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Celebrating 110 years of life

Ken Wesley/Special to Wawatay News

Marguerite Wabano, aka Granny Wabano, celebrated her 110th birthday on Jan. 28 with more than 200 family members and friends in Moosonee. Born in the bush north of what is now Attawapiskat in 1904, Granny Wabano continues to see the positive side of life, which she tries to pass on to family and friends. See story on page 6.

20 ᑕᓱᐊᐦᑭ ᐊᐱ ᑲᑭᒪᑕᓄᑭᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᑲᓀᑎᔭᐣ ᐅᓄᑎᓂᑫᓴᐠ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᐃᐧᑭᒪ ᐱᑐᕑ ᒧᐣ ᐊᐧᐊᐧᑌ ᐊᒋᒧᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐸᑭᑎᓂᑲᑌ

ᑲᓀᑎᔭᐣ ᐅᓄᑎᓂᑫᓴᐠ ᒥᓇ ᑯᑕᑭᔭᐠ ᓄᑎᓂᑫᐃᐧᐊᓄᑭᐠ ᐊᔕ ᐅᑭᑭᔑᑐᓇᐊᐧ ᐁᑫᐧᓇᐠ ᐁᑭᑐᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᐧᓴ ᐁᑭᐃᔕᐊᐧᐨ ᑐᑲᐣ ᑲᐸᐸᒥᓇᓇᑲᒋᒋᑫᐃᐧ ᐱᒥᔭᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᑐᒋᑲᑌᐠ, ᑭᐱᒥᔭᐊᐧᐠ 2,250 ᑭᓫᐊᒥᑐᕑᐢ ᐃᐢᑭᑐᑲᐠ ᐁᑭᐅᐣᒋᐱᒥᔭᐊᐧᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᐅᒋ ᑭᑭᓇᐊᐧᑌᐣᑕᑯᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᔕ 20 ᑕᓱᔭᑭ ᐁᐱᒥᐊᓄᑭᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᓄᑎᓂᑫᓴᐠ ᐁᐧᑎ ᑲᑕᓇᓄᑭᐊᐧᐨ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ. ᐊᒥ ᐊᑫᐧᓇᐠ ᐊᐧᓴ ᐁᑭᐃᔕᐊᐧᐨ ᒥᓂᑯᐠ ᐅᐁᐧᓂ ᑲᐱᐅᐣᒋᐊᓄᑭᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᓄᑎᓂᑫᓴᐠ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ. ᐃᒪ ᑭᐅᐣᒋᒪᒐᐊᐧᐠ ᒪᐱᐢᑭ ᓴᑲᐃᑲᓂᐠ, ᐯᔓᐨ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᑲᐃᑯᑎᐸᐦᐃᑲᑌᐠ ᒪᓂᑐᐸ ᐊᐦᑭᐠ, ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᐱᐣ ᑭᔭᓂᐱᒥᔭᐊᐧᐠ ᓇᓀᐃᐧ ᑭᒋᑲᒥᐠ ᐦᐊᐟᓴᐣ ᐯ ᒥᓇ ᒉᒥᐢ ᐯ ᑲᓂᒪᐧᔦ ᐃᐱᓱᐧᐊᐨ ᔕᐊᐧᓄᐠ ᑲᐧᐠᕑᐊᐣ ᒪᔭᑦ ᑲᔭᓂᒪᒋᒋᑲᑌᓂᐠ ᐃᒪ ᐅᑌᓇᐠ ᐱᐳᓂ ᒣᑕᐁᐧᐃᐧᐃᔑᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂ. ᐯᔑᑯᑯᐣ ᑕᐡ ᑭᐊᓀᐧᔑᓄᐊᐧᐠ, ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᐱᐣ ᒥᓇᐊᐧ ᑲᑭᔭᓂ ᑭᐁᐧᐡᑲᐊᐧᐨ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ, ᐃᑭᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᓄᑎᓂᑫᓴᐠ ᐁᑭᑭᐁᐧᐱᓱᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᐅᐣᒋᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑕᓇᐱᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᒪᐡᑭᑯᐃᐧ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᓇᐣ ᐊᑕᐊᐧᐱᐢᑲᐟ, ᐱᑕᐯᑯᐠ, ᐊᐧᔕᐦᐅᐠ,

ᑭᔐᒋᐊᐧᓄᐠ, ᒧᐢ ᐸᐠᑐᕑᐃ, ᒥᓇ ᐱᐊᐧᓇᐠ. ᒪᒪᐤ 41 ᐅᓄᑎᓂᑫᓴᐠ ᑭᐃᐧᒋᑕᐧᐊᐧᐠ ᐸᐸᒥᔭᐃᐧᓂᐠ. “ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᑯ ᓂᑭ ᑭᒋᓀᑕᐣ ᐃᑭᑐ ᑲᐅᐣᒋ ᑲᑭᐸᐸᒥᔭᔭᐣ,” ᐊᓂᑫᓂᑲᓂᓯᐨ ᒍᓫᐃᔭᐣ ᒐᑊᒪᐣ, ᑲᐅᐣᒋ ᐊᓂᑫ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᐃᐧᑭᒪᐃᐧᐨ ᓄᑎᓂᑫᐃᐧ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᐊᐦᑭᐠ, ᓂᐦᓱᑯᐣ ᐅᑭᐸᐸᒥᐃᐧᒋᐊᐧᐣ ᐅᓄᑎᓂᑫᓴᐠ ᑲᑭᐸᐸᒥᔭᐊᐧᐨ. “ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᐧᑲ ᓂᑲᐊᐧᓂᑫᓯᐣ ᓂᐦᓱᑯᐣ ᑲᑭᐸᐸᒥᔭᔭᐣ ᒥᓇ ᒥᐦᐅᐁᐧ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐯᔑᐠ ᑲᑭ ᑭᒋᓀᑕᒪᐣ ᒥᓂᑯᐠ ᐊᔕ 34 ᑕᓱᔭᑭ ᑲᐅᐣᒋ ᐊᓄᑭᔭᐣ ᓄᑎᓂᑫᐃᐧᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧᓂᐠ. ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᓂᑭᒋᓀᑕᐣ ᑲᑭᐃᐧᒋᐊᐧᑲᐧ ᐅᑯᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᓄᑎᓂᑫᓴᐠ. “ᑭᒋᓀᑕᑲᐧᐣ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᐃᓀᑫ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᒋᑕᓇᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᐅᓄᑎᓂᑫᐊᐧᓄᐠ ᑭᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᓇᓂᐠ ᒥᓇ ᑲᓇᑕ ᑲᑲᐯᔑᐊᐧᐨ. ᒥᐦᐃᒪ ᒪᔭᑦ ᑲᓀᑎᔭᐣ ᐅᓄᑎᓂᑫᐊᐧᓄᐠ ᑫᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᐊᓄᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᑲᓇᑕ ᑲᑲᐯᔑᓂᐨ. ᐃᑭᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᒪᔭᑦ ᐅᓄᑎᓂᑫᓴᐠ ᐃᐧᓇᐊᐧ ᒪᔭᑦ ᒥᓯᐁᐧ ᑲᐸᐸᒥᔭᐊᐧᐨ ᒥᓇ ᑲᓇᓂᓴᓂᐦᐃᑎᓱᐊᐧᐨ ᑕᓱᑭᔑᑲ ᐁᐅᐣᒋ ᑲᓇᐁᐧᓂᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᑲᐯᔑᐊᐧᐨ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ.” ᐁᑲᐧ ᑕᐡ ᐊᑯᓇᐠ 20 ᑕᓱᔭᑭ ᐅᑕᓇᐠ ᐅᑯᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᓀᑎᔭᐣ ᐅᓄᑎᓂᑫᓴᐠ, ᒪᒪᐤ 550 ᑭᐱᐅᐣᑎᓇᐊᐧᐠ ᐃᒪ 23 ᐸᐸᑲᐣ

100% First Nations Owned

ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᑕᓇᐱᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑌᑎᐸᐦᐃ ᐊᐧᓴ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ, ᐅᑭᓇᑯᑐᓇᐊᐧ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ ᑲᑭᐱᐊᐃᓇᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫᐊᐧᐨ. ᐃᒪ ᐃᓀᑫ ᓇᓇᑐᓂᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐱᒪᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑲᐊᐧᓂᔑᓂᓂᐨ ᐅᐊᐧᓂᐦᐃᑫᐠ, ᑲᓇᓇᑕᐁᐧᐣᒋᑫᐊᐧᐨ, ᐅᐸᑭᑕᐁᐧᐠ ᒥᓇ ᑲᑫᐧᓇᐃᐧᐱᐦᐃᐣᑕᐧ ᐱᑲᐧᒋᔭᐦᐃ ᑲᐸᐸᒥᔭᐊᐧᐨ ᑭᐱᐃᔑ ᐊᐧᐃᐧᒋᑕᐧᐊᐠ. ᐅᑭᐱᓇᑕᒪᐊᐧᐊᐧᐣ ᑲᑭᐸᐣᑭᓯᓂᐠ ᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᓂ, ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐃᒪ ᑭᐱᔑ ᑭᒋᐊᐧᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᒪᒪᒋᐃᐧᓂᑕᐧ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐯᔓᐨ ᑲᐱᓴᑭᑌᓂᐠ, ᑲᒪᒐᑲᒥᓂᐠ ᐅᓂᐱᒥᐊᐧ, ᓇᐣᑕ ᑲᓯᑲᐧᐠ ᑲᒧᐡᑭᐱᓭᓂᐠ ᐅᑕᓇᐱᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ

ᑲᐃᔑᐸᐯᔑᑯᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑭᐱᒪᒋᐦᐊᐊᐧᐣ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐣ ᐁᑭᓴᑭᒋᐸᐦᐊᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᓴᑭᑌᓂᐠ ᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂ ᒥᓇ ᒪᐡᑭᑭᐃᐧ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑭᐡᐱᐣ ᑫᑕᑕᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᐱᒋᐃᔑᐁᐧᐱᓯᓂᐨ ᑐᑲᐣ ᑲᐱᑕᐦᐅᑯᐨ ᐸᐢᑭᓯᑲᓂ ᓇᐣᑕ ᒥᓇ ᐁᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᓇᑲᓇᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᑲᑫᐧ ᓂᓯᑎᓱᓂᐨ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐣ. ᐅᑕᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᑭᓂᓯᑕᐃᐧᓂᑲᑌᓂ ᐁᑭᐱ ᑭᑭᓇᐊᐧᒋᐦᐃᑕᐧ ᐁᒥᓂᑕᐧ ᑭᑭᓇᐊᐧᒋᐦᐅᐃᐧᓂ, ᒥᑭᐁᐧᐃᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑭᒥᓇᐧᑭᒪᑲᓂᐃᐧᐊᐧᐠ. ᒪᒪᐤ 24 ᐅᓄᑎᓂᑫᓴᐠ ᑭ ᑭᑭᓇᐊᐧᒋᐦᐊᐊᐧᐠ ᑭᓇᐧᑲᐡ ᐊᔕ ᑲᐱᐊᓄᑭᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ. ᒥᓯᐁᐧ ᐅᒪ ᑌᑎᐸᐦᐃ ᑲᓇᑕ ᐊᐦᑭᐠ ᒪᒪᐤ 5,000 ᐅᓄᑎᓂᑫᓴᐠ ᐊᔭᐊᐧᐠ,

ᐊᐱᑕ ᑲᔦ ᐃᒪ ᓄᑎᓂᑫᐃᐧᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐃᓇᓄᑭᐊᐧᐠ, ᐃᒪ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᒣ 200 ᑲᐱᑲᐧᑕᑭᐁᐧᐣᑕᑲᐧᑭᐣ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᑕᓇᐱᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑕᓇᓄᑭᐊᐧᐠ. “ᑭᒋᓀᑕᑲᐧᐣ ᐅᒪ ᑲᑕᑭᐧᓇᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧᓂᐠ,” ᐃᑭᑐ ᒪᐢᑐᕑ ᑲᐧᕑᐳᕑᐊᓫ ᑭᓂᐸᐟ ᑊᐯᐣᐢ ᐊᑕᐊᐧᐱᐢᑲᐟ ᐁᐅᒋᐨ, ᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐠ ᐃᔑᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧ. “ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᐧᑲ ᓂᑲᐊᐧᓂᑫᓯᐣ ᒥᓂᑯᐠ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ ᑲᐱᔑᐊᐧᐊᐧᐸᐣᑕᒪᐣ. ᐯᔑᑲᐧ ᐁᑲᑭᔑᑲᐠ ᓂᑭᐸᐸᒥᐱᓱᒥᐣ ᐃᐢᑭᑐᑲᐠ 18 ᑕᓱᐊᐧᑲᓭ. ᑲᐃᐧᓂᐣ ᐃᑯ ᑲᐃᔑᒪᒥᓇᐧᑕᒧᐠ ᒥᑲᓇᐠ ᒋᓀᐣᑕᑲᐧᐠ ᑲᑭᐃᔑᐱᒥᔭᔭᐠ. ᐱᓇᒪ ᑲᔦ ᓂᑭᒥᑲᓇᑫᒥᐣ ᑫᓂᔕᔭᐠ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᑭᐊᓂᒪᐣ ᐁᑭᐡᑲᐧᑯᓇᑲᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐁᒪᒋᐁᐧᐸᐠ. ᑌᐯᐧ ᐱᑯ ᑭᐊᓂᒪᓄᐸᐣ.” “ᓂᔑᑕᓇᐃᐧᐊᐦᑭ ᑕᐡ ᓂᓯᑕᐃᐧᓇᑲᐧᓂ ᒥᓂᑯᐠ ᐅᐁᐧᓂ ᑲᑭᐱᐃᓇᓄᑭᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᓄᑎᓂᑫᓴᐠ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ,” ᐃᑭᑐ ᑲᑊᑎᐣ ᒪᕑᐠ ᕑᐃᐟᐊᐧᐨ, ᒪᔭᑦ ᑲᐅᒋᓂᑲᓂᐡᑲᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᓄᑎᓂᑫᓴᐠ. “ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᐧᑲ ᓂᑭᐱᐅᐣᒋ ᑐᑕᓯᒥᐣ ᐊᐧᓴ ᒋᐱᒥᔭᔭᐠ. ᒥᑕᐡ ᑲᑭᐃᓀᑕᒪᑭᐸᐣ ᒥᐦᐅᒪ ᑫᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᑭᑭᓇᐊᐧᓯᓇᑯᑐᔭᑭᐸᐣ ᒥᓂᑯᐠ ᑲᑭᐱᔑ ᑲᐡᑭᐦᐅᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᓀᑎᔭᐣ ᐅᓄᑎᓂᑫᓴᐠ ᒋᓇᑯᑕᒪᑫᔭᐠ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑲᑭᐱᑕᓇᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫᔭᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐱᑯ ᑲᓀᑎᔭᐣ

