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NAN refuses to recognize Far North Act Rick Garrick Wawatay News

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Chief Joshua Frogg of Wawakapewin First Nation is surrounded by supporters during an anti-Bill 191 rally Sept. 15 outside Queen’s Park in Toronto. Despite opposition from Nishnawbe Aski Nation, Bill 191, the Far North Act, was passed in the Ontario legislature Sept. 23.

ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᒋᐃᐧᐅᑕᐱᓇᐠ ᑭᒋ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᕑᐃᐠ ᑫᕑᐃᐠ ᐊᐧᐊᐧᑌ ᑎᐸᒋᒧᐃᐧᓇᐣ

ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᐅᒪᒥᑎᓀᐣᑕᒧᐦᐃᑯᓇᐊᐧ ᑭᒋ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᒋᒪᒋᐱᓂᑯᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᑲᐅᐣᑕᒋᐦᐅᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᐦᑭᑲᐠ. ᐊᒥᐦᐃ ᐁᐃᔑ ᓂᓯᑎᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᐧᓇᐊᐧ ᐁᑎᐯᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᒋᐅᐣᒋ ᐊᐸᒋᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᑫᐱᒪᒋᐦᐅᐊᐧᑫᐊᐧᐨ, ᐃᑭᑐ ᑭᒋ ᐅᑭᒪᑲᓀᐢ ᒪᐃᐠ ᒥᑕᐟᑕᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᐁᑭ ᐊᔭᒥᐦᐊᑲᓄᐸᐣ ᐊᐧᑌᐸᑲᐃᐧᐱᓯᑦ 24 ᑲᐃᓇᑭᓯᐨ, ᐯᔑᑯᑭᔑᑲ ᐊᐦᐱ ᑲᑭ ᔕᐳᓂᑲᑌᐠ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ 191 ᓂᐦᓴᐧ ᐊᓂᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᒪ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᑭᒋ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐠ. ᓇᑕᐁᐧᐣᑕᒧᐠ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐃᐢᑯᓂᑲᓇᐣ ᒋᐱᒥᑭᑫᐣᑕᒧᓇᑲᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᑫᐊᓂᔭᐃᓯᓭᓂᐠ. ᐅᐁᐧ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐊᒥᐦᐃ ᐁᐃᔑᓇᑲᐧᐠ ᐊᐸᐣ ᐁᑲ ᐅᐁᐧ ᒋᐃᓯᓭᐠ. ᒥᑕᐠᑕᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᐃᑭᑐ ᐊᓂᐣᑕ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐃᐢᑯᓂᑲᓇᐣ ᐅᐃᐧᒋᑲᐸᐃᐧᑕᓇᐊᐧ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ 191 ᐁᑲᐧ ᑕᐢ ᐊᐦᑎᐟ ᐅᑭᐸᑯᐢᑲᓇᐊᐧ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ 191. ᑲᐧᔭᐠ ᐱᓇᒪ ᓇᒪᒥᑎᓀᐣᑕᒥᐣ ᐊᐣᑎ ᓀᑫ ᑫᐃᔑ ᒪᑕᓂᑲᑌᐠ ᐅᐁᐧ, ᒥᑕᐟᑕᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᐃᑭᑐ. ᐊᓂᐣ ᑫᐃᔑ ᑲᓄᑕᒪᐠ ᐅᐁᐧ, ᐊᓂᐣ ᑫᐃᔑ ᒥᑲᑕᒪᐠ, ᐊᓂᐣ ᑫᐃᔑ ᓇᓇᑲᒋᑐᔭᐠ ᐅᐁᐧ?

ᒥᑕᐟᑕᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᑭᐢᐱᐣ ᐁᔭᑫᐧᐣ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᑭᐊᐧᑫᐧᐣ ᐅᓇᓇᐣᑕᐊᐧᓯᓂᐁᐧᐠ ᑕᑭᐱᑎᓂᑲᑌᐊᐧᐣ. ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᓂᑭᑫᐣᑕᓯᐣ ᐊᓂᐣ ᑲᑭ ᐅᐣᒋᓯᓭᐠ ᐅᐁᐧ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᒋᓴᐳᓭᐠ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᔦ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᐣ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᐁᐦᐊᓂᑲᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᑯᑕᐠ ᐱᐊᐧᐱᑯᑫᐃᐧ ᐊᓂᑭᐃᐧᐣ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᑲᐱᒥᐊᓂᒧᒋᑲᑌᐠ, ᒥᑕᐟᑕᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ. ᓇᐣᑕᐁᐧᐣᑕᑲᐧᐣ ᑲᑭᓇ ᐊᐃᐧᔭ ᒋᑭ ᓂᓯᑎᑕᑭᐸᐣ, ᒥᓇ ᐱᑯ ᑲᔦ ᑲᑭᓇ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑲᔭᑭᐣ. ᓂᓇᐣᑕᐁᐧᐣᑕᒥᐣ ᓂᑫᓂᓇᐃᐧᐣᐟ ᒋᐅᐣᒋ ᒥᓄᓭᑭᐣ ᓂᒪᒋᑕᐃᐧᓂᓇᐣ ᐅᒪ ᑌᑎᐸᐦᐃ ᐊᓂᑭᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑲᐃᔑᔭᑭᐣ. ᑭᒋ ᐊᒥᑭᑯᒪ ᐅᑕᓄᑭᓇᑲᓇᐣ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᐃᒪ ᒪᒪᑌᑕᐃᐧᐱᐊᐧᐱᑯᐠ ᐁᑭ ᐅᐣᒋ ᒪᓯᓇᐦᐃᑫᐨ ᐃᐁᐧᓂ ᐅᐣᒋ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ 191 ᑲᑭ ᐃᑭᑐᒪᑲᐠ ᒋᐊᓂ ᐊᔭᑭᐣ ᐅᐢᑭ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ ᑫᐊᓂᒪᒋᓭᑭᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑲᔦ ᐃᒪ ᒋᐅᐣᒋ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᑯᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᑭᒋ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᑲᔭᐊᐧᐨ. ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᑲᐱᒥ ᐃᐧᑕᓄᑭᒪᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒋᐊᓂᑲᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᑕᐱᑕ ᒋᑭ ᐊᔭᑭᐸᐣ ᑫᐅᐣᒋ ᑲᓇᐁᐧᐣᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᑭᑕᐦᑭᒥᓇᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑲᔦ ᒋᐱᒥᐃᐧᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐊᐣᑎ ᑫᑭ ᐊᓄᐣᒋ ᐱᒪᒋᐦᐅᓇᓂᐊᐧᑭᐸᐣ, ᐃᑭᑐ ᑭᕑᐁᐠ ᒪᐟᓂᔪᓫ, ᑭᒋ ᐊᒥᑯᑭᒪ ᐅᑕᓂᑭᓇᑲᓇᐣ ᑲᐊᔭᒥᑕᒪᑯᐨ.

ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐅᒪᓂᑐᐃᐧ ᒥᓂᑯᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᓂᓯᑕᐃᐧᓂᑲᑌᐊᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᒪᐢᑲᐊᐧᑌᐊᐧᐣ ᐃᒪ ᑭᒋ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᑕᐢ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐣ ᓇᐣᑕᐁᐧᐣᑕᑯᓯ ᒋᐱᒥᓂᔕᐦᐊᐠ ᐅᐁᐧ ᑲᐃᓇᑌᐠ. ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ 191 ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᔑᓇᑲᐧᓯᓄᐣ ᐅᒪ ᒋᐅᐣᒋ ᐊᐣᒋᓭᐠ ᐅᐁᐧ. ᒪᐟᓂᔪᓫ ᐃᑭᑐ ᐃᐁᐧ ᑲᐱᒪᓄᑲᑌᐠ ᐸᑭᑕᔑᐁᐧᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᐁᐧ ᐅᐣᒋ ᑭᒋ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐯᔭᑌᑕᑲᐧᐣ ᐁᐃᑭᑐᒪᑲᐠ ᐃᑫᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑲᑭ ᐅᓇᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᓇᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐊᒥᐦᐃ ᐃᑫᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐃᐧᓇᐊᐧ ᑫᑭ ᔕᐳᓇᒧᐊᐧᐸᐣ. ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ 191 ᐊᒥᐦᐃ ᓂᐢᑕᑦ ᐁᐃᓯᓭᐠ ᐅᒪ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᐸᑭᑕᔑᐊᐧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᐃᐁᐧ ᐅᐣᒋ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑲᐅᓇᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᐣ ᑲᐃᐧ ᐃᓇᐸᒋᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑕᐦᑭᒥᐊᐧᐣ ᐁᓇᐣᑕᐁᐧᐣᑕᑲᐧᓂᐠ ᒋᐸᑭᑎᓇᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ, ᒪᐟᓂᔪᕑ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ. ᔑᐸᐧᑲᒪ ᐅᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᑫᐠ ᑭᐃᑭᑐᐸᓂᐠ ᐊᐧᑌᐸᑲᐃᐧᐱᓯᑦ 22 ᑲᐃᓇᑭᓯᐨ ᑲᑭ ᐸᑭᑎᓂᑲᑌᑭᐸᐣ ᑎᐸᒋᒧᐃᐧᐣ ᐁᑲ ᐁᑭ ᐅᐣᒋ ᐊᓂᒧᒋᑲᑌᓂᐠ ᑲᐃᔑ ᒪᒥᑎᓀᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᒥᓇ ᑲᔦ ᐃᐁᐧ ᐅᐣᒋ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ 191 ᐁᑲᐧ ᑕᐢ ᑲᔦ ᐁᑲ ᐃᐧᑲ ᐁᑭ ᐅᐣᒋ ᐸᑭᑎᓇᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᓇᑯᒧᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ 191 ᐅᐣᒋ. ᓂᓇᐃᐧᐣᐟ ᔑᐸᐧᑲᒪ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ

ᐊᒥᐱᑯ ᑫᐃᔑ ᐱᒥᐊᐸᒋᑐᔭᐠ ᓂᑕᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᒪᓂᑐᐃᐧ ᒥᓂᑯᐃᐧᓂᓇᐣ ᑲᐃ ᐃᔑᐸᑭᑎᓇᑭᐸᐣ ᒋᑐᑕᒪᐠ ᐊᐧᐊᐧᑲᐱᐃᐧᐣ ᓂᒪᓂᑐᒥᓇᐣ, ᐃᑭᑐ ᐅᑭᒪᑲᐣ ᒐᔓᐊᐧ ᐱᕑᐊᐧᐠ. ᑲᑭᓇ ᐊᐦᑭ̇ ᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐃᒪ ᑲᐅᐣᑎᓂᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐊᐸᒋᑕᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐅᓇᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒥᐦᐃᒪ ᑫᐅᐣᒋ ᐊᓂᑲᑕᒪᐠ ᐃᐁᐧ ᓂᐢᑕᑦ ᑲᑭ ᐃᔑ ᒥᓂᑯᔭᑭᐸᐣ ᓂᑕᐦᑭᒥᓇᐣ, ᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᐣᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᓇᐣ ᒥᓇ ᓂᐸᐸᒥᓯᐃᐧᓂᓇᐣ. ᔑᐸᐧᑲᒪ ᑭᐃᑭᑐᐸᐣ ᐃᑫᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᐊᐦᑭᐤ ᐅᓇᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᓇᐣ ᑲᐧᔭᐠ ᒋᑐᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ, ᑌᐯᐧᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᒥᓇ ᑕᐱᑕᐁᐧᐣᑕᒧᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑲᔦ ᒋᐯᑌᐦᑕᑲᐧᐠ ᐃᐁᐧ ᑲᑲᑫᐧ ᐊᓂᑲᑌᐠ ᑲᑭᓇ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᒪ ᐯᒪᑎᓯᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᒋᑭ ᐅᐣᒋ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᑯᐊᐧᐸᐣ. ᐃᓇᐱᐣ ᐸᑭᑭᓂᑲᓂᐠ 24

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Nishnawbe Aski Nation is concerned the Far North Act will take away potential opportunities for their communities on their traditional lands.

“It has been their understanding that it’s been their land for their use,” said Deputy Grand Chief Mike Metatawabin during an interview Sept. 24, a day after Bill 191 passed Third Reading in the Ontario legislature. “The communities want to be involved and want to participate in anything going on. This bill takes away any potential opportunities like that.”

Metatawabin said some NAN communities favour Bill 191 while others are against Bill 191.

“We’ll be taking the time to sit down and find out where we go from here,” Metatawabin said. “How do we want to address this, how do we want to combat this, how do we tackle this?”

Metatawabin said any current exploration will be interrupted.

“I don’t know how this bill can be passed when at the same time northern Ontario is promoting the Ring of Fire,” Metatawabin said. “It’s got to make sense for everybody, it’s got to make sense for the communities.

“We want our businesses to prosper from any development.”

A Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) spokesperson said Bill 191 opens up an unprecedented opportunity to initiate progress and positive change in Ontario’s Far North.

“The government will continue to work jointly with First Nation and northern communities to strike the right balance between environmental protection and sustainable economic development,” said Greg MacNeil, an MNR spokesperson, in an email. “Existing Aboriginal rights are recognized and affirmed in the Constitution and the province must meet these obligations. Bill 191 can not change this.”

MacNeil said the approval processes in the Far North Act clearly states the community that has put the plan together has the choice of final approval.

“Bill 191 signals the first time in Ontario’s history when First Nations’ approval on local community based land use plans is required by law,” MacNeil said.

He added the MNR will work with First Nations in the Far North to determine which areas will be protected under the act and which areas will open to development. But it will be up to First Nations to initiate the land use plans.

“Bill 191 provides the foundation for First Nations and Ontario to work together to develop new approaches to protected areas in the Far North,” he said.

The Shibogama First Nations said in a Sept. 22 press release their concerns were not addressed or reflected in Bill 191 and that they never gave their free, prior and informed consent to Bill 191. see FIRST NATIONS page 24

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Rally calls for fair treatment of First Nation education Hundreds gather on Parliament Hill to raise concerns over education issues Rick Garrick Wawatay News

Constance Lake Chief Arthur Moore called for increased access to education for First Nations during the First Nations Education Rally on Parliament Hill in Ottawa Sept. 23.

While the population continues to grow rapidly in Matawa First Nation communities, Matawa said in press release there has yet to be a corresponding increase in Matawa post-secondary students.

“This country’s workforce and leaders of tomorrow are growing up today and it is a national tragedy that so many of our young people are not getting the education or academic experience they rightfully deserve and need to succeed in a modern and increasingly demanding world,” Moore said Sept. 23 to about 500 people who gathered at the rally.

Moore was joined by First Nations leaders, Elders, citizens, youth, students and federal politicians during the rally to support fairness and opportunity for First Nations children and youth.

“We have gathered to unite our voices as one and to call on the government of Canada to provide First Nations with a guarantee that ensures First Nations students can have a quality, culturally relevant education from early childhood to post-secondary,” said National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo of the Assembly of First Nations.

“Our call is above all about fairness. First Nation education funding is the only education funding that has been capped arbitrarily at two per cent annually since 1996.”

Thunder Bay-Superior North MP Bruce Hyer called on the federal government to reverse chronic under-funding for First Nations education.

“The federal government has treaty obligations that they are not respecting,” Hyer said.

“They have the responsibility for supporting First Nations education. But a two per cent funding cap, in place even while our Aboriginal youth population grows rapidly, has resulted in a severe under-funding for First

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During a rally on Parliament Hill in Ottawa Sept. 23, Constance Lake Chief Arthur Moore said it’s a tragedy First Nations youth are not a receiving proper education. First Nation leaders also expressed concerns over Indian and Northern Affairs review of a post-secondary funding program for First Nation students. Matawa First Nations said it would reject any transfer of control over post-secondary education or support programs.

Nations education. Now Indian and Northern Affairs Canada is reviewing the administration of the Post Secondary Student Support Program (PSSSP) without any meaningful involvement of the First Nations which it serves. The government has to open up the process, start listening to the people that matter, and take action.”

Ontario Regional Chief Angus Toulouse said during a radio interview the First Nations Education Rally was organized due to INAC’s review of the PSSSP. “We are uncomfortable with the policy options that they are considering,” Toulouse said.

“It’s like a loan-based program, is what they are suggesting.”

Toulouse raised concerns about First Nations not being included in the discussions.

“We must be involved in discussions which look at building on the strengths of the current program in a way that fits the realities and needs of our children,” Toulouse said.

He also discussed the net results of the two per cent cap

as First Nation communities continue to grow at far more than a two per cent rate.

“The result of the cap is that every dollar of spending power that the First Nations had since the cap was put in place has been reduced to just 23 cents,” Toulouse said.

Toulouse said a total of 10,589 students were denied access to the funding during the years 2001 to 2006, according to Chiefs of Ontario data.

