January 19, 2012

Life goes on in Attawapiskat

Photo by Johan Hallberg-Campbell with Canadian Red CrossOrien, a young boy from Attawapiskat, stands outside the portables that serve for the community’s school. As media attention fades, people in the James Bay community go back to living life, wondering what has changed. See stories and photos on pages 12 and 13

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Most classes at Pikangikum’s Eenchokay Birchstick School were closed Jan. 9 due to mould in the teacher’s living quarters.

Twenty-five of the school’s 31 teachers left the community after mould was found in their accommodations during an air quality assessment conducted by an independent consultant. The assessment was called for after a teacher became ill.

“I gave them the green light on (Jan. 6),” said Kyle Peters, Pikangikum’s director of edu-cation. “They’ve been slowly going home and a couple of teachers are still here. They need time to pack up.”

The remaining six teachers,

Pikangikum students face lost school yearTeachers leave community as mould in houses causes illness

including four from the com-munity and two living in newer accommodations, are currently teaching about 120-130 stu-dents in junior kindergarten, senior kindergarten, Grade 2, Grade 4 and Grade 5 classes. More than 600 students were left without classes due to the class closures.

As the teachers left the com-munity, Peters was not sure if the high school students would finish their school year.

“They are three to four weeks away from finishing up the first semester,” Peters said. “We were anticipating our highest graduation num-ber ever — 17 possible gradu-ates. I don’t know what is going to happen.”

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ᐊᐧᐊᐧᑌ ᐊᒋᒧᐃᐧᓇᐣ

ᒣᒣᑫᐧᔑᐃᐧᓴᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂᐠ ᐁᐅᒋᐨ ᑕᕑᓯ ᑭᓯᐠ ᐅᒪᒥᑐᓀᑕᓇᐸᐣ ᐁᐃᐧ ᐁᐧᐸᐦᐊᑯᓀᐨ ᐊᑲᐧᒋᐠ ᑲᐅᐣᒋᓴᑭᒋᐱᓱᐨ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᒉᐣᐁᐧᕑᐃ ᐱᓯᑦ 9 ᐁᑭᔐᐸᔭᓂᐠ.ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᑯ ᑭ ᑭᒋᐱᐊᐧᐣ ᐃᒪ

ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐠ ᑲᑎᐱᑲᐠ , ᐁᑲᐧ ᑭᔭᐱᐨ ᑭᓯᑭᐸᐧᐣ ᑲᔭᓂᑭᔐᐸᔭᐠ.ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᐱᐣ ᑲᔭᓂᐃᐡᑲᐧ

ᒥᑕᓱᑎᐸᐦᐃᑲᓀᔭᐠ ᑲᑭᔐᐸᔭᓂᐠ , ᑭᓯᐠ ᐅᐃᐧᒋᐊᐧᑲᓇᐣ ᓱᓴᐣ , ᐊᔕ ᑭᒪᑕᓄᑭᑯᐸᐣ ᐊᑕᐁᐧᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐠ , ᑫᑕᑕᐃᐧᐣ ᑭᐱᐅᐣᒋ ᐱᐣᑎᑫᐸᑐ.ᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᐣ ᑭᐸᐣᑭᓯᐣ ᐯᔓᐨ

ᐊᑲᐧᒋᐠ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ.ᐃᐁᐧ ᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᐣ 231, Piper

PA 31 Navajo, ᑭᐱᐅᐣᒪᒐᒪᑲᐣ ᐃᐧᓂᐯᐠ 7:51 ᑲᑭᔐᐸᔭᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᓂᔭᓇᐣ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᐁᐳᓯᐊᐧᐨ

ᓂᐃᐧᐣ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᑭᐊᐱᒋᔑᓄᐠ ᐯᔑᐠ ᐱᒪᑎᓯ

ᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᓂᐠ, ᓂᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᒧᒋᐳᓯᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐅᐱᒥᓭ.ᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᑭᒪᐠ ᐃᑭᑐᐊᐧᐠ ᐃᐁᐧ

ᑭᐢᑐᐣ ᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᐣ ᑭᒪᒐᒪᑲᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᓇᐣᑕ ᒋᑭᐅᒋᐃᔑᒪᒋᓭᐠ ᒥᓇ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᐧᑲ ᒪᒋᑭᑐᐃᐧ ᓇᑐᑕᒧᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᒋᑭᐱᐅᒋᑭᑐᐨ ᐊᐱ ᐃᐧᓂᐯᐠ ᑲᐃᐡᑲᐧ ᒪᒋᑯᒋᐠ ᐊᐧᐁᐧ