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ᐊᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᐅᐃᐧ ᑎᐸᑭᐧᓂᑯᐣ ᐅᓄᑕᓯᓂᑫᐠ ᐃᐁᐧᓂ ᐅᐣᒋ ᐊᒋᑯᓴᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂᐠ

ᒧᐢ ᑭᕑᐃ ᐅᑎᔑᐊᐧᐸᐣᑕᓇᐊᐧ ᒋᐃᐧᐣᒋ ᒥᓄᓭᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᐁᐧᓂ ᐅᐣᒋ ᓫᐅᐃᐧᕑ ᒪᑕᑲᒥ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧᐣ

ᐊᐣᑌᕑᐃᔭ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᑭᐸᑭᑎᓇᐣᓇᐊᐧ ᐅᑕᔑᑌᐣᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᑲᑭ ᑎᐸᑭᐧᓂᐣᑕᐧ ᓴᐟᐱᕑᐃ ᑲᐃᐧᐣᒋᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᓄᑕᓯᓂᑫᐠ. ᓄᕑᑎᕑᐣ ᓴᐱᕑᐃᔨᕑ ᕑᐃᓱᕑᓯᐢ ᐅᑭ ᑎᐸᑭᐧᓇᓇᐊᐧ $110 ᒥᓫᐃᔭᐣ ᐊᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᐊᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒥᓇᐊᐧ ᑲᑭ ᑲᐡᑲᑎᓂᑭᓯᓯᐊᐧᐠ ᐁᑭ ᐃᑭᑎᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐁᑭᐃᐧᐣᒋ ᐃᐧᐣᑕᒪᐃᐧᐣᑕᐧ ᐊᒋᑯᓴᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂᓂᐠ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐁᐃᐧ ᓇᑲᒋᒋᑲᓄᓂᐠ. ᐊᒋᑯᓴᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂᐠ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᑭ ᑭᐱᐡᑲᐊᐧᐊᐧᐣ ᐁᑲ ᐃᒪ ᒋᓇᑲᒋᒋᑫᓂᐨ ᑐᕑᐣ ᓴᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂᐠ, ᒣᐢᑎᐣ ᓴᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᕑᐊᑊᓴᐣ ᐯ ᑲᐃᔑ ᔓᓂᔭᐊᐧᓯᓂᑲᓂᓂᐠ ᐃᒪ ᐯᓯᐣᐨ ᐅᑕᓇᐱᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ. ᐃᐁᐧ ᑎᐸᑭᐧᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐁᑭᑐᒪᑲᐠ ᐁᑲ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐣ ᐁᑭᐃᐧᐣᒋ ᐃᐧᐣᑕᒪᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᓇᐣᑕ ᐁᑲ ᐁᑭᐃᐧᐣᒋ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐊᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᓄᕑᑎᕑᐣ ᓴᐱᕑᐃᔨᕑ ᕑᐃᓱᕑᓯᐢ ᐊᐱ ᑲᓂᑲᑲᓄᓇᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓇᐣ ᐸᓂᒪ ᐱᑯ ᑲᒥᓂᐣᑕᐧ ᓴᑭᒋᐁᐧᐱᓂᑫᐃᐧ ᐯᐸᓂᓂ. ᓄᕑᑎᕑᐣ ᓴᐱᕑᐃᔨᕑ ᕑᐃᓱᕑᓯᐢ ᐃᑭᑎᐊᐧᐠ ᐃᐁᐧᓂ ᐃᑭᑎᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᓇᑕᒪᓯᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑲ ᐁᑲᐧᔭᑯᒪᑲᓂᓂᐠ ᓇᐣᑕ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ ᑲᑭᒋᓀᐣᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐁᒪᑌᓂᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᐁᑲ ᒋᐃᔑ ᓇᑕᒪᐊᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᐅᓇᑕᓯᓂᑫᐠ ᐊᐱ ᐅᑦᐱᐁᐧᓭᒪᑲᓂᓂᐠ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᐃᐧᐣᒋ.

ᒧᐢ ᑭᕑᐃ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᑕᓇᐱᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᒋᑫᐣᑕᓇᐊᐧ ᐊᓂᐣ ᑫᑭᔑ ᐊᓂ ᒥᓄᓭᐊᐧᐨ ᔓᓂᔭᐃᐧᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑲᐃᐧᑕᓄᑭᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᐃᐡᑯᑌᐃᐧ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂ ᐃᐁᐧᓂ ᓫᐅᐃᐧᕑ ᒪᑕᑲᒥ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧᐣ. ᐃᐁᐧ ᓫᐅᐃᐧᕑ ᒪᑕᑲᒥ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧᐣ ᐁᐃᐧ ᓇᐣᑭᒋᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᐡᑭ ᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃᑲᓇᐣ ᐃᒪ ᓂᓴᐧᔦᐠ ᑲᐃᔑᔭᑭᐣ ᐃᐡᑯᑌᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐣ. ᒧᐢ ᑭᕑᐃ ᐅᑭᒪᑲᐣ ᓄᕑᒪᐣ ᐦᐊᕑᑎᐢᑎ ᒍᓂᔨᕑ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᒣ ᒥᑕᓯᒥᑕᓇ ᐁᐃᐧᐣᒋ ᐊᔭᑭᐣ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐊᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᐅᑕᓂᔑᓂᒪᐣ ᐁᐊᔭᓂᐨ ᐊᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᑕᐡ ᑲᔦ ᑯᑕᑭᐠ ᐸᐦᑲᐣ ᑲᐊᔭᑭᐣ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓇᐣ. “ᐃᐁᐧ ᓫᐅᐃᐧᕑ ᒪᑕᑲᒥ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧᐣ ᑕᔭᓂ ᐃᐡᑲᐧ ᐃᓭ ᓇᐣᑕ ᓂᑲᐣ ᓂᔑᔭᑭ, ᓴᑯᐨ ᐃᐁᐧ ᒥᓂᑯᐠ ᐁᐃᔑ ᑕᐃᐧᓭᐠ ᒋᐃᐧᐣᒋ ᓇᐸᐱᑫᓇᒪᐠ ᑯᑕᑭᐣ ᔓᓂᔭᐊᐧᓯᓂᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ, ᐊᑎᑲ ᑎᑐᕑ ᑯᓫᐟ, ᐃᒪ ᑲᐃᔑ ᐊᓯᑕᐣᑭᓯᔭᐠ,” ᐦᐊᕑᑎᐢᑎ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ. “ᐅᓇᒋᑫᐃᐧᓀᐢ ᑲᔦ ᓂᑕᔭᒥᐣ ᑎᐱᕑᐢ, ᐁᑲᐧ ᐃᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᓂᔑᐣ ᑲᐊᔭᑭᐣ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᓇᐣᑕ ᓂᔑᔕᑊ ᒥᓂᑯᐠ ᓂᔑᑕᓇ ᐊᐦᑭᐣ ᑭᔭᐱᐨ ᑕᐊᔭᐊᐧᐣ, ᑫᒋᓇᐨ ᓂᑲ ᐃᔑ ᓇᐸᐱᑫᓂᑫᒥᐣ ᐃᒪ ᑲᐃᔑ ᐅᐡᒋᑫᔭᐠ ᐃᒪ ᓂᔑᐣ ᐊᓂᑭᐃᐧ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ.”

The families and a victim of gang violence spoke about how it impacted their lives at an antigang conference in Fort William (top); a Pikangikum nurse has passed the first hurdle to go on a one-way trip to Mars (left); and Moose Cree First Nation foresees benefits for the Lower Mattagami Project (below).

Ontario sued by resource company over Sachigo Lake

Moose Cree foresees benefits from Lower Mattagami Project Moose Cree First Nation is looking forward to local economic benefits from its partnership with Ontario Power Generation on the Lower Mattagami Project.

The Lower Mattagami Project involves the addition of new units at three existing generating stations.

Moose Cree Chief Norman Hardisty Jr. said the project has created hundreds of jobs for community members and other First Nation people.

“The Lower Mattagami Project will phase out in two years time, but even at that it gives us opportunities to transfer that capacity we have from there to other mines, for example Detour Gold, which we’re a part of,” Hardisty said. “We also have a mini agreement with De Beers, so with those two projects being around for the next (12-20) years, certainly we can transfer all of that capacity that we are building into those projects.”

The Ontario government has filed its statement of defence after being sued by a Sudbury-based resource company.

Northern Superior Resources filed a $110 million lawsuit against Ontario last November claiming the province failed to consult Sachigo Lake First Nation.

Sachigo Lake prevented the company from accessing its Thorne Lake, Meston Lake and Rapson Bay gold properties near the First Nation.

The lawsuit alleges that the government did not undertake any consultation nor did it assist Northern Superior Resources in engaging with the community until after it was issued an “eviction” notice by the First Nation.

Northern Superior Resources says the statement of defence fails to address several key items of the lawsuit and alleges Ontario will leave resource companies to fend for themselves when issues arise with First Nations.

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Page 3 ᑲᓇᑲᐡᑲᒥᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᐅᑭᔭᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᒪᒋᒋᑫᐠ ᑲᒪᒪᐤᑕᔑᐣᒋᑲᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑭᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒪᐊᐧᐠ ᑎᐯᐣᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑲᒧᐡᑲᒋᑭᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᑲᐅᑭᔭᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᒪᒪᒋᒋᑫᐠ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᒣ 200 ᐅᓂᑭᑯᒪᐠ, ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐅᑲᑲᓄᓂᐁᐧᐠ ᐅᒪ ᑲᐃᐧᐣᒋᐊᐧᐨ ᒥᓯᐁᐧ ᑲᓇᑕ ᑭᒪᒪᐤᐡᑲᐊᐧᐠ ᐃᐁᐧᓂ ᑲᓇᑲᐡᑲᒥᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᐅᑭᔭᐊᐧᐨ ᒪᒪᒋᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᑭ ᐱᒋᐱᐳᓂᑭᓯᓯᐊᐧᐠ 15 ᐁᑭ ᑭᑭᓇᐦᐊᒪᐃᐧᐣᑕᐧ ᐊᓂᐣ ᑫᑭᔑ ᓇᑲᐡᑲᒥᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑲᐧ ᑫᐃᔑ ᒥᑲᑕᒥᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᐅᑭᔭᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᒪᒪᒋᒋᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐅᑎᐡᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ. ᐊᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᑎᐯᐣᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑌᐢᒪᐣᐟ ᒪᑎᔪᐢ, ᑭᒋᓇᒣᑯᓯᐱᐠ ᑲᐃᐧᐣᒋᐨ ᑲᑭ ᐸᔑᐸᐃᐧᑯᐸᐣ ᐃᒪ ᑲᐃᐧᐣᒋ ᑎᐯᐣᑕᑯᓯᐨ ᑲᐅᑭᔭᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᒪᒪᒋᒋᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᑲᒥᓂᑲᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ, ᐃᒪ ᑫᐃᐧᓇᐊᐧ ᑭᐊᔭᐊᐧᐠ ᐁᑭ ᑕᔑᐣᑕᒥᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᐣ ᑲᑭᔑ ᒧᐡᑲᒋᐦᐃᑭᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᐱ ᑲᑭᐡᑲᐧᐱᒪᑎᓯᓂᐨ. “ᒪᒋᔭᒥᑕᐣ ᐃᐁᐧ ᑲᐅᑭᔭᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᒪᒪᒋᒋᑫᓇᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑭᐃᑭᑎᓇᓂᐊᐧᐣ, ᓂᐳᔭᐣ ᐁᑕ ᑲᑭᔑ ᐸᑭᑎᓇᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᒥᐁᐧ ᑲᑭᔑ ᐃᐡᑲᐧᐱᒪᑎᓯᐨ ᓂᐢᑌᐢ,”ᑭᑭᑐ ᓫᐃᔪᓇ ᒪᑎᔪᐢ, ᑌᐢᒪᐣᐟ ᐅᒋᒥᒐᐣ. “ᐁᑭᑲᑫᐧ ᐃᐡᑲᐧ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᐨ, ᐁᑭ ᑲᑫᐧ ᐳᓂᑐᐨ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᐸᐣ ᐁᑭᔑ ᓂᓴᑲᓄᐨ.” ᐢᑲᐟ ᒣᓭᓀᑭᓯᐠ ᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑭᐸᔕᐸᐊᐧᑲᓄ ᐃᒪ ᑲᑭᔑ ᒥᓂᑲᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐅᑎᓇᐱᓀᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑭᓂᐳᓭ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐁᑲ ᐁᑭᓇᓄᐣᑕᑯᓯᐨ. ᐅᐃᐧᐣᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᒪ ᑭᐃᐧᐣᒋ ᓄᐣᑕᑲᐧᓄᐣ ᐱᐊᐧᐱᑯᐠ ᑲᔭᐸᑕᐠ. “ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᑭᑕᐣᑕᐁᐧᓂᒥᓯᓇᐊᐧ ᐅᐁᐧ ᒋᓇᑭᐡᑲᒣᐠ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑭᒋᔭᓂᒪᐠ ᒪᔭᑦ ᐱᑯ ᐁᒪᒋᑕᐁᐧᐱᓂᑯᔭᐣ,” ᒣᓭᓀᑭᓯᐠ ᐁᑭᑭᑎᐨ ᐃᒪ ᑲᑭᔑ ᒪᐊᐧᒋᑎᓇᓂᐊᐧᐠ. “ᒧᔕᐠ ᐃᐧᒋᐤ ᑭᑐᑌᒪᐠ ᐊᐱ ᐸᐸᒥᔭᔦᐠ. ᑭᐱᒪᑎᓯᐃᐧᐣ ᐱᑲᐧᓇᐱ ᑕᐃᐧᐣᒋ ᓇᐸᑎᓭ, ᑌᐯᐧᑕᐃᐧᓯᐣ.”

