has no drainpipe and the oven is

missing parts of its door. The washrooms, laundry room and shower facility have puddles of water on the floor. “They don’t maintain it and the smell of the toilets is overpowering,” says Okimaw, as she sprays down the fixtures in the women’s pubic washroom and wipes at the surface with a blue and white rag.

Before her room in the shelter, Okimaw spent nights in Attawapiskat community hotels, the healing lodge outside of town and emergency housing in Cochrane, Ontario.

She says she was evacuated after the 2009 sewage backup rendered her house uninhabitable. Her former home is a four bedroom white house near the river that now has a padlock on the front door. The house has not been renovated since the backup and is now used for storage while she stays at the homeless shelter, wondering what’s being done to fix it.

Sutherland says she hears stories like Denise’s everyday and wishes there was more she could do. She also says her own housing situation is less than ideal. She shares a trailer with her son but not long ago they lived in a shack with minimal insulation.

“Some nights in the winter it would be so cold. I would be under five blankets and still wake up in the night freezing.

My son would build a fire even at five in the morning.”

Sutherland says the housing budget is depleted because some band members in new houses have refused to pay their rent and many old houses are in need of extensive and expensive repairs. “Some of the houses are about to collapse. They need to be fixed but we don’t have money to buy supplies.”

A new program called Rehabilitation Repairs Application Program (RRAP) has provided some support for houses in need of renovation but the funding is scheduled to expire at the end of October. She also says Attawapiskat’s funding application to build new houses through the CMHC (Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation) was denied when Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC) refused to guarantee a loan due

to accounting inadequacies and a budget deficit. “We used to build 10, maybe 15 houses some years. Now we aren’t able to meet the needs.”

David Chookomoolin is an addictions counsellor, heavy metal music enthusiast and one of many names on the waiting list for a house. As a single person, he says he is not a high priority so he has no choice but to pay $400 a month for a small room in a crowded house. He says he’s been on the waiting list for years but can’t seem to get any closer to his own place.

“Last time I checked I was around number 400 or something.” Chookomoolin says he’s been renting rooms for 10 years and can’t see a change in the situation anytime soon.

Janie Kataquapit is a colleague of David’s who recently returned home to Attawapiskat after years of living in the United States. She and her two sons moved in with her elderly parents. The three-room house has one bathroom and a basement still in need of repair after the 2009 sewer backup.

Her parents decided to move into a tent frame in the yard to allow Janie’s family more room.

With winter approaching, Janie is worried that her parents will freeze in the canvas roofed structure. “I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to stay in the community. This is my home but my parents couldn’t live out there in the freezing weather.”

She has now found a place to stay, but many of her clients struggle to find adequate housing. “it’s tough to help someone fix a problem you experience yourself.”

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I was very excited when I discovered recently that Montreal artist Carolina Echeverria had developed an exhibition of a collection of 30 paintings and three installations inspired by the distinctive style of Norval Morrisseau. Her art exhibition titled Native Immigrant is a labour of love that she, as an immigrant from Chile to Canada, has connected to the visionary and shamanic art work of Norval Morrisseau.

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was apprehensive of a move across continents and leaving her family and home, Carolina put her faith in her belief that people everywhere operate on a basis of goodness and inclusion. She was not disappointed and quickly began to develop as a mother, activist, artist and storyteller. She also improved her English and learned to speak French.

The fact that she had experienced a dark right wing period in Chile’s history under the dictator Augusto Pinochet provided her with the knowledge, strength and commitment to give a voice to immigrants, minorities and the disenfranchised right here in Canada.

She is like our canary in a coal mine when it comes to identifying signs of weakening in our democracy.

As a Canadian and a Quebecer for almost 30 years, she has blazed a trail to develop as a visual artist who has exhibited across Canada and on the world stage. Carolina has been featured far and wide in media, including a two-year stint with CBC. She is also a professor of art.

With her exhibition “Native Immigrant� Carolina connects many peoples and in a style influenced by one of our great-

est Aboriginal warrior artists.

Her art is bright, colourful and extremely powerful. The images really challenge you and make you think. As she explained to me, she strives with her paintings to create a visual language of who we are and to encourage us to imagine a collective and inclusive future for Canada based on a sense of community, not merely nationality.

As part of her exhibit she has provided opportunities for everyone to have a voice and to participate in the creative process.

Her exhibition features a piece titled Immigrant Dress which poses a naked mannequin planted in a pot of indigenous earth that awaits those who want to participate in a collective dress making creative process.

The idea is that people will bring and donate objects of sentimental multicultural value.

She is hoping that this interaction will allow for conversations about immigration and connections among Native immigrants. She has also provided a mural that will feature input by exhibition visitors as a work in progress dedicated to creating awareness and conversation around the recent controversial Quebec Charter Of Values.

Carolina as an artist, activist and environmentalist is carrying a torch for all of us who feel strongly about the issues of intolerance on any level and any wanton destruction of our land, rivers and lakes. In doing so she hopes to provide us with the inspiration to speak up and stand up.

Her support of First Nation causes has always been strong and with this exhibition she makes a stand that helps us all.

As a staunch believer in the Idle No More First Nation movement, Carolina has produced a poster and dedicated a portion of the profits of her Native Immigrant exhibition to this deserving group.

Her opening night featured Philip Deering from Kahnawake and Native performers. More than 20 people have come forward to help with the exhibition as volunteers and a video documentary of Native Immigrant is being produced. Native Immigrant was launched Oct. 24 in Montreal at Rialto Hall Theatre, 5711 Ave. Du Parc.

