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Struggling to serve and protect

The struggles faced by NAPS officers on the ground in communities largely relate to funding and the lack of legislation governing the force. Those issues are being highlighted by NAPS Acting Police Chief Bob Herman as well as leaders in Nishnawbe Aski Nation, as First Nations struggle to make the provincial and federal governments step up when it comes to First Nations policing. See stories on pages 10, 11 and 12. (Pictured is a NAPS officer patrolling the streets in Kashechewan with a K9 police dog).

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ᑲᑭ ᐃᐡᑾᐱᒪᑎᓯᐨ ᓂᔑᑕᓇᓂᓯᐣ ᑲᑕᓱᐊᐦᑭᐎᓀᐨ ᑲᓴᐸᓇᑲ ᐃᑴ ᒣᑾᐨ ᐁᑲᓇᐌᓂᒪᑲᓀᐨ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔕᐣ ᓄᑯᒼ ᐅᐅᐌ ᑲᐱᓯᒥᐗᐠ ᐊᓂᒧᒋᑲᑌ ᐃᓯᓭᐎᓇᐣ ᒋᑭᐊᑾᒥᒋᑲᓂᐗᐠ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐗᐠ ᑲᑲᐯᔑᐗᐨ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐁᑲ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔕᐠ ᑾᔭᐠ ᒋᑭᑐᑕᒧᐗᐨ ᐅᑕᓄᑭᐎᓂᐗ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐠ᙮

ᐁᑲᓄᑕᒧᐗᐨ ᑲᓄᑌᓭᐨ ᔓᓂᔭ ᒋᑭᐱᒥᐎᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐤ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᑫᐎᐣ, ᐊᓂᑭᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᐅᒪᐡᑲᐎᑕᓇᐗ ᐅᐣᑌᕒᐃᔪ ᒥᓇ ᑲᓇᑕ ᐅᑭᒪᐎᓇᐣ ᒋᔑᑲᓇᐗᐸᒥᑯᐗᐨ “ᒋᑎᐸᑯᓂᑫᐗᑭᑌᐠ ᒥᓇ ᒋᒥᑐᓀᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᑲᐃᔑ ᐸᐸᒥᓯᐗᐨ” ᑭᐡᐱᐣ ᓂᑲᐣ ᐅᒋᐡᑾᐱᒪᑎᓯᐗᐨ ᔭᐎᔭᐠ ᒋᐅᒋ ᐊᓇᒣᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᑲᐃᔑ ᓄᑌᓭᐨ ᔓᓂᔭ

ᒋᐸᒥᓂᑲᑌᐠ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᑫᐎᐣ᙮ᑲᑲᐎᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐅᒪᓯᓇᐦᐃᑲᐣ ᐁᑭᑌᐱᓇᒧᐗᐨ

APTN, ᑭᒋᐅᑭᒪᑲᐣ ᐦᐊᕒᐱ ᔦᓯᓄ ᐅᐎᑕᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓇᐣ “ᐁᒪᒋᐱᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ” ᑲᐃᔑ ᑲᐯ ᓄᑌᓭᐨ ᔓᓂᔭ ᑲᐱᒥᐎᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᑫᐎᐣ ᐱᒥᐎᒋᑫᐎᐣ (NAPS)᙮

“ᐅᐱᒪᑎᓯᐎᓂᐗ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐗᐠ ᐅᐅᒪ ᑲᑲᐯᔑᐗᐨ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐠ ᐊᒋᑲᑌᓂᐁᑲ ᒋᑭᒥᓄᓭᐗᐨ ᐊᓂᐡ ᐅᑭᒪᐎᓇᐣ ᑲᐎᐣ ᒋᐎᑐᑕᒧᐗᐨ ᒋᑌᐱᓭᐗᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐗᐠ ᑭᐌᑎᓄᐠ ᐅᐣᑌᕒᐃᔪ ᒋᑌᐱᓇᒧᐗᐨ ᑲᐃᔑᑲᓇᐗᐸᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᐡ ᐱᒥᐎᒋᑫᐎᓇᐣ ᑐᑲᐣ ᐊᒥᒋᑯᔑᐎ ᑕᐎᓂᐠ ᑲᐃᔑ ᑲᓇᐗᐸᒋᑲᑌᐠ,” ᐃᑭᑐᒪᑲᐣ ᐅᔑᐱᐦᐃᑲᐣ᙮ “ᐁᐌᒋᐎᒋᑲᑌᐠ, ᔓᓂᔭᐎ ᑲᓇᐗᐸᒋᑫᐎᐣ ᐁᓂᑲᓇᑌᐠ ᐊᐱᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐎ ᐱᒪᑎᓯᐎᓇᐣ᙮”

ᐅᐅᐌ ᐅᔑᐱᐦᐃᑲᐣ, ᐁᑭᒪᓯᓇᐦᐅᑎᓱᐨ ᑫᐎᐣ ᑲᓂᑲᓇᐱᑕᐠ ᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᑫᐎᐣ ᐹᕒᐊᐣᐠ ᒪᑫ, ᐁᑭᔑᓂᔕᐦᐊᒪᐗᑲᓀᐨ ᑫᐎᐣ ᐅᐣᑌᕒᐃᔪ ᑲᓂᑲᓂᐡᑲᐠ ᑲᓇᑲᒋᒋᑫᐗᐨ ᐃᐡᑾᐱᒪᑎᓯᐎᓇᐣ ᑕᐣ ᑲᐢ ᒥᓇ ᑫᐎᓇᐗ ᑲᓇᑕ ᒥᓇ ᐅᐣᑌᕒᐃᔪ ᐅᑭᒪᐎ ᐊᓄᑭᓇᑲᓇᐠ ᑲᓂᑲᓂᐡᑲᒧᐗᒋᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐤ ᐃᓯᓭᐎᓇᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐊᐣᑾᒥᒋᑫᐎᓇᐣ᙮

ᐅᐣᑌᕒᐃᔪ ᑲᓂᑲᓂᐡᑲᐠ ᓇᓇᑲᒋᒋᑫᐎᐣ ᑲᐃᐡᑾᐱᒪᑎᓯᐨ ᔭᐎᔭ ᐅᑲᒪᒋᐊᓄᑭᑕᐣ ᓇᓇᑲᒋᒋᑫᐎᐣ ᑲᑭ ᐃᐡᑾᐱᒪᑎᓯᐨ ᑲᓴᐸᓇᑲ ᓬᐃᓇ ᐊᐣᑕᓴᐣ᙮ ᐊᐣᑕᓴᐣ ᑭᐃᐡᑾᐱᒪᑎᓯ ᐯᐱᐌᕒᐃ 1 ᒣᑾᐨ ᐁᑭᒋᐎᓇᑲᓀᐨ ᐃᐃᒪ ᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᐡ ᐱᒋᐅᑕᐸᓂᐠ᙮

ᑲᓴᐸᓇᑲ ᐅᑭᒪᑲᐣ ᑰᕒᑐᐣ ᐊᐣᑕᓴ ᐅᑭᐎᑕᒪᐗᐣ ᐗᐗᑕ ᑎᐸᒋᒧᐎᐣ

ᐊᐊᐌ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᐡ ᐅᑕᐸᐣ ᐁᐃᓇᐸᒋᐦᐊᑲᓀᐨ ᒋᔑᑭᒋᐎᓇᑲᓀᐗᐨ ᔭᐎᔭᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐃᐃᒪ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐠ ᐁᑲ ᐁᔭᔭᐗᐨ ᑫᐃᔑ ᑲᓇᐌᓂᒪᑲᓀᐨ ᔭᐎᔭ ᑲᑭᒋᐎᓇᑲᓀᐨ ᐊᔕ ᒥᓂᑯᐠ ᓂᔓᔭᐦᑭ᙮

ᑲᓴᐸᓇᑲ ᑲᐎᐣ ᒋᐯᔑᑯᐗᐨ ᑲᓇᑕᐌᑕᒧᐗᐨ ᐅᐡᑭ ᒥᓇ ᑾᔭᐠ ᒋᔑᓇᑯᑭᐣ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᐎᑲᒥᑯᐣ, ᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᐃᑭᑐᐗᐠ ᐃᓂᐌᓂᐗᐣ ᓂᓵᓯ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓇᐣ ᒋᑭᑌᐱᓇᒧᐗᐸᐣ ᐅᐡᑭ ᐗᑲᐦᐃᑲᓇᐣ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔕᐠ ᑫᐊᐸᒋᑐᐗᐨ ᑲᑭᐎᒋᑲᑌᑭᐸᐣ ᐃᐃᒪ ᑫᔐᒋᐗᐣ ᓇᓇᑲᒋᒋᑫᐎᓇᐣ ᒣᑾᐨ 2009, ᐯᔑᐠ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᐣ ᐊᔕ ᐅᑭᑌᐱᓇᓇᐗ ᐁᑭᐅᓇᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐁᔭᐸᒋᑐᐗᐨ ᒣᑾᐨ᙮

ᑫᔐᒋᐗᐣ ᓇᓇᑲᒋᒋᑫᐎᐣ ᐅᑭᔑᒥᑲᓇᐗ 19 ᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᑫᐎᐣ ᐱᒥᐎᒋᑫᐎᐣ ᐗᑲᐦᐃᑲᓇᐣ ᑲᐎᐣ ᐅᑐᒋᓇᑭᐡᑲᓇᐗ ᑫᑭᔑᑲᓇᐗᐸᒋᑲᑌᑭᐸᐣ ᐗᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ ᑲᐅᔑᒋᑲᑌᐠ᙮

ᑲᓇᑕ ᐱᒥᐎᒋᑫᐎᐣ ᑭᔑᐱᓭᐅᐅᐌ ᑲᐃᓯᓭᐗᐨ ᑲᓄᑌᓭᐗᐨ ᔓᓂᔭᓇᐣ

ᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᑫᐎᐣ ᐱᒥᐎᒋᑫᐎᐣ ᐊᐗᔑᒣ ᑭᐊᓂᒪᓯᓭ ᓄᑯᒼ ᑫᓂᓯᑾᐠ, ᐃᐃᐌ ᔓᓂᔭᐎ ᓇᑯᒥᑎᐎᐣ ᑲᑭᒪᓯᓇᐦᐊᒧᐗᐨ ᑲᓇᑕ ᒥᓇ ᐅᐣᑌᕒᐃᔪ ᒥᓇ ᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᒋᑭᔑᐱᓭᐠ ᒫᕒᐨ 31᙮

ᒪᒋᐨ ᔓᓂᔭᐎ ᓇᑯᒥᑎᐎᐣ ᑲᑭᑐᑕᒧᐗᐨ ᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ, ᑲᓇᑕ ᒥᓇ ᐅᐣᑌᕒᐃᔪ ᐁᑭᒪᓯᓇᐦᐊᒧᐗᐸᐣ ᐁᐱᕒᐅᓬ 1, 2009 ᒥᓇ ᐁᑭᑭᔑᐱᓭᐠ ᒣᑾᐨ 2012᙮ ᐃᐃᐌ ᓇᑯᒥᑎᐎᐣ ᑭᓇᑭᒋᑲᑌ ᐯᔑᑯᐊᐦᑭ ᒥᓂᑯᐠ, ᐊᑯᓇᐠ ᒫᕒᐨ 31, 2013, ᔕᑯᐨ ᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᐅᐎᑕᓇᐗ ᐁᑲᒪᔑ ᐁᐱᐎᑕᒪᐗᑲᓀᐗᐨ ᐅᑭᒪᐎᓇᐣ ᒋᑭᒪᒋ ᐊᓂᒧᒋᑲᑌᑭᐸᐣ ᐅᐡᑭ ᔓᓂᔭᐎ ᓇᑯᒥᑎᐎᐣ᙮

Continued on page 10

’ᑲᐯᐦᐃ ᑲᓄᑌᓭᐨ ᔓᓂᔭ’ ᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᑭᑫᐎᐣ ᑕᐅᒋᒪᒋᓭᐗᐣ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓇᐣ

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INSIDE WAWATAY NEWS THIS WEEK...Attawapiskat road blockade endsᐊᑕᐗᐱᐢᑲᐟ ᒥᑲᓇᓂ ᑲᑭᑭᐱᐡᑲᒧᐗᐨ ᑭᐃᐡᑾᑐᒋᑲᑌ

ᑭᐸᑯᐡᑭᑫᐎᐣ ᐃᐃᒪ ᐊᑕᐗᐱᐢᑲᐟ ᐱᐳᓂᒥᑲᓇ ᑲᐃᓇᒧᐠ ᑎᐱᕒᐢ ᓄᑕᓯᓂᑫᐎᑲᒥᐠ ᑭᐃᐡᑾᑐᒋᑲᑌ ᐯᐱᐌᕒᐃ 22 ᑲᑭ ᐃᐡᑾ ᐃᑭᑐᐨ ᑎᒥᐣᐢ ᐅᑎᐸᑯᓂᑫ ᐁᑲ ᒋᑭᑐᒋᑲᑌᑭᐸᐣ, ᓂᔓ ᐱᒥᑯᓇᑲ ᑭᐱᒥᑐᒋᑲᑌ ᑲᑭᑭᐱᐡᑲᒧᐗᐨ ᒥᑲᓇᓂ ᑲᑭᐅᓇᑌᑭᐸᐣ᙮

ᑲᑭᑭᐸᑯᐡᑲᒧᐗᐨ ᐅᑭᐊᔭᒥᐦᐊᐗᐣ ᐅᐣᑌᕒᐃᔪ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔕᐣ ᑲᐊᔭᒥᐦᐃᐌᓂᐨ, ᐁᑭᐃᔑᐸᑭᒋᐗᐨ ᑎᐱᕒᐢ ᓄᑕᓯᓂᑫᐎᑲᒥᑯᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐁᑭᐱᐅᒋᑕᑯᔑᓄᐗᐨ ᐱᐳᓂᒥᑲᓇᐠ ᒋᓇᑭᐡᑲᑯᐗᐨ, ᐊᐸᐣ ᑲᑭᐊᓂᑕᐎᐡᑲᒧᐗᐨ ᑲᑭᑭᐸᑯᐡᑲᒧᐗᐨ᙮

Page 3Students protest changes to LU Law School

ᑲᑭᑭᓄᒪᐗᑲᓀᐗᐨ ᐅᑭᑲᓄᑕᓇᐗ ᑲᑭᔑᐊᒋᒋᑲᑌᓂᐠ ᐎᑴᑐᐣᐠ ᑭᒋᑭᑭᓄᒪᑎᐎᑲᒥᑯᐠ ᑎᐸᑯᓂᑫᐎ ᑭᑭᓄᒪᑫᐎᐣ

ᐊᓂᐣᑕ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐎ ᑭᑭᓄᒪᐗᑲᓀᐗᐨ ᑭᑭᓄᒪᐗᑲᓇᐠ ᐃᐃᒪ ᐎᑴᑐᐣᐠ ᑭᒋᑭᑭᓄᒪᑎᐎᑲᒥᐠ ᐅᑭᒥᑯᐡᑲᑌᑕᓇᐗ ᐁᑭᐊᒋᒋᑲᑌᓂᐠ ᑫᐃᔑ ᑭᑭᓄᒪᑫᓇᓂᐗᐠ ᐃᐃᒪ ᐅᐡᑭ ᑎᐸᑯᓂᑫᐎᐣ ᑭᑭᓄᒪᑫᐎᐣ᙮

