July 10, 2014 Volume 41 Number 14

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B.C. land claim ruling may impact northern Ontario First Nations Special to Wawatay News

A landmark Supreme Court case awarding a British Columbia First Nation control over 1,700 square kilometres of its traditional land is being lauded by First Nation leaders in Ontario.

The unanimous decision declared Aboriginal title to Tsilhqot’in Nation on a wide swath of land that members of the northern B.C. First Nation have used for fishing, hunting and trapping since long before contact with settlers.

In making the decision, the Supreme Court rejected the argument of the B.C. provincial government that First Nations should only have full control of the areas where historic settlements existed.

“Occupation sufficient to ground Aboriginal title is not confined to specific sites of settlement but extends to tracts of land that were regularly used for hunting, fishing or otherwise exploiting resources and over which the group exercised effective control at the time of assertion of European sovereignty,” wrote Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverly McLaughlin in the decision.

Nishnawbe Aski Nation Grand Chief Harvey Yesno said the ruling sends a strong message that the government of Canada must deal honourably with First Nations.

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“The ruling takes a broad view of Aboriginal title and supports the ownership of lands that have been occupied and used for centuries by First Nations,” Yesno said in a statement.

“This has widespread implications and provides useful guidance for all NAN First Nations engaged in land claims and various stages of economic and resource development projects.”

Ontario Regional Chief Stan Beardy echoed Yesno’s comments, calling the decision a precedent with implications for major projects such as the Ring of Fire.

“The case is important for clearer relations between First Nations, private business and the government and will further provide opportunity for First Nations to participate in the global economy,” Beardy said.

And Matawa First Nations chiefs congratulated the Tsilhqot’in Nation for its perseverance.

“The tremendous progress you’ve made today gives us renewed hope and strength in our ongoing fight for a just relationship with Canada and Ontario – one that similarly recognizes our Nations as Nations, and recognizes our title and jurisdiction over our lands,” the nine Matawa chiefs stated in a joint press release.

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Marcel Metatawabin was stranded for two days after his ATV broke down between Fort Severn and Peawanuck. He was rescued with the assistance of Canadian Ranger Sgt. Matthew Gull and an MNR helicopter. See story on page 7.

See MATAWA CHIEFS on page 6

ᓀᐣᑲᐱᐦᐊᓄᐠ ᑲᓇᑕ ᐊᐦᑭᐃᐧ ᑭᔕᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᑲᑭᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᑯᓇᐊᐧ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᑭᑎᐸᒋᒧᐨ ᔕᐧᐣ ᐯᓫ ᐅᑭᐸᑭᑎᓇᐣ ᐊᐧᐊᐧᑌ ᐊᒋᒧᐃᐧᓂᐠ

ᐁᑲᐧ ᑭᒋᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐠ ᑲᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᑭᔕᑯᓂᑲᓄᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᑭᒥᓂᑕᐧ ᓀᐣᑲᐱᐦᐊᓄᐠ ᐃᓀᑫ ᑲᓇᑕ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐃᐧᓇᐊᐧ ᒋᑎᐯᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑕᑭᒥᐊᐧ 1,700 ᑕᓱᑲᑲᑫ ᑭᓫᐊᒥᑐᕑᐢ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᑯ ᐅᑭ ᐅᐣᒋ ᑭᒋᓀᑕᓇᐊᐧ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᑫᐠ ᐅᒪ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ. ᑲᑭᒪᒪᐃᐧ ᐸᑭᑎᓂᑲᑌᐠ ᑭᔑᐅᓀᐣᑕᒧᐃᐧᐣ ᑭᐃᑭᑐᓇᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᒋᑎᐯᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᐦᑭᓂ ᓯᓫᐃᑯᑎᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᐃᓂᑕᐧ ᐁᒥᓯᑌᑲᒥᑲᓂᐠ ᐊᐦᑭᓂ ᐃᑭᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᐱᓯ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᑭᐱᑕᔑ ᐸᑭᑕᐁᐧᐊᐧᐸᐣ, ᓇᓇᑕᐁᐧᐣᒋᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᒥᓇ ᐊᐧᓂᐦᐃᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᒪᐧᔦ ᐱᑕᑯᔑᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᐧᒥᑎᑯᔑᐊᐧᐠ. ᑭᒋᐅᓀᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐊᐱ ᑲᑭᔭᓂ ᑭᒋᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐠ ᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᐊᓀᐧᒋᑲᑌ ᑲᑭᐃᔑ ᑲᑫᐧᔕᑯᓯᑕᑯᓯᐨ ᐱᓯ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐣ ᐁᑭᐃᑭᑐᐨ ᐃᑭᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐁᑕ ᒋᑭᒥᓂᑕᐧᐸᐣ ᐅᑕᑭᒥᐊᐧ ᐃᒪ ᑲᔭᐡ ᑲᑭᐱᔑᐅᓇᑕᒪᐃᐧᐣᑕᐧᐸᐣ ᑭᔭᐱᐨ ᑲᐱᒥᓂᔕᐦᐃᑲᑌᑭᐣ. “ᐁ ᑲ ᐧ ᐃ ᒪ ᑲ ᑭ ᐱ ᑕ ᔑ ᐱ ᒪ ᑎ ᓯ ᐊ ᐧ ᐨ

ᐅᑕᑭᒥᐊᐧᐠ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐁᑲ ᐃᐧᐣ ᐁᑕ ᐃᒪ ᒋᑭᐊᑯᒥᓂᑕᐧᐸᐣ ᑲᑭᐱᔑ ᐅᓇᑕᒪᐃᐧᑕᐧᐸᐣ ᔕᑯᐨ ᐃᑯ ᑲᔦ ᑲᐃᑯᐸᔑᒋᓭᓂᐠ ᐊᐦᑭᓂ ᑲᑭᐱᑕᔑ ᐸᐱᒪᑎᓯᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑲᑭᐱᑕᔑ ᓇᓇᑕᐁᐧᐣᒋᑫᐊᐧᐨ, ᐸᑭᑕᐁᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᓇᐣᑕ ᐱᑯ ᒥᓇ ᑲᑭᐱ ᐅᐣᒋᐸᐱᒪᒋᐦᐅᐊᐧᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᐦᑭᑲᐠ ᒥᓇ ᑲᑭᐱᑕᔑ ᐱᒧᓂᑎᓱᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᑲᓂᒪᐧᔦ ᐱᑕᑯᔑᓄᒪᑲᐠ ᐁᐧᒥᑎᑯᔑᐃᐧ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ,” ᑭᐃᓇᓯᓇᐦᐃᑫ ᑭᒋ ᐅᓇᑯᒋᑫᐃᐧᑭᒪ ᐯᐳᕑᓫᐃ ᒥᐠᑲᓫᐊᐧᐟᓫᐃᐣ ᐊᐱ ᑲᑭᔭᓂ ᑭᔑᐅᓀᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ. ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᑭᒋᐅᑭᒪᑲᐣ ᐦᐊᕑᐱ ᔦᐢᓄ ᐅᑭᐃᔑᓂᑲᑕᐣ ᐅᐁᐧᓂ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᓂ ᐁᒪᐡᑲᐃᐧ ᐃᐧᐣᒋᑫᒪᑲᐠ ᐊᐧᐁᐧ ᑲᓇᑕ ᑭᒋᐅᑭᒪ ᐊᓂᐣ ᐁᔑᐸᑯᓭᐣᑕᑯᓯᐨ ᑲᐧᔭᐠ ᒋᔑᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒪᐸᐣ ᐅᑕᓂᔑᓂᓂᒪᐣ. “ᑲ ᑭ ᐃ ᔑ ᑭᔕᑯᓂᑲᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐊᐧᐸᑕᐦᐃᐁᐧᒪᑲᐣ ᐊᓂᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂ ᐁᔑᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒥᑯᐃᐧᓯᐨ ᒥᓇ ᒋᑭᑎᐱᓇᐁᐧᐃᐧᓯᐸᐣ ᐅᑕᑭᑦ ᐊᐣᑎ ᑲᑭᐱᑕᔑᐱᒪᑎᓯᐨ ᒥᓇ ᐁᐧᑎ ᑭᒋᑲᔭᐡ ᐅᑕᓇᐠ ᑲᑭᐱᐅᐣᑕᑎᓯᐨ,” ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᔦᐢᓄ. “ᒥᓯᐁᐧᑲᒥᐠ ᑕᐡ ᐊᐱᐣ ᐃᔑᐊᐧᐸᑕᐦᐃᐁᐧᒪᑲᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑕᐅᐣᒋ ᑭᒋᓇᐸᑕᐣ ᒋᑭᑭᓄᐃᐧᒋᑫᒪᑲᐠ ᐃᒪ ᒥᓯᐁᐧ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᑎᐯᐣᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ

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ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᐊᓄᑲᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᑲᑫᐧᑭᐁᐧ ᑌᐱᓇᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑕᑭᒥᐊᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐱᑯ ᓇᓇᑲ ᑲᐃᔑᐱᒥᓭᑭᐣ ᔓᓂᔭᑫᑕᒪᓱᐃᐧ ᒪᒋᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧ ᒪᒋᑕᐃᐧᓇᐣ.” ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᑭᒋᐅᑭᒪᑲᐣ ᐢᑕᐣ ᐯᕑᑎ ᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᑭᐅᐣᒋᐊᓂᑯᐃᐧᐣᑕᐣ ᑲᑭᐃᑭᑐᓂᐨ ᔦᐢᓄ ᐅᑎᑭᑐᐃᐧᓂᐣ, ᐁᑭᐃᔑᓂᑲᑕᐠ ᒥᐦᐃᒪ ᑫᐅᐣᒋᐊᐧᑲᐃᐧᓂᑫᒪᑲᐠ ᐃᓂᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᑐᑲᐣ ᒋᑭᒪᒋᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑕᐱᐡᑯᐨ ᐃᐁᐧ ᑭᒋᐱᐊᐧᐱᑯᑲᐣ ᑲᐃᐧᒪᑕᓄᑲᑌᐠ. “ᓇ ᐱ ᐨ ᑭ ᒋ ᓀ ᑕ ᑲ ᐧ ᐣ ᐅ ᐁ ᐧ ᑲ ᑭ ᐃ ᔑ ᑭᔕᑯᓂᑲᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᓇᐊᐧᐨ ᒋᐅᒋ ᐸᔭᑌᓇᑯᒋᑫᒪᑲᓂᐠ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑫᐃᔑᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒥᑕᐧ, ᑲᑎᐱᓇᐁᐧᓯᒪᑲᑭᐣ ᐊᓄᑭᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᑕᐡ ᒥᓇ ᓇᐊᐧᐨ ᒋᔭᓂᐁᐧᐣᒋᓭᓂᐠ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᒋᑕᑯᓂᑕᐧ ᐃᒪ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧ ᐃᔑᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ,” ᐃᑭᑐ ᐯᕑᑎ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᑫᐃᐧᓇᐊᐧ ᒪᑕᐊᐧ ᐅᑭᒪᑲᓇᐠ ᐅᑭᒥᓀᐧᑕᒧᑕᒪᐊᐧᐊᐧᐣ ᓯᓫᐃᑯᑎᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᒥᓂᑯᐠ ᑲᑭᐱᔑ ᔕᔑᐯᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ. “ᓇᐱᐨ ᒥᐢᑕᐦᐃ ᑲᑭᔑᑲᐡᑭᑕᒪᓱᔦᐠ ᓄᑯᑦ ᑲᑭᔑᑲᐠ ᓂᑐᒋ ᑭᐁᐧᓇᓯᑲᑯᒥᐣ ᐊᐯᓂᒧᐃᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᒪᐡᑲᐃᐧᓯᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᐱᒥ ᒪᒥᑲᑕᒪᓱᔭᐣᐠ ᑲᐧᔭᐠ ᒋᔑᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒥᑯᔭᑭᑕᐧ ᑲᓇᑕ ᒥᓇ

ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᓇᐣ - ᐯᔑᑲᐧᐣ ᑫᓂᓇᐃᐧᐟ ᒋᔑᓂᓯᑕᐃᐧᓇᐃᐧᑯᔭᐠ ᐯᔑᑲᐧᔦᐠ ᐁᐅᐣᑕᑲᓀᓯᔭᐠ, ᒥᓇ ᒋᓂᓯᑕᐃᐧᓇᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᐃᓀᑕᑯᓯᔭᐠ ᒋᑎᐱᓇᐁᐧᐃᐧᓯᑲᑕᒪᐠ ᑭᑕᑭᒥᓇᐣ,” ᑭᐃᑭᑐᐊᐧᐠ ᓴᐣᑲᓱ ᒪᑕᐊᐧ ᐅᑭᒪᑲᓇᐠ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐊᐱ ᑲᑭᒪᒪᐃᐧ ᐸᑭᑎᓇᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑎᐸᒋᒧᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ. ᐅᑕᔭᒥᑕᒪᑫ ᑲᐃᔑᐊᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫᐨ ᒪᑕᐊᐧ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᑲᐠ ᐃᒪ ᐃᓀᑫ ᐅᐡᑭ ᐱᐊᐧᐱᑯᑲᓂ ᒪᒋᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑲᐱᒥᐊᓂᒧᑕᒪᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᓯᓫᐃᑯᑎᐣ ᑭᔕᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᑲᐅᐣᒋ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᑯᓇᐊᐧ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᒥᓇ ᑯᑕᑭᔭᐠ ᒋᕑᐃᑎ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐊᓂᐡ ᐊᔕ ᐊᐱᐣ ᐃᒪ ᑭᒋᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑭᐅᐣᒋᐅᓀᑕᑲᐧᐣ “ᒥ ᓯ ᐁ ᐧ ᑫᐃᔑᐊᓄᑭᒪᑲᐠ” ᒋᔑᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒋᑲᑌᓂᐠ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᑌᐸᑫᑕᑯᓯᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐅᑕᑭᐃᐧ ᑎᐯᐣᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ. “ᑭ ᒋ ᐅ ᓇ ᑯ ᓂ ᑫ ᐃ ᐧ ᓂ ᐠ ᑭᐃᑭᑐᓇᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᑲᑭᔭᓂᒧᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᑌᐸᑫᑕᑯᓯᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑕᐸᔭᑌ ᑭᑭᓇᐊᐧᒋᐃᐧᐣᒋᑲᑌᐊᐧᐣ ᑫᑭᐅᐣᒋᓂᓯᑕᐃᐧᓂᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐊᓂᐣ ᒪᔭᑦ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᑭᐱᓇᐸᒋᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑕᑭᒥᐊᐧ ᒥᓇ ᑲᑭᐱᓇᔓᐊᐧᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᑭᐃᑯᑎᐯᐣᒋᑫᐊᐧᐨ,” ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᒍᑎ

ᕑᐁ ᐁᐧᑎ ᐅᓫᑎᔭᐢ ᐠᓫᐃᕑ ᑕᐅᐣᔐᐣᐟ ᐅᑕᔭᒥᑕᒪᑫ. ᕑᐁ ᐅᑭᐅᐣᒋᐃᐧᐣᑕᐣ ᐁᒪᒪᔭᑭᓭᑭᐣ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧ ᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐁᐧᑎ ᓯᓫᐃᑯᑎᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐁᐧᑎ ᒋᕑᐃᑎ ᐊᐦᑭᐣ ᐃᒪ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ. “ᐃ ᑭ ᐁ ᐧ ᓂ ᐊ ᐧ ᐠ ᓯᓫᐃᑯᑎᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᐧᓇᐊᐧ ᒋᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᐅᓇᑕᒪᐃᐧᑕᐧᐸᐣ ᒋᕑᐃᑎ ᐅᓇᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᓂ ᐃᒪ ᐊᔓᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ,” ᐃᑭᑐ ᕑᐁ, “ᐸ ᔦ ᐡ ᑕᐡ ᐃᑯ ᐊᓂᒪᒋᑕᐧᐊᐠ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᐃᐧᐣ ᐊᔕ ᐁᐧᑎ ᐱᐅᑕᓇᐠ ᑲᑭᐱᓯᓭᑭᐣ ᒋᕑᐃᑎ ᐊᔓᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ, ᐊᔕ ᑲᑭᐅᓇᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᓇᑯᒥᑐᐃᐧᓇᐣ, ᒥᐅᓄ ᑲᐱᒥᓇᓀᓯᑕᒣᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐁᑲ ᑲᐱᒥᓂᔕᐦᐃᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐃᒪ ᓇᑯᒥᑐᐃᐧᓂᐠ, ᒥᓇ ᐊᓂᐣ ᑲᑭᐃᓇᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐃᓂᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᓇᑯᒥᑐᐃᐧᓇᐣ.” ᒥᓇᐊᐧ ᑭᐊᓂᑭᑐ, ᔕᑯᐨ ᐃᓯᓭ, ᐅᐁᐧ ᑲᑭᐃᔑ ᑭᔕᑯᓂᑲᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐃᐧᐣᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐁᑭᐅᐣᒋᒪᑲᐠ. “ᑫᑲᐱ ᑭᐃᓯᓭ ᐃᒪ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐁᑲ ᐃᐧᐣ ᐁᑕ ᒋᔑᒧᒋᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᑕᐱᐡᑯᐨ ᐃᑯ ᐁᑕ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂ ᑲᐃᔑᑌᐸᑫᐣᑕᑯᓯᐨ,” ᐃᑭᑐ ᕑᐁ.

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ᐁᐠᒪᐣ ᒥᑕᑕᐊᐧᐱᐣ ᐱᑕᐯᑯᐠ ᐁᐅᒋᐨ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᓇᑕᐁᐧᑕᓯᐣ ᓇ ᓇ ᑕ ᐃ ᐧ ᑭ ᑫ ᒋ ᑫ ᐃ ᐧ ᓇ ᐣ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᐃᐧ ᑎᐸᒋᒧᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒋᓂᔑᐊᐧᓇᒋᒋᑲᑌᓂᑭᐣ. “ᑫ ᑯ ᓀ ᐣ ᐃ ᑐ ᐠ ᐁ ᐃ ᐧ ᐅ ᐣ ᒋ ᑲᑫᐧᓂᔑᐊᐧᒋᑐᐊᐧᑫᐣ ᐅᑕᓇᐠ ᐃᓯᓭᐃᐧ ᑎᐸᒋᒧᐃᐧᓇᐣ,” ᐃ ᑭ ᑐ ᒥ ᑕ ᑕ ᐊ ᐧ ᐱ ᐣ . “ᒥ ᐦ ᐃ ᒪ ᐁᐊᑌᓂᑭᐣ ᑲᑭᐱᔕᐳᐡᑲᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓂᐠ ᐅᑲᑲᐧᑕᑫᓂᒧᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᐁᑲᐧ ᑕᐡ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᐧᑲ ᑲᑭᓂᔑᐊᐧᓇᒋᑕᒪᐊᐧᓯᐠ ᐅ ᐃ ᐧ ᓴ ᑫ ᑕ ᒧ ᐃ ᐧ ᓂ ᐊ ᐧ ᑲᑭᐱᔕᐳᐡᑲᒧᐊᐧᐨ.” ᑕᐣ ᔕᐱᕑᐅ, ᓇᓇᑕᐃᐧᑭᑫᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᒪᔭᑦ ᑫᓂᑲᓂᐅᓇᔓᐊᐧᑕᒪᑫᐨ, ᐅᑭᒥᑯᑕᐣ ᑲᑭᐊᔓᑕᒪᐃᐧᑕᐧᐸᐣ ᐅ ᒧ ᐡ ᑭ ᓀ ᐱ ᐦ ᐃ ᑫ ᐠ ᒋᐊᐃᒋᑲᓇᐁᐧᑕᑲᐧᓂᑭᐣ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐊᐱ ᓴᑭᐸᑲᐃᐧᐱᓯᑦ 19 ᑲᑭᐃᐧᐣᒋᑲᑌᑭᐸᐣ ᒋᐁᐧᐱᓂᑲᑌᓂᑭᐣ ᑲᑭᓇ ᐁᐧᐡᑲᐨ ᑲᑭᐱᐃᐡᑯᓄᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᐅᑎᐸᒋᒧᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᑲ ᑭ ᑲ ᓇ ᐁ ᐧ ᑕ ᑯ ᓯ ᐊ ᐧ ᐸ ᐣ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᑲᒥᑯᐠ. ᐅ ᑯ ᐁ ᐧ ᓂ ᐊ ᐧ ᐠ ᑲᐱᒥᐊᓄᑲᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᒪᒥᓄᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᒪ ᑲᓇᑕ ᐅᑭᐸᑭᑎᓇᓇᐊᐧ ᐅᑎᐸᒋᒧᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᓴᑭᐸᑲᐃᐧᐱᓯᑦ 20 ᐁᓇᑕᐁᐧᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᒋᐅᒋ ᐅᓀᒋᑲᑌᓂᐠ ᐅᐁᐧᓂ ᑲᐃᐧᐃᔑ ᑲᑫᐧᐃᓇᒋᑲᓄᐊᐧᓂᐠ ᑎᐸᒋᒧᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐅᒋ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐠ ᑭᐅᒋᐅᓇᒋᑲᑌ ᒋᔭᓂᒧᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐅᓄᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᒍᕑᐊᔾ ᐱᓯᑦ 14 ᐊᑯᓇᐠ 16 ᐃᓇᑭᓱᐨ.