“In 2007 to 2008, an additional 2,858 students were also denied access to the Post Secondary School Support Program, again due to the two per cent cap and also with more being denied every subsequent year that the cap has been put in place,” Toulouse said.

New Democrat Aboriginal Affairs Critic Jean Crowder raised the issue of fair funding for schools in First Nations communities in the House of Commons.

“On-reserve schools are making do with up to one-third less funding than provincial

schools,” Crowder said. “The result is a crisis, including a dropout rate three times higher than average. The education gap is not only stunting economic opportunities for these children, but harming their communities as well. Why does the government have billions for corporate tax cuts, but little or nothing for First Nations children?”

“Our call is above all about fairness.”

– Shawn Atleo

Atleo said First Nation schools receive no resources for computers, software, libraries, language immersion or support systems.

“We are calling for resources that address this chronic underfunding and we want to work with the government to create a better system that enables success for our students, a system that is supported, integrated and sustainable,” Atleo said.

“This is in the interests of all Canadians. Closing the achievement gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people will add $179 billion to Canada’s GDP (gross domestic product) by 2026.”

The AFN said in a Sept. 23 press release the Auditor General of Canada has repeatedly urged the federal government to work collaboratively with First Nations to address education needs and the Parliamentary budget officer has noted the lack of a sound and consistent policy approach by the federal government on First Nation education and infrastructure.

“This National Week of Action on Education is driven by First Nations citizens who want to show support for our youth and share our current reality with all Canadians,” Atleo said. “First Nations have set out achievable plans for progress that will ultimately benefit all Canadians.

It’s time for our historic partner, the Government of Canada, to work with us to bring about real, positive change. We can-

not and will not wait while the future of our children, communities and nations hangs in the balance. When we all work together, everyone wins.”

Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg Chief Gilbert Whiteduck and a group of First Nations citizens and supporters walked more than 135 kilometres from his community, which is located near Maniwaki, Que., to show their support for better First Nations education.

“It’s shameful that the youngest and fastest growing segment of Canada’s population receive a much lower standard of education than others,” Hyer said.

“Our First Nations youth will play an increasingly important role in the economy of their communities and the country, but we’re not giving them the best preparation to reach their full potential.”

The rally also included participation by the Canadian Federation of Students, Public Service Alliance of Canada and the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

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DFC students attend anti-Bill 191 rally in Toronto James Thom Wawatay News

Four students from Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School were selected to attend the antiBill 191 rally at Queen’s Park in Toronto Sept. 15-16.

Along with teacher Kevin Kakegamic, students Megan Kakepetum from Keewaywin, Clayton Hudson from Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug, Storm Keewasin from Wunnumin Lake, and Claudia Linklater from Sandy Lake, made the more than 20-hour bus trip with Nishnawbe Aski Nation staff.

“It was great to be a part of the rally,” Kakepetum said, adding setting up the road block behind Queen’s Park was the highlight of the trip.

Led by Timmins-James Bay MPP Gilles Bisson, the students were also part of the 100-member strong group who walked out of the Sept. 15 committee meeting on Bill 191 after the Liberals refused to adopt Bisson’s amendment proposal to delay passage of the bill.

It was later passed (see related story on page 1).

Kakegamic said it was a privilege to stand shoulder to shoulder with NAN leaders and his students to fight for change.

The DFC students have been following the Bill 191 issue since they returned to school.

The bill, also referred to as the Far North Act, was introduced in June 2009 to permanently protect at least half of Ontario’s Far North, covering an area of about 225,000 square kilometres.

Early in the school year, NAN youth council representative Jason Smallboy attended the school seeking signatures for a petition against the bill.

“We’re trying to use this situation as a teaching tool,” Kakegamic said. “We’re following the news and keeping students aware of what’s happening.”

When the bill passed its third reading, some of the students were listening to it live with Kakegamic.

“I was disappointed in the vote,” Kakepetum said.

“I was sad and disappointed, I almost cried,” Keewasin said.

“It was so frustrating to be part of something outside our control,” Hudson said.

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Many Nishnawbe Aski Nation community members were in attendance at an anti-Bill 191 rally Sept. 16 in Toronto where the bill was being debated in the Ontario legislature. Four students from Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School in Thunder Bay were also at the rally.

Province, Webequie, Marten Falls agree to Ring of Fire cooperation James Thom Wawatay News

Webequie, Marten Falls and the province have reaffirmed their commitment to addressing issues related to development in the mineral-rich Ring of Fire deposit.

The announcement was made Sept. 16.

“I am very happy to come together with Marten Falls First Nation as neighbours in the Ring of Fire and seek to create a positive framework of understanding for our communities,” said Webequie Chief Cornelius Wabasse. “I look forward to working with Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) and Ministry of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry (MNDMF) in addressing issues and providing support for our communi-

ties associated with Ring of Fire opportunities and communitybased land-use planning.”

Marten Falls Chief Eli Moonias added, “I am glad Marten Falls First Nation and Webequie First Nation are on the journey to establishing a communitybased process in resolving the differences in overlapping traditional territories. Hopefully, we can begin dialogue with our other neighbours in this same fashion.”

The agreement reaffirms the First Nations’ and Ontario’s commitment to addressing issues related to the Ring of Fire.

The province calls the signing of the letter of intent the first formal step towards a Memorandum of Cooperation for mineral development issues, including land use planning in their

traditional land use areas.

“The fact that we remain engaged with our First Nation partners to address issues around mineral exploration and development on their traditional land use areas speaks to the commitment of all parties to achieving a consensus with respect to benefiting from this enormously promising mineral find,” said MNDMF Minister Michael Gravelle. “I commend Chief Moonias and Chief Wabasse for taking an important leadership role in securing a more prosperous future for their people.”

The Letter of Intent acknowledges the need to develop a working relationship between the First Nations and the Ontario government, as it relates to potential impacts of proposed developments on their

traditional areas. It builds on previous and ongoing dialogue between the parties to address outstanding concerns around development in the McFauld’s Lake area.

“The Ring of Fire will help build a stronger economy and create jobs for First Nations communities in the North.”

– Linda Jeffrey

With more than 30 companies exploring in the Ring of Fire and estimates suggesting the possible potential for decades of chromite production, as well as significant production of nickel,

copper and platinum, proper protocols must be in place, the chiefs said.

The relationship protocol signed between the communities and the province will allow for the beginning of joint discussions and collaborative planning on how to minimize impacts and maximize benefits for their community members within their adjacent traditional territories where the Ring of Fire mineral discoveries are located.

The relationship protocol reinforces the reality that companies and governments have to directly engage, consult, and accommodate the most directly affected First Nation communities, the chiefs said in a release.

Natural Resources Minister Linda Jeffrey gave credit to the chiefs for making the agree-

ment possible.

“I want to thank Chief Moonias and Chief Wabasse for their leadership on this promising development initiative,” Jeffrey said. “The relationship between our government and Marten Falls First Nation and Webequie First Nation is a great example of what we can achieve when we work together. The Ring of Fire will help build a stronger economy and create jobs for First Nations communities in the North.”

Aboriginal Affairs Minister Chris Bentley said, “I am delighted at the collaboration of the parties involved as this sets a good example of what’s achievable when we work together to promote our common goals around economic development, skills training and job opportunities.

Ring of Fire activities questioned by Environmental Commissioner

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Nishnawbe Aski Police Service Sgt. Jackie George speaks to students at Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School Sept. 16. George gave tips to students about how to be safe. These include walking with confidence, staying in groups, staying away from dark areas, not falling asleep in city buses and avoiding contact with strangers.

Ontario’s Far North is turning into a wild west free-forall charges the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario.

Gord Miller is referring to hundreds of kilometres of staked Crown lands leading out to the region known as the Ring of Fire.

He said the lines being staked will be used to develop a railway line to a future open pit mine that will extract chromite.

Miller said the staking being done by mining companies “abuses the intended purpose of mining claims.”

“Unfortunately the Mining Act is ambiguous on this matter, stating only that lands, surface and mining rights issued under the act are to be used solely for ‘mining purposes’ and that staked claims are to be used as ‘mining land’ or for another purpose of the ‘mineral industry.’ ” Joanne Ghiz, spokeswoman for Ministry of Northern Development Mines and Forestry (MNDMF), said the ministry is aware of the linear staking being done in the Far North.

She says the situation is being monitored.

“The Mining Act does not

allow for staking that is not for mineral interest,” she said. “If we find that these claims have been staked for non-mineral purposes then the claims will lapse.”

Ghiz said a report will be released within a few months that should give the ministry a clear picture about claim staking activity in the Far North.

“Rail or road construction would require significant planning and permitting, so if they’re just staking a claim it doesn’t mean that it’s going to happen.”

Miller also said government is turning a seemingly blind eye on illegal construction of mining-related projects in the Ring of Fire.

He said the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) halted a Class Environmental Assessment (EA) process in September 2009 after a fly over inspection of a site west of McFauld’s Lake.

“To their surprise, the proponent had already cleared the forest and constructed the mining work camp and airstrip, which appeared to be in active use.”

Miller said the Class EA process was halted and a warrant was issued under the Public Lands Act.

The project had been evaluated as a “category B” project in which there is the “potential for low to medium negative environmental impacts, and/or public or agency concern.”

Miller went on to question what role MNDMF has when it comes to overseeing “miningrelated development in the Ring of Fire.”

He said a “one window co-ordination process” gives MNDMF a lead role in mining-related development. The policy is meant to provide “an efficient, transparent and timely process for the review, permitting and approval of new mineral development projects.”

“This process is intended to be applied to projects: requiring multiple permits and/ or approvals; requiring the involvement of more than one participating ministry; or triggering a requirement for processes under the Environmental Assessment Act.” Miller assessed “MNDMF did not apply the one-window policy in this case.”

Ghiz said the one-window policy sets out “some clear rules, responsibilities that will help them (industry, First Nation, government) all work together.

It’s a regulation.”

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Opportunies abound but there’s no place The story of the dream catcher like home

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Sachigo Lake First Nation, 1993.

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lot of our people can relate to growing up on a reserve, with people you come to know very well.

A lot of us can also relate to having to leave them for school. In these days, we grow up knowing the day will come.

In the past, however, it came unexpectedly, as if it were a kidnapping.

I am so fortunate to be one of those who knew the day was coming. I am a student attending Pelican Falls First Nations High School, a student attending his last semester of high school. I will soon be home again and this time I will know I can stay there for as long as I want.

I had to leave home for my first year of high school four years ago and left all the familiar faces and comfort. The day felt so long, my parents encouraging me not to get so homesick that I will want to quit, that it will not take long to finish. My older siblings telling me not to be like them, my younger siblings idolizing me.

I had to leave home for my first year of high school four years ago and left all the familiar faces and comfort.

My classmates told me they would see me there. My younger friends told me they would miss me and to wait for them there so we could finish together.

My grandma was amazed I even got as far as Grade 8 and gave me what was a lot of money back in her days: 20 dollars. It was a very emotional day; there was a lot of happiness and sadness.

Then the pilot let us know the plane was ready and a lot of hugs were given as we, the freshmen, boarded the plane.

That was my first time getting on a plane without an adult I trusted. As we took off to our first year of high school, I looked out the window and

saw the many vehicles parked outside the airport, the many everyday people waving to us, saying “See you soon.”

Going into a house with only a few well-known people and many strangers is very unsettling. Although, it is a blessing there was the phone, e-mail, and messenger to communicate with the kinfolk back home.

I called them constantly my first year, even as I started making new friends. I would call them for various reasons, but mostly because I missed them and I just wanted to hear them, to know that they are all still home waiting for me.

But I made a friend like the one you see in the movies; the one you could always count on, the one that is always there.

And it was not easy to make new friends for someone as shy as me. I stuck to this one friend because I could be myself around this one, I did not have to pretend, as if I was freed.

It was this friend I leaned on when I felt deserted. There would be a loss back home and my friends and I would go home. Then I would go back to school and realize not all of us came back. Then, one by one, the ones who did come back either dropped out or got kicked out.

This one person was there though, making sure I forgot about the isolation and making sure I did not do the same.

I also called home, of course.

Those close to me, and myself, made sure I stayed in high school when I really wanted to go home.

Now, it has been four years since my first year of high school. And my parents were right, it did not take long, the days became routine and time just flew by. I also made a handful of friends that are like the ones you see in the movies.

I am a potential graduate finishing up my last semester of high school. I will be the first in my family to graduate. I get to go home in December knowing I could stay there forever. But I came to realize all the opportunities out there for me in this world.

And frankly, I want to get the most out of my life, I want live my dream, my future ambition that is to someday work for Nintendo.

For now though, I want to spend some time with my family and friends when I go home to Poplar Hill.

Xavier Kataquapit UNDER THE NORTHERN SKY

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was lucky to meet some very interesting traditional First Nation people this summer. I always learn so much when my walk leads to someone with a lot of knowledge about my people and their traditions and culture.

When I was growing up in Attawapiskat I rarely had the opportunity to learn about Native culture and traditions.

We were brought up with a spiritual belief that was really more religious and based on the Roman Catholic faith.

The missionaries had brought this belief to the people of the James Bay coast and to Native people right across North and South America.

I did not really understand when I was young that it had not always been that way.

It was surprising to me that we had a spiritual way, culture and traditions before the coming of the Europeans.

My Elders have been able to tell me something about those days but most of my learning has come from traditional elders, healers, medicine men and people who have a more intricate knowledge of the ancestors.

This summer I learned much about dream catchers from Marcia Martel-Brown of Brunswick House First Nation. I met her at the annual Wabun Youth Gathering where she was providing teachings on the dream

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catcher.

My first knowledge of the dream catcher is similar I imagine to most other people.

I always just thought they were Native craft work that had something to do with keeping bad dreams away.

The funny thing is that most white people I know have these dream catchers in their cars for some kind of protection from accidents I imagine. Strangely, most First Nation people I know from up the coast have a picture of Jesus, an image of the cross or St. Christopher, the patron saint of travellers in their cars. So, I find that kind of amusing. It is also very telling.

Actually, the true origins of the dream catcher has to do with healing and a complex process that revolved around the making of this item. Marcia explained our ancestors used the making of the dream catcher as part of a healing journey.

Long ago when Native people still had their own spirituality, culture and traditions the dream catcher was an important tool for a community. If someone was feeling emotional or physical pain they might choose to go on a healing journey that involved the making of their dream catcher.

This person would contact a healer or medicine man in the community and ask for assistance for this journey. A person would have to get permission from his or her family to do this because it meant that the family would have to survive without the constant presence and help from the person who was seeking healing.

Once there was agreement then the seeker of healing

worked closely with his or her healer to learn the ways of dealing with or healing a hurt.

Marcia explained to me that this was a very big deal in a community. When someone decided to go on this healing journey and begin the making of their dream catcher it was up to the community to support this person and his or her family.

The true origins of the dream catcher has to do with healing and a complex process that revolved around the making of this item.

The community had to pitch in and assist that person and their family so that they would survive while this journey was being taken. The entire community knew about this journey and there was a huge feast to celebrate the decision.

Once the journey started the person on the healing quest and healer spent much time together. There was no set limit for this process and sometimes it took seasons and even years to complete. It all started with hunting and gathering to find the items needed to make a dream catcher.

Some of these items included willow branches, sinew, stone and various other items as decided on by the healer.

This meant they would have to travel out on the land to hunt and gather what they needed. During this time they spent days and days together discussing the life history of

the person on the quest. The dream catcher then actually started to take form.

First the selected willow branch was bent to either cross or meet in a circle. This represented the person’s beginning of life to the present and all that happened in that time.

Then slowly the healer helped the person produce the sinew and string it inside the circle like ribbons of time. At times in the slow and patient construction of the dream catcher stones and other items would be hooked into the emerging web of sinew that might represent significant events and perhaps times of pain.

After much time, work and the process of reflecting on life the person on the dream quest would arrive at a place of learning with a finished dream catcher. This was always the hope.

At that point that part of the healing journey came to an end or you could also say there was a new beginning celebrated in a ceremony. The dream catcher was burned and the pain and turmoil that had been hurting the person seeking healing disappeared in the flames.

That last part of Marcia’s explanation helped me understand why our people never had proof or evidence of dream catchers from long, long ago.

None of them survived as they were given over to an important part of the healing process when they were burned.

So, I say a big Meegwetch to Marcia for bringing me the story of the dream catcher so I could in turn tell it to you. I wish you sweet dreams. www.underthenorthernsky.com

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Owing my career LETTERS Ring of Fire story sounds off alarms of impending development to Leo Rozema To the Editor:

Richard Wagamese ONE NATIVE LIFE

When I was 13 my adopted family moved to the city from the small southwestern Ontario farm where we’d lived for three years.

When I got to Grade 8 that fall I felt isolated and lonely again.

So I did what every lonely, scared kid would do in order to fit in. I did what everyone else was doing. I hung out on the corner and smoked cigarettes.