ᑭᑭᓄᒪᐗᑲᓇᐠ ᐃᑭᑐᐗᐠ ᑲᑭᔑᐊᒋᒋᑲᑌᓂᐠ ᑭᑭᓄᒪᑫᐎᓂᓂ ᐁᑲ ᒋᑲᓇᐗᐸᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᒥᓇ ᒋᑭᑭᓄᒪᑫᓇᓂᐗᐠ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐎ ᐃᓯᓭᐎᓇᐣ᙮

ᐎᑴᑐᐣᐠ ᑭᒋᑭᑭᓄᒪᑎᐎᑲᒥᑯᐠ ᑲᓂᑲᓂᐡᑲᐠ ᑎᐸᑯᓂᑫᐎ ᑭᑭᓄᒪᑫᐎᐣ, ᔕᑯᐨ, ᐃᑭᑐ ᑲᑭᔑᐊᐣᒋᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᑭᑭᓄᒪᑫᐎᐣ ᐁᑲ ᑭᒋᑭᑭᓄᒪᑎᐎᑲᒥᐠ ᐁᑲ ᒋᐸᓇᐸᑕᒧᐗᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐤ ᒥᓇ ᑭᐌᑎᓄᐠ ᐃᓯᓭᐎᓇᐣ᙮

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NAPS chief says program status hurting force

ᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᔑᒪᑲᓂ ᐱᒥᐎᒋᑫᐎᐣ ᑲᓂᑲᓂᐡᑲᐠ ᐃᑭᑐ ᐱᒥᐎᒋᑫᐎᐣ ᑲᐃᓇᑭᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐅᒋᒪᒋᓭ ᐱᒥᐎᒋᑫᐎᐣ

ᑲᐃᓇᑭᒪᑲᓀᐨ ᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᐡ ᐱᒥᐎᒋᑫᐎᐣ ᐅᑭᒪ ᐹᑊ ᐦᐅᕒᒪᐣ ᑲᑴᑌ ᐅᑭᒪᐎᐣ ᐊᓂᐣ ᐁᔑᐊᔓᑕᒪᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐡ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᑫᐎᐣ, ᐁᐃᑭᑐᐨ ᐃᐃᐌ ᐱᒥᐎᒋᑫᐎᐣ ᒋᑭᑎᐸᑯᓂᑫᐎᐊᑭᑌᑭᐸᐣ ᑯᑕᑭᔭᐣ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᐎᐱᒥᐎᒋᑫᐎᓇᐣ ᑲᐃᔑ ᑲᓇᐗᐸᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐅᐅᒪ ᑲᓇᑕ᙮

ᐦᐅᕒᒪᐣ, ᐁᑭᐱᓂᑲᓂᐡᑲᐠ ᑕᐣᑐᕒ ᐯ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᐎ ᐱᒥᐎᒋᑫᐎᐣ, ᐃᑭᑐ ᔓᓂᔭ ᑲᐸᑭᑎᓇᑲᓀᐨ ᑲᓄᑌᓭᐨ ᑲᐎᐣ ᒋᑭᑐᑕᒧᐗᐨ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔕᐠ ᐅᑕᓄᑭᐎᓂᐗ ᐃᐃᒪ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐠ, ᒥᓇ ᐁᓴᓇᑭᓭᐗᐨ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔕᐠ ᑲᐊᓄᑭᐗᐨ ᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᑫᐎᓂᐠ᙮

ᐅᑕᓇᒣᑕᐣ ᑲᐃᓯᓭᐗᐨ ᐃᐃᐌ ᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᑫᐎᐣ ᐱᒥᐎᒋᑫᐎᐣ ᑲᐃᓇᑭᒋᑲᑌᐠ, ᐁᑲ ᐁᐃᓇᑭᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᑎᐸᑯᓂᑫᐎᓂᐠ ᒋᑭᐅᒋᑲᓇᐗᐸᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐅᐅᐌ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᐎ ᐱᒥᐎᒋᑫᐎᐣ ᑎᓄᑲᐣ ᐅᐣᑌᕒᐃᔪ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔕᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐅᑌᓇᐠ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᐎ ᐱᒥᐎᒋᑫᐎᓇᐣ ᑲᐃᔑ ᑲᓇᐗᐸᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ᙮

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Aboriginal Affairs minister says work will get done

ᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᔑᒪᑲᓂ ᐱᒥᐎᒋᑫᐎᐣ ᑲᓂᑲᓂᐡᑲᐠ ᐃᑭᑐ ᐱᒥᐎᒋᑫᐎᐣ ᑲᐃᓇᑭᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐅᒋᒪᒋᓭ ᐱᒥᐎᒋᑫᐎᐣ

ᑲᐃᓇᑭᒪᑲᓀᐨ ᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᐡ ᐱᒥᐎᒋᑫᐎᐣ ᐅᑭᒪ ᐹᑊ ᐦᐅᕒᒪᐣ ᑲᑴᑌ ᐅᑭᒪᐎᐣ ᐊᓂᐣ ᐁᔑᐊᔓᑕᒪᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐡ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᑫᐎᐣ, ᐁᐃᑭᑐᐨ ᐃᐃᐌ ᐱᒥᐎᒋᑫᐎᐣ ᒋᑭᑎᐸᑯᓂᑫᐎᐊᑭᑌᑭᐸᐣ ᑯᑕᑭᔭᐣ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᐎᐱᒥᐎᒋᑫᐎᓇᐣ ᑲᐃᔑ ᑲᓇᐗᐸᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐅᐅᒪ ᑲᓇᑕ᙮

ᐦᐅᕒᒪᐣ, ᐁᑭᐱᓂᑲᓂᐡᑲᐠ ᑕᐣᑐᕒ ᐯ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᐎ ᐱᒥᐎᒋᑫᐎᐣ, ᐃᑭᑐ ᔓᓂᔭ ᑲᐸᑭᑎᓇᑲᓀᐨ ᑲᓄᑌᓭᐨ ᑲᐎᐣ ᒋᑭᑐᑕᒧᐗᐨ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔕᐠ ᐅᑕᓄᑭᐎᓂᐗ ᐃᐃᒪ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐠ, ᒥᓇ ᐁᓴᓇᑭᓭᐗᐨ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔕᐠ ᑲᐊᓄᑭᐗᐨ ᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᑫᐎᓂᐠ᙮

ᐅᑕᓇᒣᑕᐣ ᑲᐃᓯᓭᐗᐨ ᐃᐃᐌ ᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᑫᐎᐣ ᐱᒥᐎᒋᑫᐎᐣ ᑲᐃᓇᑭᒋᑲᑌᐠ, ᐁᑲ ᐁᐃᓇᑭᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᑎᐸᑯᓂᑫᐎᓂᐠ ᒋᑭᐅᒋᑲᓇᐗᐸᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐅᐅᐌ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᐎ ᐱᒥᐎᒋᑫᐎᐣ ᑎᓄᑲᐣ ᐅᐣᑌᕒᐃᔪ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔕᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐅᑌᓇᐠ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᐎ ᐱᒥᐎᒋᑫᐎᓇᐣ ᑲᐃᔑ ᑲᓇᐗᐸᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ᙮

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Eabametoong celebrates 100 days of schoolᐅᐡᑭ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐎ ᐃᓯᓭᐎᓇᐣ ᐅᑭᒪ ᑲᓂᑲᓂᐡᑲᐠ ᐃᑭᑐ ᐊᓄᑭᐎᓇᐣ ᑕᑐᒋᑲᑌᐗᐣ

ᑌᐱᐟ ᓯᒧᕒ, ᑲᑭᐅᐡᑭᓇᑭᒪᑲᓀᐨ ᒋᐅᑭᒪᑲᑕᐠ ᐅᐣᑌᕒᐃᔪ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐎ ᐃᓯᓭᐎᓇᐣ ᓇᑲᒋᒋᑫᐎᐣ, ᐃᑭᑐ ᐅᐣᑌᕒᐃᔪ ᑲᑭᐅᐡᑭᐅᑭᒪᐎᐨ ᐁᑭᐎᑕᐠ ᐁᑭᒋᓀᑕᑯᐠ ᒋᐊᓄᑭᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐤ ᐃᓯᓭᐎᓇᐣ᙮

ᓯᒧᕒ ᐃᑭᑐ ᐅᐣᑌᕒᐃᔪ ᐅᑭᒪᐎᐣ ᒋᑭᒋᓀᑕᑭᐣ ᑐᕒᐃᑎᐢ ᐃᐃᐌ “ᑲᐃᔑᐱᐦᐃᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑲᐃᔑᑭᒋᓀᑕᑯᑭᐣ” ᐃᐃᒪ ᐃᓇᑯᓂᑫᐎᓂᐠ, ᒋᑐᑕᒧᐗᐨ ᒋᑲᑴᒋᒪᐗᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐗᐣ ᑲᐎᒪᒋᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᑫᑯᐣ ᐃᐃᒪ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐤ ᐊᐦᑭᐠ, ᒥᓇ ᒋᑲᒋᓂᔕᐦᐊᐗᐨ ᑲᓇᑕ ᐅᑭᒪᐎᓇᐣ ᒋᐅᑕᒋᑫᐗᐨ ᑭᑭᓄᒪᑫᐎᐣ ᔓᓂᔭᓇᐣ ᒋᑕᐱᐡᑯᒋᓭᐠ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐊᑯᒋᐠ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐠ ᑲᔭᔭᐗᐨ ᑭᑭᓄᒪᐗᑲᓇᐠ᙮

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Attawapiskat blockade ends peacefully

Lenny CarpenterWawatay News

A blockade of the 90-kilo-metre winter road leading to De Beers’ Victor diamond mine site near Attawapiskat ended on Feb. 22 after a Timmins judge ruled that it was illegal.

The group of community members who put up the block-ade dismantled it after speak-ing with Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) liaison officers, who said they must enforce the court injunction filed by De Beers Canada and extended indefinitely by Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert Riopelle. A large force of OPP officers was ready to move in to remove the blockade.

Attawapiskat Acting Chief Christine Kataquapit said the blockade ended peacefully and no one was arrested.

The blockade lasted for more than two weeks after a group of community members cited issues with employment at the Victor Mine and the use of their traditional territory.

It was the second block-ade after another small group blocked the road Feb. 4-6. The first blockade ended peacefully after the members reached an agreement with De Beers offi-cials and community leaders.

The winter road, which runs from the Victor site to Attawapiskat, is a critical line for De Beers to ship in fuel, equipment and supplies from Moosonee that would be other-wise be more costly or impracti-cal to bring in by air.

De Beers weighing financial impact; legal ‘repercussions’ possible

Tom Ormsby, De Beers Canada’s director of exter-nal and corporate affairs, said the blockades have severely impacted the diamond mining company’s winter road program to bring in the supplies and threatened future operations of the mine.

“At this point, we know there are financial costs that have been piling up daily because we have local crews and contrac-tor crews who have been on standby trying to execute the

program,” he said. “The final total we won’t be able to deter-mine until the end of the winter road season because we’re not sure if we’re able to complete the program.”

Ormsby said De Beers saw the blockade as being illegal since the agreement it signed with the community gave it full access to the winter road.

After De Beers saw no resolu-tion in sight despite many meet-ings with the community and blockaders, Ormsby said it was

left with “no other option” and filed a court injunction, which was granted on Feb. 15.

That night, a sheriff flew into the community to serve the blockaders the injunction, but Chief Theresa Spence met him at the airport to serve a letter that forbade him from entering the community.

While the First Nation does not officially support the block-ade, Spence said, “I must pro-tect my people in times of cri-sis.”

The sheriff re-boarded the plane, flew to the Victor Mine’s airstrip and proceeded to the blockade, where he served the injunction.

Since the local Nishnawbe Aski Police Service detachment had no jurisdiction outside the reserve, OPP officers arrived in from Moosonee. However they took no direct action against the blockaders.

Since the original court injunction would last 10 days, on Feb. 22, a court hearing was

held where De Beers sought to extend it and the OPP would gain more direction on how to enforce the injunction.

Spence and seven com-munity members named in the injunction were present to make their case, but Justice Rio-pelle ruled that the injunction would be extended indefinitely and directed the OPP to lay charges if the blockade was not taken down.

Ormsby said transport trucks began mobilizing on Feb. 23 and that the company hopes the cold weather holds up long enough to complete its pro-gram, which had already been planned to run 24 hours a day before the initial blockade took place.

By the time the last blockade ended, De Beers had lost 16 of the 20 days the road was open.

“If we cannot complete pro-gram, it’s possible there can be some other repercussions through the legal process,” Ormsby said. “We’ll have to see what happens with the program first. That is the next step.”

Meanwhile, De Beers will continue to work with the com-munity to address members’ issues with the Impact Benefit Agreement, Ormsby said. He said the company and First Nation established a working group last July to address some of those concerns.

OPP officers continue to patrol the road along with the James Bay winter road located between Attawapiskat and Moosonee.

Jorge Barrera/APTN NewsRebecca Iahtail reacts to seeing the injunction posted by a sheriff on Feb. 15 along the winter road between Attawapiskat and the De Beers Vic-tor Mine, where Iahtail and several other community members had been blockading the road. The injunction was extended by a Timmins judge on Feb. 22 and ordered Ontario Provincial Police officers to make arrests if it was not followed. The blockade peacefully ended that night.

Rick GarrickWawatay News

Nishnawbe Aski Nation is looking for concrete results after the First Nations Repre-sentations on Ontario Juries report was released on Feb. 26 in Thunder Bay.

“We want to see some solid markers,” said Deputy Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler, noting the implementation com-mittee established after the 2007 Ipperwash Inquiry is “only halfway there” to imple-menting recommendations. “We want the implementa-tion committee to be formed fairly quickly in consultation with our communities and to

be properly resourced with a clear mandate to move for-ward.”

Former Supreme Court jus-tice Frank Iacobucci, indepen-dent reviewer of the Ontario Juries report, found that the justice system and the juries process is in a state of crisis for Ontario’s First Nations people, particularly those living in the north.

The report identified 17 rec-ommendations to improve the representation of First Nations individuals on juries and to enhance their perception of the jury system, including establishing an implementa-tion committee and establish-ing an First Nation advisory

group to the Attorney General.Attorney General John Ger-

retsen agreed to immediately work to address those two rec-ommendations.

“Since no solution to increasing First Nation rep-resentation on jury rolls can occur without working directly with First Nation part-ners, we will form an imple-mentation committee that includes representatives from the First Nations community and from various government ministries,” Gerretsen said. “The committee will consider the report’s recommendations, and how they might be imple-mented. A provincial advisory group will also be set up to

provide advice to the Attorney General on matters relating to First Nations and the justice system.”

Julian Falconer, NAN’s legal counsel, said it is not enough to simply fix First Nations rep-resentation on jury rolls, not-ing that First Nations youth are being disproportionately jailed and First Nations police services are operating without a regulatory framework and are “grossly” underfunded.

“These impact directly on the willingness of First Nations to engage in the justice system,” Falconer said. “All of these pieces fit in together — one can’t be touched without the other.”

Solid results expected from jury rolls report

Rick Garrick/Wawatay News

Fort William’s Marlene Pierre wants First Nations people on the jury at the new inquest into her 27-year-old son’s death in jail.


