March 20, 2014

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Lakehead powwow honours woman PAGE 15

NAIG seeking youth athletes in north PAGE 9

Vol. 41 No. 6

Fire trucks not built for north PAGE B1 8000 copies distributed

March 20, 2014 Northern Ontario’s First Nation Voice since 1974

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Through the five-hole

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Bushtown’s Chris Bois scores the last goal of the Northern Bands tournament on a breakaway, sealing his team’s 7-1 A-side championship win over goalie Livio Dunsford and his Pikangikum Ice Bear teammates. Dunsford was named the most valuable player after the game. In the B-side, the Nibinamik Wolves defeated the Pikangikum Rez 208 Braves 11-6 to secure the championship. Meanwhile, two Cat Lake teams met in the C-side final, with the Cat Lake Weecobeyang defeating the Cat Lake Rez 216 9-1. The Northern Bands event in Dryden featured 29 teams playing in almost 100 games from March 11 to 16. See stories and photos on pages 10-12.

ᐱᓯᒧ ᐃᐡᑯᑌ ᑭᐊᑯᑲᒋᑲᑌᐊᐧᐣ ᒋᐊᐧᑌᓂᑲᑌᐠ ᐊᑎᑯᓴᑲᐃᑲᓂᐠ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᑲᒥᑯᐠ ᕑᐃᐠ ᑲᕑᐃᐠ ᐊᐧᐊᐧᑌ ᐊᒋᒧᐃᐧᓇᐣ

ᓄᑯᒥᑫ ᐊᑎᑯᓴᑲᐃᑲᓂᐠ ᑭᑭᔑᒋᑲᑌ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᒥᔕᐠ ᐱᓯᒧ ᐃᐡᑯᑌ ᐁᑭᐅᔑᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᒥᓂᑯᐠ ᐅᒪ ᐊᐧᓂᓇᐊᐧᑲᐠ ᑲᐃᑯᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒋᑫᒪᑲᐠ ᐁᑭᐅᓇᑯᑲᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐱᓯᒧᐠ ᑲᐅᒋ ᐊᓄᑭᒪᑲᐠ ᐃᐡᑯᑌ ᒋᐅᒋᐊᐧᑌᓂᑫᒪᑲᐠ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓄᑲᒥᑯᐊᐧ. “ᒧᔕᐠ ᓂᓇᓇᑐᓇᒥᐣ ᑫᐅᐣᒋᐁᐧᒋᓭᐠ ᐃᐡᑯᑌ ᑫᐊᐸᒋᒋᑲᑌᐠ,” ᐃᑭᑐ ᐊᑎᑯᓴᑲᐃᑲᓂ ᐅᑭᒪᑲᐣ ᕑᐊᔭᓫ ᒥᑭᐢ. “ᓂᑭᓇᓇᑕᐃᐧᑭᑫᒋᑫᒥᓇᐸᐣ ᓂᑕᓇᐱᐃᐧᓂᓇᓂᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᓂᑭᐅᓀᑕᒥᐣ ᒋᑯᒋᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐱᓯᒧ ᐃᐡᑯᑌ ᑭᐡᐱᐣ ᐃᒪ ᒋᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᐊᒋᐃᐧᓭᑫᐧᐣ ᑲᐃᓇᑭᐣᑌᐠ ᐊᓂᒥᑭᐃᐧ ᐃᐡᑯᑌ ᑲᐊᐸᒋᑐᔭᐠ.” ᐊᑎᑯᓴᑲᐃᑲᓂᐠ 1,100 ᑲᑲᐯᔑᐊᐧᐨ ᒪᒪᐃᐧ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐠ ᐅᑐᐣᒋ ᐊᐸᒋᑐᓇᐊᐧ 149 ᑭᓫᐅᐊᐧᐟ ᓂᐱᑲᐣᐠ ᑲᐅᐣᒋᐊᓄᑭᒪᑲᓂᐠ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᑌᒥᐊᐧ, ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐊᐱ 1998 ᑲᔭᑭᐊᐧᓂᐠ ᑲᑭᐅᔑᒋᑲᑌᑭᐸᐣ ᐃᒪ ᐊᐧᔕᐦᐅᐃᐧᓯᐱᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᔑᐨ ᐱᒥᐸᓂᒋᑫᐃᐧᑲᒥᐠ ᑲᐅᒋᐊᓄᑭᒪᑲᐠ ᐃᐡᑯᑌ. ᒥᑭᐢ ᐃᑭᑐ ᐅᐁᐧ ᐱᓯᒧ ᐃᐡᑯᑌ ᑕᐅᐣᒋᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᓭ ᐃᒪ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐠ ᑲᑭᐅᐣᒋᒐᑲᐱᑫᓯᒋᑲᑌᑭᐸᐣ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᑲᒥᐠ ᒥᐡᑲᐧᐨ ᑯᑕᑭᔭᐣ ᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃᑲᓇᐣ ᒋᐅᒋ ᒐᑲᐱᑫᐦᐃᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᑫᓂᔑᑲᐯᔑᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ.

“ᓂᐸᑯᓭᐣᑕᐣ ᒋᐱᒥᐊᐸᒋᑐᔭᐠ ᐅᐁᐧ ᐁᑲ ᒥᐢᑕᐦᐃ ᑫᐃᔑ ᒣᑎᓂᑫᐦᐃᐁᐧᒪᑲᐠ ᐃᐡᑯᑌ ᑲᐱᒥᐊᐸᒋᒋᑲᑌᐠ,” ᐃᑭᑐ ᒥᑭᐢ. “ᑫᐃᐧᓇᐊᐧ ᒪᐃᐧᐣ ᑯᑕᑭᔭᐣ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓇᐣ ᐅᑲᓂ ᑯᒋᑐᓇᐊᐧ ᐅᐧᐁᓂ ᑭᐡᐱᐣ ᐃᔑᒥᓄᓭᐠ ᑲᑲᑫᐧᒋᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐅᐁᐧ ᐱᓯᒧ ᐃᐡᑯᑌ.” ᒥᑭᐢ ᐃᑭᑐ ᐅᐁᐧ ᐱᓯᒧ ᐃᐡᑯᑌ ᐊᐸᑎᓯᐊᐧᐠ ᐊᓂᒥᑭᓴᐠ ᒋᔑᐊᑌᐠ ᐃᐡᑯᑌ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐁᑲ ᐱᓯᑦ ᑲᓇᑯᓯᐨ. “ᓂᐸᑯᓭᐣᑕᒥᐣ ᑲᔦ ᒋᐅᒋ ᒪᓇᒋᑐᔭᐠ ᐱᒥᑌ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐁᑲ ᑲᐃᐡᑯᓄᓇᓂᐊᐧᐠ,” ᐃᑭᑐ ᒥᑭᐢ. “ᐊᑎᑲ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐁᑲ ᑲᐱᒥᐊᐸᑕᐠ ᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ, ᑕᑭᑲᐡᑭᒋᑲᑌ ᑲᑭᓇ ᑫᑯᐣ ᒋᑭᐱᑎᓂᑲᑌᐠ ᒥᑕᐡ ᐃᐧᓂᑯ ᐁᔑᐱᒪᓄᑭᒪᑲᐠ.” ᒥᑭᐢ ᐃᑭᑐ ᒥᔑᓄᔭᑭ ᐅᑭᐱᒥ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᑯᓇᐊᐧ ᐁᑲ ᐁᐧᓴ ᒥᐢᑕᐦᐃ ᒋᐅᒋ ᒣᑎᓂᑫᐦᐃᑯᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᑭᐅᔑᒋᑲᑌᓂᑭᐸᐣ ᓯᐱᑲᐠ ᒋᐅᒋ ᐊᓄᑭᒪᑲᓂᐠ ᐃᐡᑯᑌᓂ ᒥᓇ ᐱᒥᐸᓂᒋᑫᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᓂ. “ᑭᑕᒪᒥᑐᓀᑕᒥᐣ ᐊᐣᑎ ᐃᓀᑫ ᑫᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᒪᓇᒋᒋᑫᔭᑭᐸᐣ ᔓᓂᔭᓂᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐃᐡᑯᑌ ᒥᓇ ᐱᒥᑌ,” ᐃᑭᑐ ᒥᑭᐢ. “ᐊᑎᑲ ᑲᐱᒋᐃᐧᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐱᒥᑌ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑭᒋᒣᑎᓂᑫᐦᐃᑯᓇᐊᐧ ᐊᐣᑎ ᐱᑯ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ.” ᒐᐧᑎ ᑲᑭᐱᑕᑦ, ᑲᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐡᑲᐠ ᑭᒋᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧ ᒪᒋᑕᐃᐧ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ,

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ᐅᑭᒥᓀᐧᑕᐣ ᐅᐁᐧᓂ ᑲᑭᒪᒋᒋᑲᑌᓂᐠ ᐅᐡᑭᑫᑯᓂ. ᐅᐁᐧ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᐣᒋ ᐊᓄᑲᑌ ᐃᐡᑯᑌᐃᐧ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᑭᒪᑕᓄᑲᑕᒧᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᐅᑭᒪᑲᓇᐠ. “ᐊᔕ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᒣ ᓂᔑᑕᓇᐃᐧᐊᐦᑭ ᓂᑐᒋᐱᒥᐃᐧᑕᓄᑭᒪᐠ ᐅᑭᒪᑲᓇᐠ ᒋᑭᔭᓂ ᑌᐱᓇᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᑭᐱᔑ ᐸᑯᓭᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ,” ᐃᑭᑐ ᐃᒪ ᑲᑭᐱᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐸᐣ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᐅᑭᒪᑲᓇᐠ. “ᓂᐢᑕᑦ ᓂᑭᐊᓄᑲᑕᒥᓇᐸᐣ ᒋᑕᑲᐧᐠ ᑫᓀᐟ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧᐣ, ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᐱᐣ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ

ᐅᑭᒪᑲᓇᐠ ᒪᐡᑭᑭ, ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᐅᑭᒪᑲᓇᐠ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᐃᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑫ ᒪᒋᑭᑐᐃᐧᓇᐣ. ᒥᓇᐊᐧ ᑕᐡ ᐊᐱᐣ ᐅᑭᒪᑲᓇᐠ ᓂᑭᒥᓂᑯᐠ ᑯᑕᑭᓂ ᒋᐊᓄᑲᑕᒧᐊᐧᐠ - ᒋᑭᐁᐧᐃᓇᐱᔭᐣ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᑲᑭᐱᐊᓄᑲᑌᑲᐧᐸᐣ ᑫᓀᐟ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐃᒪ ᒋᐅᒋ ᓇᓇᑐᓇᒪᐣ ᐊᓂᐣ ᑫᑭᐃᔑ ᒪᒥᓄᓂᑲᑌᑭᐸᐣ ᑲᑭᒋᐊᓂᒥᓭᐦᐃᑯᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᑌᒥᐊᐧ ᒥᔑᐣ ᓄᐱᒪᑲᒥᐠ ᑲᐊᔭᒪᑲᑭᐣ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓇᐣ.” ᑲᑭᐱᑕᑦ ᐃᑭᑐ ᐅᐁᐧ ᐱᓯᑦ

ᐃᐡᑯᑌ ᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᐅᓇᒋᑲᑌ ᓂᐦᓱᐊᐦᑭ ᒋᐱᒥᐊᓄᑲᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᒪ ᑭᒋᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧ ᒪᒋᑕᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᒥᓇ ᑲᐅᐣᒋᐃᐧᑕᓄᑭᒥᑯᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᓀᑎᔭᐣ ᓱᓫᐊᕑ. “ᐊᑎᐟ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑲᐅᐣᒋ ᐊᓄᑲᑕᒪᐠ ᐅᐣᒋᒣᑎᓂᑫᐊᐧᐨ 1 ᒥᓫᐃᔭᐣ ᒥᓇ 2 ᒥᓫᐃᔭᐣ ᑕᓴᐧᐱᐠ ᐯᔑᑯᐊᐦᑭ ᑲᐃᔑᑕᐱᑕᒪᐃᐧᐣᑕᐧ ᐱᒥᑌᓂ ᐅᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ,” ᐃᑭᑐ ᑲᑭᐱᑕᑦ. “ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᑕᐡ ᐅᒥᓄᓴᐦᐃᑯᓯᓇᐊᐧ ᐅᐁᐧᓂ. ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᔦ ᒋᑌᐱᓭᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᑌᒥᐊᐧ ᑲᑭᓇ ᐃᒪ ᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃᑲᓇᐣ ᑲᐊᔭᑭᐣ ᒋᐅᒋ ᓇᐸᐱᑫᓂᑲᑌᑭᐣ, ᒥᓇ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐣ ᓇᐣᑕ ᒥᓇ ᒋᐅᒋ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᒪᑲᐠ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧ ᒪᒋᒋᑫᐃᐧ ᐃᔑᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ.” ᑲᑭᐱᑕᑦ ᐃᑭᑐ ᐃᒪ ᐊᑎᑯᓴᑲᐃᑲᓂ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᑲᒥᐠ ᑕᐅᐣᒋ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᓭ ᐁᑲ ᓇᐱᐨ ᒋᐅᒋ ᐊᐸᒋᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐱᒥᐸᓂᒋᑲᓂᐠ ᑲᐅᒋᐊᓄᑭᒪᑲᐠ ᐃᐡᑯᑌ. “ᒥᑕᐡ ᐃᒪ ᑲᐃᐧᒪᒪᐃᐧ ᐊᓄᑲᑕᒪᐠ ᑲᓀᑎᔭᐣ ᓱᓫᐊᕑ, ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧ ᒪᒋᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐅᑭᒪᑕᓄᑲᑕᓇᐊᐧ ᒋᐊᓄᒋ ᐊᒋᐃᐧ ᐊᐸᒋᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐱᒥᐸᓂᒋᑲᓂᐠ ᑲᐅᒋᐊᓄᑭᒪᑲᐠ ᐃᐡᑯᑌ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᐡᑲᐧᐨ ᒋᐊᐸᑕᐠ ᐱᓯᒧ ᐃᐡᑯᑌ,” ᐃᑭᑐ ᑲᑭᐱᑕᑦ. “ᓄᑯᑦ ᑲᑭᔑᑲᐠ, ᓂᐃᐧᑕᓄᑭᒪᒥᐣ ᑲᐃᐧᑕᓄᑭᒪᑭᑕᐧ, ᓂᑐᒋ ᐅᔑᑐᒥᐣ ᑫᐃᔑᓇᑲᐧᐠ ᐱᓯᒧ ᐃᐡᑯᑌ ᐁᑲ ᓇᐱᐨ ᒋᐊᐸᑕᐠ ᐊᐦᑭᑲᐠ ᑲᐅᐣᒋ ᐊᐸᑕᐠ ᐃᐡᑯᑌ ᐁᐧᑎ ᐊᐧᓴ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ.”

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ᓫᐊᐣᐠ ᓫᐁᐠ #58 ᒪᓯᓇᐦᐅᑎᓱᐊᐧᐠ ᒋᐃᐧᑕᓄᑭᒥᑕᐧ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂ ᐊᐦᑭᐃᐧ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ

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ᓫᐊᐣᐠ ᓫᐁᐠ #58 ᐅᓇᓇᑐᓇᓇᐊᐧ ᐊᐣᑎ ᑫᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᒪᒋᑕᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᐅᑕᓄᑭᐃᐧ ᒪᒋᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᐁᑭᒪᓯᓇᐦᐅᑎᓱᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᓇᑕ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᐧᑕᓄᑭᒥᑐᐃᐧ ᐯᐸᓂ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᐊᐦᑭᐃᐧ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂ. ᒥᐦᐃᒪ ᐯᔑᐠ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᒪᒪᐤ 19 ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑲᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᒪᓯᓇᐦᐅᑎᓱᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᒋᔑᑕᑭᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᐧᑕᓄᑭᒥᑐᐃᐧ ᐯᐸᓂ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᒥᑭᓯᐃᐧᐱᓯᑦ 3 ᑲᐃᓇᑭᓱᐨ, ᐁᑲᐧ ᐅᑕᐃᐧᓂᑯᓇᐊᐧ ᒋᒪᒋᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑲ ᒋᐊᐸᒋᑐᐊᐧᐨ 34 ᐊᐦᑭᐃᐧ ᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒋᑫᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐃᒪ ᔓᓂᔭᐃᐧᑭᒪ ᐅᑐᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐃᐧᓇᐊᐧ ᐱᑯ ᐅᑲᐅᓀᑕᓇᐊᐧ ᑫᓂᔑᐱᒧᑕᒪᓱᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᒥᐊᐧᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐊᐦᑭᐃᐧ ᒪᒋᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ. ᓫᐊᐣᐠ ᓫᐁᐠ #58 ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐅᑎᐯᐣᑕᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐅᐱᒧᑐᐣ ᐊᑕᐁᐧᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᓂ, ᑲᐢ ᒧᐡᑲᐦᐅᒋᑫᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᓂ ᒥᓇ ᓴᑊᐁᐧ ᐃᐧᓯᓂᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᓂ ᐱᒋᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐠ, ᐁᑲᐧ ᐅᑲᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᑯᓇᐊᐧ ᒋᓇᐣᑭᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑕᓄᑭᐃᐧ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᑐᑲᐣ ᑲᐧᐡᑫᐧᐱᓀᐃᐧᓂ ᒥᓇ ᑯᑕᑭᔭᐣ ᔓᓂᔭᑫᐃᐧ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ. ᐅᑭᒪᑲᐣ ᐊᓫᐊᐣ ᑐᐁᐧᑭᔑᐠ ᐃᑭᑐ ᐃᒪ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐠ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐅᑕᓂᐱᒥ ᑲᑫᐧᑭ ᑭᔕᓄᑲᑕᓇᐊᐧ ᒋᓇᑭᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂ ᐊᐦᑭᒥᐊᐧ ᓇᐣᑕ ᐱᑯ 4,366 ᐁᑯᕑᐢ ᒋᓇᐣᑭᒥᓂᑕᐧ ᐁᐧᑎ ᐊᐧᐸᓄᐠ ᐃᓀᑫ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᓇᐣᑕ ᐱᑯ ᐯᔑᑯᑲᑲᑫ ᑎᐸᐦᐊᑲᐣ.

ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᑎᐸᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧ ᐊᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐅᓇᓇᑐᓇᐊᐧᐊᐧᐣ ᒋᔑᐊᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐃᒪ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᑕᓇᐱᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᓄᑯᒥᑫ ᑲᑭᐃᐧᐣᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐁᐸᑭᑎᓂᐣᐨ $3 ᒥᓫᐃᔭᐣ ᑎᐸᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᒋᔑᐊᐸᑎᓯᐨ. ᑲᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐨ ᓭᓫᐃᓇ ᕑᐃᐟᐳᕑᑯᕑ ᐃᑭᑐ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᑕᓇᐱᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑎᐸᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧ ᐊᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫᐠ, ᐊᔕ ᑲᑭᑫᐣᑕᑯᓯᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᐣ ᐁᔑᐱᒪᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ, ᐃᐧᓇᐊᐧ ᐅᑲᓂ ᐃᐧᐣᑕᒪᐊᐧᐊᐧᐣ ᐅᑯᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑫᐅᐡᑭ ᐊᓄᑭᐦᐃᑕᐧ ᑎᐸᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐅᑎᐸᒋᒧᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ. ᕑᐃᐟᐳᕑᑯᕑ ᐅᐸᑯᓭᐣᑕᐣ ᒋᐊᓄᑭᐦᐃᐣᐧᑕ ᑫᐊᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᓂᐦᓴᐧᔦᐠ ᑲᐅᐣᒋ ᐱᑭᓯᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ: ᓀᑲᐱᐦᐊᓄᐠ, ᓀᓇᐤ ᒥᓇ ᐊᐧᐸᓄᐠ. ᐅᑯᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑫᐊᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑭᐱᓇᑕᐁᐧᑕᑯᓯᐊᐧᐠ ᐊᑯᓇᐠ ᑭᒋᑎᐸᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑲᑭᐱᐣᑎᑲᒋᑲᑌᑭᐸᐣ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ 1999 ᐅᐁᐧ R v. Gladue ᐅᓀᐣᑕᒧᐃᐧᐣ ᑎᐸᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐣ ᒋᓇᓇᑲᑕᐁᐧᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᐱ ᑲᐅᓀᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᐃᔑᑭᔑᐅᓇᔓᐊᐧᑕᒪᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᒪᒪᓂᐃᐧᓂᐠ. ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐅᑕᔭᐊᐧᓯᐊᐧᐊᐧᐣ ᐅᓄᐁᓂᐧᐊᐣ ᑐᑲᐣ ᑲᐃᓇᓄᑭᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᑎᐸᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧ ᐊᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ.

Long Lake #58 signs on with First Nation Land Management Long Lake #58 is looking to get more businesses off the ground by signing on with the federal government’s Framework Agreement on First Nation Land Management.

The community was one of 19 First Nations that signed the Framework Agreement on March 3, which allows them to begin the process of opting out of 34 land-related sections of the Indian Act and assume greater control over their reserve land and resources.

Long Lake #58 currently owns and operates a general store, a gas bar and a Subway restaurant on the reserve, and the First Nation hopes that by signing the framework agreement, it will allow them to expand tourism and other economic opportunities.

Chief Allen Towegishig said his community is currently working on the completion of an addition to reserve process that will add about 4,366 acres of land to the east side of the community, which is currently about one-square mile in size.

Long Lake #58 is looking to get more businesses off the ground by signing on with the federal government’s Framework Agreement on First Nation Land Management (above); Geraldton’s Lennox Michon recently won an award for his multiple-choice ending book Impossible at the 4th Annual Writing Contest in Thunder Bay (right); Entrepreneurship for youth was the focus of Nishnawbe Aski Development Fund’s recent Nishnawbe Kids Business Program at the Landmark Inn in Thunder Bay (below).

ᓄᑯᒥᑫ ᑭᒪᐊᐧᑐᐡᑲᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᑕᐣᑐᕑ ᐯ ᓫᐊᐣᐟᒪᕑᐠ ᑲᐯᔑᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐠ ᐁᑭᐊᐧᐸᑕᐦᐃᑕᐧ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐠ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᑲᐅᒋᐊᐃᐧᐦᐊᓱᓇᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᔓᓂᔭ ᑲᑭᒪᒋᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᔕᐠ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧ ᒪᒋᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᐣ. ᐁᐧᐣᑎ ᒪᑫ, ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧ ᒪᒋᑕᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐠ ᐅᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᑲᓂᑲᓂᐡᑲᐠ, ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᐅᑯᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐠ ᑭᐊᐧᐸᑕᐦᐊᐊᐧᐠ ᐊᓂᐣ ᑫᑭᑐᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᒋᐅᔑᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᐡᑭᒣᑕᐊᐧᑲᓇᐣ ᒣᑲᐧ ᑯᑕᑭᔭᐣ ᑲᒣᑕᐊᐧᑲᓄᐊᐧᐠ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᑭᔐᐱᓯᑦ 24-25 ᑲᑭᒪᐊᐧᒋᐦᐃᑎᓇᓂᐊᐧᐠ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᑲᑭᑕᑭᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᒣᑕᐊᐧᑲᓂ ᒪᐊᐧᑐᐡᑲᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑲᑭᐊᐧᐸᑕᐦᐃᐁᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑐᔑᒋᑲᓂᐊᐧ, ᐊᒥ ᑲᔦ ᑲᑭᑐᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᓇᓇᑲ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ ᐅᑭᑐᑕᓇᐊᐧ ᐸᐸᑲᐣ ᒣᑕᐁᐧᐃᔑᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ. ᐅᐁᐧ ᒪᐊᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᐃᐧᐣ ᑭᐅᐣᒋᐃᓇᐧᑌ ᒋᐅᒋ ᐊᐧᐸᑕᐦᐃᑕᐧ ᒥᓇ ᒋᐅᒋ ᑭᑫᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᑫᓄᒋᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᑯᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑕᓄᑭᐃᐧ ᒪᒋᑕᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ.

ᑫᐊᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫᐊᐧᐨ

NAN Legal looking to provide Gladue workers Nishnawbe-Aski Legal Services is looking to provide Gladue workers in Nishnawbe Aski Nation communities through recently announced $3 million in Legal Aid Ontario funding.

Executive director Celina Reitberger said NAN Legal’s community legal workers, who already have a reputation in the community, will provide information to the Gladue workers for their reports.

Reitberger hopes to hire a Gladue worker in each of its three sectors in NAN territory: west, central and east.

Gladue services have been required since the Supreme Court’s 1999 R v. Gladue decision that courts must consider an Aboriginal offender’s background when they are being sentenced for a crime.

NAN currently does not have any Gladue writers in the NAN Legal communities.

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Youth check out entrepreneurship and business opportunities Entrepreneurship for youth was the focus of Nishnawbe Aski Development Fund’s recent Nishnawbe Kids Business Program at the Landmark Inn in Thunder Bay. Wendy McKay, NADF’s youth coordinator, said a group of youth were provided with an opportunity to invent new toys and games during the Feb. 24-25 gathering.

In addition to participating in a toy fair that showcased their inventions, the youth also took part in a variety of activities, including Create a Logo, Kids Invent Toys, Market Your Thoughts and Be a Business B. The program’s focus is on innovation and creativity with a link to entrepreneurship.

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ᒉᕑᐅᑕᐣ ᐁᐅᐣᒋᐨ ᓫᐁᓂᐠᐢ ᒥᔕᐧᐣ ᓄᑯᒥᑫ ᑭᐸᑭᓇᑫ ᑲᐧᑫᑕᓯᓇᐦᐃᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐊᔕ ᓂᐊᐧ ᐅᐁᐧ ᐅᑐᐣᒋ ᑐᑕᓇᐊᐧ ᑕᓱᔭᑭ ᑲᑲᑫᐧᐸᑭᓇᑎᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᑫᐧᑕᓯᓇᐦᐃᑫᐃᐧᓂ ᐃᒪ ᑕᐣᑐᕑ ᐯ. ᒥᔕᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᓇᐣᑕ 60 ᑯᑕᑭᔭᐠ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐠ ᑭᐸᑭᓇᑫᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᑭᐸᑭᑎᓇᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑲᑫᐧᐱᒋᐦᐃᑫᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ, ᑲᑭᑐᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᑭᔐᐱᓯᑦ 27 ᐁᐧᑎ ᑌᓇᐢ ᑲᕑᐊᒧᕑᑎ ᐦᐊᔾ ᐢᑯᓫ ᑲᑭᐅᓇᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᑕᐣᑐᕑ ᐯ ᓂᑕᐃᐧᐱᐦᐃᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᐱᒧᑐᐊᐧᐨ - ᑲᑫᐧᒋᐱᐦᐃᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᐊᐱᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ, ᑲᐅᐣᒋᐃᐧᑕᓄᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒪᒪᐤ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᔕᐠ ᒥᓇ ᑲᐧᔭᐠ ᑫᐅᐣᒋ ᒪᒋᑕᐦᐃᑕᐧ ᒥᓇ ᑊᕑᐊᐣᑎᔪᕑ ᑲᐧᓫᐃᐨ. “ᓂᐣᑭᑎᐸᒋᒪ ᓇᐯᐢ ᑕᓱᑭᔑᑲ ᑲᐊᐃᐣᑐᑕᐠ,” ᐃᑭᑐ ᒥᔕᐧᐣ 20 ᑕᓱᐸᑭᑭᓂᑲᐣ ᑭᐊᐱᒐᓂ ᐅᒪᓯᓇᐦᐃᑲᐣ. “ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᐱᐣ ᑫᑲᐟ ᐃᐡᑲᐧᔭᐨ ᓂᑭᐃᓇᒋᒪ ᐁᐱᒥᓂᔕᐦᐅᑯᐨ ᑲᓂᑕᒪᓀᐣᒋᑫᓂᐨ ᐁᑲᐧ ᑕᐡ ᐯᔑᐠ ᐁᑕ ᑫᑯᐣ ᑲᑭᐅᓀᐣᑕᐣ ᒋᑐᑕᒪᐣ ᒋᑭᐁᐧᐸᑐᔭᐣ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᑲᒥᑯᐠ ᓇᐣᑕ ᒥᓇ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᑭᑲᑫᐧᐸᐸᒣᐣᑕᓯᐣ ᑭᑎᓯᓭᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑭᔭᐃᑯ ᒋᒥᑯᐡᑲᒋᐦᐃᑯᔭᐣ.” ᐅᐁᐧ ᑲᑫᐧᑕᓯᓇᐦᐃᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑭᐅᓇᒋᑲᑌ ᒋᐅᒋ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᑯᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓂᐠ ᒋᓂᑕᐃᐧᐱᐦᐃᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᐃᓀᑫ ᑎᐯᐣᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᒋᐅᒋ ᑭᑫᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᒥᓇ ᒋᐅᒋ ᐊᓱᐡᑲᐊᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᓂᐅᐡᑭ ᒪᓯᓇᐦᐃᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᒋᓂᑕᐊᐧᓯᓇᐦᐃᑫᐊᐧᐨ, ᐊᔕ ᐊᓂᒥᔑᓄᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᑲᑫᐧᑕᓯᓇᐦᐃᑫᐊᐧᐨ 50 ᑭᑕᓯᐊᐧᐠ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ 2011 ᐁᑲᐧ 180 ᒣᑲᐧᐨ 2013.

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Mishkeegogamang under distress following house fires Lenny Carpenter Wawatay News

Community members in Mishkeegogamang First Nation are still struggling to cope with a house fire that led to the death of a mother, her two young daughters and her nephew on Feb. 13.

Faced with overwhelming demand, chief and council declared a state of emergency on March 3, stating that the widespread trauma has been compounded by a persistent significant shortage of services and resources.

The state of emergency prompted Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Deputy Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler to call for a widespread mobilization of all available services as Mishkeegogamang deals with the tragedy.

“It has been just over two weeks since this terrible loss and the full extent of the dev-

astating impacts have slowly grown into a crisis,” Fiddler said in March 4 press release.

“Chief, council and support workers are working at maximum capacity and require immediate assistance from all available agencies to help them deal with this tragedy.”

Fiddler said all available services were sent to support the community immediately after the fire, but leadership and front-line workers are “simply overwhelmed and require additional support and relief.”

Mishkeegogamang leadership, community workers, police officers, and mental health and crisis management personnel are operating at maximum capacity but fear the situation will worsen without an immediate injection of additional resources.

Chief Connie Gray-McKay has said there has also been an increase in substance abuse in the community and there have

Submitted by Ron Kyle

The ruins of a house fire in Mishkeegogamang from 2009. The community is still in crisis following a house fire last month that led to the deaths of four people. been more than 60 transfers of people to hospital by air ambulance in the last two months.

The community, which has an on-reserve population of close to 1,000 people, has been through 12 funerals since Christmas Eve. Volunteer crisis teams from area communities assisted

immediately after the fire, and ongoing efforts are being coordinated by NAN in cooperation with health providers and government agencies.

The situation led GrayMcKay to call for fire escape plans and inspections for each home.

Recently, another home

caught on fire. A 10-year-old trailer that was home to a pair of families, and a total of seven people, burned to the ground in the early hours of March 13.

No one was injured and Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service officers are investigating the cause.

The community’s fire truck has also come under scrutiny after it was revealed that it was not equipped to handle northern climates. Kept in an unheated facility, firefighters cannot store water in the truck during the winter months, causing delays when an emergency arises (see story on Page B1).

Over the past three months, six homes have burned down, claiming the lives of 12 members of the community just south of Pickle Lake.

Although the community continues to be in crisis, the First Nation is appreciative of the help it has received.

“Chief and council are grateful for the assistance that has been provided so far but we are urging the federal and provincial governments to deploy all appropriate resources to ease the burden on front-line workers and help leadership stabilize the community,” said Fiddler. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of the victims and our hearts go out to the Mishkeegogamang community as they struggle to cope with this terrible loss.”

Like many remote First Nations, the majority of homes are substandard and rely on dangerous wood stoves for heat. The community has developed a program to improve the safety of wood stoves but lacks the resources to retrofit all homes. Twenty-six people have lost their lives in house fires in Mishkeegogamang since 1981.

Mishkeegogamang is located approximately 320 kilometres northwest of Thunder Bay.

NAN and Northern Ontario NAN Legal looking to provide School of Medicine release report Gladue workers in communities Lenny Carpenter Wawatay News

A community-based approach to establish emergency care services in isolated and remote First Nation communities has been identified in a new report from researchers at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM).

“The majority of NAN First Nations are remote and residents do not have paramedics or first responders to call when emergencies arise, leaving people to fend for themselves in what are often life-threatening situations,” said Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Deputy Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler, who holds the health portfolio. “Community-based emergency care will go a long way to improving the health and safety of residents of isolated communities. We are looking for a strong commitment from the federal and provincial governments to put this approach into action.”

The report, titled “Community-Based Emergency Care: An Open Report for Nishnawbe Aski Nation,” outlines this new approach. Typically, remote communities have been too small to support conventional ambulance services. The report calls for local health workers and first-responders developed through local training programs for people liv-

ing in isolated communities.

The first recommendation calling for the building a working group led by NAN and a collaboration with Health Canada and the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care to roundtable vision, which would require funding considerations from government partners.

The second recommendation calls for the representation of key partners within the working group, including NAN communities, the Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority, Weeneebayko Area Health Authority, Health Canada First Nations and Inuit Health Branch, Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, Ontario Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs, ORNGE Air Ambulance, The Northeast and Northwest Ontario Local Health Integration Networks, Sioux Lookout Regional Physician Services Incorporated, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, university researchers, and the nonprofit sector.

The third calls for following the guiding principles to advance community-based emergency care. The working group should be rooted in six guiding principles, including being communitybased; sustainability; capacity building; collaboration; integration; and excellence.

The last recommendation is

to plan and test a model for community-based emergency care.