I talked trash and acted hip. I paid more attention to acceptance than my grades. It wasn’t long before I was restricted in everything.

My life became a walk to school and back. Then, it was four hours in my room each night to study. Except that I didn’t study.

I wrote. I wrote stories and plays and poems about the kind of life I imagined every other kid was having, a life that wasn’t restricted to the cloister of a small room, stories of hopes, dreams, happy endings and skies boundless and impossibly blue.

And I never showed any of them.

But my teacher that year was a man named Leo Rozema. He had a big nose and gray hair, his ties were out of fashion and

he smelled of cigarettes. But there was something about Mr. Rozema that I trusted, maybe something in the fact that he had to work so hard at being accepted, that he had to fight to be himself too. So I showed him my stories.

One day there was a brown envelope on my desk. When I opened it there was a letter along with my stories. Mr. Rozema wrote out in longhand a poem called High Flight. It described a pilot’s fascination with the sky.

“And while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod, the high untrespassed sanctity of space, put out my hand and touched the face of God.” That’s how the poem went and he wrote about how my writing reminded him of that.

He called me a great writer because I could make him feel things. He praised me and told me to keep going. I did.

I am a writer today because of Leo Rozema. He was the first adult in my adopted life that actually saw me, heard me, got me. From my writing he gleaned the ache I carried and he offered the salve of praise and recognition. He knew my struggle and he was wise enough to separate the kid from the report card.

We live with pieces of the sky inside us. In our cells is the very mystery of space.

We take flight when we’re shown it and the arc of our travel is wonderful to see, the trail of it incandescent, joined to an impossible blue.

Re: Ring of Fire, Bill 191, and Indigenous Treaty Relations.

I am responding to the Ring of Fire article published in the Sept. 2 edition of Wawatay News. It raised fire alarm bells because production in the Ring of Fire will cause such environmental damage and dispossession of Indigenous peoples’ territory.

This development violates our treaty rights espoused in Treaty 9. I am concerned about the rapid pace of this project especially when the Cree and Ojibway Nations have not been fully consulted yet, nor have they given their consent. There are 48 Indigenous treaty partners affiliated with Treaty 9 of 1905/06, and its adhesion in 1929/30. All these communities agreed to share the land and its natural resources with the Crown. By virtue of this treaty,

the Cree and Ojibway Nations agreed to share with each other as well, of the newly created territory which was demarcated as the Treaty 9 area.

Any development in the treaty area impacts the treaty rights of every Indigenous person who lives within this area and also entitles them to a fair share of the benefits, regardless of where the development occurs. The Ring of Fire impacts our treaty rights.

The Victor Diamond Mine, Musselwhite Mine, Bill 191 initiatives dispossesses our lands and natural resources and infringes upon our inherent and treaty rights.

I am reminded of the 1970s, when Reed Paper Company proposed clear cutting a large tract of land above the 50th parallel which engulfed many Treaty 9 communities. NAN, or Grand Council Treaty Number 9, as it was known then, mobilized its

leaders and community people to fight this endangerment of the people, environment and its homeland. This approach was based on unity and strength gaining momentum ultimately defeating Reed Paper and the Ontario Government.

Bill 191 and the Ring of Fire pose a greater threat to our homelands. The ulterior motive is to dispossess our jurisdictions and wealth.

We need to ensure our environment is well protected and our people have a share in the monetary benefits of our natural resources. This assurance is not there. The Ontario government and its proponents are proceeding with Ring of Fire without due diligence. Bill 191 has been passed into law.

In terms of the Ring of Fire, the Ontario government must cease its activities and suspend the project development until all the Indigenous treaty part-

ners have been consulted and have provided their consent.

The project will have global effects in the Treaty 9 area, with such tremendous unknown impacts to the surrounding environment and its Indigenous peoples.

Northern Development Mines and Forestry Minister Michael Gravelle’s comparison of Ring of Fire to the nickel discovery in the Sudbury basin is testament to the environmental, social and economic consequences this operation will have for the next 100 years.

Let’s correct the injustices of the past 100 years, including compensation of lost revenues and opportunities, before we allow this project to occur.

Where are the people who fought Reed Paper in the 1970s?

Dean Cromarty Wunnumin Lake First Nation

Remember ancestors who fought for the land To the Editor: I am from Sandy Lake First Nation and 19 years old.

When I first heard about Bill 191, I didn’t get what was the big deal. Then I saw a press conference on the news and I started to wonder what would happen to us as First Nation people. The Ontario government is taking 21 per cent of our land for a park.

Though First Nation chiefs in Ontario are fighting hard for our land rights, we all need to stand together and help fight

for what is rightfully ours. I strongly believe we have rights to our land. We all carry pride in who we are and what we do.

Our ancestors were the first ones to care for the land and they travelled throughout it.

My father Jonas Fiddler, a respected Elder in the Nishnawbe Aski Nation territory, would tell me stories about it.

He would tell me his late-father Chief Thomas Fiddler would travel all through the land to go to the Hudson Bay trading post on foot or by canoe.

We have to remember our ancestors and fight for our land.

My father was one of the many Elders to walk these lands and he taught us to take care of the land and to treat Mother Earth with love and respect.

We the First Nation people don’t expect royal treatment.

We work hard to get what we want and to make our families happy. We don’t have fancy houses or nice things.

The thing we can hold onto is having pride in ourselves.

We walk with pride and show

others respect. We are not bad people. We respect visitors to Sandy Lake and we make sure they enjoy themselves.

Now the government of Ontario is coming out of nowhere and taking our land from us.

If only it was as simple as asking Ontario to drop everything and let us keep our land. It is one of the many things that represents who we are.

Claudia Fiddler Sandy Lake First Nation

Concerns raised over resource development in Far North, how to protect First Nation interests To the Editor: I wonder exactly what it is we Native people may want out of it and how we can protect what is in our best interests.

To me it would seem like a good idea to permanently protect our land and have say over what and where resource development should occur; especially in a bill. It would enable permanent protection and speed up the process of potential sites and resource development.

“If that is what First Nations may want.”

In order to change a legislation like that a whole new bill would have to be written up therefore making it a lot harder for the government to sneak under the noses of First Nations.

Does that give the government the right to walk all over

the unprotected areas developing resources? As for the power of veto (official power to cancel a proposal), who has that power at the exact time when resource development should occur in protected and out of protected areas in treaty land? Can someone please pick up their pipe put some tobacco in it and seriously start thinking about that, because even now I am starting to wonder.

When it all comes down to it we are going to have to develop economically with our government someday.

To me and many others I assume the land is of great importance. Yet all I have been hearing is talk about money and claims. First off us as native people do, should and shall receive a profit of what comes

from our land; but then that brings us to a point. Is it money we are after when it comes down to controlling our land?

Or is it land protection? Sure money is good to have when it comes down to family healing facilities, the youth, treatment programs as well as any other things to assist and help our people. However I see thieves taking bids and making agreements behind other’s backs, separation of thought and ownership and worst of them all greed, all brought on by the government using bribery.

When resource development is taking place we must work together. When bids and agreements are made the money inherited should go to that entire treaty area not just one reserve or a small group of

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them. All of our reserves within a treaty area must agree on site location. We should make resolutions among ourselves to ensure this. It prevents that bribery which I was speaking of earlier. How long does it take to write a proposal? How long does it take to fax it and get a signature? We are keepers and protectors of our land; we should put some thought into that.

It is also very important to give us a map of what the government would see as potential sites, and let us decide whether or not we would like to develop the resources.

It is very important how we play our cards and I will tell you why. Our prime minister is putting us in a 50 billion dollar deficient.

The Conservatives shut down a lot of companies which included manufacturing of which uses resources, our logging industry as well as a lot of small and large companies. So what is there to stimulate?

Our government does not show the initiative, knowledge, or understanding nor does it even try to invest in medical research or future technologies; like electric powered cars, electronics or any other type of innovation. But hey, we still have the Black Berry and those furry Canadian teddy bears you can buy at the tourist shop.

What I am trying to say is our government is going to head straight for our natural resources. The P.M. now and others to come will ship more

and more resources out of our country without any thought of utilizing them in order to pay this money and increasing debt, now and in future generations to come. I kind of assume now that this is why there is such a rush to extract resources.

You know though; our P.M. is not that much of an irrational thinker. He recently spent two million dollars to send himself and two jets up north to exhibit sovereignty.

I do however think our prime minister and Conservative government could make a nice gold chain with diamonds and shine on all of our Canadian necks, not only to make us look good but to show off as well.

Patrick Dewey Thunder Bay, Ont.

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elected as Kejick Bay councillors.

Brad Ross was elected as Whitefish Bay councillor.

Darlene Angeconeb, Bradley Ross and Roderick Wesley Sr. had been running against Bull in the election for chief.

Lac Seul has a registered membership list of more than 2,800 and is comprised of three settlements – Frenchman’s Head, represented by four councillors, Whitefish Bay, represented by three councillors and Kejick Bay, represented by one councillor.

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Lac Seul Chief Clifford Bull was re-elected Sept. 24 to his third term in the Treaty 3 community.

Frenchman’s Head councillors Tom Peetwayway, Floyd Vincent and Elvis Trout were also re-elected in the election as was Kejick Bay councillor Karen Ningewance.

Former chief David Gordon was elected as a Frenchman’s Head councillor, while Dean Ross and Derek Maud were

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Everyone has a role to play in rights protection To the Editor: Over these many years, there has been no or very little reporting by Wawatay News on the abrogation of our treaty rights by our own leaders and their staff. It is not only Canada and Ontario who are destroying our treaty rights and by extension, our Aboriginal rights.

To point to our own leaders as one source of our continuing problems seems to be a no-no and when somebody makes their stand there is total silence to the issue which has been raised or self-righteous indignation from our leaders.

However, nobody has the right to abrogate our treaty rights and we need, to show, for the historical record, that not all our people support these initiatives. I, for one, do not support the abrogation of our treaty rights.

The Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Sciences Centre will have its grand opening Oct. 15 and on that day, many people – chiefs, board of directors for Sioux Lookout First Nation Health Authority, SLFNHA staff, Nishnawbe Aski Nation Grand Chief, Indian board members for Meno Ya Win hospital – will be celebrating along with the non-Native people.

It is good to celebrate the grand opening of Meno Ya Win but what has been lost?

I will provide this statement from the April 16, 1999 legal analysis which was provided to Windigo Tribal Council.

“The First Nation people should consider building their ‘own’ hospital and charge the surrounding communities for using the hospital. At least, the First Nation people would ‘retain’ their treaty right to health care and have control over the hospital.”

When Meno Ya Win has its grand opening, the following would be correct to state: • Indigenous people will not ‘own’ Meno Ya Win as it is a corporation established under Ontario’s Hospital Act; • Through this process, it appears our collective leadership have again ‘lost’ one of the

treaty rights of our people and in this case – our treaty tight to our own hospital; and • Indigenous people ‘do not’ control Meno Ya Win hospital.

Treaty right to health is not the foundation for both the four-party agreement and the bilateral agreement which have led to the Menoyawin Hospital.

Our First Nations are not signatories to these agreements as NAN signed on our behalf.

However, NAN did not sign Treaty 9 and does not have the treaty right to health.

Also, Ontario and the Town of Sioux Lookout have nothing to do with Treaty 9. Some of us raised this issue in 1995 but our concerns were ignored.

What will happen if I challenge this Meno Ya Win with the lack of services?

They will simply say ‘you, as an Indigenous person, are not party to these agreements.’

Further, Ontario and the Town of Sioux Lookout can say this is not a treaty right to health issue. There goes our treaty right to health courtesy of our leaders.

We cannot turn to the Indian representativess who sit on Meno Ya Win board as they have pledged allegiance to Meno Ya Win. Check the fine print on Ontario’s Hospital Act whereby they are required to provide their informed consent to such a pledged allegiance before they can sit down as board members. Somehow their allegiance to our people got dropped on the floor somewhere.

Our people need to know the following: • Canada, on behalf of First Nations people, provided the total amount of $8.2 million towards the construction costs; and • Our net savings of $12.56 million were provided to Meno Ya Win’s operating costs by our chiefs.

When the grand opening for Meno Ya Win occurs one issue which some of us have continually raised will still not be addressed.

We had asked, for some ‘des-

ignated’ space, within the hospital for our northern doctors to see their patients, our people.

Within Meno Ya Win no such space is provided as per Ontario’s Hospital Act. It was suggested our doctor space requirement might be met with a trailer beside the hospital.

What is happening has been supported by our leaders.

We will get a trailer beside Meno Ya Win. This is after: • Canada provided $8.2 million (on behalf of our people) towards the construction costs; and • We provided $12.56 million of much-needed net savings funds to this hospital’s operating costs.

On another topic, up to now, our First Nations have not received the full amount of the net savings funds which rightfully belong to our people.

Every year, the chiefs are coerced by SLFNHA to divert some of these funds for their own purposes. This is our people’s money and our chiefs have no right to allow this diversion.

We are a people who have been used and abused so many times it doesn’t seem to matter anymore. Our chiefs have been part of this process for so long that they don’t even know they have become part of our problem.

In any event, we will show up Oct. 15 at the grand opening of Meno Ya Win. We will partake of the champagne and caviar and smile.

I am an Indigenous person and by God’s grace I am a member of the Kitchenuhmaykoosib Nation and a signatory to the James Bay Treaty or Treaty 9.

And I deserve more than a trailer beside Meno Ya Win. My treaty right to health must mean more than that as after all, my treaty right to health money, to a tune of $20.76 million has gone into that hospital.

Mike Morris Member of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Nation

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Wawatay Native Communications Society has partnered with the Northern Nishnawbe Education Council to launch the Misiwe Minoyawin (Health For Everyone) project.

Misiwe Minoyawin’s goal is to demonstrate to Aboriginal youth in northern Ontario, especially the communities Wawatay serves in Nishnawbe Aski Nation and Treaty #3, how healthy lifestyle choices can boost overall well-being.

The 18 month project will focus on the issues of substance abuse, tobacco use, healthy eating, maintaining an active lifestyle and mental health.

It will do this through a recipe book, videos, a community-based ad campaign contest and a youth role model campaign.

Recipe Submissions: The recipe book will address healthy eating by promoting proper and culturally appropriate nutrition and healthy eating habits. We want YOU to submit your recipes to be included in this cookbook. The only guidelines are that all recipes include traditional foods and methods to prepare meals that are low in saturated fats and refined carbohydrates.

This cookbook will also create an awareness of unhealthy modern eating habits and hopes the book will aid in building healthy eating habits to lower the risk of diabetes, which is prevalent among First Nation peoples in northern Ontario.

Another aspect of this recipe book is the soliciting of the legends/stories behind the traditional foods in the submitted recipes: wild rice, berries and wild game for example.

For more info contact: Chris Kornacki Misiwe Minoyawin Project Co-ordinator 807.344.3022 (office) 1.888.575.2349 (toll free) 807.344.3182 (fax) chrisk@wawatay.on.ca About the logo: This logo illustrates the natural foods aboriginal people had sustained themselves on to live healthy lives.

The geese are food from the sky, moose and wild rice from the land, and fish from the water.

Funding provided by the government of Ontario, Ministry of Health Promotion and the Healthy Communities Fund.

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Fundraising for a Cure

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Public Forum You are invited to attend an all-candidates forum on First Nations issues.

Date: Location:

October 13, 2010 at 7:30pm Nishnawbe-Gamik Friendship Centre 52 King Street, Sioux Lookout, ON

This municipal election is fast approaching and we’d like to engage you in a community dialogue. The Sioux Lookout Anti-racism Committee is hosting an all-candidates forum on First Nations issues on October 13, 2010 at 7:30pm at the Nishnawbe-Gamik Friendship Centre.

First Nations people have contributed and will continue to contribute signicantly to the economic fabric of Sioux Lookout and the surrounding region. Some candidates have expressed an interest in developing “partnerships” with First Nations. This forum will allow candidates to explain their platform on First Nations issues such as: • • • •

Nishnawbe Aski Development Fund employees, including marketing and communications officer Ade Sekudo, held a lunchtime barbecue and bake sale fundraiser Sept. 22 at Centennial Square for their CIBC Run for the Cure team. They raised $419 during the event. Run for the cure is near and dear to the hearts of several NADF members so they chose to form a team this year for the Oct. 3 event. To date, the NADF team – Bank For Bust – has raised more than $2,000. Anyone interested in supporting the team can call the NADF office or go online to www.rundforthecure.com to make a pledge.

Future role of the Youth and Cultural Centre; First Nations participation on municipal boards and committees; Urban reserve concept; and, Economic and social development strategies.

Please contact Cathy Ann Kelly for more information.