Reading the scrolls

From the Wawatay archives

Wawatay News archivesLittle Bear Singers, 2005.

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When I think back to the number of books that have affected

my life, I’m incredulous. The line snakes back through 55 years and touches on virtually everything. Sometimes I feel as though the doorway to a library was where I was always supposed to go. In fact, the absence of effective and imme-diate teachers from my family and culture was removed from me as a toddler and the world of books offered me guidance and wisdom.

When I visited the Kenora Public Library way back in 1960 when I first learned to read, I was amazed. Through the back door where the kids section was, existed a world of color, dream and image that captivated me. When they told me I could take as many home as I could carry, I did. Lugging them back past the mill into Rideout where my foster home sat was thrilling. I couldn’t wait to get to my room.

Not much has changed since

then. A library card is still my most prized possession. The stacks of the library are where I feel challenged, engaged, motivated and curious. There are always more worlds to explore and inhabit than I have time for. But I’m still on the lookout for something new to fire my imagination or simply aid me in understanding more of what I do know.

As a writer I live in the culture of books. I have for most of my life. When I open another book there is a whole new world for me to enter and inhabit. I’ve traipsed through a lot of worlds in my time and my real world has been increased by every journey. I never tire of making those journeys. Maybe it’s the kid in me that still hungers for the lure of a real good yarn, an adventure, a fantastic experience where all I know of this world is forgotten in the spell of a created one.

But I come from a people whose world was ordered without the need of books. The Ojibway, like all native peoples in Canada, had a literature that was oral. We spoke our books. We talked our teachings. Our storytellers framed the universe for us and we had no need of printed language. Within our stories was all the

stuff of great literature; pathos, tragedy, journeys, romance, great battles, heroes, villains, mystery and spiritual secrets.

They say that at one time in our history we set our stories on the skin of birch trees. We etched them there on the bark with the blunt edge of a burnt stick or pigments formed of earth and rock and plant material that has never faded over time. Sacred scrolls holding stories meant to last forever. Books. Unbound but for the leather thong that held them, unprinted but for the hand that shaped the images, unedited but for the protocol of storytelling that guided them.

I only ever saw a birch bark scroll once. The old man laid it out for me on a plank table top in a cabin tucked far away in the bush and traced the line of history with one arthritic finger, telling it in the Old Talk that I didn’t understand. But I could translate his eyes.

In those ancient symbols was a world where legends were alive, where an entire belief system was represented in teachings built of principles that were built themselves of rock and leaf and tree, of bird and moose and sky, and Trickster spirits nimble as dreams cajoling my people onto the land,

toward themselves, toward him, toward me. Here was an entire world, a cosmology, an enduring set of principles laid down in a time long passed that promised a learning unsurpassed in my experience. Here was the magic that sustained a people.

This is what I understood from the wet glimmer of his eyes. When he looked up at me with one palm laid gently on the skin of that living scroll, there was pride there, honour, respect and understanding of what I came for, what I needed. He was telling me that words cannot exist without feeling. That a text is only as useful as the truth its holds. That dreams and reality are the same world. That what I know is less important than what I desire to know.

So inhabit what you read. Allow it to fill you. Let the intent of the spirit of the story take you where it will. Stories and books are tools of understanding on the journey of coming to know. Pick them up. Carry them. This is what I carried away. This is the message I brought to my own storytelling to here, to this page, stark in its blankness, waiting like me to be imagined, to be filled.

The tragic death of a young woman in Kasabonika Lake First Nation has reignited debate over the state of policing in Nish-nawbe Aski Nation communities, once again calling into question the idea of First Nations policing in Canada.

The fact that a woman died while being detained in the back of a police cruiser, since the community lacked an opera-tional holding cell, has right-fully raised concerns and anger about the adequacy of the police services for First Nations people living on reserve. Frankly, if a prisoner in Toronto or Thunder Bay died while being detained in the back of a police cruiser because there was nowhere else to hold him or her, there would be a national outcry. So far in this case the outcry has largely been within the First Nations commu-nity and Aboriginal media. But the situation raises important national questions that need to be addressed.

These concerns are not new. Think back to the calls for action that came from the inquest into the deaths of Ricardo Wesley and Jamie Goodwin of Kasheche-wan in 2006. The discussion was essentially the same. First Nations police services are under-funded, and they face barriers to services that provincial or munic-ipal police forces would never stand for.

Out of the Kashechewan inquest came 86 recommenda-tions. Some have been dealt with; many more have not. Of note, the big picture items high-lighted by the coroner – including the fact that First Nation police forces are considered programs instead of legislated like provin-cial and municipal police forces – has been virtually ignored.

Now another inquest into another tragic death is in the works. The big picture recom-mendations determined during the Kashechewan inquest will be rehashed and republished. Whether they will be acted on is another story entirely.

But the high profile cases and the inquests into First Nations policing are just the tip of the ice-berg when it comes to problems with services and the debate over policing in communities.

It has only been a few months since Eabametoong threatened to replace Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service (NAPS) with the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) in the community. In the end Eaba-metoong stuck with NAPS, but the discussion was just the latest case of a First Nations community considering going back to the provincial police force.

Who can blame a community for exploring that option? By NAPS’ own admission, the force struggles to fill all the positions

needed in communities. NAPS officers are generally working alone, while the OPP requires that two officers attend every call. NAPS is prevented from buy-ing or constructing buildings, and so have to rely on modular units, while the OPP faces no such restriction. Those are just a few examples. The differences between the forces are vast.

The president of the Asso-ciation of the Ontario Chiefs of Police, Stephen Tanner, summed up those differences in a newspa-per article last week. Tanner was expressing his frustration with cuts to a federal program that paid for 11 NAPS officers. The cuts, Tanner said, may result in NAPS pulling out of one or two communities, forcing the OPP to move in. And that would mean a huge increase in costs since, as Tanner explained, for every $1 million NAPS spends on policing, the OPP would spend $2 to $3 million to do the same job.

Tanner’s comments show just how unfair the system is. The fact that NAPS spends way less than the OPP policing the same com-munity is not due to efficiency within NAPS. It is, plain and simple, due to the fact that NAPS has less stringent requirements in terms of officers, buildings, and other operational items.

Policing is a thankless job. When things go right, no one notices the police. But when things go wrong the police are often the first to be blamed. Given the challenges that NAPS faces, it is no surprise that com-munities debate whether to return to the OPP.

But the issue of policing in First Nations communities has to be considered with a broad lens. The kneejerk reaction of getting rid of NAPS when something bad happens may end up hurting the Nishnawbe Aski Nation self-gov-ernment push in the long run. It has been argued that the federal and provincial governments set NAPS up to fail. Perhaps, given that, the question should be asked: why do governments want First Nations policing to fail?

The leaders who helped estab-lish NAPS in the early 1990s understood that having a First Nations police force serving the people, instead of a provincial or federal police force, is crucial for self-government. Granted, the vision has not yet come to frui-tion. NAPS still faces too many challenges in terms of fund-ing, staffing and governance. The force desperately needs to become a legislated police ser-vice, just like the provincial and municipal police, in order to not only get the proper funding that the people of NAN deserve, but also in order to have the account-ability and independent over-sights other police forces across the country are subject to.

But those challenges will not be resolved without backing from the communities, and the real-ization that a strong NAPS ben-efits all NAN members. It is only by strengthening the individual pieces of self-government that true nation building can succeed.

Richard Wagamese

ONE NATIVE LIFE

Shawn Bell

EDITOR

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REVIEWMinor Amendment ReviewCaribou Forest 2008-2018 Forest Management PlanThe Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), Resolute Forest Products Inc. and the Sioux Lookout Local Citizens Committee (LCC) invite you to review the MNR-accepted minor amendment to the 2008-2018 Forest Management Plan (FMP) for the Caribou Forest and to provide comments.

This amendment provides for the addition of eligible but previously not allocated stands in the Watin and Kiwi Operating Units (OU). The Kiwi OU is located between Aki and Hooker Lakes. The Watin OU is located south of Highway 516 and between Lewis Lake and the Kee Lake Road.

How to Get Involved

Minor amendment #54 will be available for review for a 15-day period February 27 to March 13, 2013 at the MNR public website at ontario.ca/forestplans. The Ontario Government Information Centre in Toronto at 777 Bay Street and the Ontario Government Information Centre in Sioux Lookout (located at 62 Queen Street) provides access to the Internet. Interested and affected persons and organizations can arrange an appointment

To arrange an appointment please contact Tara Pettit, R.P.F. at (807)737-5040.

Comments and/or concerns with respect to this minor amendment must be received within the 15-day review period and no later than March 13, 2013 by Tara Pettit, RPF, Area

the 15-day inspection period, the minor amendment will be approved. After approval the amendment will remain on the MNR public website for the duration of the FMP.

During the 15-day review period, you may make a written request to the MNR District Manager to initiate a formal issue resolution process, following the process described in the 2009 Forest Management Planning Manual (Part C, Section 6.1.4).

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 Glen Niznowski at (807) 737-5037.

Editor’s note: Jack Haight is working on a community-based program educating people about HIV/AIDS and addictions. Jack HaightSpecial to Wawatay News

Please let me introduce myself. My name is Jack Haight, I have been living with HIV/HEPC for the last 19 years. I am a Metis father of two grown sons, and I identify as a two-spirited person. My journey of acceptance of myself and this virus has me using all of my past life struggles as a way to help others who are coming along behind me in the move-ment as well as living with HIV.

My goal in Peer to Peer help-ing is to build a safe welcoming space for people to come a do a scary and difficult task: have their HIV status checked. You can imagine that the riskier the person’s life style, the scarier the whole experience will be. I understand that fear of going into an agency when you may or may not know your HIV sta-tus - Will people know or think I have this?

I know only too well the pain and confusion that is running through a person once they are diagnosed with any ill-ness. Once the person has had a chance to accept it and start to normalize it only then does it start to subside and the client begins to feel more whole.

All of this stuff is really up for me right now I judge, because

Our Helping Hands‘Help is inclusive of all or exclusive of many’

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I am sitting on a provincial Aboriginal HIV Health Summit Planning committee. I am doing some national work that feeds my soul and I want to be able to do some great work in my own backyard.

We are clearly defining what GIPA (Greater Involvement of People living with HIV) is and what it isn’t. I have uncov-ered what I am now choosing to call: “The language of my heart in explaining my human experience as it pertains to liv-ing successfully while dealing with addictions and a chronic illness.”

We have also been con-sciously creating ceremony in our minds and in the frame-work we are using to move for-ward. We are acknowledging Creator and I can see now that whenever I am in my higher self and temporarily free of my ego and talk from my wise old one, I can explain myself without ever offending anyone, usually. My language is soft and loving and respectful and mindful of the power of the spoken word.

All of this has led to us being able to create a response from within a First Nation and we are calling it “Our Helping Hands.” We’re working by engaging a Native Alcohol & Drug Assis-tance Program worker (Bren-nen Ireland), a concerned community member (Lana Parenteau) who had chosen to go back to school for Alcohol and Drug dependency and has an aspiration to help her com-

munity, and myself, an APHA (Aboriginal Person Living with HIV).

We shared our strengths and weakness and fashioned a series of solutions for the issues the community was facing.

We started a once a week outreach and provided people with a sandwich and soup and support and education around HIV/HEPC/ADDICTION, and a culturally safe and relevant access to outside community services where applicable.

We held a monthly education session for the grandmothers, parents and children. We also started a Harm Reduction Opi-ate Sharing circle for people at any stage of their addiction. Our goal is to meet people where they are at so they can come for information and sup-port to start addressing what is not working for them in their personal lives.

Brennan and Lana and I were able to start to normalize living with HIV and show how to suc-cessfully engage with clinical care, treatment and support. This was achieved by simply having me and others come in and share our experience of liv-ing openly with a HIV diagno-sis.

So it was a natural progres-sion to start working with the nurse who was doing anony-mous testing off reservation in our area so that First Nations, Inuit and Metis people know we are with them through the whole testing experience, sup-

porting and educating them in a style that will stick with them.

The lived experiences of us three amigo’s, as well as being part of a National Aborigi-nal Working Group on HIV/AIDS/HEPC, had all three of us grounded in all of our knowl-edge and gifts and armed us with what the Industry stan-dard should be and looks like. That was our guiding principle.

Learning to engage with a community and create responses that meet its needs, requires it to be built on com-monalties: empathy, non-judge-ment, and actually looking for the similarities in the client’s life. Stop using the glaringly dif-ferent coping mechanisms the client is currently employing as a wall to separate off from. The moment a person engages in that energy in a interpersonal exchange the other person feels that. Help is either inclusive of all or exclusive of many.

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Re: Attawapiskat blockades Debeers roadWawatay News (Feb. 14, 2013)

There are no watch dogs for the Impact Benefit Agreement. Shame. A committee should had been established after the IBA was approved. They should have continued review the Agree-ment to improve it as it needs. Nobody is doing that. We con-tinue to see this Blockade cause there is no watchdog.

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Re: Constance Lake students earn credits while learning trapping(Wawatay News, Feb. 14, 2013)

I applaud this approach coinciding with education. Just like the language, if you do not use it you will forget it. It would be a shame if this tradition (trapping) also fell by the wayside. I am from that generation where during the spring, Christmasholidays etc, we went out trapping, in my case, with my Grand-father. I now appreciate what the Elders taught me.

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Re: Colonial ideas behind racism(Wawatay News, Feb. 14, 2013)

I am encouraged by Lenny’s hope of seeing less racism in our future as I am 70 years old and have had many negative experi-ences of such actions/words. Sometimes I look back and I am amazed at how much we have gone through, and we still con-tinue to move forward despite the efforts of these hurtful peo-ple. I pray for the future of our youth who are so dear to me. Keep going in the right direction and remain strong and united.

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Discussing Aboriginal law

Brent Wesley/Special to Wawatay NewsJoan Jack speaking at the WahkaWiiwin Conference in Sioux Lookout on Feb. 21. The gathering provided discussions on international law, treaties, legislation and Aboriginal law. Videos of the presentations can be found on Wawatay TV’s YouTube channel.

Following Elders directionsStephanie WesleyWawatay News

Elijah Sugarhead of Nibinamik First Nation was following the advice of his Elders when he went to Toronto to join Ryerson University’s Idle No More rally.

Sugarhead delivered a speech on Feb. 4 in Toronto, talking about the various ways the omnibus bill that was passed in December through parliament would affect the environment, land and people of northern Ontario.

Sugarhead said he was contacted by Ryerson University to be a speaker at the rally. He said he agreed because he was informed by Elders to be aware that something like the INM movement would happen and he should take part.

“Our Elders were told, by the Elders before them, that this sort of stuff would happen with the government,” Sugarhead explained, Sugarhead said he was told that it was important to work together and pass the information on to the next generation.

“The Elders told us to be aware,” Sugarhead said.

Sugarhead has been working with the North-South Partnership of Canada, and is involved with many multicultural conferences. “I facilitated some of them,” he said. “I believe in working together as one no matter who we are and what colour our skin is.”

To him, INM is a chance to change how Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people work together.

The rally itself felt a little overwhelming, he said. He is glad to be a part of the movement and hopes to make a

difference and create some kind of change in the world.