ᐅᐱᒥᓭ.ᐁᑲᐧ 10:05 ᑲᑭᔐᐸᔭᓂᐠ ,

ᐊᒥ ᐊᐱᐣ ᑲᑭᐸᐣᑭᓯᐠ ᐃᐁᐧ ᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᐣ ᓇᐣᑕ ᐯᔑᑯᑎᐸᐦᐊᑲᐣ ᐊᐧᐸᓄᐠ ᐃᓀᑫ ᓂᑲᑌ ᒣᒣᑫᐧᔑᐃᐧᓴᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂᐠ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐁᔭᓂᑲᑫᐧ ᐳᓂᐨ.ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᑕᐡ ᓱᓴᐣ

ᐁᐃᔑᑭᑐᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐠ ᒥᓇ ᒪᐡᑭᑭᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐠ , ᑭᓯᐠ ᑭᐊᐧᐁᐧᐱᓱᐸᑐ ᒥᓇ ᓂᔑᐣ ᐃᐢᑭᑐᐣ ᐅᑭᒪᒋᓂᐁᐧᐱᓇᐣ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᐱᐣ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐠ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᐡ ᑲᐱᑕᑯᐸᓂᐦᐅᐨ , ᓱᓴᐣ ᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑭᐊᐧᑭᑕᑯᐸᓂᐦᐅ ᐅᐃᐧᒋᐊᐧᑲᓇᐣ ᐅᑎᐢᑭᑐᒥᑲᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᐡ ᐯᔑᐠ ᐃᐣᑭᑐᑲᐠ , ᒥᐊᐱᐣ ᑲᐃᔑᐃᐱᓱᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᑭᐃᔑᐸᐣᑭᓯᐠ ᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᐣ . ᐃᒪ ᑕᐡ ᐱᐳᓂᒥᑲᓇᐠ ᑭᔭᓂᐃᐱᓱᐊᐧᐠ, ᐅᑭᔭᓂᐊᐧᐸᒪᐊᐧᐣ ᑯᑕᑭᔭᐠ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᐁᐃᐱᓱᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᑭᒪᑌᐃᔑᐸᐣᑭᓯᓂᐠ ᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᓂ.ᑭᓯᐠ ᑭᐃᓇᒋᒧ ᐊᑲᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᑯ

ᐅᑭᑌᐸᐸᐣᑕᐣ ᐊᑲᒥᐠ ᐁᑭᐊᐱᒋ ᑭᒋᐱᐊᐧᓂ , ᔕᑯᐨ ᐅᑭᐊᐧᐸᐣᑕᐣ ᐁᒪᑲᑌᐊᐧᐸᑌᓂᐠ ᑲᑭᐃᔑᐸᐣᑭᓯᐠ ᐊᐱ ᑲᔭᓂᐅᑎᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ.

“ᐊᐱ ᑲᔭᓂᑕᑯᐱᓱᔭᐠ , ᐣᑭᐊᐧᐸᒪᒥᐣ ᑌᐱᐟ ᑲᑦᐳ , ᐊᔕ

ᐃᒪ ᐁᑭᐅᐣᒋᑕᑯᐸᓂᐦᐅᐨ.” ᑭᓯᐠ ᐃᓇᒋᒧ.ᑭᐱᐢᑲᓀ ᐃᒪ ᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᓂᐠ

ᐁᑲᐧ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐃᑯ ᑲᑦᐳ ᐅᑭᓴᑭᒋᐃᐧᑯᐱᓇᐣ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐣ. ᑭᓯᐠ ᑭᑯᐸᐸᓂᐦᐅ ᐅᑎᐢᑭᑐᒥᐠ ᐁᑲ ᑲᓇᑫ ᒪᔑ ᐁᑭᐱᒋᓭᓂᐨ ᐁᐊᑕᐃᐧ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐊᐨ ᑲᑦᐳᐊᐧᐣ.

“ᐊᔕ ᐃᐧᓂᑯ ᐅᑭ ᓴᑭᒋᐃᐧᑯᐱᓇᐣ ᐃᒪ ᐱᐣᒋᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᓂᐠ , ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᐊᔭᐸᐣ ᐱᐣᒋᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐱᒥᐸᓂᒋᑲᓂᐠ , ” ᑭᓯᐠ ᐃᑭᑐ . “ᒥᐁᐧᑎ ᑲᐃᐸᑐᔭᐣ ᐁᑭᐊᐣᑕᐃᐧ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐊᐠ ᐁᑭᓂᑲᑌᑕᐸᓇᔭᐠ ᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᓂᐠ.”ᒥᑕᐡ ᐃᓂᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ

ᑲᑭᐃᐧᑯᐱᓇᐊᐧᐨ ᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᓂᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᐯᕑᐃᐳᐣ ᐊᐦᓴᐸᑎ , 41 ᑭᑕᓱᔭᑭᐃᐧᓀ , ᐁᐧᑎ ᓫᐊᐠᐸᐧᕑᐠ , ᒪᓂᑐᐸ ᑭᐅᒋ. ᓇᑫ ᑕᐡ ᐃᑯ ᐃᒪ ᑲᑭ ᑭᑫᓂᒪᑲᓄᐨ ᐁᑲ ᐁᐱᒪᑎᓯᐨ.ᑲᑦᐳ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐣ ᐃᒪ

ᐁᐊᔭᓂᐨ ᑭᔭᐱᐨ ᐁᐱᒪᑎᓯ . ᑭᓯᐠ ᐅᑭᐊᐧᐸᒪᐣ ᑊᕑᐊᔭᐣ ᔑᐟ, 36 ᑕᓱᔭᑭᐃᐧᓀ , ᐃᐧᓂᐯᐠ ᐁᐅᒋᐨ , ᐁᐊᔭᐱᐨ ᒧᑕᑯᓇᐠ 10 ᓇᐣᑕ 15 ᑕᓱᒥᓯᐟ ᒥᑲᑌᐦᐃ ᑲᑭᐃᔑᐸᐣᑭᓯᐠ ᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᐣ. ᔑᐟ ᐅᐃᐧᒋᐊᐧᑲᓇᐣ ᐸᓂᒪ

ᓇᑫ ᐅᑭᐃᓇᒋᒧᑕᐊᐧᐣ ᐅᑎᐸᒋᒧᐣ ᔑᐟ ᐅᑕᓇᐠ ᐃᓀᑫ ᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐃᔑᐊᐱᑯᐸᐣ ᐊᐱᐣ ᑲᐸᐣᑭᓯᓂᐠ. ᑭ ᑭᐡᑭᔑᑯᓀᐁᐧᐱᓯᐣ ᐊᐱᐣ ᑲᐸᐣᑭᓯᐠ , ᒥᑕᐡ ᐃᒪ ᔑᐟ ᑲᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᑲᐡᑭᑐᐨ ᒋᐅᒋᑭᑕᐣᑕᐁᐧᐨ. ᐁᒪᐧᔦ ᑯᑕᑭᔭᐠ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᐱᑕᑯᐸᓂᐦᐅᐊᐧᐨ , ᐊᓇᑭ ᑲᑫᐧᐊᑕᐁᐧᔭᐸᐊᐧᒋᑲᑫ ᓂᐱᐃᐧᒧᑌᔭᐱᑯᓂ ᒥᓇ ᑯᓇᐣ ᐁᐊᔭᒋᐦᐊᐨ. ᐅᑕᓇᑭᔕᔕᑯᐊᐧᓇᐣ ᑲᔦ ᑭᔭᐱᐨ ᐱᐣᒋᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᑭᑕᓀᓂᒪᐨ ᐁᑲᐧ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐣ ᒋᐅᒋ ᓇᑫᐧᑕᑯᐨ.

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ᐅᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᑫᐠ ᓂᑲᑌᐢᑲᐊᐧᐠ ᐃᒪ ᐱᑲᐣᒋᑲᒥᐣᐠᒥᔑᐣ ᑲᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᑯᓯᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᐱᑲᐣᒋᑲᒥᐣᐠ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐊᐸᐣ ᒋᐃᐢᑯᓄᐊᐧᐨ

ᐊᐱ 25 ᐅᑎᐢᑯᓂᐦᐃᐁᐧᐠ ᑲᑭ ᒪᒐᓂᐣᐨ ᐅᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᒥᓇᐊᐧ ᑲᑭᐱᒥᑯᓇᑲᓂᐠ.ᐃᑫᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᑎᐢᑯᓂᐦᐃᐁᐧᐠ ᐅᑭ ᒪᒥᑎᓀᐣᑕᒧᐦᐃᑯᓇᐊᐧ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᒥᐢᑕᐦᐃ

ᑲᐊᑲᐧᑯᔑᐊᐧᓂᐣᐠ ᑲᔑ ᑲᐯᔑᐧᐊᐨ.ᑫᑲᐟ 700 ᑭᑭᓇᐦᐊᒪᐊᐧᑲᓇᐠ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐊᐸᐣ ᒋᐅᐣᒋᔭᐊᐧᐨ ᑫᑕᔑ

ᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᑯᓯᐊᐧᐨ, ᑲᔦ ᑲᑭᓇ ᐃᑫᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᐃᐢᐸᓂᐠ ᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᑫᐃᐧᓂᐣᐠ ᑲᑕᔑ ᐃᐢᑯᓄᐊᐧᐸᐣ . 17 ᐊᔭᐊᐧᐠ 12 ᑲᐊᑯᐢᑲᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑎᐢᑯᓂᐣᐠ ᑲᑲᑫᐧ ᑭᔑᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᑯᓯᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᓄᑯᑦ ᑲᐊᐦᑭᐊᐧᐠ, ᒥᑕᐢ ᐊᐸᐣ ᐁᐃᔑᓇᑲᐧᐠ ᒋᐸᓂᓭᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᑯᓯᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᓄᑯᑦ ᑲᐊᐦᑭᐊᐧᐠ ᒥᓇ ᓇᐣᑕ ᑲᔦ ᐊᐸᐣ ᐁᑲ ᒋᑭ ᑭᔑᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᑯᓯᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ.ᑲᓇᑕ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐱᑲᐣᒋᑲᒥᐣᐠ ᐅᑭᒪᑲᐣ ᒍᓇ ᐢᑎᕑᐊᐣᐠ ᐃᑭᑐᐊᐧᐠ

ᐁᐊᓄᑲᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᒋᐊᐧᐁᐧᔑᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐃᑫᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃᑲᓇᐣ ᒥᓇᐊᐧ ᒋᑭ ᐱᑭᐁᐧᐢᑲᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᐅᑭᑭᐦᐊᒪᑫᐠ. ᑲᓇᑕ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᑭᑐ ᒋᑭ ᑭᐁᐧ ᐸᐦᑭᓯᐣᑭᐸᐣ ᐃᒪ ᑲᐃᐢᐸᐠ ᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᑫᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐣᐠ ᑲᑕᔑᐢᑯᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᑭᔐᐸᐊᐧᑕᑭᓇᑦ 18 ᐃᓇᐣᑭᓯᐨ.

Teachers leave PikangikumMost students in Pikangikum are home from school after 25

teachers left the community last week.The teachers were concerned about high levels of mould in the

teacherages they live in. Nearly 700 students were left without classes, including all of

the high school students. There are 17 Grade 12 students trying to graduate high school this year, but they may lose out on much of the school year and their chance to finish.

The federal government and Pikangikum Chief Jonah Strang both say they are working to get the homes repaired so the teachers can return soon. The government says it wants to have high school classes running by Jan. 18.

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ᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂᐃᐧ ᔓᓂᔭ ᑲᐸᑭᑎᓇᑲᓄᐨ ᑭᔑᒋᐊᐧᓄᐣᐠᑲᓇᑕ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᑭ ᐸᑭᑎᓇᐣ ᐃᒪ ᑭᔐᒋᐊᐧᓄᐣᐠ $3.25 ᒣᓫᐃᔭᐣ

ᑕᓴᐧᐱᐠ ᔓᓂᔭ ᑫᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃᑲᑫᐊᐧᐨ.ᐅᑭᒪᑲᐣ ᐊᐣᑕᓄ ᓴᐧᓇᒪᐣ ᐃᑭᑐ ᐊᐁᐧ ᔓᓂᔭ ᑲᐸᑭᑎᓇᑲᓄᐨ ᐃᑫᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ

ᐅᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃᑫᐠ ᒋᑭ ᐅᐣᒋ ᐅᔑᑐᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᑲᒥᓇᐧᔑᑭᐣ ᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃᑲᓇᐣ.ᐊᐁᐧ ᔓᓂᔭ ᑲᐸᑭᑎᓇᑲᓄᐨ ᒥᐦᐃᒪ ᑲᐅᐣᒋᓭᐨ 2007 ᑲᑭ ᓇᑯᒥᑐᐊᐧᐸᐣ

ᑭᔑᒋᐊᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑲᓇᑕ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐣ ᒋ “ᐅᔑᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᑲᐧᔭᐠ ᒋᔑᓇᑲᐧᐠ ᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃᑲᓇᐣ, ᒥᓇ ᒋᐅᐣᒋ ᒥᓄᔭᒪᑲᐠ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᐣ” ᐃᐦᐃᒪ ᓀᑫ ᓇᓀᐤ ᑭᒋᑲᑦ ᒉᒥᐢ ᐯ ᑲᔑᐊᔭᐠ ᐅᐁᐧ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᐣ.ᓴᐧᓇᒪᐣ ᐃᑭᑐ ᐃᐁᐧ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᐃᐢᐸᐣᑭᑌᑭᐣ ᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃᑲᓇᐣ ᑲᐅᔑᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ

ᐅᒪ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐣᐠ ᐃᐁᐧ ᑕᐢ ᑲᐅᐣᒋᓯᓭᐠ ᐱᓇᒪ ᐁᒫ ᒪᓂᐁᐧᐸᐦᐊᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᔦᓇᓀᐃᐧᒥᓯᐨ ᐊᐢᑭᑭ ᒥᓇ ᒪᐢᑭᐠ, ᐁᑲᐧ ᑕᐢ ᐊᐸᐣ ᐁᐊᐦᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᓀᐊᐧᐣᐠ ᓇᐊᐧᐨ ᒋᑭ ᐅᐣᒋ ᒪᐢᑲᐊᐧᑭᑌᑭᐸᓂᐣ ᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃᑲᓇᐣ.

Housing money for KashechewanThe federal government has given Kashechewan $3.25 million to

build new homes.Chief Jonathon Solomon says the money will allow skilled trades-

people from the community to build quality homes.The money is part of a 2007 commitment between Kasheche-

wan and the federal government to “build a well-functioning, safe and healthy community” on its traditional site along the James Bay coast.

Solomon said the high cost of housing in the community is due to the fact they have to scrape off eight feet of soil and muskeg, and fill the hole with gravel in order to lay a stable and secure foundation.

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The proposal to bury nuclear fuel rods (top left) in the Canadian shield caught the attention of First Nation groups; Wahgoshig First Nation’s successful court case against Solid Gold Resources’ explo-ration (top right) sets new precedence for First Nations in northern Ontario; Kashechewan (middle left) gets federal money to build new houses, despite the high cost; and Mishkeegogamang elders get served turkey dinners by the local police force (bottom).

ᐊᐧᑯᔑᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐱᐊᐧᐱᑯᑲᐣ ᓴᐧᕑᐃᐟ ᑯᓫᑦ ᑲᐃᔑᓂᑲᑌᐠᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᑭᒪ ᐅᑭ ᐃᓇᔓᐊᐧᓇᐸᓂᐣ ᐱᐊᐧᐱᑯᑲᐣ ᓴᐧᕑᐃᐟ

ᑯᓫᑦ ᑲᐃᔑᓂᑲᑌᐠ ᒋᐳᓂ ᓇᓇᐣᑕᐊᐧᓯᓂᐁᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᒥᓇ ᒋᐳᓂ ᐸᑯᓀᐦᐃᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᐊᐧᑯᔑᐠ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐦᑭᑲᐣᐠ.ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᑭᒪ ᐅᑭ ᒥᓇᐣ 120 ᑭᔑᑲ ᒥᓂᑯᐠ ᒋᐊᔭᒥᐦᐊᒋᐣ ᐊᐧᑯᔑᐠ

ᐃᐢᑯᓂᑲᐣ “ᑲᐧᔭᐠ ᒋᔑᓇᑲᐧᓂᐣᐠ” ᐅᓇᑭᐢᑲᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ.ᐊᐧᑯᔑᐠ ᐅᑭᒪᑲᐣ ᑌᐱᐟ ᐸᐱᐣ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᐃᐁᐧ ᐅᓀᐣᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ

ᐁᐅᓇᑕᒪᐃᐧᐣᑕᐧ ᐱᐊᐧᐱᑯᑫᐃᐧᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᒋᑭᒋᓀᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐣ ᑲᑭ ᓇᐦᑯᒪᐸᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐅᒪᓂᑐᐃᐧ ᒥᓂᑯᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ.ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᒪᔑ ᒋᓇᑭᐢᑲᑎᐊᐧᐨ ᒋᐊᓂᒧᑕᒪᑎᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᐣ ᑫᑭᔑ

ᓇᐦᐃᓭᓂᑭᐸᐣ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ ᑲᑭ ᐃᓇᔓᐊᐧᓂᑯᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᑭᒪᐣ

Wahgoshig vs Solid Gold An Ontario court judge ordered Solid Gold Resources

to stop exploration and drilling work on Wahgoshig First Nation’s traditional lands.

The judge gave the company 120 days to consult with Wah-goshig in a “meaningful” way.

Wahgoshig Chief David Babin said the decision sets a prec-edent that exploration companies have to take Aboriginal and treaty rights seriously.

The two sides have not yet met to discuss the meaningful consultation ordered by the judge.