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ᐱᐊᐧᓇᐠ ᐃᓂᓂ ᓂᔓᑯᐣ ᑭᐊᐧᓂᐦᐊ ᐱᑲᐧᒋᔭᐦᐃᐠ ᐁᑭᐱᑯᑕᐸᓀᐨ ᐱᐊᐧᓇᐠ ᐃᓂᓂ ᑭᐱᑯᑕᐸᓀ ᐁᔭᐸᒋᐦᐊᐸᐣ ᑲᓂᐅᓯᑌᓂᐨ ᑲᐊᐧᑭᑕᐱᐊᐧᑲᓄᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᑕᐸᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᐱᐣ ᓂᔓᑎᐱᑲ ᑭᐊᔭ ᐱᑲᐧᒋᔭᐦᐃᐠ ᐯᔓᐨ ᓇᓀᐤ ᐦᐊᐟᓴᐣ ᐯ ᐁᑲᐧ ᑲᓀᑎᔭᐣ ᐅᓄᑎᓂᑫᓴᐠ ᐅᑭᔭᓂ ᒥᑲᐊᐧᐊᐧᐣ. ᒪᕑᓭᓫ ᒥᑕᑕᐊᐧᐱᐣ, 38 ᐁᑕᓱᔭᑭᐃᐧᓀᐨ, ᑭᐅᐣᒋᒪᒐ ᐊᐧᔕᐦᐅᐠ, ᐁᐡᑲᐧᑭᐅᑕᒪᐊᐧᐨ

ᐅᐊᐧᑯᒪᑲᓇᐣ, ᑭᔭᓂᑭᐁᐧᐱᓱ ᐱᐊᐧᓇᑯᐠ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᒍᓫᐊᔾ 2 ᑲᐃᓇᑭᓱᓂᐨ. ᐃᐧᐸᐨ ᐃᑯ ᐊᐱᐣ ᑭᔭᓂᒪᒋᓭ ᐁᑭᔭᓂ ᑭᒋᑭᒥᐊᐧᓂᐠ ᐁᑭᒧᐡᑭᐱᓭᑭᐣ ᓯᐱᓴᐣ ᒥᓇ ᓯᐱᐣ ᑲᑭᔭᓄᒋᐊᔓᐱᓱᐨ. ᑭᔭᓂ ᓇᓇᑐᓇᐊᐧᑲᓄ ᑕᐡ ᒥᑕᑕᐊᐧᐱᐣ ᐁᑲ ᐊᐱᐣ ᐁᑭᐅᐣᒋᑭᑫᐣᑕᑯᓯᐨ ᑲᑭᐃᑭᑐᐸᐣ ᒋᔑᑕᑯᔑᐠ ᐱᐊᐧᓇᑯᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐅᑐᑌᒪᐣ ᐊᒋᓇ ᐅᑕᓇᑭ ᓇᓇᑐᓇᑯᐣ. ᐁᐧᑎ ᐊᐧᔕᐦᐅᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐱᐊᐧᓇᐠ ᑲᐅᒋᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᓀᑎᔭᐣ ᐅᓄᑎᓂᑫᓴᐠ ᑭᔭᓂᑲᐧᔭᐣᒋᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᓇᓇᑐᓂᑫᐃᐧ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᐁᑭᔭᓂ ᒪᒪᒋᓂᔕᐦᐅᑕᐧ ᑫ ᓂ ᔑ ᓇ ᓇ ᑐ ᓂ ᑫ ᐊ ᐧ ᐨ , ᐅᑭᔭᐸᒋᑐᓇᐊᐧ ᐳᓯᑕᓱᓂᒋᒪᓇᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑲᓂᐅᓯᑌᐨ ᐅᑕᐸᓇᐠ, ᑲᑭᓇᓇᑐᓇᐊᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᒥᑕᑕᐊᐧᐱᐣ. ᒪᑎᔪ ᑲᓫ, ᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐠ ᑲᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐨ ᒥᓇ ᑲᓂᑲᓂᐡᑲᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᓄᑎᓂᑫᓴᐠ ᐃᒪ ᐱᐊᐧᓇᑯᐠ, ᐅᑭᑲᓄᓇᐣ ᐊᒥᑯᑭᒪᐣ ᑲᐊᐧᓂᐦᐃᒥᐨ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᒥᑯᑭᒪ ᐅᑭᐸᑭᑎᓇᐣ ᐅᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᐣ ᒋᐊᐸᑕᓂᐠ ᓇᓇᑐᓂᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ. ᐅ ᑭ ᐱ ᓂ ᔕ ᐦ ᐊ ᓇ ᐊ ᐧ ᑲᐃᔑᓇᑲᒋᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᐣᑎ ᑲᐃᔑᑕᑲᐧᑭᐣ ᑲᐯᔑᐃᐧᓂᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑲᐊᐃᓇᒧᒋᑲᓄᐊᐧᐠ, ᑲᓫ ᒥᓇ ᐅᐱᒥᓭ ᐃᐧᐸᐨ ᐅᑭᒥᑲᐊᐧᐊᐧᐣ ᒥᑕᑕᐊᐧᐱᐣ ᐁᔭᐱᓂᐨ ᐯᔓᐨ ᐅᐳᑕᐊᐧᓂᐠ ᒥᑐᓂ ᐁᔕᐸᐧᐸᐁᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᓇᓇᑕᐁᐧᐣᒋᑫᐃᐧ ᑲᐯᔑᐃᐧᓂᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ.

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ᑭᒥᓇᐊᐧᑕᒧᐃᐧᔑᒋᑫᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᑭᐅᑎᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ 25 ᑕᓱᐊᐦᑭ ᐊᔕ ᑲᐱᒧᓭᒪᑲᐠ ᐅᐁᐧᓂ ᐅᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐁᐅᐣᒋᓇᓇᑯᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᑭᐅᐡᑭᒪᒋᑐᐊᐧᐸᐣ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᑲᑭᐃᔑ ᑭᑭᓇᐊᐧᒋᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᑭᐃᔑᑎᐱᐡᑲᒧᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᒍᓫᐊᔾ 5, ᐃᑫᐧᐊᐧᐠ ᑭᓇᑐᑫᒧᐊᐧᐠ ᒋᒪᒪᐃᐧᐡᑲᓄᐊᐧᐠ ᐁᐧᑎ ᐊᐧᓂᓇᐊᐧᑲᐠ ᑐᐦᐁᐃᐧᐸᐡᑲᐧᐠ ᐁᑭ ᑭᔑᑌᐳᓇᓂᐊᐧᐠ, ᑭᒣᑕᐊᐧᓄᐊᐧᐣ, ᑭᓂᑲᒧᓇᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑭᓂᒥᓇᓂᐊᐧᐣ. ᐅᑯᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᓂᐦᓯᐣ ᐃᑫᐧᐊᐧᐠ ᓂᐢᑕᑦ ᑲᑭᒪᒋᑐᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᐃᑫᐧᐊᐧᐠ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂ 1989 ᑲᔭᑭᐊᐧᓂᐠ - ᐱᓫᐃᔕ ᐊᐧᐳᐢ, ᑊᕑᐊᐣᓯᐣ ᐯᕑᐅᕑᐸᐃᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐱᐱᔭᐣ ᑯᕑᐃᐣ, ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᑯᑕᐠ ᓂᐢᑕᑦ ᑲᑭᓂᑲᓂᐡᑲᒪᑫᐸᐣ ᓭᕑᐊ ᒣᓫᐱᐣ ᑭᓇᓇᑯᒪᑲᓄᐊᐧᐠ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᑲᑭᒪᒪᐃᐧᐡᑲᓄᐊᐧᐠ. ᐅᐁᐧ ᐃᑫᐧᐊᐧᐠ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ, ᐃᓇᐧᑌ ᐁᑲ ᐁᐱᒥᔓᓂᔭᑫᐱᒥᐃᐧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐁᐅᐣᒋ ᐊᐧᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᑕᐧ ᐃᑫᐧᐊᐧᐠ, ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐠ ᒥᓇ ᑎᐯᐣᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐃᒪ 31 ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᑕᓇᐱᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑌᑎᐸᐦᐃ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ, ᐅᐣᒋᑕᒪᑫᐊᐧᐠ ᐊᓄᑭᐦᐃᑯᐃᐧᓇᐣ, ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᒥᓄᔭᐃᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐃᑫᐧᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ. ᐊᔕ 25 ᑕᓱᔭᑭ ᐃᑫᐧᐊᐧᐠ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐅᐣᒋᐱᒥᐊᐧᐃᐧᒋᐦᐊᐊᐧᐠ ᐃᑫᐧᐊᐧᐠ ᑫᓄᒋᒪᐡᑲᐃᐧᑲᐸᐃᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᐃᓀᑫ ᑭᒋᒪᐊᐧᒋᐦᐃᑐᐃᐧᓇᐣ, ᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᑫᐃᐧ ᒪᐊᐧᑐᐡᑲᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐱᑯ ᑯᑕᑭᔭᐣ ᓇᓇᑲ ᑫᑭᔭᓄᒋ ᐱᒥᐊᓱᐡᑲᒪᐃᐧᑕᐧ ᒋᓯᓭᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᑫᐧᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᐧᔭᐠ ᐅᑎᐯᐣᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐅᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑫᑕᔑᐅᐱᑭᓂᐨ ᐅᑕᐊᐧᔑᔑᒥᐊᐧᐣ.

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Superior Court to hear residential school testimonies case Rick Garrick Wawatay News

Fort Albany’s Edmund Metatawabin does not want the Independent Assessment Process (IAP) residential school compensation claim records to be destroyed.

“Why would you want to destroy a piece of history,” Metatawabin said. “It’s the pain of the survivors that is there and you cannot destroy pain from your survivors.”

Metatawabin said it took a “lot of courage” for the survivors to recall what had happened to them during residential school.

“If we destroy evidence from the Holocaust (where about six million Jews were killed by the German military during World War II), that is not even considered,” Metatawabin said.

“If you destroy something as valuable as that and sacred as that — it’s very sacred — you deny your grandchildren (and) Canadians knowledge of something very bad that happened.

You have to learn from it. This is history; do not destroy history.”

Dan Shapiro, IAP’s chief adjudicator, called for the destruction of all records related to claims of abuse suffered by students at residential school during the 2014 Access and Privacy Conference, held June 19-20 in Edmonton, Alberta.

“In the IAP, promises of confidentiality were properly made to claimants,” Shapiro said. “These promises must be kept. After careful analysis and reflection, I have come to the realization that the only way that the confidentiality of participants can be respected and their dignity preserved is through the destruction of all IAP records after the conclusion of the compensation process.”

Metatawabin hopes that art works, such as theatre productions or movies, will be created in the future based on what happened in the residential

schools.

“I don’t want anyone to ever forget that I was made to eat my own vomit,” Metatwabin said. “Somebody has to learn from that.”

Metatawabin is concerned that if the residential school compensation claim records are destroyed and the residential school survivors have passed on, there will no longer be any concrete evidence of what happened in the residential schools.

“Why would you want to destroy a piece of history. It’s the pain of the survivors that is there and you cannot destroy pain from your survivors.”

-Edmund Metatawabin

“When residential school used the electric chair, it has been been accepted that it is torture,” Metatawabin said.

“And if you destroy that evidence, where is the supporting documentation.”

The IAP was established under the 2007 Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement to compensate former students who suffered sexual, physical or emotional abuse at residential schools.

The Indian Residential Schools Adjudication Secretariat, which manages the IAP, has collected about 800,000 documents related to about 38,000 applications it has received from former residential school students, including application forms, transcripts and audio recordings of hearings, decisions and a variety of medical, education, employment, corrections and other personal records submitted by claimants.

“These records, including the medical, educational, and financial records of survivors, should not be given a longer life and broader exposure

simply because they relate to someone who was abused at a residential school,” Shapiro said. “The history and legacy of residential schools must never be forgotten. But the price of remembering must not be a betrayal of those who were abused as children in those schools.”

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and the IAP had announced on May 14 that they were seeking court direction on the ultimate disposition of records produced as a result of the IAP proceedings. The Ontario Superior Court of Justice is scheduled to hear the case from July 14-16.

“In its court filings, the government of Canada has advised that it does not intend to destroy the records submitted by claimants during the IAP proceedings,” said Kimberly Murray, TRC’s executive director. “The government has decided to send some of these records to Library and Archives Canada, where they will be kept permanently and eventually made available to the public. In these circumstances, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission has asked the court to designate the National Research Centre for Truth and Reconciliation as the safest and most respectful place to protect those records that the government will not be destroying.

The NRC has the governance structure to ensure Aboriginal control over its own records.”

The National Research Centre for Truth and Reconciliation is being established at the University of Manitoba to house and protect all of the documents, statements and other materials collected by the TRC during its mandate.

“The Truth and Reconciliation Commission agrees with survivors that the private medical records of survivors submitted during the IAP should be rendered permanently inaccessible to anyone, including government officials,” Murray said.

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Commentary

Your Vote Stephanie Wesley SEVEN MEDIA DIRECTOR

I

t’s been a strange few months.

To be honest, part of me doesn’t feel like acknowledging what has happened in a column because I feel like it’s been addressed enough on social media, but this isn’t social media.