“I am going to continue to work with multicultural groups,” Sugarhead said. “I want to bring about change, with all kinds of people, for the future. I believe this INM movement can be more than what it is today. We need to get our people prepared for the future no matter what.”

Alice Sabourin of Pic River First Nation was also invited to attend the event.

“It was so powerful,” Sabourin said of the rally. “I

have never felt so amazed in my life. I was going to sing the Strong woman’s song for a round dance, and just before I did four other women hand drummers came and stood beside me. We sang those songs together.”

Sabourin was proud to be there as an “AnishnawbeQuek Grandmother” supporting the non-native community and youth of Ryerson who were hosting the rally.

“There is so much strength and energy from Idle No More,” Sabourin added.

Submitted photoElijah Sugarhead of Nibinamik First Nation speaks during Ryerson University’s Idle No More rally on Feb. 4 in Toronto.


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ᒪᐡᑭᑲᐧᑲᒪᐃᐧᓂᓂ ᐃᐧᓫᐃᔭᑦ ᓴᑊᑯ ᐅᐃᐧᔭᐸᒋᑐᐣ ᑭᔕᐸᓯᑲᓂᓂ ᐁᐃᐧᓂᑲᑌᓇᐨ ᓂᐯᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑲᑕᔑᑫᓂᐨ ᒪᐣᒍᔕᐣ ᐃᐃᐁᐧ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐅᑭᔭᓂᒧᑕᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃᑫᐃᐧ ᒪᐊᐧᒋᐦᐃᑐᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐊᒥᐁᐧ ᐊᔕ ᒪᒪᐤ ᐯᔑᑯᔕᐱᔭᑭ ᐁᐅᒋ ᒪᐊᐧᒋᐦᐃᑐᓇᓂᐊᐧᐠ᙮“ᐊᔕᐱᐣ ᐁᑭᑫᐣᑕᒪᐣ ᐅᐅᐁᐧ ᑭᔕᐸᓯᑲᐣ ᐁᐃᓇᐸᑕᐠ ᐊᒥᐅᐁᐧ ᑲᐃᐧᔭᐸᒋᑐᔭᐠ ,” ᐃᑭᑐ ᑲᓂᑲᓂᐡᑲᐠ ᐃᐃᒪ ᒪᐡᑭᑲᐧᑲᒪᐠ᙮ “ᓂᒣᑎᓂᑫᐃᐧᓂᓂᓇᐣ ᒥᐡᑕᐦᐃ ᑕᔭᒍᓭ ᑕᐱᓂᑲ ᓂᓇᐊᐧᐨ ᓂᑲᑎᐯᓂᑕᒥᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᓂᓇᐊᐧᐨ ᐱᑯ ᓂᑲᑐᑕᒪᓯᒥᐣ᙮ ᑲᐧᓂᐣ ᑕᑲᐨ ᐸᑲᐣ ᐊᐃᐧᔭ ᓂᑲᓇᑐᒪᓯᒥᐣ ᒋᐱᑐᒋᑫᑕᒪᑯᔭᐠ᙮” ᓴᑊᑯ ᐃᑭᑐ ᐊᔕ ᓂᐦᓯᐣ ᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃᑲᓇᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐃᐃᒪ ᑲᐯᔑᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐠ ᒥᑲᐊᐧᑲᓄᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᑫᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᓂᐯᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑲᑕᔑᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᒪᐣᒍᔕᐠ᙮“ᓄᑭᒣᑫ ᐱᑯ ᑲᑭᑭᐣᑕᒪᐠ ᐁᐊᔭᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᐃᒪ ᑲᐯᔑᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐠ,”ᓴᑊᑯ ᐃᑭᑐ᙮ “ᓂᑭᓇᑐᒪᒥᐣ ᒪᐣᒍᔕᐣ ᑲᓄᒋᔭᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐱᑯ ᑲᑭᓇ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ ᑭᓴᑭᒋᒋᑲᑌᐊᐧᓄᐣ᙮”ᐁᓫᐟ ᑲᓇᑕ ᐊᓄᑭᓇᑲᐣ ᐁᒥ ᒪᐧᐣᐟᑲᐧᑦᒧᕑᐃ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᐃᐃᐁᐧ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᓂᐃᐧᔕᑊ ᑲᑕᑲᐧᑭᓯᓂᐨ ᐱᓯᒧᐣ ᐁᑭᑎᐸᒋᒪᐨ ᐅᑫᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ

ᓂᐯᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑲᑕᔑᑫᓂᐨ ᒪᐣᒍᔕᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐱᑯ ᐁᑭᐃᐧᑕᐠ ᐊᔕ ᐯᔑᐠ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯᐃᐧ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᐣ ᐁᑭᔭᑕᐁᐧᐨ ᑭᔕᐸᓯᑲᓂᓂ ᐁᐃᐧᓂᑲᑌᓇᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑫᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᒪᐣᒍᔕᐣ᙮“ᐁᑭᓇᐊᐧᐸᑕᒥᐊᐧᐨ ᒥᑎᓂᑫᐃᐧᓂᓂ ᐊᐦᐃᓂ ᐅᑭᐊᐸᒋᑐᓇᐊᐧ ᑲᐃᓇᑭᔑᓂᐨ ᐅᑫᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᒪᔭᑦ ᑭᐃᓇᓄᑭᓂᐨ ᒥᓇ ᐱᑯ ᑲᐃᓇᑭᑌᓂᐠ ᑭᔕᐸᓯᑲᓂᓂ᙮ ᐅᑭᒥᑲᓇᐊᐧ ᓂᔕᐧ ᐁᐱᔕᐨ ᐊᒥᐱᑯ ᒪᔭᑦ ᒥᓴᐊᐧᐨ ᑫᑲᐟ ᑫᒣᑎᓂᑫᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᐊᑕᐁᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᐅᐁᐧᓂ ᑭᔕᐸᓯᑲᓂᓂ ,” ᐃᑭᑐ ᒪᐧᐣᐟᑲᐧᑦᒧᕑᐃ᙮ ᒪᐧᐣᐟᑲᑦᒧᕑᐃ ᐃᑭᑐ ᐅᐅᐁᐧ ᑭᔕᐸᓯᑲᐣ ᐊᐸᑕᐣ ᐁ ᑭ ᔕ ᐸ ᓯ ᑲ ᑲ ᓂ ᐊ ᐧ ᐠ ᐱᒋᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂᐠ ᓇᐣᑕ ᐱᑯ 50 ᐊᐱᒋᑭᔕᐸᓯᑲᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᑕᑕᓱ

ᐁᐃᓇᓀᐊᐧᑲᓭ ᐃᓂᑯᐠ ᐊᐱᐣ ᑲᓂᑲᑌᓇᑲᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑫᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᓂᐯᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑲᑕᔑᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᒪᐣᒍᔕᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐱᑯ ᐅᑐᐊᐧᐤᒥᐊᐧᐣ᙮“ᑲᑭᓇ ᐅᔕ ᑫᑯᐣ ᑲᓴᑭᒋᑐᐣ ᐃᐃᒪ ᑲᐃᔑ ᒥᑲᐊᐧᑲᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᓇᐣᑕ ᐱᑯ ᑲᔭ ᐃᐃᒪ ᒥᓯᐁᐧ ᑭᑲᐯᔑᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᓇᐣᑕ ᐊᑲᐧᒋᐠ ᐊᒋᑲᑌᐊᐧᓄᐣ ᐊᐦᐃᐣ ᐅᑕ ᑲᔭ ᑲᐊᐧᑫᐃᐧ ᓂᑭᑌᑭᐣ ,” ᐃᑭᑐ ᒪᐧᐣᐟᑲᐧᑦᒧᕑᐃ᙮ “ᐅᑲᓇᐸᐱᑫᓇᓇᐊᐧ

ᐁᑲᐧ ᐁᐃᓇᓀᐃᐧ ᓇᐣᑕ ᒥᑕᓴᐧᑲᓭ ᒥᓇ 50 ᒋᔭᐱᒋᑭᔕᐸᑌᐠ ᐊᐱ ᑲᑫᐧ ᓂᑲᑌᓇᑲᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᒪᐣᒍᔕᐠ ᔕᑯᐨ ᐁᐡᑲᑦ ᐊᓂᒪᐣ ᐅᓴᑦ ᐅᑕ ᐱᑯ ᑲᑭᔕᐸᑌᐠ ᐁᐅᒋ ᓴᑭᑕᐸᑌᐠ ᐸᐸᐳᓂᐠ᙮”ᒪᐧᐣᐟᑲᐧᑦᒧᕑᐃ ᐃᑭᑐ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᔭᓂᒪᐠ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᒋᓴᑲᑲᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑕᔭᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᒥᑲᐧᐨ ᑲᑲᑫᐧᓂᑲᑌᓇᑲᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑫᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᓂᐯᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑲᑕᔑᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᒪᐣᒍᔕᐠ᙮ “ᐁᓇᑐᑕᒥᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᐧᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᐅᔕ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᓭ,” ᒪᐧᐣᐟᑲᐧᑦᒧᕑᐃ ᐃᑭᑐ᙮ “ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᒥᓭ ᑭᐡᐱᐣ ᐊᐧᐃᐧᔭ ᐁᑲ ᑲᓇᑕᐁᐧᐣᑕᐠ ᐅᑕᐸᒋᒋᑲᓇᐣ ᒋᐁᐧᐱᓂᑲᑌᓂᑭᐣ ᐅᓴᑦ ᐅᑕ ᐅᑫᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᒪᐣᒍᔕᐠ ᑲᒥᐡᑌᐢᑲᐊᐧᐨ᙮ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᒪᐣ ᒋᑭᓂᑲᑌᓇᑲᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐯᔑᑯᑭᔑᑲ ᓇᐣᑕ ᓂᔓᑭᔑᑲ ᑲᓇᑲᑕᐣ ᑭᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ ᒥᑲᐧᐨ ᑲᐸᒥᒋᑲᑌᐠ᙮ “ᑲᔭᑯᑌᑭᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐃᐡᑯᑌᐃᐧᒐᑭᐢᒋᑲᓇᐣ ᑭᐸᐦᐃᑲᓇᐣ ᑕᒪᓂᐱᒋᑲᑌᐊᐧᓄᐣ ᐊᓂᐣ ᓴᐱᑯ

ᑭᐃᔑᒥᓄᓭᐠ ᒋᓂᑲᑌᓇᑲᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑫᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᒪᐣᒍᔕᐠ ,” ᐃᑭᑐ ᒪᐧᐣᐟᑲᐧᑦᒧᕑᐃ᙮ “ᔕᑯᐨ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᓂᑎᓇᐠ ᒋᐃᐧᒋᐊᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᑫᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᑲᐅᒪᓯᓇᐦᐃᑲᓂᓯᓂᐨ ᑭᐡᐱᐣ ᐱᒋᐳᐃᐧ ᒪᑯᒋᓂᑲᓂᓂ ᑲᐃᐧᐊᐸᑕᓂᓂᐠ ᐯᑭᐡ ᑲᔭ ᒍᒋᑭᑭᓄᐊᒪᐊᐧᑲᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᑫᑐᑕᒥᐊᐧᐨ ᑫᐃᐧᓇᐊᐧ ᐊᐸᒋᑐᐊᐧᐨ᙮ ᔕᑯᐨ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᑭᒋᑕᑲᔭᐠ ᒥᓄᓭ ᑲᓂᑲᑌᓇᑲᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑫᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᒪᐣᒍᔕᐠ ᓇᐣᑕ ᐱᑯ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᒣ ᓂᓱᒥᑕᓇ ᒥᔑᓄᑭᔑᑲ ᒋᔭᐱᒋᑕᑲᔭᓂᐠ᙮ ᐸᐧᐟ ᐃᐧᓫᐃᔭᑦ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐠ ᑲᐅᒋᐨ ᐯᐳᓫᐃ ᐸᓇᐣ ᐃᑭᑐ ᓄᑯᑦ ᒣᑫ ᐱᑯ ᐅᓂᑭᐦᐃᑯᐣ ᐁᑭᐃᐡᑲᐧ ᐊᐧᐊᐧᑕᐦᐃᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃᑲᓀᓂᐨ ᐁᐃᐧᓂᑲᑌᓇᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑫᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᓂᐯᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑲᑕᔑᑫᓂᐨ ᒪᐣᒍᔕᐣ᙮ “ᒥᓯᐁᐧ ᔕᐱᑯ ᑭᓴᑲᑭᓂᑲᑌᓂ ᒥᓇ ᑭᐊᐧᐊᐧᑕᐦᐃᓂᑲᑌᓂ ᐅᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂᐊᐧ,” ᐸᓇᐣ ᐃᑭᑐ᙮ “ᑫᑲᐟ ᐯᔑᑯᐱᓯᑦ ᑭᑲᐯᔑᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᐯᔑᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐠ᙮”

ᐁᓫᐟ ᑲᓇᑕ ᐅᑎᐸᒋᒪᐣ ᓂᐯᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑲᑕᔑᑫᓂᐨ ᒪᐣᒍᔕᐣ ᐃᐃᒪ ᒪᒪᑕᐃᐧ ᐱᐊᐧᐱᑯᐠ www.hc-sc.gc.ca/cps-spc/pubs/pest /_pnotes/bedbugs-punaises-lits/index-eng.php᙮ᐃᑭᑐᒪᑲᐣ ᐊᔕ ᒥᓇ ᐁᓂᒥᔑᓂᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑫᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᓂᐯᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑲᑕᔑᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᒪᐣᒍᔕᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓯᐁᐧ ᐊᔭᐊᐧᐠ ᐊᐦᐃᐠ ᑲᔭ ᑲᐯᔑᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐱᑯ ᓇᓇᑐᐠ ᑲᐅᒋᐸᐸᒥᔭᓂᐊᐧᐠ᙮ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐃᑭᑐᒪᑲᐣ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᒥᓄᓭᐠ ᐃᐧᐸᐨ ᑲᑭᑫᐣᒪᑲᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᒪᐧᔦ ᐅᓴᑦ ᒥᔑᓂᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᓴᑦ ᐅᑕᐱᑯ ᐁᔭᓂᒪᐠ ᒋᑭᓂᑲᑌᓇᑲᓄᐊᐧᐨ᙮ ᐱᑯᔭᐣᑎ ᐸᐸᒥᔭᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᑫᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᓂᐯᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑲᑕᔑᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᒪᐣᒍᔕᐠ ᑭᔭᑦ ᑲᔭ ᑯᑕᑭᔭᐣ ᓂᐯᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐣ ᑕᑭᔕᐊᐧᐠ ᐊᒥᐁᐧᐱᑯ ᐁᐃᓯᓭᐠ ᒋᐸᒥᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐅᑫᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ᙮ ᐁᑲᐧ ᑲᔭ ᐁᑲ ᐅᓴᑦ ᒋᐸᐱᑲᐧᒋᑲᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐱᑎᑲᒥᐠ ᐁᑲ ᑕᐱᑯ ᐃᐃᒪ ᒋᐃᔑᑲᓯᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑫᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᒪᐣᒍᔕᐠ᙮

O U V E RT U R E O F F I C I E L L E / G R A N D O P E N I N G

L’Équipe de santé familiale Nord-Aski et les membres de son conseil d’administration vous invitent cordialement à un vins et fromages lors de leur

ouverture officielle

Le jeudi 28 février 2013, 18h30 - 21 h

1403 rue Edward, Hearst

1403 rue Edward Street Téléphone: 705-362-5544 C.P. 2260 / P.O. Box 2260 Télécopie / Fax: 705-362-5799 Hearst, Ontario P0L 1NO Courriel / Email: [email protected]

The Nord-Aski Family Health Team and it’s Board of Directors cordially invite you to a wine and cheese for their Grand opening.