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NAN Day of Prayer and Honour November 13, 2013 Schedule of Events 1:30 p.m. (EST) - Special broadcast on Wawatay Radio by NAN Executive Council, Elders and Youth 7 p.m. (EST) - Joint service at Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School Nishnawbe Aski Nation encourages all First Nations to join together and observe a moment of silence at 1:30 p.m. in remembrance of all of our loved ones.

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Human development first: Rae Bryan Phelan Wawatay News

Ontario needs a plan for its Far North beyond just the Ring of Fire and the Matawa First Nations nearby, says Bob Rae. Rae, the former NDP premier and Liberal MP, currently works as an advisor to the Matawa tribal council in negotiations with the provincial government regarding mining development in the Ring of Fire, about 500 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay. Rae talked about those negotiations Oct. 16 as the keynote dinner speaker at the Mining Ready Summit in Timmins, hosted by the Nishnawbe Aski Development Fund.

But he also shared a broader perspective on development in the North and “the underlying issues that we have to deal with.”

Partway into his speech, Rae looked behind at a backdrop bearing the name of the event: Mining Ready Summit. “We’ve got to ask ourselves the question, ‘Are communities really ready?’ ” he said. “Or when we look at ourselves honestly, don’t we have to recognize that we have significant challenges.”

Rae listed some of those challenges in the region’s remote First Nations: “significant problems with respect to health care;” “significant issues with making sure people are ready to get trained to take advantage of the opportunites;” isolation and the resulting high cost of living; poor quality of housing and other factors that have created “public health issues that you see on every reserve that we shouldn’t be seeing in our communities in Canada.”

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“Are communities really ready?” for mining development in remote parts of northern Ontario, Bob Rae asked at the NADF Mining Ready Summit.

These issues can be dealt with and solved, Rae said.

For example, for the five Matawa First Nations and dozens of other First Nations in northern Ontario that don’t have year-round road access, “It seems to me the province needs to make a decision to say ‘We’re going to do something about that over a period of time,’ ” advised Rae. “Some communities can be hooked up fairly quickly to existing forestry road structures, and we’re not talking about the Trans-Canada Highway here, folks. We’re talking about making progress, human footsteps, because with the breakdown of isolation suddenly comes food that is more affordable … (and) people are hooked up to a grid that is going to provide for reliable electrical supply.”

Matawa is working on a plan for “partnership discussion” with the Ontario government to make sure quality of life in Matawa communities significantly improves, Rae said.

“And then of course … the first reaction of any neighbouring community will be ‘What about us?’ My answer to that is, ‘Well, the province needs a plan for that.’ The province needs a plan for the North that understands this is where the frontier of development has now moved, and it’s going to keep moving further and further north. And it’s going to require a vision of the province that includes everyone.”

Improvements to quality of life in First Nations should proceed no matter what the timing of various mining activities – timing that is hard to control or predict, said Rae. While encouraging everyone in the North to continue to show confidence in the potential of development in the Ring of Fire, Rae said there also has to be recognition that mining companies make decisions largely based on market conditions. It’s a topic that came up at his dinner table in conversation with Mayor Tom Laughren of Timmins – “how there were mines that were closed in the ’80s because they were not economic that re-opened 20 years later because suddenly they became economic.”

When development doesn’t move ahead, “A lot of times people will say it’s the government’s fault or it’s this person’s fault or that person’s fault,” he added. “Usually it’s the market’s fault because conditions changed that we can’t control.

“We can’t necessarily affect what the international market for chromium is going to be.

We can’t tell you what the price of nickel is going to be in two or three or five years.”

So, focus on the things we can control, suggested Rae. “We need people to be better trained,” for example, “whether there’s a mine opening tomorrow or in five years or in 10 years. What we do know is that people need education.”

Development of the North,

the new frontier, can’t be based on the old model for development, he said. “We need to create a new dialogue (for) a real partnership – a partnership about jobs …, a partnership about health, protecting the land … and yes, a partnership about selfgovernment.”

Rae said he thinks governments and companies are ready for this conversation.

That leads to a challenge for First Nations, he said: “When somebody says ‘OK I have to consult you and I have to accommodate you,’ what are you going to say? What do you want?”

Rae envisions some of the hype surrounding the Ring of Fire becoming reality, over time – lots of jobs, wealth generation, resource and tax revenues, and sharing of the wealth. But for that to happen, “We have to start with the fundamentals of human development – real education, real opportunities for families, real improvements in the physical conditions of life …” he said.

“I’m a great optimist about the possibilities for the future.

Not an optimist who says there will be a huge mine developed in the next three years and the money will pour out. I’m talking about an optimism of dignity, an optimism of hope, an optimism of a commitment to real partnership.

“We’ve still got a long way to go but I’m convinced we’re making the right steps.”

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Wabun shares formula for mining participation, wealth Bryan Phelan Wawatay News

People in First Nations around Timmins are happier, healthier and wealthier because of recent agreements with mining companies, says the head of Wabun Tribal Council.

Wabun is a council of six First Nations, all within about 200 kilometres of Timmins: Beaverhouse, Brunswick House, Chapleau Ojibwe, Flying Post, Matechewan, and Mattagami.

Collectively, these First Nations have signed three impact and benefit agreements (IBAs) with mining companies in the past six years, Shawn Batise, Wabun’s executive director, said at a Mining Ready Summit hosted in Timmins Oct. 16-17 by the Nishnawbe Aski Development Fund (NADF).

Three more IBAs involving Wabun First Nations are currently being negotiated. The agreements cover gold mining properties, plus one nickel property.

Wabun communities have also negotiated 30 mining exploration agreements over the same period, and Batise thinks that number could reach 50 within a year.