Anti-gang conference features families affected by gang violence More than 200 parents, youth and several guest speakers from across Canada attended an anti-gang conference on Jan. 15 to learn how to prevent and combat gangs and their activities.

The family of Desmond Matthews, a Kitchenumaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation member who was stabbed by gang members at a party, were on hand to discuss how his death impacted them.

“Stay away from the gang life because they say, the only way you get out is you die and that’s how my brother went,”said Leona Matthews, Desmond’s sister. “He tried to get out, he wanted to get out and he died trying to get out.”

Scott Mesenegeesic was also stabbed at the same party and the injuries left him partially paralyzed and unable to speak. He had to share his story through a voice computer device.

“I don’t want you guys to go through what I’m going through because this is hell,” Mesengeesic said at the conference. “Stay with friends when you go out. Your life can go upside just like that, believe me.”

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Ontario defends lawsuit filed by junior explorer Dispute with Sachigo Lake First Nation led Northern Superior Resources to sue province and develop the claims free of interference and with a view to profit.”

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The Ontario government in January filed its statement of defence for a $125-million lawsuit brought against it by a junior exploration company with mining claims near Sachigo Lake First Nation.

Northern Superior Resources (NSR), based in Sudbury, had for several years explored for gold in Sachigo’s traditional territory with the First Nation’s consent. However, the company stopped exploration in 2012 when its relations with Sachigo soured.

Later, on Oct. 24, 2013, NSR filed a lawsuit against Ontario, claiming that the province “failed to consult with First Nations as required by law” regarding the company’s exploration. NSR asked for compensation of $110 million for damages it said resulted, including: lost opportunities to finance, develop and/or sell the properties; loss of opportunity to profit from “potentially worldclass mineral deposits”; and reduced value of NSR’s stock.

NSR also claimed it should be reimbursed $15 million

by Ontario for monies spent acquiring and developing the properties.

“Having obtained all the necessary authorizations for mineral exploration under the Mining Act, and taken every reasonable measure to engage any First Nation … to be affected from its work,” the company stated, “NSR had a reasonable expectation that it would able to explore

“NSR had a reasonable expectation that it would able to explore and develop the claims free of interference and with a view to profit.”

-Northern Superior Resources

However, in its statement of defence, Ontario argued: “At all times, NSR knew or ought to have known that any rights it enjoyed under the (Mining) Act were potentially subject to competing and constitutionally-protected Aboriginal and treaty rights. The Canadian mining industry was well aware of this.”

Added the province, elsewhere in its defence: “Contrary to NSR’s assertions, any and all duties to consult Sachigo Lake First Nation with respect to NSR’s mining claims were satisfied.” And even if it had failed to adequately consult, “no liability to NSR would result.”

NSR said it had engaged, consulted with and accommodated Sachigo “of its own accord and in good faith” from the beginning of its exploration program in 2005 until about mid 2012.

“Approximately one quarter of the amounts spent by NSR in exploration in the properties was paid to or for the benefit of the Sachigo Lake First Nation under a series of impact benefit

agreements (IBAs),” NSR said, with the understanding the IBAs were necessary because of Aboriginal and treaty rights asserted by the First Nation.

Those payments were for salaries, infrastructure, capacity funding, and community donations. NSR sometimes worked out of Sachigo’s Echoing Lake Lodge, used the community’s floatplane service, and hired Sachigo members to assist in the exploration.

But NSR alleged that in 2011, Sachigo began making demands “which were unreasonable and incapable of being met by NSR as a responsible corporation and public company. For example, invoices would be submitted to NSR which could not be related to any agreed upon or approved expenditure.”

Further, NSR said, “In the fall of 2011, Sachigo Lake First Nation physically detained two NSR employees (along with some of the company’s equipment) for a day in an attempt to obtain payment from NSR that was not at the time due.”

NSR said it made the early payment, put a premature stop to its exploration for that year and suffered a related loss of $40,000.

At the end of 2011, NSR alleged, the First Nation demanded an administration fee of “24 per cent of total project expenditures” for exploration proposed for 2012.

According to NSR, Sachigo also demanded the company utilize an aircraft belonging to the First Nation but which NSR deemed unsafe. NSR refused to

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Sachigo Lake. meet these two demands.

An exchange of letters failed to resolve matters in June 2012, and NSR ended its exploration program.

“These difficulties were made known to Ontario by NSR,” the company said. “No information, assistance, direction with respect to these difficulties, or with respect to any form of consultation with or accommodation of any First Nation … was ever provided by Ontario to NSR.” But in its defence, the province replied: “NSR at no time made any request of MNDM (Ministry of Northern Development and Mines) that it attempt to facilitate a resolution to these disputes.”

The province said when NSR provided background details of the dispute to MNDM in September 2012, the ministry met with Sachigo chief and council the following month.

“At that time, MNDM heard complaints from Sachigo Lake

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First Nation about the conduct of NSR, particularly in regard to staking claims without informing Sachigo and conducting exploration activities outside the agreements made with the First Nation.” But Sachigo also expressed willingness to work out difficulties with NSR.

“Ontario cannot be held responsible for either Sachigo’s demands or NSR’s decision to reject them.”

– Ontario statement of defence

Ontario said it then offered to facilitate a resolution. It also provided NSR the option of participating in a new regulatory process under the Mining Act, effective November 2012,

which would require consultation and offer a dispute resolution process. The province quoted a written response from NSR: “… (I)t is clear from the events of 2011-12 that no amount of continuing dialogue or intercession by your ministry has any prospect for creating the conditions that would make it possible for the company to return and again invest in the project.”

In addition to its dispute with Sachigo, NSR noted that in 2012, Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) advised that the company’s mining claims might also fall within KI’s traditional territory and were therefore subject to the First Nation’s exploration moratorium. Red Sucker Lake First Nation, based in Manitoba, also asserted an interest in the area.

Responding to a request from KI, also in 2012, the province agreed to withdraw KI lands in general from claim staking until the First Nation finished its own assessment work over several years.

“As a result of this action by Ontario, NSR … lost the option to expand the Thorne Lake and Meston Lake properties,” the company said.

Ontario countered: “NSR had no right, title or interest in the lands withdrawn from staking.”

In asking the court to dismiss NSR’s lawsuit, the province’s lawyers concluded: “Ontario cannot be held responsible for either Sachigo’s demands or NSR’s decision to reject them.”

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Misplaced values

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Wawatay at DFC, December 2013.

Stephanie Wesley SEVEN MEDIA DIRECTOR

T

here was a story that was circulating on social media in January about a couple in Thunder Bay who were charged for animal cruelty.

The story was sad, and I agree that no defenseless animal should ever have to suffer so much. Animals deserve respect and a loving home, and a lot of the reactions from the general public were of outrage.

They wanted blood.

Some social media users publicly outted the faces and names of the couple that were charged, and the things that were said about the couple were so horrible it made me stop reading a lot of the comments.

I don’t condone animal cruelty. I hated reading about what happened, but what I started to notice were the other posts about the topic.

Some started to question, why so much outrage over this animal cruelty case but so little outrage over the missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada?

Wasn’t it just 13 months ago that a local woman was reported to have been kidnapped, raped, beaten, strangled, and left for dead in the woods here in Thunder Bay? I don’t remember seeing anywhere near the amount of outrage over that brutal attack that I did over the animals.

The two people at the center of the animal cruelty case have been charged, they’re “caught.”

But the two men behind the December 2012 rape are still unknown, walking around free with that on their conscience.

Or maybe it’s not on their conscience at all.

Isn’t that even scarier?

Isn’t that worth 10 times the amount of outrage and disbelief? To think you could be standing in line at a gas station or grocery store beside one of these rapists, who have no sense of remorse at all for what they did, should

be frightening.

And what about the person, or persons, who murdered Sandra Johnson, whose body was found on the frozen Neebing-McIntyre floodway on Valentine’s Day in 1992 in Thunder Bay? That murder is still unsolved. The killer is still walking free, over 20 years after Sandra’s demise, with that on their shoulders. Sandra’s sister Sharon has been holding the Full Moon Memory Walk on Valentine’s Day for the memory of her sister for the last five years; this year will be her sixth year.

I am unsure if Sharon will never be able to let something like that go without any real closure on what happened to Sandra. How do you recover from the loss of a sister, a best friend, a mother, a cousin, a loved one? Especially one who died in such a tragic way?

Does Sandra’s death, the December 2012 assault victim, countless other assault victims, and the recently documented 824 missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada, not deserve at the very least the same amount of outrage and calls to action from the general public as the two abused animals did?

I feel it does. I feel it matters just as much, if not more. I feel that the issue is not something that should only be addressed when another women has gone missing, or another woman is found dead, or another woman is the victim of violence, or when any news outlet needs a story.

I feel the story of missing and murdered Aboriginal women never ends until someone is found, until a killer is caught, until someone is brought home safe, until our women and children are safe, and until all of the broken hearts are healed.

There is an Amnesty International poster I have up in my office that has a young woman on it who is holding a sign that reads “Aboriginal women are loved and valued.”

Sometimes I can’t help but wonder why does this country need a sign to remind them of that?

And why do I need to look at that sign every day at work to remind myself of that?

Stay safe.

You are loved and you are valued.

A Mouth Full Of Problems Xavier Kataquapit UNDER THE NORTHERN SKY

Recently I had to deal with a tooth pain so I looked up a dentist in the area and made an appointment.

Like most people, I dread going to see the dentist and that is a shame.

Thankfully, my original problem was not too far gone but after my initial examination, the dentist realized that I had better schedule myself in for basic teeth cleaning and a further examination.

I am a terrible dental patient and it had been several years since my last visit for a checkup.

I had wrongly assumed that by brushing regularly and occasionally flossing my teeth, this would be enough to maintain my oral health. Thankfully during this visit to my dentist I was given a good education on tooth care. I discovered that it was not merely my white teeth I had to worry about but also as important are the condition of the soft pink gums that hold everything together.

The doctor used the analogy that a tooth is similar to a fence post resting on hardened and packed earth. The gums of the mouth act as the earth surrounding the post. When the gums become affected by the

brown solid buildup around the base of the tooth, this is actually bacteria that causes weakness.

Slowly this weakening drifts deeper and deeper into the gum until it reaches the base of the tooth.

At this point, serious problems start to occur with a person’s oral health. As the bacteria move down the tooth, it is no longer being held on solid ground.

To continue the analogy, the fence post is now being held by soft weak earth and the wooden pole is now free to move around as it no longer has support. If this kind of a condition is not caught in the early stages then it can lead to a loss of teeth on a grand scale.

Everyone has a bit of a phobia when it comes to seeing the dentist. I believe that First Nation people from remote communities have more exaggerated dentist phobias. For most First Nations there is no on site, local dentist.

We have to rely on visiting dentist tours.

I recall most of my visits to the dentist when I was a child back in Attawapiskat as intense to say the least. Due to the fact that we had never had the convenience of a dentist in the community we only received care occasionally and mostly in a situation that was critical. I don’t remember getting any kind of education much that had to do with preventative maintenance and any real knowledge of how important to my health my teeth were. We all saw dentists from a more or less last resort emergency situation that only had to do with pain.