Thursday, February 28th, 2013, 6:30 – 9 pm 1403 Edward Street, Hearst

NOTICETo Registered Members of Mishkeegogamang Ojibway Nation

Mishkeegogamang Ojibway Nation will be holding

Your Participation is Strongly Recommended

Phone: (807) 733-9903 Cell: (807) 630-8112

Email or comments: [email protected]

Bedbugs growing concern across northRick GarrickWawatay News

Mishkeegogamang’s William Sabko plans to use a heating machine to control bedbugs after a bed bug presentation at the 11th Annual First Nations Northern Housing Conference.

“Now that I’ve been here and know about that heating machine, that’s the way we are going to go with it,” said the technical services manager for Mishkeegogamang. “It’s going to be very cost effective because it will be our machine and we can do it ourselves. We don’t have to get a company to come up and do it for us.”

Sabko said bedbugs have been discovered in three houses as well as the community’s safe house.

“The safe house — we just found out about it,” Sabko said. “We had them (pest control experts) come up and get rid of everything out of there.”

Health Canada’s Amy Montgomery said one First Nation community in the Sioux Lookout area has already bought a heating machine to kill bedbugs during her Feb. 14 bed bug presentation at the Feb. 12-14 housing conference.

“When they looked at bringing in a licensed person versus the cost of the (heating machine) equipment, it turned out that (with the cost of) a couple of visits from the pest control guy, they could purchase the equipment with it,” Montgomery said.

Montgomery said the heating machine is used to heat the house to a 50 degree Celcius temperature for eight continuous hours to kill bedbugs and bedbug eggs.

“You have to take everything out of the affected area of the home, usually it’s a whole house — they’ll pull everything out, anything that can melt,” Montgomery said. “They’ll plug it in and let it blow for eight to 10 hours to try to get to 50 degrees Celsius, which can be a struggle when you have the temperatures that we do and air can escape out of the windows.”

Montgomery said it is a difficult situation for people to clear their home for bedbug treatments.

“Cooperation is huge,”

Montgomery said. “If a person living in a home doesn’t want to do all the things that are going to be necessary to get rid of the bugs, you will have challenges. It’s hard to get that all done. You might have to leave your home for a day or (a couple of days) for the treatments.”

Montgomery said treatments will not work unless the bedbugs are vacuumed up and hiding places are removed from the house.

“You have to pull things off the walls, plugin covers, whatever it takes to find and get rid of them,” Montgomery said. “In most cases we’re always recommending going with someone who is licensed because if they’re doing any chemical applications you want to make sure they are trained.”

Although cold temperatures can also be effective for killing bedbugs, Montgomery said the temperature has to be consis-tently below -30 degrees Celsius for a number of days to kill the bedbugs.

“It would have to be very consistently cold with no fluctuations in temperatures,” Montgomery said. “So it’s not something they use.”

Fort William’s Beverly Bannon said her parents recently had their home completely renovated to get rid of bedbugs.

“We had to clean out the whole house — they were doing renovations anyway,” Bannon said. “They were in a motel for about a month.”

Health Canada posted a pest note on bedbugs on their website at www.hc-sc.gc.ca/cps-spc/pubs/pest/_pnotes/bedbugs-punaises-lits/index-eng.php.

The note said bedbugs are making a comeback and can now be found everywhere from homeless shelters to five-star hotels to public transportation.

The note also emphasized that early detection of a bedbug infestation is very important, as the larger the infestation, the more difficult it is to get rid of the bedbugs. Because bedbugs travel easily, nearby rooms may also need to be treated. The note suggests the removal or reduction of any clutter where bedbugs can hide.

ᓂᐯᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑲᑕᔑᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᒪᐣᒍᔕᐠ ᐊᓂ ᑭᒋᒪᒥᑎᓂᐣᑕᒥᐦᐃᐁᐧᐊᐧᐠ ᒥᓯᐁᐧ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ



Lakehead University students have raised concerns about changes to the Faculty of Law’s indigenous course, saying the changes will reduce the new program’s focus on indigenous issues.

“The course before this change would have been taught by Indigenous Learning faculty and now it’s taught by law fac-ulty,” said Sebastian Murdoch-Gibson, an Indigenous Learn-

ing student. “Before they made this change, it would have been a full credit — now it’s a half credit. It would have focused on the law and other institutions of western civilization through the perspective of First Nations, whereas now it focuses on First Nations through the perspective of the law, which is a major dis-tinction.”

Murdoch-Gibson said the students are planning to hold a meeting on the morning of Feb. 25 at the University Cen-tre Agora, including a visit to

LU President Brian Stevenson’s office.

The dean of the faculty of law, however, argued that the changes would make the course better suited for law students.

“My understanding is that the students, mostly from the Indigenous Learning program, wish to have it as an Indigenous Learning course taught in the law school,” said Lee Stuesser, founding dean of LU’s Faculty of Law. “It’s our view from the Fac-ulty of Law that it’s better to be taught as a law course — that it gives the course a larger mea-sure of credence and it stamps our position that we think this is so important in terms of being in the law program that we want it as a law course.”

Stuesser added that having the course taught by full-time members of the law faculty helps to develop the faculty’s “Aboriginal base.”

The Indigenous Learning course was called Native Cana-dian World Views while the Faculty of Law course is called Native Canadian World Views and Law.

Stuesser said the Indigenous Learning course is a second-year undergraduate university course while the new course is a law course.

“We’re talking about students that are on average 24 years of age — all have a degree, most have an honours degree, many have masters degrees, so you can see there is a different audi-ence here that we are dealing with,” Stuesser said.

Stuesser said the Faculty of

Law is the only law school in Canada that has a standalone, mandatory Aboriginal course in first year.

“Not only that, it has the same standalone mandatory course in second year,” Stuesser said. “And we’re very proud of that. There’s no attempt here at watering down. In fact, it’s the reverse: we want to enhance the presence of Aboriginal law within the program.”

Stuesser said the program was changed to a half credit to accommodate the inclusion of a criminal law component that had not been in the law school’s proposed curriculum that was originally accepted by the Fed-eration of Law Societies of Can-ada in 2011.

“We had to make some changes and property law was one course that I felt we could cut from six credits to three,” Stuesser said. “And then we took a good look at the Native Canadian World View course and I thought it could run very well as a half course, comple-menting at the same time, a course called Foundations of Canadian Law, which is the western perspective. We’ll see the Aboriginal perspective in the one and the western per-spective in the other.”

Stuesser said the Faculty of Law also integrates Aboriginal issues into all of its courses.

The inaugural class at LU’s law school starts in September 2013. The school is the first new law school in Canada in 42 years.

REVIEWRomeo Malette Forest 2009–2019 Forest Management PlanReview of Proposed Operations for Phase II (2014–2019) Information CentreThe Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), Tembec Inc. and the Timmins Local Citizens Committee (LCC) invite you to an information centre to help us develop the second five-year term (2014–2019) of the (2009–2019) Forest Management Plan (FMP) for the Romeo Malette Forest.

You will have the opportunity to review and comment on:

and tending operations; and

second five-year term.

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

How to Get Involved

To facilitate your review, an information centre will be held at the following location from 4:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m. on the following day:

Timmins MNR District OfficeOntario Government ComplexSouth Porcupine, OntarioDate: March 28, 2013

A summary map showing proposed areas for harvest, renewal and tending operations as well as the proposed road corridors will be available at the information centre or upon request.

The information and maps available at the information centre will also be available for review and comment at the Tembec Inc. office (address below) and at the MNR South Porcupine office, by appointment during normal office hours for a period of 30 days from March 28, 2013–April 27, 2013. Comments must be received by Nikki Wood at the MNR Timmins District Office, by April 27, 2013.

Meetings with representatives of the planning team and the LCC can be requested at any time during the planning process. Reasonable opportunities to meet planning team members during non-business hours will be provided upon request. If you require more information or wish to discuss your interests and concerns with a planning team member, please contact one of the individuals listed below:

Nikki Wood Sarah Sullivan Rusty Fink Ministry of Natural Resources Tembec Industries Inc. Local Citizens CommitteeOntario Government Complex P.O. Box 1100 c/o MNR TimminsP.O. Bag 3090 Timmins, ON P4N 7H9 Ontario Government ComplexSouth Porcupine, ON P0N 1H0 tel: 705-864-3021 P.O. Bag 3090tel: 705-235-1339 fax: 705-864-0928 South Porcupine, ON P0N 1H0fax: 705-235-1377 e-mail: [email protected]: [email protected]

During the planning process there is an opportunity to make a written request to seek resolution of issues with the plan author, the MNR District Manager or the Regional Director using a process described in the Forest Management Planning Manual (2009).

The operations for the first five-year term (Phase I) of the 10-year FMP (2009–2014) are nearing completion and detailed planning for the second five-year term (Phase II) operations are commencing. This first stage (Stage 1) notice is to invite you to review and comment on proposed operations and to contribute to the background information to be used in planning.

Stay Involved

There will be two more formal opportunities for you to be involved. These stages are tentatively scheduled as follows:

Stage 2 – Review of Draft Planned Operations July 11, 2013–August 10, 2013Stage 3 – Inspection of MNR-Approved Planned Operations October 24, 2013–November 23, 2013

The tentative scheduled date for submission of the draft planned operations is June 11, 2013.

If you would like to be added to a mailing list to be notified of public involvement opportunities, please contact Nikki Wood at 705-235-1339.

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 Doug MacMillan at 705-235-1316.

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March 6-8, 2013

Students protest changes to Lakehead Faculty of Law indigenous course

Rick Garrick/Wawatay NewsLakehead University students march in protest to changes to a Fac-ulty of Law indigenous course.

New Aboriginal Affairs minister namedShawn BellWawatay News

Bernard Valcourt, a New Brunswick MP, has been named Canada’s new minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development (AANDC).

Valcourt, who served the Conservatives during Brian Mulroney’s time at the helm before returning to politics in 2011, was sworn in at a private ceremony at Rideau Hall on Feb. 22.

Valcourt replaces John Dun-can, who stepped down on Feb. 15 after writing an inappropri-ate letter to Canada Revenue Agency on behalf of a constitu-ent.

In a press release, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Valcourt will continue to work to advance dialogue on Aborigi-nal issues and “take achievable steps that will provide better education and economic out-comes for Aboriginal peoples across Canada.”

Valcourt was first elected to the House of Commons in 1984

as a Progressive Conservative. He served as Minister of Con-sumer and Corporate Affairs, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans and Minister of Employ-ment and Immigration before losing his seat in 1993.

He then served as the leader of the Progressive Conserva-tives in New Brunswick before returning to federal politics in 2011 as MP for Madawaska-Restigouche.

In his first statement as AANDC minister, Valcourt praised the government’s actions on indigenous issues.

“Our government has made significant progress in improv-ing outcomes for Aboriginal peoples across Canada,” Val-court said in a statement.

“We have built new schools, invested in clean drinking water systems, built thousands of new homes, increased funding for services for the most vulnerable members of First Nations com-munities, and invested in hun-dreds of projects to link Aborigi-nals with job training services.”


Proposed New Assess Road: Springpole Lake Area

Notice of Completion, Opportunity to Inspect the Final Environmental

Study Report

Class Environmental Assessment for MNR Resource Stewardship and Facility Development Projects The Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) invites public inspection of the Final Environmental Study Report (ESR) for Gold Canyon Resources Inc.’s proposal to develop a new access road in the Springpole Lake area of the MNR Red Lake District. The proposed corridor extends from the end of the Wenasaga Road to Gold Canyon’s Springpole Exploration project, located, at the northern extent of Springpole Lake. Gold Canyon is proposing construction of an access road, built to forestry winter operational road standards, which will include a crossing of the Birch River system. All proposed water crossings on the route will be built to primary road standards. A Final ESR for the proposed road has now been completed, as required for a Category C project under the Class Environmental Assessment for MNR Resource Stewardship and Facility Development Projects. It describes the process for the selection of a preferred location, the development of a site plan and an evaluation of environmental effects. To obtain a copy of the Final ESR, to discuss the project, to provide comments, or to inspect the project during normal office hours, please contact: Denise Saunders Manager of Community Relations and Lands Gold Canyon Resources Inc. P.O. Box 10356, Pacific Centre Vancouver, British Columbia Canada V7Y 1G5 Phone/fax: 807-735-1050 Mobile: 807-728-0272 E-mail: [email protected] David New Red Lake South Area Supervisor Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources P.O. Box 5003 Red Lake, ON P0V 2M0 Phone: 807-727-1383 Fax: 807-727-2861 Email: [email protected] A copy of the Final ESR may also be obtained on Gold Canyon’s corporate website at: www.goldcanyon.ca; If at the end of this notice period MNR considers that there are no significant outstanding concerns, the MNR may permit the implementation of the undertaking without further public notice.

Where there are outstanding concerns about this project that cannot be resolved in discussion with the MNR, concerned parties have an opportunity to formally request the Minister of the Environment issue a Part II Order requiring the project be subjected to an individual environmental assessment under the Environmental Assessment Act. As this decision rests with the Minister of the Environment, please direct your inquiries in this regard to the Minister, 135 St. Clair Ave. W., 12th Floor, Toronto, Ontario, M4V 1P5. Requests must be received by the Minister within the 30-day comment period, which expires on April 2, 2013 , and copied at the same time to the MNR at the address below. The Ministry of Natural Resources is collecting comments and personal information under the authority of the Environmental Assessment Act to assist in making decisions and determining any further consultation needs. All comments and opinions will be kept on file and may be available in study documentation that is made available for public review. All comments and contact (name and address) information received may be forwarded to the project applicant unless specifically requested otherwise. For more information on the collection and use of the personal information, contact Trevor Park, Planning and Information Management Supervisor, Ministry of Natural Resources, P.O. Box 5003, Red Lake Ontario, P0V 2M0. Phone: 807-727-1344.

Railway cheaper option for Ring of Fire: studyShawn BellWawatay News

A new study of transporta-tion options for the Ring of Fire has determined that building a railway would be a cheaper option over the long term than shipping ore on an all-weather road.

KWG Resources, a mining company that has long pro-moted the railway option for the region, commissioned the study.

According to the study, the cost of building a rail line over the 330 kilometers between the Ring of Fire and Nakina is nearly $1.5 billion, while the cost of building a highway comes to just over $1 billion.

However the operating costs of a railway line were signifi-cantly lower than those of high-way shipping, due to the high cost of equipment, maintenance and labour associated with shipping ore by road.

The study estimated that the extra cost of building a railway

line would be covered by the savings in operating costs in six years, at the base case for min-ing production.

“This analysis brings out the features that the rail option is more robust, low maintenance, cost-reflective and demand-responsive to operational and market conditions than the road option,” the study stated.