The report stems from an October 2013 roundtable including leaders for NAN First Nations, provincial and federal government delegates and healthcare providers. It offers a vision, key recommendations and guiding principles with which to improve emergency care for injured and ill people in remote and isolated communities “Community-based emergency care is about empowering and equipping locals to deliver the care that communities need,” explains Dr. Aaron Orkin, an assistant professor at NOSM and the lead author of the report. The report identifies how this approach can deliver excellent care, save lives, build healthier communities, and even create jobs and economic development opportunities. “We see real potential to bring excellent and efficient care to some of the most underserviced populations in Ontario.”

Approximately 29 First Nations in northern Ontario do not have access to 911 or paramedic services. Residents of First Nations face elevated rates of heart attacks, stroke, and mental health crises, and are four-times more likely to experience severe trauma relative to the average Canadian.

Rick Garrick Wawatay News

Nishnawbe-Aski Legal Services is looking to provide Gladue workers in Nishnawbe Aski Nation communities through recently announced Legal Aid Ontario funding.

“There’s a fund of about $3 million and we’re trying to get money for our Gladue workers,” said Celina Reitberger, executive director of NAN Legal. “We’re going to hire three workers — one for the central (area), one for the east and one for the west.”

Reitberger said NAN Legal’s community legal workers, who already have a reputation in the community, will provide information to the Gladue workers.

“The Gladue workers will put together the information for the Gladue reports,” Reitberger said. “Lawyers are now being paid to do Gladue submissions.”

Gladue services have been required since the Supreme Court’s 1999 R v.

Gladue decision that courts must consider an Aboriginal offender’s background when they are being sentenced for a crime.

Gladue related services are currently offered at courts in Toronto, Hamilton, Brant-

ford, the Waterloo-Wellington area and Sarnia. Toronto and Sarnia also have dedicated Gladue courts.

NAN currently does not have any Gladue writers in the NAN Legal communities.

“NAN has absolutely no Gladue workers or writers for any of our communities,” said Mary Jean Robinson, area director for Legal Aid Ontario Area Office 48 at NAN Legal.

“Gladue reports are utilized to explain to the court why there should be an alternative to incarceration. And it’s partly to address the overincarceration of First Nationspeople across the country.”

Reitberger said the Gladue workers would be “very helpful” for community members.

“Because of the language barrier, because of the isolation, it is evident that Gladue workers need to be in this area,” Reitberger said.

Legal Aid Ontario announced five more years of funding for the Aboriginal Justice Strategy in early March.

“The Aboriginal Justice Strategy allows LAO to further target our services where they are needed the most,” said John McCamus, Legal Aid Ontario’s chair. “A part of this strategy includes meeting with Aboriginal stakeholders

across the province to discuss potential opportunities for expanding culturally-appropriate, localized legal aid services.”

Legal Aid Ontario plans to provide Aboriginal clients with a number of services, including free specialized legal services in Gladue courts; funding for the award-winning Baamsedaa (Let’s Walk Together) program in Sarnia; new legal aid advice clinics opening on reserves across Ontario; new Aboriginal justice workers in Sarnia and Hamilton and a new website providing Aboriginal-related news and resources for lawyers and clients.

Legal Aid Ontario also plans to continue service enhancements to Aboriginal clients in the coming months while also welcoming feedback from stakeholders on proposed improvements.

NAN Legal currently received annualized funding from Legal Aid Ontario to provide general operation of a Legal Aid Ontario area office.

“We also have the ability to issue legal aid certificates and retain duty counsel,” Robinson said. “We have been trying to get funding for other things and we haven’t been able to.”

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Commentary

Something New In OL’CD Xavier Kataquapit UNDER THE NORTHERN SKY

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aking a living as an artist is not an easy thing to do but most of the time the rewards are amazing.

As a writer I understand that money is not the big motivation to write. Most writers in this country just get by. However, even if the monetary rewards are not great I find there is a lot of satisfaction in being able to work at something I have a passion for.

I believe that is the case for most artists whether they are writers, visual artists, performance artists, dancers or musicians.

Every time I write a column or a story I enjoy the process of creativity. When I start to put words to screen or paper I have an idea of what I want to cover and it makes me feel great to move ahead one word at a time to produce a bit of writing where there was nothing before. When I see my work in print or on line and there is a public reaction to it then that makes everything worthwhile.

I know a lot of artists and in general I have heard them make similar comments when it comes to producing their art. Recently, I had the chance to chat with a young friend of mine Wesley Martin who is a musician from Six Nations. Wesley reminded me of just how privileged anyone is to have the life of an artist.

I met him immediately after he had returned from a tour through Ontario and into Quebec with his band, OL’CD. He was so enthusiastic and still beaming with stage lights in his eyes when I had coffee with him. He talked about how great it was to hit the road in a van with his fellow band mates. He had great stories about going down the road, setting up the equipment in the various gigs and then rocking the night away for wild crowds of young people.

Over the years I have come to know many artists and a lot of them are musicians. Wesley is my favourite for the simple fact that he is so intensely devoted to and passionate about his music.

I recall first hearing him play guitar and sing when he was just a little boy. At that point he was in a group called Breaking Wind that performed in the Hamilton area. I could see then that he wanted to be on stage, singing and playing his heart out. He kept at it over the years and never gave up the dream which led him to taking a music program at Fanshawe College in London, Ont. Over the past few years he has been honing his skills as a singer songwriter and guitarist.

His recent education has also

provided him a solid foundation in terms of what it takes to make it in the music business.

He has studied everything from sound recording, management, creativity to performance staging.

Like most things in this world, things had to be right for Wesley to be free to follow his passion for music. Lucky for him, his parents Chris and Luanne Martin provided the fertile ground where he could access musical instruments and find encouragement to play and sing. His dad Chris has always been a natural on guitar and Wes’ brothers Chris Jr. and Glenn also play instruments and are creative as writers, musicians and actors. With all the support over the years Wes has developed a no fear attitude to reaching for the stars with his music. His grandparents John and Norma Bradley, all of his immediate family and his extended family on Six Nations have all played a part in turning a determined little boy with a guitar into a blossoming musician with hundreds of fans at his back.

Wes and his band OL’CD are all about good solid rock n roll.

They are focused, tight, original and they know how to entertain a crowd. Right now they are preparing for the big release of their LP titled Choco Moloko.

You can listen to their music and get to know the band by going to their website at: www.olcdmusic. com, their Facebook page at OLCDmusic or the Twitter page @OLCD_music If you are a First Nation community, organization or group looking for exciting live music, contact the band.

OL’CD cranks out some amazing rock n roll. My favourite tune is Now’s The Time and it very much describes the band’s philosophy when it comes to making music and life in general.

Wes has found his soul mates in OL’CD members Cam Hilborn, Richard Stewart and Brad Picard.

These guys have it all. They are the real thing when it comes to crafting exciting original tunes, they can play tons of covers when the crowd demands it, they are sophisticated musicians and at one with their instruments, they are hi-tech savvy and they know what it takes to get their music out and about.

Wes, who is proud of his Mohawk ancestry, hails from a vibrant First Nation that has produced many prominent, artists. Two of its most famous sons Robbie Robertson of The Band fame and Graham Green a world famous actor have long been role models for Wes over the years.

Right now he is running down many of the same trails these two powerhouse artists once trekked and he’s enjoying every minute of it. The time for OL’CD is now. www.underthenorthernsky.com

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Gavin Morriseau promotes doughnut sales to Northern Bands Hockey Tournament fans at the Dryden Memorial Arena on Saturday.

A Moral Offence Against the Nation Charles Wagamese Special to Wawatay News

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ne time a trapper came to the blockade at Grassy Narrows to report his entire trap line had been clear cut.

He had been away from it for Christmas time. An Anishinabe logger has made his grandmother angry with him because he destroyed the trees on the land of their family memories.

Our relatives, before we turned into Indian Act chiefs, once passed, “the Great Earth Law.” Manito Aki Inakonigawin proposes to protect, “ the entire environment of the Anishinabe as it affects them and the exercise of their rights and responsibilities and includes the spiritual, social, physical, ecological and economic environment.”

Section 39 says,” a proponent who without honest reason fails to respect this law commits a moral offence against the nation.”

Is clear cutting not such a moral offence? What if the proponent is Anishinabeg?

Section 40, titled Community Right, says:” for greater certainty, nothing in this law affects the right of a community to be consulted about and to give or withhold its consent to any development or activity which may affect it.” Suppose an Anishinabeg created logging outfit decides to

clear cut another community’s territory even though that community has not given its consent?

A chief of one such community showed up to demand Grassy Narrows protestors leave a bridge at Separation Rapids. When they refused, the OPP moved in to make multiple arrests.

Years ago we asked an exnational chief how he felt about signing an agreement to flood their territory? He went into an anger laced rant about how it was the best deal his people could get.

Why couldn’t he address the essence of the question? How did his spirit feel as the flooding actually happened? What of the spirits of that land itself?

Can human beings take it upon themselves to wilfully offend sacred responsibility?

What happens when we try?

Don’t the legends tell us we were all destroyed when the Creator had enough of our collective insolence?

Are we already paying that price? Isn’t the only ‘honest reason’ to ‘fail to respect this law,’ to,’commit a moral offence against the nation’ all shooniah related?

Isn’t the blindness that led the Quebec Cree to flood themselves not the same one that fills the Walmart on payday Friday nights here? Didn’t that materialism once cause our ancestors to denude eastern Turtle Island of fur bearing animals for trade goods?

Is that what we are now, is that what we always have been… capitalists ourselves?

Are you yourself a willing participant in a market place driven economy that destroys Creation and is built on a permanent underclass of poverty? Are you yourself a member of that underclass of women, indigenous and already poverty stricken?

It’s sadly funny that the people of the communities who support Miisun and Mitigook don’t know that non-native contractors will do the actual cutting in Grassy territory starting in April. Most of the benefits will again pass them on the road, on the backs of logging trucks, ignoring them and their community.

Once all the chiefs of the Grand Council met to listen to what Grassy was saying. Afterwards they all agreed to have support blockades across the entire treaty area. They agreed to contribute 500 bucks to assist Grassy with its costs.

Neither of these things have happened yet. Instead other reserves took advantage of the political pressure created to start clear cut logging companies themselves.

What can the Grand Council do to, ‘protect, promote and enhance the treaty’ which is still its mandate?

Has the oral understanding of, the spirit and intent of Treaty 3 ever been ratified by the British Parliament? If not, does Canada

exist- politically, legally, corporately or otherwise?

The decision in the trapper’s court case will be, who can extinguish treaty rights – either the federal government or the provincial government, together or alone.

Malcolm X said you need to speak the language that is being used. If that language these days is greed and power, symbolized in money, then should we stuff oppression’s ears with it?

If Ontario wants into the treaty – it is not at this point a signatory to it – let it pay its way in, including the invoices unpaid by the federal government.

Have the Grand Council compile the cost of every tree, every river, every human impact incurred since Europeans appeared in our territory.

When they refuse to pay, keep calculating those costs, keep making those public so they can never forget how they built themselves, what their coat of arms really stands for.

Can the Great Earth law withstand divide and conquer from within?

Or is it time to cease calling ourselves nation and get on with destroying the planet along with everyone else? Shall we do so though without having given ourselves the opportunity to restore and revitalize ourselves as other indigenous, poor and women are doing around the world?

PUBLISHER/EDITOR Lenny Carpenter lennyc@wawatay.on.ca

SALES MANAGER James Brohm jamesb@wawatay.on.ca

CONTRIBUTORS Charles Wagamese Andy Fyon Bryan Phelan Sharon Weatherall Jana-Rae Yerxa Xavier Kataquapit Simon Owen Ron Kyle

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Disappearing Ink Simon Owen SENTENCES: JUSTICE ISSUES IN NAN

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ey, here’s a good one, Your Honour.

When is a law not really a law? When it’s a band by-law! What, not funny? No, I guess you’re right. It’s not funny at all, come to think of it.

By-law enforcement isn’t exactly the sexiest subject on the legal bookshelf.

I’m not aware of any reality TV shows about local zoning codes or parking regulations, snow removal or animal control.

But consider, Your Honour: what would town or city life look like if all these bylaws suddenly ceased to have effect?

What if, for all that mayors and councils did to try to keep things running, listening to the voters, debating and passing local laws whose purpose was to make life better for the people they served, not one of their edicts was ever meaningfully enforced?

Not one officer patrolled the streets?

Not one court or prosecutor ever bothered to follow up with any violations, even supposing that tickets were even issued?

Well, Your Honour, maybe that would make for some grip-

ping reality TV. Sounds like science fiction?

It’s actually a lot closer to the reality that’s gripping NAN communities.

One of the main contributors to this mess, it won’t shock you to know, is the Indian Act that still draws its colonial, MinisterKnows-Best boxes around the lives of treaty people on reserve.

This undead legislation grants a crutch of authority to band councils, lets them pass bylaws on a sheaf of issues both within and beyond the realm we usually think of as municipal business – traffic and property use, yes, but also the removal of trespassers and the prohibition of intoxicants.

But it provides hardly a shred of support for their effective implementation.

The authority to pass laws does not equate to the ability to enforce them, especially not when you have none of the tax base that municipalities rely on to put their words into action.

And when the only penalties available under the Indian Act for by-law violations are fines and/or imprisonment, those dour and bitter choices that Canada has force-fed into too many Indigenous mouths, court-based enforcement is bound to fail.

We know this from experience.

It is fair to say that the ground upon which local laws are made to grow is rocky enough to resemble a moon-

When all the laws that impact Anishinabe life are crafted and controlled by outside forces, and none of the laws or law-keepers that are born within First Nations command any such resources or institutional respect, it is clear that we face a very deep and serious problem.

scape.

And predictably enough, it is only frustration, cynicism, confusion, and despair that have been cultivated from such poisoned earth.

When all the laws that impact Anishinabe life are crafted and controlled by outside forces, and none of the laws or law-keepers that are born within First Nations command any such resources or institutional respect, it is clear that we face a very deep and serious problem.

Some bands are pushing on against the status quo, with pilot projects and poorly-paid Peacekeepers, attempting to nurture some meaningful life from the legislative graveyard they’ve been left to live with.

This is not just about clearing streets or controlling dogs, Your Honour, although those issues are clearly relevant to community well-being. Local laws cover life-and-death problems as well, which is why their neglect is so appalling.

Nation after nation, for example, has stood up and told their leadership that they don’t want alcohol, that most dangerous and destructive drug, to keep flooding their communities.

By-law after by-law has been passed declaring this or that reserve to be ‘dry’, but without the sustained commitment on the part of ALL partners in this struggle, such resolutions remain hollow, empty words.

It is true enough that even the most effective by-laws will not, on their own, eliminate the scourge of bootlegging or evaporate every bathtub of homebrew.

They will not cure addictions or completely free families from cycles of abuse and neglect that are deeper than any bottle.

But local laws, created and sustained by communities themselves, have the potential to be a much bigger part of the solution to these life-shattering problems than any legislation cooked up and catapulted in from elsewhere, Your Honour.

As you know, most of the laws that us court-folk deal with are reactive, applied only after something really bad has happened.

Racism awareness week Lenny Carpenter Wawatay News

In recognition of International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on March 21, two separate committees are hosting anti-racism awareness weeks within Sioux Lookout and Thunder Bay respectively.

Sioux Lookout’s Racism Awareness Week, taking place March 16-23, has or will feature events such as: an exhibition of photographs by Adrienne Fox and Brent Wesley entitled, “I am Indigenous” (all week); a CD launch of “Biindigen”, an Ojibwe language songs recording (March 16); a spaghetti supper with cultural exhibits (March 17), a presentation by Garnet Angeconeb and Ashley Wright about

the educational website garnetsjourney.com (March 18); ; a screening of the film, Watermark (March 20); a family fun day at Cedar Bay (March 22) and a family dance in Frenchman’s Head (March 22). Other events within organizations such as the Sioux Lookout Public Library, the Nishnawbe Gamik Friendship Centre, St. Mary’s Anglican Church, and Kwayaciiwin Education Resource Centre, will be going on throughout the week.

Sioux Lookout’s event will also feature the first viewing outside of Thunder Bay of “Walk a Mile”, a documentary series aimed at fostering the relationship between Thunder Bay’s Aboriginal population and the broader community.

In Thunder Bay, Lakehead

University is hosting its Aboriginal Awareness Week from March 17-21.

The week began on March 17 with a screening of “WalkA-Mile” followed by “Ordinary Woman, Extraordinary Dreams,” a feature documentary featuring Thunder Bay resident Maggie Sofea. On March 20, the event will feature a speaking series and art show from local artists Damien Lee, Christian Chapman and Jean Marshall.

On March 21, a talk on “Breaking the Stigma on Suicide” will be hosted by firefighter and photographer Scott Chisholm, founder of the Collateral Damage Project.

LU’s week also featured an artisan market, an Elders and youth roundtable, and a twospirited workshop.

PUBLIC NOTICE All band members of Sandy Lake First Nation A General Band Election has been called for the offices of Chief, Deputy Chief and eight Councillors of Sandy Lake First Nation to be held on Monday, March 31, 2014.

Toll-free phone-in voting will be permitted for off-reserve band members at 1-866-450-8399. Number only operational on Election Day Friday, March 30, 2012 from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

For further information on procedures contact Maurice Fiddler or Monias Fiddler (807) 774-3421.