As a matter of fact the Cree world for dentist is Kah-mee-nahpee-teh-pee-chee-keh-t, “the one who pulls teeth out.”

As children, we grew up with an older generation that never understood fully how to maintain good oral health. Our parents and grandparents subsisted on wild food with very few processed foods or sugars in their diet. This meant that most of my Elders had fairly healthy teeth for much of their lives.

With the arrival of the Europeans many things changed including our diet and the introduction of new foods including sugar. More processed foods and lots sugar made it into our regular diet.

As a child, I can remember craving hard candies, chips, pop and chocolate bars. I begged my parents for these treats as often as I could. Fortunately for me, our family was not always able to afford these luxuries and most of the time I had to go without.

However, the added sugar in my diet and poor tooth care on my part meant that by the time I became a teenager any visits I had to the dentist were critical and resulted in tooth pulling and fillings.

When the dentist visited our First Nation people lined up with all types of dire tooth problems. To be fair most of the time people were treated on their degree of seriousness. The worst affected were the ones treated first. I can remember sitting in the waiting room as a child for hours surrounded by many other

nervous and anxious community members. Appointments always ran late and we had to endure sitting there listening to moaning and sometimes screaming patients as we waited our turn.

By the time I made it to the big reclining dentist’s chair I was a nervous mess and ready to scream at the slightest touch of any instrument put into my mouth. Then things went very rapidly and the next thing you know I was back out on my way home with tears in my eyes and a frozen tongue and mouth.

The fact that an expert who was educated in tooth care had helped me out was lost on my pain and anxious state.

Thanks to Dr. Vos and his team of professionals in Brantford, Ont., I now have a better idea of what tooth care is really all about. I have an improved understanding of what I must do to maintain my teeth and in general I feel better about visiting the dentist office. When I am in the south I find it very easy to receive dental care and I can choose from so many doctors.

However, I am saddened that dental care is still not available to most remote First Nations in the north on a full time basis. There is no doubt that my people suffer because they don’t have easy access to dental care and that makes life all the more difficult.

One thing for sure at this point is that I intend to take better care of my teeth and to see my dentist regularly over the year. I want to live a long life with a good bite in it.

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Seven (Separate) Values Simon Owen SENTENCES: JUSTICE ISSUES IN NAN

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ood morning, Your Honour.

I do apologize for being late – I was just admiring those beautiful paintings that are hanging out in the hallway. Yes, that’s right, there are seven, one for each of the Grandfather Teachings. Hard to imagine more inspiring values, isn’t it?

Courage, Truth, Respect, Love, Honesty, Wisdom, Humility.

Or, as a Nishnaabeg might know them: Aakde’ewin, Debwewin, Mnaadendiwin, Zaagidewin, Gwekwaadiziwin, Nbwaakawin, Dbadendiziwin.

I do beg your pardon, Madam Reporter. You’ll just have to bear with me. Anyway, Your Honour, although I can’t say I understand the history and importance of these values in the Nishnawbe-Aski Nation, you’ll probably agree with me that they aren’t quite the same principles that we use in our Canadian justice system.

Well, this got me to thinking, what are our principles?

I know we must have some.

For the sake of balance, let me propose seven: Equality All people must be held to

the same rules, and granted the same rights. Often symbolized as a blindfolded woman, this is supposed to make sure that the law treats everybody the same, no matter what they look like, what culture they belong to, or how much money they make. But it kind of makes you wonder why rich people always hire those fancy lawyers...

Individuality Canadian justice places all its weights and entitlements in the laps of individuals, setting them apart from their families, communities, and cultures. The prisoner’s box, in other words, can be a very lonely place. Defence lawyers help people through this ordeal by maximizing their legal protections and minimizing the burdens the system might force upon them, and also by telling the court about their background, circumstances, and future prospects.

Ultimately, however, in the Canadian system, every man or woman is an island.

Adversarialism Canadian justice depends on the participation of people directly affected by a conflict, but does so in a way that encourages opposition.

In a system focused entirely on the responsibility of offenders, all other participants (including victims) become potential witnesses for the prosecution

or defence, and can even be forced to answer questions in court. The accused person him- or herself, by contrast, is granted the absolute right to remain silent. All they must indicate is a plea – guilty or not.

Rules – Evidence and Relevance Canadian law is all about rules, which regulate every aspect of the stories that are told in court – how investigations are conducted, what witnesses can say, and the kind of decisions that judges can make. This means that very rarely will the ‘full truth’ come out in the course of a trial or (especially) a guilty plea: some people will never be asked for their testimony, and those who do must only respond directly to the questions they are asked. This allows us to focus in on what the rules say is ‘relevant’ to a particular issue (usually, whether or not a person can be found guilty), but even when a court has closed its case, the actual people involved may be struggling with questions that were never answered – or even asked.

Proof Canadian justice trumpets the presumption of innocence – that is, unless and until the prosecution presents sufficient evidence to convince a court, beyond a reasonable doubt, of a person’s guilt, that person

ought not to be punished.

Proof is the currency by which all the system’s judgments are meant to be purchased. Despite this value, however, the system can still lean heavily upon people accused (but not yet convicted) of wrongdoing.

Defendants will often be questioned, held in custody, offered deals, and otherwise pressured to ‘make the case against themselves’ by pleading guilty. In principle, of course, this decision must still be voluntary, sincere, and well-informed. In practice, well... that’s the subject for another column.

Proportional Punishment Once guilt is established – either after the rituals of a trial or a defendant’s simple admission – the Canadian justice system promises to respond to wrongdoing by inflicting a just measure of pain upon offenders. While rehabilitation is upheld as an important factor, punishment – in other words, jail – remains its most basic moral response.

Proportionality – the principle that punishment must be individually apportioned according to the seriousness of the offence and the blameworthiness of the offender – is meant to justify the punishments the system imposes.

Hierarchy While the parties to a case (on their own or through

legal representatives) are responsible for presenting evidence and argument, all determinations of fact, law, guilt, and punishment are made by the court (composed of a judge and, occasionally, a jury of the defendant’s ‘peers’). If the litigants don’t like these decisions, or consider them wrong, they can appeal to other judges, and on up a chain ending with the Supreme Court of Canada.

While judicial decisionmakers are supposed to consider the perspectives of those involved in conflict or wrongdoing, they are not there to cultivate consensus, or ensure that everybody (heck, anybody) is satisfied with the result. As well as deciding cases based on the facts, judges have to apply the law that is made for them by politicians and higherlevel courts. This means that, even if they think a certain punishment may be inappropriate in the case before them, they still have to impose it if the Canadian Parliament tells them they have to.

Yes, Your Honour, I do realize that there’s nothing ‘wrong’ with these principles.

If we truly lived up to them all, they might even amount to something we call justice.

But I have to ask, how well do our values reflect, and how well can they facilitate, the Seven Grandfathers?

What does it mean, for example, to uphold truth or honesty in a system that

tells people to be silent, or restricts what they can and can’t say? In a structure that puts a premium on litigating contested facts, and imposing individual blame and punishment, what does it mean to exhibit wisdom, or love?

Sorry, Your Honour. I know you’re supposed to be asking the tough questions here, not me. But maybe the justice we think we’re doing in the Nishnawbe-Aski Nation, if it is based on such different values, isn’t really doing the Anishinaabe much justice at all.

Have a question for our columnist related to law issues in northern Ontario?

E-mail him at: smowen@tbaytel. net

Simon Owen is a lawyer at Beamish and Associates in Sioux Lookout, and practices primarily in the areas of criminal defence law and community justice initiatives. Most of the people and communities he serves are members of the Nishnawbe-Aski Nation, who continually inspire and challenge him to find justice both within and beyond (or in spite of) the Canadian court system. Simon holds law degrees from the University of Victoria and the University of British Columbia, where his thesis work focused on moral and cultural communication in sentencing.

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Granny Wabano focuses on positives of life Lenny Carpenter Wawatay News

A Mushkegowuk Elder and the oldest residential school survivor in the country celebrated her 110st birthday on Jan. 28.

Marguerite Wabano (nee Kioke) was a year old when Treaty 9 was first signed. She was 10 when the First World War broke out. When the Great Depression hit, she was in her 20s.

She was 35 years old when Germany invaded Poland to start the Second World War. Granny Wabano already lived 65 years when mankind first landed on the moon.

On her 110st birthday, more than 200 family members and friends gathered to celebrate with the woman affectionately known as Granny Wabano.

“She was all excited when she came in, smiling all hard,” said her granddaughter, Joyce Spence. “She was always laughing and that made others laugh.”

Granny Wabano was born in 1904 out in the bush along Ekwan River, north of what would become Attawapiskat First Nation.

Since there was no hospital, she was delivered by midwives.

She was one of the youngest of six siblings to her parents, David and Hannah Kioke.

When she was about seven years old, she attended St. Anne’s Indian Residential School, located in what is now known as Fort Albany.

After two years of attending the school, her family moved farther into the bush to hide her and her siblings from the school and authorities.

As she approached adulthood, Marguerite met Raphael “Napihen” Wabano along Kattawapis-

kak River (known to Anglophones as Attawapiskat River).

They married and she gave birth to seven children.

However, times grew tough.

The fur-bearing animals so essential to the people of northern Ontario for trading became scarce.

“It was difficult times living off the land in Attawapiskat,” Spence said. “They got close to starvation.”

Three of their children died while they were still very young.

Spence said her grandmother does not talk much of the hard days, “just the good times.”

“She has her times where she talks about things from long time ago, but she wouldn’t dwell on it, the anger part,” Spence said. “It was just the way of life, I guess.”

Napihen relocated his family to Moosonee where he sought work. He provided for his family, and even owned a nine horsepower motor and canoe, “which was considered rich back then,” Spence said.

Granny Wabano also worked at times, taking odd jobs doing laundry and cleaning at the mission and hospital.

The family settled permanently in Moosonee, where she raised her two sons and two daughters.

Her children have bared her 23 grandchildren, among them Spence.

“She’s always been the stern one,” Spence said of her grandmother compared to Napihen.

“Whatever she said was right.

We took it to heart.”

She added with a laugh: “We were scared of her too because she kept us in line.”

But Granny Wabano has a lighter side.

“She was always funny,”

Photo by Joyce Spence

Marguerite “Granny” Wabano with her late husband Raphael. The couple were married for more than 75 years.

Spence said. “Play jokes or make us laugh.”

She was also thrifty and always advised her family not to waste.

“Like she would cut up a(n empty) bag of chips and make a necklace of out it,” Spence said.

And she would give gifts like such a necklace to visitors, another trait Granny Wabano tries to pass on.

“Always be generous to other people because you never know what they’re going through,” Spence said.

Having lived so long, Granny Wabano is often amused at the technology and conveniences the world has developed.

Spence was on hand to see her granny go on escalators for the first time. Granny Wabano laughed, and said in Cree, “Ever do everything these white people.”

“She was amazed at that,”

Spence said, “but nothing surprises her at the same time because they’re always doing something.”

Living so long also saw Granny Wabano experience the loss of loved ones. This includes Napihen, who passed when the couple were in their 90’s. They had been married for more than 75 years.

These days, Granny Wabano continues to live alone in the apartment she and her husband had shared for years, though she does get help for her children or grandchildren.

She likes to eat traditional foods, like geese, fish and dumplings.

“She can whip up a mean bannock,” Spence said with a laugh.

“She makes the best bannock in the whole world.”

And she drinks traditional teas and medicines.

“You’ll always find a pot of,

bark tea, I guess you’ll call it,” Spence said. “You’ll never find any pharmaceutical medicines in her house. She refused to take those pills. She relies on traditional medicines.”

Granny Wabano uses a walker but is still mobile. At her recent birthday party, she walked up and down the stairs on her own.

Although her hearing and eyesight are slowly fading, she is still alert.

She has also maintained her Christian faith and attends mass regularly.

“If a person’s late (to pick her up), she’ll walk alone if she has to,” Spence said.

Granny Wabano falls ill at times but always manages to recover.

Spence said when her granny was 99, doctors put in a pacemaker for her heart. But years later, doctors discovered the pacemaker had stopped working

and did not know for how long.

But Granny Wabano’s heart continues to beat.

To date, Granny Wabano has 23 grandkids, 77 great-grandchildren and 81 great -greatgrandchildren.

“And there’s a few more coming out this year,” Spence said with a laugh.

And it’s the youth that captures Granny Wabano’s heart, as was evident at her 110th birthday part.

“Just seeing all the little kids, that’s what she liked the most I think,” Spence said.

Having lived for more than a century-and-decade, what is one of Granny Wabano’s keys to life?

Poonenamook – Cree for “forgive others.”

“It as always her main message throughout life. That’s what carried her throughout the years,” Spence said. “We’re so blessed to have her.”