It also noted that the cost of the rail option goes down com-pared to the road as more ore is mined in the region.

“The lower medium and long term cost for rail provides an opportunity to develop a more stable and consistent transpor-tation corridor in the region, which can respond well to development,” it reads.

The study also noted that due to a scarcity of gravel in the region, building both a railway and a road may not be possible. Whichever option gets built first may limit the cost-effectiveness of the second option, the report stated.

Cliffs Resources has pro-posed building an all-weather

road from the Ring of Fire to Nakina. A spokesman for Ontar-io’s Ministry of Northern Devel-opment and Mines (MNDM) told Wawatay that the province is considering funding a portion of the road and recouping the money through tolls or fee for use plans. The MNDM spokes-person also said the road would be for industrial users only, and not connect to local communi-ties.

Cliffs VP Richard Fink acknowledged that a railway would be the preferred option, but as he told Canadian Min-ing Journal, the initial costs of building it are prohibitive.

“Everybody would love a rail-way,” he said on Feb. 1, 2012. “The concept is wonderful, but we don’t see anybody who would finance it.”

The new Ontario cabinet has also announced it will hold a cabinet meeting in Sault Ste. Marie on Mar. 1 focused on addressing northern Ontario’s “complex transportation needs, including vital access to the Ring of Fire.”

A map shows the proposed railway line between the Ring of Fire and Nakina. A new study funded by KWG Resources determined the railway would be cost-effective in the long term than building an all-season road. However, the initial costs of constructing the railway is high.

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“Money when you need it,Anytime, Anywhere”

SEVEN youth magazine will resume publication this coming

April after a year-long hiatus.

The magazine will come out four times a year inside a volume

of Wawatay News, and will continue to be comprised of content

generated by First Nations youth for First Nations youth – with

the majority of the material coming from SEVEN readers themselves.

I will be the youth editor of SEVEN, which is a position I did not think I would

my work was ever published. I submitted a review of my favourite movie, Battle

Royale, and the feeling I got from seeing my words staring back at me from the

magazine really inspired and motivated me to keep pursuing my dream of

becoming a writer.

That feeling of accomplishment and pride is something I have seen in many youth

whose words and art end up on the pages of SEVEN.

It is an excellent tool for the youth to not only express themselves but also to read

and learn about other youth who are doing well in their own communities. The

content featured in the magazine gives hope and encouragement to young First

Nations readers, and it is important to keep it available for them.

Any submissions from youth, aged 13-30, can be e-mailed to me at

[email protected].

SEVEN looks forward to receiving submissions from our First Nations youth, who

are very talented, intelligent and resilient. To them I say, “Keep expressing yourself

because nobody else can do it for you.”

Stephanie Wesley,

Youth Editorey

We’re Back!

ᑲᓇᑕ ᐅᑭᒪᐎᐣ ᑲ ᑭ ᐡ ᑭ ᓇ ᐨ ᐱᒥᐎᒋᑫᐎᔓᓂᔭᓇᐣ ᐊᐗᔑᒣ ᑕᒪᒋᓭFrom page 1

“ ᑲ ᓂ ᓱ ᐅ ᑭ ᒪ ᐗ ᐠ ᔓᓂᔭᐎᓇᑯᒥᑎᐎᐣ ᑲᐎᐣ ᒋᐃᓇᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᒋᐊᐃᑕᑌᐠ ᑫᐅᒋᑲᒋᓂᔕᐃᑲᑌᐠ,” ᐃᑭᑐᒪᑲᐣ ᐅᔑᐱᐦᐃᑲᐣ᙮ “ᒥᐌᑕᐡ ᐁᐃᓯᓭᐠ , ᑲᐎᐣ ᒋᐅᓇᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᑫᐃᔑᒪᒋ ᐊᓂᒧᒋᑲᑌᐠ, ᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᑫᐎᐣ ᐃᓯᓭᐗᐠ ᒋᐅᑕᐱᓇᐗᐨ ᔓᓂᔭᓇᐣ ᑲᒥᓂᑯᐗᐨ ᑲᓇᑕ ᒥᓇ ᐅᐣᑌᕒᐃᔪ ᐅᑭᒪᐎᓇᐣ᙮”

ᑲᐊᓂᒥᓭᐗᐨ ᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᑫᐎᐣ, ᑲᓇᑕ ᐅᑭᒪᐎᐣ ᐅᑭᐎᑕᓇᐗ ᐅᑕᓇᐠ ᑲᑭᐱᒥᑯᓇᑲᐠ ᐁᑲ ᒋᐅᐡᑭᑐᐗᐨ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔕᐠ ᑲᐅᒋᐎᑯᐱᓇᑲᓀᐗᐨ ᔓᓂᔭᓇᐣ, ᒥᓇ ᑯᑕᑭᔭᐣ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ, ᐁᑭᐅᒋᐊᓄᑭᐗᐨ 11 ᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔕᐠ ᑲᔭᓄᑭᐗᐨ ᑭᐌᑎᓄᐠ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐠ ᑲᑭᐸᑭᑎᓇᑲᓀᐸᐣ $1 ᒥᓬᐃᔭᐣ ᓇᑯᒥᑎᐎᓂᐠ᙮

ᑲᓂᑲᓂᐡᑲᐠ ᐅᐣᑌᕒᐃᔪ ᒪ ᒪ ᐎ ᑲ ᓇ ᐗ ᐸ ᒋ ᑫ ᐎ ᐣ ᑲᓂᑲᓂᐡᑲᒧᐗᒋᐣ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᑫᐎᓇᐣ, ᐢᑎᐱᐣ ᑕᓄᕒ, ᐁᑭᐎᑕᒪᐗᐨ ᑎᐸᒋᒧᐎᐯᐸᐣ ᑲᑭᑭᐡᑭᓇᑲᓀᓂᐨ ᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᑫᐎᐣ ᐱᒥᐎᒋᑫᐎᐣ ᒋᐊᓂᓯᓭᐠ ᒋᑭᒋᐊᓄᑭᐗᐨ ᐅᐣᑌᕒᐃᔪ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔕᐠ᙮

“ᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᑫᐎᐣ ᑫᒋ ᑕᑭᐊᓂᓯᓭ ᐁᑲ ᒋᑭᐊᓄᑭᐗᐨ ᐯᔑᐠ ᑫᒪ ᓂᔑᐣ ᑲᔭᑲᓯᑭᐣ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓇᐣ,” ᑕᓄᕒ ᐃᑭᑐ᙮ “ᑭᐡᐱᐣ ᐃᐦᐃᐌ ᑐᑕᒧᐗᐨ, ᐅᐣᑌᕒᐃᔪ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔕᐠ ᑕᐃᓯᓭᓂ ᒋᔕᐗᐨ ᐃᐃᒪ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐠ᙮”

ᑕᓄᕒ ᐃᑭᑐ ᑲᐅᑕᐱᓇᑲᓀᐨ $1 ᒥᓬᐃᔭᐣ ᔓᓂᔭ ᑲᒥᓇᑲᓀᐗᐨ ᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᑫᐎᐣ

ᑕᓂᓯᓭ ᒋᒣᑎᓂᑲᓂᐗᐠ ᒥᓂᑯᐠ $2 ᒥᓬᐃᔭᐣ ᑭᐡᐱᐣ ᐅᐣᑌᕒᐃᔪ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔕᐠ ᐊᓄᑭᑕᒧᐗᐨ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓇᐣ ᑫᑭᐡᑭᓂᑲᑌᑭᐣ᙮

“ᔓᓂᔭᐎ ᐱᒥᐎᒋᑫᐎᐣ, ᑲᐎᐣ ᓂᓂᓯᑐᑕᓯᐣ,” ᐃᑭᑐ᙮

ᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᐃᑭᑐᐗᐠ ᑲᑭᐗᓂᐦᐊᑲᓀᐗᐨ 11 ᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔕᐠ “ᑕᓇᑯᐣ ᑫᐃᔑᒪᒋᓭᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐊᐣᑾᒥᓯᐎᐣ ᐃᐃᒪ ᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓇᐣ᙮

ᐃᐃᐌ ᐅᔑᐱᐦᐃᑲᐣ ᐃᑭᑐᒪᑲᐣ ᐃᑭᐌᓂᐗᐠ 18% ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔕᐠ ᑲᐎᐣ ᐊᓄᑭᓯᐗᐠ ᐃᐃᐌ ᐯᔑᑾ ᑲᔭᓄᑭᐗᐨ ᐁᑭᐱᒋᐗᐨ ᑲᔭᓉᔑᓄᐗᐨ, ᑲᐅᓴᒪᓄᑭᐗᐨ ᑲᔦᒪ ᐁᑭᐱᒋᐗᐨ ᐅᑎᓯᓭᐎᓂᐗ ᐅᐣᒋ ᑲᐃᔑᓇᑭᐡᑲᒧᐗᐨ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᐡ ᐊᓄᑭᐎᐣ ᑭᐌᑎᓄᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐁᑲ ᐁᑌᐱᓭᐨ ᔓᓂᔭ ᑾᔭᐠ ᒋᑭᐊᓄᑭᐗᐨ᙮

“ᐊᐣᑾᒥᒋᑫᐎᐣ ᐃᐃᒪ ᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓇᐣ ᒪᒋᐱᒋᑲᑌᐗᐣ ᐅᓴᒼ ᐊᑲ ᑭᓈᑲᐡ ,” ᐃᑭᑐᒪᑲᐣ ᐅᔑᐱᐦᐃᑲᐣ᙮ “ᑲᓇᑕ ᒥᓇ ᐅᐣᑌᕒᐃᔪ ᐅᑭᒪᐎᓇᐣ ᐌᐡᑲᐨ ᐅᒋᐎᑕᒪᐗᑲᓀᐗᐠ ᐅᓄᐌᓂᐗᐣ ᐃᓯᓭᐎᓇᐣ ᐁᒪᒋᐱᒋᑫᒪᑲᑭᐣ ᐊᐣᑾᒥᒋᑫᐎᐣ ᐃᐃᒪ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓇᐣ᙮ ᐊᓂᐣ ᑕᓯᐣ ᔭᐎᔭᐠ ᑫᐃᐡᑾᐱᒪᑎᓯᐗᐨ ᐊᐱ ᒋᓂᓯᑕᐎᓇᒧᐗᐨ ᑲᐃᔑᓂᔕᑭᐣ ᐅᑭᒪᐎᓇᐣ ᒋᓂᓯᑕᐎᓇᒧᐗᐨ ᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᑫᐎᐣ ᐱᒥᐎᒋᑫᐎᐣ ᐁᑲ ᒋᑭᐱᒥᐎᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᓄᑯᒼ ᑲᐃᔑᑲᓇᐗᐸᒋᑲᑌᐠ᙮”

“ᓄᑯᒼ ᑲᐃᔑᑲᐸᐎᒪᑲᐠ ᑫᑯᐣ , ᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᑫᐎᐣ ᐱᒥᐎᒋᑫᐎᐣ ᑭᐅᓇᒋᑲᑌ ᐁᑲ ᒋᑲᐡᑭᐦᐅᒪᑲᐠ᙮”

Shawn BellWawatay News

The death of a 23-year-old Kasabonika woman while in police custody earlier this month has reignited concerns over the safety of First Nations residents on reserve and the adequacy of policing being provided in communities.

In a shot directed at limited funding for First Nations policing, Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) has warned that both Ontario and Canada will be “legally and morally responsible” for future deaths caused by inadequate police resources.

In a confidential letter obtained by APTN, NAN Grand Chief Harvey Yesno notes that NAN communities have been put “in grave jeopardy” because of chronic underfunding of Nishnawbe Aski Police Service (NAPS).

“The lives of First Nations people living in these communities are being put at severe risk because both levels of government refuse to ensure that First Nations people in northern Ontario receive the same level of service as their non-native counterparts,” the letter states. “Simply put, accounting has put First Nation lives at risk.”

The letter, which was also signed by NAPS board chair Frank McKay, was sent to Ontario’s Chief Coroner Dan Cass along with federal and provincial ministers responsible for Aboriginal Affairs and

public safety.Ontario’s Chief Coroner

will conduct an inquest into the death of a woman in Kasabonika Lake, who died on Feb. 1 while being detained in the back of a NAPS cruiser.

Kasabonika Chief Gordon Anderson told Wawatay News

that the cruiser was being used as a holding cell since the community has not had a holding cell for over two years.

Kasabonika is not alone in needing new or upgraded NAPS detachments. NAN noted that out of seven communities designated to receive new modular NAPS units following the Kashechewan inquest of 2009, only one has received and installed the unit.

The Kashechewan inquest also found that 19 NAPS detachments did not meet national building codes.

Federal program expires

The issue of inadequate funding for NAPS could be exacerbated this spring, as the

funding agreement between the federal and provincial governments and NAN expires March 31.

The last tripartite agreement between NAN, Canada and Ontario was signed on Apr. 1, 2009, and expired in 2012. That agreement was extended for

one year, until March 31, 2013, but NAN noted in its letter that it has received no notice from either level of government on negotiating a new agreement.

“The Tripartite Agreement has no provision for a binding arbitration process,” the letter states. “As a result, there is no real form of negotiations. NAPS is forced to accept whatever funds are provided by the federal and provincial governments.”

Adding to NAPS struggles, the federal government announced last week it will not renew a police officer recruiting fund that, among other things, funded 11 NAPS officers working in northern First Nations through a $1 million agreement.

The president of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police, Stephen Tanner, told the National Post that the cuts to NAPS could result in additional strains on the Ontario Provincial Police.

“(NAPS) may have to withdraw their services from one or two small communities,” Tanner said. “If they have to do that, the OPP may be forced to go in to police those communities.”

Tanner said taking $1 million in funding from NAPS could actually cost over $2 million if the OPP has to take over.

“Fiscally, it doesn’t make sense,” he said.

NAN noted that the loss of 11 NAPS officers will “significantly jeopardize the safety of NAN’s communities.”

The letter also pointed out that 18 percent of NAPS officers are off-duty at any one time due to vacation, stress-leave or other personal matters related to the challenges of policing in the north under strained resources.

“The safety of NAN communities has been put at risk for far too long,” the letter states. “Canada and Ontario have long been put on notice that these issues create real jeopardy to the safety of NAN communities. How many deaths must occur before both levels of government realize that NAPS cannot operate as a ‘straw man’.

“As things currently stand, NAPS has been setup to fail.”

‘Chronic underfunding’ of NAPS leaves communities at riskFederal program cuts will make situation worse

“The safety of NAN communities has been put at risk for far too long. Canada and Ontario have long been put on notice that these issues create real jeopardy to the safety of NAN communities. How many deaths must occur before both levels of government realize that NAPS cannot operate as a ‘straw man’.”



Nishnawbe-Aski Police Ser-vice Acting Chief of Police Bob Herman is calling for the same policing standards as other police forces.

“We’re still a program, and that is one of the problems — we shouldn’t be a program,” Herman said. “We should be legislated, we should be afforded the same opportuni-ties as the national police force, the provincial police force and the municipal police forces.

“If government is serious about having First Nations policing First Nations commu-nities, then they need to take the positive step such as a leg-islative framework that treats us the same as any other police service in Canada,” Herman added. “Right now, that is not the case.”

Herman, a former chief of police with the Thunder Bay Police Service, was surprised with the situation when he began serving with NAPS about 11 months ago.