This is a column in a newspaper, it’s not something that is posted instantaneously online in a blog or on a Facebook status update.

There is a huge responsibility on my part for what I write in this paper, this column. I would never write anything inappropriate, I wouldn’t try painting any one subject, or a race of people, with one brush.

So getting down to it, it’s no surprise that a lot of people became immediately upset, disturbed, angry, and horrified at what appeared in the daily newspaper in Thunder Bay a month ago.

That now infamous ad by the Ontario Libertarian party that made national news and sprung a media conference, an antiracism rally, and a lot of angry posts and messages on social media because of the content.

And judging from an interview the candidate did with CBC’s Jody Porter, the content wasn’t very informed, as the candidate said she has only read a book about Indigenous people in Mexico, and did not read about Section 35 of the Constitution nor the UN Declaration on Rights of Indigenous People.

Nevertheless, the content still irked readers.

I was very surprised at how in your face and wrong that ad seemed because it was, in my humble opinion, in my face and just plain wrong.

It was a full-page coloured ad with a full body shot of the candidate leaning against a barstool in a power suit, alongside 11 statements that perturbed the city and First Nations leaders who claimed it was blatant racism.

The paper explained why it had to run the ad in a letter and not everyone agreed with it.

Supporters, and non-supporters, of the ad claimed “freedom of speech,” which is something I have no qualms with. People are able to say what they want, to an extent at least, and that’s great.

It’s just sometimes the way people who handle the response they get for voicing their opinion makes me worry.

If someone states their opinion ever so publicly, and it isn’t agreed with by most, they lay down the “freedom of speech” defense yet there is no freedom of speech for those who oppose or question it. There is no room for compromise or open

discussion. They are banished, deleted, blocked.

Who wants that authoritarian quality in any elected leader?

“My way or the highway.”

Well, nine-hundred-andtwenty-two voters agreed with the ad and the rhetoric in it.

And they are entitled to their vote, their choice on Election Day. That is the world we live in.

I’ve seen one very vocal supporter online state that 922 people went out in the rain to support “truth and equality” on Election Day and only 25 went to support a June 26 anti-racism rally on a sunny day.

As if that comparison makes any sense.

More than 900 people may have went out in the rain to vote for the Libertarian party and their beliefs, and to support those 11 statements that appeared in the ad, but more importantly 26,761 people went out in the rain and did not vote for them.

The 26, 761 voters chose otherwise.

The 26, 761 people made a different choice.

I think that’s what people need to focus on, that’s what we need to remember.

Yes, statements you will read online, and sometimes in the paper, will make you angry.

They will make you upset, they will make you want to vent and in some cases, judging from the screenshots that appeared on the Libertarian candidate’s social media profile, can make you send threats.

Threats are uncalled for.

There is no reason to send anybody threats.

I know it’s sometimes hard to pay attention to politics, and it can be easier to not utilize your vote but this last election shows just how important your vote is.

It shows just how important it is to pay attention to who is the running, to what their views are, to how them potentially being in power will affect you.

Though, according to one well-known individual on Twitter, what her platform entailed was “comparable to a teen promising a three-day school week at a student council election, you have no jurisdiction,” she was still able to run on said platform in this past election.

We can all register to vote, we can cast ballots. We have that option to vote, to choose.

As ugly as this last election got, it’s awakened something in myself at least that proves just how much a vote counts, how important it is to pay attention to who is eyeing up leadership roles.

I hope some of you also realize how important your voice and how much your vote matters, too.

Municipal elections are happening this fall in the city of Thunder Bay. I, for one, will definitely be paying a lot more attention to who gets my vote and who doesn’t.

Sgt. Peter Moon/Special to Wawatay News

The Junior Rangers are set to spend a week at Camp Loon from July 10-18, where they will experience eight days of advanced training that stresses safety on the land and water and in personal lifestyles. The Junior Rangers is a national youth program run by the Canadian Armed Forces for boys and girls aged 12 to 18 in Canada’s remote and isolated regions. There are 750 Junior Rangers in northern Ontario. See story about this year’s event in the next issue of Wawatay News.

Explosions In The Sky Xavier Kataquapit UNDER THE NORTHERN SKY

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t seems like human kind has always been fascinated by explosions in the sky.

My ancestors up the James Bay coast have always had a deep respect for the power of nature.

My Elders passed down a legend to me about lightning or Oh-mee-nee-s-koh as originating from the west.

We Cree on the James Bay coast live on flat tundra and mushkeg. We consider any rise in the land as a mountain.

The stories that were passed down about Oh-mee-nee-s-koh described it as a living being that lived in a world onto its own in the sky. He or she wandered the sky and passed over our heads from time to time in the clouds that formed in the storms during the summer. He or she also originated from the high mountains of the west.

These lands were described as being so high that they reached into the clouds where Oh-mee-nee-s-koh could step off from the mountain tops

and onto the clouds.

This year my July 1st was full of explosions in the sky.

I was invited by my friends John and Colleen to watch a fire works display in Alymer, Ont. The evening was festive with live music and all kinds of entertainment mainly for children. It was hot and sultry as we sat on the top of a large hill overlooking the fireworks launch pad. It was magical to watch the sun disappear in hues of red and purple over the surrounding lush forests and farmland.

When darkness fell on us and the stars popped into the sky to join a crescent moon, we knew the fireworks would soon begin. Suddenly, there was a loud burst and great flowers of flame shot up into the sky. These flowers and brilliant balls of light dazzled the audience with an entire spectrum of colours. The explosive sounds were almost deafening and echoed or ricocheted off the town behind us. The darkened sky lit up constantly with dramatic brush strokes of light that streaked and screamed across the night sky. There were ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs’ from the crowd with every blast of fireworks into the heavens.

It all climaxed in a crescendo

of brilliant, colourful rockets that turned the dark sky into a kaleidoscope of shapes.

On the way home, as I drove along in the dark, I noticed a huge storm front brewing in a lightning lit sky. The lightning pulsated from one side of the land all the way to the other.

The sky over my head was full of stars yet the horizon was lit in huge lightening bolts that displayed the powerful anvil head clouds in the distant sky.

As I drove on, it occurred to me that Oh-mee-nee-s-koh had come to visit me in the south and was running wildly on the tops of the clouds. It helped me remember all of those Elders that had talked about the power of lightning and fire. Decades ago when my people were very close to the land a huge thunderstorm, presided over by Oh-mee-nees-koh, often meant a refreshing break from the black flies and mosquitoes. It also brought rain to replenish the forests and tempered the heat of a summer day.

The explosions from the storm in the sky and the man made fireworks of my July 1st also reminded me of human kind’s fascination with big fire. As part of our evolution, I think we have gone down

a bad track in developing weapons of mass destruction having to do with explosions in the sky. I am reminded of that fascinating book by Farley Moat called ‘And No Birds Sang’, where he talked about his time in World War Two and living with daily bombings and explosions that tore his friends apart in front of his eyes. It reminded me of the atomic bombs that we dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during that same war. The destruction that our fascination with big fire produces has developed to the point where our very existence on this planet is threatened.

It bothers me greatly that we have lost our respect for Oh-mee-nee-s-koh. We have enough nuclear weapons on this planet to destroy it many times over and some how we have allowed ourselves to be governed by leaders that are constantly waging war.

Perhaps we should remind them that our existence here is fragile enough without the real danger of nuclear conflict.

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aybe you’ve heard about the Supreme Court’s latest ruling about what it means, in Canadian law, to have lived on land since time immemorial.

The Tsilhqot’in decision shouldn’t be surprising, shocking, or radical – all of the things that we legal wonks are calling it. Quite simply, it upholds the right of a nation to control, use, live upon and benefit from any territory that it can prove as its own.

It means, essentially, that if your nation has had the ability or luck to protect, from the 18th century onwards, your homeland from being trodden on, ‘taken up’, or otherwise deprived by other peoples (such as a certain flag-planting gang from over the Atlantic), Canadian law might now actually dignify you with the recognition that, hey, maybe it is yours after all, and your nation should be first in line to sustain and safeguard the gifts of Creation that your territory provides.

For a country that for most of its history has been trying, by trick or treaty, to vanish the reality of self-determining First Nations, I guess that this is a pretty big deal.

But what, then, does this belated but landmark awakening mean to the Anishinabe, who would amply satisfy all of the tests used by the Supreme Court in recognizing Aboriginal title? Who would hold title, of course, except for those papers signed at meetings held in 1873, or 1905, or 1930, on the banks of those great rivers that the Clans knew then, and know now, as home.

Except for those treaties that, amidst much strange language and strained promises, harumphed that the “said Indians do hereby cede, release, surrender and yield up to the government of the Dominion of Canada, for His Majesty the King and His successors forever, all their rights titles and privileges whatsoever, to the lands…”

Except, of course, for that.

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nations were decimated and dying, the slate would soon be cleansed for their version of civilization to completely take over. Those governments were wrong, of course, and B.C. will be forever changed because of it.

But I do not want to live in a country where the path ahead is so divided. I do not want historical accidents – and contemporary pigheadedness – to mean that while a Tsilhqot’in, or Gitxsan, or Haida child may learn to grow up with a strong and certain footing in the land and the wealth that it provides, an Anishinabe child may still be forced to know home as little more than a poor reserve surrounded, defined, and dictated by the Crown. This was surely not what the ancestors intended; and it is surely not what a truly fair and just country would be. The courts, I fear, will not bridge this looming gap; it is time for our leaders, inspired by Tsilhqot’in, to reimagine the treaties.

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the truth of these treaties ever since the headmen made their marks, ever since the white men told them that “for giving up their title to a large area of land of which they could make no use, they received benefits that served to balance anything that they were giving.”

In the search for clarity, common sense, and reconciliation that every decent leader should be making, an obvious starting point is acknowledging how much poppycock this process was.

Canada, at the time a much more racist, Empire-first society than it is now, wanted to deprive Indigenous nations of their very souls, their very selves. Canada knew that it could force the terms of these treaties, on the one hand pretending that payments of four or five dollars a year was fair exchange, on the other making sure that whatever lands they left reserved for the Anishinaabe had none of the natural wealth that the settlers wanted.

The treaties that blanket Anishinabe homelands could never be justified today. They are, quite simply, not just, and never really were. But, quite like the Indian Act itself, they cannot be simply undone, especially not with a government that prefers pipelines to traplines, control to conciliation. Exciting though it is, the Supreme Court’s ruling will have very different meanings depending on where in the country your homeland is.

The unavoidable reality is that while some First Nations can use the Tsilhqot’in decision to assert Aboriginal title over their lands, most others, including the Nishnawbe Aski Nations, will have a much harder time using it to create the breathing room they so desperately need to recover health, strength, and purpose on their lands.

One of the cringing ironies of this situation is that treaties were mostly not made in British Columbia (where the Tsilhqot’in decision comes from), not because of any noble restraint on Canada’s part, but because the federal and provincial governments, by the time they got around to settling the far west, figured they didn’t even need to make their hollow promises of blankets and trinkets. They figured that since these proud

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A lawyer working with the Matawa First Nations on Ring of Fire negotiations with Ontario said the Tsilhqot’in decision will help northern Ontario First Nations and other treaty First Nations because the Supreme Court has now established a “broad, functional” approach to defining Aboriginal rights and territorial control.

“The Supreme Court has said that Aboriginal rights are going to be defined in a way based on the realities of how First Nations people used the land and exercised control over their territories,” said Judith Rae of Olthius Kleer Townshend LLP. Rae noted there are also legal differences between the Tsilhqot’in decision and treaty areas in Ontario.

“The Tsilhqot’in people did not have their rights established in any treaty,” Rae said, “so they were starting from scratch. In the historic treaty areas, where you already have agreements that rights exist, the dispute typically focuses instead on what were in the actual agreements, and what the scope of those agreements were.”

