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July 23, 2009

Northern Ontario’s First Nation Voice since 1974

Sewage lagoon will transform community

Hail to the chief

Chris Kornacki Wawatay News

Kasabonika Lake First Nation plans to begin the construction of a new sewage lagoon facility in 2010.

It’s been almost seven years since this project was first proposed to Indian and Northern Affairs Canada back in 2003 and the lagoon is now in the last stages of receiving final approvals and funding.

Ton Knijnenburg, minerals and capital projects co-ordinator for Kasabonika Lake, said projects like the lagoon usually take two years to get off the ground, but the lagoon has faced a number of delays.

The first delay was conducting a study to determine what the best longterm solution for Kasabonika Lake would be.

“We looked at upgrading the existing sewage treatment plant as opposed to building a new lagoon to help us see what the most cost efficient solution for the government would be in the longterm,” Knijnenburg said. “The second delay was in the overall design process due to the lack of capital funding.

“It’s a $10-million project and that’s a lot of money to set aside for just one project. We first had to have those capital dollars identified with an Indian Affairs capital plan before any design procedures could move forward.”

The best long-term solution was to build a lagoon because it will take care of Kasabonika Lake’s sewage needs for the next 20 years. It also allows room for growth in Kasabonika’s population and economy. see LAGOON page 9

Patrick Cheechoo/Special to Wawatay News

Regional Chief Angus Toulouse, centre, was re-elected to serve another three years by the Chiefs in Assembly at the All Ontario Chiefs Conference in Batchewana July 8. Lac La Croix’s Larry Jourdain, left, and Constance Lake’s Bentley Cheechoo also sought the position. Once Jourdain was eliminated from the election, the results came down to a handful of votes.

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2010 ᐊᐦᑭᐊᐧᓂᐠ ᐊᒥ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐁᐧᑎ ᑲᓴᐸᓇᑲᐠ ᒋᒪᑕᓄᑲᑌᓂᐠ ᐅᐡᑭ ᐊᐧᓇᐦᐃᐸᐣ ᑫᐃᔑ ᐊᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᒧᐊᐧᐳ. ᑫᑲᐟ ᓂᓴᐧᓱᔭᑭ ᐊᐱᐣ ᓂᐢᑕᑦ ᑲᑭᑲᑫᐧᒋᒪᑲᓄᐸᐣ ᔓᓂᔭᐃᐧᑭᒪ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ 2003 ᑲᔭᑭᐊᐧᐠ ᒥᑕᐡ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᔕ ᐁᓂᔕᐳᓭᑭᐣ ᐅᓇᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐱᑯ ᔓᓂᔭ ᑲᐅᒋᐸᑭᑎᓂᐨ. ᑕᐧᐣ ᑭᓇᔭᐱᕑᐠ ᐃᔑᓂᑲᓱ ᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᐅᒋ ᓂᑲᓂᔭᓄᑲᑕᐠ ᑭᒋᔭᓄᑭᐃᐧ ᒪᒋᑕᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐃᒪ ᑲᓴᐸᓇᑲᐠ, ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᓂᔓᔭᑭ ᐱᑯ ᐱᒪᓄᑲᑌ ᑲᐅᔑᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐊᐧᓇᐦᐃᐸᐣ, ᐁᑲᐧ ᔕᑯᐨ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ ᑭᓇᓇᑭᐡᑭᑲᑌᐊᐧᐣ ᑲᑭᐅᒋ ᐸᐧᑕᐃᐧᓭᐠ ᒋᔭᓂᒪᑕᓄᑲᑌᐠ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᐃᐁᐧ ᓂᐢᑕᑦ ᑲᑭᐅᒋ ᐸᐧᑕᐃᐧᓭᐠ ᓇᓇᑕᐃᐧᑭᑫᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᑭᑐᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐊᓂᐣ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᑫᐃᔑᒥᓇᐧᔑᐠ ᑭᓀᐡ

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JULY 23, 2009

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Ginoogaming looking at wind power Muddy Water Music Festival Rick Garrick Wawatay News

Energy could be blowing in the wind around Ginoogaming.

The First Nation has taken its first steps towards the renewable energy market.

The community’s Rocky Shore Development Corporation recently signed a memorandum of understanding with Montreal-based Geilectric Inc. to conduct a $42,000 wind monitoring campaign along the shores of Long Lake.

“The wind project is a glorious opportunity for us to secure stable revenue and this will be a godsend to our depressed band

coffers,” said Ginoogaming Chief Celia Echum.

The project involves the construction of a 60-meter wind measurement tower on the community’s powwow grounds, which was completed on May 29, and the collection of wind data over the next year, including wind speed and direction.

“After about a year we will look at the data,” said Adolph Rasevych, Rocky Shore Development Corporation’s president and project developer, explaining the data will be sent via satellite to the Geilectric office in Montreal. “If it looks good, we will move to the next stage.”

Stage two involves advanced

project development and financing and stage three involves the installation of five wind turbines at a cost of $28 million.

Rasevych said the community of about 170 people had already completed preliminary wind studies in 2007, which led to the current study. The community is located on the east side of Long Lake, near the northern end.

The five turbines would produce about 10 MW of energy, which the community plans to sell to the Hydro One grid, located about three kilometres away near Longlac along Highway 11.

to feature Derek Miller Rick Garrick Wawatay News

Juno Award-winning musician Derek Miller will headline Sandy Lake’s Muddy Water Music Festival.

“He will perform on Thursday,” said Roy Kakegamic, coordinator of the Muddy Water Music Festival, which was rescheduled for July 29 to Aug. 2 after the community was hit with an H1N1 flu outbreak.

“He was available earlier for Saturday and Sunday. With the change of dates we got him on Thursday.”

Aaron Peters and Brown Jovi, a rock band from Manitoba, Rodney Brown, a children’s entertainer from Thunder Bay, and Wab Kaniw, a rap/hip hop artist, have also been confirmed

for the five-day music festival.

Kakegamic said Wednesday evening will feature bands from Sandy Lake, Thursday will feature Miller as well as music for youth, Friday will feature Wab Kaniw as well as rock music for teenagers and young adults, Saturday will feature country and country-rock for the older crowd and Sunday will feature gospel music for the Elders.

Rodney Brown will perform children’s songs most days during the afternoons and songs from his last three albums in the evenings.

“We are trying to cater to all the different age groups in the community,” Kakegamic said, “with something for everybody.”

Workshops will also be held during the music festival by many of the artists, with a focus

on the different aspects of playing in a band and writing songs.

“We are trying to get the youth of Sandy Lake to write their own material,” Kakegamic said, noting that the community received funding for the music festival from the Ontario Arts Council. “This is our twentysixth year.”

Bands from the neighbouring communities of Koocheching, Deer Lake, Keewaywin, North Caribou Lake and Sachigo usually attend the music festival.

“It is a smorgasboard of music and different styles,” Kakegamic said, quoting one comment he has heard over the years. “We invite everybody to come.”

Kakegamic said the community usually doubles or triples in population during the music festival.

Wawatay stock photo

The grand scale of the wind turbines is easier to comprehend when scaled beside average sized men.

Wawatay News file photo

Derek Miller performs at Scuttlebutts in 2008 in Thunder Bay. He will be performing at Sandy Lake’s Muddy Water Music Festival July 29 to August 12.

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Telling 110 years of history

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Celebrating her 110th birthday in Pickle Lake the day before, Clara Ash came to Pelican Falls to share her life story in her Native language at the Nishnawbe Aski Nation’s residential school survivors gathering July 15. She is the oldest of six generations currently living in her family. Pictured on the left is Ash’s granddaughter Lizabelle Trout translating her story for the audience.

Youth spread their message in Pelican Falls Steve Feeney Wawatay News

Talking to a large audience of students in a school located in a huge city takes lots of guts.

Most adults don’t even have the courage to overcome their fear to share their stories.

However, Shane Turtle overcame that fear when he presented a slideshow on intergenerational impacts of residential schools in Hamilton last year.

“I felt so nervous that I almost couldn’t do it but I did it anyway,” Turtle said.

Turtle, along with a few students from Dennis Franklin Cromarty (DFC) in Thunder Bay, have been spreading their stories for the past year and a half to many schools across the nation.

Turtle, Correen Kakegamic and Andrea Rae came to Pelican Falls July 15 to show the audience their presentation on intergenerational impacts of residential school.

Nishnawbe Aski Nation hosted a residential school survivors gathering all last week at Pelican Falls.

Hailing from Deer Lake First Nation, Turtle said the presentation was about what impacts the

residential schools had toward the youth.

Kakegamic, who is from Sandy Lake, said that the youth deal with the impacts of residential schools in a negative way.

“The youth cope with these things by violence or substance and alcohol abuse. We deal with it the wrong way,” Kakegamic said.

“We’re hoping that this presentation will not only go towards elders but also the youth so we can hope that they would find their way of coping with all this stress and what they’re going through.”

Kakegamic said she’s experienced abuse in her life.

“At first I would cope with it by drinking and doing drugs and stuff like that. I didn’t know how to cope with the stuff that was going around me,” Kakegamic said. “I didn’t know anything about my culture.”

Sharing her story in Hamilton was tough for Kakegamic but it was the start of a healing journey.

“Once I started getting involved with stuff at my school, I got involved with the right crowd. I kind of drawn away from all that stuff,” Kakegamic

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Andrea Rae, right, speaks to the audience at the residential school healing session at Pelican Falls First Nations High School last week. Rae, and two other Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School students – Shane Turtle, left, and Correen Kakegamic –spoke about the intergenerational impacts of residential school said.

Kakegamic said her teacher Tornette Kakepetum introduced her to a traditional culture and helped create the presentation.

“She’s helping me through it,” Kakegamic said.

Rae shared she doesn’t know much about her culture and grew up around alcohol, violence and abuse.

“I watch people getting beaten right in front of me and I don’t like it,” Rae said. “And today, it still hurt me. I still think about it.”

Rae said that before she met Kakepetum, she used to abuse alcohol pretty badly.

“But then right now, I will get better at this, I will become a better person. I want to be,”

Rae said. “I know people can get through this, most people want to.”

Rae shared her scary experience while abusing alcohol.

“I had an experience where I did stop breathing when abusing alcohol,” Rae said. “I ended up in the hospital and I didn’t know how I got there. When they told me what happened, I

cried. That’s when I realized I don’t want anybody to experience that, what I experienced.”

Turtle said that it’s good to look up to an older role model.

“The person I’ve looked up to always was my grandfather,” Turtle said. “He passed away a while ago but he’s never tasted the taste of alcohol and he’s never done drugs. He was basically the traditional teacher for me.”

Turtle said he would have hung out and listened to his grandfather if he were still alive today.

“He was a good man,” Turtle said.

Kakegamic said they have been to Calgary, Hamilton and Sioux Lookout to give this presentation.

Other students involved included Karla Kakegamic and Michael Goodman.

Kakegamic will be doing her last semester of school this fall at DFC. Turtle graduated from DFC in June and will be going to Confederation College in Thunder Bay this fall. Rae will be doing her grade ten year at DFC this coming school year.

Turtle encourages youth to finish school, get a job and, “be the best that you can be.”

Gordon Pemmican shares his residential school experience Steve Feeney Wawatay News

One day in autumn 1966 while going in town to Sioux Lookout, six-year-old Gordon Pemmican was having fun with his mother doing errands. On his way back home to Lac Seul, they took a detour and arrived at the Pelican Falls residential school.

While browsing the area, Pemmican saw his mom driving away in the cab and realized she wasn’t coming back to get him.

“I didn’t know where we were going. I tried asking my mom where we were going and she didn’t really say,” Pemmican said, in sharing his story at Oski Pawachiken (Renew Your Dreams) at Pelican Falls First Nations High School. “I came around the corner and to my surprise, that’s when I seen her getting back in the cab, started driving back up the hill without me.”

Not knowing what was going to happen, Pemmican said it was difficult going to residen-

tial school and was one of the first traumatic experiences in his life.

“For the first little while, it was really hard because I just wanted to go home,” the Thunder Bay resident said. “I was scared. I didn’t know what I was doing there.”

Seeing other students just as scared, Pemmican said it was a strange place and very different from what he was growing up with.

Going through the school year, Pemmican only cared to see his mom.

Pemmican was picked on a lot because of his voice and bladder problem. He was often harassed by the teachers and students at the school.

“I got picked on a lot in here because a lot of the people knew that I didn’t have a dad or brothers,” Pemmican said.

Pemmican remembers during the night in residential school, kids were taken out of the room. He thought they were given special privileges during the time.

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Gordon Pemmican, left, and his son Elijah talk outside of the Oski Pawachiken residential school healing gathering at Pelican Falls First Nation High School last week.

“I had no clue they were taken to be sexually abused. It wasn’t until I became sexually abused in this place too that I began to understand and know what was going on,” Pemmican said.

Pemmican was often picked on while other students would go home for the holidays. He said his mother couldn’t always pick him up and began to think that he was unloved during those moments.

After he left residential school in 1970, Pemmican struggled with emotions caused by residential school to others.

“For many years, simply because I did not know any other way of getting rid of what I was feeling, I didn’t know what to do because part of the problem was me not telling anybody what happened or how I was feeling,” Pemmican said.

Due to not sharing what he was feeling, Pemmican became depressed, violent and turned to alcohol.

“For 20-30 years of my life, that’s what my living was like,”

Pemmican said. “When I started drinking and abusing alcohol to try to ease the pain, what happened was I ended up taking it out on anybody that was near or around me.

“I hurt people too which I regret because that didn’t make me feel better.”

Today, Pemmican has learned not to punish himself and doesn’t use blame to solve his problems. Pemmican learned while going to a treatment centre that it wasn’t the traumatic experience that hurt him but rather the inability to deal with it.