Cathy Ann Kelly REsolve Manager Sioux Lookout Anti-Racism Committee (SLARC) Box 1194, Sioux Lookout, ON, P8T 1B7 cakelly@slarc.ca Cell: (807) 738-7800 Tel: (807) 737-1501 Fax: (807) 737-2600 www.slarc.ca

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Mushkiki celebrates 10 years with community gathering Rick Garrick Wawatay News

A jigging Elder was one of the highlights of Anishnawbe Mushkiki’s 10th anniversary celebration: A Decade of Community Success.

“A lot of older people came – I saw one person get up and jig while the jiggers were on,” said Martha Mawakeesic, Anishnawbe Mushkiki’s FASD, nutrition and parenting worker.

“And they enjoyed themselves.

A couple of them were in wheelchairs.”

More than 300 people took part in the celebration, which was held Sept. 16 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Anishnawbe Mushkiki building on Royston Court in Thunder Bay and from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Current River Park on Cumberland St. “It was really successful,” said Shelley Marconi, Anishnawbe Mushkiki’s human resources manager. “We had a powwow in the evening, we had a barbeque dinner, we opened it up to all the community members.”

Shy-Anne Hovorka, Robin Ranger, Shabastik, Peng Yu, John Fletcher, Frankie T., Ron Kanutski, Robert Spade and Candace Twance and a group of hand drummers provided entertainment throughout the afternoon and the Thunder Mountain Singers and the Shadow Creek Singers drummed during the powwow.

The powwow also featured Anishnawbe Mushkiki’s drum, Thunderboy, which had never left the Anishnawbe Mushkiki building before.

“We have our Thunderboy drum, who brings the community members together, especially the youth, and who is the centre of the healing of the people,” said Theresa Magiskan, Anishnawbe Mushkiki’s traditional healing co-ordinator.

“It was the first time out of the building at our 10th year anniversary. I took great pride in bringing him there because he is the one who does a great deal of work here at Anishnawbe Mushkiki bringing our community members together every Tuesday night.”

Magiskan said the celebration brought an awareness of Anishnawbe Mushkiki’s services to many new people.

“We not only hosted to our clients, but we had new

(potential) clients that came to our open house and found out about our services,” Magiskan said. “So it was so successful in reaching out to our community, showing them what we do, showing them that we are here.”

Anishinabe Mushkiki currently provides seven main programs, including health advocacy; mental health; traditional services; FASD/FAE (Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and Fetal Alcohol Effects); diabetes prevention; foot care services; and an Aboriginal community health clinic.

Chris Kornacki/Wawatay News

“We provide primary health care needs to approximately 6,700 active clients.”

Robin Ranger performs at Anishnawbe Mushkiki’s 10th anniversary celebration Sept. 16. Festivities included a barbecue and live entertainment from local musicians and a powwow at Current River Park. Local vendors also sold their arts and crafts.

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“We provide primary health care needs to approximately 6,700 active clients that come in and receive services from physicians, nurse practitioners,” said Branwen Felbel, Anishnawbe Mushkiki’s clinic manager. “We have an RPN (registered practical nurse) that does clinical assistance and of course all the other admin staff.”

Anishnawbe Mushkiki’s clinic currently has a waiting list; its mandate is to serve Aboriginal people from Thunder Bay and the catchment area.

“Because our resources are limited, we can’t possibly hire as many doctors and nurses that we would like to so we have limited it to Aboriginal people within the Thunder Bay area,” Marconi said. “We are always actively trying to pursue other means in terms of getting resources so we can hire more providers.”

Anishnawbe Mushkiki is currently working on developing a nurse practitioner-led clinic focusing on chronic disease management to better serve the community.

“The NPLC (nurse practitioner-led clinic) is focusing on chronic disease management so you are dealing with people who have asthma, diabetes, it could be obesity, there are a number of chronic diseases,” Marconi said.

“It is a little ways away, but it is definitely on the horizon.”

Information Centre: Review of Draft Contingency Forest Management Plan Kenora Forest 2011-2012 Contingency Forest Management Plan The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) and Miitigoog Limited Partnership and the Kenora Local Citizens Committee, invites you to attend an information centre. This information centre is being held as part of the detailed planning of operations for the 2011-2012 Contingency Forest Management Plan for the Kenora Forest.

The Contingency Forest Management Plan is required to accommodate an adjustment to the Forest Management Planning Schedule allowing the synchronization of the planning schedules for the Kenora Forest and the Whiskey Jack Forest for April 1, 2012.

This Contingency Forest Management Plan is required to support harvesting, renewal and tending operations for the one-year period of April 1, 2011 to March 31, 2012. Areas will be planned for harvest and accessed in a manner that is consistent with the approved strategic direction.

How to Get Involved During preparation of the Contingency Forest Management Plan, two formal opportunities for Aboriginal and public involvement are provided. This “Stage 1” notice is: • To invite you to review and comment on the Draft Contingency Forest Management Plan and • To request additional contributions to the background information to be used in planning.

To assist in your review of the Draft Contingency Forest Management Plan for the Kenora Forest, related information and maps will be available at the information centres to be held at the following times and locations: October 14, 2010 October 15, 2010

Kenora Best Western Lakeside Inn Sioux Narrows Community Centre

4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Can’t Make It? The Draft Contingency Forest Management Plan will be available on the Ministry of Natural Resources public web site at http://ontario.ca/forestplans and for a 30-day period October 14, 2010 to November 15, 2010, following the information centers, at the following locations: Weyerhaeuser Company Ltd. Office 1000 Jones Road, Kenora, ON Robert (Bob) Boyce, R.P.F. Tel.: 807-548-7249

MNR Kenora District Office 808 Robertson Street, Kenora, ON Jason Suprovich, R.P.F. Tel.: 807-468-2559

Comments on the Draft Contingency Forest Management Plan for the Kenora Forest can be sent to Jason Suprovich at the Ministry of Natural Resources Kenora District Office, by November 15, 2010.

You may request formal issue resolution by contacting Robert (Bob) Boyce (Plan Author) as per the issue resolution process described in the 2009 Forest Management Planning Manual (Part C, Section 6.1.4).

Stay Involved A final opportunity to inspect the approved Contingency Forest Management Plan before it is implemented will take place during the “Inspection of the Ministry of Natural Resources - approved Contingency Forest Management Plan” (Stage 2) which is tentatively scheduled for December 1, 2010.

If you would like to be added to our mailing list and be notified of these consultation opportunities, please contact Jason Suprovich at 807-468-2559.

Ministry of Natural Resources is collecting your personal information and comments under the authority of the Crown Forest Sustainability Act. Any personal information you provide (address, name, telephone, etc.) will be protected in accordance with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, however, your comments will become part of the public consultation process and may be shared with the general public. Your personal information may be used by the Ministry of Natural Resources to send you further information related to this forest management planning exercise. If you have questions about the use of your personal information, please contact Jason Suprovich at 807-468-2559.

For further information, please contact any of the following individuals during normal office hours: Jason Suprovich, R.P.F. Acting Area Forester Ministry of Natural Resources 808 Robertson Street P.O. Box 5080 Kenora ON P9N 3X9 Tel.: 807-468-2559 E-mail: Jason.suprovich@ontario.ca

Robert (Bob) Boyce, R.P.F. Plan Author Weyerhaeuser Company Ltd. 1000 Jones Road P.O. Box 1930 Kenora, ON P9N 3X8 Tel.: 807-548-7249 E-mail: Bob.Boyce@weyerhaeuser.com

Mr. Henry Dribnenky Kenora Local Citizens Committee c/o 42 Ryerson Ave. Winnipeg, MB R3T 3S2

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Wawatay Native Communications Society and SEVEN Youth Media Network would like to announce the winners of the “Tomson Highway Writer’s Competition”.

Tomson Highway is the son of legendary caribou hunter and world championship dogsled racer, Joe Highway. Born in a tent pitched in a snow bank -- in December!

– just south of the Manitoba/Nunavut border (near Saskatchewan), he now, for a living, writes novels, plays, and music. Of the many works he has written to date, his best known are the plays, “THE REZ SISTERS,” “DRY LIPS OUGHTA MOVE TO KAPUSKASING,” “ROSE,” “ERNESTINE SHUSWAP GETS HER TROUT,” and the best-selling novel, “KISS OF THE FUR QUEEN.” For many years, he ran Canada’s premiere Native theatre company, Native Earth Performing Arts (out of Toronto), out of which has emerged an entire generation of professional Native theatre artists (actors, playwrights, etc.).

He has, as well, three children’s books to his credit, all written bilingually in Cree (his mother tongue) and English. He divides his year equally between a cottage in northern Ontario (near Sudbury) and an apartment in the south of France, at both of which locales he is currently at work on his second novel.

The winner in the “Wawatay” category is Jocelyn Formsma, a Moose Cree member.

In the SEVEN Youth Media category, Ardelle Sagutcheway of Eabametoong is the winner.

Congratulations to all of the winners.

Thanks to everyone who sent in applications and written works.

The winners will be staying at beautiful Mahkwa Lodge in Lac Seul First Nation for their 6 day Writer’s Workshop with Tomson Highway from October 25 to 30, 2010. We would like to thank and acknowledge the sponsorship support of Mahkwa Lodge.

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Plenty of prizes in Bearskin fishing derby Joe Beardy GUEST COLUMNIST

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midst the high whitecapped waves built up by an extra strong northwest wind a line of boats are barely visual due to the hard pelting rain drops that has been falling since late last night.

This can be an extraordinary sight for any passer-by or a chance hunter caught in a midst of a fierce rain storm, but the people occupying these boats are Michikan (Bearskin) Lake anglers who live by a code passed down from their Elders which states “when something has to be done it must be done no matter what the situation.”

The date is Sept. 11 and this is the first summer fishing derby for the people of Michikan. There are regular derbies held during the course of the summer but today’s derby is being sponsored by the local recreation committee and offers big prizes most people of this small community normally cannot afford on seasonal employment.

A 16 foot boat with a 25hp motor, $2,500 cash, a new bedroom suite, washer and drier and countless other prizes including participant’s draws for those who lack fishing skills and knowledge of fish habitats.

I was drawn in by the second prize of $2,500 as were 90 per cent of the other participants that entered. The money can help in many ways including a paid vacation and time out of the community or down pay-

ments for a new Ski-doo come winter.

I teamed with my sister Katie who is a single mother caring for her grandchildren.

Katie also works as a radio station manger during the summer months and with work and her home responsibilities she never has time for her personal needs or recreational activities.

The derby is slated to start at 9 a.m. and end at 4 p.m.

Like a responsible parent and grandmother, Katie must do her shopping first before we depart.

We arrive at the boat launch by 10:30 a.m. that morning and decide to use our mother’s boat which she won during the winter fishing derby held here in Michikan Lake.

After casting off we spend another 45 minutes trying to start our motor but to no avail.

The time we spent trying to start our motor has blown us a mile along the shore and we are forced to abandon our efforts. We portage back along the shoreline carrying our gas tank cursing one another under our breaths. Our next departure time is now 11 a.m., three hours behind every other fisherman.

With the frustrations of the weather and exhaustion from pulling the motor for a half hour the stress of a simple fishing trip becomes endurable when I decide to slip in my last comment, a teaching that is basic in all societies, “It never pays to steal!”

Her quick response yields an extended hand and stretched fingers “it’s a good thing I have my new gloves on, now let’s go.”

It takes us a good hour to get to our first site, a hot spot for pickerel coming in from the main Severn River way onto the

main lake of Severn. With no voting or rank she makes herself captain of my boat and orders a trolling cruise through the parked boats, each manned by two to three fishermen. After a couple of passes through mean stares from grunting fishermen we have caught nothing only snagging weeds.

Katie and I have been setting nets during the summer months and have become familiar with fish migration and feeding spots. We head towards the deeper areas where we had witnessed a couple dozen loons on a feeding frenzy during the lather parts of the summer.

The day seems to last forever when the cold wind and rain has been beating on your person for hours.

The first location offers us one good sized pickerel (the only one we would catch all day). The day seems to last forever when the cold wind and rain has been beating on your person for hours.

By 2 p.m. we are soaked and find a sheltered area along the shore and build a fire. Hot tea and food is always a good source of energy when you are soaked and famished.

We then proceed along the Wunnimun Seebee (river), located on the west side of Severn Lake. We witness boats making their trek back but we make one more run and troll the shore.

The time now is 3 p.m. and we decide it is time to count our losses and head home.

We stop at the bottom of the Ki-Tach-won rapids where several fishermen have also stopped to have their last cast.

The final destination to the weighing station situated at the boat launch is disappointing for me as the judges weigh in my catch.

Each person had brought in fish weighing three, four and five pounds as my super sized fish only weighed in at 2.58 pounds.

The recreation committee has slated the announcement of the winners that evening at the local school gym. My partner and I walk in proud of our achievement and still hope for a 10th place prize.

As the judges start their last place countdown, the size of the smallest fish is 3.58 pounds, a whole pound more than my super catch.

Without starting a scene my partner and I are relieved to win a prize each in the participant catorgies. The big surprise for this fishing derby came last when a seven year old is announced with a seven pound walleye.

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Some Aboriginal women don’t feel safe in city James Thom Wawatay News

About 150 men, women and children gathered Sept. 23 to walk in memory of Aboriginal and Métis friends and loved ones missing or murdered in northwestern Ontario.

The sixth annual Full Moon Memory Walk was a sombre gathering in Thunder Bay with most participants spending it in quiet reflection or sharing their own eclectic reasons for participating and remembering those 55 women.

“I have three sisters and I couldn’t image something like this happening to them.”

– Joey Baxter

“I have three sisters and I couldn’t image something like this happening to them,” said Joey Baxter, an Eabametoong band member. “There have been far too many women murdered around here.”

Baxter walked alongside two of his sisters.

“I think it is important for us to be here,” said Syndin Baxter.

“The more people who attend and show their support the better. Hopefully we can raise awareness of this issue.”

In the wake of three murders in the city in the past month – all Aboriginal victims – safety was a hot topic among the participants.

“I don’t feel safe walking at night,” said Caitlyn Baxter. “I always try and find someone to walk with me when I have to be out.”

Her sister agreed.

“I won’t walk at night,” Syndin said.

Anne McGuire, who helps organize the walk, doesn’t blame the girls for how they feel.

“The highest group at risk is young Aboriginal women,” McGuire said. “The stats aren’t going down.”

It’s one of the reasons she too doesn’t walk alone after dark.

“Safety is a major concern (in Thunder Bay),” Maguire said.

“There are a lot of cold cases and unsolved murders.”

Her sister Jaime McGuire’s case is one of them.

Jamie, 20, died in 1994 during a visit to Winnipeg. She died of blunt force trauma to the back of the head in a case that remains unsolved. She left behind two children.

McGuire said the missing and murdered women issue seems to be gaining strength.

“There seems to be more interest in the walk,” she said, adding it is a national issue.

The case of British Columbian pig farmer Robert Pickton, who preyed on women in the region around his home, made international headlines.

Pickton was sentenced to life imprisonment in December 2007, with no eligibility for parole for 25 years. He was charged in the deaths of Sereena Abotsway, Mona Wilson, Andrea Joesbury, Brenda Wolfe, Georgina Papin and Marnie Frey at his farm in Port Coquitlam, B.C. Police allege he confessed to 43 other murders though he will not be charged in those cases.

Thea Ogewa said for far too long, missing and murdered Aboriginal women have been forgotten.

“There could be a little blurb in the newspaper and then nothing for months,” the Leech Lake, Minn. band member said.

“The issue is just set aside. It needs more follow-up from the proper authorities. People need to follow up on their own and make this an issue no one can forget about.”

Ogewa said people have the right to ask questions and follow-up on progress from their elected officials and police.

“This can’t be a case where you remember the issue for one night during the walk and then nothing till the next walk,” she said. “These were all people that died. We need to remember them as people, not just one of 55 murder victims. These women are not disposable.”

The walk began at the corner of Victoria Avenue and Simpson Street and ended at the Neebing-McIntyre Floodway.

After the participants completed their walk, candles were lit to honour the deceased women. Each name was read

by Elder Isabel Mercier. A drumbeat was also sounded in honour of each woman.

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Syndin Baxter, a Eabametoong band member, was one of more than four dozen people to light a candle in remembrance for a murdered or missing loved one at the conclusion of the Full Moon Memory Walk Sept. 23 in Thunder Bay. The names of 55 Aboriginal and Metis women were read and their memories honoured during the ceremony which also included a drum beat for each.

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ABOVE: Willow Wabigon, of the Fondulac Tribe in Minnesota, was one of 150 people to participate in the walk. With three murders in Thunder Bay in the past month, she wondered if she might be the next victim.

TOP RIGHT: Every participant in the Full Moon Memory Walk had a reason to be there from remembering a lost loved one to supporting friends in the same position.

BOTTOM RIGHT: The walk is now in it’s sixth year and continues to draw plenty of supporters. One of those supporters, Thea Ogewa, said it’s inportant to remember missing or murdered loved ones every day of the year, not just during the walk. “These were all people that died. We need to remember them as people, not just one of 55 murder victims. These women are not disposable,” Ogewa said.