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20 ᑕᓱᐊᐦᑭ ᐊᐱ ᑲᑭᒪᑕᓄᑭᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᑲᓀᑎᔭᐣ ᐅᓄᑎᓂᑫᓴᐠ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᐃᒪ ᐅᒋ ᐸᑭᑭᓂᑲᓂᐠ 1 ᓄᑎᓂᑫᐃᐧ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧᓂᐠ. ᕑᐃᐟᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᑭᑐ ᑭᐱᒥᔭᐊᐧᐠ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ -60 ᑲᐊᐱᒋᑕᑭᓄᐁᐧᓂᐠ ᒥᓇ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᑲᑭ ᑭᒋᐱᐊᐧᓂᐠ. “ᐅᑯᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᑭᐱᒥᔭᐊᐧᐨ ᑭᑭᐁᐧᐡᑲᐊᐧᐠ ᐯᔑᑯᐊᐧᑲᓭ ᑲᐃᐡᑲᐧᒪᒐᐊᐧᐨ ᐱᐊᐧᓇᐠ ᑲᑭᐅᐣᒋᒪᒐᐊᐧᐸᐣ,” ᐃᑭᑐ. “ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᑐᐣᒋᐊᐧᐸᑕᓇᐊᐧ ᐊᐣᑎ ᑲᑭᔭᓂᐱᓱᑲᐁᐧᓂᐨ ᑲᑭᓂᑲᓂᐱᓱᓂᐨ. ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᑯ ᑭᑭᒋᐱᐳᑌᓄᐁᐧ ᒥᐱᑯᐊᐱᐣ ᓀᐅᐨ ᑲᐃᔑᓂᐣᑲᐧᑕᓯᓂᐠ ᑲᔭᓂᔑᑲᐁᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑲ ᐁᑭᐊᐧᐸᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ. ᑭᔭᓂ ᑲᑭᐱᒋᓭᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᔦ ᐃᐣᑭᑐᐠ. ᐁᑭᑭᐸᐧᑲᐧᑎᐣᑭᐣ ᑲᓴᓂᐃᐧᔭᐱᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑲᐅᐣᒋ ᐃᐡᑯᑌᐃᐧᓭᐨ. ᒥᐅᓄ ᐊᑎᐟ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ ᑲᑭᐊᓂᒥᐦᐃᑯᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑲᐧ ᔕᑯᐨ ᐅᓄᑎᓂᑫᓴᐠ ᐅᑭ ᑭᑫᐣᑕᓇᐊᐧ ᑫᑐᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ.” ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᐃᐧᑭᒪ ᒐᑊᒪᐣ ᐃᑭᑐ ᐁᐧᑎ ᔕᐊᐧᓄᐠ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᑲᑲᐯᔑᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᓇᐱᐨ ᐅᓇᓂᓯᑕᐁᐧᐣᑕᓯᓇᐊᐧ ᐁᓀᐣᑕᑲᐧᓂᐠ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ. “ᓂᓇᐃᐧᐟ ᔕᐊᐧᓄᐠ ᑲᐅᐣᒋᔭᐠ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᓂᓂᓯᑕᐁᐧᑕᓯᒥᐣ ᐊᓂᐣ ᒪᔭᑦ ᐁᑐᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑯᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᓄᑎᓂᑫᓴᐠ ᑕᓱᑭᔑᑲ ᐁᐧᑎ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐊᓂᐣ ᐁᐱᒋ ᑭᒋᓀᑕᑯᓯᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ.” ᐃᑭᑐ. “ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᑲᑕᔑᐱᒪᑎᓯᓇᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᒥᑐᓂ ᑭᒋᐊᓄᑭᐁᐧᐣᑕᑲᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐊᓂᒪᐣ, ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐅᑎ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᒣᑲᐧᐱᐳᐠ. ᑲᑭᓇ ᑲᓀᑎᔭᐣ ᓇᑕᐁᐧᐣᑕᑯᓯᐸᐣ ᐊᐧᐸᑕᑭᐸᐣ ᒥᓇ ᒋᑭᑲᑫᐧ ᓂᓯᑕᐁᐧᐣᑕᑭᐸᐣ ᐊᓂᐣ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᐁᐱᑌᐣᑕᑲᐧᐠ. ᒐᑊᒪᐣ ᐃᑭᑐ ᐅᑯᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ

ᐅᓄᑎᓂᑫᓴᐠ ᐅᑕᑭᑲᑫᐧ ᑭᒋᓀᑕᓇᐊᐧ ᐅᐁᐧᓂ ᑲᐃᔑᑲᐡᑭᑐᐊᐧᐨ. “ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᑯ ᐁᑕ ᐃᒪ ᐱᑲᐧᑕᑭᐃᐧ ᐸᐸᒥᔭᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐃᒪ ᐱᑯ ᑲᑭᓇ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ ᑲᐱᐃᓇᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᒥᓇ ᑲᓇᑕ ᐊᐦᑭᐠ. ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᑯ ᑲᐧᔭᐠ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᐃᐧᐊᐧᐠ.” ᑲᑭᐸᑭᑎᓇᐠ ᐅᐃᐧᐣᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᐣ, ᓫᐅᑌᓀᐟ ᒉᓄᕑᐊᓫ ᒪᕑᑭ ᐦᐁᔾᐣᐢ. ᑲᓂᑲᓂᐨ ᑲᓀᑎᔭᐣ ᓄᑎᓂᑫᐃᐧ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧᓂᐠ, ᐅᑭᒪᒥᑫᐧᒋᐃᐧᐦᐊᐣ ᑲᓀᑎᔭᐣ ᐅᓄᑎᓂᑫᓴᐣ 20 ᑕᓱᔭᑭ ᑲᑭᐱᐊᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ. “ᑲᓇᓇᑯᓯᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᐅᑎᐟ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᐃᔑᐱᑲᐧᑕᑭᐁᐧᐣᑕᑲᐧᓂᐠ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒥᐦᐃᒪ ᐁᐅᒋ ᑫᒋᓇᐁᐧᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᓀᑎᔭᐣ ᐅᓄᑎᓂᑫᐠ ᐁᑲᐧᔭᐣᒋᑲᐸᐃᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᒋᒥᑲᓱᑕᒪᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᒪ ᑲᓇᑕ ᐊᐦᑭᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐱᑯ ᒋᐅᒋ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᐃᔑᓇᓄᑌᓭᓇᓂᐊᐧᓂᐠ,” ᑭᐃᑭᑐ. “ᐊᑯᓇᐠ ᑕᐡ ᐊᔕ ᓂᔑᑕᓇ ᑕᓱᔭᑭ ᑲᓀᑎᔭᐣ ᑭᐱᐊᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐃᒪ ᑲᓀᑎᔭᐣ ᓄᑎᓂᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ, ᒥᓇ ᐅᑭᐱᓇᑯᑐᓇᐊᐧ ᐁᒪᐡᑲᐃᐧᓯᐊᐧᐨ, ᐁᑭᒋᓀᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᒥᓇ ᐁᑲᐧᔭᐣᒋᐊᐧᐨ.”

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Longest-serving Ranger honoured Sgt. Peter Moon Special to Wawatay News

The oldest and longestserving Canadian Ranger in Ontario was recognized when the Ranger patrol celebrating the 20th anniversary of the re-establishment of the Rangers in Ontario passed through Fort Albany.

Ranger Abraham Metatawabin, 92, was presented with a first bar to the Canadian Forces Decoration by Brigadier-General Julian Chapman, deputy commander of the Canadian Army in Ontario.

The Canadian Forces Decoration is awarded for 12 years service and a first bar is awarded for an additional 10 years of service.

Metatawabin served as a Ranger from 1963 to 1971.

He re-enrolled in 1995 and remains a member of the Fort Albany patrol. He is a former chief of Fort Albany. “I am immensely proud of the outstanding service Ranger Abraham Metatawabin has given to the Canadian Armed Forces for so many years,� said Lieutenant-General Marquis Hainse, the commander of the Canadian Army.

The history of the Canadian Rangers in Ontario goes back to the period of the 1950s to the 1970s when a small number of Rangers provided security at remote military sites on the coasts of Hudson Bay and James Bay before being disbanded.

They returned with the opening of a patrol in Moose Factory on Feb. 14, 1994.

There are now 550 Rangers

in 23 First Nation communities across the Far North of Ontario. About 98 per cent of them are Cree, Oji-Cree, and Ojibway and 40 per cent of them are female. They are part-time army reservists.

There are now 20 patrols.

They are in Attawapiskat, Bearskin Lake, Constance Lake, Eabametoong, Fort Albany, Fort Severn, Kasabonika Lake, Kashechewan, Kingfisher Lake, Kitchenuhmaykoosib, Lac Seul, Mishkeegogamang, Moose Factory, Muskrat Dam, Neskantaga, North Caribou Lake, Peawanuck, Sachigo Lake, Sandy Lake, and Webequie. There are three detachments in Saugeen, Wapakeka, and Wunnumin Lake. A fourth detachment was opened in January in Pickle Lake.

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Junior Rangers Tina Winter from Kingfisher Lake and John Anderson from Kasabonika Lake watch Lac Seul patrol Sergeant Roy Ningewance prepare a trap. Lac Seul was the host of the largest attended Junior Ranger winter exercise in Ontario from Jan. 24-27.

Junior Canadian Rangers take part in largest winter survival exercise Capt. Bob Munroe Special to Wawatay News

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Lac Seul was the host of the largest attended Junior Ranger winter exercise in Ontario from Jan. 24-27.

Sixty-three Junior Rangers from five communities quickly adjusted to the unseasonably frigid conditions. “I can not say enough about the Junior Canadian Ranger programme,� said Lac Seul Chief Clifford Bull. “This gathering provides the youth the opportunities to learn about winter survival skills but it also gives them an environment to learn about values, respect and discipline.�

The Junior Rangers spent the weekend learning about snowmobile safety and maintenance, fire starting, shelter construction, trapping, gill nets, snow shoeing and chain saw maintenance.

Ten Junior Rangers, two from each community, were selected for enhance leadership development. They were taught about public speaking, planning, team building and leadership roles.

The weekend was made possible due to the 20 Rangers, two volunteers and members of the army who mentored the Junior Rangers. Besides Lac Seul, Junior Rangers were flown in or driven from Constance Lake, Kasabonika Lake, Kingfisher Lake and Mishkeegogamang.

Temperatures averaged between -30 to -45 C with the

wind chill for the entire weekend. “The best part of the weekend was driving snowmobiles,� said Junior Ranger Ashley McKeown, 13 of the Mishkeegogamang patrol. “The cold didn’t bother me much as I dressed for it. I would definitely attend future Junior Ranger events as there were so many nice people I got to meet.� “Seeing all the young faces eager to learn was very rewarding,� said Lac Seul patrol commander, Sergeant Roy Ningewance. “The feeling is very rewarding to be able to pass on my knowledge of the land to the Junior Rangers and see results. I liked seeing that the older experienced Junior Rangers stepping up to assist the younger ones.

That is what a good role model does.� “The support from the community of Lac Seul was amazing,� said Warrant Officer Wes Jenkins. “From Friday night to Monday afternoon, Lac Seul provided their school gym and library, in the evening the Junior Rangers skated for free at their NHL-sized arena. Each day Tim Horton’s dropped off coffee and muffins and Johnny’s Fresh Market Foods in Sioux Lookout gave us 70 pounds of hamburger so we could cook hot suppers for the Junior Rangers.�

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Left: Canadian Ranger patrol members celebrate arriving in Cochrane on the opening day of the town’s winter carnival.

Above: Canadian Rangers and other military personnel completed a unique long-range military surveillance patrol, travelling 2,250 kilometres by snowmobile to celebrate 20 years of service by the Rangers in northern Ontario.

Canadian Rangers celebrate 20 years in northern Ontario Sgt. Peter Moon Special to Wawatay News

Canadian Rangers and other military personnel have completed a unique longrange military surveillance patrol, travelling 2,250 kilometres by snowmobile to celebrate 20 years of service by the Rangers in northern Ontario.

It was the longest patrol in the history of the Rangers in northern Ontario.

The patrol began on Nabiski Lake, near the Ontario border with Manitoba, and traveled along the coasts of Hudson Bay and James Bay before driving south to Cochrane to highlight the first day of the town’s annual winter carnival.

After a day of rest, it headed back north, with Rangers snowmobiling back to their homes in the Cree communities of Attawapiskat, Fort Albany, Fort Severn, Kashechewan, Moose Factory, and Peawanuck. A total of 41 Rangers participated in the patrol.

“It has been an incredible experience for me,” said Brigadier-General Julian Chapman, deputy commander of the army in Ontario, who spent three days with the patrol. “It was three days to remember and one of the great experiences of my 34 years in the Canadian Armed Forces. I’ve been truly honoured to be able to travel with the Rangers.

“The North is a critical part of the province of Ontario for the army in providing service to our communities and Canadians. This is where the Canadian Armed Forces can really serve Canadians.

It’s our Rangers who go out and literally risk life and limb to protect the people of the North on a daily basis.”

In the last 20 years the Canadian Rangers, who have 550 Rangers in 23 First Nations across the Far North of Ontario, have created a significant record of service.

They have conducted search and rescue operations for missing hunters, trappers, fishers, and overdue travelers.

They have rescued the crew of a downed plane, and played key roles in evacuations of several First Nations threatened by forest fires, tainted water, and spring flooding. As individuals they have rescued people from burning buildings and given critical first aid to save lives in a shooting and helped to prevent suicides.

Their service has been recognized with medals, awards, and commendations.

A total of 24 Rangers were decorated for their long and dedicated military service as the patrol passed through their communities.

Across Canada there are 5,000 Rangers, who are parttime army reservists, in more than 200 remote and isolated northern communities.

“Being a member of this patrol has been a great experience,” said Master Corporal Gilbert Spence of Attawapiskat, where he is the airport manager. “It is an experience I am never going to forget. One day we were on our machines for 18 hours. It wasn’t like being on a groomed trail. We had to break trail with difficult and challenging snow and weather conditions. That was a challenge.”