And it is a sad but honest fact that many of the criminal charges that are prosecuted in Anishinabe communities drip with the presence of alcohol (more than any other factor, hands down).

A community that had the resources to get at the root of alcohol use, manufacture, and importation before such calamities happen would be, quite simply, a safer place to live.

And local laws, when they really get working as communities intend them, wouldn’t need to simply slap violators with fines or prison time.

That isn’t the way that wrongs have been righted in the Nishnawbe-Aski Nation since time immemorial. And it isn’t how they will be ever be righted, now or in the future.

Creative, courageous progress through this impasse is not merely an ideal, something to talk vaguely about in boardrooms over tea. It is a matter of immediate and essential health, as well as justice.

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.

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.

These columns represent the personal views of the author alone, and not of any organization that he may be associated with.

Nothing in these columns should be taken as legal advice; please consult a properly instructed lawyer for any legal issues you may have.

Some names and details in these columns may be modified to protect confidentiality.

Finally, the author is not Anishinaabe, and this column is not intended to explain or interpret any Anishinaabe words, concepts, or principles. The author humbly apologizes for any errors or misunderstandings that he may make when referring to Indigenous ideas.

Most of the people and communities he serves are members

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No national inquiry into missing, murdered Aboriginal woman Parliamentary report on violence against Indigenous women met with outrage Stephanie Wesley Wawatay News

A report on violence against indigenous women by a parliamentary committee was met with outrage, with one grand chief calling it a “national disgrace.”

The Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women released a report on March 14 entitled “Invisible Women: A Call to Action.”

The report has 16 recommendations including a public awareness and prevention campaign, a national DNAbased missing persons database, and the possibility of collecting police data on violence against Aboriginal women and girls that includes an ethnicity variable.

The lack of a recommendation for a public inquiry into the issue garnered outrage from Aboriginal leaders, organizations and groups across the country, including Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Deputy Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler, Chiefs of Ontario (COO) Regional Chief Stan Beardy, and Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo.

The report came a day before the funeral of Inuk woman named Loretta Saunders who was murdered in Nova Scotia. Saunders was a University student who was writing a thesis based on the issue of missing and murdered

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Community members walk in support of missing and murdered Aboriginal women on Valentine’s Day last month.

Aboriginal women when she magnitude of this issue, and COO demanded the He said that leaders was killed. this government’s continued federal government establish of national Indigenous Fiddler decried the report failure to call in inquiry a National Public Inquiry organizations will be meeting and referred to the lack of an to fully investigate these into missing and murdered to discuss immediate action to inquiry a “national disgrace.” disappearances is nothing Aboriginal women and girls. address the issue.

“For the second time in short of a national disgrace,” “There is something wrong “The Special Committee on nearly two years a parliamen- Fiddler said. in our country if Indigenous Ending Violence Against Indigtary committee has failed to Beardy said he knows too women are five times more enous Women heard emorecommend the action we well how the loss of a loved likely to be violently attacked tional, powerful and construcneed to fully address the high one due to violence can alter than non-Aboriginal women,” tive testimony and yet it’s clear levels of violence against one’s life and leave a shocking Beardy said. those voices were not heard,” Aboriginal women in Canada,” impact in a community and Atleo stated that the Atleo said. “We know we canFiddler said. family. report “disappoints victims not achieve the change we “The special committee “This has to end,” Beardy and families of missing and need without a clear, unequivprocess that developed said. “I am supporting the call murdered women and girls,” ocal commitment and systemic this report and its by the Aboriginal Women’s adding that the report that change to ending violence and recommendations isn’t Association for a national does not go far enough to taking all the necessary steps nearly enough to address the inquiry.” address the issue. to ensure Indigenous women

and girls are safe.”

Atleo called the report “disappointing” to Indigenous women and girls.

AFN Regional Chief Cameron Alexis, who holds the AFN portfolio for community safety and policing, said “there is growing awareness of this tragedy and the public is standing with us.”

“We call on the Government of Canada to work together with First Nations organizations and citizens to develop and implement a National Action Plan to end violence,” Alexis said.

Fiddler said that the homicide rate for Indigenous women and girls is shockingly higher than all other women in Canada, and it’s shameful that the Government of Canada is “choosing the status quo over a commitment to meaningful action.”

“The Prime Minister (Stephen Harper) is mistaken if he thinks we will allow his government to hide behind reports that essentially say everything is fine as-is when our mothers, sisters, and daughters are dying and disappearing without a trace,” Fiddler said.

NAN honoured all missing and murdered women during a recent NAN Women’s Forum, and will do so at the upcoming NAN Special Chiefs Assembly later this month.

Walking With Our Sisters art installation coming to Thunder Bay Stephanie Wesley Wawatay News

Christi Belcourt’s Walking With Our Sisters (WWOS) commemorative art installation for missing and murdered Indigenous women of Canada will be in Thunder Bay this September at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery.

WWOS is a collaborative art piece that involved 1,372 people who created and donated 1,725 pairs of moccasin tops.

Each moccasin top, also

known as “vamps,” represents a missing or murdered Indigenous woman. The vamps are intentionally not sewn into moccasins and left incomplete to signify the unfinished lives of those missing or murdered women.

WWOS is scheduled to tour more than 30 locations across North America for the next six years. From what Sharon Johnson has learned about previous exhibits of WWOS, it requires a lot of commitment and volunteering from people

in the community it visits.

Johnson, along with Leanna Marshall, are part of a WWOS Planning Committee in Thunder Bay. The group has held a few meetings prior to a Community Conversation on March 12.

“It’s important to have a committee because it’s gonna be a major event,” Johnson said. “There needs to be a committee and volunteers because of all of the work that is going to be put into it physically, emotionally, and spiritu-

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ally.” Johnson explained that the art installation will require a lot of help from community members so that is why the planning committee hosted a community conversation.

She was invited by Jean Marshall and her sister Leanna after the two were asked by Christi Belcourt to help out and prepare for WWOS. “They thought I should be on it because of the work I do with the memorial walks,” Johnson said. For the last six years, Johnson, whose sister Sandra was murdered in the early 1990s, has been holding Full Moon Memory Walks in

Thunder Bay. Johnson said that the first community conversation welcomed around 30 people.

“It was a good little crowd, but the ones who were there signed their names to volunteer for different things that had to be done,” Johnson said.

Leanna Marshall said it helps to have a planning committee because it is a core group of people who know what is going on and who can take leadership in the community to host WWOS. “I think WWOS is going to have a big impact on our community,” Marshall said. “The committee is going to need

help from the larger community to really help bring the show here. I actually don’t like to call it a show, our Elder said we should call it a “journey” because when you call it a show, it doesn’t respect what its about.”

After listening to Belcourt describe WWOS, Marshall explained that everything about the installation will be done with meaning. The space the holds the vamps is going to have medicines around it and will be very much like a healing lodge.

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Notice is hereby given to all eligible electors of Slate Falls Nation that a by-election for One (1) Band Council position will be held on Monday, March 31, 2014. The poll will be located at the Band Office boardroom and it will open from 9:00 am and close at 5:00 pm. According to Slate Falls Custom Election Code, a nomination meeting was duly convened and the following members were nominated and have accepted the nomination. The candidates are as follows: Brenda Bunting

Delford Mitchell

Chancillor Crane

Patricia Rennie

Brenda Roundhead

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Solar power system installed at Deer Lake Elementary School Rick Garrick Wawatay News

Deer Lake recently completed the largest solar project undertaken in the Sioux Lookout zone by installing a solar power system in the community’s elementary school.

“We are always looking for alternative energy,” said Deer Lake Chief Royle Meekis. “We did some research in the community and we decided we should try some solar panels to see if we can alleviate some of the load from hydro.”

Deer Lake’s 1,100 onreserve citizens currently use power from a 149-kilowatt run-of-river hydro project, built in 1998 on the Severn River, and a diesel power plant.

Meekis said the solar project will enable the community to use the power that had been consumed by the school to “hook up” additional housing for community members.

“I’m hoping that we can be part of an ongoing energy saving system,” Meekis said.

“Maybe other communities would be more than willing to go that route if we are successful.”

Meekis said the solar panel system includes batteries to store power for when the sun is down.

“Hopefully we can save fuel when the school (day) is over,” Meekis said. “When you’re not using the facility, you can pretty well turn everything off just so it functions.”

Meekis said the run-ofriver hydro project has saved the community a significant amount of money and diesel fuel over the years.

“We have to think of saving money and energy and fuel,” Meekis said. “The freight (for diesel fuel) is a killer for any First Nation.”

Geordi Kakepetum, CEO of NCC Development, was pleased with the groundbreaking project. NCC Development is an energy management company established by the Keewaytinook Okimakanak chiefs.

“I’ve been working with the chiefs to bring their vision into reality for over twenty years,” said the former KO executive director.

“First we had K-Net Services and then KO Medicine, KiHS and KMobile. Then, the chiefs gave me a new challenge — take the lessons learned in building the K-Net

Wawatay News would like your community photos Dear Wawatay News readers, Do you have an interesting or amusing photo you would like to share with other readers in northern Ontario?

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Network and come up with a solution to the diesel energy crisis faced by many remote communities.”

Kakepetum said the solar project is part of three years of work by NCC Development and its partner Canadian Solar.

“Some of the First Nations we serve spend between one million and two million dollars a year transporting diesel into their communities,” Kakepetum said. “This is not sustainable. There is not enough energy to build houses, public building or to support economic development.”

Kakepetum said the Deer Lake Elementary School helps reduce the community’s reliance on diesel fuel power plants.

“Together with Canadian Solar, NCC Development has taken the first steps towards reducing diesel consumption and replacing (it) with the power of the sun,” Kakepetum said. “Today, working with our partners, we have designed a solar micro grid that will substantially reduce the use of fossil fuels in the far north.”

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Workers in Deer Lake First Nation unwrap the package containing solar panels outside the community’s elementary school. The First Nation’s 1,100 on-reserve citizens currently rely on a run-of-river hydro project and a diesel power plant. Deer Lake Chief Royle Meekis said the solar project will allow the community to hook up housing units to the power grid.

INSPECTION Inspection of Approved 2014 – 2015 Annual Work Schedule Big Pic, Magpie, Nagagami, Pic River and White River Forests The Wawa District Office of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) has reviewed and approved Nawiinginokiima Forest Management Corporation, Nagagami Forest Management Ltd. and White River Forest Products Ltd. April 1, 2014 – March 31, 2015 Annual Work Schedules (AWS) for the Big Pic, Magpie, Nagagami, Pic River and White River Forests.

Availability The AWS will be available for public inspection at the respective Nawiinginokiima Forest Management Corporation, Nagagami Forest Management Ltd. and White River Forest Products Ltd. offices and the MNR public website at ontario.ca/forestplans beginning March 14, 2014 and throughout the one-year duration. The Ontario Government Information Centre at the Wawa District Office provide access to the Internet.

Scheduled Forest Management Operations The AWS describes forest management activities such as road construction, maintenance and decommissioning, forestry aggregate pits, harvest, site preparation, tree planting and tending that are scheduled to occur during the year.

Tree Planting and Fuelwood Nawiinginokiima Forest Management Corporation, Nagagami Forest Management Ltd. and White River Forest Products Ltd. are responsible for tree planting on the Big Pic, Pic River, Nagagami and White River Forests. Please find the forest company contact information below for information regarding tree planting job opportunities.

For information on the locations and licence requirements for obtaining fuelwood for personal use, please contact the Wawa District Office (tel: 705-856-2396). For commercial fuelwood opportunities, please contact the forest company representatives below for the area you are interested in.

More Information For more information on the AWS or to arrange an appointment with MNR staff to discuss the AWS or to request an AWS operations summary map, please contact: Ministry of Natural Resources Contact: Zachary White, R.P.F. Management Forester Ministry of Natural Resources Wawa District Office 48 Mission Road, Wawa, Ontario tel: 705-856-4715 fax: 705-856-7511 office hours: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Magpie Forest Contact: Mary Lynn McKenna, R.P.F. Management Forester Ministry of Natural Resources Wawa District Office 48 Mission Road, Wawa, Ontario tel: 705-856-4713 fax: 705-856-7511 office hours: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Nagagami Forest Contact: Boris Michelussi, R.P.F. Forester Nagagami Forest Management Ltd. Jackfish River Management Ltd. Office 10 Becker Road, Hornepayne, Ontario tel: 807-868-2370 ext. 222 fax: 807-868-2594 office hours: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Big Pic and Pic River Forests Contact: Neil McDonald Forestry Planner Nawiinginokiima Forest Management Corporation #5 Highway 17 (lower entrance of the Marathon Visitor Information Centre) Marathon, Ontario tel: 807-229-8000 ext. 24 cell: 807-228-2404 office hours: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

White River Forest Contact: Don Larmer, R.P.F. Superintendent of Operations and Forestry White River Forest Products Ltd. 315 Highway 17, White River, Ontario tel: 807-822-1818 ext.220 fax: 807-822-2020 office hours: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

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Regional Wellness Response Program Strong today. Stronger tomorrow.

The Regional Wellness Response program was established for First Nations in the Sioux Lookout area due to an increase of opiate drug abuse, increased needle usage and needle sharing, and an increase in the hepatitis C virus.

To respond to priority areas of substance abuse and blood-borne infections, the following services are available: Needle Distribution Program, Community Wellness Development Team, and a Hepatitis C Program.

Needle Distribution Program Ũ Harm reduction strategy working with community groups and northern nursing stations to distribute clean drug use supplies Ũ Reduce unsafe drug use, prevent contracting and transmission of blood-borne infections Ũ Provide opportunity for drug users to connect with health, addiction and other social services

Community Wellness Development Team Ũ Team consisting of a Project Facilitator, Addictions Specialist and Mental Health Specialist Ũ Provide on-going support/consultation to First Nations while they build capacity and community-driven treatment responses to address prescription drug abuse and underlying mental health issues

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A participant during the 2008 Native American Indigenous Games.

Team Ontario seeking athletes for NAIG 2014 before March 31 deadline Lenny Carpenter Wawatay News

Aboriginal Team Ontario is seeking young athletes to register for the the upcoming North American Indigenous Games (NAIG) set to take place July 20-27 in Regina, Sask.

Scott Haines, Team Ontario’s track and field head coach for the games, said they are seeking Indigenous athletes aged between 13-19 to register before the March 31 deadline.

Athletes do not need to have tried out before registering. Tryouts can continue until early June, when teams must submit their final rosters.

Registrants can be a member of a Nishnawbe-Aski Nation or Treaty 3 community that lives on or off-reserve.

“They need to get on the radar and let our organization know they are interested,” said Haines, who is also sits on the board of directors for the Aboriginal Sports and Wellness Council of Ontario (ASWCO), the sports body that represents Team Ontario.

Athletes can register for 15 different sports, including archery, athletics (track and field), badminton, baseball, basketball, golf, lacrosse, soccer, swimming, volley and wrestling.

There are two sports where Haines said the team has been having difficulty gaining athletes: canoeing and rifle shooting.

“And I know kids in the north can canoe and I know they can shoot a rifle,” he said.

Haines said athletes can find out about doing tryouts once they register.

“For some athletes they can submit some of their performances, especially if they competed in the provincial sport system, like high school sports,” Haines said, noting some of the past athletes had competed at

the OFSAA (Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations) tournaments.

Athletes interested can e-mail aswco@shaw.ca or go to http:// aswco.businesscatalyst.com/ NAIG-2014 for more information.

Haines said by registering, athletes also put themselves on the map in sports within Ontario.

“We’ll be in a position to be able to tell some of the kids here where they’re at,” he said. “It’s not only about the Games, but to be connected to the only Aboriginal sports body in Ontario, ASWCO.” The seven-day event will showcase unity, sport, culture, youth, volunteerism and team work between First Nations, Metis and non-Indigenous communities, according to the NAIG 2014 website. The theme of the Regina 2014 North American Indigenous Games is “Raising the Bar.” In addition to the sports competitions, the Games will celebrate and share North American Aboriginal cultures through a showcase of language, tradition, art, song, dance and ceremonies.

Haines said athletes should be excited for the upcoming event.

“We’re staying in the University of Regina, which is very exciting because it’ll be the hub of the events, the cultural centre,” he said.

It is the first time time the Games are taking place since 2008, when nearly 600 athletes, coaches and chaperones represented Team Ontario at the Games in Cowichan Valley, B.C. Team Ontario as a whole placed second overall at that event, with a total of 145 medals, 48 gold, 55 silver and 42 bronze.

More information about Aboriginal Team Ontario can be found at www.aswco.com, their Facebook page, or Twitter@ OntNAIG

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REVIEW Ogoki 2008–2018 Forest Management Plan Review of Draft Planned Operations for Phase II 2013–2018 The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) and the Geraldton Area Natural Resource Advisory Committee (GANRAC) invite you to review and comment on the Phase II 2013–2018 Draft Planned Operations of the 2008–2018 Forest Management Plan (FMP) for the Ogoki Forest.

You will have the opportunity to review and comment on: • The draft planned harvest, renewal and tending operations and access roads for the second five-year term; and, • The MNR’s preliminary list of required alterations.

You will also have an opportunity to contribute to the background information used in planning.