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Traditions passed on during Fall Harvest Rick Garrick Wawatay News

Long-time Fall Harvest volunteer Willie Yerxa has seen a “tremendous change” over the years in the students’ knowledge of traditional harvesting techniques.

“They know how to roast the rice, they know how to dance on the rice,” Yerxa said during the 2010 Fall Harvest, held Sept. 21-23 at the Fort William Historical Park near Thunder Bay. “Now they’re getting bigger. Down in Fort Frances they know right away and come in and get involved.”

Yerxa has been helping out with the wild rice processing at the Seven Generations Education Institute’s Fort Frances Fall Harvest since it began about 10 years ago and with the Thunder Bay Fall Harvest since it began about five years ago.

“This takes the water content out of the wild rice,” Yerxa said about the wild rice roasting process he was sharing with the students, which involves stirring the wild rice with a paddle in a metal tub over a fire. “It has to be roasted slowly and with the right kind of wood. Poplar wood is better than any other kind.”

Yerxa said the proper roasting technique allows the husk to come off easier during the dancing process.

“That’s where it gets the flavour, from the smoke,” Yerxa said. “Dry poplar wood has that good flavour in it. It’s a slow process, they always told me there is no fast way of doing it.

You have to do it slowly, that’s the key.”

Seven Generations Education Institute’s Mark Sault started up

Rick Garrick/Wawatay News

Eabametoong’s Christine Baxter cuts the wing off a goose during the 2010 Fall Harvest, held Sept. 21-23 at the Fort William Historical Park near Thunder Bay. the Fall Harvest in Thunder Bay five years ago after other groups had heard about the Fort Frances Fall Harvest and asked for a similar event in Thunder Bay. “The first two years Seven Generations did sponsor it here,” Sault said, explaining the school boards began their involvement with the Fall Harvest during the second year.

“After that the school board jumped in and kicked in some cash.”

The 2010 Fall Harvest was organized by the Community Coalition Unified for the Protection of our Children and Youth (CCUPCY) and funded by the Ontario Arts Council.

“Students will have a very unique and practical experience when they attend this very special event at Fort William Historical Park,” said Carolyn Chukra, Aboriginal community liaison with Lakehead Public Schools and partnership officer and chairwoman of CCUPCY. “The Fall Harvest will provide a learning perspective on the Aboriginal traditional way of life where everyone will learn from Elders on traditional fall harvesting activities.”

During the event, the students learned how to process wild rice, prepare meats and fish, tan a deer hide, cook traditional foods and prepare ban-

nock. Students also participated in arts and crafts, drumming and storytelling activities. Each student was also provided with a Fall Harvest learning booklet to take notes and answer questions while learning and participating in the various interactive activities.

Gloria Hendrick-Laliberte, the native access program coordinator at Lakehead University, shared her knowledge of traditional corn soup at the Fall Harvest.

“You bring the water and ashes to a boil, and the ashes act as a traditional lye,” Hendrick-Laliberte said. “You add the corn, the corn turns a bright

orange, bright yellow colour. So you boil it hard for an hour, an hour and a half, then you wash and rinse it.”

Hendrick-Laliberte said the corn turns bright orange-yellow when the husks are coming off.

“It’s an all-day process, so you continually boil an hour, an hour and a half at a time, then you wash and rinse it until the corn is clean, the husks are removed and the eyes,” Hendrick-Laliberte said. “Then you add it into clean water and you can add kidney beans and salt pork.”

Hendrick-Laliberte said they use a broad, white corn from southern Ontario to make corn

soup.

“I grew up knowing of it as Indian corn,” Hendrick-Laliberte said. “It’s white, it’s broader, it’s flatter than sweet corn.”

Elementary and secondary students from Lakehead Public Schools and Thunder Bay District Catholic School Board took part in the Fall Harvest.

“It’s vital that we understand our connection to the land and the history that people in this country and continent have fought over for thousands and thousands of years,” said Jojo Guillet, Aboriginal education resource teacher at the Thunder Bay Catholic District School Board. “When we talk to Elders it is important for them because it brings them back to a spiritual place where they had deep connections with the land and they learned from their Elders in the traditional oral sense.”

Guillet said it is vital to pass the traditional knowledge on to the children who are now growing up in the community.

“It is important for the teachers as educators to find ways that they can connect and integrate Aboriginal curriculum and culture into the classroom curriculum to make it meaningful for the students, all students, Aboriginal and non-aboriginal,” Guillet said. “And it is important for the students to see the connection that people do have to the land and how that has brought us forward over the centuries, as well as gain a respect of the work that goes into survival on the land.

“It also teaches them some techniques that they might want to carry over or use in their own lives to enrich their place on this planet.”

Noront explores mining complex for James Bay lowlands Rick Garrick Wawatay News

Noront Resources Ltd. has announced a positive assessment of a standalone nickel copper platinum group metal mine and mill complex for the Eagle’s Nest deposit in the James Bay lowlands of northern Ontario.

“The preliminary assessment demonstrates a robust return on investment,” said Wes Hanson, CEO of Noront. “The project offers a number of busi-

ness opportunities for the First Nation communities of Marten Falls and Webequie, the two communities closest to the project. Opportunities to further improve the economics of the assessment include resource growth at Eagle’s Nest and grade increases resulting from recent infill drilling.”

The assessment estimates a breakeven nickel cut-off grade of between 0.3 per cent and 0.5 per cent. To date, the company’s exploration has focused on

the discovery of nickel-copper sulphide deposits with grades greater than one per cent nickel, similar to that of Eagle’s Nest. The company continues to have a number of targets near the Eagle’s Nest deposit that are currently slated for follow-up drilling.

The lower cut-off grade estimated by the assessment increases the exploration potential as large tonnage, low grade mineralization now becomes a viable exploration target.

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A Call for Two New Board Members for Mahkwa Lodge Corporation If you are a Lac Seul First Nation band member and wish to put your name forward as a board member, send us your brief bio and why you would like to sit on the board, to: Mahkwa Lodge Board Secretary Mahkwa Lodge P.O. Box 280 Hudson, Ontario P0V 1X0 Or email to mahkwa@live.com Deadline: Monday, October 4, 2010 at 4:00 p.m. CT

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UOI calls for sharing of wealth from land Rick Garrick Wawatay News

The Robinson Huron Treaty communities are calling for sharing of the wealth from their lands. “The truth is that one dish is empty and one is full. Our treaty partner the Crown has all the control and access to the wealth of our lands and we struggle to obtain a share of the inherent wealth left to us by the Creator,� said Lake Huron Regional Chief Isadore Day. “Today, we as chiefs declare that one dish can no longer be empty. We demand that all successor agencies of the Crown govern themselves according to the spirit and intent of our treaty and fulfill the sacred obligation of sharing; to do otherwise is unlawful and compromises the honour of the Crown.�

The 19 Robinson Huron communities signed the treaty in 1850.

Day said the tribal council organizations within the Robinson Huron region are working together to establish a collective

position of strength. “It has been 160 years since the signing of this treaty, there must be a shifting of jurisdiction that recognizes our laws; and there must be a shifting in wealth and benefit to our children and our families,� Day said. “That was the hope of our ancestors who made treaty with settler governments.�

Anishinabek Nation Grand Council Chief Patrick Madahbee said the Robinson Huron communities’ leaders must work from a position of strength to ensure they correct the imbalance and inequity currently plaguing their relationship with the Crown. “ Whet her its education, forestry, health or economic development, everyone including industry must recognize that our chiefs are being given a clear mandate by their citizens – we can no longer be left with crumbs or scraps that fall off of the table of government,�

Madahbee said. “Our organizations and institutions are starting to come into their rightful place to formalize our governments.�

Long-gun registry survives narrow vote James Thom Wawatay News

Canada’s long-gun registry narrowly survived a Sept. 22 vote of MPs. Kenora MP Greg Rickford was disappointed in the vote but said it’s a clear indication that the Conservative government is closer to dismantling the long-gun registry. “People now have a better understanding of exactly what this debate is all about,� Rickford said.

Contrary to other police departments across the country, Nishnawbe Aski Police Service took no position on the registry issue. “Other police services have different jurisdictions,� said NAPS Sgt. Jackie George. “They are more urban. We police First Nations where community people rely on sustenance from hunting.�

For this reason, there are a lot of firearms on First Nations,

she said, adding the firearms should be registered as the registry does have authority in First Nations. So does the firearms act. “You always try to be aware of firearms of any type that could be impeding our way of assisting people,� George said.

She said firearm registration and licensing is a safety issue. “Registration enhances the owner’s accountability for safe storage and use,� George said.

She also shared four firearm safety rules people should follow: • Treat all firearms as if they are loaded; • Never let the muzzle of a firearm point at anything you do not want to destroy or kill; • Keep your finger straight and off the trigger until your sights are on the target and you intend to shoot; and • Always be absolutely sure of your target and what is behind it.

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Be ‘SAAFE’ out there

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The Solvent Abuse Awareness for Everyone (SAAFE) Walk was held Sept. 16 in Thunder Bay. More than 50 people participated in the walk which began with Robert Spade and Morris Shapwaykeesic drumming and singing. The event concluded with a feast at the KaNa-Chi-Hih Specialized Solvent Abuse Treatment Centre.

Review Review of Draft Forest Management Plan: Information Centre Martel Forest 2011-2021 Forest Management Plan The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), Tembec and the Local Citizens Committee (LCC) invites you to review and comment on the 2011-2021 Draft Forest Management Plan (FMP) for the Martel Forest.

The Planning Process The FMP takes approximately 2 years to complete. During this time, ďŹ ve formal opportunities for public and Aboriginal involvement are provided. The third opportunity (Stage 3) for this FMP occurred on June 16, 2010 when the public was invited to review and comment on operations for the ďŹ rst and second terms of the plan. This `Stage 4´ notice is to: • Invite you to review and comment on the draft forest management plan, and • Request contributions to the background information to be used in planning.

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“Save Our Languages” Fundraising Campaign Wawatay Native Communications Society is a self-governing, independent community-driven entrepreneurial Native organization dedicated to using appropriate technologies to meet the communication needs of people of Aboriginal ancestry in Northern Ontario, wherever they live. In doing so, its founders intended that Wawatay would serve their communities by preserving, maintaining and enhancing Indigenous languages and culture.

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Exchange Income Corporation has signed a letter of intent to purchase Bearskin Airlines.

The value of the purchase is $32.5 million. It will be completed in the fourth quarter of the year through cash and shares.

“It is a rare combination to find a buyer that has the access to capital that EIC brings yet still enables us to keep our core culture and values that have driven this company to its current level of success,” Bearskin’s former owners Harvey and Cliff Friesen, president and executive vice-president respectively, said in a release.

The Friesen’s will continue their current roles at Bearskin following the sale. “(Exchange Income Corporation’s) track record with their other aviation companies was a key driver in our decision to sell,” the Friesens said.

Exchange Income is excited by what the future holds.

“The acquisition of the business of Bearskin Airlines will help to accelerate the next phase of our growth and is strategic on a number of levels,” Mike Pyle, president and CEO of Exchange Income, said in a release. “Most notably, it allows our aviation segment to expand its operations into select markets in northwestern Ontario that are generally under-served, including Thunder Bay, Sioux Lookout, Kenora and Dryden.”

Contest to celebrate life

The Honouring Life Network has launched a contest offering contestants a chance to win a Flip video camera.

The contest, How Do YOU Honour Life?, is open to First Nations, Inuit, and Métis youth between the ages of 17 and 30. Its purpose is to generate awareness of how youth of this generation honour life and how they approach suicide prevention and awareness in their communities.

“There is a need to encourage and facilitate positive dialogue with our youth to increase protective factors and decrease the stigma and shame associated with suicide,” said Dr. Paulette C. Tremblay, chief executive officer of the National Aboriginal Health Organization, the group behind the Honouring Life Network (HLN).

Entries can be submitted into one of three categories: multimedia, visual, or written. An entry should portray how one honours life and addresses suicide prevention and recognition in their communities.

Five entries will be selected from each category and will be displayed on HLN’s website.

These will serve as inspiration to others, encouraging them to honour life. Of the five entries, however, the HLN Youth Advisory Committee will select one winner from each category. The contest is open until Nov. 10.

HLN is a website for Aboriginal youth suicide prevention resources.

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Bearskin Two teens charged in death of Sachigo youth Airlines sold Thunder Bay Police said the Sept. 21 death of a16-year-old girl from Sachigo Lake was the result of blunt-force trauma injuries.

Police have charged two young offenders – both girls – with second-degree murder in connection with the homicide.

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youth, who had been in Thunder Bay for a short time prior to her death, was the victim of foul play.

The victim’s name is also being withheld because she is a youth.

The area where the body was discovered is being processed by the Thunder Bay Police Service Forensic Unit and police are conducting interviews and following up on information as the investigation progresses.

A Sachigo Lake teen was found dead near a recreation trail behind the Landmark Inn in Thunder Bay Sept. 21. Two Thunder Bay teens have been charged with murder.

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Timmins-James Bay MP Charlie Angus has launched a campaign called Shannen’s Dream in an effort to put a stop to under-funding of First Nation schools.

Angus introduced a motion in the House of Commons Sept.

23 called Shannen’s Dream. The motion calls on the federal government to close the funding gap for on-reserve schools.

Angus said First Nation schools are plagued with problems because of a discrepancy in per pupil funding between provincial schools and First Nation schools.

“In the 21st century it is sim-

ply not acceptable that First Nations children are not given the same education rights as children in the provincial system,” Angus said.

This campaign also serves to honour the life of Shannen Koostachin and her strive towards equality for First Nations children.

Koostachin was a 15 year-old youth who led the fight for a new school in her home community of Attawapiskat.

She wanted future generations of students in her community to have a “comfy” school.

She died in a motor vehicle accident in May outside New Liskeard, Ont., where she was going to school.

“Young Shannen Koostachin had a dream that every child should be able to go to what she called ‘big, comfy’ schools – schools that inspired children and gave them hope,” Angus said.

When she was 13 years old, Koostachin confronted then Indian Affairs minister Chuck Strahl over his refusal to fulfill a federal commitment to build a new elementary school to replace the cold and drafty portables her community is using since the old school was closed in 2000 due to a diesel fuel spill.

Her efforts did not go unnoticed as she was nominated for an International Children’s Peace Prize.

Sioux Lookout moves to ban bags Brent Wesley Wawatay News

The municipality of Sioux Lookout has banned plastic bag use in retail stores in the community.

The move comes as a means to curb a large portion of plastic bags making its way to the local landfill, a number Mayor Kathy Poling said is between 750,000 to one million each year.

“The step we are taking is small,” Poling said. “But it is often grassroots local initia-

tives that can have the greatest impact.”

The community, which said it is the first municipality in Ontario to ban plastic bags, is also looking to promote environmental and financial benefits of reducing plastic bag use, such as decreasing litter and protecting storm sewers from being blocked.

Approval of set fines for distributing plastic bags must come from the Attorney General, so a one-year phase in period has been set to allow the community to adjust and

prepare for the change.

The by-law defines plastic bags as “a bag made of plastic film, including biodegradable or compostable bags, provided by a retail business to a customer at the till or point of sale to carry customer purchases from the retail business.”

Not in the definition of a plastic bag are bags for bulk purchases, meat, frozen foods, newspapers, laundry and dry cleaning, minnows and bags sold in packages containing many bags for use as garbage, recycling, pet and yard waste.

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Chief Executive Officer JOB DESCRIPTION SUMMARY Wawatay Native Communications Society serves the communications needs of the people and communities in Northern Ontario. The Society does this through the provision of a variety of multimedia services, including but not limited to: a biweekly newspaper, daily native language radio programs, weekly television programming, audio streaming and regularly updated website. These services help to preserve and enhance the languages and culture of the Aboriginal people in Northern Ontario. Wawatay also works with and provides liaison with governmental departments, funding and communications agencies and service providers, such as Canadian Heritage, FedNor, Aboriginal Business Canada, CRTC, Bell Canada, APTN and others.

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Volleyball season underway

The Chief Executive Officer acts as the political arm and chief spokesperson for the organization. He/she works closely with the Board of Directors and Management Team in implementing the organization’s strategic direction and ensuring the stable organizational and financial management of Wawatay.