“After 20-30 years, I realized that I was my own tormentor,” Pemmican said.

“I was the one that was making my life extremely difficult by picking up these negative things.”

Learning the seven principles helped Pemmican cope with the pain.

Today, Pemmican is a father to one daughter and three sons and is married.

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NAN election looming James Thom TO THE POINT

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n less than three weeks, the face of Nishnawbe Aski Nation could be changing.

Grand Chief Stan Beardy is seeking re-election. Two of the three deputy grand chiefs – RoseAnne Archibald and Alvin Fiddler – are also seeking that position. David Neegan is the fourth candidate for grand chief.

That guarantees there will be two new members elected to NAN’s executive council when the chiefs cast their votes Aug. 12 during the Keewaywin Conference at Chapleau Cree.

Deputy Grand Chief Terry Waboose is seeking re-election in his current position as well.

Others seeking the position are Patrick Cheechoo, David Fletcher, Joshua Frogg, Scott Jacob, Mike Koostachin, Les Louttit, Mike Metatawabin and Andrew Reuben.

This is a who’s who list of former chiefs and leaders who’ve made names for themselves in their communities and beyond.

I look forward to hearing from these candidates about their plans for NAN, should they be elected.

There are many issues communities are facing. I have several questions I would love to put to the candidates. I’m sure multi-generational families living in crowded homes with poor sewer and water hook-ups have their own questions too for these candidates.

These candidates don’t have to answer my questions or yours though. All they have to do is answer to the chiefs, given the nature of the election. This year marks the second straight election NAN has promised to implement the universal vote (one vote per eligible voter) yet failed to make it happen.

Where’s the accountability?

There isn’t much for the common man or woman given the nature of the current election system where you can’t control who your leaders are.

At the chief’s meetings in Timmins in March, officials revealed more work, education and consultation at the community level was needed before a universal vote can be implemented.

The $500,000 price tag and one year timeframe for the electoral process would be burdensome.

I don’t doubt it’s likely going to be difficult to facilitate the

election but it doesn’t sound like we’re much closer to a universal vote now than we were in 2003 when the mandate was first introduced to involve the grass-roots community members in decision-making and political process systems of NAN. Six years is a long time to still be in the figuring out the logistics stage.

Consultations have failed to materialize in many communities due to budgetary reasons.

At the Timmins meeting, the chiefs voted to defer the universal election indefinitely and an interim progress report will be presented at the Keewaywin Conference next month. A final report is due by 2011, likely just in time to not have the vote set up for 2012 as that one-year timeframe rears its ugly head once again. I’ve got my fingers crossed every NAN member will get to cast a ballot in 2015.

I’ve got my fingers crossed every NAN member will get to cast a ballot in 2015.

If I was a NAN member eligible to vote when the new universal system is launched, I’d be arguing, yelling and screaming until I was blue in the face at the prospect of waiting at least nine years from when the issue was first raised to implementation.

Yet, I’ve heard very little from the grass-roots on this issue.

No one seems to care.

But that raises another interesting issue. If no one is upset that it’s taking so long, does anyone really care whether it happens at all.

Consequently, if the NAN chiefs and the executive council think this vote is so important to the people, wouldn’t they have found a way to make it work between 2003-2006 as was originally promised.

However, if funding isn’t available to help facilitate the transition from the chief’s-only vote a universal one, maybe it’s time to let go of the dream – or put it on hold indefinitely.

Perhaps NAN can set aside $50,000 annually for 10 years and revisit this issue in the same amount of time.

Or, rather than have this issue continue to rise, maybe it would be more prudent to let it go altogether.

But if they continue to work on the vote, I hope the new executive council has a bit more luck in moving it forward in its three-year term.

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Sunshowers, rainbows and the medicine wheel Richard Wagamese ONE NATIVE LIFE

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he rain is a fine sprinkle through the trees.

Against the sky the sun pokes its head through the thin crust of cloud and there’s a happy conjunction of energy everywhere around you. The land breathes and you can almost feel the huff of it, the great lungs of Mother Earth receiving and releasing. The rain, a mist of jewels in the ebullient slant of the sun.

Standing on the rock on the shore of the lake there’s a rainbow that links the mountains. It touches down on one and extends across the water to ease into the ruff of trees on the other. Glimmering.

Shining. Beneath its layered parabola birds wheel and dive, exuberant in the mix of rain, shadow, sun and the huge bending arch of color.

There’s a certain feel to mornings like this. It’s like the way you remember feeling as a child when you burst through the back door after breakfast, freed for hours and the world exploding into view, fresh and new and filled with wonder.

The child in you celebrates the force of the world proclaiming itself.

If we’re lucky we find things and people that spring open the doors to perception that way. If we’re lucky we encounter folks who guide our eye and teach us to see all over again,

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further, deeper into this reality, this world, this life. When it happens we’re awed by the sudden presence of a world that eluded us, an entity whole and complete and shining like a dream.

That happened for me when I was twenty-seven.

His name was Cliff Thompson. He was a huge bear of a man who laughed easily and loud and he was a spiritual teacher from the Sioux tradition. We were in the Qu’Appelle Valley in Southern Saskatchewan surrounded by sand cliffs, water, sage hills and rangeland as far as the eye could see. Cliff was teaching a group of us about the Native way of seeing the world.

When he spoke you could feel the passion in him. He talked of sun dances and spiritual ceremonies he’d been blessed to attend and take part in. He spoke of elders who’d graced him with teachings and how his life had changed since that time. And he spoke of the land like it was a person, a loved one, family, kin and the brown of him, his skin, his eyes, radiated that affection.

The second night we met we gathered in a darkened room. Candles were burning and there was the sweet smell of burnt sage in the air. In the center of the room Cliff had set up an altar. It was round, the lines of it drawn by hand and painted in what I’d learned were the colors of the four cardinal directions. There were stones on it, roots, a pine cone, eagle feathers, a wooden bowl of water, a swatch of deer hide, antlers, a hand drum and a red

stone ceremonial pipe.

In the hushed lighting of the candles it seemed to breathe.

None of us spoke. All of us were awed by the quiet power of these articles and we sat humbly, respectfully awaiting the teachings.

He sang a song with the drum. Then he prayed, then smudged us all with the sacred smoke from an abalone bowl using a huge eagle wing fan.

We sat again and he closed his eyes and breathed. I could feel the energy of him then, could feel the energy that lived in the room and it unsettled me some, this huge fibrillation of power all around me.

When he began to speak the flicker of the candles lent his words a timeless feel, so that closing my eyes I could imagine myself back a thousand years with that same light dancing on the skin of a teepee, the land hushed around us.

He spoke of the Medicine Wheel. There were no flip charts, handouts, diagrams or long detailed texts. Instead, there was only the power of his words, the energy of his belief, the quiet of that room and the enduring strength of the teachings themselves. This was the way it was told in traditional times, orally without props, each of us discerning what we could and carrying it with us.

When Cliff talked I could feel myself opening up. What he spoke of was relationships.

Within the great wheel of energy that we live in, everything is related. Our journey is many journeys because everything we do affects

something else, someone else.

Learning to travel with dignity, with respect and humility for the creative energy within all things is the heart of the Indian way. That’s what he taught us.

There is life force in everything and because of that everything is alive, animate, moving even if we can’t see it. But we can learn to feel it.

When we learn to feel it, sense it, intuit it, we have come to true awareness of our ongoing state of relationship. That awareness lives beyond the brain. We can only know it by the way we feel it in our spirits, our hearts, and it is only there that teachings live and learning occurs.

The Medicine Wheel is a process of coming to know your feelings. Medicine, a sacred word that means ‘something that joins you to the world’ exists within the realm of feeling and speaks the truth always. Learning to travel with the feelings as our guide is a difficult thing, an arduous journey that few have the courage to make. But knowing and wisdom can only come from making that trek.

My life changed that night. I learned that being Indian was an inside job. It didn’t matter a whit what I looked like on the outside – it was what I carried within me that had weight and consequence. There was no tripped out, New Age, posthippie mystery to the Medicine Wheel. We are all Medicine Wheels when we learn to journey with our feelings.

Simple truths shining in the sun of a new morning – and the world awaits us.

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LETTERS

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Wilfred Chum a ‘great man’ of few words To the editor: Like many people who knew Wilfred Chum, his death is a shock and a sad conclusion to a true gentle man.

I have known Wilfred since 1978 when we travelled back and forth from North Bay to the Aylmer Police College near London.

Jolo to his friends and Wilfred to his associates, he was a man of few words but when he did offer something it was wise to listen.

My favorite story of Wilfred was one morning during our

usual morning inspection.

Wilfred was not the best with iron and inspection required a neat and tidy appearance.

The inspector stood in front of Wilfred and said, ‘Did you sleep in that shirt?’ to which Wilfred replied, ‘Yes, but at attention.’

This response completely broke up the entire group including the inspector. The next day Wilfred had a well ironed shirt–because he also took the job seriously.

We kept in touch over the years and he was always the same: quiet, humorous (you know how those Crees just

sneak up on you) and friendly.

I know that many people eulogize a friend by saying he would give you the shirt off his back–but I wouldn’t take Wilfred’s because he couldn’t iron them.

To the family, the world was a better place with Wilfred/Jolo and now we have only his memories. However they are buried deep within our hearts and now he will be with us everyday.

My sincerest sympathies to his children and family.

Les Couchie North Bay

Learning about codependency Eva M. Kakepetum ON MENTAL HEALTH

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o you feel responsible for others’ needs, wants, happiness, feeling, thoughts?

Do you stay in abusive relationships to keep people loving you?

Does your own life stop because you are so involved with someone else’s?

Is it hard to have fun anymore?

Do you start projects never to finish them?

Are you lacking in self confidence and self esteem and are you overly sensitive to constructive criticism?

Do you judge yourself and everyone else without mercy having unrealistic expectations of them and yourself?

Does everything have to be neat and tidy or you just don’t feel right?

Do you find yourself withdrawing from other people or they from you?

Are you constantly defending or cleaning up after someone else’s mistakes?

Do you constantly worry about another person when they are not with you? Have others check up on them or “rescue” them?

If you answered yes to most of the questions, chances are you are a codependent. No one

plans to become a codependent. This comes from being in dysfunctional relationships (for example: alcoholic homes, residential schools etc…).

This means your happiness depends on other people.

Instead of being responsible to and for yourself you take on the responsibilities of others.

You cannot blame yourself or others as most times people are unaware of their behaviors as codependents and view themselves as “helpers.”

Your right and responsibility is to care for you.

Remember you cannot change anyone else but yourself. Others need to take responsibility for their own actions. When you try doing this for them you are violating their right to self care and perhaps getting the professional help they need.

Below are a few examples of what you can begin to do in order to begin your healthy journey: • Take control of your own life by setting boundaries with others.

• Hang out with safe, healthy individuals. Stay away from controlling individuals.

• Stop judging yourself and others so harshly.

• We are all human beings not Superman or Superwoman.

• Allow yourself and others to make mistakes. How else will we learn and become wiser if we never make a mistake.

• Give yourself the permission to make a mistake and be human.

• Look in the mirror daily

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and tell yourself “I love you, you deserve the best”!

• Seek professional help from a counselor or physician if you are overwhelmed or just can’t get yourself started.

• Celebrate yourself as a unique individual who deserves the best life has to offer by making a special meal or going to your favorite movie.

• Put the energy you have invested in others into yourself.

Like a bank the interest you earn will be so worth it!

• Rent funny movies, go sliding, have fun and be a kid again!

• Write down 10 good things about yourself that have nothing to do with others such as: “I am lovable”, “I am unique” and so on. Put them on the fridge to remind yourself.

These improvements are not selfish: when you are good to yourself you are practicing SELF CARE. When you are good to yourself you are a positive role model for others to follow.

Change in you promotes change in those around you. Without change the dysfunctional cycle will continue through the next generations.

If you find it difficult to begin the change consult a professional counselor or CODA online chat rooms. When things seem to be out of hand say this short prayer to help you through: Remember, you are a miracle and change can happen in your life. You deserve the best life has to offer and don’t settle for any less.

Notice of Aerial Spraying Nighthawk Forest As part of our ongoing efforts to regenerate and protect Ontario’s forests, selected stands in the Nighthawk Forest (see map) will be sprayed with herbicide to control competing vegetation, starting on or about August 1, 2009.

The herbicide Vision, registration number 19899 Pest Control Products Act will be used.

More information about this aerial herbicide project, including specific locations and maps, is available for viewing at the offices of AbitibiBowater and the Ministry of Natural Resources during normal business hours.

Sylvain Dube AbitibiBowater 1 Park Street Iroquois Falls, ON P0K 1E0 Tel.: 705-258-3931, ext. 4452 Nikki Wood, R.P.F. Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources OGC, PO Bag 3090 Hwy. 101 East South Porcupine, ON P0N 1H0 Tel.: 705-235-1339 Please note that collect calls will be accepted.

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Renseignements en français : Sylvain Dube (705) 258-3931, poste 4452.

Notification Notice of Aerial Spraying English River Forest As part of our ongoing efforts to regenerate and protect Ontario’s forests, selected stands in the English River Forest (see map) will be sprayed with herbicide to control competing vegetation, starting on or about: August 15, 2009.

The herbicide Vision, registration number 19899, and VisionMAX, registration number 27736 Pest Control Products Act will be used.

Important to know where food comes from Wendy Trylinski FOCUS ON FOOD

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ood provides a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual connection to the earth. Food is medicine. Food is life and energy.

Indigenous foods in the area where you live were used by the Ancestors and sustained generations of our people. Food was planted and harvested to feed families, villages and nations.