“Twenty years is a significant milestone for the Rangers of Northern Ontario,” said Captain Mark Rittwage, the officer commanding the province’s Rangers. “ We have never done a long-range surveillance patrol like this before. So we thought what

better way to celebrate than to showcase the capabilities of the Canadian Rangers in Ontario to the communities we serve and to the Canadian Army.

Rittwage said they travelled in wind chills of -60C and in blizzard conditions.

“The patrol had to turn back an hour after it left Peawanuck,” he said. “They couldn’t follow the tracks of the lead snowmobile. The wind was gusting so badly the tracks were disappearing before anyone could see them.

The odd machine broke down.

Fuel lines and carburetors froze. Those were just some of the challenges and the Rangers passed the test with flying colours.”

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people in southern Ontario know little about the North.

“In the South we have no understanding of what the Rangers do on a daily basis in the North and how respected they are in their communities,” he said. “Life in the North is demanding and difficult, particularly in the middle of cold weather. Every Canadian needs to be able to see and understand what the North is all about.

Chapman said the Rangers have every reason to be proud.

“Not just for this patrol but for all the things they do on behalf of their communities and of Canada. They are just great soldiers.”

In a message to the patrol, Lieutenant-General Marquis Hainse, commander of the

Canadian Army, congratulated the Canadian Rangers on their 20 years of service in northern Ontario.

“Their presence in some of Ontario’s most remote communities is key to ensuring that the Canadian Army is ready to defend Canada and to provide assistance to populations in need,” he said. “Over the last two decades, the Canadian Rangers have provided invaluable service to their communities and the Canadian Army, and have proven that they are strong, proud, and ready.”

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

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Moose Cree First Nation is looking forward to local economic benefits from its partnership with Ontario Power Generation on the Lower Mattagami Project. “This project has changed the economic landscape of the Moose Cree First Nation and the surrounding area,� said Moose Cree Chief Norman Hardisty Jr. “It is environmentally sustainable and has created many economic opportunities, including hundreds of jobs for our citizens, as well as other Ontarians. This project has enabled our First Nation to establish a strong economic foundation to build on in the years ahead.�

The Lower Mattagami Project involves the addition of new units at three existing generating stations, the Little Long, Harmon and Kipling generating stations, and the construction of a new 267 MW station at Smoky Falls to replace an existing 52 MW station that will be retired once the new station begins operating. “The Little Long is coming into service (and) our revenue with the project is beginning to progress now,� Hardisty said. “We have a 50-year agreement and it can only benefit Moose

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One of the structures being built as part of the Lower Mattagami Project.

“This project has changed the economic landscape of the Moose Cree First Nation and the surrounding area.� – Moose Cree Chief Norman Hardisty Jr.

Cree First Nation if we implement our agreements properly.�

Hardisty said the project has created hundreds of jobs for community members and other First Nation people.

“The Lower Mattagami Project will phase out in two years time, but even at that it gives us opportunities to transfer that capacity we have from there to other mines, for example Detour Gold, which we’re a part of,� Hardisty said. “We also have a mini agreement with De Beers, so with those two projects being around for the next (12-20) years, certainly we can transfer all of that capacity that we are building into those projects.�

Hardisty said Moose Cree now has an opportunity to build a healthy community. “I believe in creating wealth, you also create a healthy

community,� Hardisty said.

Moose Cree is set to have up to a 25 per cent equity interest in the Lower Mattagami Project, which is located about 80 kilometres north of Kapuskasing. The project is currently on schedule and on budget. “I’ve had the opportunity to see the Lower Mattagami site, first hand, and have a great appreciation of the size and scope of this project, as well as the people who brought the Little Long Generating Station in on time and on budget,� said Bob Chiarelli, minister of Energy. “The Lower Mattagami Project is supported by a long-term partnership with First Nations that will deliver long-term results for Ontario’s electricity system. This is a remarkable achievement which will provide clean, reliable and affordable electricity for Ontarians.�

When the project is completed in 2015, the capacity of the Lower Mattagami power plants will have increased from 486 MW to 924 MW. “This achievement is the result of OPG’s project management practices,� said Tom Mitchell, president and CEO of OPG. “These include up front planning, collaborating with partners and stakeholders to address issues, and careful execution and monitoring of results.�

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Eagle Lake Chief Arnold Gardner is calling for more education about treaties after the recent Got Land?

Thank an Indian sweatshirt controversy in Saskatchewan. “Anishinabe people were here for a long time and the land was always ours,� said the former Grand Council Treaty #3 grand chief. “That’s the message that needs to be brought to the attention of the general public.�

The controversy began in early January after a Grade 8 student from Star Blanket First Nation wore a Got Land?

Thank an Indian sweatshirt to school in Balcarres, which is located about 90 kilometres northeast of Regina.

Although the student, 13-year-old Tenelle Starr, wore her sweatshirt on the first day of classes without complaint, she was later told by school officials to change her sweatshirt due to complaints from other students.

Starr complied with the school’s request by switching into a cousin’s shirt for the remainder of that school day, but she then wore her Got Land? Thank an Indian sweatshirt on subsequent school days, which led to a meeting with school officials and her mother.

Starr was told to wear her sweatshirt inside out at the meeting, but later meetings between the school and leaders from Star Blanket First Nation resulted in an understanding that her sweatshirt was acceptable after all. “This individual (Starr) and the family were probably aware, (with) them being Anishinabe or Aboriginal, that they own this land,� Gardner said. “To me, I think it’s a good message, more so coming from a young person. We need to educate the general public (about the treaties), especially at a young age. I really commend (Starr) and her family for doing this.�

Jeff Menard, the Got Land?

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designer from Pine Creek First Nations in Manitoba, has been receiving orders for his sweatshirt from around the world, including New Zealand, since Starr’s story made headlines. “People who understand, they want to jump on board giving that message,� Gardner said. “It’s very powerful, and in my mind that is what the Elders are talking about when they try to advise in terms of our treaties — we are the owners.�

Gardner said the treaty was signed forever, as long as the sun shines, the rivers flow and the grass grows green. “To us, that means forever,�

Gardner said. “The way our people understand, especially in connection to the land, it puts you in that direction as long as the sun shines, the rivers flow and the grass grows green, which is forever, we have to respect things. We have a responsibility to look after the land, and this is what this young lady (Starr) signifies by putting on that shirt. It’s true and I’m proud of her.�

Gardner said the treaties were based on nationhood. “The Anishinabe were a nation at that time and certainly, Canada itself, they were a state of a nation, of England,� Gardner said. “Their laws are totally different from Anishinabe laws — as Anishinabe people we follow the law of the Creator.�

Gardner said most of the treaties were based on friendship. “That’s the way they were signed in terms of sharing what we had as Anishinabe people,� Gardner said. “The settlers, when they came in, we helped them out a lot.

Sometimes the sharing part of it got lost, especially for the benefits for the Aboriginal people.�

Gardner said First Nations were strong with their own laws, government and economic systems prior to contact. “We had everything,�

Gardner said. “It must have been something.�

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First Nations author Richard Van Camp speaks to the audience prior to the screening of a film based on his short story.

Writer’s festival highlighted by Van Camp workshop Stephanie Wesley Wawatay News

The 2nd Manitoba Indigenous Writers Festival hosted several emerging Indigenous writers from across Canada, including several youth from northwestern Ontario in January.

Inuit youth writers Tanya Roach and Jordan Campbell, Quebec writers Natasha Kanape Fontaine (Innu) and LouisKarl Picard-Sioui (Wendat), and three writers from Toronto Melissa Compton (Mi’kmaq), Jamie Morin, and Jesse Thistle (Metis), were invited to this year’s festival.

Northwestern Ontario youth Matt Goodchild (Pays Plat First Nation), Kassidy Armstrong (Garden River First Nation) and Batchewana First Nation’s Amy Boyer and Theodore Syrette were participants in last year’s spring Creative Writer’s Workshop held in Winnipeg. The workshop focused on writing from 3rd and 4th generation residential school survivors.

Katherena Vermette, an award-winning poet and member of the Aboriginal Writer’s Collective, hosted the festival this year. “All in all, the festival was great,� Vermette said. “The audiences were huge and full of life! You can’t ask for anything better than that.�

This year the festival included panels on Indigenous Children’s Literature, Indigenous Graphic Novels, and readings by Indigenous writers from across the country.

The festival opening was hosted by Niigaanwewidam Sinclair and also featured the launch of the new book Writing for Change, which included work by the members of the northwestern Ontario youth who attended the Creative Writing Workshop.

Author Richard Van Camp was also on hand to present the Zoe Hopkins movie Mohawk Midnight Runners, which was based on his story Dogrib Midnight Runners.

Van Camp hosted private workshop with all of the youth who were invited to the festival this year. “He was very bonkers,� Theodore Syrette laughed. “He was open and honest, the ultimate free thinker.�

Syrette took part in Van Camp’s workshop, and said that he was “very forceful to get his message across about his stories.� “I think he was delightfully entertaining with his comedy,�

Syrette said. “He has such a heart and passion to his creativeness, to how he engages with people. He gets your attention.�

Working with Van Camp was one Syrette’s highlights of this past festival. Syrette read some of his work at the festival, an act he said he was still nervous about. “I think any artist who is willing to share their heart has a sense of anxiety. If you don’t feel nervous, you’re not pushing yourself hard enough,� Syrette said.

He said it was good to see familiar faces in the crowd while he read his work, like Vermette, Rosanna Deerchild, Shayla Elizabeth, (who are both poets and were workshop facilitators at the spring workshop) and Renate Eigenbrod. Eigenbrod is a professor, and head of the Department of Native Studies, at the University of Manitoba.

Eigenbrod was instrumental in bringing this year’s guests to the festival, and also worked with Cheryl Suggashie, member of Pikangkum First Nation, to create the Creative Writing Workshop. “I think it is widely known that residential school experiences have created harmful intergenerational impacts, in different ways depending on the circumstances and the severity of the trauma experienced by the survivors,� Eigenbrod said.

Eigenbrod’s academic work focuses on literature by Indigenous authors. “I came to understand the potential for recovery and reclamation expressed in creative writing and how the indirect, non-threatening way of storytelling in poetry, novels, short fiction, and plays may assist a writer in working through issues shrouded in silence,�

Eigenbrod said.

Vermette hopes that the emerging writers who were invited learned something this year, “or at least had a good time.� “They’re getting more comfortable with their roles as storytellers,� Vermette said of the writers who shared their work during public readings. “Therefore they’re able to take more risks and dive a little further.�

Vermette feels it is important for people to engage in something like the writer’s festival because “we all need to have an avenue to vent and figure out what we’re doing and why.� “Writing is a great way to do that,� she said. “For our young people, finding something to help cope with life and articulate feelings is so important.�

Writing was a way for Vermette herself to help cope. “It’s a good art to try, even if it’s not for you,� Vermette said. “It’s always surprising what comes out!�

Northern College and the Timmins Native Friendship Centre have partnered up to deliver a new training program geared towards Aboriginal Women in and around Timmins and also Moose Factory.

Women in Technology is an innovative training program that is fully funded by the Canadian Women’s Foundation and has a main focus on developing computer skills over the course of the 10-week program. The pro-

gram is being offered at no cost to participants.

Women in Technology will teach students how to operate Microsoft Office, which is a software program used in most work places and includes the applications Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.

The program will also assist the students with developing employability and life skills, and will also give the students a chance to create and refine their resumes and cover letters.

Interview skills will also be taught.

Fred Gibbons, President of Northern College, said, “at Northern College we strongly believe that collaboration between educational institutions, employers, and community organizations is of great benefit to our communities.� “Partnerships like the one we have with the Timmins Native Friendship Centre allow us to develop innovative programming based on community need,� Gibbons said.

Gibbons stated that this type of program could lead to successful futures not only

for the students, “but for entire organizations and our communities in turn.�

The Moose Cree Education Authority has also partnered with Northern College to deliver the Women in Technology program in Moose Factory this spring.

The Timmins program will run from February 10 to April 25.

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Above: The Omushkegowuk walkers are now heading south on Highway 11 towards North Bay. Right: A map courtesy of Mushkegowuk Council of the walkers’ route to Ottawa.

Omushkegowuk walkers southbound on Highway 11 Lenny Carpenter Wawatay News

The three walkers that departed Attawapiskat early last month now number 12 walkers as they pass New Liskeard, Ont. on their journey to Ottawa.

The walkers, who named their journey Reclaiming Our Steps Past Present & Future, are also to as the Omushkegowuk walkers and have been joined by members of Kashechewan and Moose Cree First Nations.

Members of Attawapiskat and Fort Albany originally began the walk.

The walkers reached Cochrane – located near Taykwa Tagamou First Nation – on Jan. 27 where they walked to city hall and were presented with gifts from the town council.

“After that, we proceeded to the (Ininew) Friendship Centre,” walker Danny Metatawabin wrote in Facebook update that day. “In the evening, they had a feast for us in our honour, and at that time as well, (we) explained to the people in attendance why we needed to sent a message to Canada and to the Provincial Governments. It was a very good day and evening.”

As of Feb. 3, the walkers are heading south down Highway 11 towards North Bay, Ont. At that point, they will proceed onto Highway 17 to Ottawa.

According to Metatawabin, they estimate they could reach Ottawa by late February.