“It’s really been in the last five to seven years that things have really taken off,” Batise said of the agreements and resulting participation

by Wabun communities in resource development. In large part because of that activity, never before “have I seen such growth in the communities, in terms of wealth, health, better jobs …” he said. “We’ve created a number of businesses servicing the industry that have been very successful.

“I definitely think the tribal council and the communities are a model to hold up for success, and a best practices model.”

That’s what Brian Davey, executive director of NADF, had been hoping for from Batise and other speakers at the third annual Mining Ready Summit.

“We’ve got a lot of catching up to do with respect to wealth generation,” Davey said of First Nations, while welcoming del-

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Making a point: Irene Altiman, regional initiatives co-ordinator for Waubetek Business Development Corporation in Birch Island, in discussion with Mark Podlasly of the Harvard Kennedy School. egates to the summit. “Not all of us have the capacity or the experience, so this is an event to bring us together and see what we can do to share in the development of our success.”

Jason Batise, Shawn’s brother and an economic development advisor for Wabun, provided examples of success.

“I would say that we’re at 100 per cent employment in Matachewan,” he said of his home First Nation.

Later, he showed a photo of a 300-bed mining camp 10 kilometres from Matachewan, currently filled with construction workers developing a nearby AuRico gold mine. Meals are

also served for the workers.

The camp generates revenue of $20-25 million a year.

In partnership with a Sudbury company, “We, as the First Nation, own that facility,” which can easily be moved, he noted. “That plot of land was just bush when we thought of the idea and got our partner involved.”

Over in Mattagami First Nation, IAMGOLD employs 30 community members for development of its Coté gold project – “an incredible piece of wealth creation for that community,” Jason said. “IAMGOLD has really taken it upon itself to engage the community

with important employment targets.”

Wabun insists on resource development agreements for all activities with the traditional territories of its communities, ranging from simple letters of interest – “where we’re asking the early prospectors to simply recognize they’re on our territory,” said Jason – to IBAs. Agreements include advantages for First Nation businesses, such as: bid preferences for companies that demonstrate Aboriginal participation in their tenders to provide mine services; First Nation involvement in the evaluation of tenders; and First Nation opportunities for negotiated contracts with mines.

For exploration, Wabun agreements are generally standardized. “About 75 per cent of them are exactly the same and the ones that are different, there’s very little variance in them,” Shawn said. “We always go to the exploration company and say, ‘Look , here’s our agreement … the property that’s beside you has signed the same agreement, so why shouldn’t you?”

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‘Fabulous’ lineup of speakers In another Mining Ready presentation, Mark Podlasly, a member of the Nlaka’pamux First Nation in B.C. and a senior associate at the Harvard Kennedy School, described the eight components of a mine operation, from discovery to closure. He explained how a “value chain analysis” can help First Nations determine, based on their capacity and goals, what pieces of the operation to target in negotiations with mining companies.

Irene Altiman of the Waubetek Business Development Corporation in Birch Island, Ontario, said afterward she could see the potential for applying such an analysis to a mining strategy her organization is developing. “Some of our communities have signed IBAs with mining companies. In one agreement they looked at employment and training, but they might not have looked at other areas.”

Derek Chum of Moose Cree, CEO of the First Nation’s Amisk Kodim Corporation, shared lessons learned from three major

resource agreements Moose Cree negotiated recently, with Ontario Power Generation, De Beers Canada and Detour Gold.

Another Moose Cree member, Leonard Rickard, is manager of Aboriginal Affairs for Detour Gold, which has a mine northeast of Cochrane.

He spoke of the opportunities Detour has provided under IBAs with four Aboriginal communities, including equity in the mine, more than $400 million worth of business during its construction, and preferential hiring for mine jobs.

Discussing mining development in the Ring of Fire and related infrastructure were Kaitlyn Ferris, manager of corporate responsibility for Noront Resources; Frank Smeenk and Moe Lavigne, executives for KWG Resources, which proposes a rail line to the region; and keynote dinner speaker Bob Rae, the former politician turned Matawa tribal council negotiator. Scott Carpenter, a board member for Attawapiskat Resources, listened closely to these presentations for potential business opportunities and environmental impacts for his First Nation of Attawapiskat, downriver from the Ring of Fire. At one of several booths at the summit, Attawapiskat Resources promoted its Attawapiskat Security Services business, which already does work for De Beers’ Victor diamond mine.

Other presenters at the summit were Bentley Cheechoo of Nishnawbe Aski Nation, who spoke about political change needed so First Nations can benefit from resource development; Chris Hodgson, president of the Ontario Mining Association; Derek Fox, an NADF board member and law school graduate who talked about the potential for “accredited investors” to fund business startups and junior mining companies; and Kimberly Bird, loans manager at NADF. “Fabulous choice of speakers,” Andy Fyon, director of the Ontario Geological Survey, told Davey at the end of the summit. “Good job to you, good job to all your staff in the background … fabulous.”

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Lac Seul Youth Chief Meagan Masakeyash, middle, and Lac Seul Youth Council member Reina Foster took part in the Grand Council Treaty #3 Chiefs Fall Assembly, held Oct. 22-24 in Lac Seul. The two youth want to see more traditional teachings available for youth in their community and across Treaty #3.