The process of harvesting, drying and use followed the four seasons: spring, summer, fall and winter. Ceremonies were performed to ensure good crops, successful hunts and food

gathering.

The European introduction of market food over traditional food has changed our connection with food and has introduced chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease as well as food allergies and sensitivities to artificial additives and preservatives.

Where does your food come from? Do you know what is in it? How it is packaged and shipped to your community?

Nishnawbe Aski Nation, in partnership with Lakehead University Food Security Network and Thunder Bay District Health Unit, will submit monthly articles focused on increasing awareness and finding solutions to improve local indigenous food-based systems through education, tradition and community development.

We hope you will be inspired

and begin to think about food systems regarding security, sovereignty, access and health and how it applies to all of us.

These monthly articles will include information, recipes, community stories and nutrition-related initiatives from right across the country. We invite you to share your experiences by submitting your stories, pictures, recipes, and programs in your communities that are addressing food security issues. These can include things like breakfast programs, food boxes, gardening and harvesting. Through sharing of our knowledge we can encourage others to create healthy, strong communities.

To get things rolling our next article will focus on wild berries and will feature one of our First Nation communities that is taking the lead on blueberries!

Approximate Location(s) of Treatment - ★ More information about this aerial herbicide project, including specific locations and maps, is available for viewing at the offices of AbitibiBowater Inc. and the Ministry of Natural Resources during normal business hours.

John Coady Area Forester Ministry of Natural Resources Ignace Area Office Corner of Highway 599/17 Ignace, ON P0T 1T0 Tel.: 807-934-2255 Fax: 807-934-2304 Office Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

John Lawson Silvicultural Superintendent AbitibiBowater Inc. 2001 Neebing Avenue Thunder Bay, ON P7E 6S3 Tel.: 807-475-2440 Fax: 807-473-2882 Office Hours: 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Please note that collect calls will be accepted.

Renseignements en français : Sylvie Gilbart au (807) 934-2262.

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Remembering Paul Beardy

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Pawitik Pawitik Store Pays Plat First Nation Band Office Peawanuck General Store Pickle Lake Frontier Foods Pickle Lake Winston Motor Hotel Pikangikum Band Office Band Office Pikangikum Education Authority Pikangikum Northern Store Poplar Hill Northern Store Poplar Hill Poplar Hill Band Office Rainy River First Nation Band Office Red Lake Couchenour Airport Red Lake Indian Friendship Centre Red Lake Regional Heritage Centre Red Lake Video Plus Red Rock First Nation Band Office Rocky Bay First Nation Lar’s Place Sachigo Lake Brian Barkman Sachigo Lake Sachigo Co-op Store Sandy Lake A-Dow-Gamick Sandy Lake David B. Fiddler, Band Office Sandy Lake Northern Store Sandy Lake Education Authority Sandy Lake Special Education Class Saugeen First Nation Sault Ste. Marie Indian Friendship Centre 122 East St. Savant Lake Ennis Grocery Store Seine River First Nation Band Office Shoal Lake #40 First Nation Band Office Sioux Narrows Anishinaabeg of Kabapikotawang Slate Falls Band Office Stanjikoming First Nation Band Office Stratton Kay-nah-chi-wah-nung Historica Summer Beaver Nibinamik Community Store Taykwa Tagamou Nation, New Post First Nation Band Office Timmins Air Creebec Timmins Timmins Indian Friendship Centre 316 Spruce St. S. Timmins Wawatay N.C.S 135 Pine St. S. Wabaskang First Nation Band Office Wabigoon First Nation Community Store Wabigoon Green Achers of Wabigoon 10695 Hwy 17 Wahgoshing First Nation Wapekeka Wapekeka Community Store Washaganish Band Office Wauzhusk Onigum First Nation Band Office Wawakapewin Band Office Weagamow Lake Northern Store Weagamow Lake Onatamakay Community Store Webequie Northern Store Whitedog Kent Store Whitesand First Nation Band Office Wunnimun Lake General Store Wunnimun Lake Ken-Na-Wach Radio Wunnimun Lake Northern Store

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orn in the back bushes amongst some moist moss and spruce beddings near the now settled First Nation community of Garden Hill in northern Manitoba, a young boy is conceived to a single mother.

Paul Joseph Beardy is born Aug. 15, 1930 to Bella Day. As a child Paul lives the traditional life migrating with his new family and mother to different locations according to seasons.

In the summers they travel by canoe using the river ways, shooting rapids and portaging to other lakes and in the winter they would return to their hunting and trapping areas using dog sled.

On one of their summer trips by canoe to northern Ontario, Bella meets a trapper/hunter named Rubin Beardy. Rubin and Bella wed the following summer and returned to Rubin’s trap line situated along the Sheesheep (Duck) Lake and Muheegun (Wolf) Lake area in northern Ontario.

Paul was five when this transformation to a new family took place. In the years to follow Rubin and Bella would have six other children, one dying from a swimming accident when she was about five.

As a young man living off the land Paul would experience his share of mishaps and close calls.

Once, he tells me, the rivers had raised twice their capacity and he and some other experienced canoeists were shooting some rapids by the Wunnimun River way.

They capsized leaving Paul floating under water for what seemed an eternity. His leg had got caught in some rocks underneath. He tried to pry his leg loose and prayed for a second chance. Suddenly, as if someone had come along and yanked his foot loose from the jagged rocks he was free and started to swim up for the clear skies above and upon hitting the top he quickly gasped for air and looked around to see who was nearby. He saw no one.

“I always wondered about

that time in my life and still can’t understand what all happened then,” he would tell me.

As Paul grew into manhood he would meet a young lady from the same trapping area named Eileen Mckoop. They married Aug. 1st, 1954 in a small log cabin along the shores of Michikan Lake (Bearskin Lake).

As Paul likes to tell his story, “My dad told me to go to church with him and there was this lady covered in white rabbit skins waiting at the altar. My father motioned me to go up, and it was only then I realized that I was getting married. I had never seen my new wife before then.”

Prearranged marriages were common then, set up by the parents without notifying their children. So it was off to a new tent for Paul and his new wife and right from the start he would always provide and care for his wife.

This is where I come in. I am the second child of this great man who taught me and took care of me and protected me; a man I admired and respected.

I remember days before my fourth year travelling along the ice being pulled by our dog team. My mom, brother, sister and I in a boat with all our earthly processions and my dad running along beside us mushing the team on, directing them through the bad spots.

One time during the summer while shooting rapids (again) I was admiring the currents of the passing waters when I noticed my sister, who was about one or two, floating by and with one sweep of my father’s powerful hand, he grabbed her and put her back on the boat and then continued steering the boat through the fast flowing rapids.

I was shipped to residential school when I was four and half years of age until I was 12. When I returned it was like nothing had changed and it was off to the trap line to learn and work with my father.

My whole family, which now numbered three brothers and six sisters, always spent our winters on the trap line at Muheegun (Wolf Lake). We would leave late in the fall in October and return a week before Christmas.

It was here I started to see the wisdom and strength of my

father.

“What I teach you now you will always carry with you throughout your life,” he would say. “Doesn’t matter how high you get in the white man’s world, life is the same and this will prepare you for what you are about to face later.”

I always admired the older teachers of those days, their respect of the land and careful ways of conservation, never to abuse the land and the animals therein. When my grandfather and my father approached a beaver house they always knew how many beavers lived there and would always spare a few for the following year.

“You always have to think ahead” he would caution us.

“The animals need life too and we depend on them.”

There was a teaching the Elders always passed on to us about abuse of animals and the land that we all followed and obeyed. If you abuse the animal or birds the spirit of the animal will come back and put its curse on you and you will be crippled or deformed and in some incidences, will never be able to feed off that species of animal again.

So great was their beliefs that when you travel with an Elder or a person from that era they will always caution you about the laws of the land.

During the summers my father commercial fished and our whole family would accompany him.

We fished several lakes from early spring till late fall. In later years my father started to stay within the community becoming a councillor, a position he would hold on and off for 25 years. He also worked with the lands and forest (MNR) cooking for fire fighters, a job he held for 12 seasons. In his formal years he became an honoured Elder for the Pelican Falls All Native High School where he would live on campus for two school seasons. He was also an honorary Elder for Wasaya Airways.

When he was in his late 70s my father still trapped and worked the bush life. In the winter of 2003 while making a snowmobile trail to his trap line some 60 bush miles south of Bearskin Lake he collapsed due to a burst pancreas. see next page

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Despite accident, Beardy continued traditional lifestyle from page 6 He would lie in the bush in -40 degree weather for three days. He would tell us about his ordeal as a second chance for him to bring his family together.

“That first night I knew that my time was coming, the pain was tremendous and I only had enough strength to cover myself with snow to stay warm. The next day I had a bit of strength to get to an island where I tried to make a fire but passed out again from the pain. That night when I awoke, some Elders from years past, came to sit beside me,” he would tell us.

“They took me by the hand and told me to follow them but I told them I still had something I needed to finish. They left and came again the next evening.

They talked with me about my life, telling me I had finished what I was supposed to do. But again I refused knowing that I had one last thing to do before I left with them. Late that night I woke again to hear the sound of machines, ski-doos off in the distance and that was the last I remembered.”

The local Canadian Rangers had been dispatched when my mother had not heard from my dad for a day.

My father lost both his legs from this ordeal and parts of his fingers on both hands. A year later he was out again on his Ski-doo setting his traps and working around the house. He would get out during the winter cutting wood for his grand-children and daughters.

He always commented he would not be like other people who hit a certain age and just sit and wait for death to take them.

In 2007 my father was diagnosed with pancreas and liver cancer. The doctors gave him

six months to live but a year passed and he was making paddles that he would give away to people that were special to him.

The morning of July 24, 2008 will always be the end or the beginning for our family. At approximately 5 a.m. I awoke to dogs barking and the living room of the house feeling extra quiet.

I stumbled onto my father laying by the washroom door.

I knew then that his time had finally come. The last few months had been the most painful for him. The local nurse would visit our house each evening to inject him with morphine to numb his pain.

We never knew what he had left to do but after the funeral we noticed that he had prepared us for his passing. The impact of his death didn’t affect us the way we all had thought it would.

He had left us his strength and his blessing, something he had always hoped he could do earlier in life. Our father was not only our caregiver and head of the family, he was also our guardian, provider and teacher but most of all our entire best friend, someone who we could sit with and just talk. He had a hard life but he always made it seem simple.

He loved life and just being around him made even the dull days feel special. My father always showed life by example, living his life the traditional way, learning through the three “L’s” in life; look, listen and learn and passing these on to his children and grandchildren.

As is custom in our culture, we will celebrate his passing one year to the date, when we will hold a service followed by a feast in his honour and to appease his time with us.

We will always miss him.

The Michikan Education Authority would like to

Congratulate the following graduates: Post secondary Samuel Mekanak,

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Paul Beardy, left, didn’t let losing parts of his fingers and legs stop him from an active lifestyle.

His family will mark the one-year anniversary of his passing with a feast.

Participate Review of Long-Term Management Direction Dryden Forest 2011 - 2021 Forest Management Plan We Need Your Input Do you…

• Have an interest in natural resource management of the Dryden Forest?

• Have an interest in the long-term management strategy for the Dryden Forest?

• Want to take an active role in the planning process and development of the Dryden Forest, Forest Management Plan?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), Dryden Forest Management Company Limited (DFMC) and the Dryden Local Citizens Advisory Committee (LCAC) invite you to review the proposed long-term management direction for the 2011 – 2021 Forest Management Plan (FMP) for the Dryden Forest. The proposed longterm management direction includes the proposed management strategy, which will provide for sustainability of the Dryden Forest by balancing social, economic and environmental considerations, consistent with legislation and policy.

You will have the opportunity to review and comment on: • Levels of access, harvest, renewal and tending activities; • Preferred harvest areas and areas which could be reasonably harvested during the ten-year term of the plan; • The analysis done of alternative corridors for each new primary road for the next twenty years.

Your comments and input will help us develop balanced and well informed decisions as we continue with the planning process.

Any additional background information that you can provide us with would be greatly appreciated.

How to Get Involved A summary of the long-term management direction, which includes a map summarizing proposed harvest areas and primary road corridors, has been prepared and is available for review on request. As well, “value maps”, which provide information such as fish and wildlife habitat features (e.g. lake trout lakes, heronries), parks and protected areas, tourism facilities as well as many other features on the Dryden Forest are available on request.

Comments on the proposed long-term management direction for the Dryden Forest must be received by David Salter of the planning team at the Ministry of Natural Resources Dryden District Office, by August 21, 2009.

The plan will be prepared by the following planning team members: Jack Harrison, R.P.F., Chair/Author, (DFMC) Susan Jarvis, R.P.F., Project Manager, (Forest Concepts) Karen Carpenter, Operations Forester/ Planner, (DFMC) Thom Landry, Steering Committee Co-Chair, (MNR) David Salter, R.P.F., Forest Planning Coordinator, Co-Chair, (MNR) Don Armit, Area Forester, (MNR) Jill Van Walleghem, Area Biologist, (MNR) Clayton Wetelainen, Aboriginal People of Wabigoon Evan Favelle, Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation Jim Kavanaugh, Eagle Lake First Nation Paul Heayn, Local Citizens Advisory Committee The planning team members, the Ministry of Natural Resources District Manager and the LCAC are available during the planning process to meet and discuss your interests and concerns.

A formal issue resolution process, as described in the Forest Management Planning Manual (2004), is available on written request.

A summary of all comments collected throughout the planning process will be made available for public review during the planning process and for the duration of the approved ten-year plan.