The walkers try to average 30 kilometres a day, and throughout the journey, various people have joined them for either a

day or a leg of the walk.

The 12 walkers are: Metatawabin, Paul Mattinas, Brian Okimaw, Albert Iahtail, Remi Nakogee, Wayne Koostachin, Gordon Hookimaw, Edmond Etherington, River Metatawabin, Chad Friday, Jean Sutherland, Pat Etherington Jr. and Morgan Moar. Two of the walkers are teenagers, aged 14 and 18.

The walkers also gained two helpers in Pat Etherington Sr. and Frances Whiskeychan.

All three Etheringtons and Whiskeychan were helpers on Victoria Island during Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence’s fast last winter and had walked from Cochrane to Alberta last summer.

Metatawabin was Spence’s spokesperson during her fast and said this walk arose out

of frustration following a year of no changes to First Nations issues and no follow up to the commitment signed by First Nations and federal opposition leaders last year to end the fast.

The Omushkegowuk walkers have received moral and financial support from the Mushkegowuk communities they passed through, including feasts and honouring ceremonies. This includes the communities of Attawapiskat, Kashechewan, Fort Albany, Moosonee, Moose Cree and Taykwa Tagamou.

They have also received support from Wahgoshig, Beaverhouse and Matachewan First Nations as they passed through their territory.

As they left their James Bay homelands, the walkers are seeking public donations for the remainder of the journey.

Donations can be deposited at any Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) branch. Transit: 05112.

Account number: 1010669.

Various First Nations leaders have announced their support for the Omushkegowuk walkers.

In addition to calling for pub-

lic donations, Ontario Regional Chief Stan Beardy applauded the purpose of the walk.

“It is with great strength and commitment that these walkers are continuing their pledge to bring an awareness of the chronic underfunding in our communities for basic human needs such as clean water, proper housing and healthcare needs,” Beard said in a release.

“As leaders we feel their frustration in dealing with a government that doesn’t listen to our concerns and with the widening poverty gap between mainstream society and the First Nations, now is the time to listen and to act. Our thoughts and prayers are with them on every step of their trek to Ottawa.”

Mushkegowuk Grand Chief Stan Louttit called on First Nations leaders and the general public to generate a “treaty movement.”

“Ignoring the Treaties, tells us that the government does not take Treaty relationships and agreements seriously and they wish that someday, these issues would fade away,” he said

in a release. “But I am telling you right now, that the Treaty movement will continue and we will make the Treaty issue an agenda item in all meetings with the government and we will continue our actions into the future.”

Despite facing the elements and enduring physical hardship, Metatawabin said the Omushkegowuk walkers find the journey to be “spiritual, meaning and empowering.”

“We pray as we walk, we encourage each other as we walk,” he said in a media release. “We think about and pray for our children and their children as we walk, we feel the presence of our Creator and ancestors as we walk, we are receiving very powerful messages as we walk, and we need justice, equality and fairness as First Peoples of this country now.”

The journey can be followed on their Facebook page, which receives daily updates from Metatawabin: https://www. facebook.com/pages/Reclaiming-Our-Steps-Past-PresentFuture/768816863131863

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Anti-gang conference held in Fort William Crystallee Mouland Special to Wawatay News

Photos by Crystallee Mouland/Special to Wawatay News

Left: The McKay-Matthews family talk about how the death of Desmond Matthews impacted them.

Above: Scott Mesenegeesic and his father Norman.

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More than 200 parents, youth and several guest speakers from across Canada attended an anti-gang conference on Jan. 15 to learn how to prevent and combat gangs and their activities. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kids need to be careful with who they are hanging around with and the activities they are doing in terms of drugs, alcohol and gangs,â&#x20AC;? said Fort William First Nation Elder Gene Bannon of the Rama committee.

The committee hosted this cultural event for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal parents and youth to assist people from entering and exiting the gang lifestyle.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was stabbed two times, was beaten in the head and they tried to set me on fire intentionally. I had third degree burn on my back. I was on life support.â&#x20AC;?

-Scott Mesengeesic

Regina police officer Sheldon Steinke gave the message that gang life is not as glamorous as people think it is and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to get out of a gang once you are in it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is a constant struggle for individuals in gangs to get out,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Guaranteed, gang life will get you incarcerated. Try to avoid it now by getting involved in your community and with positive youth.â&#x20AC;?

Law enforcement officers said gangs and incidents are on the rise and resources and programs do help to reduce gang issues, but gang awareness and support resources are decreasing.

The Mesenegeesic and Matthews families and other community members with knowledge about gang activities said how communities, governments and law enforcement can best be protected from gang violence.

Scott Mesenegeesic is not affiliated with gangs. But on Dec. 29, 2012, he and Desmond Matthews of Kitchenumaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation attended a party where there were gang members.

During the party, Mesenegeesic was severally beaten and Matthews was stabbed to death. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wrong time, wrong place,â&#x20AC;? said Mesengeesic. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was stabbed two times, was beaten in the head and they tried to set me on fire intentionally. I had third degree burn on my back. I was on life support.â&#x20AC;?

The injuries Mesengeesic sustained left him partially paralyzed and unable to speak. He had to share his story through a voice computer device.

Following the incident, Mesengeesic spent months in the hospital with his father by his side daily. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My dad was by my side and kept me alive. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want you guys to go through what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going through because this is hell,â&#x20AC;? said Mesengeesic. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stay with friends when you go out.

Your life can go upside just like that, believe me.â&#x20AC;?

Mesengeesic â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s father Nor-

man described how they are healing and overcoming their new life situation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We went through hell,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I lost my job. When something happens like this you lose everything. You lose focus and your friends and family. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to see your child in the hospital.â&#x20AC;?

Both Norm and Scott Mesenegeesic believe gang conferences can help save lives and reduce gang crime. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is what this conference is about,â&#x20AC;? the elder Mesenegeesic said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is something going on there with our kids. We have to do something about it to straighten things out.â&#x20AC;?

The family of Desmond Matthews â&#x20AC;&#x201C; who died in the incident that left Mesengeesic paralyzed â&#x20AC;&#x201C; said they are managing a lot grief by losing him to gang violence. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m still trying to get by and find my way back,â&#x20AC;? said Desmondâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sister, Leona Matthews. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Losing my brother has been really hard.â&#x20AC;?

Mathews and McKay said there are a number of homicides in their community and several families are grieving the loss of loved ones and the effects of high rates of gang violence. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stay away from the gang life because they say, the only way you get out is you die and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how my brother went,â&#x20AC;? Leona said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He tried to get out, he wanted to get out and he died trying to get out.â&#x20AC;?

Desmondâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother Harriet McKay said there are no resources for people in her community to leave gang activities and the lifestyle.

She feels if there were better resources, her son may have been able to leave the gang life easier. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think if there was more help for guys like my son, he would have been able to get out,â&#x20AC;? she said.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stay away from the gang life because they say, the only way you get out is you die and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how my brother went.â&#x20AC;?

-Leona Matthews

Grief counselling for victims of homicide and counselling for families affected by gang violence are limited in northern Ontario, explained McKay. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m trying to get by daily and get stronger. It is a struggle to live every day.

Back home there is hardly any resources to fall back on.

The help is very limited. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like that for everyone back home.â&#x20AC;?

Grief counselling, gang prevention programs and conferences presented to northern remote communities being needed is the first step to help communities and families affected by gang incidents, McKay added.

Mathews believes community members can help gang victims and their families by showing their support. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think for people to interact with families like us who are going through these types of situations, I think would be good and start from there because the healing is an ongoing process,â&#x20AC;? she said.

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Law enforcement collaborate to strengthen gang prevention Crystallee Mouland Special to Wawatay News

Collaboration and community partnership is a key bridge to reduce gang violence and strengthen relations, according to several police officers.

Four law enforcers from different police services came together on Jan. 15 to offer their expertise on street gangs at the Fort William First Nation Native (FWFN) Youth Gang Conference.

Anishinabek Police Service (APS) acting Sgt. Rob Pelletier, Thunder Bay Police Service Constable John Walmark, RCMP Officer Marc Bohemier and Regina Police Services Officer Sheldon Steinke work together on Aboriginal committees to reduce crime and improve police-community relations.

“Based on our partnership with other police services, community members, organizations and Justice Peace Gene Bannon of Fort William First Nation; we try to meet our community partners needs when they need experts for workshops,” Walmark said.

The conference was the second one of it’s kind to bring awareness about drugs, gangs and violence.

Officers felt this event was more of a success because families affected by gang violence were on hand to share their powerful, tragic human stories.

“I think people really get grabbed by first person experience,” Walmark said. “Realities close to their own hits them. Sometimes experts can turn off parents and youth.”

In 2010, the Thunder Bay Police Service and Fort William First Nation APS brought Officer Steinke from Regina to educate the communities about the city’s anti-gang program RAGS (Regina Anti-Gang Services) in 2010.

“I was one of the officers assisting and working with gang members who were exiting from the program,” Steinke said.

The RAG program is no longer in existence but many people benefited from it, Steinke said. He sees the value of current or ex-gang members and families affected by gang violence share their stories.

“Ex-gang members say it is not a good life. They would explain how gangs worked, how they got into them and

the time they spent in jail. It’s an eye opener,” he said.

Gang members are recruited into gang families with the persuasion of alcohol, drugs, money, parties, sex and security of family. Officers say the cost is losing your life, family or freedom to jail.

Although there are no confirmed gangs in Fort William First Nation, officers believe there is underground gang activity in the area keeping a low profile to avoid identifying themselves.

“Aboriginal gangs partnered with organized crime realized wearing their colours or flying their bandana’s created to much heat so they started going underground,” Walmark said.

Drug and gang units along with several different law enforcement agencies have been working together to identify gang issues and problems on the rise.

“We have had all kinds of incidents for beatings to get in and out, suspected debt collections and movement of players across Canada, but it’s a lot more unnoticeable in the Thunder Bay area,” said Walmark.

Aboriginal gangs mostly got their birth in western Canada penitentiary and provincial jails. Street gangs formed and grew due to high levels of incarceration and prison systems breaking up gangs.

Northern Ontario gangs are a result of this movement.

“Prison gangs were broken up to reduce sizes and moved throughout the prison system,” Steinke said. “Gangs ended up spread out into new territory like Ontario and British Columbia (and) as a result gangs grew.”

Prison gangs can return to their street gang upon prison release. They work the system to their advantage by recruiting youth as young as 10 to 12 years old because youth can’t be persecuted. Youth are often bullied into gangs or influenced by the lifestyle.

“They think it’s the life and you don’t see it verdantly on the outside because it’s the older guys moved up who are just the puppeteers running the younger guys on the street and what not,” said Steinke.

Influxes of various ethnic gangs are moving throughout Canada because of Alberta, B.C. and northern Ontario wealth. Wealth allows gangs to be more transient and move

gang members across Canada.

“We now have more gangs because there is money to made, drugs to be sold and women to put on the streets,” said Steinke.

Law enforcement said remote Aboriginal communities are often a target for gang activities due to underfunded education, health and resource services. Aboriginal gangs are using their family connections in Aboriginal communities across Canada to conduct gang activities.

“Gangs with national family connections have access to those communities through family and communities with less services, oppression and depression are a perfect storm to attract gangs,” said Walmark.

In the opinion of the officers, the ingredients for reducing gang crime in Aboriginal communities is to increase Aboriginal economics, hope, resources, support and teachings and build stronger families, individuals, and leaders to build stronger communities and teach ownership and selfresilience.

“It’s going to be the community that changes,” Walmark said. “It’s not going to be a single effort or somebody coming in changing things. It’s going to be everyone changing that together.”

The officers feel society is accountable for youth falling into the cycle of violence and system of gangs, when youth don’t have a healthy start in life and access to culturally, economically, environmentally and spiritually enriched lives.

“Good community leadership, mentorship and parenting and involvement in a child’s life can build confidence and trust in the adults in their lives and themselves to make better decisions,” Pelletier said.

“Mistakes are going to happen,” Steinke said. “That’s life.

The more youth can hear good things can happen then good decisions can be made.”

Youth who have access to education, healthcare, programs and resources start off with a healthy foundation in life. Without these same advantages youth often fall prey to gangs, drugs, drinking and violence.

“It is a complicated world with complex issues that have to be dealt with by each individual,” said RCMP Officer Bohemier.

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Although no hard evidence shows how prevalent human trafficking of Indigenous women and girls in Canada is, it is nonetheless alive and a growing issue.

For instance, this past summer Christine Stark, a masters student from the University of Minnesota, said Indigenous women and girls are being trafficked across Lake Superior between Thunder Bay and Duluth, Minnesota.

Starkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s research stemmed from a 2007 report on prostitution in Minnesota.

The report included over 100 interviews with Indigenous women who have been sexually trafficked.

A few weeks later the RCMP denied any evidence of Indigenous women being trafficked, but they know the activity exists.

As of November 2013, the RCMP Human Trafficking National Coordination Centre (HTNCC) reported 165 cases since 2004 where human trafficking specific charges were laid. Some of these cases involved Indigenous women trafficked in Canada for the purpose of sexual exploitation, according to a statement.

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With help from Indigenous youth through a video competition, the following messages will be shared with national and Indigenous media outlets expected to be distributed in mid-February; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sell your spirit, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sell my spirit, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sell our spirit,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Our spirits are not for sale or trade,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Speak up, speak out, human trafficking is happening in our communities.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;We needed to tell this from the perspective of youth, in particular,â&#x20AC;? says Jeffrey Cyr, executive director of the association. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s [actually] happening in our own communities.â&#x20AC;?