Youth baseball and hockey leagues suggested for Treaty #3 community.�

Allen also suggested the development of a minor hockey league for the young women and men across Treaty #3. “We have exceptional athletes when you consider the amount of youth that we have within Treaty #3,� Allen said. “Fifty per cent of our population is youth under the age of 25, and what are we doing for them?�

Allen said an active lifestyle may encourage youth to take on leadership roles in the community. “I believe it is one of the foundational blocks that we need to develop in our communities,� Allen said. “We were told as a council for our community that we needed to bridge the gap between the youth and their Elders. How you do that is through education, and education is (important) in terms of all aspects of our lives, whether it be healthy living, healthy lifestyle, and building programs that are able to help them.

Recreation is just one of those things.�

Allen’s community hosted the Chiefs of Ontario Indigenous Youth Engagement Forum for about 100 youth from Nov. 1-3. “We want more youth to come out to learn about who they are and to identify with other youth that are making inroads to help

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Former Toronto Blue Jay players may soon be coaching Grand Council Treaty #3 youth about the skills and fundamentals of baseball. “We were talking with the Toronto Blue Jays about a month ago,� said Nigigoonsiminikaaning Chief Gary Allen during the Treaty #3 Chiefs Fall Assembly, held Oct. 22-24 in Lac Seul. “We talked about having a baseball coaching clinic where former Toronto Blue Jays would come to our community and teach our youth about baseball.�

Allen said many youth are now engaged in inactive activities such as gaming and the use of the Internet and cell phones in Treaty #3 communities. “They’re just not active in the community,� Allen said.

Allen said the Blue Jays suggested the development of a baseball league for youth across Treaty #3 territory. “So the idea is to look at forming these leagues to help our youth in terms of understanding what they require to be active in our communities,� Allen said. “But we also need the support of our parents, our leaders to bring about change in our youth — from being disconnected to being reconnected with our communities. That’s important for the overall health of our

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Treaty #3 Youth Council member Michael Morris, from Wabauskang, fully supported Allen’s baseball and hockey league suggestions. “I’m all for that idea,� Morris said. “In the communities, there’s not much to do, right, so recreation, baseball, hockey, what have you, is all good.�

Lac Seul Youth Chief Meagan Masakeyash and Youth Council member Reina Foster said the youth in their community are more involved in drugs and alcohol than in community activities. “(The new event centre) does make a difference for those who play hockey and are into that kind of activity,�

Foster said. “Most (teenagers) don’t skate or do anything, but they do hang around here.�

Foster said many youth do not go out to events in the community. “I’m scared for the future, for the next generation to come, because I know why teenagers do that,� Foster said about drinking alcohol and doing drugs. “It’s because they’ve been in that environment while growing up.�

Masakeyash sees drinking as a never ending cycle, noting she was brought up in that environment. “The parents do it and the child either grows up resenting the parents or thinking it’s OK,� Masakeyash said. “Unfor-

tunately, a lot of the youth on the reserve grow up thinking it is OK and they start doing it at a very young age.�

Masakeyash said the baseball league idea would help youth who are interested in that sport. “Everyone has different interests and it is hard to find that one thing that brings all youth together,� Masakeyash said. “This past summer I held a youth conference here at the arena, and I did get a lot of youth. I think a lot of them, even though they don’t admit it and they think it is uncool, are interested in the traditional teachings, so I think that is the best route.�

Masakeyash said many Lac Seul youth do not speak Anishinabemowin and do not know anything about their culture. “Our Elders are slowly passing on and they are taking that knowledge with them,�

Masakeyash said. “We have to learn about our culture before it is too late — once they’re gone, then our culture is gone and we’re lost without it.�

Masakeyash also wants to see Anishinabemowin courses taught in high school. “It’s mandatory to take a language course to get your diploma, so I don’t speak French and I didn’t want to take a French course,�

Masakeyash said. “They didn’t offer Ojibwa or any Native language course. They offered Native studies, but that was just about learning the history.�

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Emergency housing shelter in Attawapiskat First Nation from page 5 Wayne Turner is Attawapiskat’s executive director. He lives on the second floor of the Tony Fireman Healing Lodge outside of town. The former addictions treatment centre has been appropriated as emergency housing and the main level is full of Elders, children and families with no other place to stay.

He says housing the displaced is a major drain on band funds.

“We receive no additional funds for transitional housing. The money all comes from the band’s discretionary fund.”

He says, the biggest cost is the hydroelectric bills, which range from $1,200-$1,500 a month for the all-electric facilities.

“Keep in mind it’s a construction trailer. It’s not suitable permanent housing for people and families. Unfortunately temporary has a way of becoming permanent.” He says the chief and council have developed a multiyear housing strategy funded by $2.2 million for new home builds provided by the federal government. The end goal is to continually build new houses every year and end the need for emergency transitional shelters.

“The band has already started building. These are the new houses on the west side of town. The houses are assessed a market value rent and the First Nation backs the mortgage.”

He says people who live in these houses can eventually own the building if they maintain it but due to provisions of various sections of the Indian Act they cannot use the homes to establish equity. He says this is one of the biggest issues facing residents. “What other part of the country can you not leverage what you own into advantages for yourself? The only difference here is that there is an invisible line and if you are on one side of it you are treated differently.”

The other side of the line belongs to the province of Ontario. A special land use permit is required to build there.

Inside the reserve prospective homebuilders must be allotted a plot of land by the band.

Chief Teresa Spence lives in a yellow bungalow that was once a police station, down a back alley near the hospital. Her front door opens to a chain-link and black canvas fence at the perimeter of a current contamination

remediation site. On her walk to work, she takes a left, follows the fence-line along a hardpacked grit road frequented by heavy-duty equipment carrying contaminated soil to containment tanks on the outskirts of the First Nation and water trucks that spray the road to keep the dust plumes down. She then takes another left at the only sidewalk in Attawapiskat, four one-metre square slabs of concrete connecting the steel grate steps of the mural emblazoned band office to the wooden entryway of a graffiti adorned decommissioned post office.