Michikan Lake School PRIMARY GRADES

Grade 8 class: Keesha McKoop, Skye Beardy, Sherilyn Gray, Kendall Fiddler, Lawrence Beardy, Desmond Fox, Eliab McKay, Derek Fiddler, and Wendall Kamenawatamin

Senior Kindergarten: Aiden McKay, Lilianna McKay, Nicolas Beardy, and Jeremiah Fiddler

Junior Kindergarten: Liam Fiddler, Nicole Beardy, Justice Bland, Cherish Fox, Keenan Fontaine, Daniel Fiddler, Jacinta Kamenawatamin, Kaydence Hudson, Kayla McKay, Patrick Kamenawatamin, and Tobias Chapman

“We wish you success in continuing education and in accomplishing your goals in life.”

From: Stephan Fiddler, Chairman, Richard Moskotaywenene, Albert Chapman, Randy Fiddler, Josephine Kamenawatamin, Jessie R. McKay, Tilleya Nothing, and Education Director Vincent Ostberg

Stay Involved In addition to this opportunity to review, there are three other formal opportunities for you to be involved, tentatively scheduled as follows: Information Centre: Review of Proposed Operations Information Centre: Review of the Draft Forest Management Plan Inspection of Ministry of Natural Resources-Approved Forest Management Plan

January 13, 2010 June 29, 2010 December 15, 2010

If you would like to be added to a mailing list to be notified of public involvement opportunities, please contact Don Armit at 807-223-7526.

The general information regarding the FMP process as well as the information described in this notice, will be available at the Dryden Forest Management Company Limited office and at the Ministry of Natural Resources office, at the locations shown below, during normal office hours by contacting Don Armit. As well, an appointment with the Ministry of Natural Resources District Manager or with a planning team member during non-business hours may be made by calling 807-223-7526.

For more information, please contact: Don Armit Ministry of Natural Resources, Dryden District Box 730 Dryden, ON P8N 2Z4 Tel.: 807-223-7526

Jack Harrison, R.P.F. Dryden Forest Management Ltd. 28A Earl Ave. Dryden, ON P8N 1X5 Tel.: 807-223-7216

Paul Heayn LCAC 41 Clearwater Crescent Dryden, ON P8N 3H8 Tel.: 807-223-6824

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 (MNR) to send you further information related to this forest management planning exercise. If you have questions about use of your personal information, please contact Thom Landry at 807-223-7522.

Renseignements en français : Sylvie Gilbart, tél. : (807) 934-2262.

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Lac Seul Chief Clifford Bull gives a speech following the Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs Chuck Strahl’s announcement that Lac Seul and Cat Lake First Nations will be receiving new schools. Strahl’s announcement was made during a press conference in Lac Seul at the Frenchmen’s Head Community Centre July 14. The school in Lac Seul is expected to be ready for the 2011 school year and Cat Lake’s for the 2012 school year.

INAC minister announces new schools for Lac Seul, Cat Lake Chris Kornacki Wawatay News

Cat Lake and Lac Seul are among the 10 communities selected by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada to receive new schools.

INAC Minister Chuck Strahl was in Lac Seul at the Frenchmen’s Head Community Centre July 14 to make the formal announcement.

“We are continuing to make strong investments in projects like these two new schools, which will provide lasting, sustainable benefits for First Nation communities,” said Strahl. “We recognize the talent and potential in First Nations youth and believe that investing in a quality education is the key to success.”

Lac Seul’s new school will be a kindergarten to Grade 8 facility, which will hold approximately 112 students. Construction of this new school is expected to begin later this year and will be ready for the start of the 2011 school year.

The Cat Lake facility will also be a kindergarten to Grade 8 school and will hold approximately 138 students. Construc-

tion will begin in 2011 and is expected to be ready for the beginning of the 2012 school year.

Lac Seul Chief Clifford Bull made a speech at the press conference following Strahl’s announcement.

“This year marks the 135th anniversary of Lac Seul’s adhesion to Treaty 3, which established our people’s relationship with the government of Canada,” Bull said. “It is clear that our ancestors foresaw the importance of education for our people and obliged Canada to make a commitment to us in the form of schools. I am proud of our ancestors’ foresight in this regard.

“Today I am very happy to report Canada is acknowledging its Treaty obligations by supporting our new school here in Frenchmen’s Head [Lac Seul].”

Bull said the school will mean nothing but good things for the students.

“This school will offer our children a full range of new opportunities for their future,” he said. “This new school will improve the educational outcomes for our community’s students and represents hope for

our young people, who will one day be our leaders.”

Added Greg Rickford, MP for the Kenora region: “Our government recognizes the importance of education in First Nation communities and we are delivering on our promises to improve the lives of Aboriginal Canadians.”

Funding for the schools falls under the Canadian government’s $33-billion Building Canada Plan.

The plan was announced in 2007 and its goals are to contribute funding for local projects that will help improve the quality of life in communities.

The Building Canada Plan tries to ensure Canadians have better access to safer roads, improved cultural infrastructure and clearer air and water to help keep families healthy.

These new schools were made possible through an extension of the Building Canada Plan’s Gas Tax Fund (GTF).

The GTF extension for this year is allocating over $102 million over a three-year period, beginning in 2009-2010 and ending in 2011-2012, specifically for developing and improving First Nations education facilities.

Kashechewan First Nation Election 2009

Recreationalactivitiesnearhydrostationsanddamsaredangerous Stay clear of hydroelectric stations, dams, shorelines and surrounding waterways. Hydro stations operate year-round and affect water flows and ice conditions. Water that looks safe can become treacherous in minutes. Ice that forms near, or even several kilometres away can be dangerous. If you see water levels changing, move a safe distance away immediately. Obey all warnings, signs, booms and buoys or you could face charges and fines of up to $2000.

Visit opg.com to receive your free water safety DVD or children’s computer game.

For all those living off reserve and wishing to vote in the upcoming election, mail-in ballots are available. Please provide a fax number so that a Voters Declaration and Nominee ballots can be sent to you. The mail-in ballots must be received by Friday, July 31, 2009. Ballots are also available at Mushkegowuk Council and the Friendship Centers in Moosonee, Moose Factory, Cochrane, Kapuskasing, Timmins and North Bay.

Please call: Electoral Officer Josephine Williams 705 275-4440 ext. 224 Deputy Electoral Officer Jennifer Wynne 705 275-4440 ext. 263 for further information.

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Lagoon will lead to more development from page 1 “With a lagoon there’s little to no maintenance required because there are no mechanical parts,” Knijnenburg said.

“The existing sewage facility has lots of mechanical problems because it’s a mechanical system.

“More then a few times

the system we have now has flooded.”

Knijnenburg said in 2006 Kasabonika’s water treatment plant was upgraded. The plant was already overflowing from time to time, but now with the increase in the community’s water flow the flooding is more frequent.

Knijnenburg said by the end

of August, Indian Affairs will be releasing the final budget for the lagoon project and materials for building will mobilize over the winter roads in January or February of 2010 so construction can begin in the spring.

“The capital dollars have been identified by Indian Affairs so we’re just waiting for the final Effective Project Approval

Funeral service held for Wilfred Chum

(EPA), which will release the budget.”

In order to get the final EPA Kasabonika Lake is waiting for a land use permit from the Ministry of Natural Resources (the lagoon is located off the reserve) and a final environmental screening of the land from Indian Affairs.

“The permit and screening

should be done by the end of July so by late August we will get our EPA,” Knijnenburg said.

Knijnenburg added they are excited to get the new sewage facility because there are plans to build a new sub-division, upgrade the hydro plant and hotel facility and also to build a new community store. These will all help grow Kasabonika

Lake’s economy and living standards by bringing more money into the community.

“Once the lagoon is built we can upgrade our hydro which is currently at capacity, then there will be no more impediments to our economic growth and going forward with the community,” Knijnenburg said.

Notification Notice of Aerial Spraying Armstrong Forest As part of our ongoing efforts to regenerate and protect Ontario’s forests, selected stands in the Armstrong Forest (see map) will be sprayed with herbicide to control competing vegetation, starting on or about September 1, 2009.

The herbicide Vision Max, registration number 27736 under the Pest Control Products Act will be used.

photo courtesy of NAPS

Dozens of police officers from services around the province attended the funeral service of Nishnawbe Aski Police Service Sr. Const. Wilfred Chum in Moose Factory July 18. Chum died last month in a boating accident, just months before he planned to retire.

NAPS launching bicycle patrols

More information about these aerial herbicide projects, including specific locations and maps, is available for viewing during normal business hours at the offices of the GreenForest Management Inc. and the Ministry of Natural Resources as shown below.

Ministry of Natural Resources Contact Bertha Strickland, R.P.F. Ministry of Natural Resources Thunder Bay District Office 435 S. James Street, Suite B001 Thunder Bay, ON P7E 6S8 Tel: 807-475-1147

Forestry Company Contact Ryan Murphy, R.P.F. GreenForest Management Inc. P.O. Box 22004 470 Hodder Ave. Thunder Bay, ON P7A 8A8 Tel: 807-343-6471

Please note that collect calls will be accepted.

Notification Notice of Aerial Spraying Romeo Malette Forest As part of our ongoing efforts to regenerate and protect Ontario’s forests, selected stands in the Romeo Malette Forest (see map) will be sprayed with herbicide to control competing vegetation, starting on or about: August 5, 2009.

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Nishnawbe Aski Police Service is planning to run bicycle patrols in many of its communities this summer. Six NAPS officers recently took the bikes for a spin around the new NAPS headquarters in Thunder Bay during a training session where safety and other issues were stressed.

Bike patrols will allow the officers to be more stealthly in arriving at incidents since residents can learn to identify vehicles, including the NAPS trucks, by their sounds.

The herbicide Forza, registration number 26401, Pest Control Products Act will be used.

More information about this aerial herbicide project, including specific locations and maps, is available for viewing at the offices of Tembec, Timmins and the Ministry of Natural Resources during normal business hours.

Mac Kilgour Ministry of Natural Resources Ontario Government Complex P.O. Bag 3090 South Porcupine, ON P0N 1H0 Tel.: 705-235-1320 Fax: 705-235-1377 E-mail: mac.kilgour@ontario.ca Lino Morandin Tembec Industries Inc. P.O. Box 1100 Timmins, ON P4N 7H9 Tel.: 705-360-7544 Fax: 705-360-1279 E-mail: lino.morandin@tembec.com Please note that collect calls will be accepted.

Renseignements en français : Lino Morandin (705) 360-7544.

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Jr. Canadian Rangers meet near Geraldton Rick Garrick Wawatay News

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Junior Canadian Ranger Ariana Wesley takes aim at Camp Loon’s rifle shooting range during training exercises held July 12 to 26 by the Canadian Rangers near Geraldton. About 200 JCRs from across Nishnawbe Aski Nation took part in the annual exercise.

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“Wastay.”

That was how Cody Sutherland, a Junior Canadian Ranger from Moose Factory, described his experience at Camp Loon early one evening in mid-July.

Sutherland said Wastay means good in Cree; Camp Loon is a two-week advanced training camp operated by the Canadian Rangers of the Canadian Forces for the past 10 years to encourage youth to become active in and learn safety rules in a number of outdoor activities, such as riding ATVs, canoeing, boating, off-road biking, archery, shooting rifles, as well as a number of crafts and personal lifestyles.

“It’s pretty fun,” Sutherland said on the evening of July 15 as about 90 JCRs in the first week’s camp were playing organized volleyball or soccer games, sitting around the sacred fire, joking around with new friends or old, or hanging out in the canteen watching movies, playing games or munching snacks.

“The ATV: the riding, the obstacle course, going up and down the hills.”

Sutherland also enjoyed the archery venue, a sport which he once did at school.

“It was fun shooting the bow and arrows,” he said. “One was close (to the bullseye). One more inch and I would have got it. I got a high of seven.”

Ross Trapper, another JCR from Moose Factory, yelled out that he once got an even higher score.

“I got a score of 13,” Trapper said, explaining he got the high score two years ago when

he first attended Camp Loon.

“I had some fun canoeing – the canoe flipped a couple of times.”

The Canadian Rangers focus on safety throughout the camp: the JCRs wear lifejackets and learn canoe safety, such as how to throw a lifeline, how to paddle properly, before getting into a canoe; they learn how to operate an ATV, the different parts of the machine, how to get it going if it stalls, and how to drive safely along trails and over obstacles; and they learn safety, discipline, health and marksmanship while handling rifles and bows and arrows on the shooting range.

Jessica Visitor, a JCR from Constance Lake, pulled in the largest fish of the year while on the boat trip out onto the larger of two lakes near Camp Loon.

“It was two pounds, 15 ounces,” said Visitor. “It was awesome.”

Desirea Taylor, another JCR from Constance Lake, yelled out that she came close to reeling in a huge fish.

“I almost caught a big fish too but I got that (Canadian Ranger) to pull it in and he lost it,” Taylor said. “This is my second year. You get to meet more people, you get to do a lot of different activities and it’s fun.”

While this year’s camp, which ran from July 12-26, has almost twice as many JCRs as last year’s, with two separate week-long camps and about 200 JCRs, Taylor suggested the camp should be lengthened as well.

“I say we should make it longer, like a month,” Taylor said.

“It’s so boring on my rez.”

Daniel Wesley Jr., a Canadian Ranger who was a JCR four years ago, said it is important for youth to meet and socialize with youth from other communities.

“When I was a JCR, I used to look up to the Canadian Rangers,” Wesley said. “Seeing the Master Corporal, seeing how he took charge of the group. I figured I could do that.”

Wesley now helps teach the JCRs about canoe safety and handling at Camp Loon.

Angus Echum, a JCR from Moose Factory, said he enjoyed meeting new people at the camp as well as learning more about canoeing.