She added, however, that the Supreme Court’s approach to the Tsilhqot’in claim sends a message.

“The court has really come down on the side of saying that you cannot just apply a narrow, restricted view of Aboriginal rights,” Rae said.

The Tsilhqot’in Nation won a ruling at B.C.’s Superior Court in 2007, after a trial that started in 2002 and lasted more than five years. In 2012, the trial judge’s ruling was overturned at the B.C. Court of Appeal, which decided that the Tsilhqot’in had Aboriginal title only over areas where its people had established settlements prior to contact with Europeans.

That set up the Supreme Court’s landmark decision, released on June 26.

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“There is no suggestion in the jurisprudence or scholarship that Aboriginal title is confined to specific village sites or farms, as the Court of Appeal held,” McLaughlin wrote in the decision. “Rather, a culturally sensitive approach suggests that regular use of territories for hunting, fishing, trapping and foraging is ‘sufficient’ use to ground Aboriginal title.”

Besides the issue of Aboriginal title, the Supreme Court also made clear that the consent of First Nations will be needed before the government can pass laws or move forward on development projects on lands under Aboriginal title. Without First Nations consent, the Supreme Court stated, the provincial or federal government can only pass laws impacting on lands under Aboriginal title if it shows a “compelling and substantial” benefit to the general public.

“Government incursions not consented to by the titleholding group must be undertaken in accordance with the Crown’s procedural duty to consult and must also be justified on the basis of a compelling and substantial public interest,” McLaughlin wrote.

Meanwhile, according to the Chiefs of Ontario, the 133 First Nations in Ontario have started working together on acquiring control over traditional and historical territories.

“Two weeks ago, the 133 First Nations in Ontario examined ways to assert inherent rights on traditional and historical territories, and ancestral homelands with a collective voice,” stated a COO press release.

“Tsilhqot’in is the Supreme Court of Canada’s confirmation of First Nations long-standing position, that title to the land has always been there based on spiritual beliefs as passed on for countless generations,” said Beardy. “Now it is time that government and industry uphold this decision.”

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JULY 10, 2014

ᒪᑕᐊᐧ ᐅᑭᒪᑲᓇᐠ ᐃᑭᑐᐊᐧᐠ ᑭᒋᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧ ᑭᔕᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᒥᓂᐁᐧᒪᑲᐣ ᐸᑯᓭᓂᒧᐃᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᒪᐡᑲᐃᐧᓯᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᒪ ᐅᒋ ᐸᑭᑭᓂᑲᓂᐠ 1 ᒥᓇᐊᐧ ᐁᐧᑎ 2007 ᐅᑯᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᓯᓫᐃᑯᑎᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑭᐸᑭᓇᑫᐸᓂᐠ ᐱᓯ ᓴᐱᕑᐃᔭᕑ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ, ᑲᑭ ᒪᒋᐅᓇᑯᓂᑲᓄᐊᐧᑭᐸᐣ 2002 ᑲᔭᑭᐊᐧᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᒣ ᓂᔭᓄᐊᐦᑭ ᑭᐱᒥᑭᑲᑌ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᐱᐣ 2012 ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᑭᒪ ᑭᐁᐧᐱᓂᑲᑌᓂ ᐅᑭᔕᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᒪ ᐱᓯ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐠ ᑭᑕᔑ ᑭᑕᐧᑦ ᐅᓇᒋᑲᓂᐊᐧᐠ, ᐁᑭ ᑭᔑᐅᓀᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᓯᓫᐃᑯᑎᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᒋᑎᐱᓇᐁᐧᐃᐧᓯᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᐦᑭᑲᐠ ᐁᑕ ᐃᒪ ᑲᑭᐱᔑᑲᑲᐯᔑᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᑲᒪᐧᔦ ᐱᑕᑯᔑᓄᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᐁᐧᒥᑎᑯᔑᐊᐧᐠ. ᒥᑕᐡ ᐅᐁᐧ ᑲᑭᓇᑲᐧᐠ ᑭ ᒋ ᐅ ᓇ ᑯ ᓂ ᑫ ᐃ ᐧ ᑲ ᒥ ᑯ ᐠ ᑭᔕᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᑭᐸᑭᑎᓂᑲᑌᐠ ᓴᑭᐸᑲᐃᐧᐱᓯᑦ 26. “ᑲ ᐃ ᐧ ᓂ ᐣ ᓇ ᐣ ᑕ ᒋ ᐃ ᑭ ᑐ ᒪ ᑲ ᐠ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᓇᐣᑕ ᐸᑲᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂ ᑲᑎᐱᐁᐧᐃᐧᓯᐨ ᐅᑕᑭᑦ ᐸᐣᑭ ᐁᑕ ᒋᐅᒋ ᑎᐱᓇᒪᐊᐧᑲᓄᐨ ᑕᐱᐡᑯᐨ ᑫᐃᑲᐧᓂᐠ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂ ᓇᐣᑕ ᑭᑎᑫᐃᐧᐊᐦᑭᓂ, ᑲᑭᐃᑭᑐᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᐃᒪ ᑭᑕᐧᑦ ᐅᓇᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ,” ᑭᓇᓯᓇᐦᐃᑫ ᒥᐠᑲᓫᐊᐧᐟᓫᐃᐣ ᐊᐱ ᑲᑭᐃᐡᑲᐧ ᑭᔕᑯᓂᑫᐨ. “ᓇᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᑯ ᑲᐃᔑᐱᒪᑎᓯᐊᐧᐨ ᒋᑭᐃᔑ ᑎᐸᐸᒋᑲᑌᓂᑭᐸᐣ ᒋ ᔑ ᐱ ᒥ ᓂ ᔕ ᐦ ᐃ ᑲ ᑌ ᐠ

ᑲᐃᓇᐸᒋᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑕᑭᒥᐊᐧ ᑲ ᓇ ᓇ ᑕ ᐁ ᐧ ᐣ ᒋ ᑲ ᑫ ᐊ ᐧ ᐨ, ᑲᐸᑭᑕᐊᐧᑫᐊᐧᐨ, ᑲᐊᐧᓂᐦᐃᑲᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᒥᓇ ᐊᓂᓂᑯ ᑲᐃᓇᐸᒋᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂ ᐅᑕᑭᑦ ᑲᐃᔑᑎᐯᐣᑕᐠ.” ᐁᑲᐧ ᑕᐡ ᒥᓇ ᐅᐁᐧ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂ ᐅᑕᑭᐃᐧ ᑎᐯᐣᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ, ᑭᒋᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐠ ᑲᔦ ᑭᐅᐣᒋᐸᔭᑌ ᐃᐧᐣᒋᑲᑌ ᐱᓇᒪ ᐱᑯ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᒋᑲᑫᐧᒋᒥᐣᐧᑕ ᐁᒪᐧᔦ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᐧᐱᔕᐳᓇᑭᐣ ᐅᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᓇᐣᑕ ᒥᓇ ᐃᐧᐱᒪᑕᓄᑭᐨ ᐃᒪ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᑲᐃᔑᑎᐯᐣᑕᒥᓂᐨ ᐅᑕᑭᑦ. ᑭᐡᐱᐣ ᐁᑲ ᑭᐅᐣᑎᓂᑲᑌᓂᐠ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂ ᐅᐸᑭᑕᔓᐁᐧᐃᐧᐣ, ᑭᐃᑭᑐᒪᑲᐣ ᑭᒋᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ, ᒥᐁᑕ ᐱᓯ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐣ ᓇᐣᑕ ᑲᓇᑕ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐣ ᑫᑭᑐᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᒋᔕᐳᓇᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑲᐣ ᑫᐅᐣᒋ ᐸᑭᑌᐡᑭᑫᒪᑲᐠ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᑕᑭᐃᐧ ᑎᐯᐣᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᑭᐡᐱᐣ ᐃᔑᐊᐧᐸᑕᐦᐃᐁᐧᒪᑲᐠ ᒋᑭᒥᓄᓭᐦᐃᑯᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ. “ᐅ ᑭ ᒪ ᐃ ᐧ ᓂ ᐠ ᑲᐅᒋᒪᑲᐠ ᒥᑯᐡᑲᒋᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐁᑲ ᑲᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᓇᑯᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᑲᑎᐱᓇᐁᐧᐃᐧᓯᐊᐧᐨ ᒪᔭᑦ ᐊᐦᑭᓂ ᓇᑕᐁᐧᐣᑕᑯᓯᐊᐧᐠ ᒋᐱᒥᓂᔕᐦᐊᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐱᓇᒪ ᓂᑲᐣ ᒋᑲᑫᐧᒋᒥᐁᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᒥᓇ ᑫᒋᓇᐨ ᒋᓇᑯᑕᒪᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᒋᑭᐅᐣᒋ

MONDAY July 14 7am CST Cree Morning Show 8am CST Ojicree Morning Show 9 am North Wind Talkers 10 am Ojicree Morning Show 11 am Cree News at Noon 12 pm Ojicree News at Noon 4 pm Cree Evening Show 5 pm Ojicree Evening News 6 pm Us Women

July 21 7am CST Cree Morning Show 8am CST Ojicree Morning Show 9 am North Wind Talkers 10 am Ojicree Morning Show 11 am Cree News at Noon 12 pm Ojicree News at Noon 1 pm NADF 4 pm Cree Evening Show 5 pm Ojicree Evening News 6 pm Us Women

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TUESDAY July 15 7am CST Cree Morning Show 8am CST Ojicree Morning Show 9 am North Wind Talkers 10 am Ojicree Morning Show 11 am Cree News at Noon 12 pm Ojicree News at Noon 4 pm Cree Evening Show 5 pm Ojicree Evening News 6 pm Language Program 7 pm Lansdowne House, Neskantaga Gospel Jamboree July 22 7am CST Cree Morning Show 8am CST Ojicree Morning Show 9 am North Wind Talkers 10 am Ojicree Morning Show 11 am Cree News at Noon 12 pm Ojicree News at Noon 1:30 pm Matawa 4 pm Cree Evening Show 5 pm Ojicree Evening News 6 pm Language Program

ᒥᓄᓭᐊᐧᑲᓄᐊᐧᐠ ᒥᓯᐁᐧ,” ᒥᐠᑲᓫᐊᐧᐟᓫᐃᐣ ᑭᐃᓇᓯᓇᐦᐃᑫ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᐅᐁᐧ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ, ᑭᐃᑭᑐᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᐅᑭᒪᑲᓇᐠ, 133 ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐃᒪ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᐊᔕ ᐅᑭᒪᑕᓄᑲᑕᓇᐊᐧ ᑲᐃᐧᔭᓂ ᑎᐯᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑕᑭᒥᐊᐧ. “ᓂ ᔓ ᑕ ᐊ ᐧ ᑌ ᐅᑕᓇᐠ, 133 ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐃᒪ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᐅᑭᓇᓇᑲᒋᑐᓇᐊᐧ ᐊᓂᐣ ᑫᑭᐃᔑ ᒪᑕᓄᑲᑕᒧᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᐅᑕᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᑌᐸᑫᑕᑯᓯᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᒋᔭᓂ ᑌᐱᓇᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑕᑭᒥᐊᐧ ᒥᓇ ᒋᐅᒋ ᒪᒪᐃᐧ ᑲᓄᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ,” ᑭᐃᓇᓯᓇᐦᐃᑲᑌ ᐅᑎᐸᒋᒧᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ. “ᓯ ᓫ ᐃ ᑯ ᑎ ᐣ ᐊ ᓂ ᔑ ᓂ ᓂ ᐊ ᐧ ᐠ ᑲᑭᐸᑭᓇᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᓇᑕ ᑭᒋᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐃᔑ ᑭᑭᓇᐊᐧᒋᒋᑫᒪᑲᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐁᑲ ᐃᐧᑲ ᒋᐸᑭᑎᓇᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᐃᔑᑌᐯᐧᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ, ᑲᐯᐦᐃ ᑭᐱᐊᔭᒪᑲᓂ ᐅᑕᑭᒥᐊᐧ ᐁᑭᐅᐣᒋᐱᒧᓭᒪᑲᓂᐠ ᐅᑕᒐᑯᐃᐧ ᑌᐯᐧᑕᒧᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᑭᐱᐅᐣᒋ ᐊᔭᓂᑫ ᓇᓇᑲᑕᒪᐃᐧᑕᐧ ᐁᐧᑎ ᐁᑲ ᐃᐧᑲ ᑫᑭᑌᐱᐃᐧᐣᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐊᓂᑫᐱᒪᑎᓯᐃᐧᓂᐠ,” ᐃᑭᑐ ᐯ ᕑ ᑎ . “ᐊ ᔕ ᑕ ᐡ ᑎ ᐱ ᓭ ᓂ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧ ᐱᒥᐃᐧᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒋᐱᒥᓂᔕᐦᐊᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᑭᐃᔑ ᑭᔕᑯᓂᑲᓄᐊᐧᓂᐠ.”