Spence says present legislation excludes First Nations people from participation in the national economy. “I’ve heard from a few people their mortgage was denied because they live on reserve. It shouldn’t be that way. If you have a good job and have shown yourself responsible you should be able to have your dream house built.”

Spence says the housing budget is a major drain on the band budget and the band has no recourse to draw an income for new projects. “We can’t tax people, there are many unemployed. If we want to do any project we have to beg the federal government and that dependency doesn’t solve the problem.”

Paul Kataquapit is part of a four-person carpentry crew building a house next to his brother’s diner in a central section of town. He spent his own money to have building materials freighted to Attawapiskat on the barge because he was “tired of waiting for the band to approve the lot and Indian Affairs (AANDC) to pay for the building.”

The frame has gone up quickly but says he worries the supplies he needs for the roof will make it before the snow starts to fall.

He says while he waits to hear from government his niece and her family had to live in a crowded house and it was clear to him that “no one is going to do this for us. We needed to take action ourselves.”

This story produced with guidance from Danny Kresnyak of Journalists for Human Rights as part of JHR’s Northern Ontario Initiative.

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INSPECTION Inspection of Approved Slash Pile and Clipper Debris Burning Plans Kenora and Whiskey Jack Forests The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) invite you to inspect the MNR-approved Prescribed Burn plans for slash pile and chipper debris burning that will be carried out in the Kenora and Whiskey Jack Forests (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 and clipper debris piles while increasing the area available for regeneration and reducing the fire hazard. The burn is scheduled for ignition between November 1, 2013 and February 15, 2014.

Information about this Prescribed Burn project, including specific locations and maps, is available for public viewing at the offices of Miisun Integrated Resource Management Inc. during normal business hours and the MNR District Office beginning November 1, 2013.

For more information or to discuss the Prescribed Burn project, please contact: Miisun Integrated Resource Management Inc. 510 Ninth Street North Kenora, ON tel: 807-467-3351 Kenora Forest Ian Pyke MNR Kenora District Office 808 Robertson Street Kenora, ON tel: 807-468-2559 e-mail: ian.pyke@ontario.ca

Whiskey Jack Forest Kurt Pochailo MNR Kenora District Office 808 Robertson Street Kenora, ON tel: 807-468-2597 e-mail: kurt.pochailo@ontario.ca

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In the month of October, United Nations Special Rapporteur James Anaya visited Canada to examine the rights of Indigenous people.

During his trip, he met with First Nations, Inuit and MĂŠtis leaders, organizations and other people in numerous parts of Canada. Thunder Bay-based Feathers of Hope (FOH) was one of the groups Anaya sat down with in Ottawa at the end of his weeklong visit to Canada.

FOH hosted its first forum earlier this year in Thunder Bay with 150 youth from 91 First Nation communities in northern Ontario participating. During the weeklong event, the youth discussed culture and identity, education and skill development, recreation and programming, systems of care, and health. FOH then presented recommendations based on the findings at the forum to policymakers in First Nations, federal, provincial, and municipal organizations. FOH is currently working on a report based on the data collected at the spring forum.

FOH youth “amplifiers�

Julaine Trudeau and Uko Abara, from the Office of the

Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth, were present with other FOH amplifiers during the meeting with Anaya to discuss with him their findings on Oct. 14. “We basically condensed one of our usual presentations into one 10-minute presentation,�

Abara explained of the meeting. “We talked about the experiences of the youth, the different recommendations that the youth came up with, our future plan, as well as the report.�

Trudeau said that the report would be released in January, along with an action plan. “It was brief,� Trudeau said of the meeting with Anaya. “It was sort of hard to put a whole year’s worth of work into one meeting but I think we got our key messages out. He was very responsive in that we were doing work that would really affect the youth in First Nations communities. He said that we were on the right track.�

Trudeau said that Anaya told them it was good that FOH was not relying on other people to do the work for them. “We’re more so about building partnerships that benefit First Nations youth and we are working on the solutions that came out of the FOH forum,� she said.

Abara said that FOH has met with various groups and people who are capable of affecting real change to the lives of First Nations people. “They are pretty receptive so far,� he said. One of the main challenges is to have them focus on the youth, Abara explained. “A lot of people focus on the logistics and costs and everything but at the end of the day, we want them to be able to focus on the people we are talking about.� “It is difficult to get people to realize that all the decisions being made, all the environmental affects, that these things actually affect people and they’re affecting children and youth,� he said.

Trudeau said that even though FOH started out in northern Ontario and focuses on issues that affect the youth of the area, she has high hopes for the future of the group. “Hopefully FOH will stand as a model that can be used to engage all First Nations youth in Canada,� Trudeau said.

Abara said that it is important to know that the main theme of FOH was “to examine and hear the experiences of First Nations youth in northern Ontario.� “A lot of the youth have

the same issues, even though we are focusing on northern Ontario, the effects and experiences can be applied in some context to different youth across the nation and across the world,� Abara added.

He said that FOH is now focusing on the action plan and report. “Over the next few months we will be building partnerships with different organizations and communities, and stakeholders and politicians as well,�

Abara said. “What we want is to build momentum so people are aware that this report exists, and that FOH exists, so they know there are First Nations youth who want to make positive change in their communities.�

For anyone looking to become involved in FOH or to support its cause, Abara said that social media was the best way to get a hold of them. “We post different opportunities that we have available to youth, and updates. If we ever need support that’s where we will post it a lot of the time,�

Abara said.