RESPONSIBILITIES: Subject to the direction of the Wawatay Native Communications Society Board of Directors and the policies and procedures established by the Board, the Chief Executive Officer will oversee the operations of the Society. He/she will be responsible for a) the general management of the operations of Wawatay: and b) directing the work of staff to achieve the established business and operational goals of the Society. More specifically, the Chief Executive Officer shall: • Implement the strategic goals and objectives of the Society; • Lobby and/or negotiate for program funds with various funding sources; • Represent the organization at all applicable meetings and conferences at the local, regional and national levels as deemed necessary or directed by the Board of Directors; • Act as the spokesperson for the organization during contacts with local, regional and national media; • Act as the liaison with the bank, government agencies and any other outside parties having an interest in the activities of the organization; • Review, analyze, evaluate the progress and results of Wawatay’s operations based on approved plans, budgets and financial statements and make recommendations for improvement and revisions to the Board of Directors; • Establish, monitor and review all financial, personnel, journalistic, and broadcast policies required for a non-profit charitable media organization; • Review all financial and activity reports prior to submission to the applicable government agency/department; • Determine and prioritize the communication needs of the First Nations people in the coverage area and develop plans to address these needs in conjunction with the Management Team; • Seek funding sources for new programs; • Review and update the legal and corporate status of the organization as necessary; • Ensure that the Board of Directors and the organization has liability coverage; • Schedule and attend all Board of Directors’ and Annual General Membership meetings and report on matters relevant to the overall organization; • Ensure the implementation of the policies, plans and decisions of the Board of Directors by: - Communicating objectives, policies, plans and schedules to the appropriate administrative or media service.

- Providing support, guidance and direction to the Management Team as required.

- Providing regular progress reports on new and ongoing initiatives; • Participate in the hiring and other staff changes for Management Team positions; • Conduct probationary and annual performance evaluations of the Management Team; • Schedule and attend all Management Team meetings; • Schedule and attend all staff meetings as requested; • Research, develop, analyze, update and amend all Society policies to reflect organizational changes and are correlated to strategic objectives; • Anticipate and identify potential policy issues; • Create and maintain up-to-date policies of the Society; • Other related duties as required.

QUALIFICATIONS: 1.The candidate should have grade 12 and/or post-secondary education in business administration OR a minimum of five years experience in a management position.

2.The candidate must have proficient verbal and written English communication skills. Fluency in a Native Language is an asset.

3.The candidate must be familiar with the Native Communications movement in northern Ontario and a high understanding of the culture and lifestyle of Native people in NAN, Treaty 3 and Treaty 5.

4.The candidate must be knowledgeable and familiar with various funding sources that are available at the regional, provincial and federal level which are applicable to the Native Communications Societies.

5.He/she must be willing to work with and maintain positive working relationships with the leaders and people of the Nishnawbe-Aski Nation, Treaty 3 and Treaty 5.

LOCATION: Sioux Lookout SALARY:

To commensurate with education and experience.

DEADLINE: Friday, October 8, 2010, 4:30 PM CST Please submit a cover letter, resume and 3 references with the contact information to: Rachel Garrick Interim Chief Executive Officer Box 1180 Sioux Lookout, ON P8T 1B7 E-Mail: rachelg@wawatay.on.ca Fax: (807)737-3224 Only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

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Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School opened its senior boys volleyball season with a three-set game against Sir Winston Churchill High School Sept. 27. DFC lost in straight sets 25-11, 25-10, and 25-8.

ABOVE: Darrin Fiddler, 18, and Donny Nayotchekeesic, 15, jump to block a shot from a Churchill player.

ABOVE RIGHT: Darrin Fiddler serves the ball during the first set.

JOB POSTING BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT OFFICER Kwayaciiwin Education Resource Centre in Sioux Lookout, Ontario is seeking a STUDENT ASSESSMENT RESOURCE WORKER The Student Assessment Resource Worker acts as a support in the development of the student assessment system for the Sioux Lookout district as part of the First Nation Student Success Program (FNSSP).

RESPONSIBILITIES • Conduct research on the assessment of student learning to encompass both classroom assessments and standardized system wide testing • Contribute expertise and knowledge to the development of a student assessment framework for the District • Develop elements of the student assessment framework including processes, instruments and protocols • Provide ongoing monitoring of student assessment processes across the District and suggest strategies for improvement • Establish and maintain liaison with First Nations • Establish liaison with external experts and possible partners • Develop assessment materials specific to the Bilingual/Bicultural curriculum • Develop communication materials about the system, testing cycle and requirements and coordinate their distribution • Maintain communication with parents and communities • Organize the development and delivery of training for teachers, administrators and others as required • Coordinate the cycle of assessment and assessment process • Develop annual work plan for the Student Learning Assessment components of the FNSSP QUALIFICATIONS • a working knowledge of student learning assessment and the development of student learning assessment systems and tools • Bachelor of Education degree • Administrative and project management experience • Knowledge of First Nations education • Planning, organizational and coordination skills • A demonstrated ability to work with First Nations or in a culturally diverse community setting • Self-motivated, organized, able to work in a team setting • Interpersonal, communications and computer skills • Fluency in Ojibway, Oji-Cree or Cree an asset • Able to travel to district First Nations communities To apply: Please submit a resume, two references with written permission to contact, and a covering letter to: Eugene Southwind, Human Resources Officer Mail: Kwayaciiwin Education Resource Centre Box 1328, Sioux Lookout, ON P8T 1B8 e-mail: esouthwind@kerc.ca Fax: (807) 737-2882 Criminal Reference and Child Abuse Registry check required.

Closing date for applications: October 8, 2010

OVERVIEW: Constance Lake Development LP is seeking a highly motivated individual to fill the newly created position of Business Development Officer to actively seek out, manage and follow-up on business, employment and natural resource opportunities which will bring added capacity, social and economic benefits for Constance Lake First Nation, its Members and Businesses.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: • Grade 12 diploma • Economic Development and/or Business Administration Diploma, Degree, or Certificate • Extensive knowledge in business planning and market analysis • Previous experience working with First Nation business • Demonstrable proficiency in negotiations, strategic planning, project management, proposal and business plan writing and policy development.

• Excellent oral and written communications skills • Experience in political and business matters • Public relations skills, tact and diplomacy • Ability to organize meetings both private and public • Excellent typing and letter writing • Skilled in the use of Word, Excel and PowerPoint computer office software • Experience in maintaining filing systems, records and documents • Able to understand and interpret financial statements and business plans DUTIES AND RESPONSIBLITIES: • Maintain regular open communications with the Board on all economic development matters.

• Maintain communications with businesses, organizations and government agencies.

• Research, document and file all documents, digital and hard-copy, for future reference and reporting.

• Arrange and coordinate meetings and presentations.

• Record, type and keep file of all economic development communications and documents.

• Make presentations to the Board, Community and/or Chief and Council on a regular basis and to industry and partners.

• Prepare and submit monthly written reports to the Board on all matters.

• Prepare, submit and continually update a community economic development place and strategy and action plan.

Please submit your resume, cover letter and 3 references either by mail, fax, in-person at the Band Office or by email to: Hiring Committee Constance Lake Development LP Constance Lake, ON P0L 1B0 Fax: 705-463-2222 Email: cldc@clfn.on.ca DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at 4:00 pm Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

May be extended until a suitable applicant is chosen.

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KEEWAYTINOOK OKIMAKANAK (Northern Chiefs Tribal Council)

Is now accepting applications for the position of

RECEPTIONIST/SECRETARY (Full time position)

Location: Balmertown Office General: Reporting to the Director of Operations, the receptionist/secretary is responsible for providing office support.

Qualifications: • Typing and Word processing skills essential.

• Must have excellent verbal and communications skills.

• Must have excellent organizational skills.

• Must have a valid Ontario Driver’s License.

• Ability to communicate professionally with the public.

• Ability to work independently.

• Knowledge of internet usage and email.

• An awareness and sensitivity to the native culture.

• Ability to speak Ojibway, Ojicree and Cree an asset.

Duties and Responsibilities: • Answer telephone and direct calls accordingly or take messages.

• Preparation of mail/comats, sort and distribute accordingly.

• Prepare bank deposits on a timely basis.

• Record incoming/outgoing faxes/mail and distribute accordingly.

• Maintain the purchase order log system.

• Make travel arrangements as requested.

• Prepare correspondence as requested.

• Prepare outgoing COMATS for all office staff.

• Maintain filing system.

• Assist other department secretaries as required.

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SIOUX LOOKOUT FIRST NATIONS HEALTH AUTHORITY

SIOUX LOOKOUT FIRST NATIONS HEALTH AUTHORITY

Short Term Assessment and Treatment Residential Unit

Client Services Department

RESIDENTIAL COUNSELLOR Internal/External Posting Full Time (1) & Casual/Part Time Location: Sioux Lookout, ON

LAUNDRY AIDES Casual Employment Internal/External Posting Location: Sioux Lookout, Ontario

Residential Counsellors are required for full and casual/part time positions. Team members will be responsible for carrying out daily programming, facilitating groups, case conferencing and supervision of clients.

QUALIFICATIONS • Child and Youth Worker diploma and/or related discipline; • Experience working with youth in a residential treatment setting; • Must have experience and understanding of Native culture, and of the geographic realities and social conditions within remote First Nation Communities; • Work experience in Residential Services with children, adolescents, and families.

KNOWLEDGE & ABILITY • A thorough understanding of the Child & Family Services • Act and Mental Health Act a definite asset; • Ability to communicate in one or more of the First Nations dialects of the Sioux Lookout District will be an asset; • Ability to take direction and facilitate individualized treatment plans; • Knowledge of child development and therapeutic modalities in working with youth.

Please send cover letter, resume, three most recent employment references and an up-to-date Criminal Reference Check with a Search of the Pardoned Sexual Offender Registry to:

Under the direction of the Team Leader (Laundry), the Laundry Aides are responsible to provide clean laundry for the Hostel.

QUALIFICATIONS • Minimum Grade 12; • Previous knowledge of institutional laundry an asset; • Ability to stand on feet all day; • Previous experience in a hospitality field an asset; • Ability to lift up to 20 lbs; • Must be independent and self motivated worker; • Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills; • Possess excellent team building and networking skills.

KNOWLEDGE & ABILITY • Ability to communicate in one or more of the First Nations dialects of the Sioux Lookout Zone will be an asset; • Experience and understanding of Native cultural issues, the geographic realities and social conditions within remote Northern First Nation communities; • Innovative problem solving and decision making skills; • Excellent time management and organizational skills, as well as the ability to work independently.

Please send cover letter, resume, three most recent employment references and an up-to-date Criminal Reference Check to:

Charlene Samuel, Human Resources Manager Human Resources Department Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority 61 Queen Street, P.O. Box 1300 Sioux Lookout, ON P8T 1B8 Phone: (807) 737-1802 Fax: (807) 737-1076 Email: Human.Resources@slfnha.com

Charlene Samuel, Human Resources Manager Human Resource Department Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority P.O. Box 1300, 61 Queen Street Sioux Lookout, ON P8T 1B8 Phone: (807) 737-1802 Fax: (807) 737-1076 Email: Human.Resources@slfnha.com

Closing Date: October 4, 2010

Closing Date: OPEN

The Health Authority wishes to thank all applicants in advance. However, only those granted an interview will be contacted.

The Health Authority wishes to thank all applicants in advance.

However, only those granted an interview will be contacted.

Closing Date: October 8, 2010.

For additional information regarding the Health Authority, please visit our Web-site at www.slfnha.com

For additional information regarding the Health Authority, please visit our Web-site at www.slfnha.com

SIOUX LOOKOUT FIRST NATIONS HEALTH AUTHORITY

SIOUX LOOKOUT FIRST NATIONS HEALTH AUTHORITY

SIOUX LOOKOUT FIRST NATIONS HEALTH AUTHORITY

Client Services Department

Nodin Child & Family Intervention Services (NCFI)

Nodin Child & Family Intervention Services (NCFI)

DIETARY AIDES Casual Employment Internal/External Posting Location: Sioux Lookout, Ontario

MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELLOR Internal/External Posting Permanent Full Time LOCATION: NESKANTAGA FIRST NATION

MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELLOR Internal/External Posting Permanent Full Time LOCATION: BIG TROUT LAKE FIRST NATION

Under the direction of the Team Leader (Dietary), the Dietary Aides are responsible to meet the dietary needs of the Hostel clients.

This full time position reports to the Clinical Supervisor. The Mental Health Counsellor will be responsible for providing direct Clinical Intervention and Prevention Services to referred clients in the Child and Family Intervention catchment area of Neskantaga.

This full time position reports to the Clinical Supervisor. The Mental Health Counsellor will be responsible for providing direct Clinical Intervention and Prevention Services to referred clients in the Child and Family Intervention catchment area of Big Trout Lake.

QUALIFICATIONS • Degree in Social Work/Psychology with relevant clinical/ counselling experience is preferred; • Minimum two years experience in the health services environment; • Specialized courses in specific areas of mental health; • Proficiency in clinical assessment skills and client needs; • Experience with video counselling technology an asset; • Travel is a requirement of the position.

QUALIFICATIONS • Degree in Social Work/Psychology with relevant clinical/ counselling experience is preferred; • Minimum two years experience in the health services environment; • Specialized courses in specific areas of mental health; • A thorough understanding of the Mental Health Act, Child & Family Services Act and awareness of current issues within Northern and remote Native communities an asset; • Proficiency in clinical assessment skills and client needs; • Experience with video counselling technology an asset; • Travel is a requirement of the position.

Submit resume and references to: Hiring Committee Keewaytinook Okimakanak Box 340, 8 Mine Road Balmertown, ON P0V 1C0 Fax (807) 735-1383 Email: hiring@knet.ca

QUALIFICATIONS • Minimum Grade 12; • Safe Food Handling an asset; • Must have Food Service Worker certification; (or be willing to obtain) • Previous experience in a hospitality field an asset; • Ability to lift up to 20 lbs; • Must be independent and self motivated worker; • Valid Driver’s license preferred; • Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills; • Possess excellent team building and networking skills.

KNOWLEDGE & ABILITY • Ability to communicate in one or more of the First Nations dialects of the Sioux Lookout Zone will be an asset; • Experience and understanding of Native cultural issues, the geographic realities and social conditions within remote Northern First Nation communities; • Innovative problem solving and decision making skills; • Excellent time management and organizational skills, as well as the ability to work independently.

Please send cover letter, resume, three most recent employment references and an up-to-date Criminal Reference Check to: Charlene Samuel, Human Resources Manager Human Resource Department Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority P.O. Box 1300, 61 Queen Street Sioux Lookout, ON P8T 1B8 Phone: (807) 737-1802 Fax: (807) 737-1076 Email: Human.Resources@slfnha.com Closing Date: OPEN

KNOWLEDGE & ABILITY • Ability to communicate in one of the First Nations dialects of the Sioux Lookout Zone is an asset; • Ability to manage a case load independently; • Familiarity with working in acute care situations; • Knowledge of community resources; • Knowledge of Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007.

Experience with a Client Database (e.g. CIMS), Child and AdolescentFunctional Assessment Scale (CAFAS) & Brief Child and Family Phone Interview (BCFPI) an asset; • Excellent time management and organizational skills, as well as the ability to work independently; • Experience working with youth, a definite asset; • Education assistance and training available dependent upon applicant’s qualifications and in accordance with SLFNHA Policies and Procedures.

Please send cover letter, resume, three most recent employment references and an up-to-date Criminal Reference Check with a Search of the Pardoned Sexual Offender Registry to:

KNOWLEDGE & ABILITY • Ability to communicate in one of the First Nations dialects of the Sioux Lookout Zone is an asset; • Ability to manage a case load independently; • Familiarity with working in acute care situations; • Knowledge of community resources; • Knowledge of Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007.

Experience with a Client Database (e.g. CIMS), Child and AdolescentFunctional Assessment Scale (CAFAS) & Brief Child and Family Phone Interview (BCFPI) an asset; • Excellent time management and organizational skills, as well as the ability to work independently; • Experience working with youth, a definite asset; • Education assistance and training available dependent upon applicant’s qualifications and in accordance with SLFNHA Policies and Procedures.

Please send cover letter, resume, three most recent employment references and an up-to-date Criminal Reference Check with a Search of the Pardoned Sexual Offender Registry to:

Charlene Samuel, Human Resources Manager Human Resource Department Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority P.O. Box 1300, 61 Queen Street Sioux Lookout, ON P8T 1B8 Phone: (807) 737-1802 Fax: (807) 737-1076 Email: Human.Resources@slfnha.com

Charlene Samuel, Human Resources Manager Human Resource Department Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority P.O. Box 1300, 61 Queen Street Sioux Lookout, ON P8T 1B8 Phone: (807) 737-1802 Fax: (807) 737-1076 Email: Human.Resources@slfnha.com

Closing Date: October 15, 2010

Closing Date: October 15, 2010

The Health Authority wishes to thank all applicants in advance.

However, only those granted an interview will be contacted.

The Health Authority wishes to thank all applicants in advance.

However, only those granted an interview will be contacted.

The Health Authority wishes to thank all applicants in advance.

However, only those granted an interview will be contacted.

For additional information regarding the Health Authority, please visit our Web-site at www.slfnha.com

For additional information regarding the Health Authority, please visit our Web-site at www.slfnha.com

For additional information regarding the Health Authority, please visit our Web-site at www.slfnha.com

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David Gordon seeks another term as Sioux Lookout councillor Rick Garrick Wawatay News

Former Lac Seul chief David Gordon is running for his second term as councillor at large in the upcoming Sioux Lookout municipal elections.