Comments from the public will be considered in revisions to the Draft Planned Operations.

How to Get Involved The Draft Planned Operations and the draft planned operations summary will be available on the MNR public web site at ontario.ca/forestplans and at the MNR Geraldton Area office during normal office hours by appointment for a period of 30 days from March 14, 2014 to April 14, 2014. The Ontario Government Information Centre in Toronto at 777 Bay Street and ServiceOntario locations in Geraldton, Nipigon and Thunder Bay provide Internet access.

Meetings with representatives of the planning team and the Local Citizen’s Committee can be requested at any time during the planning process. Reasonable opportunities to meet planning team members during non-business hours will be provided upon request. If you require more information or wish to discuss your interests with a planning team member, please contact one of the individuals listed below: Ben Bartlett, R.P.F. Plan Author/Management Forester, MNR tel: 807-887-5024 e-mail: ben.bartlett@ontario.ca

Andy Yesno Eabametoong First Nation Representative tel: 807-242-7221 e-mail: andy.yesno@eabametoongfn.ca

Bill Davidson GANRAC Remote Tourism Representative tel: 807-876-4570 e-mail: wdavidson2@sympatico.ca

Ron Melhuish GANRAC Representative tel: 807-854-0161 e-mail: ron.melhuish@gmail.com

Brian Downey Nakina Heritage Corporation, Forest Industry Representative tel: 807-329-5214 e-mail: bdowney@bell.net During the planning process there is an opportunity to make a written request to seek resolution of issues with the MNR District Manager or the Regional Director using a process described in the Forest Management Planning Manual (2009). The last possible date to seek issue resolution with the MNR Regional Director is May 13, 2014.

Stay Involved The preparation of the Draft Detailed Operations for the second five-year term (Phase II) has been completed. Following receipt of comments, the Draft Planned Operations will be revised and the Final Planned Operations will be available for inspection.

There is a final opportunity to inspect the Planned Operations before they are implemented during the inspection of the MNR-approved Planned Operations (Stage 3), which is tentatively scheduled for June 6, 2014 to July 7, 2014.

The approval date of the Planned Operations for the second five-year term is tentatively scheduled for July 7, 2014.

The Ministry of Natural Resources is collecting your personal information and comments under the authority of the Crown Forest Sustainability Act. Any personal information you provide (address, name, telephone, etc.) will be protected in accordance with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act; however, your comments will become part of the public consultation process and may be shared with the general public. Your personal information may be used by the Ministry of Natural Resources to send you further information related to this forest management planning exercise. If you have questions about the use of your personal information, please contact Peggy Bluth at 807-854-1829.

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Jet vets get boost from young speedsters Northern Bands final features classic Eabametoong-Pikangikum rivalry Bryan Phelan Wawatay News

The Bushtown Jets from Eabametoong brought a fresh look to the Northern Bands Hockey Tournament and left as champions.

Runners up at the Northern First Nations Hockey Tournament in Sioux Lookout last year, the Jets and several other teams instead opted for the rival Northern Bands event in Dryden this March Break. It featured 29 teams playing in almost 100 games from March 11 to 16.

On Sunday afternoon, only the Jets were left standing.

Bushtown bolstered its veteran roster with several young players who also competed in Sioux Lookout in 2013, but as members of the mostly teenaged Eabametoong Outlaws.

The new-look Jets met an old foe in the Northern Bands A-side final: Pikangikum.

Defenceman Leo Atlookan, 40, was one of a half dozen Bushtown players around long enough to remember losing to a Pikangikum team in a Northern Bands championship game way back in 1993. “They beat us in overtime, with 47 seconds left before (it) ended,” Atlookan recalled.

It’s a long time to carry a grudge, and team lineups and nicknames have changed several times since. But with Atlookan’s Jets facing the Pikangikum Ice Bears for the tournament title in 2014, “We talked about that (’93 game) in the dressing room and said ‘This is

Photos by Bryan Phelan/Wawatay News

Left: The Bushtown Jets from Eabametoong, winners of the 2014 Northern Bands Hockey Tournament.

Above: Sid Atlookan, left, celebrates Bushtown’s championship with his teammate and dad, Leo. A 40-year-old defenceman, Leo has now won eight Northern Bands and Northern First Nations tournament championships with Eabametoong teams. “My brother, Walter Atlookan, was tied with me with seven but he couldn’t make it this year,” Leo says. “So I’m leading now.” not happening again.’ ” If Bushtown’s youngsters needed motivation from a more recent defeat, they could think about how it felt earlier in the week when they were upset 4-3 by the Pikangikum Wild.

And the nine players who had been Outlaws last year would remember a lopsided loss to the Pikangikum Screaming Otters in Sioux Lookout, interrupted at one point by a line brawl.

With that history and a cash prize of $20,000 awaiting the winner, the Jets and Ice Bears played the Northern Bands championship game with the intensity fans expected, battling fiercely along the boards and in front of the nets.

One of Bushtown’s former Outlaws, Louie Wapoose, scored first on a power play by

carrying the puck over the blueline and firing a slapshot down off the crossbar and in. Later in the period, Justin Wabano weaved his way through three defenders in front of Pikangikum’s net and slid the puck under goalie Livio Dunsford for his first of two goals.

The Jets got an even faster start to the second period, when it took just 16 seconds for Clint Atlookan to find the back of the net with a backhand during another power play.

Even when Pikangikum got a man advantage with Wabano off for tripping, the Ice Bears gave up two breakaway chances. Saves by tournament MVP Dunsford bailed them out.

At these times and others, the Bears seemed overwhelmed by Bushtown’s smart puck move-

ment and youthful speed.

“It was all hard work,” Leo Atlookan said. “We kept preaching to each other on the bench, ‘No matter what happens, penalties, power play, just keep going, keep the rhythm going.’ ” By the time the second period was over, Leo had scored too – on a shot from the top of the face-off circle – making the score 6-0 and turning up the volume on cheers from Bushtown supporters.

Pikangikum had quality scoring chances too but they were sporadic, and Bushtown goalie Mathew Shawinimash was sharp. The third period was almost halfway done when Ice Bear Gregory Pascal finally ruined Shawinimash’s shutout bid by scooping in a rebound on a shot from teammate Davius

Turtle.

Bushtown had the last say, though, when Chris Bois, another ex-Outlaw, broke loose on a breakaway and beat Dunsford through the five-hole, making the final score 7-1.

“Fast, young guys, along with the veteran core – it’s a pretty good mix,” said Shawinimash, 39, who was named the tournament’s best goaltender.

“It’s a pretty good system, actually, having a young group get some experience (with another team), then move them up to the Bushtown Jets.”

One of the young players was Leo Atlookan’s son, Sid, who had an assist in the final.

“I won today with my son and my nephews,” Atlookan said. “It was awesome.”

Missing from Bushtown’s

post-game celebration was his mother, Jane, who stays in Eabametoong each March when Leo and four other sons travel south to play hockey.

“I want to thank my mom,” Atlookan said, thinking back to childhood hockey games, before the rivalry with Pikangikum. “When we didn’t have equipment to play, she made equipment for us using cardboard and mattresses, stuff like that. The goalie would wear pillows. She would make up all these things.”

And when it got too cold for her boys to wear the equipment outside, she let them have their games in the house.

“She always made sure we could play hockey.”

Wawatay Native Communications Society CONGRATULATES All Teams, Players and Coaches who participated in the NORTHERN FIRST NATIONS HOCKEY TOURNAMENT and NORTHERN BANDS HOCKEY TOURNAMENT Thank you to our sponsors for helping us broadcast the games into the North, across Canada and around the world on WRN. Glen Whiskeyjack and Slate Falls Community Members Keewaywin Northern Store Pikangikum First Nation Thank you to our broadcasters and technicians: Jerry Sawanas, Danny Kakepetum, Bill Morris Jeff Hindy and Julian Kakekagumick A very special thank you to Bertha and Thom at Wahsa Distance Education.

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Photos by Bryan Phelan/Wawatay News

Above: Ice Bear Mason Pascal squeezes Christian Nate Jr. of the Jets out of the play.

Left: Temus Ombash, right, of Cat Lake Weecobeyang, ties up Gerrick Oombash of Cat Lake Rez 216 in front of the Weecobeyang net.

Pursuing a championship

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Left: Ezra Yellowhead led the Wolves’ attack in the B-side final with eight goals and an assist.

Above: Nibinamik Wolves won the Northern Bands B-side championship and $8,000 with a win over the Pikangikum Rez 208 Braves.

Photos by Bryan Phelan/Wawatay News

Above: Joe Boyce of the Bushtown Jets makes a pass while pursued by Jonathon Strang of the Pikangikum Ice Bears.

Above right: Jets forward Justin Wabano, no. 18, whoops it up after scoring his second goal of the A-side final.

Introducing Derek Fox as the newest member of our experienced legal team.

A member of Bearskin Lake, First Nation, Mr. Fox was born in Sioux Lookout and attended law school at the University of Manitoba, graduating with a juris doctor. He was later called to the bar with the Law Society of Upper Canada in January 2014.

Derek’s interests include the practice of Aboriginal Law, Corporate/ Commercial and Civil Litigation.

In his spare time he likes to hunt, fish and trap on his family trapline at Sachigo River (about 50 miles north of Big Trout Lake). Derek also values spending time with his two sons aged 8 and 10.

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Weecobeyang overcomes cold start to secure C-side championship Bryan Phelan Wawatay News

Hockey players from Cat Lake must have been happy just to be playing indoors, never mind in a championship game.

Outside the Dryden Memorial Arena, the temperature dropped as low as –25 Celsius on Sunday. Inside that morning, after a week of games involving 29 teams, two Cat Lake teams met in the C-side final of the Northern Bands Hockey Tournament.

They hadn’t had much opportunity to practice for this big moment back home, almost 300 kilometres north, where those in the community of 550 skate on an outdoor rink.

“It was always snowing, always cold,” Ronald Gray, a left-winger for Cat Lake Weecobeyang, said of a winter that was harsher than usual. “It was too cold; everybody was getting

frostbite out there. We didn’t get much skating at all.”

Weecobeyang managed only about a week of steady ice time, just before the Northern Bands, Gray said.

The shortage of practice showed early in the tournament, as the team lost three games in a row during round robin play.

But with those games behind them, “We kind of clicked once the knockout round came,” said Gray.

Weecobeyang wins over the Sachigo Giants and Poplar Hill Wildhogs led to the C-side championship game. A stick cut Gray over the right eye late in the 8-3 victory over the Wildhogs, but he waited until after the game to get the five stitches needed to close the wound.

In the final against hometown rival Cat Lake Rez 216, Weecobeyang controlled the puck for most of the first

period, building a 3-0 lead.

Tommy Anderson replied for Rez 216 with a goal early in the second period but his team failed to score on a two-man advantage that followed.

“We don’t have enough players,” Anderson said while serving a penalty in the third period, looking across the ice at only three teammates on the Rez 216 bench.

Gray scored on breakaways two of Weecobeyang’s five unanswered goals that period, for a 9-1 win. Weecobeyang also got two goals each from Reuben Sakakeesic and Darwin Gray.

Despite a sometimes rough game, Rez 216 players cheered loudly when Weecobeyang received its championship trophy – Gray’s first.

The 24-year-old held the trophy as players from both teams surrounded him for post-game photos.

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Familiar faces: Two Cat Lake teams, Cat Lake Weecobeyang and Cat Lake Rez 216, battled for the Northern Bands C-side title but remained on friendly terms after the game.

Eight-goal outburst for Nibinamik Wolves’ Yellowhead in B-side Bryan Phelan Wawatay News

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Mario Yellowhead, left, celebrates scoring a goal with help from his Nibinamik teammates.

Ezra Yellowhead, a centreman for the Nibinamik Wolves, dominated the start, finish and most of the play in-between.

Yellowhead opened the scoring in the B-side championship game at the Northern Bands Hockey Tournament with a low shot that found its way through the stick blade of Silas Keeper, goalie for the Pikangikum Rez 208 Braves.

Then, with his team up 2-1, Yellowhead went on a remarkable scoring spree

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that began late in the first period and continued into the third. During that span Yellowhead scored six consecutive Nibinamik goals, in just about every way possible: unleashing an overpowering slapshot, cleaning up rebound garbage, finishing a passing play and even banking the puck past Keeper from behind the net.

Only one of those goals came in the second period, however, when the Braves scored twice to hold on to some hope.

“It was just frustration I guess, blaming each other,”

Nibinamik coach Richard Roundhead said of his team’s stalled offence.

Still with a comfortable 7-3 lead, “We came into the dressing room and talked about the second period and tried to change everything for that last period,” Roundhead said. “We put in a defensive style – the third forward staying back.”

That helped keep the Braves in check until the game was out of reach.

Not surprisingly, Yellowhead finished the scoring for the Wolves – his eighth goal of the game – on a pass from

Marcus Oskineegish, who had four assists.

Brian Keeper and Vernie Turtle each scored twice for Pikangikum.

The run-and-gun game, which started at high noon Sunday, ended in Nibinamik’s favour by a score of 11-6.

Afterwards, Yellowhead complimented Roundhead’s teaching style as a coach. But while Roundhead stressed defensive play for the third period, Yellowhead didn’t forget his offensive role: “just kept shooting the puck in the net.”

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INSPECTION Inspection of Approved 2014 – 2015 Annual Work Schedule Sapawe Forest The Fort Frances District, Atikokan Area Office of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) has reviewed and approved the Rainy Lake Tribal Resource Management Inc. April 1, 2014 – March 31, 2015 Annual Work Schedule (AWS) for the Sapawe Forest.

Availability The AWS will be available for public inspection at the Rainy Lake Tribal Resource Management Inc. and the MNR public website at ontario.ca/forestplans beginning March 15, 2014 and throughout the one-year duration. Ontario Government Information Centres at Fort Frances District and Atikokan Area Offices provide access to the Internet.

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Richard Soloman and teammate Sheldon Sackaney of the Hudson Bay Cree tied for the tournament lead in points during the Northern First Nations Hockey Tournament in Sioux Lookout.

Four in a row for Eagles in Northern First Nations Hockey Tournament Bryan Phelan Wawatay News

The Lac Seul Eagles soared to their fourth consecutive championship Sunday at the Northern First Nations Hockey Tournament in Sioux Lookout.

Lac Seul outscored Pikangikum Stampede in the championship game 5-1 to take the title.

Despite the Eagles’ defending champion status, there was reason to consider them the underdogs heading into this year’s final. The Stampede, after all, had earlier in the tournament defeated Lac Seul 6-3. Pikangikum posted an undefeated record during round robin play: five wins and a tie.

In three playoff games including the final, however, Lac Seul allowed just two goals. The Eagles started their playoff run by shutting out last year’s C-side champion Kasabonika Islanders 8-0, then edged the Michikan Mavericks 3-1 in a semifinal game.

Jeff Schenderling led the Eagles in tournament scoring, just as he did in 2013, with 25

points.

In its semifinal, Pikangikum squeaked by the Bamaji Ice by a score of 4-3. Kyle Peters scored two goals for the Stampede in that game, including the game-winner.

Bamaji also fell short in the B-side final, losing to the Mavericks 4-1. Kevin Mckay opened the scoring for Michikan and assisted on his team’s other three goals. He was also his team’s leading scorer in the tournament, with 25 points.

The Mavericks posted the only perfect round robin record, with six wins and no losses.

Another Michikan team didn’t fare as well in its championship game. The Michikan Bears dropped a 7-2 decision to the Hudson Bay Cree in the C-side final. Richard Soloman had five points in the game – two goals and three assists – to lead the Cree offence.

Soloman also tied with teammate Sheldon Sackaney for the tournament lead in scoring. Each of them had 31 points. Sackaney also scored the most goals: 21.

Scheduled Forest Management Operations The AWS describes forest management activities such as road construction, maintenance and decommissioning, forestry aggregate pits, harvest, site preparation, tree planting and tending that are scheduled to occur during the year.

Tree Planting and Fuelwood Rainy Lake Tribal Resource Management Inc. is responsible for tree planting on the Sapawe Forest. Please contact John Bagacki at the Rainy Lake Tribal Resource Management Inc. office (tel: 807-274-8531) for information regarding tree planting job opportunities.

For information on the locations and licence requirements for obtaining fuelwood for personal use, please contact Connie Lind at the Atikokan Area Office (tel: 807-597-5001). For commercial fuelwood opportunities, please contact John Bagacki at the Rainy Lake Tribal Resource Management Inc. office (tel: 807-274-8531).

More Information For more information on the AWS or to arrange an appointment with MNR staff to discuss the AWS or to request an AWS operations summary map, please contact: Renee Perry, Management Forester Ministry of Natural Resources Atikokan Area Office 108 Saturn Avenue Atikokan, ON P0T IC0 tel: 807-597-5010 office hours: 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

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Expanded polystyrene foundations to be introduced to north Rick Garrick Wawatay News

Moose Cree’s William Small is planning to introduce a new polystyrene foundation system to First Nation communities through his company — Eco Fab Structures Inc. “We’re going to be the first distributors of this system for Ontario,� Small said during the 12th Annual First Nations Northern Housing Conference. “We’re quite excited about this new product. I think it answers a lot of the problems we have in First Nations housing, in general the mould issue that comes along with some of the techniques that are currently being used today.�

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by Poly Core Canada Inc. in Alberta, the foundation system is made from expanded polystyrene panels for insulation with embedded galvanized steel construction studs for strength. The spac-

ing and gauge/width of the steel studs is customized to meet the specific load and engineering requirements of each project. “The styrofoam embeds the steel studs,� Small said. “The whole structure is encased in styrofoam. There is no thermal break — the steel studs only go to a certain point — you have the styrofoam on the outside.�

The polystyrene panels are available in four-by-eight foot sections, which are eight inches thick with an R36 value. Textures or coatings can be applied directly onto the exterior of the panels, or they can be sheeted directly with siding or cladding as the project requires.