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ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᓇᐣᑕᐁᐧᐣᑕᑲᐧᓯᓄᐣ ᑲᐱᒋᐳᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣᑭᐣ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᑭᒋ ᐅᑭᒪᑲᐣ ᐃᑭᑐ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐁᑲ ᐃᐧᑲ

ᒋᐸᑭᑎᓇᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᑫᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᑭᒋᐊᐸᒋᑕᑲᓇᐣ ᑲᐊᓂ ᔑᑲᐃᐧᐊᐸᒋᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᑲᐱᒋᐳᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣᑭᐣ ᐃᒪ ᒋᑕᔑ ᓂᐣᑲᐧᐦᐃᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐣᐠ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ.ᐊᑎᐟ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐣᐠ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᐅᒪᒥᑎᓀᐣᑕᓇᐊᐧ ᒋᑭ

ᐊᔭᑭᐸᐣ ᑫᔑ ᓇᐦᐃᑭᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᑭᒋᐊᐸᒋᑕᑲᓇᐣ ᑲᐊᓂ ᔑᑲᐃᐧᐊᐸᒋᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᑲᐱᒋᐳᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣᑭᐣ. ᐅᑫᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐊᐧᐊᐧ, ᓂᐱᑲᐣ, ᔑᕑᐊᔾᐱᕑ ᒥᓇ ᐅᑕᐃᐧᑲᐃᐧ ᐸᐃᐧᑎᐠ.ᑭᒋᐊᐸᒋᑕᑲᓇᐣ ᑲᐊᓂ ᔑᑲᐃᐧᐊᐸᒋᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᑲᐱᒋᐳᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣᑭᐣ

ᑲᓂᑲᓂ ᐱᒧᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᑭᑐᐊᐧᐠ ᐁᐃᐧ ᓂᐣᑲᐧᐦᐊᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᔑᑲᐃᐧᐊᐸᒋᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᔪᕑᐁᓂᔭᑦ ᑭᒋᐱᐊᐧᐱᑯᐣ ᑲᐱᒋᐳᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣᑭᐣ ᐅᒪ ᑲᓇᑕ ᓀᑫ, ᓇᐣᑕ ᐃᐦᐃᒪ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐣᐠ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ, ᒪᓇᑐᐸ ᓇᐣᑕ ᓴᐢᑲᒋᐊᐧᐣ.ᑲᑫᐧᒋᒪᑲᓄᐊᐧᐠ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒋᒪᓯᓇᐦᐅᑎᓱᐊᐧᐨ ᑭᐢᐱᐣ

ᒪᒥᑎᓀᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᑫᐧᐣ ᒋᑕᑯᐱᐦᐅᐣᑕᐧ ᐃᒪ ᑫᔑ ᒪᒥᑎᓀᐣᑕᑲᐧᓂᐣᐠ ᐅᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐣᐠ ᒋᐊᐸᑕᓂᐣᐠ ᒋᑭ ᐃᔑ ᓂᐣᑲᐧᐦᐃᑲᑌᑲᐧᐸᐣ ᑭᒋᐊᐸᒋᑕᑲᓇᐣ ᑲᐊᓂ ᔑᑲᐃᐧᐊᐸᒋᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᑲᐱᒋᐳᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣᑭᐣ.ᐊᒥᑕᐢ ᐁᔑ ᑭᑫᐣᑕᑲᐧᐠ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐣᐠ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ

ᐁᒪᒥᑎᓀᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᐁᐧᓂ ᐁᑲ ᐱᓇᒪ ᑯᑕᑭᔭᐣ ᐃᐢᑯᓂᑲᓇᐣ.

No nuclear waste: NANNishnawbe Aski Nation Grand Chief says First Nations will never

allow nuclear waste to be buried in northern Ontario.A number of communities in northern Ontario have expressed

interest in having a nuclear waste burial facility. Those communi-ties include Wawa, Nipigon, Schrieber and Ear Falls.

The Nuclear Waste Management Organization wants to bury rods of uranium somewhere in the Canadian shield, either in northern Ontario, Manitoba or Saskatchewan. It is asking commu-nities to sign up if they are interested in being included on the list of potential sites for the facility.

It seems northern Ontario communities are expressing interest without consulting their First Nations neighbours.