“When I came to NAPS, it was kind of an eye opener because there is no legislation or framework that actually gov-erns how we police,” Herman said. “I can tell you that if this was a municipal police force, a lot of the infrastructure and things like radio communica-tions would not meet provincial standards.

Herman’s comments echo those made by Ontario’s Chief

Coroner David Eden during the inquest into the deaths of two Kashechewan men during a fire in the community’s jail.

“Because it is a funding pro-gram without a legislative man-date, it can be discontinued at any time, which negatively affects both staff retention and long-term contracts such as rental agreements,” Eden wrote in the inquest.

Herman said the funding shortfalls limit the force’s ability to staff police in communities, and puts additional challenges on officers working for NAPS.

“It’s really inequitable, when you look at it,” he said. “We’re not afforded the same oppor-tunities as a police service to have the proper infrastructure, to have proper housing for offi-cers, to have the ability to staff the communities on a basis where we can provide good police service. Quite frankly, it’s totally unacceptable.”

Herman said some of the NAPS communities currently have good police facilities while others do not.

“Often time, officers are working alone — they have no

backup,” Herman said. “Some-times the backup has to come out of the community. So it does have a really hard effect on the officers from a moral stand-point and a retention stand-point. A lot of the officers have to pay for their own flights into the communities to do their shift schedule, which is unac-ceptable when you look at the provincial police.”

Timmins-James Bay MP Charlie Angus recently raised concerns about “third world policing conditions” faced by northern First Nations after

a young woman died in NAPS custody in the back seat of a police car in Kasabonika.

“We have police officers working with no back-up and sleeping in places where you wouldn’t let a dog sleep,” Angus said in a Feb. 20 statement. “We have prisoners being held in the back seats of cars or in make-shift jails where they face risk of either fire or freezing. The NAPS officers are being forced to work in conditions that no other police unit in Canada would accept. Why the double standard?”

Angus wrote to Justice Min-ister Vic Toews in October 2012 asking for a plan to address the chronic under-funding, but he said Toews had not yet answered.

“The Conservatives talk loudly about being tough on crime and providing safe com-munities,” Angus said. “Yet they are leaving northern citizens and First Nation police to put up with third world conditions. This situation is unacceptable.”

Meanwhile, NAPS has restructured to improve service to the communities by creating three regions instead of two, increasing the number of super-visors and adding an additional regional commander.

“We want our regional com-manders, who are inspectors, to actually go out in the field and meet with chief and council,” Herman said.

“We also want our supervi-sors to have more presence in the communities so that we can

focus on community problems and community policing. It is a new way of doing business. It’s going to take a few months to roll it out but at the end of the day, we expect our service to be a lot better than it is right now.”

Herman said NAPS has been adopting the standards of other police services as best as pos-sible even though it is not legis-lated to do so.

“I think we have come a long way but there is certainly a lot of room for improvement,” Her-man said.

“We are at a juncture where the government has to get seri-ous about whether they want First Nations policing to grow and actually be the model for First Nations communities. We can’t be a program any longer; we need to be legislated and we need to be treated the same.”

The federal government currently provides 52 per cent of the funding for NAPS while the provincial government provides 48 per cent.

NAPS needs same standards as other police

Rick Garrick/Wawatay NewsActing NAPS Police Chief Bob Herman says NAPS needs a legislative framework similar to other policing services if it is going to provide the services that people in communities deserve.

“We are at a juncture where the government has to get serious about whether they want First Nations policing to grow and actually be the model for First Nations communities.”

– Bob Herman

Acting chief says its time for governments to get serious about First Nations policing



In light of the death of a Kasabonika woman that is once again raising issues with polic-ing in First Nations communi-ties, a Nishnawbe Aski Nation deputy grand chief says NAN still lags behind the rest of the country when it comes to polic-ing services.

Alvin Fiddler said equivalent policing standards and services are still not being provided seven years after two men died in the Kashechewan police jail fire and almost four years after the Coroner’s Inquest called for adequacy of policing resources in NAN communities.

“One of the recommendations that came out of the Kashechewan Inquest was that Nishnawbe-Aski

Police Service be considered a mandated service,” said Fiddler.

“As such, it would be legis-lated and there would be stan-dards for NAPS to follow. But the way it is now, it is not con-sidered a mandated service; it’s considered a program by both levels of government and because it is a program, we are not obligated nor are we funded to meet those (equivalent polic-ing) standards.”

The inquest into the deaths of Ricardo Wesley and Jamie Goodwin of Kashechewan, released on May 21, 2009, called for Canada and Ontario to develop a method for estab-lishing equivalence in policing standards and services between First Nations and non-First Nations communities.

The verdict also said Canada and Ontario should provide NAPS with the funding required to ensure that the communi-ties it serves receive the same level and quality of policing services and infrastructure that non-First Nations communities receive, noting that funding lev-els should be sufficient to allow NAPS to comply with adequacy standards set out in the Ontario Police Services Act and the Policing Standards Manual of the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services and Royal Canadian Mounted Police guidelines.

“Dating back to the Kasheche-wan Inquest ... and the Ipper-wash Inquiry, there have been repeated recommendations that First Nations policing be the subject of a regulatory frame-work, in other words, be gov-erned by standards and laws like other forms of policing in this country,” said Julian Falconer, legal counsel for NAN. “That just hasn’t happened, and cer-tainly, NAN advocated strongly for those recommendations in Kashechewan and supported them.”

Falconer noted that since NAPS is considered a program, it does not fall under laws, standards and criteria set up to protect the public that apply to other police forces such as the Ontario Provincial Police.

An example is the Feb. 1 death of a 23-year-old woman in Kasabonika, which occurred while the woman was in police custody. If the death had occurred while she was in OPP custody, the independent Special Investigation Unit (SIU) would have completed an investigation.

But since the community is served by NAPS, an SIU investigation was not required and the OPP instead took on the investigation.

Fiddler said NAN is looking for NAPS to be operated as a legislated police service instead of a program, as it has been for the past 18 years since being founded.

“Our communities deserve a police force that has (equivalent policing) standards and is funded to meet those standards,” Fiddler said.

“In a normal police service, if they receive a call, they need to have two officers to respond to that call. But in our reality, with NAPS and the communities that it polices, when there is a call usually it is just the one officer responding to our call. And that is not the police service that our communities deserve.”

The Kashechewan inquest also called for the standard for NAPS detachments to be brick and mortar buildings, noting that permanent purpose-built detachments speak to equality of service, pride of policing and professionalism.

The verdict noted that as many as 19 of the NAPS detachments did not meet the National Building Code standards and did not have sprinkler systems installed.

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Rick Garrick/Wawatay News:NAN Deputy Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler at the Sandy Lake NAPS detachment.

“Our communities deserve a police force that has (equivalent policing) standards and is funded to meet those standards...”

– Alvin Fiddler


Although some of the Kashechewan Inquest recom-mendations relating to Nish-nawbe-Aski Police Service (NAPS) have been completed, others have yet to be acted on.

The 2009 inquest into the deaths of two men while in cus-tody in Kashechewan came up with 86 recommendations, which included a number tar-geted at NAPS.

Acting police chief Bob Her-man said that a number of detachments still need work.

“The provincial and federal governments have injected capi-tal funding into building new detachments, however we still have five more detachments that need to be replaced,” said Her-man. “We (also) have detach-ments that really don’t meet stan-dards if you look at provincial legislation, which doesn’t apply to us but it should.”

The former Thunder Bay Police Service chief of police said a number of other issues from the Kashechewan Inquest have yet to be addressed.

“The recommendations talk about a legislative framework, that basically allows the Nish-nawbe-Aski Police Service to be held to the same standards as other police services in Ontario

when it comes to adequacy standards,” Herman said. “That would be buildings, that would be cell blocks, that would be radio communications and the governments haven’t moved on those recommendations.”

Herman said NAPS has seen some progress from the provin-cial government on the recom-mendations, but the federal gov-ernment continues to stall.

NAPS has not had an increase in funding for about five years, since the last tripartite agree-ment was signed in 2009.

“Other police services are properly funded and each year can actually get their funding increased to meet their needs,” Herman said. “For almost five years we haven’t had that oppor-tunity.”

The Kashechewan Inquest was held from March to May 2009, after James Goodwin and Ricardo Wesley died in a January 2006 jail fire at the Kashechewan NAPS detachment.

The inquest resulte in 86 rec-ommendations related to NAPS and its policing delivery area, including that First Nations, Canada and Ontario should work together to ensure that polic-ing standards and service levels in First Nation communities are equivalent to those in non-First Nation communities.

Kashechewan Inquest recom-mendations partially acted on


‘We’ll live up to the treaties’: Zimmer


Wawatay (WWT): Aborigi-nal Affairs is now back to its own ministry. Two things – what does that signify from this government, and what does that mean for people living in communities across the province?

David Zimmer (DZ): The fact that Aboriginal Affairs has its own minister, that’s a clear signal from the premier’s office that she expects a lot more time to be dedicated to the Aboriginal file. That’s a pretty strong signal from the premier that she expects seri-ous work to be done.

What does that mean for the Aboriginal community? Well, it means the issues are going to get a whole lot more face time with the minister and the staff here, so that’s a good thing for Aboriginal people.

WWT: In terms of the issue of education funding, and the gap between federal funding on reserve and pro-vincial funding off reserve, where do you see Ontario getting involved in that dis-cussion?

DZ: As you and I know, there’s probably $2,000-

$3,000 or maybe more differ-ence between what the feds spend for on-reserve students

and what the province spends for off-reserve students. That is simply not fair. The cumu-lative effect of that shortfall, the student ends up wearing that. We are going to push the feds to live up to their respon-sibilities. What I’d like to do, somewhere soon, is stand at a lectern along with my federal counterpart and say down the road, there’s a reserve and an Aboriginal student there who’s getting $3,000 less per year for his educa-tion. And down the street there’s another student get-ting $3,000 more. I want to look my federal counterpart in the eye and ask ‘why is that?’ How in the devil is that person going to answer that question in any way that sounds fair or makes sense? And I will ask that question, I will put it to him or her.

What we are going to do is

work with First Nations, and we are going to push the fed-eral government to live up to its obligations.

WWT: Idle No More has brought the issues of the Treaties back to the public’s attention. For you, what does it mean that Ontario has treaties with First Nations across the province, and what should Ontario’s role be when it comes to treaty discussions?

DZ: First of all, any and all treaties that the province of Ontario has with Aborigi-nal communities, whether its First Nations, Metis or Inuit, this province will respect those treaties in the spirit of the treaty and the letter of the treaty. I think that’s really important. I’m going to con-tinue as the minister to make sure that all of the respon-sibilities in the treaties are lived up to, both in the letter of the law and in the spirit of the law.

WWT: Resource develop-ment, there’s a lot of issues to deal with. In your view, how much say should First

Nations governments have when it comes to resource development on traditional territory?

DZ: Well it’s very clear in law that we have the duty to consult and so forth. We are going to do that. But it seems to me that if there’s a resource to be developed, and it hap-pens to be on traditional ter-ritory, or even affecting their traditional treaty areas and traditional land, that the prov-ince has both a legal obliga-tion and a moral obligation to consult with interested par-ties, and of course the Aborigi-nal community is an interested party. The way to do this is that everybody should have some skin in the game here, and be respectful partners of each other.

WWT: When you say ‘skin in the game’, are you talking resource revenue sharing?

DZ: There are resource ben-efits, there are revenue shar-ing issues; the important thing is that the parties sit down and talk about benefit shar-ing, revenue sharing, envi-ronmental issues, educational issues. When there’s a piece of economic development, there are so many spin-off effects of it. You have to get every-body together at the table and develop the resource in a collective way and make sure that everybody shares fairly in the rewards of the activity, and that might be benefits, a host of things.

WWT: What role do you see Aboriginal Affairs playing when it comes to

these kind of decisions on resource development, on the Ring of Fire, on these big picture developments?

DZ: The ministry, what its really equipped to do, is to facilitate a whole lot of conversations and meetings, and to help the people get together and work through their issues. In some ways the ministry is a facilitator. Sometimes industry may come to us and say we have an idea for development, can you tell us who we should talk to and how we should get started. Maybe the Aboriginal community calls us with an idea for develop-ment and says can you help us connect with finance peo-ple, or technical people. So we bring the folks together and have a talk about it.

David Zimmer was named Aboriginal Affairs minis-ter in Ontario Premier Kathlene Wynne’s new cabi-net. The former parliamentary secretary, a lawyer by trade, is MPP for a Toronto riding. Zimmer said he is planning a trip to northern Ontario sometime over the next month to meet with leaders and get of sense of the issues on the ground. The new minister spoke to Wawatay about some of the issues facing First Nations people in the province, including education, treaties and resource development. The following is an excerpt from that interview.

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“What we are going to do is work with First Nations, and we are going to push the fed-eral government to live up to its obligations.”

-David Zimmer



Education is the basis of Nish-nawbe Aski Nation’s survival.

That was the message from Deputy Grand Chief Goyce Kakegamic during the open-ing of Nishnawbe Aski Nation’s First Nation Student Success Program (FNSSP) Conference 2013, held Feb. 21-22 at Dennis Franklin Cromarty First Nations High School in Thunder Bay.

“Education is getting to be a priority to our First Nations people,” Kakegamic said to an audience of educators from across northern Ontario on the first day of the conference. “We know that it is the basis of our survival as First Nations, our culture and our language.”

Kakegamic said the envi-ronment has been changing across the north, leading to less opportunities to make a living off the land.

“Due to the depletion of

the natural resources that we used to live off the land, hunt-ing and fishing, we cannot live like that no more,” Kake-gamic said. “Even if we want to, we can’t. It’s only classi-fied now as supplementing your income. Our ancestors survived these harsh environ-ments and they succeeded, but today we need to come up with a new livelihood and education is one of the means that we can do that.”

Kakegamic said there have been many success stories over the years where First Nations people from NAN territory have succeeded in a variety of careers.

“Looking in the room here, you have educators, you have administrators, we have prin-cipals,” Kakegamic said. “Out-side the room we have doc-tors, we have lawyers now and all kinds of professionals in social services.”

Kakegamic said First Nations people have to take ownership of the prescription

drug abuse and suicide issues that are affecting youth in order to turn the educational gap around.

“It all stems from the home,” Kakegamic said. “We have to have a hard look

ourselves. The answer does not come from the halls of Ottawa; it comes from the halls of our own four walls, which we call home.”

The conference featured FNSSP presentations by nine

different First Nation educa-tion groups, including North-ern Nishnawbe Education Council and Keewaytinook Internet High School.

Kakegamic said the FNSSP is working for First Nation communities.

“It’s beginning to touch some of the key points that we need to address, such as numeracy, literacy and reten-tion,” he said.

Kakegamic said NAN wants to move towards taking con-trol of their children’s educa-tion, in part by changing the curriculum to include NAN culture and language.

“We want our children to do well in school,” Kakegamic said. “It is our focus to make a difference in the lives of our children and daughters and sons.”

The conference also fea-tured a DFC student panel presentation and question and answer session; a keynote pre-sentation by Lakehead Univer-sity professor Dennis McPher-son and an effective gover-nance presentation by Kwaya-ciiwin’s Matthew Angees.