FOH can be found on Twitter (@FOHTbay) as well as Facebook (Facebook.com/FOHTBAY).

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NOVEMBER 7, 2013

á?¸á‘Żá“­á“‚á’§á?ƒá?§á“‚á? ᑲá?Šá“„á‘­á‘•á’Şá‘Ťá?Šá?§á?¨ á?…á‘­á‘Žá?¸á’‹á’§á‘•á?Šá?§á?Šá?§á?Ł á’Ľá“Żá? á?§á‘˛á’Ľá? á?ƒá“Żá“­á?ƒá?§á“‡á?Ł ᑲᓇᓇᑲᒋá‘?á?¨ á?…á?Ąá‘˛á‘Žá“Żá?ƒá?§ á?Šá“‚á’Ľá“­á?ƒá?§á“‡á?Ł á?ƒá’Ş á?…á’‹ á?¸á‘­á‘­á“‚ᑲᓂá? 12 “ᓇá?ąá?¨ ᑲᔌ á?Šá“‚á’Şá?Ł á’‹á‘­á?…á?Łá’‹ á“‚á“Żá‘?ᑕᒧᓂᑕá?§á?¸á?Ł á?Šá?ƒá?§á”­á? á‘•á“Żá?Ł ᑍᑯᓇá?Ł ᑲᔭᓂ á?…á“€á’‹á‘˛á‘Œá‘­á?Ł, ᑲᑭᓇ ᑍᑯᓇá?Ł á’Ľá“Żá? á?§ á?Šá?§á‘˛á?Śá?ƒ ᑲá?ƒá”‘á?Ąá‘˛á’Şá‘˛á‘­á?Ł, á‘Ťá’‹á?Šá?§á? á?ƒá’Ş á? á?…á?Łá’‹ á?¸á‘­á‘Œá?Ąá‘˛á‘Żá?Šá?§á?¨ á?Šá?ƒá?§á”­á? ᒼᓇ á?ąá‘Ż á‘Ťá?ƒá?§á“‡á?Šá?§ á?…á‘?á’‹á?¸á‘­á‘Œá?Ąá‘˛á‘Żá“‡á?Šá?§ á?Šá?Šá?§á”‘ᔕá? ᒼᓇ á?…á?Ąá‘˛á‘Žá“´á? ,â€? á?ƒá‘­á‘?. á’?á•‘á?…á‘? á‘­á?ƒá‘­á‘? á?Šá“‡á?ƒá?§á?Ł á?…á? á?§ FOH á?ąá’§á’‹á‘Ťá?ƒá?§á?Ł á‘­á?…á?Łá’‹á’Şá’‹á’‹á‘˛á‘Œá?¸á?Ł á‘­á? á?§á‘Žá“„á? á?…á?Łá‘Œá•‘á?ƒá”Ş á’Ľá“‡ á?ƒá”‘á?ąá’§á’‹á‘Ťá’Şá‘˛á?Ł á? á?Šá“„á‘˛á’‹á‘˛á‘Œá‘­á?Ł á‘Ťá?…á’‹ ᑲᑍá?§á?ƒá?§á’‹á?Śá?ƒá‘•á?§ á?…á?Ąá‘˛á‘Žá“´á? á?ƒá’Ş á?Šá?§á‘˛á?Śá?ƒ ᑲᑲá?Żá”‘á?Šá?§á?¨, á’Ľá‘•á?Ą á?ƒá’Ş á‘Ťá?ƒá?§á?Ł á? ᔑᒪá?Ąá‘˛á? á?§á?Łá‘•á? á’‹á”­á“‚á’Ľá“„á?Ąá‘˛á’Şá‘˛á“‚á? á?…á? á?§á“‚ á’Şá’Şá?ƒá?§á“„á?ƒá?§á“‚.

â€œá“´á‘Ťá?Ł á’Şá?ƒá?§á?Ł á?…á’Ş FOH á‘•á?ƒá”‘á?Šá?§á?¸á?Łá‘•á?Śá?ƒá? á?§á’Şá‘˛á?Ł á’‹á?…á’‹ ᑭᑭᓇá?Šá?§á?¸á‘•á?Śá?ƒá‘Żá?Šá?§á?¨ á‘Ťá?ƒá“‡á?Šá?§ á?ƒá? á?§ á’‹á?ƒá”‘á?ąá’§á’‹á‘Ťá?Šá?§á?¨ á‘Żá‘•á‘­á”­á? á?¸á?¸á‘˛á?Ł á?Šá“‚ᔑᓂᓂá?Šá?§á? ᑲᓇᑕ á?Šá?Śá‘­á? ᑲᑲá?Żá”‘á?Šá?§á?¨,â€? á’?á•‘á?…á‘? á?ƒá‘­á‘?. á?Šá?Żá•‘á?Š á‘­á?ƒá‘­á‘? ᓇá?ąá?¨ ᑭᒋᓀᑕᑲá?§á?Ł á’‹á‘­á‘Ťá’‹á‘˛á‘Œá? á?…á? á?§á“‚ á’Şá”­á‘Ś ᑲá?ƒá”‘á?ąá’§á’‹á‘Ťá?¨ FOH á?Šá“„á‘­á?ƒá?§á“‚á? á? á?ƒá?§á?…á?Łá’‹ ᓇᓇᑕá?ƒá?§á‘­á‘Ťá“‚á’Ľá‘•á?§ ᒼᓇ á? á?ƒá?§á‘•á“„á‘•á?ƒá?§á?Łá‘•á?§ á?Šá“‚ᔑᓂᓂá?ƒá?§ á?…á?Ąá‘˛á‘Žá“´á? ᑲá?Šá?ƒá“Żá“­á?Šá?§á?¨ á? á?§á‘Ž á‘­á? á?§á‘Žá“„á? á?…á?Łá‘Œá•‘á?ƒá”Ş á‘˛á‘˛á?Żá”‘á?Šá?§á?¨.â€? â€œá’Ľá”‘á?Ł á?…á?Ąá‘˛á‘Žá“´á? á?¸á?Żá”‘ᑲá?§á?Ł á?ƒá“Żá“­á?ƒá?§á“‡á?Ł á?…ᓇᑭá?Ąá‘˛á“‡á?Šá?§, á?Šá“‡á?ƒá?§á?Ł á? á?§á‘Ž á?ąá‘Ż á?…á“´á‘Ś ᓂᑎᔑá?Šá“„á‘­á‘•á’Şá‘Ťá’Ľá?Ł á‘­á? á?§á‘Žá“„á? á?…á?Łá‘Œá•‘á?ƒá”Ş, ᔕᑯá?¨ ᑲá?…á?Łá’‹á“­á‘­á?Ł ᒼᓇ