WEDNESDAY

TUNE IN!

Bantam Curling BBQ’s, Legion Steak Dinner, Bannock Bake Off, Rotary Pancake Breakfast, Canada Post Customer Appreciation, Wilson’s Business Solutions Open House, Public Library Ice Cream Social, St. Andrew’s Bake Sale, NLCU Blueberry BBQ, Pork on a Bun & Corn on the Cob, CIBC BBQ, Lost Lake Drop-In Centre Luncheon, Annual Blueberry Tea, St. Andrews Fish Fry, Brunch on the Dock, Hudson Family Day BBQ, Fresh Market Foods Rib Gate

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FRIDAY

July 17

7am CST Cree Morning Show 8am CST Ojicree Morning Show 9 am North Wind Talkers 10 am Ojicree Morning Show 11 am Cree News at Noon 12 pm Ojicree News at Noon 4 pm Cree Evening Show 5 pm Ojicree Evening News 6 pm Legends Program 7 pm Lansdowne House, Neskantaga Gospel Jamboree

7am CST Cree Morning Show 8am CST Ojicree Morning Show 9 am North Wind Talkers 10 am Ojicree Morning Show 11 am Cree News at Noon 12 pm Ojicree News at Noon 1:00 pm Noront 4 pm Cree Evening Show 5 pm Ojicree Evening News 6 pm Legends Program 8 pm Gospel Singing

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THURSDAY

July 16

July 23

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July 18

7am CST Cree Morning Show 8am CST Ojicree Morning Show 9 am North Wind Talkers 10 am Ojicree Morning Show 11 am Cree News at Noon 12 pm Ojicree News at Noon 4 pm Cree Evening Show 5 pm Ojicree Evening News 6 pm Lansdowne House, Neskantaga Gospel Jamboree

July 24

6 am Booshoo Corner 8 am Cree Morning News 9 am People’s Power Hour 10 am Wacheyah/Dedication Hour 12 pm Ojicree News at Noon 7 pm Sandy Lake Gospel Jamboree

July 19

Music Mix 7 pm Sandy Lake Gospel Jamboree

July 20

Music Mix 7 pm Sandy Lake Gospel Jamboree

July 25

7am CST Cree Morning Show 8am CST Ojicree Morning Show 9 am North Wind Talkers 10 am Ojicree Morning Show 11 am Cree News at Noon 12 pm Ojicree News at Noon 1 pm NAN Legal Aid 4 pm Cree Evening Show 5 pm Ojicree Evening News

WEEKEND

6 am Booshoo Corner 8 am Cree Morning News 9 am People’s Power Hour 10 am Wacheyah/Dedication Hour 12 pm Ojicree News at Noon 7 pm Trail of Hope

July 26

Music Mix 7 pm Trail of Hope

July 27

Music Mix 7 pm Trail of Hope

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Lisa Beardy, left, of Muskrat Dam and the Nishnawbe Aski Nation Women’s Council, presented an anniversary gift to Equay-wuk’s Clara Carroll, chairwoman, and Darlene Angeconeb, acting director. “Equay-wuk has grown and continues to be a strong advocate and voice for women in the North,” Beardy said. “There have been definite, positive outcomes that Equay-wuk has achieved.”

Equay-wuk celebrates its beginning, 25 years later Bryan Phelan Wawatay News

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ing programs and manuals, all with the objective of supporting Aboriginal women in building healthy families and communities for their children.

Waboose served as Equaywuk’s director for 15 years, and Angeconeb highlighted her role in the opening of the First Step Women’s Shelter in Sioux Lookout.

“One of the last things Sarah said to me when I went see her at the hospital in Thunder Bay … was ‘Never forget the women up North,” Waboose recalled.

“Always try your best to support them.’ ” Waboose said those words always guided her work as Equay-wuk director.

“I’d like to thank Sarah. I’m sure she’s looking down and just smiling at us for celebrating what she started.”

(For the full story and more photos from Equay-wuk’s 25th anniversary gathering, please see the fall edition of Sagatay, the inflight magazine of Wasaya Airways, available in August.)

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Equay-wuk (Women’s Group) celebrated its 25th anniversary by honouring its founders.

To mark the anniversary on July 5, Equay-wuk hosted families at the picnic area between the Sioux Lookout baseball diamonds for a barbecue, games, singing and dancing.

When the hundred or so people gathered had their fill of burgers, hot dogs and salads, Darlene Angeconeb, Equay-wuk’s acting director, introduced the guests of honour. They included three of the women responsible for starting Equay-wuk back in 1989 – Felicia Waboose, Francine Pellerin and Vivien Green. Representing the group’s original leader, the late Sarah Melvin of Webequie First Nation, was her brother, Ronnie Beaver. Clara Carroll, chairwoman of the Equay-wuk board of directors, presented the special guests with 25th anniversary plaques and gifts of thanks.

These days, Equay-wuk, a non-profit organization serving

women, youth and families in 31 First Nations in northwestern Ontario, offers practical support programs for job readiness, community wellness and women’s leadership.

The seeds for organization were planted when Melvin lived in Weagmow Lake and invited women to her house for sewing circles, Angeconeb explained. As they sewed, the women talked about what was happening in their lives, including family violence.

“At the time, there were no services for women; there was no shelter,” said Angeconeb.

When Melvin moved to Sioux Lookout, the plight of those women stayed with her. To help those who continued to experience family violence in remote communities, she Waboose, Pellerin, Green and others established Equay-wuk (Women’s Group). Green, who now lives in Toronto, wrote a successful funding proposal for the group’s first gathering in Sioux Lookout.

Equay-wuk has been empowering women ever since, through conferences, workshops, train-

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Jerry Smith, President Jackfish River Management Ltd. 10 Becker Road Hornepayne, ON P0M 1Z0 tel: 807-868-2370 ext. 223

Zachary White, R.P.F. Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry 48 Mission Road, P.O. Box 1160 Wawa, ON P0S 1K0 tel: 705-856-4715

or call toll-free: 1-800-667-1940 and ask to be forwarded to one of the contacts above.

Renseignements en français : Jennifer Lamontagne 705 856-4747

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Anti-racism rally held at Thunder Bay newspaper office Stephanie Wesley Wawatay News

In response to a controversial ad published in the Chronicle Journal in Thunder Bay, a group of nearly 30 people took part in an anti-racism rally held outside the newspaper’s office building on June 26.

“It bothered me quite a bit when I heard about what was written in the paper,” said former Thunder Bay resident John Bell Fox. The Ontario Libertarian ad that appeared in June 10 edition of The Chronicle Journal contained statements like “no group of people are owed a “debt” by today’s tax payers” and encouraged “tax payers” to “stop this doctrine of entitlement.”

After the election, a press conference was held by the city of Thunder Bay and Fort William First Nation to address the issue of racism and the ad, which many said contained damaging and false statements about Aboriginal people.

Fox made the trip up to Thunder Bay to take part in the rally, which he referred to as a grassroots event.

He said he grew up in Thunder Bay, and that he cherished the community and the people.

“That’s why I traveled from Peterborough to be a part of this,” Fox said.

He explained that he went on a tour of his old haunts, including the Picton Street area in the city to speak to its residents.

“I did a tour there yesterday, I talked to our people that are affected by what’s going on in this community and rest assured our people are scared,” Fox said.

“Our people are scared of what has escalated in the last little while.”

NAN Grand Chief Harvey Yesno said that the statements in the ad by Johnson are having a damaging effect on the efforts of area First Nations to develop positive relationships within the community.

“And we are disappointed that a community newspaper would seek to profit by publishing them,” Yesno stated after the ad was published.

The June 26 rally was attended by both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in the city.

Thunder Bay resident Chuck Lucy Finale said that he heard of the rally through a friend on Facebook.

Finale is a member of the

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INSPECTION Inspection of Approved Aerial Herbicide Spraying Lake Nipigon Forest The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) invites you to inspect the MNRF-approved aerial herbicide spray project. As part of our ongoing efforts to regenerate and protect Ontario’s forests, selected stands on the Lake Nipigon Forest (see map) will be sprayed with herbicide to control competing vegetation, starting on or about August 5, 2014. The herbicide VisionMax, Pest Control Product registration # 27736 will be used.

Thunder Bay Revolutionary Network, and said that the group had been keeping tabs on the election. When the Johnson ad appeared in the paper, Finale said he wasn’t surprised but “disappointed in how blatant the racism was” in the ad.

He said he thought the event was very positive.

“I know ahead of time many people were concerned it would be all about bashing one person, but the actual rhetoric of the rally was really positive. It was about bringing everyone together and less about the ad.”

Ontario Regional Chief Stan Beardy was also present at the rally. Beardy was one of many speakers, which included former Fort William First Nation Chief Peter Collins and Chronicle Journal publisher Clint Harris.

“None of the people are born to hate, none of us are born to hate. This is a learned behaviour that’s learned at home, with the community, and our environment,” Beardy said.

Beardy explained that he had met with Harris to discuss what could be done to address the issue of racism in the city, and how the Chronicle Journal could help.

“I had a good discussion with (Harris),” Beardy said.

He explained that they talked about creating space in The Chronicle Journal for the Aboriginal community and their stories, and also share what is being done

by Aboriginal people to contribute to the well-being of Canada as a whole.

“He made an agreement that space will be made for us as First Nations people where we can share our stories with the general public,” Beardy said.

Harris thanked the group for attending the rally, calling it an “important day when we can battle racism and hatred together.”

“As Stan mentioned, we have

met and I have met with other leaders as well,” Harris said. “We have a commitment to support the entire community. We are the entire community together.”

Harris said that The Chronicle Journal will do everything they can do help fight racism and support the Aboriginal community.

“That’s our plan, to work together and help in any way we can,” Harris said to an applauding group.

Peter Collins said that it is important to work together to build positive relationships between all people for the youth.

“Our children walk the streets.

We need to build a healthy lifestyle for our kids,” Collins said.

Collins encouraged everyone to understand and read the treaties. He said that the treaties were not signed to make Aboriginal people a “special interest group.”

“Understand what it means, and what it meant to all people, not just First Nations but to all of us,” he said.

Beardy expressed his wishes for the history of Aboriginal people in Canada to be taught in schools.

“The way to begin to deal with the hatred we are talking about, there has to be education with all people. The best way to do that is to introduce the history of Canada’s First Nations people in the curriculum.”

