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July 8, 2010
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KI raises funds for CT scanner
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Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug held a Relay Against Cancer June 30, raising $20,000. Ten people participated in the relay. The participants carried a staff, with the names of loved ones who’ve died of cancer etched into it, along a road to Wapekeka and back. The relay was also a fundraiser for the CT Scanner fund for the new Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre. The CT Scanner will cost $1.850 million and more than one-million has already been raised.
Conflict erupts over burial sites Debbie Mishibinijima Wawatay News
Investigation into a possible Aboriginal burial ground temporarily halted construction of the base camp for Ontario Power Generation’s Lower Mattagami Hydro Electric Project north of Kapuskasing. Because of the nature of the allegations, construction of the base camp for the $2.6 billion dollar project 70 kilometers north of Kapuskasing was in jeopardy. Ontario Power Generation and Moose Cree First Nation signed the Amisk-oo-skow Agreement in late May allowing the hydro expansion project to move ahead. Shortly thereafter, Cree Elders Jimmy Rodrique and Gerti Johnson, both of Moose Cree First Nation, provided oral testimony to Gaius Napash, appointed chief of the breakaway group called the Kapuskasing Cree, that there were burial sites in the vicinity of the Smoky Falls site. Napash began looking into the burial sites testimony June 10. He informed OPG representatives of the gravesites and asked construction activity in the area be stopped immediately to allow
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for an investigation. In recent decades, the reporting of Aboriginal burial sites has become a sensitive issue. In the past, public or private land owners and developers have refused to acknowledge Aboriginal burial places or heritage sites. In many cases, they have refused to consult with Aboriginal peoples about the disposition of the sites. Ontario has laws on its books to protect graves and burial sites, such as those Napash was investigating. “Any person discovering or having knowledge of a burial site shall immediately notify the police or coroner,” according to Section 69 of the Cemeteries Act. In that court ruling, Justice Sidney B. Linden of the Ontario Supreme Court wrote: “Aboriginal heritage and burial sites become flashpoints for an occupation or protest when Aboriginal peoples believe they must act to protect a site from desecration.” The Kapuskasing Cree are a group whose members currently fall under the Moose Cree First Nation registry system. However, they have grown up in the Kapuskasing area hundreds of kilometers away from Moose Factory. For months now, the group has been affirming its sovereignty from the Moose Cree band. Their families have historically lived off the land in the Smoky Falls area. This is why they have taken measures to protect the site from further construction activity, said community spokesman Archie Sutherland. “We know where our burials are
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through our Elders,” Sutherland said. “We let OPG acknowledge where they are so they can get their archeologist go and dig it up and slowly look for any kind of burial.” Michael D’Mello, registrar and manager of the Cemeteries Regulations Unit of the Ministry of Consumer Services was not aware of the situation occurring at the construction site. “When human remains are discovered, there is a requirement that anyone who knows of an Aboriginal site they must report it,” he said. “I don’t believe it has been reported to us yet. They cannot disturb the burial site, especially if they know it is there.” Ontario Power Generation representative Rick Dickson said OPG workers received orders to cease work at the site as of 9:30 a.m. June 22. However, video footage Napash captured from a helicopter that afternoon allegedly shows workers actively working at the site at 1 p.m. Napash and several of his community members visited the site June 23. He told the OPG workers they were standing in an area that has been reported as a grave site. “You are going to destroy that piece of information where they are buried,” Napash said. The area in question was once the trapping territory of the Sutherland and Napash families. Their families had 12 trap lines within the Gordon Corsten forest. They still possess five trap lines in the area. see COMMUNITY page 3
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