Small said the foundation panels can also be used for walls on the first level of a residence. “If you don’t want to put in a basement, you can also use (the panels) for a crawl space,� Small said.

Small said the system also

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Moose Cree’s William Small is looking to introduce an expanded polystyrene foundation system to communities across northern Ontario. includes basement floor panels that are placed over the gravel base. “Then you put your f loor finish on there,� Small said. “Some of the First Nations communities have a very limited supply of concrete in

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Long Lake #58 is looking to get more businesses off the ground by signing on with the federal governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Framework Agreement on First Nation Land Management.

Long Lake #58 was one of 19 First Nations that signed the Framework Agreement on March 3, which allows them to begin the process of opting out of 34 land-related sections of the Indian Act and assume greater control over their reserve land and resources. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Right now, if we want to do anything, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re under the Indian Act â&#x20AC;&#x201D; if we want to build a store or a hotel or any kind of enterprise, we have to go through Indian Affairs and it takes a long time,â&#x20AC;? said Chief Allen Towegishig. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But under this land code agreement, we make our own laws and we have more freedom to govern how we are going to govern our lands.â&#x20AC;?

Towegishig said his community is currently working on the completion of an addition to reserve process that will add about 4,366 acres of land to the east side of the community, which is currently about one-square mile in size. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Right now weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got no place to build our homes or anything else we want to do,â&#x20AC;?

Towegishig said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to take another two or three years to get our ATR.â&#x20AC;?

Towegishig said the communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work on the First Nation Land Management land code will also take

â&#x20AC;&#x153;another couple of years,â&#x20AC;? which will be just in time for when the community can start building on the ATR lands. â&#x20AC;&#x153;(The community is) really excited, really happy,â&#x20AC;? Towegishig said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They say now weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be able to do things on our own. They always wanted to have self government in our community.â&#x20AC;?

Long Lake #58 currently owns and operates a general store, a gas bar and a Subway restaurant on the reserve. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have a lot of businesses coming to talk to us every day but we tell them we cannot build anything on that new land,â&#x20AC;? Towegishig said, noting that the ATR process has to be fully completed before the land can be used.

Nine other First Nations signed onto the agreement in December 2013. The 28 First Nations are now able to manage their own land, resources and environment according to their own land codes, laws and policies under the agreement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The First Nations Land Management Regime is a proven and successful tool of economic development and reconciliation,â&#x20AC;? said Bernard Valcourt, minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development of Canada. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We will continue to work with interested First Nations like those represented here today to create jobs and economic opportunities, and also to achieve reconciliation between Canada and First Nations, through initiatives like the FNLM Regime.â&#x20AC;?

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Full Moon Memory Walk co-founder honoured at LUNSA Annual Powwow Rick Garrick Wawatay News

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Youth having fun was a common theme at this year’s Lakehead University Native Student Association’s Annual Powwow.

The life of Full Moon Memory Walk co-founder Lynne Sharman was honoured during a special dance at the Lakehead University Native Student Association’s Annual Powwow.

“I knew we had to honour Lynne at this powwow because she was a big part of the powwow circle going back for a lot of years,” said Sharon Johnson, who co-founded the Full Moon Memory Walk with Sharman. “She followed the Anishinabe way for so long, as far as I can remember. Even before I met her, I used to see her dancing around with her eyes closed and her pouch of tobacco in her hand.”

Sharman passed away on

March 14. She was born in 1947 and moved to Thunder Bay in 1987 to continue her cultural work with the Anishinabe after helping found the Native Indian/Inuit Photographers Association in Toronto.

She was nominated for the June Callwood Outstanding Achievement Award for Voluntarism for a lifetime of volunteer work, including helping create the Definitely Superior Art Gallery, organizing two conferences for Second World War Native veterans and three conferences for child abuse survivors, and compiling 23 Gladue reports for Anishinabe and Cree women imprisoned in Thunder Bay. “As an advocate for Anishinabe women and children and men, she did all kinds of work for so many years and for so

many people,” Johnson said.

“I’m just really honored that I got to meet her and that I got to work with her and to start the Full Moon Memory Walk with her as the co-founder.”

Johnson recalled many meetings with Sharman in her downtown Fort William apartment.

“All I’m thinking about right now is all those times we sat together in her apartment,” Johnson said. “They’d be a bunch of us women, sometimes guys, and we’d sit there and talk. It was more like a gathering for us to get together and help each other out. At the same time we would be taking notes and doing the business part of it, but we would leave from there just ready to kick butt.”

Johnson said Sharman was

a “really humble lady.”

“She never wanted to be mentioned that she was doing work but she mostly worked behind the scenes,” Johnson said. “She pushed me out there and made me do things.

So I’m just really glad that we got to do the song for her.”

About 300 dancers and 21 drums attended the powwow, which was held from March 14-16 at the Lakehead University Field House in Thunder Bay. A traditional feast was held on March 15.

Pic River’s Nathan Moses was the emcee, Pic River’s Todd Genno was the arena director, Lac La Croix’s Kalvin Ottertail was the spiritual advisor and Naotkamegwanning’s Whitefish Bay Singers was the host drum.

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The Ford Motor Company will stop producing their 12 passenger Ford Econoline wagon in the spring of 2014.

Jamie Bananish/Special to Wawatay News

Elder Wanda Baxter performs opening prayer for the Walking With Our Sisters Community Conversation.

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INSPECTION Inspection of Approved 2014 – 2015 Annual Work Schedules Red Lake Forest and Trout Lake Forest Public Inspection of Annual Work Schedules The Red Lake District of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) has reviewed and approved Domtar’s April 1, 2014 – March 31, 2015 Annual Work Schedule (AWS) for the Trout Lake Forest and Red Lake Forest Management Company’s April 1, 2014 – March 31, 2015 Annual Work Schedule (AWS) for the Red Lake Forest.

Availability Each AWS will be available for public inspection at the Domtar and Red Lake Forest Management Company’s offices and the MNR public website at ontario.ca/forestplans beginning March 15, 2014 and throughout the one-year duration. Each Ontario Government Information Center at the Red Lake District Office can provide access to the Internet.

“When everyone comes into the space, everyone is equal. There’s not going to be any dignitaries or politicians.

Everyone’s going to have some sort of response, so that’s what makes this event really special.”

Marshall explained that WWOS takes three 12-hour long days to lay out the vamps.

“It kind of gives you an idea of how big this event is,” Marshall said. “It takes a huge amount of space so we have to prepare for it. That’s why we held a community conversation.”

Though the community conversation was open to everyone, Marshall noticed

that the crowd was comprised of female community members only.

“I thought that was interesting,” Marshall said. “We’re all impacted by this issue at some level. It impacts us. I think to have men on board, it completes the circle.”

Johnson encourages men to become involved in WWOS as well.

“We need to encourage men to be involved,” Johnson said.

“We need those men to support it as well.”

Marshall said that there will be a need for more volunteers, and hopes to see some more come out as the event date starts closer. She also explained that the issue of missing and murdered Indige-

nous women is something that impacts everyone.

“It’s not a women’s issue,” Marshall said. “It’s a community issue. We need to question why this is happening. Why is this okay to keep on happening? I think some people have been saying “no this isn’t okay” for the last few years, and now it is finally coming to a head.”

“I also think it would be great if our men can step up and say we can support them,” Marshall said.

WWOS can be contacted through their Facebook page, which is called Walking With Our Sisters Thunder Bay. Marshall can be emailed at petabun@yahoo.ca.

Inspection of Approved 2014 – 2015 Annual Work Schedule Martel Forest

The AWS describes forest management activities such as road construction, maintenance and decommissioning, forestry aggregate pits, harvest, site preparation, tree planting and tending that are scheduled to occur during the year.

Tree Planting and Fuelwood Domtar and Red Lake Forest Management Company are responsible for tree planting on the Trout Lake and Red Lake Forests. Please contact Janet Lane at (tel: 807-223-9156) for tree planning opportunities on the Trout Lake Forest and Kaitlin Moncrief at (tel: 807-727-3320) for tree planting opportunities on the Red Lake Forest.

For information on the locations of and licence requirements for obtaining fuelwood for personal use, please contact Laura Landry at the Red Lake District Office at (tel: 807-727-1345).

More Information For more information on the Trout Lake Forest AWS or to arrange an appointment with MNR staff to discuss the AWS or to request an AWS operations summary map, please contact: Janet Lane, R.P.F., Plan Author Domtar Dryden Office 1 Duke Street, Postal Bag 4004 Dryden, ON P8N 3J7 tel: 807-223-9156 fax: 807-223-9401 office hours: 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

For more information on the Red Lake Forest AWS or to arrange an appointment with MNR staff to discuss the AWS or to request an AWS operations summary map, please contact: Robert Partridge, R.P.F., Management Forester Ministry of Natural Resources Red Lake District Office 227 Howey Street, P.O. Box 5003 Red Lake, ON P0V 2M0 tel: 807-727-1347 fax: 807-727-2861 office hours: 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

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Trevor Park, Planning Supervisor Ministry of Natural Resources Red Lake District Office P.O. Box 5003, 227 Howey Street Red Lake, ON P0V 2M0 tel: 807-727-1344 fax: 807-727-2861 office hours: 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Hosting community conversations

Kaitlin Moncrief, Operations Forester Red Lake Forest Management Co. Ltd. 138 Howey Street, P.O. Box 1338 Red Lake, ON P0V 2M0 tel: 807-727-3320 office hours: 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

The Chapleau District of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) has reviewed and approved the Tembec April 1, 2014 – March 31, 2015 Annual Work Schedule (AWS) for the Martel Forest.

Availability The AWS will be available for public inspection at the Tembec office and the MNR public website at ontario.ca/forestplans beginning March 15, 2014 and throughout the one-year duration. Ontario Government Information Centres at the Chapleau District Office provide access to the Internet.

Scheduled Forest Management Operations The AWS describes forest management activities such as road construction, maintenance and decommissioning, forestry aggregate pits, harvest, site preparation, tree planting and tending that are scheduled to occur during the year.

Tree Planting and Fuelwood Tembec is responsible for tree planting on the Martel Forest. Please contact Tembec for information regarding tree planting job opportunities.

For information on the locations and licence requirements for obtaining fuelwood for personal use, please contact the Chapleau District Office. For commercial fuelwood opportunities, please contact Tembec.

More Information For more information on the AWS or to arrange an appointment with MNR staff to discuss the AWS or to request an AWS operations summary map, please contact: Mike Liukko, R.P.F. Management Forester Ministry of Natural Resources Chapleau District Office 190 Cherry Street Chapleau, ON P0M 1K0 tel: 705-864-3173 fax: 705-864-0681

Sarah Sullivan, R.P.F. Planning Superintendent Tembec 175 Planer Road Chapleau, ON P0M 1K0 tel: 705-864-3021

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Refuse to live quietly!

Jana-Rae Yerxa Special to Wawatay News

“I think you’re holding back.

Tell them they’re wrong and tell them why they’re wrong,” he said to me.

“Just like that?!” I asked, my voice exposing discomfort with his suggestion.

“Yeah,” he replied nonchalantly.

“I can’t do that.”

“Why not?”

“Because it sounds so confident,” I said without a trace of hesitation in my voice.

“And…why don’t you want to be confident?” he asked, pushing me a little further to where I needed to be, where I needed to get to.

Silence.

I didn’t know how to answer that question, and so I sat there looking at him, puzzled. My mind was racing. A few uncomfortable seconds passed which, true to the cliché, seemed much longer. “…Then think of it as your responsibility.”

It was that last question that got to me, that unsettled me.

Why don’t I want to be confident?

I open with this personal story because it highlights the impact of settler colonialism on the Indigenous psyche. As much as settler colonialism is about structures of domination and dispossession, it is also about the everyday acts of settler colonial violence. The micro-politics of settler colonialism can slowly erode our self-confidence and self-esteem without realization. These are

the everyday acts which work to destroy us. The self-doubt I struggle with is implanted by colonization and is aligned with the structures of domination and dispossession.

Settler colonialism is pervasive and masks itself as normal, as natural. This, though, is an illusion, powerful and gripping, but an illusion nonetheless. It is an illusion that serves to mask the ongoing violence committed against Indigenous peoples across our homelands.

When we believe the illusion, a ‘buying-in’ which is necessary in the maintenance of settler colonialism, we become ‘tricked’, as Tara Williamson writes. We are also tricked when we believe the everyday acts of settler colonial violence are less harmful and somehow isolated from settler colonialism’s structural co-ordinates.

As Siku Allooloo highlighted, the colonial construct of what Indigenous women have been reduced to is in stark contrast to the reality. We are strong, powerful, beautiful human beings. Furthermore, we are tricked when we believe the everyday acts of settler colonial violence do not contribute to the obvious and ruthless violence that has stolen so many of our sisters.

Although settler colonial violence occurs on a continuum, the goal is always the same: to erase our Indigenous presence, in part, through silencing our voices, by whatever means necessary.

As so many have mentioned previously in the #ItEndsHere series, settler colonial violence

This article is part of the #ItEndsHere project , a collaborative response to the calls for a national inquiry by some family members of missing and murdered Aboriginal women. The project can be found at nationsrising.org is directed at our women on all fronts and in multiple ways.

This violence is so overwhelming that I sometimes wonder where do we go as Indigenous women to escape the violence?!

I am angered at the pathology of normalcy that has developed around violence against Indigenous women.

The pathology of normalcy is dependent ideologically in lies, materially in dispossession, and (re)produced through everyday acts of violence. The pathology of normalcy generates and sanctions colonial fallacies such as ‘the violence committed against Indigenous women is not that bad’ or ‘that we deserve it’ or ‘that we are disposable’ or ‘that we do not matter’.

Repeating a lie does not turn

What is Settler Colonism?

Settler colonialism was (and is) a process in which colons emigrate(d) with the express purposes of territorial occupation and the formation of a new community rather than the extraction of labor or resources Settler colonialism has best been defined as more of an imposed structure than an historical event.

This structure is characterized by relationships of domination and subjugation that become woven throughout the fabric of society, and even becomes disguised as paternalistic benevolence. The objective of settler colonialism is always the acquisition of indigenous territories and resources, which means the native must be eliminated. This can be accomplished in overt ways including biological warfare and military domination but also in more subtle ways; for example, through national policies of assimilation.

Scholar Patrick Wolfe has argued that the logic of settler colonialism is that it destroys in order to replace. Assimilation involves the systematic stripping away of indigenous culture and replacing it with that of the “dominant” culture.

Many of the issues First Nations face today, including missing and murdered women, is considered by many to be a production of settler colonialism.

it into a truth.

The violence is that bad.

We do not deserve it.

We are not disposable.

Our lives do matter.

And until Canada, Canadians and even our own people confront their colonial mindsets and internalize these truths, society will remain sick and the violence will not stop.

The everyday acts of settler colonial violence that I unpack here are the silencing tactics aimed at pacifying our resistance to the dehumanized existence imposed on us by settler colonialism. The silencing tactics, in their various forms, are not recognized as the violent acts of aggression that they are.

Nevertheless, silencing tactics are powerful tools in maintaining settler colonial violence and

contributes to the vicious violence that has taken so many of our sisters lives. Silencing tactics have helped (re)produce the pathology of normalcy.

I used to believe that the hostile reactions to calling out settler colonialism could be avoided depending on how the message was delivered. I am no longer ‘tricked’ into believing this. The fact that we are conditioned and made to worry about how to deliver a message that is so intimately connected to our humanity is ludicrous and speaks to the acceptance of settler colonial violence.

I am also no longer ‘tricked’ into believing that there is a ‘right time’ to disrupt colonial comfort and complacency. The right time was yesterday. And when it becomes about there

being a ‘right time,’ we are off track. The focus is no longer about Indigenous liberation or transcending the pathology of a colonial relationship but rather becomes about giving into fear and centering the feelings of those who benefit most from the colonial status quo.

Does taking care of settler feelings end the violence?

I am tired of the ‘safe’ strategy that focuses on educating settler folks about an ‘Aboriginal experience,’ about ‘Aboriginal people’ and ‘Aboriginal history,’ instead of settler colonialism, white supremacy, and settler colonial violence. I am tired of this safe strategy because it is not safe for me as an Anishinaabe Kwe. It is safe for settlers.

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‘Humility does not mean silience’

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Cont’d from page 19 This is wrong because this type of educational approach is not only ineffective, it is also harmful. It presents a guise of meaningful work, when the work needed - dismantling settler colonialism and ending settler colonial violence - is not actually being done. This type of educational approach gets the green light because we are told that we have to start somewhere. We are told that this is just a beginning. If we are talking about issues like racism without talking about the structures of white supremacy and settler colonialism, or reconciliation without talking about restitution, then we need to ask ourselves who are we talking for? How meaningful are these discussions? Who are they meaningful for?