Beardy said that it is important to have First Nations stories in The Chronicle Journal to help educate the general public.

“We need to get space with The Chronicle Journal to make sure that our stories as First Nations people are published, our successes our challenges, so that it educates the general public because racism comes out because of a lack of information and outright ignorance.”

See COLLECTIVE on page 10

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The approved project description and project plan for the aerial herbicide project is available for public inspection at the Lake Nipigon Forest Management Inc. office and on the MNRF public website at ontario.ca/forestplans beginning July 5, 2014 until March 31, 2015 when the annual work schedule expires. Ontario Government Information Centres at Thunder Bay, Nipigon, Geraldton, Terrace Bay and Marathon provide access to the Internet.

Interested and affected persons and organizations can arrange an appointment with MNRF staff at the MNRF District office to discuss the aerial herbicide project.

For more information, please contact: Chris Leale, R.P.F. Management Forester MNRF 5 Wadsworth Drive P.O. Box 970 Nipigon, ON P0T 2J0 tel: 807-887-5042 fax: 807-887-2993 e-mail: chris.leale@ontario.ca

Paul Poschmann, R.P.F. General Manager Lake Nipigon Forest Management Inc. 78 Salls Street P.O. Box 449 Red Rock, ON P0T 2P0 tel: 807-886-3024 ext. 1 fax: 807-886-2641 e-mail: paul.poschmann@lnfmi.ca

or call toll-free: 1-800-667-1940 and ask to be forwarded to one of the contacts above.

Renseignements en français : 1 807 887-5000

INSPECTION Inspection of Approved Aerial Herbicide Spraying Red Lake and Trout Lake Forests The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) invites you to inspect the MNRF-approved aerial herbicide spray projects. As part of our ongoing efforts to regenerate and protect Ontario’s forests, selected stands on the Red Lake and Trout Lake Forests (see map) will be sprayed with herbicide to control competing vegetation, starting on or about July 28, 2014. The herbicide VisionMax Pest Control Product registration # 27736 will be used.

The approved project description and project plan for the aerial herbicide project is available for public inspection at the Red Lake Forest Management Company Ltd. and Domtar Inc. offices and on the MNRF public website at ontario.ca/forestplans beginning July 2, 2014 until March 31, 2015 when the annual work schedule expires.

The Ontario Government Information Centre at 227 Howey Street, Red Lake can provide access to the Internet.

Interested and affected persons and organizations can arrange an appointment with MNRF staff at the MNRF District or Area office to discuss the aerial herbicide project.

For more information on the Trout Lake Forest spray project, please contact: Trevor Park, Resource Operations Supervisor Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry Red Lake District Office 227 Howey Street, P.O. Box 5003 Red Lake, ON P0V 2M0 tel: 807-727-1344 fax: 807-727-2861

Janet Lane, R.P.F., Plan Author Domtar Inc. Dryden Office 1 Duke Street, Postal Bag 4004 Dryden, ON P8N 3J7 tel: 807-223-9156

For more information on the Red Lake Forest spray project, please contact:

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INSPECTION Inspection of Approved Aerial Herbicide Spraying Lac Seul Forest

Continued from page 9

The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) invites you to inspect the MNRF-approved aerial herbicide spray project. As part of our ongoing efforts to regenerate and protect Ontario’s forests, selected stands on the Lac Seul Forest (see map) will be sprayed with herbicide to control competing vegetation, starting on or about August 1, 2014. The herbicide VisionMax, Pest Control Product registration # 27736 will be used.

The approved project description and project plan for the aerial herbicide project is available for public inspection at the Obishikokaang Resources Office and on the MNRF public website at ontario.ca/forestplans beginning July 2, 2014 until March 31, 2015 when the annual work schedule expires. Ontario Government Information Centres at 62 Queen Street, Sioux Lookout and 66 Keith Avenue, Dryden provide access to the Internet.

Interested and affected persons and organizations can arrange an appointment with MNRF staff at the MNRF District office to discuss the aerial herbicide project.

For more information, please contact: Robert Auld, Forester Obishikokaang Resources Corp.

33 Third Avenue, P.O. Box 38 Hudson, ON P0V 1X0 tel: 807-738-1073

Kevin Pruys, R.P.F. MNRF District Office 49 Prince Street, P.O. Box 309 Sioux Lookout, ON P8T 1A6 tel: 807-737-5053

or call toll-free: 1-800-667-1940 and ask to be forwarded to one of the contacts above.

REVIEW Sapawe Forest 2010–2020 Forest Management Plan Review of Draft Planned Operations for Phase II 2015–2020 Information Centre The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF), Rainy Lake Tribal Resource Management Inc. and the Resource Management Advisory Committee Local Citizens Committee (LCC) invite you to review and comment on the Phase II (2015–2020) Draft Planned Operations of the 2010–2020 Forest Management Plan (FMP) for the Sapawe 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; • The MNR’s preliminary list of required alterations.

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

Comments from the public will be considered in the revisions to the draft plan.

How to Get Involved The draft planned operations and the draft planned operations summary will be available on the MNRF public web site at ontario.ca/forestplans and at the Rainy Lake Tribal Resource Management Inc. office and the MNRF Fort Frances/ Atikokan Area offices during normal office hours by appointment for a period of 30 days (June 30 to July 30). The Ontario Government Information Centre in Toronto and ServiceOntario locations in Atikokan, Fort Frances, and Thunder Bay provide Internet access.

Meetings with representatives of the planning team and the LCC 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 and concerns with a planning team member, please contact one of the individuals listed below: Renee Perry Management Forester

MNRF

108 Saturn Avenue Atikokan, ON P0T 1C0 tel: 807-597-5010 fax: 807-597-6185 e-mail: renee.perry@ontario.ca

Rainy Lake Tribal Resource Management Inc. P.O. Box 522, 1455 Idylwild Drive Fort Frances, ON P9A 3M8 tel: 807-274-8531 fax: 807-274-4330

Collective calls for ad boycott of newspaper

Harold Mosley RMAC Representative tel: 807-597-9902 e-mail: mosley.harold@gmail.com

Meanwhile, a group of concerned citizens is calling for advertisers to boycott the Chronicle Journal.

The Biskaabiiyang Collective (BC), composed of six people, published an open letter online to the sponsors of The Chronicle Journal newspaper calling for ad support of the publication to be pulled.

Willow Blasizzo, BC member, told Wawatay News that the ad borders the line between a person’s right to freedom of speech and hate speech towards Indigenous peoples.

“This campaign ad suggests that the treaties, which Canada was founded on, has made Indigenous peoples ‘Super-Citizens.’ This demonstrates the unfortunate reality that there is a population, albeit a small one, that has little to no real education or regard for the important to recognize, honour, and respect each other as treaty people, which we all are,” Blasizzo said.

The letter, which is signed

by BC members Blasizzo, Debbie Sault, Jana-Rae Yerxa, Collin Graham, Adam Barker, and Damien Lee, states that the ad

by OLP candidate Johnson has “demonized Indigenous peoples, both directly or in-directly, as leaches benefitting unfairly from the Canadian tax system.”

“As such, the Chronicle Journal is serving to legitimize hate towards Indigenous peoples and to spread misinformation about First Nations, our treaties and our relationships with Canadians,” reads the letter.

BC made two requests of the 34 businesses and organizations that the letter was sent to.

The first request is that financial support is pulled from paper for what they deem as “uncritical publishing of what is clearly anti-Indigenous hate speech.”

The second request is that if no action is taken by the 34 businesses or organizations that it be explained publicly “how you reconcile taking money from Indigenous peoples, only then to fund anti-Indigenous sentiments in the public forum through the Chronicle Journal.”

Damien Lee, BC member, said that when he first saw the ad, he was surprised and viewed it as an attack.

“I was surprised at how brazen it was, with how brazen she (Johnson) was going to be with her racism,” Lee said. “I mean, to put that in the paper in an area that’s Nishnawbe territory and a lot of Nishnawbe are going to be exposed to it, I view

it as an attack.”

Lee explained that the BC opted to write a letter to the sponsors of the paper instead of seeking an apology.

Lee said that they wanted to first alert the sponsors and advertisers of what happened, and to see if they were willing to detract or cease advertising or complain to the paper in hopes that it would put them in a place where they would have to change their behaviour.

In a letter on the front page of the Chronicle Journal, Harris said the paper had an obligation to run the ad to let voters know Johnson’s views on Aboriginal policy.

“Campaign advertising tends to present facts through the filter of a candidate or party’s bias.

Voters can see that for what it is and act accordingly,” the letter from Harris reads.

Harris stresses that they at the paper worry about crossing lines when it comes to potentially offensive material, but that there is a balance that has to be maintained in the need to foster open discussion, especially in an election.

In response to Harris’ letter, Lee thinks that the paper “misses the point.”

“They don’t have a duty to perpetuate racism. They don’t have a duty to just publish anything that shows up. Would they publish a full-page ad from the KKK?” Lee said.

“Racism in Thunder Bay has become so normal that the main paper can publish something like that ad and then turn around and say “well it’s our duty” - that to me just demonstrates how safe Thunder Bay is for racism,” Lee said.

Blasizzo is also concerned about the “unsafe environment” that has now intensified for Indigenous peoples living in Thunder Bay. She stated that it is imperative that the impact of such a stereotypical, negative and factually incorrect message like Johnson’s ad has on a city that already struggles with a strained and damaged relationship with Nishnawbe people is addressed.

“It’s not acceptable, it’s harmful,” Blasizzo said.

Blasizzo said that the paper’s defense of their decision to publish the ad is “a clear indication that there’s a need to unpack and dissect the racism that is manifesting.”

“This is an objective of the Biskaabiiyang Collective through coordinating facilitated teach-ins in our community,” she said.

During the planning process there is an opportunity to make a written request to seek resolution of issues with the plan author, the MNRF 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 MNRF Regional Director is August 30, 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 MNRF-approved planned operations (Stage 3) which is tentatively scheduled for October 30 to November 30, 2014.

The approval date of the planned operations for the second five-year term is tentatively scheduled for October 30, 2014.

The MNRF 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 MNRF 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 Renee Perry at 807-597-5010.

Renseignements en français : Renee Perry, 807 597-5010

The 2014 Grade 8 graduating class of JR Nakogee School, Attawapiskat First Nation would like to thank the Dream Catcher Fund for helping to cover the costs of their grad trip...

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INSPECTION Inspection of Approved Aerial Herbicide Spraying Caribou Forest

Marcel Metatawabin of Peawanuck was stranded between his home and Fort Severn for two days before an MNR helicopter guided by Canadian Ranger Sgt. Matthew Gull located the traveler.

The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) invites you to inspect the MNRFapproved aerial herbicide spray project. As part of our ongoing efforts to regenerate and protect Ontario’s forests, selected stands on the Caribou Forest (see map below) will be sprayed with herbicide to control competing vegetation, starting on or about August 1, 2014. The herbicide VisionMax, Pest Control Product registration # 27736 will be used.

Missing Peawanuck traveler found after ATV breakdown

The approved project description and project plan for the aerial herbicide project is available for public inspection at the Thunder Bay Resolute Forest Products office and on the MNRF public website at ontario.ca/forestplans beginning July 2, 2014 until March 31, 2015 when the annual work schedule expires. The Ontario Government Information Centre at 62 Queen Street, Sioux Lookout provides access to the Internet.

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Sgt. Peter Moon Special to Wawatay News

A Peawanuck man whose allterrain vehicle broke down and caused him to be stranded for two nights near the windswept shore of Hudson Bay was found after Canadian Rangers used an Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources helicopter to find him.

Marcel Metatawabin, 38, left Fort Severn, where he had visited with family members, to travel back to Peawanuck on July 2. He quickly got into difficulties when heavy rains raised the water levels of the many streams and rivers he had to ford.