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COME PREPARED

Powwow honours the winter months

Education a priority for NAN youth, says deputy grand chief

Geoff ShieldsSpecial to Wawatay News

Over 150 people attended the last day of the annual win-ter Sioux Mountain Powwow in Sioux Lookout, which com-menced on Feb. 22 and ran for three days.

Organizers Ralph John-son and Jenny Burns Wesley said they were overwhelmed by the number of people who attended.

“This is our second annual winter powwow and the amount of support we have had from numerous organiza-tions and private individuals in Sioux Lookout to help us cover the costs of putting this on has been fantastic,” Burns Wesley said. “Powwows are to cele-brate everything that is good in our lives and to be grateful for the things we have. It’s also a great opportunity to see family and friends we may not have seen in a long time.”

When asked about what the powwow represented, Johnson replied, “we want to make sure we honour the customs of our people, not just storytelling but also some of the ceremonies.”

“Powwow is very crucial part to giving thanks for the

winter months as we go into another season, it’s a gathering and time for sharing with all clans,” he said.

Both organizers agreed that the response from people this

year was very positive. “Last year, we had a lot of

adults who were involved in the planning,” Johnson said.

“This year we had a lot of students that took it upon

themselves to be involved in planning the event and also in the work that needed to be done, like getting the supplies, getting the wood and other activities associated with put-

ting this together.”Traditional drummers are an

essential part of what makes a powwow what it is.

Alan Walski, one of the tra-ditional drummers at the pow-

wow, explained that dancers offer tobacco to the drummers as a way of expressing thanks to the Creator.

“When you see danc-ers come to the drums, they put tobacco into the tobacco pouches we carry with the drums, they are saying prayers and when we sing the songs,” Walski explained. “Those prayers are car-ried to the Creator and once the tobacco pouch is full at the drum, we then have the Sacred Fire which is lit out-side the powwow perimeter and we put tobacco down into the fire to send the prayers of the dancers to the spirits as well.”

Walski added that it was wonderful to see the number of youth involved in the powwow this year.

“What we need to pass on is our traditional teaching because when we are gone, we will need people to carry on our traditions and for youth to be able to do this we need to pass our teachings so that they can understand our ways,” Walski said.

“So there are teachings that go along with what we do when we are at the powwow.”

Rick Garrick/Wawatay NewsA group of DFC students held a panel discussion during the FNSSP conference at the high school.

Geoff Shields/Special to Wawatay NewsOver 150 people turned up for the final day of the Sioux Mountain powwow, a great turnout for the powwow which is in its second year.

Sioux Mountain students play big role in successful powwow celebration


James Bay homelessness project on display


Ongoing research projects on homelessness in James Bay coast communities are being brought back to the communi-ties for input next week.

Community forums in Moosonee, Kashechewan and Fort Albany will provide researchers from Laurentian University the chance to present their findings and recommenda-tions and get feedback from the communities.

“The projects are really focused on the goals of each community, and the needs they have decided are most pressing,” said Mandy Scott of Fort Albany, the project’s First Nations com-munications coordinator.

While each community’s proj-ect is different, all tie into the issue of poverty, homelessness and migration.

In Moosonee, a door-to-door poverty survey was conducted to determine the extent of poverty and homelessness in the com-munity and possible solutions.

Scott noted the survey con-firmed how widespread the issue of poverty is in the community.

“Seventy-one per cent of people said poverty is a prob-lem in Moosonee, and 90 per cent of people said home-lessness is a problem,” Scott said, adding that over 50 per cent of respondents said they know a family member

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Fort Albany’s photovoice participants were given cameras and tasked with photographing their homes and community, and then put a caption to the photo. For the left photo, the caption reads: “Oh this is where our stove used to be connected; our wood stove. So it kind of, you know... there’s an empty hole up there which we did kind of patch up but now this is how we know what the weather is like outside cause it rains or snows inside”. For the right photo, the caption is: “... I have a little niece that stays with us, she’s like two... she might get like shocked or something... it’s dangerous...”All the photos from the project, including these two photos, will be displayed during the Fort Albany community meeting on March 6.

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In Fort Albany, a photovoice project was conducted where participants from the commu-nity were given cameras to docu-ment their community and lives. The photos were then used to spark discussions on the effect of poverty and homelessness in the community.

Scott said the photos provide a form of storytelling, giving participants the chance to share their voice on the issues they face and raise awareness of the challenges in the community.

In Kashechewan, a study of the effects of flooding on the community was done. The study looked at responses to flooding from other places in Canada, to put Kashechewan’s options for what to do about flooding, and the homelessness it causes, into a national context.

“The project looked at the research done and the tech-niques applied in other places, and why they were or were not applied in Kash,” Scott said. “It is exploring the policies and proce-

dures used in other flood prone communities.”

All three projects started with the community identifying a problem to be examined.

Now the researchers want to take the findings back to the communities to determine next steps.

In Kashechewan on March 5 and Fort Albany on March 6, community members will be presented with the outcomes of the projects and asked for feedback.

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list of recommendations that came out of the survey will be presented to community mem-bers. The public will be asked to rank the recommendations in terms of their priorities, and from the rankings a list of next steps will be created.

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“The projects are really focused on the goals of each community, and the needs they have decided are most pressing...”

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Commmunity forums in Kash, Fort Albany and Moosonee next weekExample of Recommendations from Moosonee survey:

Ø Explore the crucial role of education as a tool for helping to advance Aboriginal people. Ø Develop youth focused initiatives about identity, self-image, setting goals, and educational goals. Ø Develop subsidized housing in Moosonee and find ways to reduce food costs.


SUNSET WOMEN’S ABORIGINAL CIRCLEPrenatal/Postnatal Support Worker

Sunset Women’s Aboriginal Circle is committed to the delivery of a culturally appropriate program based on traditional and modern teachings for

the new baby The Prenatal/Postnatal Support Worker will be responsible for the delivery of the Sioux Lookout Prenatal Nutrition Program/Aboriginal Prenatal and Postnatal Support Program.

Duties:The Prenatal/Postnatal Support Worker is responsible for carrying out the following:

Develop and deliver support programs.Ensure that all programs are culturally appropriate and respect traditional Anishinaabe values and teachings Ensure availability of culturally appropriate resource materials to clients Liaise and partner with community organizations to ensure effectiveness and accessibility of services for clientsDevelop strategies to promote program, increase public awareness and solicit community involvement and participationBudget quarterly and day to day spending of program funds and use appropriate forms to account for spendingPrepare and present required written reports for SWAC Board of Directors and program funding agency Develop yearly work plan and ensure adherence to program objectivesUpdate and complete funding submissions for program annually or as requiredContribute to the on-going development and maintenance of the program site.

Ability to deliver culturally appropriate programs such as moss bag making, native parenting, regalia making, etc.Ability to deliver programs such as community kitchen, prenatal nutrition teaching, breastfeeding support, baby food making, lunch & learn, etc.Knowledge and experience in healthy living during pregnancy and after the birth of a baby Ability to network and to advocate for clients

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Salary: To commensurate with education and experience. Deadline is Friday, March 1, 2013 at 4:00 p.m.Only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

Please send cover letter, resume and three most recent employment references to:

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Full Time Position Location: Sioux Lookout, Ontario

The SLFNHA is an organization which has a mandate to co-ordinate the delivery of health services to the First Nations communities in the Sioux Lookout Zone. SLFNHA is seeking a dynamic and energetic individual to be to responsible for all the recruitment needs of the Sioux Lookout Regional Physician Services.

The physician recruiter plays a critical role in ensuring we are hiring the best possible talent by developing and executing recruitment plans, networking through agency contacts, association memberships, employees, coordinating/implementing college/university initiatives, administrative duties and record keeping.

QUALIFICATIONS• Diploma/Degree in Business, with areas of concentration in Marketing,

Industrial Relations and/or Human Resource Management;• Minimum 2yrs experience in recruiting;•

KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITY• Outstanding interviews skills – using various techniques;• Innovative thinker, able to use and develop new sources for recruitment;• Ability to work well under pressure and meet deadlines;• Ability to develop and maintain lasting working relationships with business

partners, educational institutions and employees;• • Must possess excellent communication skills, both written and verbal;• Knowledge and experience in employment negotiations;• Solid interpersonal skills that allow for one to work effectively with

different managers, candidate personalities;• Ability to attend and conduct job recruitment fairs.

OTHER• Travel is a requirement of the position;• Required to works days and sometimes evening and weekends, if

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

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Under the direction of the Nurse Practitioner Lead of Anishnawbe Mushkiki Nurse Practitioner Led Clinic, the Dietitian is responsible for providing dietitian services to individuals / families and for planning, organizing, conducting and supervising culturally sensitive programming in nutrition, diet and food services that emphasizes a holistic approach to health promotion, disease prevention, and treatment. The Dietitian functions as a member of the multidisciplinary team.

Skills / RequirementBachelor’s Degree from an educational institute recognized by the Canadian Dietetic AssociationMinimum 2-3 years relevant work experience in a community-based and/or primary health care settingMembership in good standing with the Dietitians of CanadaRegistration with the College of Dietitians of Ontario

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essentialUse of a private vehicle, valid driver’s licence and appropriate insurance are an assetSatisfactory Criminal Records Check including Vulnerable Sector Screening CheckKnowledge and experience in identifying community-based programs, services and resourcesKnowledge of culture, urban Aboriginal community and experience working with Aboriginal personsAbility to speak Ojibway / Cree is an asset

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Aboriginal LiaisonCity Manager’s Office, Office of the City ClerkOne full-time vacancy exists Competition #CMGR-03-13Closing date: Friday, March 22, 2013

With the guidance of the Aboriginal Elders Advisory Council, you willrepresent the City of Thunder Bay in establishing and maintainingrelationships between the City and Aboriginal groups, organizations,agencies, and individuals in the community. You will create an opendialogue to exchange views and ideas as well as advise City departmentsof the needs and priorities of the Aboriginal community. Additionally, youwill provide cultural awareness programs and training within theCorporation while preparing and implementing the Aboriginal LiaisonStrategy. Your degree or diploma is supported by a minimum of three years of experience working with organizations supporting communitydevelopment or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

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Aboriginal leadership program launched for youth in Thunder BayLenny CarpenterWawatay News

A program aimed at developing leadership skills within Aboriginal youth has officially launched in Thunder Bay.

Thunder Bay Urban Aboriginal Strategy (TBUAS) and Leadership Thunder Bay announced they have received $43,000 from the Ontario Trillium Foundation to fund a leadership program for Aboriginal youth living within the city.

During the Feb. 23-24 weekend, Matthew Thompson of Pic River First Nation joined 14 other youth in a retreat in the outskirts of Thunder Bay as part of the program.

“We talked about personality types, public speaking, and we were introduced to Native language and traditional activities,” the 20-year-old said. “We also did bonding activities like ice fishing and cooking meals as a group.”

Thompson said he had been involved with Leadership Thunder Bay in the past, but jumped at the chance when he heard a program dedicated to Aboriginal youth was available.

“This program is a good way to embrace our heritage and traditional values and spirituality,” he said.

Thompson is taking political science at Lakehead University

and wants a career in politics or business. He feels the program will help him develop skills to be successful in whatever dream he pursues.

“This helps me become a better public speaker. I like talking in front of crowds,” he said. “I think it’s important to give role models to not only Aboriginal youth, but youth in general, in order to give a positive outlet. It’s important to be involved in your community.”

TBUAS planner Frances Wesley said the program has been in development for the past year after she and colleagues came up with the idea and approached Leadership Thunder Bay to help run the program. They met with community members, Elders and youth to ask what should be in the program.

“Everybody got excited about it and it has to be culturally appropriate, and we set up a framework for how we will deliver that program,” she said.

TBUAS and Leadership

Thunder Bay hired two facili-tators to run the program and draft the curriculum, which revolves around the seven grandfather teachings.

Wesley said the program will hold seven learning days, where speakers will be brought in to talk about First Nations political and urban issues, as well as teach them how to engage other youth be help and be involved in the community.

The overall goal of the program, Wesley said, is allow youth to be participants in their community, build their confidence, and become aware of the issues around them and how to resolve them.

“This initiative will open a lot of doors (for the youth),” she said.

Thompson said with the activism and protests occurring over the past few months, it is important for youth such as himself to gain those leadership skills.

“With the last few months of Idle No More in the media, it’s important to train the next generation of Aboriginal leaders to successfully lobby the Canadian government against those laws passing,” he said.

“I find that meeting people and encouraging towards their goals is a great way to kick-start change amongst other youth,” he added. “As Ghandi said, be the change you want to see in the world.”

“This initiative will open a lot of doors (for the youth)...”

– Frances Wesley

North Spirit Lake youth honouredPatrick CheechooSpecial to Wawatay News

Brandon Rae of North Spirit Lake First Nation, a student of Keewaytinook Internet High School, was honoured at this year’s Aboriginal Finance Officers Association (AFOA) annual national conference.

Rae received the 2013 AFOA/Potash Corporation Youth Financial Management Award for an essay he submit-ted to a contest open to youth from across Canada.

Rae was one of three

Aboriginal youth honoured at the conference on Feb. 13 in Toronto. Emily Martell of Sas-katchewan and Tanesha Gult of British Columbia were also awarded for their essays.

Each award recipient spoke to an audience of nearly 1,000 delegates. Rae’s dynamic speech moved his audience, evoking tears. Many of the audience mem-bers rushed to Rae’s side after the luncheon, congratulating him on his speech. Represen-tatives from post-secondary institutions offered Rae busi-

ness cards and encouraged him to apply.

Rae’s week included high-lights such as meeting former Prime Ministers Brian Mul-roney and Paul Martin, along with other dignitaries from corporate Canada.

National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo referenced the three youth in his conference address by saying, “they are not only leaders of tomorrow, they are our leaders today.”

Rae merits praise; he is a leader with infinite prospects ahead of him.

Patrick Cheechoo/Special to Wawatay NewsBrandon Rae, right, won a financial management award for an essay he submitted to a national contest.


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The love of hockey in KIMore than 70 youth in Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug took part in a hockey development camp organized by Right to Play in early February.

Toronto photographer Jamie MacDonald was on hand to capture some moments and was moved by the community’s love of the game.

“In Kitchenuhmaykoosib, the hockey rink serves as a central focus of com-munity, with hockey playing a dominant role in the day to day lives of children and adults alike, with tournaments, outside programs and inter-reserve play,” Thompson wrote. “Watching them play, it is difficult not to see the love of the game and skill that they play it at.”

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Fort Hope celebrates 100 days of schoolShawn BellWawatay News

Students, teachers and parents in Eabametoong cel-ebrated a milestone in educa-tion earlier this month – the 100th day of school.

Melanie Bykkonen’s grade one class reached the mile-stone on Feb. 13 and cele-brated with a big party in the class.

“Every single day we were

counting down,” said Byk-konen. “It is a huge accom-plishment and they were get-ting pretty excited.”

The 100th day of school is literally the 100th day of classes in the year. It is cele-brated in schools all across the country as a way of rewarding students for their attendance and also to help students learn math skills around the number 100.

Bykkonen said she still

remembers her own 100th day celebrations from being in ele-mentary school.

“The students do remember the big events, and the parents too remember the big things that the students do,” she said.

As homework for the big day, students in the class col-lected 100 items and arranged them in groups.

The homework projects were displayed to parents dur-ing the celebration.

Photos submitted by Melanie Bykkonen


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