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ᐁᒪᑯᔐᑭᔑᑲᐃᐧ ᒪᑯᔐᐦᐃᐣᑕᐧ ᑭᒋᔭᐦᐊᐠᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔥ ᒣᓫ ᑯᓫᐢ ᐸᐣᑭ ᐸᑲᐣ ᑫᑯᐣ ᑭᐃᔑᒋᑫ

ᓄᑯᑦ ᑲᑭ ᒪᑯᔐᑭᔑᑲᐠ – ᐁᑭ ᐱᑐᔕᑭᐣ ᐊᐢᑭᐸᐧᐊᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐁᑭ ᑭᔑᓴᐧᐨ ᑭᒋᐱᓀᐊᐧᐣ.ᑯᓫᐢ ᒥᓇ ᐅᐃᐧᒋᐊᐧᑲᓇᐣ ᐅᑭ ᐱᑐᔕᓇᐊᐧ ᓂᒥᑕᓇ ᑕᓱᑯᓯᑲᐧᐣ

ᐊᐢᑭᐸᐧᐊᐧᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᑕᐢ ᑯᑕᑭᔭᐠ ᑲᑭ ᐃᐧᒋᑕᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᒪᐢᑭᑲᐧᑲᒪᐣᐠ ᐸᐣᐟ ᐊᐧᐱᐢ ᐁᑭ ᑭᓱᓴᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᓂᑯᑕᐧᓯ ᑭᒋᐱᓀᐊᐧᐣ.49 ᑭᒋᔭᐦᐊᐠ ᑭᑭᔑᑌᐳᓇᐊᐧᐠ ᐃᒪ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐣᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᑕᐢ

ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔕᐠ ᐅᑭ ᐊᔭᑭᓀᐃᐧᑐᓇᐊᐧ ᒥᒋᒪᐣ.“ᒥᑐᓂ ᒥᓇᐧᔑᐣ ᐁᓇᑯᑕᒪᐃᐧᐣᑕᐧ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐣᐠ ᑲᑲᐯᔑᐊᐧᐨ ᐸᑲᐣ

ᐁᐃᓇᓄᑭᐊᐧᐨ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔕᐠ,” ᑯᓫᐢ ᐃᑭᑐ.

Christmas meals for eldersNishnawbe-Aski Police Senior Constable Mel Coles did some-

thing a little different this past Christmas – peeled potatoes and cooked turkey.

Coles and his wife peeled 40 pounds of potatoes while volun-teers from the Mishkeegogamang band office cooked six turkeys.

The food was prepared for 49 elders in the community and delivered by the police force.

“It’s nice for the community to see a different side of policing,” Coles said.

NAPS also opened two new detachments, one in Sandy Lake and the other in Fort Severn.

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Photos courtesy of Transportation Safety Board

Lenny CarpenterWawatay News

North Spirit Lake’s Darcy Keesick was thinking about shoveling his driveway on the morning of Jan. 9.

A blizzard had blanketed the First Nation overnight, and it was still snowing.

Then, sometime after 10 a.m. local time, Keesick’s wife Susan, who had been working at the community’s general store, came running to the house.

A plane had crashed just out-side the community.

Flight 231, a Piper PA 31 Navajo aircraft, departed Winni-peg at 7:51 a.m. and was carry-ing five people – four passengers and a pilot. Officials say the Key-stone Air Service plane took off without incident and there was no radio contact with the aircraft once it left Winnipeg airspace.

Then at about 10:05 a.m., the plane crashed onto the lake approximately one kilometer east of North Spirit Lake while making its landing approach.

While Susan called the local Nishnawbe-Aski Police (NAPS) office and nursing station, Kee-sick got dressed and started his two snowmobiles. When the community’s only NAPS officer arrived, Susan jumped on the snowmobile with Keesick and the trio sped off for the crash site. As they drove through a portion of the winter road, they saw other community members also making their way to the site.

Keesick said he could barely see across the lake due to the blizzard, yet the black smoke from the crash was visible as they neared the scene.

“When I got there, there was a guy, David Campbell, who was already there.” Keesick recalled.

The plane was in flames and Campbell was pulling some-one from the wreckage. Kee-sick jumped off his snowmobile without coming to a full stop and rushed to help Campbell.

“He had (the passenger) out of the cabin, and he was just in between the cabin and the engine,” Keesick said. “I went over there and … helped him drag (the passenger) away from the wreckage.”

The person they pulled out turned out to be the pilot, Fariboz Abasabady, 41, from Lockport, Manitoba. Abasabady was later pronounced dead at the scene.

Campbell told them there was a survivor. Keesick saw Brian Shead, 36, of Winnipeg, sitting in the snow about 10 to 15 feet away from the wreckage.