“I was happy when I saw the helicopter had found me,” said Metatawabin. “I had just eaten my last supply of food. My ATV was broken down, it was barely running, and the river was too deep to get across, because of the rain. I had decided I had to wait it out until I was found when the helicopter found me.”

The search for Metatawabin began when he did not return to Peawanuck as scheduled and friends conducted a brief search for him along the Winisk River and along the shore where the river empties into Hudson Bay.

When they saw no sign of him, the Nishnawbe Aski Police in Fort Severn asked the Canadian Armed Forces for assistance.

Metatawabin did not have a tent or sleeping bag with him and temperatures on the two nights he was on the land dropped to 5 C. “I was wet and cold at night,” he said. He damaged his ATV trying to cross a swollen river and the water stalled his engine. It took him several hours to get the machine to shore and dry it out.

Canadian Rangers in Fort Severn and Peawanuck set up command posts and prepared to send search parties out, using freighter canoes and ATVs, to look for Metatawabin.

But before they could leave, an MNR helicopter landed at Peawanuck airport on Friday to refuel, three days after Metatawabin had left Fort Severn. Matthew Gull, the airport manager and the sergeant commanding the Rangers in Peawanuck, alerted the pilot to the emergency situation and the MNR authorized the use of its helicopter in the search.

Sgt. Gull flew in the helicopter and used his knowledge of hunting camps

and likely travel routes along the Hudson Bay shore to guide the pilot’s search pattern. They quickly found Metatawabin huddled in wet clothing next to a small fire at an abandoned hunting camp.

“He was pleased to see us,” said Sgt. Gull. “He’d just eaten his last food. We picked him up and took him to Peawanuck.

He left his four-wheeler where it was. He’ll go back and get it when freeze-up comes.”

Interested and affected persons and organizations can arrange an appointment with MNRF staff at the MNRF District office to discuss the aerial herbicide project.

For more information, please contact: Tara Pettit, R.P.F. MNRF Sioux Lookout District Office 49 Prince Street, P.O. Box 309 Sioux Lookout, ON P8T 1A6 tel: 807-737-5040 fax: 807-737-1813

Joel Gerry, R.P.F. (agent of Resolute FP Canada Inc.) RW Forestry Inc. 2001 Neebing Avenue Thunder Bay, ON P7E 6S3 tel: 807-475-2757 fax: 807-475-7706

or call toll-free: 1-800-667-1940 and ask to be forwarded to one of the contacts above.

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

INSPECTION Inspection of Approved Aerial Herbicide Spraying English River, Wabigoon and Dryden Forests The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) invites you to inspect the MNRF-approved aerial herbicide spray projects. As part of our ongoing efforts to regenerate and protect Ontario’s forests, selected stands on the English River, Wabigoon and Dryden Forests (see map) will be sprayed with herbicide to control competing vegetation, starting on or about August 1, 2014. The herbicide VisionMax, Pest Control Product registration # 27736 will be used.

The approved project description and project plan for the aerial herbicide project is available for public inspection at the Resolute FP Canada Inc. and Domtar Inc. offices and on the MNRF public website at ontario.ca/forestplans beginning July 1, 2014 until March 31, 2015 when the annual work schedule expires. Ontario Government Information Centres at Toronto and the appropriate communities of the MNRF Region and/or area offices provide Internet access.

Interested and affected persons and organizations can arrange an appointment with MNRF staff at the MNRF District or Area office to discuss the aerial herbicide project.

For more information, please contact: Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry Dryden District Office 479 Government Street, P.O. Box 730 Dryden, ON P8N 2Z4

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

Dryden Forest Don Armit, R.P.F. Area Forester, MNRF tel: 807-223-7526 e-mail: dj.armit@ontario.ca

Wabigoon Forest Derek Johnson, R.P.F. Area Forester, MNRF tel: 807-223-7556 e-mail: derek.johnson@ontario.ca

English River Forest John Coady, R.P.F. Area Forester, MNRF tel: 807-934-2255 e-mail: john.coady@ontario.ca

Jack Harrison, R.P.F. Dryden Forest Management Co. 28A Earl Avenue Dryden, ON P8N 1X5 tel: 807-223-7216 fax: 807-223-7229 e-mail: dfmc@shaw.ca

Erin Woodland SFL Forester Domtar Inc. Dryden Forestlands Office within Dryden Mill tel: 807-223-9852 e-mail: erin.woodland@domtar.com

Joel Gerry Resolute Forest Products RW Forestry 61 Mona Street Thunder Bay, ON P7A 6Y2 tel: 807-475-2757 e-mail: joel.gerry@resolutefp.com

or call toll-free: 1-800-667-1940 and ask to be forwarded to one of the contacts above.

Renseignements en français : Derek Johnson 807 223-7556

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OUR FORESTS WILL BE AROUND FOR A LONG TIME. FORESTS ARE A RENEWABLE RESOURCE. As responsible forest managers, we respect natural growth cycles, protect biodiversity and support prompt regeneration.

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Visit resolutefp.com/sustainability to learn more.

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Treaty, encouraging youth part of Louttit’s legacy Lenny Carpenter Wawatay News

Once Stan Louttit was elected as grand chief of Mushkegowuk Tribal Council, he dove right into his work.

“From the get-go, we were neck-deep in the issues,” recalled Charlie Angus, who was elected as MP of the Timmins-James Bay riding that year in 2004.

“In the fight for clean water in Kashechewan, the issue of schooling in Attawapiskat, housing in Fort Albany, Stan was always there.”

Louttit was a leader that ensured he had direction from the chiefs he represented, according to Mushkegowuk Deputy Grand Chief Leo Friday.

“He’s the kind of person to listen to chief and delegates to see what they want in their communities. And how they wanted to handle that,” Friday said. “I never find he went ahead and tried to do his own thing. He always listened to his fellow chiefs.”

Once the direction was clear, Friday said he would “really go after some of the things for what the chiefs want. He would tackle the way they want to pursue them.”

And when he did, Louttit was a “force,” said Angus.

“Stan was diplomatic but he was forceful. When something was wrong, he called it out,” Angus recalled. “You didn’t dangle with Stan when he was on a mission. He was going to be on the right side of that issue.”

Louttit was instrumental in advocating and bringing awareness to problems in the Mushkegowuk communities, such as the E. Coli situation in Kashechewan and the death of two com-

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munity members in its NAPS detachment, Shannen’s Dream, the housing crisis in Attawapiskat. Anything that needed addressing, Louttit was there.

Louttit understood the need to speak to media in order to draw attention to the problem.

“Although we had called the media to come into the community…he just kept talking away into the camera,” said Friday, who was the Kashechewan chief at the time of its water crisis. “He was very good at it.”

Friday said Louttit had a natural charisma when it came to speaking on camera, and “he was very intellingent and smart.”

“And he was on every television (network) to tell the people what was going on,” Friday said.

It was the way he spoke that made people listen, Angus said.

“When he spoke, he spoke with authority and people listened,” he said. “He had a reputation across the country and everyone knew him.”

And while Louttit could be forceful, he had a lighter side as well. Angus said whenever they were ready to attend a big meeting in Ottawa, Louttit would pick up a guitar and “make up a funny song.”

“He’d put all the people in the room into the song and he’d get us all laughing and singing along,” Angus said. “So he had that real human touch as well as sense of leadership.”

One issue that was important to Louttit was the Shannen’s Dream campaign. Angus said Louttit never missed a conference call and that the youth looked up to Louttit as a “real figure of guidance.”

In what is now a famous story, Shannen Koostachin and other Grade 8 students were told by

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then Indian Affairs minister Chuck Strahl that the construction of a school for Attawapiskat was not a priority for the government.

What was not told was Louttit’s role in helping to influence Koostachin’s role as a young leader.

After Koostachin heard what Strahl said, she stormed out of the meeting.

“Stan stepped up, left the room and he went and got Shannen and said, ‘it doesn’t end like this. You’re a leader, you have to go in and we have to face them down,”’ Angus recalled.

Koostachin pulled herself together, went back to the meeting and told Strahl she and the children would not give up – they would continue the fight.

Angus said he is always struck by that story, how not only did Louttit make sure Koostachin was OK, but to encourage her as a leader.

“That was one of the things I think that made that campaign so successful,” Angus said of Louttit’s influence on the youth.

“The nurturing of these young leaders and telling them they can make a difference and they can be heard.”

Perhaps Louttit’s greatest legacy is his role in educating others and reminding politicians of the meaning of Treaty 9.

Louttit’s grandfather, Andrew Wesley, signed the treaty in Fort Albany back in 1905.

Learning about the treaty and its signing became sort of an obsession for Louttit. Friday recalled Louttit would “always” carry around the book, Treaty No. 9, written by university professor John Long, which chronicles the signing of the treaty.

Louttit developed a presenta-

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tion on the meaning and signing of the treaty, which he called “The Real Agreement as Orally Agreed to.” The presentation is based on oral history, extensive research and consultations.

He has given the presentation across the country in hopes of educating Canadians and First Nations alike about the agreement as understood by the Elders.

There was always one part of the presentation where Louttit would get worked up, recalled Jonathan Solomon, former Kashechewan chief and good friend of Louttit.

One of the treaty commissioners sent to obtain signatures was Duncan Campbell Scott.

He would go on to become the Indian Affairs minister and infamously said he wanted to “get rid of the Indian problem.”

“Whenever he got to that part, he would kick a chair, slam his hand on a table – anything, no matter who he was giving presentation to,” Solomon said with a laugh.

The diaries of the treaty commissioners were discovered and brought to the attention of Louttit in 2010. Some of the entries – particularly those of Ontario commissioner Daniel G. MacMartin – indicated oral promises were made that were not written in the treaty.

Last summer, Mushkegowuk launched a lawsuit against the federal and provincial governments, as well as a two resource companies encroaching on a Taykwa Tagamou member’s trapline, based on the diaries.

When giving his treaty presentation at Mushkegowuk’s treaty conference last August, Louttit referenced a quote made by an Elder who said someone had

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written down what was said during treaty discussions.

“There was someone there that did the writing. So this is what is lost.”

The Elder, James Wesley of Kashechewan, said it says in the Bible that, “the things that were told darkness will be also told in light…it will be told yet one day.”

As Louttit read the quote, he slammed his hand on a table.

“That day is here now!” he exclaimed. “That day is here because look at this – here are the diaries.”

Louttit later said if Mushkegowuk wins the lawsuit, it would mean the governments and resource companies would require the consent of the communities before they could develop.

Louttit’s passion for the treaty will be preserved in an upcoming

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documentary.

For the past few years, acclaimed Aboriginal filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin has been filming the documentary about Treaty 9 and prominently features Louttit. She said the film is complete and will be released in September.

And while his legacy will live on, Louttit’s leadership will be missed by those in the Mushkegowuk communities.

“I don’t know what we’re going to do without him,” Friday said. “We just feel a big loss.”

Stan Wesley, Louttit’s nephew, said his uncle was an ordinary man who did an extraordinary thing.

“What did he do that was extraordinary?” Wesley asked those in attendance at Louttit’s funeral. “He loved you all.”

“Now let us love him.”

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In addition to the Thunder Bay talent, Roy Fiddler and his son Gabe Fiddler travelled down from Muskrat Dam to perform in the concert. “We really appreciated it,�

Thunder said. “That was a long trip but it was really nice to have them come and share their talents.�

Thunder said the open mike also attracted a variety of local talent to the stage. “I had a lot of grateful comments about the evening concert,� Thunder said. “We had a really good turnout.�

The concert was held on June 21 at the Victoria Inn’s Embassy Room, which holds about 500 people. “We had people from Saskatchewan, we had people from Manitoba,� Thunder said,

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