ᑲá?ƒá”‘ᓇᓇᑭá?Ąá‘˛á’§á?Šá?§á?¨ á?Żá”‘ᑲá?§á?Ł á?ƒá‘Ż ᑍᑲá?&#x; á?ƒá“Żá“­á?Šá?§á? á‘Żá‘•á‘­á”­á? á?¸á?¸á‘˛á?Ł á?…á?Ąá‘˛á‘Žá“´á? á’Ľá“Żá? á?§ ᑌᑎá?¸á‘˛á’Ľá? ,â€? á?Šá?Żá•‘á?Š á‘­á?ƒá‘­á‘?. ᒼᓇá?Šá?§ á‘­á?Šá“‚á‘­á‘? á?ƒá’Ş FOH á?Šá“„á‘­á?ƒá?§á“‚á? á?…á?ąá’Ľá?…ᓇá‘?ᓇá?Šá?§ á‘Ťá?ƒá”‘ᓇᑲá?§á? á?Šá“„á‘­á?ƒá?Ł ᒼᓇ á‘Žá?¸á’‹á’§á?ƒá?§á?Ł. “á? á?§á‘Ž á?Żá”“á?¨ á?Šá“‚ᓂᑲá?Ł ᓂᑲá?…ᓇá‘?á’Ľá?Ł á’‹á?ƒá?§á‘•á“„á‘­á’Ľá‘Żá”­á‘­á‘•á?§ á?¸á?¸á‘˛á?Ł á?ąá’§á’‹á‘Ťá?ƒá?§á“‡á?Ł ᒼᓇ ᑕᔑᑍá?ƒá?§á“‡á?Ł, á?¸á?¸á’Ľá“Żá?ƒá?§á“‡á?Ł ᒼᓇ á?…ᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᑍá?ƒá?§ á?ąá’§á’‹á‘Ťá?ƒá?§á“‡á?Ł á?Šá”‘á?¨,â€? á?Šá?Żá•‘á?Š á‘­á?ƒá‘­á‘?. “ᓂá?ƒá?§á‘˛á‘Ťá?§á‘?á‘•á’Ľá?Ł á’‹á”­á“‚á?Šá?§á‘˛á?ƒá?§á’Şá‘˛á? á’‹á”­á“„á’‹ á‘­á‘Ťá?Łá‘•á’§á?Šá?§á?¨ á?Šá?ƒá?§á”­á? á‘Žá?¸á’‹á’§á?ƒá?§á?Ł á? ᑕᑲá?§á? , á? ᑲá?§ ᒼᓇ FOH á?ąá’§á’‹á‘Ťá?ƒá?§á?Ł á? ᑕᑲá?§á? , á’‹á‘­á‘Ťá?Łá‘•á’§á?Šá?§á?¨ á? á?Šá”­á?Šá?§á?¨ á?Šá“‚ᔑᓂᓂá?ƒá?§ á?…á?Ąá‘˛á‘Žá“´á? á’‹á’Ľá“„á“­á“‚á? á?…ᑕᔑᑍá?ƒá?§á“‚á?Šá?§á? .â€?

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LIVE-IN FOSTER PARENTS Direct Services SupervisorResidential Unit Loc ocati ation: ti SIOU IOUX OUX LOOKOUT L LOO Location: SIOUX (Comp. #13-159) LAC SEUL (Comp. #13-160) POSITION SUMMARY: Tikinagan Child and Family Services is seeking Live-In Foster Parents for our Agency Operated Homes. The Live-In Foster Parents will reside with children in care to create a safe, nurturing, and family environment. The Live-In Foster Parents will work with a team of Child Welfare professionals and ensure that the Ministry Standards are met and carried out in the home.

Tikinagan Child and Family Services will cover all living expenses in the home, as well as provide a foster per diem. The Live-in Foster Parents will receive respite each month.

DUTIES INCLUDE: School % Liaise with the local school on the child’s attendance and progress.

Daily Activities % Include social and cultural activities appropriate for each child.

Medical % Ensure the child receives medical attention as required.

Emergency % Contact the local authorities of any emergency involving a child.

Daily House Care % Implement proper meal preparation, house routine, and standards for the clients.

Tikinagan % Contact workers when necessary concerning the clients. Participate in case conferencing for the child/children in the home.

DO YOU: % Have the ability to communicate with the clients in a positive manner? % Have experience working with high risk and special needs children and youth? % Have the ability to work with Tikinagan staff and other service providers? % Have the ability to pass medical and criminal records check? % Have a valid Ontario driver’s license? % Speak one of the Nishnawbe-Aski languages (considered an asset)?