“I like canoeing, especially flipping,” Echum said. “I met a lot of new friends, new people from all over.”

Wiliie Echum, a JCR also from Moose Factory, enjoyed the archery venue.

“I liked the thrill of shooting,” Willie Echum said.

The archery and rifle shooting ranges were set up separately in a sand dune area where five JCRs could shoot at a time on each range.

In addition to the ranges, the JCRs also had the opportunity to shoot at a number of different game targets set up along nearby trails.

Dougie Taylor, a Canadian Ranger from Constance Lake, said it is important the JCRs respect each other.

“Help each other out, meet new friends and have a good time,” Taylor said, explaining his community sent 24 JCRs and 12 adults to the camp. see CAMP page 11

Notification Notice of Aerial Spraying Black Sturgeon Forest, Dog River-Matawin Forest and Spruce River Forest As part of our ongoing efforts to regenerate and protect Ontario’s forests, selected stands in the Black Sturgeon Forest, Dog River-Matawin Forest and Spruce River Forest (see map) will be sprayed with herbicide to control competing vegetation, starting on or about August 1, 2009.

The following herbicides registered under the Pest Control Products Act will be used: Vision (PCP # 19899); Vision Max (PCP # 27736).

More information about these aerial herbicide projects, including specific locations and maps, is available for viewing during normal business hours at the offices of the Sustainable Forest License holders Bowater Canadian Forest Products Inc. and AbitibiConsolidated Company of Canada and the Ministry of Natural Resources as shown below.

Ministry of Natural Resources Contacts Thunder Bay District Peter Wiltsey, R.P.F. Dog River-Matawin Forest 435 S. James Street Suite B001 Thunder Bay, ON P7E 6S8 Tel.: 807-475-1145 Vishnu Kowlessar, R.P.F. Spruce River Forest 435 S. James Street Suite B001 Thunder Bay, ON P7E 6S8 Tel.: 807-475-1163 Nipigon District Ben Bartlett, R.P.F. Black Sturgeon Forest P.O. Box 970 Nipigon, ON P0T 2J0 Tel.: 807-887-5024

Partners in Powerful Communities Hydro One is proud to make a donation to Big Grassy First Nation toward the outdoor rink project. Active, happy children with access to safe and appropriate facilities are the foundation of a healthy community.

As your electricity delivery company, we believe that part of our role is investing in the well-being of the community. Our PowerPlay program offers grants for projects for community centres, indoor or outdoor ice rinks, playgrounds, splash pads and sports fields to support children’s community sports and active play.

Forestry Company Contact John Lawson, R.P.F. Black Sturgeon Forest Dog River-Matawin Forest and Spruce River Forest AbitibiBowater Inc. 2001 Neebing Avenue Thunder Bay, ON P7E 6S3 Tel.: 807-475-2440 Please note that collect calls will be accepted.

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Camp Loon improves annually from page 10 Stuart Quachegan and Jarius Sutherland, two JCRs from Moose Factory who had previously been to Camp Loon, said the camp is getting better each year.

“I’m having a blast,” Quachegan said.

Paul Mattinas, a Canadian Ranger from Attawapiskat since 1994, said it is important to hold Camp Loon because it gives the JCRs something to look forward to during the summer.

“I helped set up the camp,” Mattinas said, explaining that 13 JCRs attended the camp from his community. “I got here a week before the JCRs came in.”

Joe Lazarus, a Canadian Ranger from Kashechewan, said the JCRs have everything they could want at the camp.

“I’m having a blast.”

– Stuart Quachegan

“The kids are spoiled here,” Lazarus said, explaining that 13 JCRs also attended the camp from his community. “They have everything they want. When we were growing up, there were just Klik cans for toys. Now the kids have everything.”

Lazarus said the JCRs are well-fed and well treated at the camp, but they are expected to get up early each morning for a full day of activities.

Each day starts at 7 a.m., when breakfast is served, first to the JCRs, then the JCRs are transported to their daily activity site for the day until about 4 p.m., when they return to camp and prepare for supper, which is served at 5 p.m., again first to the JCRs. The JCRs are served a box lunch at their sites at noon, and they have organized volleyball and soccer games each evening after supper.

They then have free time before going to bed at 10:30 promptly.

“You have to get up early in the morning, so they go to bed right away,” Lazarus said.

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ABOVE: Junior Canadian Ranger Raphael Sutherland hit two bullseyes at Camp Loon’s archery range during training exercises held July 12 to 26 by the Canadian Rangers near Geraldton. About 200 JCRs from across Nishnawbe Aski Nation took part in the annual exercise.

BELOW: Junior Canadian Ranger Ardel Taylor rides along a bush trail during an off-road training exercise at Camp Loon. About 200 JCRs from across Nishnawbe Aski Nation took part in the annual exercise, which was held July 12 to 26 by the Canadian Rangers near Geraldton.

Apply Today!

Job Readiness Skills Training Program sponsored by Equay-wuk (Women’s Group)

Equay-wuk is offering a 23 week Job Readiness Skills Training Program starting August 24, 2009 to January 29, 2010.

COURSE OUTLINE: PARTICIPANT ELIGIBILITY: *Aboriginal with Status (SLKT District) -Employment Skills -Personal Life Management Skills *Collecting EI -Computer Skills *19 years or older -Electronic Communication *Unemployed -Office Procedures *Aboriginal with Status Treaty #3 -Job Shadows *Aboriginal with Status Treaty #3 Collecting EI -Job Placement *Aboriginal meeting OGI criteria

Application Deadline: 3:00pm August 21, 2009 Apply to:

The Hiring Committee Job Readiness Skills Training Program Equay-wuk (Women’s Group) 16 Fourth Avenue P.O. Box 1781 Sioux Lookout ON P8T 1C4 Fax: (807) 737-2699

2009-2 School 010 Year

Applications are invited for the following...

Teaching Position 2009-2010 School Year Sioux Mountain Public School – Sioux Lookout – Michael Boos, Principal, Box 969, Sioux Lookout, ON P8T 1B5 Tel: 807-737 3480 Fax: 807-737 3486 1.0 Primary/Junior/Intermediate Teacher – Native as a Second Language and prep coverage teacher. Native as a Second Language qualifications preferred. Ontario Teacher Qualifications required. Effective immediately. File #T-0809-94 Ontario Teacher Certification with qualifications in the appropriate divisions and special qualifications where the position warrants are required.

Please send your resume, cover letter referencing the file number, a copy of your Ontario College of Teachers Certificate, and the names of three professional references (one of whom must be a recent/ current immediate supervisor with authorization to be contacted under the terms of the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act), (recent graduates should include university transcripts and practicum teaching reports) by noon, Tuesday, July 28th, 2009, to the principal.

Confidential information provided by applicants will be used for the purposes of this competition only and will be protected in accordance with the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. We thank all applicants; however, only those to be interviewed will be contacted.

This board is an equal opportunity employer.

Keewatin-Patricia District School Board www.kpdsb.on.ca Larry Hope, Director of Education

Dave Penney, Board Chair

Employment Opportunity

Student Recruiter/ Support Officer Location: Sioux Lookout

The Student Recruiter/Support Officer is responsible for recruiting and registering students interested in earning a diploma in Early Childhood Education. This position requires routine travel to northern communities within the SLAAMB district.

The Student Recruiter/ Support Officer will ensure the students receive the support, motivation and assistance required to graduate with a diploma in Early Childhood Education. (Students are located in several northern communities).

QUALIFICATIONS: • Diploma in Early Childhood Education preferred or Teaching Experience • Excellent oral and written communication skills • Ability to provide follow-up and keep track of stats • Able to show initiative and time management • Proficient in planning and scheduling • Ability to motivate and mobilize students • Flexible and supportive to provide for student’s individual needs • Ability to communication in Ojibway/Oji-Cree is an asset • Awareness and knowledge of the special and unique needs of the people in the area DUTIES: • Routine travel to northern communities to visit with students enrolled in the program and to promote the ECE program • Weekly follow-up with students on scheduling and progression of assignments (via electronic media and telephone) • Provide support to students with assignments • Routine liaison with the college on students academic performance and status of assignments • Completion of required paper work for registering students each semester • Distribution of course packages to students in remote Northern Communities

Closing Date: 3:00 pm August 7, 2009 Apply to:

Equay-wuk (Women’s Group) 16 Fourth Avenue, P.O. Box 1781 Sioux Lookout ON P8T 1C4 Phone: (807) 737-2214 Fax: (807) 737-2699 Email: equaywuk@bellnet.ca

Only those applicants to be interviewed will be contacted

CONSTANCE LAKE FIRST NATION P.0.Box 4000 CALSTOCK, Ontario P0L-1B0 Telephone (705) 463-4511 Fax (705) 463-2222 General e-mail: clbo@clfn.on.ca Website: www.clfn.on.ca

JOB POSTING

REGISTERED NURSE FULL-TIME

OVERVIEW: The Community Health Nurse will implement a Community Health Program for Constance Lake First Nation comprised of activities such as Maternal and Child Health, Control of Communicable Diseases, Home and Community Care and support the chronically sick and elderly.

For full employment posting, email: bonnie.john-george@clfn.on.ca Please submit your resume, cover letter and 3 references either by mail, fax, email or in-person to: A/Health Administrator Bonnie John-George Jane Mattinas Health Centre Constance Lake First Nation P.0.Box 4000 CALSTOCK, Ontario P0L 1B0 Fax: 705-463-2400 Email: bonnie.john-george@clfn.on.ca DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: Friday, July 31, 2009 at 4:00pm May be extended until a suitable applicant is selected.

Wawatay News

KO Public Works invites applications for the position of Operations & Maintenance Technologist, located in Balmertown, Ontario.

RESPONSIBILITIES : Responsible for acting as a resource and advisor to KO communities with regard to all matters relating to the O & M of community infrastructure.

QUALIFICATIONS : Current member or eligibility for membership in OACETT. Secondary education, Community College or University graduate in the engineering technology/ technician related fields or an associated specialty.

Experience in the theory & practice of O & M of public infrastructure, including community buildings, water & sewer systems, landfill/refuse sites, roads/bridges and other community services.

All applications will be considered, but preferences will be for a minimum of five years related experience.

Please submit cover letter, resume and three references in writing by August 7, 2009 to: Public Works Manager Keewaytinook Okimakanak Box 340, 8 Mine Road Balmertown, Ontario P0V 1C0 Email: petercampbell@knet.ca Copies of job description available on request and only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

Job Opportunity

PICKLE LAKE SITE MANAGER Since 1935 Morgan Fuels as serviced Northwestern Ontario in the bulk petroleum business. Morgan Fuels an Esso branded bulk petroleum reseller, with offices in Sioux Lookout and Pickle Lake, has an employment opportunity for a Pickle Lake Site Manager.

The position is accountable for providing direction, coordination, and leadership for the efficient operation of the Pickle Lake Site in operational areas.

The ideal candidate will poses the skill sets to effectively interact with personnel at multiple levels of the organization and externally; knowledge of petroleum handling and related legislation; inventory management; superior time management skills including the ability to manage multiple issues concurrently; excellent employee relations and mentoring skills. Qualifications for the position include but are not limited to a DZ drivers licence, minimum 3 years experience in a trucking/petroleum operation, ability to achieve TSSA certifications. The successful candidate will be required to submit a Criminal Records Check. A full job description is available upon request.

If you feel your skills and qualifications meet the above requirements, please send your resume to: Alan Howie, Operations Manager Morgan Fuels, Box 1029 Sioux Lookout, ON, P8T 1B3 (807) 737-2617 fax alhowie@morganfuels.ca The submission deadline for receiving applications will be Monday July 31th, 2009 at 4pm. We thank all applicants for their interest; however only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

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JOB ADVERTISEMENT INTERNAL/EXTERNAL POSTING

OPERATIONS & MAINTENANCE TECHNOLOGIST Keewaytinook Okimakanak (Northern Chiefs Council) provides technical services to First Nations communities in remote North-western Ontario.

JULY 23, 2009

OFFENDER TRANSPORTER Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service requires one fulltime, permanent Offender Transporter. The position is located out of the Northwest Regional Office in Sioux Lookout, ON. The salary range for the position is $40,154 - $41,529 annually, plus pension and benefits. The employee will become a member of the Public Service Alliance of Canada Civilian Unit.

The position will consist of searching, guarding, controlling and transporting persons in custody.

The successful applicant must pass all Use of Force training provided by the Service.

REQUIREMENTS: • Grade twelve education or equivalent • Ontario Class ‘G’ Driver’s Licence with no restrictions • By physically fit • Valid first aid/CPR certificate • Able to travel extensively on short notice • Ability to speak Ojibway, Cree or OjiCree an asset • Must pass a full background check Applicants may submit a resume to the address below. Posting closes on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 at 16:00 EST. No late applicants accepted.

NAPS Headquarters 309 Court Street South, Thunder Bay, ON P7B 2Y1 (807) 623-2161 ext. 222 FAX (807) 623-2252 Attn: Jeanet Pierce Manager of Human Resources jpierce@naps.ca www.naps.ca

NECHEE FRIENDSHIP CENTRE Requires a

FINANCE OFFICER

( Full-time, 40 hours per week, Monday – Friday ) The Nechee Friendship Centre requires a highly skilled individual with the demonstrated ability to work independently as well as part of an administrative team. The Finance Officer is responsible to the policies and directions as determined by the Board of Directors of the Friendship Centre and under the direct daily supervision of the Executive Director.

The Nechee Friendship Centre is a non-profit Aboriginal organization that provides services to Aboriginal persons living in the City of Kenora. It delivers a range of social service, health, justice, and education programs that are funded by various federal and provincial government departments.