The association started to work with Public Safety more than a year ago to address the issue. Shortly after a national advisory committee was created made up of Indigenous community members and organizations such as PACT-Ottawa and ACT Alberta; organizations dedicated to ending exploitation.

Cyr says the association worked toward engaging the friendship movement on the issue despite having limited resources. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the general awareness of human trafficking is quite low,â&#x20AC;? says Cyr. Cyr was quick to refer to the growing and disproportionate number of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The research isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t there to do a clear correlation between the two,â&#x20AC;? says Cyr. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But you would get the impression that something is going on.â&#x20AC;?

Although supportive about raising awareness on human trafficking, Bridget Perrier, an ex-sex trade worker, hoped NAFC would have reached out to her for the campaign.

As an Indigenous woman, Bridget Perrier has seen it all.

From the time she was just

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Perrier says some girls are as young as 10 years old, particularly in Winnipeg.

She would also like to see campaigns that will target the men. For instance, messages that might read, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Real men donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t buy sexâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Our women arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t for sale.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Perrier says when she was 13 years old, she was just one of the women trafficked between Thunder Bay and Duluth. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That movement of the women on the ship,â&#x20AC;? says Perrier. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was thriving when I was working [on it].â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The aboriginal girls had it worse,â&#x20AC;? Perrier says. At the time, she said she appeared non-Indigenous because of her lighter skin colour.

Because of their race, Indigenous women were treated like garbage, according to Perrier.

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Families want sanatorium recognized as residential school Stephanie Wesley Wawatay News

For the last few years, Tania Cameron has been trying to get the government to recognize the Fort William Indian Sanatorium recognized as a residential school. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Aboriginal children were sent there because they had TB (tuberculosis) but they were also students,â&#x20AC;? Cameron explained. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The whole aim of the project is to try to get the sanatorium recognized as a Indian residential school under the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.â&#x20AC;?

According to an APTN story, the Fort William Indian Hospital Sanatorium was opened in 1935. In 1940 the sanatorium started to admit Aboriginal children from residential schools who had TB. The federal department of Indian Affairs started to pay for 20 beds in the sanatorium for Treaty Indians in 1941, and eventually began a day school at the sanatorium in 1950.

Cameron first heard of the sanatorium through her aunt who was placed at the sanatorium, though she is not sure of the year. She said that she read a few of her family membersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; names on archived documents relating to the sanatorium that were sent to her, including her own father. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a residential school,â&#x20AC;?

Cameron said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A couple of the survivors told me that hospital rooms were converted into classrooms for students who could move around. Other students, like my dad, couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t move â&#x20AC;&#x201C; he couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get out of bed so they had a bedside teacher. We figured, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gotta be a claim there.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I saw the bills to Indian Affairs,â&#x20AC;? Cameron said.

Cameron isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t alone in her quest; former student Saul Day also joins her.

Day said that he has been trying to have the sanatorium recognized as a residential school for â&#x20AC;&#x153;about a year.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;There was a pretty substantial amount of people who went to Fort William Sanatorium,â&#x20AC;?

Day said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the majority of us came from residential school because thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where we got infected with TB. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why we came.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;There was a lot of concern about that particular event,â&#x20AC;?

Day said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not only for financial compensation, but there was also a lot of abuses there.â&#x20AC;?

â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had teachers, a classroom, and homework. I think it was as valid claim.â&#x20AC;?

- Saul Day

Both Day and Cameron have been working with Ed Sadowski, a researcher and a member of the Children of Shingwauk Alumni Association, in order to have the sanatorium recognized as a residential school. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People like myself spent a few years there, all of us did experience some sort of schooling there. We had teachers, a classroom, and homework. I think it was as valid claim,â&#x20AC;? Day said.

Cameron said that there were other sanatoriums across Canada that had applied to be recognized as a residential school but were denied. Cameron also mentioned that the project required retainer fees for lawyers, and Day explained that it could cost in the hundred thousands of dollars to bring a case like this to court.

The Fort William Indian Hospital Sanatorium began admitting Aboriginal children with tuberculosis in 1940. It eventually became a day school in 1950. Some of those who attended or had family attend want the sanatorium recognized as a residential school under the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of our claimants are on fixed income,â&#x20AC;? Cameron said of the survivors of Fort William Sanatorium. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am not sure the seniors would be able to pay a lawyer.â&#x20AC;?

Sadowski and lawyer Eric Hovius from the legal firm AbLaw have filed a claim with Canada to have the costs of the legal proceedings covered. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the first hurdle,â&#x20AC;?

Cameron said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Canada may say no.â&#x20AC;?

Cameron said that if the legal costs are paid for, the process to have it recognized as a residential school could take long. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cristal Lake was approved to be a residential school that took a few years to get the legal support and to get recognized, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the goal (with Fort William Indian sanatorium),â&#x20AC;? Cameron said.

Cristal Lake School, along with Stirland School, was added to the list of residential schools in 2011. Earlier in 2008, the schools were denied recognition as a residential school by the federal government.

Day explained that it is not only the fact that people were

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schooled while at the sanatorium, but that there were concerns over other incidences that took place while they were there. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our other concerns involve experimentation, surgeries,â&#x20AC;?

Day said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There were suspicious deaths involving seemingly healthy patients who looked as if they were over their infection with TB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; then the next thing they disappear.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The story goes that they were given surgeries. Just exactly what kind? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not clear,â&#x20AC;? Day said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why would these seemingly healthy people die from surgery? All the hospital said was they died on the surgery table.â&#x20AC;?

Day said that it is alleged that some patients had their lungs removed, or the lungs collapsed, or even had ribs taken out. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stories like that, also medication. We were given different medication, either oral or by injection. So those are the major concerns were have,â&#x20AC;? Day said.

Day said that they have tried to gain access to records and

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;She looked like she was ready to go home and then she disappeared. That was the last I heard of her. Of course I cannot find out what did happen.â&#x20AC;?

-Saul Day

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Of course thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no reason being given as to why. I think we as First Nations people deserve to ask questions and to receive answers as to why did our people die?â&#x20AC;? he said.

Dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother was one of the patients who died on the surgery table in a sanatorium in Brandon, Man. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My mother died, seemingly healthy looking. She looked like she was ready to go home and then she disappeared. That was the last I heard of her. Of course I cannot find out what did happen,â&#x20AC;? Day said.

Day would like to have an investigation into his motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disappearance, but it is not financially possible at the moment. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Investigations take a lot of money, which I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have. I am not a researcher,â&#x20AC;? Day said.

Sadowski said that they are currently awaiting a meeting with Canada on the issue for the sanatorium. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been really reluctant to talk about this,â&#x20AC;? Sadowski said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some survivors want to be compensated,â&#x20AC;? Day said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the main issue.â&#x20AC;?

Day said that in the future, when the group gets adequate names, he would try to have a personal interview with each claimant. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know there wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be any funding with that but out of my own pocket. I would like to try to give them information, and to get any kind of written evidence on how these hospitals operated,â&#x20AC;? Day said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There were a lot of people that went, there some who went and did not go to school but got the same kind of treatment,â&#x20AC;? Day said. He explained that there are still survivors of the Fort William Sanatorium in the north who do not speak English.

He said he would interpret the information to the claimants so they could understand.

Cameron urges any survivors of the sanatorium, or their relatives or friends of survivors, to contact them about becoming a claimant in the case. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The more people who get involved, the better,â&#x20AC;? Cameron said.

Anyone who wishes to come forward can email info@ablaw.ca. There is also a group on Facebook where Cameron can be contacted.

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A First Nation owned airline based in Thunder Bay is trying to do its part in shipping food to northern communities.

Niigaani Air recently f lew shipments of food donations to Webequie and Eabametoong First Nations and hopes to do more runs.

Arthur Esquega, president and owner of the charter plane service, said the idea came about after speaking with his mother, who put him in touch with a reverend in Webequie.

Esquega said Niigaani Air had wanted to make use of its â&#x20AC;&#x153;dead legsâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the part of a chartered flight that is empty when either going to or returning from a community. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re promoting a food drive with our empty legs for people up in north who are in need of food,â&#x20AC;? the Gull Bay First Nation member said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opportunity there and we want to take advantage of that.â&#x20AC;?

Esquega contacted the Regional Food Distribution Association (RFDA) in Thunder Bay, which runs a food bank and serves the northwestern Ontario region.

RFDA executive director Volker Kromm said the organization has slowly been developing programs to serve various communities, including the remote ones in the north. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have so many communities that arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t serviced, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to be able to help. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re making a strategy,â&#x20AC;? Kromm said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s difficult because of planes, and you have the ice roads.â&#x20AC;?

Kromm said the call from Esquega was good timing, as he had also heard about the need for food donations in Webequie due to a community emergency.

The two coordinated the shipment, which is all volunteer work and there is money transactions involved.

With the two shipments complete, Kromm said the RFDA has a formed â&#x20AC;&#x153;great little partnershipâ&#x20AC;? with Niigaani Air and hope to send more food donations.

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Arthur Esquega, owner and president of Niigaani AIr, confers with a food bank volunteer before loading a plane with food donations. Niigaani Air recently partnered with the Regional Food Distribution Assocation in Thunder Bay to fly food to northern communities. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If this keeps up, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have to partner with communities for place to store â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a warehouse â&#x20AC;&#x201C; where we can store (the food),â&#x20AC;? he said.

Meanwhile, Niigaani Air wants to do what it can. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something

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Esquega said he realizes food is expensive in northern communities and not many people have jobs to support a family. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just feel like, being a kid, you shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be ashamed of

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Wapekeka’s Nicole Quedent recently shared her life experiences during the third Human Library project in Thunder Bay. “I basically told them my life story — how it was like for me living on the reserve,” said the Grade 10 Dennis Franklin Cromarty First Nations High School student. “They were very surprised and they were curious how the buildings would look like if they went to visit the reserve.”

One of eight human books who took part in the Jan. 25 event, Quedent shared her experiences with five people during 20-minute sessions at the Brodie Resource Library. The Thunder Bay Public Library partnered with CBC Radio to host the Human Library project, which was first initiated in Denmark in 2000.

“It was a new experience,” Quedent said. “I was the most popular one booked there and I was very surprised.”

In addition to questions about First Nations culture, language, hunting and trapping, Quedent was also asked if there was a road to her home community.

“I was like: ‘No, the only way you can get there is by plane or winter road,’” Quedent said. “And they asked how much (a plane flight) was per person, and I said close to about $500 or $400.”

Quedent was pleased with the compliments she received from the people who borrowed her.

“They called me a future leader, a survivor, a future chief or a councillor,” Quedent said. “It was surprising for me.”

Quedent also received compliments from students at DFC who had seen her on television.

“One of the other students called me a future chief and council leader,” Quedent said. “I was very surprised because I’m not used to getting compliments.

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Quedent encouraged other First Nations youth to participate in future Human Library projects.

“The human book is a good experience if you want to share stories and your experiences of the way you lived,” Quedent said.

“And it is a good way to meet new people and for them to understand what First Nations people are and what they go through, in

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“It makes any risks totally worth it,” Skillen said. “That thought of being in a historical group of people, being the pioneer on a different planet, being the first person to settle on a different planet, that is just unreal — it’s amazing.”

Skillen initially submitted his application to Mars One last year while working in Cat Lake.

“I had a free weekend and I put my little video in and submitted it,” Skillen said. “I figured what’s the harm. You might as well try for a crazy adventure like that.”

Skillen said the entry also required a written submission in addition to the video.

“They liked what they saw,” Skillen said. “It probably had to do with coming up north

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and working in the nursing station. Cat Lake is a small place — there’s only three nurses there — so you work in a small group and you get to deal with a lot of emergencies that happen. So I figured that probably helped out with my application. People are always going to get sick, even in space.”

Skillen has always enjoyed travelling — his most recent trips include three weeks of sailing in Mexico, a visit to Jordan and Egypt in the Middle East and visits to Guatemala and Australia.

“Next week I’m actually headed out to Thailand and maybe a bit to South Korea,” Skillen said. “I grew up in Barrie and I’ve tried to see my own country and my own province. I came up to the northwest and I lived in Sioux Lookout for about a year and a half and then I moved to Cat Lake for about a year and a couple of months.”

Skillen enjoyed learning how to hunt partridges and rabbits and skin martens while he was in Cat Lake.

“It feels like an adventure when you’re learning these new skills and seeing the world in a different way,” Skillen said. “So it was a big adventure or expedition for me, and hopefully it will transfer over when I travel again and maybe end up on Mars.”

While details of the 2014 selection phases have not been agreed upon due to ongoing negotiations with media companies for the rights to televise the selection processes, the next several selection phases in 2014 and 2015 will include rigorous simulations, many in team settings, with a focus on testing the physical and emotional capabilities of our remaining candidates.

“We expect to begin understanding what is motivating our candidates to take this giant leap for humankind,” said Norbert Kraft, Mars One’s chief medical officer.

“This is where it really gets exciting for Mars One, our applicants and the communities they’re a part of.”

Mars One currently has agreements with Lockheed Martin and Surrey Satellite Technology, the world’s leading small satellite company, to develop mission plans. In December, they also launched their first ever crowd-funding campaign, focused on bringing funds and attention to the first mission.

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