IF SO, THEN PLEASE SUBMIT AN UPDATED RESUME, COVERING LETTER AND 3 REFERENCES TO: Residential Care Supervisor Tikinagan Child and Family Services P.O. Box 627 Sioux Lookout, ONP8T 1B1 Fax: (807) 737-1532 or Email: residential@tikinagan.org CLOSING DATE: November 15, 2013 by 4:30PM All successful applicants will require a current Criminal Record Check (CRC) (and Vulnerable Sector Check (VSC) for positions working with children). As such, it is recommended that applicants apply for a CRC & VSC as soon as possible. ***ONLY THOSE SELECTED FOR AN INTERVIEW WILL BE CONTACTED***

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When to apply: Deadline for applications is 4 pm, December 2 2013.

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The headstone of First World War veteran Private Isaac Goodwin now stands in the abandoned settlement of Old Fort Hope.

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Community members from Eabametoong and the military travelled to the abandoned Hudson Bay settlement at Old Fort Hope to honour First World War veteran Private Isaac Goodwin.

The Last Post Fund provided a headstone and base for Private Goodwin which weighted close to 600 pounds. The headstone was shipped by land to Pickle Lake and flown to Fort Hope in late September.

Thirty people including Canadian Rangers, Junior Canadian Rangers, the 3rd Canadian Ranger Patrol Group and members from Eabametoong attended the ceremony.

This was no easy trek as the group braved high winds and choppy water to travel the six kilometres across Eabamet Lake. Once on shore, it was a 500 metre walk through swampy terrain, then up a steep embankment to get to the cemetery.

“It is an honour that our community recognizes the contribution that Isaac Goodwin did for his country,” said Elizabeth Atlookan, chief of Eabametoong First Nation. “I am very glad that our rangers, members of the army and community members were able to travel to the old settlement to honour Isaac’s memory.”

Private Goodwin grew up in the community of Fort Albany on the James Bay coast. He

enrolled in the army in July 1917 when he was 21 years old and was sent overseas where he served in France. After the war he settled in Fort Hope, where he passed away at the age of 84 in 1979.

Sergeant Harry Papah, patrol commander of the Eabametoong Canadian Ranger Patrol, organized a work party to ensure that the headstone was transported and placed in the cemetery before winter arrived.

The Rangers noticed the cemetery was in need of a cleanup, so they removed all the garbage and debris.

“I am very proud that our Rangers were able to place the headstone at the old settlement,” said Sgt. Papah. “This ceremony has special meaning to me as I am honoured to find out that I am related to him.”

“It was a very significant event,” said Lieutenant-Colonel Matthew Richardson. “It is important to remember our past while we continue to serve into the future. Having a ceremony such as this will ensure that our veterans’ contributions to our country will never be forgotten.”

For more than 100 years, The Last Post Fund has been providing free of charge a military headstone for any honourably discharged service member who has been buried in an unmarked grave for five or more years. An unmarked grave is considered a grave site which doesn’t have a headstone or place marker made of stone or granite.

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Wawatay News NOVEMBER 7, 2013

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NAN meets with Treaty #3 over federal education proposal

from page 1 “The Conservatives should push pause on this flawed, topdown strategy, sit down with First Nations communities and build a workable, fully funded plan that respects, supports and empowers First Nations to control their own education systems,” Bennet said.

The Working Together for First Nation Students: A Proposal for a Bill on First Nations Education includes a number of options, such as First Nations working together to form First Nations education authorities to provide a broader range of services to students and schools.

The proposal also indicates

First Nations would be able to enter into agreements with provincial school boards to have First Nation students attend school off-reserve or to manage an on-reserve school and to negotiate self-government arrangements over education, at which point the proposed act would no longer apply to them.

The federal government said

it consulted the 600-plus First Nations across the country and other stakeholders through eight face-to-face regional consultation sessions, more than 54 technical briefings and information sessions via video or teleconference sessions and an online survey that received 631 responses.

Regional Chief Stan Beardy and Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians Grand Chief Gord Peters, COO’s education portfolio holder and member of the Assembly of First Nations’s Chiefs Committee on Education, called the proposed education bill a step backward that sets a path for a collision course with First Nations.

“We have offered recommendations on how the consultation process could have been more meaningful for First

Nations and on how we can be accommodated by coming to a common understanding of funding inequities prior to a proposal for a bill, and it has completely fell on deaf and unwilling ears,” Beardy said.

“While extremely disappointed by the release of the proposal, First Nations in Ontario are stronger in their resolve to implement a campaign to ensure the process does not go past January 2014 in part by enlisting the support of Canadians who understand that the era of colonialism and termination in this country must end.”

The federal government plans to receive feedback on the proposal up to early January 2014.

“First Nations have been clear about serious concerns with both the federal process to

date as well as what is required to support First Nation student success,” said National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo. “We have been very vocal in what we are seeking: an approach that respects our rights and enables First Nations control of First Nations education. Our children and students deserve safe and good schools and supporting their success with fair and stable funding that will address the gaps while supported by strong First Nations systems and delivering a curriculum that respects our rights and our languages. This work is tremendously important to First Nations and is a top priority.

The federal government must meaningfully and immediately engage with First Nations. We must get this right, right now.”

Northwestern Ontario youth tryout for NAIG 2014 volleyball team

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A group of youth aged 13-19 years old gathered on Nov. 2 at Churchill High School in Thunder Bay to tryout for Aboriginal Team Ontario’s volleyball team at the upcoming 2014 North American Indigenous Games.

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