DESCRIPTION • Process daily, weekly & monthly transactions including payments, bank deposits & reconciliations, ensuring all expenditure are properly processed & authorized prior to payment.

• Establish & maintain accurate books of record including; general ledger, accounts payable, account receivable, payroll transactions & programme reports.

• Prepare & analyze, in relation to budgets, monthly, quarterly & annual fiscal reports including: income statements, balance sheets, & reports on special fund expenditures.

• Ensure all financial accounts, records & reports are audit-ready at the end of fiscal year.

QUALIFICATIONS • Post secondary degree or diploma in accounting, or relevant accredited training combined with several years of related work experience; • Minimum of 3-5 years recent work experience in accounting; • Enrolment to obtain an accounting designation (i.e. CGA, CMA, CA) is an asset; • Superior computer literacy is essential including knowledge of computerized book-keeping; • Knowledge of Aboriginal community, culture, and practices; • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal; • Proven time management skills, and ability to manage multiple projects and priorities; • Highly organized and able to work with minimal supervision to meet deadlines; • Valid driver’s license and access to a reliable vehicle; • Positive attitude & capacity to act as a healthy lifestyle role model ; • A Criminal Reference Check and Vulnerable Sector Check are requirements for employment.

DEADLINE: Thursday, July 30 @ 4:30 pm Please mail or drop off resume, with cover letter, to:

Nechee Friendship Centre P.O. Box 241 1301 Railway Street Kenora, ON P9N 3X3

We thank all applicants however, only those deemed qualified, will be contacted for an interview.

The Chief and Council of Mishkeegogamang Ojibway Nation are accepting applications for the

POSITION OF BAND MANAGER

The Chief and Council of Mishkeegogamang Ojibway Nation are accepting applications for the position of ‘Band Manager’.

PURPOSE OF THE POSITION The Band Manager is responsible for the management, administration and delivery of all Mishkeegogamang Ojibway Nation programs and services in order to ensure that the needs of Band Members are met in a reasonable, effective and efficient manner.

SCOPE Reporting to the Chief and Council, the Band Manager will oversee all operations of the Mishkeegogamang Ojibway Nation. The Band Manager will ensure that all operations are conducted in a respectful and responsible way, ensuring that all decisions and actions meet the relevant legislation, policies and procedures. He/she is responsible for all financial transactions, programs and services created and implemented by the Band Council, and all staff.

The Band Manager also acts as liaison between other government agencies and departments, private industry business and any other individuals, groups or agencies operating in the community.

The Band Manager must ensure that anyone conducting business or programs in the community are responsible to the Band, any and all legislation, policies and procedures, and Band and community members. The Band Manager must provide records and documents to the relevant governments and agencies, when requested. He/she must also ensure that all business and operations are conducted in a responsible, confidential and ethical way.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Knowledge: The incumbent must have proficient knowledge in the following areas: financial management and generally accepted accounting principles; budgeting; human resources management; program management and delivery; program evaluation; an understanding of relevant legislation, policies and procedures including the Indian Act; an understanding of the northern cultural and political environment; an understanding of the roles and responsibilities of Boards Skills The incumbent must demonstrate the following skills: team leadership and management skills; financial management skills; supervisory and human resource management skills; contract management skills; strategic planning skills; analytical and problem solving skills; decision making skills; negotiations skills; effective verbal and listening communications skills; computer skills including the ability to operate spreadsheets and word processing programs at a highly proficient level; effective written communications; skills including the ability to prepare reports, policies and motions; effective public relations and public speaking skills; research and program development skills; stress management skills; time management skills Personal Attributes The incumbent must maintain strict confidentiality in performing the duties of Band Manager. The incumbent must also demonstrate the following personal attributes: maintain standards of conduct; be respectful; possess cultural awareness and sensitivity; be flexible; demonstrate a dedication to the position and the community; demonstrate sound work ethics; be consistent and fair.

FOR A DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION OF ‘BAND MANAGER’, PLEASE CONTACT THE MISHKEEGOGAMANG ADMINISTRATION OFFICE AT 1-877-528-2414 Please submit your application before 4:00pm (CST) August 10th, 2009 to the attention of:

CHIEF & COUNCIL

Mishkeegogamang Ojibway Nation General Delivery Osnaburgh, Ontario P0V 2H0 Fax: (807) 928-2077 We thank all those who apply, however, only those seriously considered will be contacted.

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Learning canoe rescue a valuable skill Rick Garrick Wawatay News

Canoe rescue is a very simple skill to learn.

“One of the main things is to teach our crews to get swimmers back out of the water as soon as possible if they are in freezing water,” said Sgt. Jim Doherty of the 3rd Canadian Ranger Patrol Group. “They are told to stay with the canoe with their paddles.”

When a rescue canoe pulls alongside, the nearest swimmer pulls their end to the stern of the rescue canoe.

The two swimmers then grab hold of each end of the rescue canoe and swing their feet/ ankles up over the gunnels to stabilize the canoe and bring the centre of balance down lower.

“While they are still there, I lean forward to pull the front of the canoe in,” Doherty said. “I lift it out of the water to break the suction. When it is halfway onto the canoe, I turn it over and put it back on the water.”

Once the canoe is back on the water, one of the swimmers, usually the stronger of the two, swims to the centre of the canoe while the other swimmer continues to stabilize the rescue canoe in the same fashion as before and the rescue canoe-

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A Canadian Ranger pulls the canoe out of the water while another Canadian Ranger and a Junior Canadian Ranger anchor the canoe at both bow and stern. ists hold the gunnel as low as possible to allow the swimmer

to climb into the canoe using a kicking motion while swinging

their legs over the gunnel.

“After the first swimmer is in

the canoe, we tell them to stay as low as possible while we tip

the gunnel as low as possible for the other swimmer,” Doherty said.

“We tell the person in the canoe to assist the other person to climb in, to pull on the back of the life jacket. Most life jackets have a strap to pull up on.”

The rescue canoeists then hold the canoe steady while the rescued canoeists climb back to their canoeing positions.

“If it is a canoe trip, we ask the rescued canoeists to go to the shore as soon as possible to dry off,” Doherty said.

For canoes that are submerged but not capsized, the correct strategy is to sit as low as possible and use both hands to dog paddle back to the nearest shore. Once in the shallows, pull the canoe to the shore and drain it.

Doherty said it is best to travel with a set of clothing wrapped in a waterproof bag or triple-bagged with garbage bags.

“It doesn’t take long to break into hypothermia,” Doherty said. “In this temperature, you could be hypothermic in an hour if you don’t move around.”

Doherty said cotton is the worst insulator when wet, while fleece or wool will keep you warm even when wet, especially when most of the water is wrung out.

Cellular phone service launched in Keewaywin Chris Kornacki Wawatay News

July 15 marked the launch of cellular phone service in Keewaywin First Nation. Keewaywin is the very first northern First Nation community in Ontario to have this technology.

The cellular service in Keewaywin involved many different partnerships including K-Net, DMTS in Dryden and Lemko,

a telecommunications service operating out of the United States.

John Lyon, project manager for the northern cell phone service, said: “It’s taken three years to launch this project since the first proposal was written and we started working on getting enough funding.”

Lyon noted the biggest challenge of the project was getting the cellular licensing needed in

order to provide reliable service up north. So, they teamed up with multiple partners in order to achieve a licensing agreement.

“We couldn’t go it alone, that would’ve been too costly,” Lyon said.

Lyon said the goal of the cell phone service is to help local northern small business and to move the community forward to be more productive.

Currently, there are five more northern First Nation communities that have cell phone towers under construction.

They are Round Lake, Fort Severn, North Spirit, Poplar Hill and Deer Lake.

Also, 10 other cell phone sites in northern First Nations communities are currently being proposed.

Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Grand Chief Stan

Beardy, who attended a video conference with Keewaywin at the K-Net office in Sioux Lookout July 15, said the cell phone service highlights how critical it is to show First Nations people cannot be left behind.

“The First Nations community as a whole came out of the bush in the 1960s, by this time man was already on the moon.

That’s how big the technology gap was between First Nations

and the rest of the world,” Beardy said.

“I’m so happy that the dreams and hopes of First Nations people are being represented.

“Every time we make a step forward it builds confidence and empowerment that First Nations as a whole can move forward, so the next generation will accomplish even greater things.”

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Constance Lake bans CAS Rick Garrick Wawatay News

Constance Lake First Nation has barred all Ministry of Children and Youth Services workers from its territory.

“If for any reason a representative enters onto Constance Lake territory, they will be treated as trespassers, and if any children are removed from the community it will be considered a kidnapping,” said Constance Lake Chief Arthur Moore. “It is time for First Nation communities to take control of their governance and their child welfare.”

Constance Lake is looking for the local Kunwaniamano Child and Family Services to deliver child welfare services to First Nation communities in the area, but Kunwaniamano has not been given designation as a children’s aid society by the province.

“The Jean Sauvé Children’s Aid Society agreed for the Kunwaniamon agency to look after my community’s child welfare services under Anishnaabe Abinooji Family Services, who does have the specific designation,” Moore said, stressing that the Jean Sauvé Children’s Aid Society has failed to follow through with the agreement as of midJuly.

“The agreement included a transition phase to transfer services by June 1, 2009.”

Nishnawbe Aski Nation Deputy Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler said NAN shares the communities’ concerns about the amount of time it has taken for the provincial government to address their issues and concerns.

“It just speaks to the province’s failure to address the issue,” Fiddler said. “Kunwaniamon has not been given desig-

nation as a children’s aid society. At a minimum, all of our communities should have their (own) children’s aid societies.”

Fiddler said there are currently two Native-run child and family service organizations serving NAN communities. The communities find it difficult to work with non-native agencies.

“They don’t understand our culture,” Fiddler said; they have “no regard for the uniqueness of our culture.”

Moore said First Nations culture and rights are not taken into consideration when children’s aid societies deal with Aboriginal child welfare matters.

“It is time for First Nation communities to take control of their governance and their child welfare.”

– Arthur Moore

The Ministry of Children and Youth Services has indicated it is working with all parties to resolve the situation and ensure the safety and well-being of the community’s children.

“Ministry staff in the region will be setting up a meeting with Kunuwanimano Child and Family Services, First Nation chiefs, Nishnawbe Aski Nation and the Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs to discuss the progress of designation of Kunuwanimano Child and Family Services as a native child welfare agency,” said Anne Smith, media relations/issues co-ordinator with the Ministry of Children and Youth Services, in an e-mail reply.

“The designation of any

agency to provide child protection services is a serious and important decision. Designation requires a rigorous review process by the ministry through which an agency must demonstrate its capacity to provide child protection services and fulfill the requirements of the Child and Family Services Act.” Smith also stated Jeanne Sauvé Family Services has met with the Ontario Provincial Police to established a process to provide child welfare services on Constance Lake First Nation until the situation is resolved and Constance Lake and Jeanne Sauvé Family Services are planning to meet to address concerns that services are provided in a way that recognizes the community’s unique culture and traditions.

“We are capable of looking after our own children,” Moore said, explaining that the Child and Families Services Act of 1984 was enacted to ensure that native adoptees in Ontario would be placed within their extended family, with another aboriginal family, or with a nonnative family that promised to respect and nurture the child’s heritage and culture. “This cannot happen with current CAS programs not respecting First Nations culture; our children are vanishing into provincial care.”

Nishnawbe Aski Nation passed a resolution in March of 2006 in support of Kunuwanimano being mandated as a children’s aid society.

Moore said Ontario Children’s Aid Society workers will not be allowed in the community until Ministry of Children and Youth Services Minister Deb Matthews designates Kunuwanimano as a children’s aid society.

ELECT ALVIN FIDDLER TO THE OFFICE OF GRAND CHIEF NISHNAWBE ASKI NATION

VISION, LEADERSHIP, UNITY “We all want the very best for our children - the best schools, the best health care, and the best opportunities to help them realize their dreams. This is the vision we all share. As Grand Chief of Nishnawbe Aski Nation, I commit to all who can hear me that I will provide the leadership needed to make this vision a reality. At times, difficult decisions will have to be made, challenges will have to be met, and obstacles will have to be confronted. I want to assure you that I am ready to lead.”

- Alvin Fiddler, campaign launch BBQ address

“The 1977 Declaration of the Rights and Principles of NAN is what NAN is all about. We need to be unified and move forward with confidence that our Grand Chief is ready to be an advocate and work together with the Chiefs. Alvin is prepared to do this” - Chief Jonathan Solomon, Kashechewan First Nation

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Lenny Carpenter I’m a 25-year-old Cree who grew up in Moosonee. I’ve lived in Timmins for 10 years, attended college in Ottawa, and worked as a reporter with Wawatay News. I write, play guitar, photograph, watch movies and play video games.

Julie Lafreniere I’m a 26 year old Metis woman from Camperville, Manitoba. I’m also a mother, an activist, an academic and proudly represents Winnipeg. Hoka!

Grace Winter I’m 28 years old, Ojicree originally from Big Trout Lake. I was adopted over to Kingfisher Lake, I have lived all over Ontario. I have been working for Wawatay News since 2002, and now full time for SEVEN Youth Media Network.

Jocelyn Formsma I‘m Jocelyn Formsma and a 26 year old University student from Moose Cree First Nation. I grew up in Chapleau and lived in Timmins before moving to Ottawa about 6 years ago. I am the Social Justice Chair on the NAN Decade for Youth Council. I love to sing and someday I will learn to play the guitar ;)

James Benson My name is James Benson I’m 23 years old and I’m a member of North Caribou Lake.

I am currently self employed with a small business called JayB Photography and currently living in Edmonton, Alberta.

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JULY 23, 2009 Northern Ontario’s First Nation Voice since 1974

NAN election 2009: who will be grand chief?