When we speak out against settler colonialism and its insidious manifestations, we are met with hostility because it disrupts the illusion of the system being innocuous. The hostility presents itself through the countless silencing and avoidance tactics thrown our way. We are the ones that are accused of being violent, offensive, hostile, confrontational, closed minded, stuck, etc. We are dismissed as the angry, ungrateful Indian. We are accused of not wanting to work towards resolution. We are told that the real world does not work that way. We are told that we have to be patient. We are told that our anger is pathological.

Jana-Rae Yerxa This is wrong because these are examples of the ways in which everyday acts of settler colonial violence manifest and reinforce structural violence. They are attempts to shame us into silence and pacify our resistance. We need to be prepared for this and not buy into the shame.

We must continue to speak despite the intimidation.

I needed to unpack the ways in which colonial mentalities inf luenced how I interpreted our Anishinaabeg teachings. Humility does not mean silence. Respect does not mean to not challenge.

Love does not mean that feelings will not be hurt. I also needed to challenge the colonial construct of the quiet Indian woman I had internalized that I had never fit into.

The irrational self-doubt that plagues self-esteem, when marinated in colonial realities, needed to be purged.

There is space for the ‘righteous resentment’ that

Jana-Rae Yerxa is Anishinaabe from Couchiching First Nation and an MA Candidate in Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria. She currently resides in Thunder Bay. This article originally appeared on nationsrising. org as part of its #ItEndsHere series. It is a collaborative response to the calls for a national inquiry by some family members of missing and murdered Aboriginal women.

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For information on the locations and licence requirements for obtaining fuelwood for personal use, please contact the Kenora District Office (tel: 807-468-2501).

More Information For more information on the AWS or to arrange an appointment with MNR staff to discuss the AWS or to request an AWS operations summary map, please contact: Ian Pyke Ministry of Natural Resources Kenora District 808 Robertson Street P.O. Box 5080 Kenora, ON P9N 3X9 tel: 807-468-2559 fax: 807-468-2736 e-mail: ian.pyke@ontario.ca

Glen Coulthard discusses and for it to co-exist with our Anishinaabeg teachings. The rage I feel about the everyday acts of settler colonial violence which aims to silence me, that tells me to shut up in all these dressed up ways, is a healthy rage rooted in love: self-love; love for the land; love for my family; love for my community; love for my nation. Even to challenge others with their colonial comfort are acts of respect, humility and love because it presents an opportunity to learn and grow together, moving towards liberation, and further humanizing ourselves.

In honour of Loretta Saunders, Reena Fox, Sandra Johnson, and all the other Indigenous women, I will continue to use my voice.

I will not be shamed into silence. I will refuse to live quietly. This is my responsibility. This is your responsibility.

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Geraldton’s Lennox Michon was one of about 60 youth who won awards at the 4th Annual Writing Contest in Thunder Bay.

Gearldton youth wins award for multiple-choice ending book Rick Garrick Wawatay News

Geraldton’s Lennox Michon recently won an award for his multiple-choice ending book Impossible at the 4th Annual Writing Contest in Thunder Bay. “It’s about this boy in his everyday life,” Michon said about his 20-page book. “In the first part of the scene he’s getting chased by a bully and one of the choices is you either go back to class or you just don’t think of anything and just get picked on.”

Michon was inspired by other books that also had multiple endings.

“I made (the book) before I even knew about the writing contest,” Michon said. “The other book I was going to write and enter the contest, I didn’t have time to finish it so I just entered (this) book. And it won.”

Michon and about 60 other youth won awards for their entries in the Writing Contest, which was held on Feb. 27 at Dennis Franklin Cromarty First Nations High School by the Thunder Bay Literacy Network - Writing Contest Committee, in partnership with Communities Together for Children/Best Start and Frontier College.

“I’ve seen a lot of great work and and a lot of effort put into some of the entries we received this year,” said William Campbell, Aboriginal projects coordinator at Frontier College.

“This is the second year we’ve been here (at DFC). We’re going to be awarding DFC with an award this evening for their sponsorship of this event and opening their doors for us.”

The Writing Contest was

developed to promote literacy through family learning and to support young writers to express their creativity, with entries growing from 50 in 2011 to 180 in 2013.

“I would like to see more First Nation students participating,” Campbell said. “We do have a few this year, but I would like to see them enter and participate in events like this more to promote their literacy. They’re going to need that later on in life and in school.”

Youth are encouraged to submit entries in English, French and Aboriginal languages, with a variety of categories, including fiction, non-fiction, story books, picture books, poetry, legends and comic book/ graphic novels.

Vivian Michon, Lennox’s mother, was proud of her son’s work in the book.

“He taped it together and made it look like an actual book,” Vivian said. “When I heard about the contest, and he had written the book earlier at Christmastime, I said ‘I know what I’m going to do’ and I entered it for him.”

Vivian felt Lennox’s book would win an award.

“I’m really proud of him,” Vivian said. “It’s a book that I don’t think I could even write.

It’s pretty intricate.”

Vivian said her son has always been creative.

“He’s always had quite an imagination,” Vivian said.

“Other kids in his class say Lennox is a real genius.”

Vivian said the Writing Contest is a great opportunity for youth.

“It gives you a chance to be proud of your child,” Vivian said.

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Availability The AWS will be available for public inspection at the respective Sustainable Forest Licence (SFL) holder offices and the MNR public website at ontario.ca/forestplans beginning March 16, 2014 and throughout the one-year duration.

ServiceOntario Centres at the Ministry’s Dryden District Office and the Ignace Area Office provide access to the Internet.

Scheduled Forest Management Operations The AWS describes forest management activities such as road construction, maintenance and decommissioning, forestry aggregate pits, harvest, site preparation, tree planting, aerial seeding and tending that are scheduled to occur during the year.

Tree Planting and Fuelwood The SFL holders below are responsible for tree planting on the listed forests. Please contact the SFL holder for information regarding tree planting job opportunities.

For information on the locations of and licence requirements for obtaining fuelwood for personal use, please contact the ministry offices below. For commercial fuelwood opportunities, please contact the respective SFL holder.

More Information For more information on the AWS or to arrange an appointment with the MNR staff to discuss the AWS or to request an AWS operations summary map, please contact: Ministry of Natural Resources Dryden District Office 479 Government Street, P.O. Box 730 Dryden, ON P8N 2Z4

Ministry of Natural Resources Ignace Area Office Corner of Highway 17 & 599, P.O. Box 448 Ignace, ON P0T 1T0

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Mishkeegogamang fire truck ill-equipped for winter

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The fire truck in Mishkeegogamang was housed in this unheated building, meaning local firefighers could not store water in the water tank during winter months. The truck was one of 21 purchased by the federal government for First Nations communities in 2009/2010. They were purchased from a Florida-based firm and were not equipped for the cold northern climates.

AANDC purchased trucks from Florida-based firm for northern communities Sharon Weatherall Special to Wawatay News

If a fire truck had been ready and able to carry water to the scene, disaster may have been averted in a Feb. 13 house fire that claimed four lives in Mishkeegogamang First Nation.

“There is a possibility that, if the truck had been winterized lives could have been saved,” says Lawrence Laviolette, a certified fire protection specialist. “According to the police, response time for the vehicle was within five minutes.”

Because the band’s 1,000litre truck is not stored in a heated garage it could not be left filled with water. Part of the truck’s pump and intake line were frozen, resulting in insufficient water being available to suppress the fire

in this Ojibway community – also known as New Osnaburgh – located 320 kilometres northwest of Thunder Bay. “A thousand litres of water could have been the amount needed to save those people,” said Laviolette, who acts as an advisor for First Nations seeking assistance on fire safety issues.

“My heart goes out to the community and family, we must work towards stopping these tragedies from happening.”

The Mishkeegogamang fire truck was one of 21 funded

by Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development of Canada (AANDC – formerly INAC) and purchased

by Ontario First Nations Technical Services Corporation (OFNTSC) in 2009/2010. In

2010, 15 Pierce commercial pumpers were purchased from a Florida-based firm, Darch Fire Inc., and delivered to First Nation communities, some of which were asked

by OFNTSC to “sign off” on them. Darch — a dealer for Pierce Manufacturing Inc., an Oshkosh Corporation — has offices across the USA and one in Ayr, Ontario.

Laviolette says the Mishkeegogamang fire truck is “below standards” and does not meet the requirements for northern Ontario climates. The majority of trucks purchased in 2010 were not equipped with winterized packages and were also missing equipment such as an enclosed pump compartment with a properly-designed heating system to keep them on standby in cold weather.

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In 2010, one First Nation community was handed a DVD when its truck was dropped off and the Darch representative left without a follow-up. Laviolette was called by that community to give firefighters some training. There were other communities that received trucks which didn’t even have a fire department or firefighters.

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Laviolette, who has been in the fire service business for 40 years, said all of the southern trucks delivered to the north are improperly designed for cold weather climates.

Inquiries to the media department at First Nations Technical Services Corporation were relayed to the truck funder, AANDC. “The OFNTSC works with Tribal Councils and First Nations to determine their firefighting needs and brings recommendations to AANDC

Ontario Region,” replied Susan Bertrand, manager, AANDC Executive Services and Communications. “Acting on those recommendations, AANDC Ontario Region provides funding to the OFNTSC which then procures and purchases the equipment and services on the First Nations’ behalf.”

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‘Apathy is Boring’ Engages the Rage Haley Cullingham Special to Wawatay News

The first sound to crystallize over the crunching snow was the drums.

Thrum, thrum, thrum - just a hair faster than a heartbeat.

As the crowd advanced, the singing began. A break opened in the line of heads held high - two small boys at the front of the procession, proudly pounding their instruments.

The banners brushed the bottom of the traffic lights and, standing shoulder-to-shoulder, the crowd stretched the width of the street. This was Dec. 15, 2012, in North Battleford, Sask.

Here, as in so many other places around the country, Indigenous peoples had gathered to lend their voices to the Idle No More movement.

“Idle No More spoke to the most oppressed and marginalized members of Indigenous communities - women and youth,” said Eugene Boulanger, a director at the Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning and a member of the movement.

Youri Cormier, executive director of the Montreal-based national organization Apathy

Photo courtesy of Congress of Aboriginal Peoples Members of Apathy Is Boring. is Boring, described the movement as a flash, illuminating on the international stage a new generation of Indigenous youth.

Politically savvy and actively engaged, they’re one of the fastest-growing voter groups in Canada.

Apathy is Boring and the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP) have put together a series of materials for Indig-

enous youth to encourage that engagement, called Find Your Voice. The project, which went through a pilot process beginning in February 2013 and is now expanding in earnest, is designed to give Indigenous youth the tools they need to effect change.

Find Your Voice has culminated in a toolkit of downloadable presentation resources that enable young people to run leadership workshops in their communities and inspire their peers. This is the result of a painstaking collaborative effort between CAP and Apathy is Boring to adapt the voter mobilization materials developed by Apathy is Boring to the needs of Indigenous youth.

Communication was one of the many challenges. The manual begins with the word for hello in 16 different languages, and the materials were revamped to add more visual elements.

There are three headings throughout the guide: “Ask An Elder,” encouraging the youth to seek wisdom and guidance, “Make it Yours,” which suggests they put their own spin on something, and “Go Further,” a push to seek out more informa-

tion on the topic at hand. The Find Your Voice project wants to help young leaders translate their knowledge and energy into direct influence, but with Indigenous youth, participating directly in the Canadian governmental process comes weighted with questions of history and identity.

CAP and Apathy is Boring hope to inspire youth to fight for change in their communities, said Jessica Bolduc, CAP’s national youth representative.

That could mean getting stop signs put in place, writing a Member of Parliament, or even running for band or municipal councillor.

One CAP member from Prince Edward Island says, in a video made about the project, “Before I do anything now, I think - it’s going to sound funny, but - seven generations ahead, what will people in the future think of the decision I’m making right now?”

As part of the pilot project, weekend-long workshops were held all over the country to gather feedback from youth participants. The reaction to the first workshop, in Moncton, was telling: participants wanted longer and more frequent sessions.

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“How do we inspire Indigenous youth?” writes Duncan McCue, a seasoned journalist a member of the Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation in southern Ontario.

“It’s a question I asked myself often, during the six months I spent filming a documentary on the inexcusably low graduation rates of Indigenous high school students.”

Four teens from the Tsleil-Waututh Nation let McCue and a film crew into their classrooms and homes. One was an artist and an athlete and charming guy. But, his dad wasn’t around much, and he was struggling in school.

He’d been suspended twice for smoking marijuana. The film crew was on hand the day he was expelled. Accused of being stoned during school hours, he was upset, and swearing at school counsellors, then escorted off school grounds toward an uncertain future.

“I found it incredibly disturbing, to witness the breakdown of such a talented young man,” McCue continues in his foreward to the series.

The stories in this collection talk about reciprocity and philanthropy. These are noble goals, McCue writes.

“But, when it comes to the ‘giving back’ theme of this conference, we should be asking: how do we inspire Indigenous youth, and are we teaching THEM to give back?”

This story about Apathy is Boring is part of a series of reports on successful youth-focused projects resulting from collaboration between Indigenous communities and philanthropic organizations, collectively called Leading Together.

“Despite what you may hear in the news, the relationship between Indigenous peoples and the rest of Canada isn’t always mired in conflict,” McCue writes. “This collection of inspirational stories — too often untold — points Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in the right direction, toward a relationship based in shared leadership and mutual respect.”

Leading Together is itself a collaboration of Journalists for Human Rights, Tyee Solutions Society, Wawatay Native Communications Society, and the J. W. McConnell Family Foundation, which commissioned this journalism.

In the coming weeks look for more Leading Together stories from across Canada running Tuesdays and Wednesdays on wawataynews.ca. The stories will also appear in each issue of Wawatay News.

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Gathered in the room was a more engaged, passionate and aware group of young people than he had ever seen, way ahead of nonIndigenous youth of their age group that he’s worked with.

“They blew my mind in terms of where they were at in their level of analysis and deconstruction of the system, and political savvy,” said Cormier. “Idle No More was a spark of interest in what it means to be a citizen.

That’s where, a lot of people decided, we need to start getting the vote out.”

But while politicians and activists may be setting their sights on the Indigenous youth vote, many of these young people don’t feel there is anything to be gained by taking an active role in a process of governance that has never respected their needs.

“The paradox of ‘to vote or not to vote’ is definitely a theme that the movement is stirring up,” writes Colby Tootoosis about Idle No More on the website Last Real Indians.

Tootoosis goes on to describe both sides of the argument, saying pro-voting Aboriginals believe their ancestors fought for the right to vote so they could change the system from within. On the other hand, he writes, Treaty fundamentalists see voting as conforming to the colonial system. Indigenous nations are independent why should they participate in another country’s electoral process?

“If the government does recognize the needs of Indigenous youth, beyond economic development potential within a petro-capitalist framework for the benefit of Canadian markets,” said Boulanger, “it will be a cautiously prescribed recognition. What Idle No More called for at the very core of its messaging and ideals was resurgences of Indigenous values, which are often incompatible with the North American status quo’s values of materialism, individualism

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ment,” Cormier said. Idle No More was an expression of that resentment, and it led to what he calls an indirect power. His hope is that Apathy No More can help these young leaders transform that indirect power into a direct electoral influence.

Issues of identity are always at play when the Indigenous youth movement interacts with the Canadian government. Bolduc thinks the Find Your Voice project could help work through some of these challenges by bringing a discussion of history into the conversation, helping to overcome the disconnect youth feel from their

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Cormier thinks the gap can be bridged, that youth might begin to see a way to shift the balance of power through electoral channels as well.

“A lot of them turned that political energy into cynicism rather than positive thinking,” said Cormier. He’s quick to point out that cynicism isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but he does encourage youth to transition from being cynical to being critical.

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“It’s so cool to know that there are youth who are that keen to make their voices heard,” said Laura Dunn, a former Apathy is Boring intern who worked closely on the project. The conferences created a space where Elders could tell young people why participating in democracy matters to them. As Elders were sharing their stories of civic engagement, Dunn said, you could feel the excitement of the younger generation that was gathered in the room.

The Find Your Voice materials are designed so that the youth have access to everything they need to host their own workshops, but recently, Cormier travelled to North Battleford to deliver the presentation to 80 Indigenous youth leaders himself.

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Finding the spark, fanning the fire the legacy of their ancestors,” Boulanger said. To that end, CAP and Apathy is Boring have collected exhaustive resources to help youth navigate the bureaucracy of change.

“You never get the big thing all at once,” Cormier said, “But as soon as you gain little victories here and there, they accumulate, they inspire, they lead to more.”

Cormier believes Indigenous youth are in a position to completely redefine the country. Idle No More was a spark, and the Find Your Voice movement is one of the many hands helping to fan the fire.

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Entrepreneurship for youth was the focus of Nishnawbe Aski Development Fundâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recent Nishnawbe Kids Business Program at the Landmark Inn in Thunder Bay. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re hoping these programs will bring more awareness of entrepreneurship and businesses to the communities, starting when the kids are young,â&#x20AC;? said Wendy McKay, NADFâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s youth coordinator. â&#x20AC;&#x153;(To) just be more aware that they could choose to go into business if they wanted to. Most kids now think about being a doctor or a lawyer.â&#x20AC;?