“I would like to capitalize on my experience from the last four years,” Gordon said, explaining his first four years in municipal government were a real learning curve. “Now I feel really comfortable in that environment so I think I can work towards making changes a lot more effectively.”

Gordon, who works with Lac Seul as a project co-ordinator on a number of construction projects, is pleased with the achievements he and the other

council members have accomplished over the last term.

“It was a really good experience working with the mayor and councillors,” Gordon said.

“Everybody respected each other and we basically got along pretty good.”

Gordon is particularly proud of the new committees of council that were struck by the mayor and council over the last term, including the environment committee and the economic development commission and the development work that was completed on the community’s new youth and cultural centre in the former Sioux Hotel as well as on the former CN train station.

“They basically are just getting off the ground now in terms

of the actual renovations,” Gordon said. “The youth centre (former Sioux Hotel) will be completed some time towards next fall and the CN Station as well.”

Gordon is also looking to continue with the urban reserve feasibility study if re-elected.

“That work is not finished yet,” said Gordon, chairperson of the urban reserve sub-committee. “We are currently hoping to do a feasibility study and if I am elected again I would like to continue to see that process through, which is completing the feasibility study and determining what happens after that depending on the outcome of feasibility study.”

Gordon voted for the plastic bag ban bylaw prohibiting the

sale and free distribution of bags.

“That was a recommendation that came out of the environment committee that council had struck,” Gordon said, explaining the plastic bag ban was presented to the council by the environment committee. “It is scheduled to come into force one year from now. That was a fairly controversial initiative and I did support it. I think it is the right thing to do. It is a very small thing but I think we need to start doing small things like that to have a better environment in the future.”

Gordon, chairman of the Town of Sioux Lookout NonProfit Housing Corporation, is concerned about the cost of housing in Sioux Lookout.

“It’s always a concern to make the housing affordable,” Gordon said. “I know that a lot of people are struggling lately.”

Gordon brought up concerns he has heard from people in Sioux Lookout about the increasing costs of water and electricity.

“Some people are just finding it really difficult to continue to be able to live, even in non-profit housing, especially people on social assistance or low income or single families,” Gordon said. “That is one of my concerns and it is not an easy (issue) to overcome.”

Gordon wants to create more employment and jobs and help people out of low-income situations through more training and education.

“In Sioux Lookout, the municipality is investment ready,” Gordon said, explaining the community has invested in improvements to infrastructure, including extending and upgrading water lines and extending services to the airport. “I believe that Sioux Lookout will continue to grow and prosper.”

Gordon is looking for more opportunities once the new hospital opens its doors.

“I really believe the new hospital in Sioux Lookout is going to make Sioux Lookout more of a regional health centre,” Gordon said, noting he is looking for developments in the area of health education. “We need to really capitalize on the fact we do have a new hospital.”

Participate Obituary

Obituary Day continued

In Loving Memory of Michael Day Mike was born in Sandy Lake, Ontario on August 18, 1947. He passed away in Dryden, Ontario on the afternoon of August 31, 2010 at the age of 63 years with diabetic challenges.

A Wake Service was held Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 6:00 pm at Sandy Lake First Nation. A Funeral Service was held on Saturday, September 4th, 2010 at 1:00 pm at the Mennonite Church with Henry Hostetler and Paster Amos Esh officiating Interment followed at the Community Cemetary.

Mike was pre-deceased by his parents William and Doreen Day, brother Joe and daughter Joyce Fiddler. Survived by his step-mother Martha Day. Mike is survived by his wife, Bella, of 43 years. Daughter, Donna Mamakeesic (Nelson Keeash), sonin-law Josias Fiddler Jr, daughter, Tracy (Joe Councillor), son Mike Jr. wife Melanie.

12 grandchildren- Sasha Day, Shayne Fiddler, Seth Day, Pearson Day, Alisha Day, Leroy Fiddler, Kain Councillor, Billi Day, Brandilee Fiddler, Pamela Noon, Amanda Fiddler, and Ricky Fiddler.

1 great-grandson- Marcus Keewaykabow He is also survived by 7 brothersFred, Saul, Nick, Marcus, John, Frances, and Mervin. 3 sisters- Ida, Reta, and Shannon.

Mike was a multi-talented person.

He would do anything the band gave him to do. He worked in the mine, was Sandy Lake Recreation worker, also Drug and Alcohol worker.

Written by Mike Day (His wife, Bella, found this in his bible after he passed): January 1, 1998 As I write on this first page of the first day of the year 1998 I proclaim Jesus Christ as my Lord and Saviour.

I pray this day will follow that dream of dreams, that some day I will sit beside my Father in heaven.

With this thought I pray for all people that may be able one day to praise the Lord in one strong voice.

January 9, 1998

Family this word is fading as time goes on, it seems that even society has taken part in redefining what the word means.

In redefining the word, it throws the folk ways and the moral ways of society.

In changing our ways and our way of thinking we forget our right way of teaching and learning.

Therefore, we must back track and see where we come from and more important where we are going.

We were taught from the Bible to place God above all else. We must put God first, our mates and our children.

In today’s society the concept of family is so distorted that we don’t know where the problems come from or how to handle them.

May the Lord see fit to anoint certain of his servants to reteach us the family ways and structure!! § In tears we saw you sinking, We watched you fade away You suffered much in silence You fought so hard to stay.

You faced your task with courage, Your spirit did not bend, But still you kept on fighting, Until the very end.

God saw you getting tired, When a cure was not to be, So when we saw you sleeping, So peacefully, free from pain, We could not wish you back.

To suffer that again We love you always Until we meet again.

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The Planning Process The FMP will take approximately 2 years to complete. During this time, five formal opportunities for public and Aboriginal involvement are provided. This first stage notice is to advise you that preparation of the plan has started and to request: • Your contribution to background information, particularly information relating to natural resource features, land uses and values that may be affected by forest management activities, and • Your view of the desired forest condition and desired benefits which can be obtained from the forest.

How to Get Involved Please provide any comments or information to the Ministry of Natural Resources office listed below or if you wish to meet and discuss your interests and concerns with the planning team, plan author and/or the local citizens committee, please contact the individuals identified below.

Background information and sources of direction that are available for you to view includes the following: • Description of the management responsibilities on the forest and of the forest industry that is supplied from the forest; • Values Maps showing natural resource features, land uses and values; • Description of the historic forest condition; • A map of existing roads and their use management strategies; • Management unit annual and audit reports and provincial audits and reports pertaining to forest management; • Sources of direction for the forest such as past plans, land use plans, habitat regulations made under the Endangered Species Act, 2007, Ministry of Natural Resource’s provincial goals, objectives and policies for natural resource management, etc.

The background information will be available for the duration of plan preparation.

The general information regarding the FMP process as well as the information described in this notice will be available at the First Resource Management Group office and at the Ministry of Natural Resources Cochrane office, at the locations shown below, during normal office hours. Meetings with representatives of the planning team and the local citizen’s committee can be requested at any time during the planning process. Reasonable opportunities to meet planning team members during non-business hours will be provided upon request. If you require more information or wish to discuss your interests and concerns with a planning team member, please contact one of the individuals listed below: Cory Wiseman, R.P.F. Cochrane MNR District Office 2-4 Hwy. 11 South, Box 730 Cochrane, ON P0L 1C0 Tel.: 705-272-7195 E-mail: cory.wiseman@ontario.ca

Bree Andrews, R.P.F. First Resource Management Group Inc. P.O. Box 550 Englehart, ON P0J 1H0 Tel.: 705-544-2828, ext. 231 E-mail: bree@firstresourcemanagementgroup.com

Cochrane Local Citizens Committee 2-4 Hwy. 11 South, Box 730 Cochrane, ON P0L 1C0 Tel.: 705-272-7195

Anytime during the planning process you may make a written request to seek resolution of issues with the plan author, the Ministry of Natural Resources District Manager or the Regional Director using a process described in the 2009 Forest Management Planning Manual (Part C, Section 6.1.4).

Stay Involved There will be four more formal opportunities for you to be involved. These stages are listed and tentatively scheduled as follows: Stage 2 - Review of the Proposed Long-Term Management Direction Stage 3 - Information Centre: Review of Proposed Operations Stage 4 - Information Centre: Review of Draft Forest Management Plan Stage 5 - Inspection of MNR-Approved Forest Management Plan

May 2011 November 2011 June 2012 November 2012

If you would like to be added to a mailing list to be notified of public involvement opportunities, please contact Cory Wiseman at 705-272-7195.

The Ministry of Natural Resources is collecting your personal information and comments under the authority of the Crown Forest Sustainability Act. Any personal information you provide (address, name, telephone, etc.) will be protected in accordance with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, however, your comments will become part of the public consultation process and may be shared with the general public. Your personal information may be used by the Ministry of Natural Resources to send you further information related to this forest management planning exercise. If you have questions about the use of your personal information, please contact Denis Clement, Ministry of Natural Resources Information Management Supervisor, at 705-272-7122.

Renseignements en français : Denis Clement au (705) 272-7122.

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Teaching lodge offers ‘voices from the past for tomorrow’ Gathering a welcome opportunity to meet with Elders James Thom Wawatay News

Gilbert Legarde is proud of his language.

“My Native tongue lets me say what I want to say,” said the Long Lake 58 band member.

He spoke at the Voices From the Past For Tomorrow traditional youth and Elders gathering Sept. 21-23 in Thunder Bay. “I tell the kids, I urge the kids to go talk to their Elders. There are not too many of us left that know our history.”

Several dozen Elders from around the province and beyond attended the gathering at Thunder Bay’s Chippewa Park, hosted by Grey Wolf Teaching Lodge, a Thunder Bay organization dedicated to helping rebuild cultural and spiritual connections, to help youth and Elders connect.

The Elders offered spiritual guidance in a sacred, loving way where youth could learn and Elders could teach them about how things used to be, explained Cindy Crowe, the event’s lodge keeper.

She said the event was formed to assist in bridging the

generational gaps within the communities and to revitalize culture and promote traditions to foster spiritual growth in a loving and respectful way.

“Our mandate is to be inclusive and bring everyone together,” Crowe said.

“I urge the kids to go talk to their Elders.

There are not too many of us left that know our history.”

– Gilbert Legarde

The Elders were able to speak about any issues they wanted.

Some ran sweats, others offered counselling and others encouraged sharing.

“We’re excited about what is going on here,” she said. “Youth can approach Elders about getting their spirit or clan names or they could get help praying for family members. There is no agenda. It’s up to the Elders and youth what they want to see happen.”

For Legarde, language and knowledge of the past were the

centrepieces of his presentation.

“I often think about my father,” he said. “He was a spiritual man. When he passed away, I often wondered about his past, his knowledge. As a youth, he would sit me down and talk to me. When he passed away, all the stuff he talked about came back. It was like a little chip in my brain was activated.”

Legarde said people need to rekindle their spirits and be more friendly and helpful.

“We have to get to know each other, not just pass each other on the street,” he said. “I’ve been sober for 20 years. I can remember the people I’ve met and say hello.”

In his sobriety, Legarde is trying to make positive changes in his life and the lives of those around him.

“In my drinking days, I didn’t show love to my children,” he said. “The love I’m giving my grandchildren is different. The youth, they are searching for that good way of life. They need lots of love. We need to show it to them.”

Legarde was thrilled to be a part of the event, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with other

Elders, talking to and working with the youth.

The youth participants seemed to enjoy the gathering.

“I really want to learn more about the traditional activities,” said Darren Meekis, a Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School student from Sandy Lake. “I want to learn about drumming.

I want to start.”

Muskrat Dam’s Aaron Fiddler enjoyed listening to the Elders speak.

“The stories, the history, we need to hear this,” the DFC student said.

Sachigo Lake’s Marita Barkman welcomed the opportunity to sit down with the Elders.

“I try to visit as much as I can when I am back home,” she said. “I could listen to the stories for hours. It was nice to get to talk to some Elders here in the city.”

James Thom/Wawatay News

Long Lake 58 band member Gilbert Legarde was one of more than 40 Elders to participate in the Voices From the Past For Tomorrow traditional youth and Elders gathering Sept. 21-23 in Thunder Bay.

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Youth have adventures in Mishkeegogamang Marianne Jones Special to Wawatay News

When Karen Ward retired after working as a camp director in Muskoka, she was looking forward to spending her summers relaxing with her husband.

But Ken Dick, president of Feed the Children Canada had other ideas. He called Ward and said he had a dream to have a camp for children in the north who wouldn’t otherwise have a camping experience.

Ward couldn’t say no. So when Dick responded to a request from the school principal in Mishkeegogamang Ojibway Nation for shoes and gym equipment for the children, it began a relationship with the community that led to the summer camp Dick had dreamed about.

With the support of Chief Connie Gray-McKay, Ward and an enthusiastic team of young people ran a free three-week day camp that included swimming and canoeing lessons, sports, crafts, lifeskills and leadership skills.

That was back in 2006. This

summer Karen and a dedicated team of young people completed their fourth summer at Mishkeegogamang, and are more excited than ever about the relationships that have developed.

“We felt so welcome and appreciated this summer and the relationships we are building with the kids are getting stronger because of our consistency in running Mish Adventures,” Ward says. “The weather was great and once we acquired a school bus from a wonderful couple in Pickle Lake, we were able to run all the activities we had planned from the area around the Missaby School.

“Swimming as usual was a favourite activity. We had several kids get over their fear of the water and learn some basic strokes and water safety. Crafts are always a huge hit. This summer was no exception. It was fun to watch the kids create special items that they often gave as gifts to the camp staff.

A separate program for the older kids was run and it went very well, she said.

“In fact, we often had up to 10 young people enjoying a

competitive game of soccer and other sports. They also took an afternoon canoe trip exploring islands and racing with each other.

“Our favourite day was when we brought all the kids to a special beach area and ran a ‘fun in the sun’ day.”

Sand castle building, face painting, beach volleyball as well as many hours just playing in the water made the day very special.

The youth group built a fire where they roasted hot dogs for lunch. The kids didn’t want to leave the beach that day and begged for another day just like that.

“Many evenings we played baseball with the families from the community. Our time ended with a wonderful barbecue put

on by the community to thank us for all we had done for the kids. The staff are already talking about going back next year, and how they can’t wait to hang out with the kids in Mish again.”

Other organizations have partnered with Feed the Children to lend their support.

Sew on Fire, a volunteer group in Burlington, donated 100 backpacks filled with school supplies to give out on the last day of camp. Wasaya offered warehouse space in Pickle Lake to store food parcels and other goods.

“They have also helped us to deliver them,” Ward said. “They have been very generous jointly to us and the North-South partnership. They are a partner in this event.”

Another partner is Eagle’s Cry Life Centre in Thunder Bay, run by Sky and Angie Hedrick.

Before heading up to Mishkeegogamang, Ward and her team kicked off their camp with a food drop at Eagle’s Cry. From the centre, they distributed 350 food boxes and 350 hygiene boxes to families in need.

In addition, Vale Inco donated $75,000 to build bunk beds for the reserve. The beds, which are being constructed by teenage volunteers, will create 200 needed sleeping spaces.

According to Ward, Gray “has been very supportive. She believes it is a good influence on the kids.”

That view is shared by others in the community.

“One mom made meals for us. She told me, ‘You know,

when I heard about this camp, I didn’t think too much about it.

But I’ve seen the kids get a combination of love and discipline they don’t normally get. I’ve seen a change in them in three weeks. You need to stay.’”

Sasha Jarvis, the youth camp director, agrees.

“The parents have noticed that their kids come home from the camp happy,” Jarvis said.

“Our acceptance into the community has increased.”

Jarvis, who is completing a master’s degree in nursing, specializing in rural health, spent nine months working in Tanzania as a CIDA intern.

She said she wanted to return to Africa, but after one summer at Mish, “two faces of the children flashed into my head.

That’s what made me go back.”

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Wawatay News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

ᐧᐊᐧᐊᑌ ᐊᒋᒧᐧᐃᓇᐣ

First Nations will exercise own authority NAN maintains promise of unrest and uncertainty for developers in Far North from page 1 “The people of Shibogama will continue to exercise our Aboriginal and treaty rights using the inherent right principles given to us by the Creator,” said Wawakepewin Chief Joshua Frogg. “Any and all land and resources planning will be based on our inherent jurisdiction, our principles and our responsibilities.”

Shibogama stated planning for lands and resources must be done in an open, honest, fair and meaningful manner that will truly meet the social, environmental and economic interests of its people and all Ontarians.

“We will continue to exercise our authority and jurisdiction on our lands and waterways.”

– Rod Winnipetonga

“We will continue to exercise our authority and jurisdiction on our lands and waterways,” said Wunnumin Lake Chief Rod Winnipetonga. “Any canoeists and developers coming into our territory including our waterways without our consent will be evicted under our laws.”