49 Nishawbe Aski Nation chiefs will elect a new grand chief Aug. 12 during the Keewaywin Conference hosted

by Chapleau Cree

RoseAnne Archibald Taykwa Tagamou

Stan Beardy Muskrat Dam

Alvin Fiddler Muskrat Dam

David Neegan Constance Lake

What new steps can NAN take to stimulate economic development?

The universal vote was promised for the 2006 and 2009 elections. That won’t happen. Why? Is better planning needed? Is this not a priority?

What role should NAN play as resource development continues to move into the Far North?

The entrepreneurial spirit must be promoted in all sectors of our society especially among women and youth.

A study at Trent University by David Newhouse stated that businesses started by First Nations women have high success rates five years later. Women must be encouraged and seen as a viable part of economic development in the NAN territory.

Youth have a unique business opportunity because they are technology and internet savvy. Technologybased and internet business represent the next wave of business opportunities for our young people. I know of one business co-owned by a NAN member called Redworks Studio which is an Internet based business.

The second new area that could be explored is ecobusinesses or ‘green’ businesses. In this time of climate change and a heightened sense of urgency about the environment, First Nations are in a prime place to promote indigenous ecology businesses and make international connections and partnerships. Of all the First Nation communities in Canada, NAN First Nations are the most connected in terms of the Internet with KNET. It’s time to maximize and fulfil the vision of how KNET could transform our lives for the better.

When I served as Grand Chief of Mushkegwouk Council (1994-1996), I was instrumental, along with the late Ernie T. Sutherland in developing a system to ensure that community members could vote for their Mushkegowuk Council Grand Chief and I believe that I could lead the process for a NAN-wide vote for the NAN Executive Council.

I would identify and secure funding to ensure proper elections are held. A non-Native person in Timmins gets to vote for their local government, the provincial government and their federal government, while our people are denied their democratic right to vote for who represents them regionally, Ontario-wide and nationally.

Second, I would meet with the Ontario Regional Chief and the National Chief to see how we could make a co-operative effort to ensure democracy for our people.

I would also work with our Chiefs to develop a viable system that honours the role of Chiefs and councils while empowering people to vote and decide on other levels of leadership.

Being from a small community that has been impacted by development, I understand communities need autonomy when they negotiate impact benefit agreements when development is occurring in the territory.

During my tenure as Chief of Taykwa Tagamou Nation (formerly New Post), I led negotiations that resulted in the signing of two 20-year forestry agreements whose market value at the time of signing was approximately $300 million.

At that time, NAN provided our community with political support as we dealt with the federal, provincial governments and forestry companies.

This is still NAN’s primary role, to support First Nations as communities respond to resource development. There is a co-ordinating role NAN could play where there is agreement by First Nations to work together and have a unified voice on an issue.

NAN could also be a clearinghouse for information on negotiating agreements so First Nations have information that could benefit their negotiations and speed up the process of reaching agreements that balance economic development with environmental protection.

Finally, NAN must ensure that our Treaty and Aboriginal Rights, particularly Treaty #5, #9 and #9 Adhesions are protected and respected by governments and resource development companies.

In order to ensure the success of our initiatives, we need to push for enabling legislation policies for our economic independence.

First Nations don’t have the necessary capital to undertake major projects. That means we need to plug in to the global economy and be part of the private sector.

Under international law, our treaties make us a nation. We need to look at international partners. Our communities are doing some of that in precious metals and value-added forestry.

There are two major issues to look at. The first is logistics.

NAN members live in almost every country in the world. If a group of voters was left out, they could challenge the election results and leave NAN in turmoil and chaos as the issue is resolved. We need to have safety precautions in place. We can’t jeopardize it.

The second issue is the cost, likely around $500,000.

We can’t get a financial commitment from the governments so where will the finances come from?

It is still my priority to keep pushing for the vote for everyone.

We’ve identified the key points and need to continue to work on the definition of NAN members and work on a membership list.

NAN’s role is to support diversity. Our role is to lobby to the governments, private sector and industry.

It is also our role to open doors for the First Nations, governments and private sector.

NAN’s role is to lobby for change to legislation and policies to make them more beneficial to First Nations.

NAN must also ensure the government and courts understand we never gave up Aboriginal title to the land. We still have a right to the land and the resources.

The resources belong to the First Nations people.

There is no question about ownership. Court ruling confirm we are the rightful owners of the land resources. We need to continue to advocate that position.

For us to become truly self-sufficient and self-sustaining, the key is to ensure our kids have the best opportunities and the best schools to build capacity so the youth have the tools to succeed.

Whatever is lacking, we must support these communities. Even communities that have new schools, we need to ensure they have the resources to develop a good quality education, with culture and language being a big part of that.

With so many rich resources around us, it is shameful our communities are mired in poverty. There are precious metals and water outside our doorstep.

But the way the system is now, we can’t access these resources.

Communities should be able to assert their own authority and jurisdiction, have a say on what they want to do in their own territory.

I see NAN’s role as helping the communities get the best possible deal, more than just jobs and training; there has to be revenues shared.

Once our precious metals are gone, they are gone forever. We need to be looking ahead.

We’ve identified the issues. When we talk about nation building, we’re talking about our membership. That’s one of the issues. We can’t use the INAC bandlist. We need to have our own membership list so our people decide who our members are.

Using the INAC list goes against everything we’re trying to do.

Election rules are another issue. We can’t take the provincial election rules and apply them, We need our own. There are also technical issues to work out.

People on the James Bay coast elect a grand chief of the Mushkegowuk Council. We need to define that relationship because those members will be electing two grand chiefs.

Cost is the final issue. Cost is a big concern for the communities as it is unclear who would pay the cost of the election. We need to make sure the funds are in place.

If we are to develop NAN as a nation, we have to develop a constitution. We definitely need to do it right.

First, communities need to be consulted on their terms. The communities’ interests must be accommodated by governments and industry.

The communities must give their consent if there is going to be development. We need to create conditions to allow communities to negotiate the best possible deals and ensure the communities get a piece of the revenue, especially when it comes to non-renewable resources.

Consultations should happen before exploration takes place. You don’t walk into someone’s house and start rummaging around, see something valuable and then ask for it. You ask to come in first. It’s the same thing.

Lastly, if a community is not ready for resource development, that should be respected.

Right now, there is a poor turn of the dollar in First Nations. People are paid, they buy items and the money exits the community instead of going around to five or six people before it exits for deposit. We need to help create industries to preserve the dollar in our communities.

We have to support communities in the activities they do. Pikangikum is turning around its high unemployment with a land use plan and partnerships in the White Feather Forest Initiative. They’re making money.

We need to work with communities to bring in revenue from projects like mines.

We need to support organizations like KNET who are bringing connectivity and the highway to transport information to our communities.

The vote is extremely important. But people have to buy into it. And people haven’t bought into it yet.

When Green Peace wanted to stop whaling, its membership wholeheartedly supported the campaign and it worked. The membership bought into the campaign.

The governments are saying no to our chiefs and getting away with it when we go to negotiate. When the people buy into themselves and NAN, the governments won’t be able to say no because it won’t just be the chiefs at the table but their entire communities.

The vote is essential to getting the community members to buy in. It gives them a voice to dictate who their leaders are.

We should be able to use the existing IT infrastructure to facilitate this vote. Once the election is over, we have to start working on this right away.

Some communities are for resource development and some aren’t ready. We have to respect each community as they move forward.

We can’t allow our communities to be taken advantage of.

We need to ensure each community, which supports resource development, gets the best possible deal.

Industry wants to make money but the communities need to make money too.

The way to move ahead is through true partnerships. First Nations need to get revenue if another mine is going to open.

Resource development must be led by the communities. NAN has to allow chiefs to take the lead, but we should support them.

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Nation building, economy among NAN grand chief candidates’ top priorities James Thom Wawatay News

From a better relationship with the feds and province to the economy, putting the communities first to nation building, each of the four candidates for grand chief of Nishnawbe Aski Nation has their own priority for the next three years, should they be elected.

Incumbent Grand Chief Stan Beardy sees improving the economy as a priority while current NAN Deputy Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler identified the relationship with treaty partners as instrumental. David Neegan, a technical service supervisor with Northern Nishnawbe Education Council, cited a reemphasis on the communities that make up NAN as his priority.

RoseAnne Archibald, also a sitting deputy grand chief through the Aug. 12 election, said building the nation politically and practically is her priority.

Archibald, the only woman running for NAN’s executive council, said nation building begins at the community level.

“We can create strong First Nations by uplifting and building up every part of our society,” Archibald said. “We have internalized a lot of misinformation about ourselves as a result of colonization, residential schools and the interruption of children’s aid societies into our families.”

She said the people have to go beyond what is traditionally thought of as healing from these past injustices.

“Half of the answers and solutions are just beginning to be tapped through the development of NAN women,” Archibald said. “Judith Rodin from the Rockerfeller Foundation put this succinctly when she said, ‘the single most important thing we can do is unleash the full power of half the people on this planet – women.’”

Women make up half of NAN’s population but don’t make up half the positions of community leadership, she said.

The youth, those under 30, make up about 70 per cent of the population yet they too are under-represented on the agenda at meetings.

“Nation building doesn’t start with people in leadership and power, it begins with the empowerment of all of the people,” Archibald said. “When

people feel empowered, they take responsibility for their lives, they begin to see the endless possibilities of their human potential.

When human potential is realized, we see prosperity and wealth that is fairly distributed and we see higher levels of education. Health and well-being is prevalent. Peaceful, harmonious and happy families and communities become the norm.”

Neegan sees a need for NAN to be relocated as a means of putting the communities first.

“NAN should be located within one of the communities.

We need to move NAN’s (Thunder Bay) office into a NAN community,” Neegan said.

“There could be a tendering and selection process showing what the communities could offer.”

With an estimated $4.5 million annual operating budget, that’s plenty of money to support a secondary service sector in a community, he said.

“Why are we putting all our money into a non-NAN community?” he said.

Having the NAN staff in the community would also serve as role-models for the youth, he said.

“It’s about being proactive and looking after ourselves,” Neegan said. “If we’re putting money into a community, it’s going to help sustain it. It’s going to help build an economy.”

Beardy agreed the economic state of First Nations needs attention.

“A successful economy means so many things: it’s quality of life at the community level, opportunities for First Nations on and off-reserve, improved housing and infrastructure and hope for the future,” Beardy said.

“The economy is very critical and change is inevitable.

Being marginalized, we (First Nations) will be the first ones to get hit (if there are further problems globally).”

Beardy said NAN and its communities must be creative in how they link with the private sector and industry.

“We need to maximize our leverage,” he said. “We need to be part of the economic engine ... and be part of the solution,” he said.

The natural resources which fall in community’s traditional territories are also key, he said.

“We need to be in a position to control natural resources,” Beardy said. “Our role in the upturn of the economy will be to be front and centre of what happens (with the natural resources).”

Fiddler sees a more political priority.

“What needs to happen is to develop a better relationship with our treaty partners Canada and Ontario,” Fiddler said. “For too long, government has dictated to us what the relationship should look like. We need to develop and define it on our own terms.”

The communities need to be united to make this happen, he said.

“If we strengthen the relationship between ourselves, then we can deal with Ontario and Canada on our own terms,” Fiddler said.

“We’ll be coming from a position of strength.”

He said for far too long, NAN and its communities have been reacting to change like the Far North Planning and Mining Act. “We need to be proactive and define and set our own agenda,” he said.

See www.wawataynews.ca for more on the election.

Responses from the nine candidates for deputy grand chief will be posted online July 27.

They said it “Half of the answers and solutions are just beginning to be tapped through the development of NAN women.” – RoseAnne Archibald “We need to be part of the economic engine.” – Stan Beardy “If we strengthen the relationship between ourselves, then we can deal with Ontario and Canada on our own terms.” –Alvin Fiddler “We need to move NAN’s (Thunder Bay) office into a NAN community.” – David Neegan

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Louise Thomas still finds new details in the art of her late husband Roy Thomas.

“It’s amazing,” Louise said while looking at Spiritual Relatives, an acrylic on canvas piece Roy completed in 2001 which is now hanging in the Thunder Bay Art Gallery’s summer exhibition, UNRESERVED: An Affirmation of Contemporary Expression. “It’s been a long time since I saw this painting. I remember helping him stretch this canvas, but I didn’t know what was going to be on it, or even the title.”

The owner of the Ahnisnabae Art Gallery visited the Thunder Bay Art Gallery June 24 to view her late husband’s work, pieces of which are featured in all three galleries of the June 19 to Sept. 20 UNRESERVED exhibit.

“We’re all related through the spirit of life,” Louise said, pointing out the three beings pictured in Spiritual Relatives.

“The animals represent the land, the fish the water and the birds the air.”

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(beings) also give you life: we eat beef, we eat fish and we eat chicken. That’s part of the spiritual relationship – they help us live.”

Louise said Roy painted the piece at the Ahnisnabae Art studio, one of the thousands of pieces he created during his 30-plus years as a Woodlands artist.

“Roy loved to paint, he loved his talent,” Louise said. “He had a lot of respect for his talent.”

“I used to ask him, ‘How do you know where to put that colour.’ People with that kind of energy and talent don’t need much sleep. Their mind is on the go all the time.”

Louise remembers watching Roy while he was sitting on his chair looking at the tip of his brush.

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Culture Day

12 noon to 5 pm

Fun and games for kids, tye dying, jewellery making, improv, workshops, Taste of Sioux Lookout, Cedar Bay wagon rides and much more!

Sunday August 2nd

Live Music Pierre Schryer Band – Celtic Roots Them Boyz - Hip Hop/R&B Shy-Anne Hovorka – Piano

12 noon to midnight

Northern Eagles - Country Rock Jean-Paul De Roover - Rock/Acoustic/Experimental

and many local favourites!