McKay said a group of youth were provided with an opportunity to invent new toys and games during the Feb. 24-25 gathering. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re having so much fun right now,â&#x20AC;? McKay said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re taking apart toys and making new inventions out of them.â&#x20AC;?

In addition to participating in a toy fair that showcased their inventions, the youth also took part in a variety of activities, including Create a Logo, Kids Invent Toys, Market Your Thoughts and Be a Business B. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We did Create a Logo, for Grades 3-6, where kids come up with a business idea, they name that business idea and then design a logo,â&#x20AC;? said Cindy Reasbeck, youth entrepreneurship advisor for the Northern Ontario Commu-

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Creating and trying out parachute toys was part of the train-the-trainer activities during the Nishnawbe Kids Business Program, held Feb. 24-25 at the Landmark Inn in Thunder Bay. nity Futures Development Corporation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Grades 7-8 (participated in) Market Your Thoughts, where the kids answer six questions and that creates their first business plan. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking for brainstorming for different ideas and what their passions are and how they could turn that into a potential business.â&#x20AC;?

Reasbeck said the programâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s focus is on innovation and creativity with a link to entrepreneurship. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So by giving them recycled materials and letting them create a board game they think would work, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just sort of always giving them the opportunity to think outside the box and

be creative and then turn that into a potential idea,â&#x20AC;?

Reasbeck said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kids have great ideas â&#x20AC;&#x201D; sometimes itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a solution to a problem that just sparks an idea. What we want to do at Kids Invent Toys is give them the opportunity to actually create it and then theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll know in life if they come up with the next big invention, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s OK and we can make it happen.â&#x20AC;?

Delivered by NADF in partnership with Northern Claybelt Community Futures Development Corporation, the program also included a train-the-trainer component that provided tools and resources to participating First Nation delegates to facilitate similar programs in

their own communities. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They were able to participate in a lot of the activities they will be bringing back to their communities,â&#x20AC;? Reasbeck said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had a lot of fun doing climbing guy and doing different activities that are all part of giving an experience to kids so they will have the idea in their head that they could start a business if it was of interest to them.â&#x20AC;?

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Blasts from the Past: Ontario’s Volcanic History Andy Fyon ONTARIO BENEATH OUR FEET

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here have been recent reports about volcanoes around the world that are spewing fiery rock into the sky.

These reports have caused some people to ask me if there are any volcanoes in Ontario. The answer is: “Yes… and No”.

The geology of Ontario is complex. It is that complex geological history that holds the hidden record of ancient volcanoes that used to dot the land we now call Ontario.

If you walked from Kingston, to Sault Ste. Marie, to Thunder Bay, to Kenora, up to Sachigo Lake, over to Webequie, down to Longlac, over to the Detour area by the border with Quebec, and back to Kingston, you would see many things, but you would not see tall volcanic cones or active smoking volcanoes. Instead, you would see a flat-to-hilly landscape and rocks of complex colours.

Such a journey would take you around the outer boundary (more-or-less) of an unusual area of rock called the Precambrian Shield. The rocks of the Precambrian Shield are old. They range in age from one to three billion years old. These ancient rocks are important to

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The Precambrian Shield is made of rocks called granites, which are often white and pink in colour. Granites formed from melted rock created deep in the Earth.

The melted rock rose towards the surface of the Earth as a liquid blob, but that liquid cooled slowly and froze before it reached the surface.

So, Ontario does have the remains of volcanoes, but the geological processes that created them have been silent for the last billion years.

There is another rock in the Precambrian Shield that is green or white in colour called volcanic rock.

As opposed to granite, the volcanic rock formed from melted rock created deep in the Earth that spilled on and above the ground, where it cooled and froze quickly.

This is where volcanoes formed.

Different types of volcanoes were created from different types of melted rock, but most of the volcanoes formed on the bottom of ancient oceans — oceans that covered the surface of the Earth one to three billion years ago. Most of this volcanic rock is called basalt.

Today, when you look at the old basalt volcanic rock, you see it has a green colour.

Geologists call these areas greenstone belts.

These ancient greenstone belts are the rocks that contain most of the metals, such as copper, nickel, gold and chromite that have been discovered in Ontario.

Greenstone belts are the remains of ancient volcanoes that dotted the Earth so long ago. Since that time, powerful geological forces wore down the tall volcanoes, stacked slabs of the Earth on top of each other, and buried them up to 50 kilometers below the surface of the Earth where they were squeezed and cooked. Over time, the remains of those ancient volcanoes eventually reappeared on the surface of the Earth exposed by erosion caused by rain, wind, freezethaw, and glaciers.

So, Ontario does have the remains of volcanoes, but the geological processes that created them have been silent for the last billion years.

And these processes will not start up again in our lifetime...or a million lifetimes, so do not feel the need to cancel your spring hunt, or move your hunt camp if it is located on greenstone belt rocks in fear of a new volcanic eruption.

Perhaps after several hundred million lifetimes, new volcanoes may once again emerge to dot the landscape of Ontario, but for now, the Ontario beneath our feet remains quiet.

The geological history of Ontario is complex. This image shows the simplified rock geology of Ontario. The pink colour represents granite formed by melting of material within the Earth. The green-coloured rocks formed from ancient volcanoes and are called greenstone belts. The pink and green rocks formed 2.5 to three billion years ago and together form the old Precambrian Shield rocks. Most of the metals that have been mined in Ontario come from the greenstone belts. The yellow coloured area represents sedimentary rocks that formed by erosion of the Precambrian Shield rocks. Geologists estimate that the yellowcoloured area formed 2.4 to 1.1 billion years ago. The brown colour represents different rock types that formed by melting of the Earth, by volcanoes, by erosion, and that were all shuffled on top of each other about one billion years ago when two great land masses ran into each other. The blue-grey coloured rocks are made of limestone, dolomite, and shale, which formed 500 to 100 million years ago. Many of these young rocks formed in a warm ocean, close to the equator.

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Free, prior and informed consent applied to forests Rick Garrick Wawatay News

The Forest Stewardship Council has added the concept of free, prior and informed consent to its forest management standards around the world. â&#x20AC;&#x153;FSC has embraced the UN Declaration (on Rights of Indigenous Peoples) and that concept of free, prior and informed consent,â&#x20AC;? said Peggy Smith, Lakehead University associate professor and member of Forest Stewardship Council Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Standards Development Group (Aboriginal Chamber). â&#x20AC;&#x153;In Canada, we have four different sets of standards and they are going to be changed to one national standard. So thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what is going on right now â&#x20AC;&#x201D; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a process of looking at the international

guidance and changing our standards in Canada to meet the new principles and criteria.â&#x20AC;?

FSC is an international certification and labeling system dedicated to promoting environmentally sound, socially beneficial and economically prosperous management of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s forests. It was created in 1993 to help consumers and businesses identify products from wellmanaged forests. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They certify the forests,â&#x20AC;?

Smith said about FSC. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So you have to be able to track that product out of that certified forest and ensure that all along the way in its chain of custody that everyone else is following and meeting the same standards.â&#x20AC;?

FSC sets standards by which forests are certified, offering credible verification to people

who are buying wood and wood products. It is the only forest certification system that requires consultation with local Aboriginal peoples with the intention of protecting their rights on public and private lands.

Smith said there are also a number of other standard systems in Canada and the United States, which are all private and voluntary. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not as if a company has to be certified to one of these systems,â&#x20AC;? Smith said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They choose to and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s because the markets are demanding it.

There has been a creation of consumer demand to know that the products they are buying are coming from well-managed forests.â&#x20AC;?

Smith said all of the different systems have their own label on

the products. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you go to Home Depot, you can go and look for the FSC label,â&#x20AC;? Smith said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That is an indication to the person buying the product that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coming from a well-managed forest.â&#x20AC;?

Smith noted that Resolute Forest Products is a local FSCcertified company. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The initial companies that were part of FSC were Tembec (Inc.), Domtar (Inc.) and (Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries),â&#x20AC;? Smith said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That has expanded so there are a lot more companies that are FSC certified.â&#x20AC;?

The free, prior and informed consent initiative is supported

by TD Bank Group, Kimberly Clarke, National Aboriginal Forestry Association, Globe and Mail, The International Insti-

tute for Sustainable Development and the Boreal Leadership Council. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Free, prior and informed consent is seen as one of the key principles of international human rights law to protect our people from destruction of our lives, culture and livelihood,â&#x20AC;? said Brad Young, executive director of the National Aboriginal Forestry Association. â&#x20AC;&#x153;FSC is the only forest certification system to implement and rigorously apply free, prior and informed consent to their forest management standards.â&#x20AC;?

FSC Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s primary goal is to increase meaningful and tangible benefits of certification for Aboriginal peoples and communities in Canada. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The initiative will be conducted with the engagement of

Aboriginal peoples and other stakeholders across Canada and will not only benefit Aboriginal peoples and communities, but will also provide forest management companies with clear direction and tools to help them apply the values of FPIC,â&#x20AC;? said Francois Dufresne, president of FSC Canada.

Karen Clarke-Whistler, TDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chief environment officer, said the bank strongly supports FSC Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s initiative around developing practical guidance for implementation of free, prior and informed consent. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a pressing issue for natural resource development in Canada and a successful outcome will benefit Aboriginal communities, the sustainable forestry industry and the environment,â&#x20AC;? Clarke-Whistler said.

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Lac Seul Elder teaches trapping in northern Ontario Stephanie Wesley Wawatay News

The first animal Kaaren Dannenmann ever trapped was a martin.

“I wasn’t very happy,” Dannenmann laughed when asked about the experience. “It’s not a pleasant thing, to kill an animal. That’s why we say this animal is our relation and you only do it because you need to do it.”

Dannenmann learned how to trap growing up with her family and extended family members.

“It wasn’t always full-time trapping, but it was part of the daily life to trap,” Dannenmann said.

She travels to different communities in Treaty 3 and also Nishnawbe Aski Nation to teach trapping courses. Dannenmann, who lives in Red Lake but comes from Trout Lake near Lac Seul, has been involved in teaching trapping since the early 1990’s.

“We started when we were going through the tripartite negotiations between Treaty 3 and Ontario back in 1992,” Dannenmann explained.

“We wanted to look at trapping from our perspective as Anishnaabe people rather than as an industry.”

She said that she took a trapping course and found that it wasn’t connected at all to her life on the land.

“It was a lot about legislation and this and that,” she said.

Dannenmann said it took several years after those negotiations to develop the trapping course. The course Dannenmann now teaches has a focus on going back to the traditional ways of trapping and thinking

about trapping.

“It’s a part of respecting the land, and our relations on the land,” she said.

“We have to start changing the language we use. Instead of thinking of the animals as ‘renewable animal resources,’ we say, ‘this animal is our relation.’ We start calling them our relations.”

“A moccasin made from a moose, and fur from a beaver – we don’t call that a product.

We call it a gift that our relations the moose and beaver have given us. It’s much more in line with our teachings,” Dannenmann said.

She explained that words like “natural resources” distance people from those “relations” and makes a commodity of, and objectifies, the animals.

Dannenmann herself does not do much trapping these days.

“I don’t do a lot of trapping because I don’t need to. One of our teachings is to take what we need. I don’t really need it a lot of when I do, I don’t sell it – I use it myself.”

Students are given a certificate upon successful completion of the course. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Treaty 3, as well as Nishnawbe Aski Nation, recognize the certificate.

“I’ve been to Poplar Hill, Pikangikum, I went to Pelican Falls School, I’ve been to Whitefish Bay, North Spirit Lake, Lac Seul,” Dannenmann said of the places her course has been taught.

She said the number of participants in some communities is not as high as expected, but it does not surprise her because

Photos submitted by Kaaren Dannenmann

Above: Pikangikum First Nation students display the marten boxes they made during the trapping course.

Right: North Spirit Lake band member Kelly Rae sets up a beaver trap. of the daily requirements on people’s time.

“When I was in North Spirit, there were four people who were certified,” she said. “I’m very pleased with that because they are four people who intend to go out to their trap line.”

Dannenmann holds a sharing circle after each course, and she said the feedback has been positive.

“I ask them if it was worth their time learning how to set traps and taking the course, and they say yes,” Dannenmann said.

“What they say is it puts trapping into perspective with their whole traditional lifestyle and

they can understand the role of traditional practices on the land and what they are for.”

Dannenmann feels it is important to continue on with trapping because it helps keep Anishnaabe people connected to their traditional areas.

“And with traditional teachings being the foundation, it (trapping) keeps that connection ongoing and hopefully into future generations,” she said.

“A hundred years ago, we didn’t have our kids going through courses. We taught our kids right from birth.”

More information about the trapping courses can be found by contacting Grand Council Treaty #3.

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Fire trucks delivered to First Nations with no training, instructions Cont’d from page B1 “The truck is not fully equipped or modified for our region. It’s for a southern community,” says Chief Donny Morris. “Yesterday it was minus-51 here. For that reason we are not even taking it out; it remains parked through the winter.

“We have no other fire trucks in the community other than regular water trucks with a pump on them to try and soak a house on fire but they cannot spray.

There is no fire department here, just a fire prevention officer who trains volunteers.”

Ron Kyle, a mainstream professional firefighter for over 31 years is familiar with the issues facing First Nation communities that received trucks.

“No training has been done in the operation of these trucks,” says Kyle, who has served on apparatus purchasing and supply committees for several years for the fifth largest fire department in North America and currently holds the rank of operations captain. “Most do not have a winter package, and many other items that would make this vehicle ready to fight fires. These vehicles are very light duty and not fully equipped, as delivered, to work in this type of environment. Some communities do not have a suitable heated facility to house them.

“Three of them were just dumped off with no instruction despite a glowing website saying how there was a close working relationship during initial assessments and four days of training for each community,” said Kyle. “One community had to spend close to $20,000 to properly equip their truck to fight fires. I wonder if they were even Transport Canada approved as there are no mud f laps or other items that are required for all other vehicles imported into Canada.”

Kyle also operates a company that provides Third World countries with providing fire trucks, ambulances, firefighting equipment and supplies, training and medical and education equipment and supplies and has over 30 years experience in heavy transportation vehicles.

“I see this as a waste of millions of tax payer dollars with no accountability.

There are lots of good used heavy-duty, custom-made fire trucks available for a fraction of the cost of these new trucks that are broken down or not equipped for the northern climate.”

Beausoleil First Nation received one of the trucks lacking certain equipment and accessories to make it serviceable in winter.

The fire department, chief and council paid $15,000 for upgrades and another $15,000 to add all the equipment required to certify the truck properly to basic NFPA and Underwriters Laboratories of Canada (ULC) standards.

“When (Beausoleil’s) Fire Department asked for money to upgrade the truck, Tech Services (OFNTSC) said the band had to use its own money,” says Fire Chief Allan Manitowabi. “We received a letter saying the value of the truck was $210,000.

“We were fortunate to have had the funds to fix our truck. We had the support of our band to do the upgrades.

Some First Nations took the trucks out of need. I worry about, and feel sorry for other communities that are having problems with trucks not built to meet the needs of the community and cannot afford to fix them.”

When Manitowabi contacted Darch to order upgrades for the Beausoleil First Nation truck, he was told the trucks were purchased “as is.” Even with additional equipment and parts, the Christian Island fire truck is now classified as a pumper/rescue vehicle, and de-classified from a #1 pumper.

Aboriginal Affairs’ spokesperson Susan Bertrand says health and safety of all Canadians is a priority for her government.

“That is why we provide considerable funding to First Nations to support operations and maintenance, fire protection infrastructure and fire protection training on reserve, through which First Nations manage fire protection training on reserve to meet the needs of their communities.”

This article first appeared at www.anishinabeknews.ca.

NEWS BRIEF Working Together in Partnership Osisko was honoured to participate in a recent conference hosted by the Grand Council of Treaty 3. The two day conference, titled “Working Together in Partnership”, included Chiefs, Elders, First Nations community members and government representatives involved in mining projects in the Treaty 3 area. The conference took place on February 26 and 27 at the Wauzhushk Onigum First Nation near Kenora, Ontario and three 0&0(, 01 ƛ *"* "/0 11"+!"! 0 /"-/"0"+1 1&3"0 ,# 1%" *&+&+$ &+!201/6ǽ The conference was an excellent opportunity for Osisko to increase our understanding of the Manito Aki Inakonigaawin, the Treaty #3 Resource Law framed on Treaty principles.

Osisko delivered a presentation that summarized our work on Aboriginal engagement for the Hammond Reef project. The presentation was well received by everyone in attendance and a productive question and answer session followed at the conclusion of the presentation. We were happy to receive positive feedback +! 4,/!0 ,# "+ ,2/ $"*"+1 #/,* &/01 1&,+0 11"+!""0 ,+ ,2/ ,+$,&+$ "ƛ,/10 1, "+$ $" 4&1% &/01 1&,+0 and respect community processes. The past Grand Chief of Treaty 3 has visited the Hammond Reef site, and we look forward to the opportunity to involve current Grand Chief Warren White in our upcoming Spring Ceremony.

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