NAN said it would not recognize the act now that is law.

“The passing of Bill 191 today indeed shows how little regard the McGuinty government gives to the concerns of First Nations and other northern Ontarians when it comes to decision making,” Metatawabin said. “It is a disappointing day for all of us who spent tireless hours opposing Bill 191 as our opposition was obviously ignored.”

Natural Resources Minister Linda Jeffrey said the Far North Act is ambitious and exceptional.

“Together we are entering a new era of social prosperity, economic certainty and environmental protection in the Far North,” she said. “It is our responsibility as global citizens to make wise land use decisions for this vast and unique part of the province and the world.”

The government said land use plans are key to developing the Far North, including the region known as the Ring of Fire, which contains one of the

world’s largest deposits of chromite, a key ingredient in stainless steel.

The Ontario New Democratic Party voted against Bill 191, stating the Liberals’ decision to ram the Far North Act through the Ontario legislature is a step backward for relations between First Nations and the provincial government.

“The premier went back on his pledge to First Nations leaders that he wouldn’t move ahead with the Far North Act without their consent,” said NDP leader Andrea Horwath. “Despite committing to a new relationship, the McGuinty Liberals think they know better than the First Nations who have lived in the Far North for thousands of years. The attitudes displayed in the pass of this bill were supposed to be the attitudes of the past.”

Timmins-James Bay MPP Gilles Bisson said the problems with Bill 191 go further than just with First Nations.

“Chambers of Commerce, prospectors and developers, mayors, ... and business owners have all spoken out against the Far North Planning Act. So if everyone is against it, why are they proceeding with it?” Bisson said.

Metatawabin said in a Sept.

22 press release that NAN communities would not compromise their rights as treaty people.

“The law can be passed by the province of Ontario, but this does not promise industry free access to our lands,” Metatawabin said, noting NAN will maintain its former statements that uncertainty and unrest are imminent. “This is not what we want, but given the province of Ontario and the premier’s refusal to honour their commitments to the people of NAN, we have no other choice.

“If there is conflict, it will be up to the province to answer as to why. This government has been given ample opportunity to work with us, but chooses otherwise.”

NAN said its First Nations have not been properly consulted on Bill 191, despite the province of Ontario’s continued attempts to state otherwise.

In August, Nishnawbe Aski Nation chiefs passed a resolution to declare opposition to the Far North Act, launching an anti-Bill 191 campaign.

map courtesty of Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources

According to the Ministry of Natural Resources, Ontario’s Far North makes up 42 per cent of the province’s land mass. The recently passed Far North Act calls for the protection of at least half of the Far North or about 225,000 square kilometres in a network of protected areas.

ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐃᐢᑯᓂᑲᓇᐣ ᐅᑲᔭᐸᒋᑐᓇᐊᐧ ᑎᐱᓇᐁᐧ ᐅᒪᐢᑲᐃᐧᓯᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᐅᐁᐧ ᒋᒥᑲᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᐅᒋ ᐸᑭᑭᓂᑲᓂᐠ 1

ᐊᒥᐱᑯ ᑫᐃᔑ ᐱᒪᐊᓂᑲᑕᒪᐠ ᐃᐁᐧ ᑲᑎᐯᐣᑕᒪᐠ ᓂᑕᐦᑭᒥᓇᐣ ᒥᓇ ᓂᐱᑲᐠ, ᐃᑭᑐ ᐊᐧᓇᒪᐣᓴᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂᐠ ᐅᑭᒪᑲᐣ ᐊᓇᐧᑎᓂᐠ ᐁᐧᓇᐱᑕᑦ. ᑭᐢᐱᐣ ᐅᐱᒪᑲᐧᔓᐁᐧᐠ ᒥᓇ ᑲᓇᓇᐣᑕᐊᐧᓯᓂᐁᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᐱᐣᑎᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᒪ ᓂᑕᐦᑭᒥᓇᐣ ᐃᒪ ᑲᔦ ᓂᐱᑲᐠ ᐁᑲ ᐱᓇᒪ ᑲᑲᑫᐧᑌᐊᐧᐨ ᓂᑲᓴᑭᒋᓂᔕᐦᐧᐊ̇ ᒥ ᐣ ᐃᒪ ᐅᐣᒋ ᓂᑐᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᓂᓇᐣ ᒋᐊᐸᒋᑐᔭᐠ. ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐊᐦᐸᐣ ᑕᓂᓯᑕᐃᐧᓂᑲᑌᓯᐣ ᓄᑯᑦ ᑲᔭᐠ ᑭᒋ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ, ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᐃᓇᑭᑌᑭᐸᐣ. ᐃᐁᐧ ᑲᑭ ᔕᐳᓂᑲᑌᑭᐸᐣ ᑭᒋ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ 191 ᓄᑯᑦ ᑲᑭᔑᑲᐠ ᐊᒥᐦᐃ ᑌᐯᐧ ᐁᐃᔑᓇᑲᐧᐠ ᐃᑫᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᒪᐟᑭᐣᑎ ᐊᑭᒪᐃᐧᐣ ᐁᑲ ᐁᒪᒥᑎᓀᓂᒪᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑲᔦ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑲᔭᑭᐣ ᐃᒪ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᑲᑭ ᐊᐧᐅᓀᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᐅᐁᐧ ᑲᑭ ᐃᔑᒋᑲᓂᐊᐧᐠ, ᒥᑕᐟᑕᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᐃᑭᑐ, ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᑭᒋ ᒪᒉᐣᑕᑲᐧᐣ ᓄᑯᑦ ᑲᑭᔑᑲᐠ ᓂᓇᐃᐧᐣᐟ ᒥᐢᑕᐦᐃ ᑲᑭ ᐊᓂᑲᑕᒪᑭᐸᐣ ᑲᑭ ᑲᑫᐧ ᑭᐸᑯᐢᑲᒪᑭᐸᐣ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ 191 ᑲᐃᔑᓇᑲᐧᐠ ᐁᑲ ᐁᑭ ᐅᐣᒋ ᐸᐱᐢᑭᑕᑯᔭᐠ ᑲᑭᐃᑭᑎᔭᑭᐸᐣ. ᑭᒋ ᐊᒥᑯᑭᒪᑫᐧ ᓫᐃᐣᑕ ᒉᑊᐱᕑᐃ ᑭᐃᑭᑐᐸᐣ ᐃᐁᐧ ᑭᒋ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᒪᐢᑲᐁᐧᐣᑕᑲᐧᐣ ᒋᑭ ᐅᐣᒋ ᒥᓄᓭᑲᐧᐸᓂᐣ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ. ᑭᐱᒥᐱᐣᑎᑲᑕᒥᐣ ᑲᑭᓇ ᑲᐅᐢᑭ ᐊᐣᒋᓭᑭᐣ ᐅᓇᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ,

ᐊᓂᑭᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒋᐅᐣᒋᐊᔭᑭᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐊᐦᑭ ᒋᐅᐣᒋ ᒪᓇᒋᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐁᐧᑎ ᑭᒋ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ, ᑭᐃᑭᑐ. ᑭᓇᐃᐧᐣᐟ ᑭᐸᐸᒥᓯᒥᐣ ᐅᒪ ᐱᐣᒋᑭᔑᐠ ᑲᑲᐯᔑᔭᐠ ᑲᐧᔭᐠ ᒋᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᑕᒪᐠ ᑭᑕᐦᑭᒥᓇᐣ ᐅᒪ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᐃᔑ ᒥᐦᔕᐠ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᑲᐃᔑ ᑲᐯᔑᔭᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐱᑯ ᐅᒪ ᒥᓯᐁᐧᑲᒥᐠ. ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᑭᑐ ᐊᑭᐃᐧ ᐅᓇᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐊᒥᐦᐃᒪ ᑲᐅᐣᑎᓂᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐅᓇᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐁᐧᑎ ᑭᒋ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ, ᑲᔦ ᐃᐁᐧ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᑲᐱᒪᓄᑲᑌᐠ ᐯᔑᐠ ᑭᒋᐱᐊᐧᐱᑯᑫᐃᐧ ᐊᓂᑭᐃᐧᐣ, ᐃᒪ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᐃᔑ ᒥᐢᑕᐦᐃ ᒥᑲᐊᐧᑲᓄᐨ ᑲᑯᓯᑲᐧᐱᑭᓯᐨ ᐊᐦᓯᐣ, ᑲᐅᐣᒍᔑᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐱᐊᐧᐱᐠ. ᐯᔑᐠ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᐅᑭᒪᐠ ᑌᒧᑭᕑᐊᑎᐠ ᑲᐃᔑᓂᑲᓂᑎᓯᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑭ ᑭᐸᑯᐢᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ 191, ᐁᑭ ᐃᑭᑐᒪᑲᐠ ᐃᑫᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᓫᐃᐱᕑᐅᓫᐢ ᑲᐃᓂᐣᑕᐧ ᑲᑭ ᑲᐢᒋᓂᔕᐦᐊᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᐁᐧ ᑭᒋ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᒪ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᑭᒋ ᐅᓇᔓᐁᐧᐃᐧᑲᒥᐠ ᐊᒥᐦᐃ ᐁᐃᔑᓇᑲᐧᐠ ᐊᐦᐸᐣ ᒋᐅᐣᒋ ᐊᔐᐢᑲᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᑲᐃᔑ ᐃᐧᑕᓄᑭᒪᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐱᑯ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᓂᐠ. ᑭᒍᑭᒪ ᑲᐧᐣᑕ ᐅᑭ ᐅᔦᓇᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᐁᑲ ᒋᑐᑭᓇᐠ ᐃᐁᐧ ᑭᒋ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᑭ ᐃᑭᑐᐸᐣ ᐁᑲ ᐱᓇᒪ ᐁᑭ ᐅᐣᒋ ᑲᑫᐧᒋᒪᒋᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᒪᐧᔦ ᑐᑕᐠ ᐅᐁᐧᓂ, ᑭᐃᑭᑐ NDP ᑲᓂᑲᓂᐢᑲᐊᐧᒋᐣ ᐊᐣᑎᕑᐃᔭ ᐦᐅᐊᐧᐟ. ᒥᓴᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᐁᐧ ᑲᑭ ᐅᐢᑭᑐᐸᐣ

ᒋᒥᓄᐃᐧᒋᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐣ, ᐃᑫᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᒪᐠᑭᐣᑎ ᐅᑭᒪᐠ ᐃᐧᓇᐊᐧ ᑲᑭᓇ ᑫᑯᐣ ᐅᑭᑫᐣᑕᓇᐊᐧ ᐅᑎᓀᐣᑕᓇᐊᐧ ᐊᐦᐱᒋᐃᐧᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᒪ ᐊᔑ ᑭᒋ ᒥᔑᓄᐊᐦᑭ ᑲᐅᐣᒋ ᑲᐯᔑᐊᐧᐨ. ᐅᐁᐧ ᑲᑭ ᐊᐧᐸᐣᑕᐦᐃᐁᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᐃᔑᓇᑲᐊᐧᐸᒥᐁᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᑭ ᔕᐳᓂᑲᑌᐠ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ 191 ᐅᑕᓇᐣᐠ ᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᐁᐧ ᑲᑭᐃᔑ ᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒧᐁᐧᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᐁᐧ ᑲᑭᑐᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ. ᑎᒥᐣᐢ-ᒉᒥᐢᐯ ᐅᑭᒪ ᑭᕑᐃᐢ ᑎᓯᐣ ᐃᑭᑐ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᑭᔭᐸᐨ ᒥᐢᑕᐦᐃ ᐊᔭ ᑫᒪᒋᓭᐦᐃᐁᐧᒪᑲᐠ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐁᐦᑕ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᒪᒋᓭᓯᐣ. ᐅᑭᒪᐠ, ᐅᒧᓇᐦᐊᓯᓂᐁᐧᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐅᓇᓇᐣᑕᐊᐧᓯᓂᐁᐧᐠ, ᑕᐃᐧᓀᓯᐠ ᑲᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐊᐧᐨ, …ᑲᔦ ᒪᒋᑕᐃᐧᓀᓴᐣ ᑲᑎᐯᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᑭᓇ ᐅᑕᓇᑭ ᑲᓄᑕᓇᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᐁᑭᐸᑯᐢᑲᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᐁᐧ ᑭᒋ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ. ᐊᓂᐣ ᑕᐢ ᑭᐣᐱᐣ ᒥᔑᐣ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᑲᓇᐣᑕᐁᐧᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᒋᑭᐸᑯᐢᑭᑲᑌᓂᐠ, ᑫᑯᓀᐣ ᑕᐢ ᐊᐣᒋᑯ ᐁᑭ ᐅᐣᒋ ᔕᐳᓇᒧᐊᐧᐨ? ᐱᓯᐣ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ. ᒥᑕᐟᑕᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᐃᒪ ᐊᐧᑌᐸᑲᐃᐧᐱᓯᑦ 22 ᑲᐃᓇᑭᓯᐨ ᑲᑭ ᐸᑭᑎᓂᑲᑌᑭᐸᐣ ᑎᐸᒋᒧᐃᐧᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒋᑐᑭᓂᑲᑌᓂᐠ ᐅᒪᐢᑲᐃᐧᓯᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᑲᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧᐊᐧᐨ. ᐅᐁᐧ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑕᑭᐃᓯᓭ ᒋᔕᐳᓂᑲᑌᐠ ᐅᒪ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᓂᐠ, ᔕᑯᐨ ᑕᐢ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᒋᑫᒋᓇᐦᐅᓇᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐁᑲ

ᒋᐱᒣᐣᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᑭᑕᐦᑭᒥᓇᐣ, ᒥᑕᐟᑕᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ, ᐁᑭ ᐅᐣᒋ ᑭᑭᓇᐊᐧᒋᐃᐧᐣᑕᐠ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᒋᐃᔑ ᐱᒥᐊᓂᑲᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᔕ ᑲᑭᒪᓯᓇᐦᐊᒧᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐁᑲ ᒋᐅᐣᒋ ᑭᐱᐦᒋᐊᐧᐨ. ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᐁᐧ ᑲᐃᔑ ᓇᐣᑕᐁᐧᐣᑕᒪᑭᐸᐣ, ᔕᑯᐨ ᑕᐢ ᐊᐁᐧ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐊᐁᐧ ᑭᒋ ᐅᑭᒪ ᒥᑐᓂ ᑲᑭ ᐊᓇᐁᐧᐣᑕᐠ ᒋᐃᐧᒋᐦᐊᒋᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᐅᑕᓂᔑᓂᓂᒪᐣ, ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐊᐦᐸᐣ ᓇᐣᑕ ᐸᑲᐣ ᓇᑭᑐᑕᓯᒥᐣ ᐱᑯ ᐁᐦᑕ ᒋᑭᐦᒋ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᒣ ᒋᐊᓂᑲᑕᒪᐠ. ᑭᐢᐱᐣ ᑕᐢ ᐅᐣᒋᔭᐠ ᒪᒉᓂᒥᑐᐃᐧᐣ, ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐣ ᑕᓇᐣᑕᐁᐧᐣᑕᑯᓯ ᒋᓇᓇᐣᑕᐃᐧᑭᑫᐣᑕᐠ ᑫᑯᓀᐣ ᑲᐅᐣᒋᓯᓭᐠ. ᐅᐁᐧ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐣ ᒥᐢᑕᐦᐃ ᑎᐸᐦᐃᑲᐣ ᑭᒥᓇᑲᓄ ᒋᐃᐧᑕᓄᑭᒥᐁᐧᐨ, ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᑕᐢ ᒋᐅᐣᒋᑐᑕᐠ. ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐃᐢᑯᓂᑲᓇᐣ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᐧᔭᐠ ᒋᐅᐣᒋ ᐃᐧᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᑲᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ 191 ᐅᐣᒋ, ᒥᓴᐊᐧᐨ ᐱᑯ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐣ ᐸᑲᐣ ᐊᓇᔭᐃᑭᑐᐸᓂᐦᐅᐨ. ᐊᐦᐱ ᓂᐢᑕᑦ ᑲᑭ ᑎᐸᑎᒋᑲᑌᑭᐸᐣ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ 191 ᓴᑭᐸᑲᐃᐧᐱᓯᑦ 2009 ᑲᑭ ᐃᓇᑭᓯᐨ, ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐊᒥᐱᑯ ᑲᑭ ᐃᔑ ᒪᐢᑲᐃᐧᑲᐸᐃᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᐁᐧ ᑲᑭᐃᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑲ ᐁᑭᔑᔕᐁᐧᐣᒋᑲᑌᓂᐠ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐅᒪᐢᑲᐃᐧᓯᐃᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐅᒪᓂᑐᐃᐧ ᒥᓂᑯᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ.

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