All events are FREE and open to everyone For more info: 737-1501 or info@slarc.ca Brought to you by the Sioux Lookout Anti-Racism Committee

Best Wishes from the Board & Staff of Wawatay.

Wawatay News

JULY 23, 2009

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NOTIFICATION NOTICE OF AERIAL SPRAYING WABIGOON FOREST

As part of our ongoing efforts to regenerate and protect Ontario’s forests, selected stands in the Wabigoon Forest (see map) will be sprayed with herbicide to control competing vegetation, starting on or about: August 8st, 2009.

The herbicide Vantage, registration number 26172 Pest Control Products Act will be used.

photos courtesy of NAN

ABOVE: Sandy Lake Chief Adam Fiddler takes aim high into the bush as ladies 18 and over wait to chase down, find the arrow and cash in on the $100 prize. Only one winner in each of three age categories gets the $100 cash prize. In Sandy Lake it is customary for the community’s chief to kick off Treaty Day events in this manner.

BELOW: Sandy Lake’s Angel Goodman peeks back at the camera while taking in a presentation from Chief Adam Fiddler and former Lieut.-Gov. James Bartleman, in background, at the community school July 16. Bartleman traveled to the First Nation to check on the progress of the Summer Literacy Camps he’d set up.

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JULY 23, 2009

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Gull Bay gets $957,534 for rink enclosure project Rick Garrick Wawatay News

Kiashke Zaaging Anishinaabek (Gull Bay) has scored nearly a million dollars in recreational funding for a rink enclosure project.

“We’re hoping the facility will encourage our youth to get

involved in sports, stay in school and be positive role models for our community,” said Kiashke Zaaging Anishinaabek Chief Wilfred King.

“It’s going to create a place for youth to gather – we feel this will be really good for our community.”

King said the enclosure

should be completed over the next 10 months to a year; once it is completed, it will provide a multi-use component to the outdoor rink that was completed in the fall of 2008.

“We’re trying to make it as multi-use as possible,” King said.

The project was part of a

total of $4,057,554 in joint federal and provincial funding announced July 3 by Thunder Bay-Superior North MPP Michael Gravelle and Kenora MP Greg Rickford for 12 projects in the Thunder Bay-Superior North riding. Ontario will provide $2,028,777 through Recreation Ontario, while the

federal government will provide $2,028,777 through the Recreational Infrastructure Canada program in Ontario.

Gull Bay received $957,534 of the total funding.

“I am extremely pleased that both senior levels of government are continuing to work together by providing signifi-

cant resources for upgrades and additions for our Thunder BaySuperior North recreational facilities,” Gravelle said. “These projects will not only create jobs here in the riding, but will have positive long-term social and physical implications throughout the region.”

Rangers promote safety Rick Garrick Wawatay News

Many Nishnawbe Aski Nations are approaching the Canadian Rangers for safety training.

“They have a lot of accidents,” said Warrant Officer Caryl Fletcher of the 3rd Canadian Ranger Patrol Group. “We are doing our best to help.”

Fletcher said the Canadian Rangers teach boat and ATV safety training to the Junior Canadian Rangers from many communities across northern Ontario during the annual Camp Loon training exercises.

Fletcher has also travelled to some of the communities over the past 18 months to teach water safety, ice safety, fire safety and snowmobile safety.

“We have some classroom and some hands-on,” Fletcher said. “We teach the kids to ride the snowmobile, how to repair it, what to do if they get stuck.”

The Canadian Rangers have also sent about 20 snowmobile/ATV helmets to each of the communities for use by the JCRs while riding snowmobiles or ATVs. “We’re promoting safety habits,” Fletcher said. “I see JCRs now who will not get in a boat without a PFD (personal floatation device) on.”

Fletcher said many of the Elders and adults in the communities still will not wear safety gear while boating or operating ATVs. “Safety saves lives,” Fletcher said. “If anyone wants to wear the PFDs, they are allowed to use them. They are not just for the JCRs and the Rangers, they are for the whole community.”

Ranger Peter Moon said there is a growing awareness of water safety and ice safety in the communities.

“The Canadian Forces are willing to provide that training,” Moon said. “We believe it is for the benefit of all Canadians.”

Thunder Bay Community Bingo Will be operating during the C.L.E. Fair with 3 sessions daily a matinee at 12:55 p.m; an evening session at 6:50 p.m. and a twilite session at 10:30 p.m.

Free parking for bingo players only at the Lakehead Labour Centre, 929 Fort William Rd. with a shuttle service to bring you to our front door will be offered Monday, August 3rd through to Monday, August 10th.

After either the matinee or evening session of bingo we will be providing complimentary entrance to the Fair grounds to enjoy the entertainment and exhibits.

Someone will drive away with a brand new

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Ballots will be distributed at each session August 3rd through to August 10th and the draw will be held Monday, August 10th at the Twilite session.

(See in hall posting or website for promotion rules)

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JULY 23, 2009

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NAPS, OPP combat drug abuse Rick Garrick Wawatay News

The recent prescription drug seizure made by Nishnawbe Aski Police Services in Sandy Lake is only the tip of the iceberg in northern Ontario.

“There is so much drug activity out there,” said Sgt. Jackie George, media relations officer with NAPS, who explained many more prescription drug seizures are made than are reported. “A phenomenal amount of charges are being laid.”

Four drug seizures in Sioux Lookout were also announced by the Ontario Provincial Police

during a week-long period in mid-June.

“Prescription drug abuse is on the rise in a lot of communities,” said Cst. Mark Gaudet, community relations officer with the Sioux Lookout OPP detachment. “It’s not George just northern communities, it’s (province) wide.”

Gaudet and George both said their police forces continue to receive more tips and information on people who are bring-

ing prescription drugs into their communities.

“You just see the tip of what is happening,” Gaudet said. “Not every case has been (reported).

There have been more arrests.”

NAPS officers seized about $17,110 worth of Tylenol 3, OxyContin and morphine July 12 in Sandy Lake and charged 18year-old Angel Kakekagumick of Sandy Lake with three counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking. Kakekagumick was released on a promise to appear for court Aug. 18 at Sandy Lake.

George said NAPS has stepped up its efforts to combat prescription drug abuse by hiring an additional drug enforce-

ment officer and are currently preparing to hire a K-9 officer.

“The K-9 handler would also assist in investigations,” George said.

NAPS has also developed two prescription drug abuse poster campaigns: Drug Abuse isn’t Prescribed, and It’s Killing Us, and Preventing Drug Abuse in Our Communities.

“It encourages people to call NAPS,” George said about the first poster. “We have an e-mail address and a tip line.

We encourage people to call Crimestoppers if they want to remain anonymous.”

“We also encourage youth up to the age of 20 to call the

Kids Help Phone at 1-800-6686868.”

“You just see the tip of what is happening. Not every case has been (reported). There have been more arrests.”

– Mark Gaudet

George said the second poster shows the effects of prescription drug abuse, the results of living on a restricted budget due to costly drug purchases, withdrawal symptoms and descrip-

tions of common prescription drugs.

“What Oxys look like, what Percs look like,” George said, noting NAPS also has several DVD drug awareness education aids which explain the effects of drug addictions. “It lets you know how drug abuse will affect you, because in some cases it will lead to a sudden death.”

Gaudet also encouraged people to call the police or Crimestoppers if they have any information on prescription drug abuse in the community.

“The police can’t do it themselves,” Gaudet said. “We need the help of the people to continue the war on drugs.”

NOTIFICATION Notice of Aerial Spraying Lac Seul Forest

As part of our ongoing efforts to regenerate and protect Ontario’s forests, selected stands in the Lac Seul Forest (see map) will be sprayed with herbicide to control competing vegetation, starting on or about: August 1, 2009.

The herbicides, Vision: registration number 19899, Vantage: registration number 26884, VisionMax: registration number 27736 and 2,4D: registration numbers 23508 and 14739 Pest Control Products Act will be used.

Approximate Location(s) of Treatment - ★ More information about this aerial herbicide project, including specic locations and maps, is available for viewing at the ofces of McKenzie Forest Products and the Ministry of Natural Resources during normal business hours.

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CINDYRELLA’S PREVIOUSLY LOVED CHILDREN’S BOUTIQUE Will be at the Blueberry Festival in Sioux Lookout Friday, July 31st, 2009 from Noon to 6PM. Saturday, July 1st, 2009 starting at Noon at the Town Beach.

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JULY 23, 2009

LU language program celebrates 25 years Rick Garrick Wawatay News

Helen Roy’s Anishinabemowin pop songs were a hit at Lakehead University’s 25th anniversary of the Native Language Instructors Program.

“It feels very good to be here today,” said the 1985 NLIP graduate and Michigan State University Anishinabemowin teacher whose love of the language encouraged her to sing and record pop songs in Anishinabemowin. “When I started teaching – in Michigan there are a lot of Aboriginal people, but very little language – it woke me up and really inspired me.”

Roy, who has put out five Anishinabemowin-language CDs with songs such as Hey Good Lookin’, Amazing Grace, Splish Splash and Yesterday since 2006, celebrated the NLIP anniversary July 10 along with more than 100 former graduates, current students and longtime instructors during a series of workshops and presentations at Lakehead University and a dinner banquet at the Port Arthur Provista Ukrainian Cultural Centre.

Isadore Toulouse, who enrolled in NLIP in the late 1980s, graduated in 1991 and now teaches Anishinabemowin at the York Region District School Board, said he finds it “rewarding to come back to the NLIP as an instructor.”

“When I was in residential school, they told us our language would get us nowhere,” said Toulouse, who has since travelled the world for a variety of language-related projects. “I grew up in a very poor community in Wikwemikong. If I can do it, anybody can do it.”

Marlene Anderson and Colleen Semple, two of the 21 grad-

Opening Ceremonies:

12:00-6:00 at the Town Beach, Friday, July 31!

Featuring: The Northwest Farmer’s Market, Street Vendor’s Market, Crimestopper’s BBQ, The Bannock Bake Off, Face Painting, Balloons, Speeches, Cake Cutting, Hawaiian Hula Dancers, The Jack McKenzie Memorial Award for Volunteerism and Live Musical Entertainment!

Don’t Miss the Blueberry Festival Kick-Off Party!

Friday, July 31 at the Legion Hall. Doors Open at 7:30pm.

Featuring Country Music Artist Marc Ekins and local bands: The Frantic Children and The Four Ohms. Tickets are available at the Travel Information Centre. $15 in Advance or $20 at the Door. Age of Majority is Required.

For more information about this year’s Blueberry Festival please contact

Melissa or Micheal at the Travel Information Centre, ph: (807) 737-3227 email: festival@blueberrybert.com or visit www.blueberrybert.com

Thank you to the sponsors of the 2009 Blueberry Festival: Platinum:

Bearskin Airlines, CIBC, CKDR, CN, Department of Canadian Heritage, Dori’s Sewing Studio, Johnny’s Fresh Market, Municipality of Sioux Lookout, Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation, Ontario Ministry of Culture, Service Canada, Sioux Lookout Chamber of Commerce, Sioux Travel.

Gold:

Bronze:

Alex Wilson Coldstream Ltd., Bell Aliant, Forest Inn, Patricia Area Community Endeavours, Sioux Lookout Bulletin, TBay Tel, Wawatay News Services.

Calvary Baptist Church, Redshift Multimedia, Saint Mary’s Anglican Church, Sioux Area Senior’s Activity Centre, Voltentertainment.

Silver:

Buckbuster Video, Chicken Chef, Northern Store, Sunset Inn & Suites, Todd Gadal.

All Occasion Cakes, Best Western Sioux Lookout Inn, Oshtugon Computers, Sioux Lookout Remedy’s RX, The Wellington Centre.

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Native Language Instructors Program graduate Helen Roy sings one of her Anishinabemowin pop songs during the 30th anniversary of the Lakehead University summer program. Roy has put out five Anishinabemowin-language CD’s with songs such as Hey Good Lookin’, Amazing Grace, Splish Splash and Yesterday since 2006. uating students from last year’s class, said they both enjoyed the program.

“I think it’s awesome,” Anderson said, explaining her goal is to help keep the language alive. “It would be sad to see the people around you not able to speak their own language.”

Semple said her husband is now in his third year of the fouryear program.

“I really enjoy this program,” Semple said. “When I first started, I didn’t even know how to read and write in syllabics.”

A number of Aboriginal language research tables were held during the afternoon, including curriculum/resources, language revitalization with technology, culture pedagogy, and the transmission of Aboriginal languages to children, families, and communities.

“We started out small and

have been growing ever since,” said Dr. John O’Meara, dean of education and acting chair for Aboriginal education at Lakehead University. “Over the years we have built the program organically; many of the people who graduated from the program eventually came back as instructors.”

O’Meara also praised the dedication of the students, who commit themselves to attend the program for four weeks each July over a four-year period to learn more about the language.

“Everyone who is involved has much to be proud of,” O’Meara said.

Shirley Williams said she decided to learn more about the language in the 1970s after hearing Elders in the community speak about the loss of language and culture.

“For those of you who know your language and culture, what are you going to do about it,” Williams said, quoting the Elders.

Because Williams knew some of the language and some of the culture, she decided to go back to school and do something about the loss of language and culture.

“I graduated in 1989,” Williams said. “I’ve seen lots of changes.”

Dr. Ethel Gardner, chair of Aboriginal education, said her community in British Columbia currently has only two fluent speakers, including her.

“I say you are so rich, you have so much,” Gardner said.

“I understand the language is endangered. Because of you your language may not reach the critical circumstances my language is in.”