Shead’s wife Tracy later told reporters that Shead was sit-ting in the last row of the plane when it crashed. The tail of the plane broke off, and Shead was

North Spirit Lake responds to tragedyFour dead in plane crash; one passenger survives

The Keystone airlines flight from Winnipeg to North Spirit Lake went down around 10:00am on January 6, just one kilometer from the commu-nity’s airstrip. Members of North Spirit Lake did everything they could to battle the flames and help the passengers, but in the end only one of five people on board survived.

able to crawl out on his own. Before anyone else arrived, he had attempted to put out the flames himself using a water bottle and snow. He also shouted to the other passengers but got no response.

Seeing Shead sitting in the snow, Susan talked to him and he was coherent and appeared relatively calm. Half of his face was bloodied and he hobbled when he walked. Doctors later told his wife that he had frac-tures to his face and ankle.

Once they determined that Abasabady was dead, Campbell told Keesick there were more passengers in the plane.

“But there was no move-ment,” Keesick said.

They tried to douse the three-foot high flames with snow, first by hand and then using a cooler found amongst the wreckage. Keesick said his memories of the scene are a blur, but suddenly more people had arrived and were trying to help put out the fire.

With Shead in need of medi-cal assistance, Keesick and oth-ers helped him onto Keesick’s snowmobile and he and the NAPS officer drove him to the nursing station. They had to wait however, as the doctors

and nursing staff had rushed to the crash site.

Once a doctor returned and Shead was receiving medical attention, Keesick drove back home to pick up shovels and a toboggan – to help bring Aba-sabady’s body back to the com-munity – and drove back to the site, where community mem-bers were still trying to put out the fire. Keesick said there were at least 10 people and they immediately took the shovels and used them to pour snow on the flames, which appeared to be coming from under the air-craft.

The efforts seemed futile.“We threw so much snow in

there,” Keesick said. “It was piled up pretty high, the snow, but the fire didn’t go out, it melted it all. It just kept burning.”

Grieving starts

When Keesick’s sister, Elaine, got up that morning, she noticed the blizzard. This con-cerned her, as a group of stu-dents were scheduled to fly out that day.

“I thought, no one’s gonna fly out in this weather,” she said. As the director of education in the community, she instructed

a school employee waiting at the airport not to allow any stu-dents to get on a plane.

She went to work as usual and was in her office when the kindergarten teacher, Charlotte Rae, transferred a call to her informing her of the crash.

“(Rae’s) daughter was on the plane,” Elaine said. “I had to have her come sit down in my office and try to hold myself together while I held her and prayed for her.”

Rae’s daughter was Martha Campbell, a 38-year-old from Winnipeg. She was on her way to work with her mother in the community for a few days, and had previously worked in the community over the past 20 years.

After trying her best to con-sole Charlotte and driving her home, Elaine made her way to the crash site.

By the time she got there, the community members had given up trying to put out the flames. They were never able to get to the three remaining passengers.

Four dead in crash

Officials released the names of the deceased on Jan. 12. In addition to Abasabady and

Campbell, Colette Eisinger, a 39-year-old female originally from Sagkeeng First Nation in Manitoba, and Ben Van Hoek, a 62-year-old male from Carmen, Man., died in the crash. Shead remains in stable condition in a Winnipeg hospital.

Shead, Eisinger and Van Hoek were with Aboriginal Strategies Inc. (ASI), a Win-nipeg company that provides financial management services to First Nations. Two were scheduled to spend the day in the community and fly out in the evening while the other was to proceed onto Deer Lake First Nation.

North Spirit Lake Chief Rita Thompson said the community is still reeling from the loss of the crash victims.

“We were really close to them. They had worked with us for many years,” Thompson said. “They were almost like family members to us.”

Elaine Keesick said she is still trying to deal with the loss of Eisinger, who had become a good friend.

Keesick, meanwhile, still talks with his wife about the day’s events. Being an average citizen, he never expected to be put in such a situation.

“I didn’t think I’d be able to do things that I did that day,” he said. “I don’t know what I was thinking at the time, I just did – stuff. It was just reaction.”

First Nations leaders have offered their condolences to the community and families of the deceased.

Nishnawbe Aski Nation Grand Chief Stan Beardy said in a statement: “Our thoughts and prayers go out to the pilot, passengers and all the members of North Spirit Lake First Nation who are dealing with this sud-den and very terrible tragedy.”

Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo also issued a statement.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with the leadership and citi-zens of North Spirit Lake First Nation, as well as our brothers and sisters across Treaty 9 and Treaty 5 territory impacted by this tragedy,” Atleo said.

Investigation ongoing

Officials are still trying to determine the exact cause of the crash. Members of NAPS and the Ontario Provincial Police remained at the site until investigators with the Transpor-tation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) arrived the morning after the crash.

TSB spokesperson Peter Hil-debrand said the cause of the crash will be difficult to deter-mine, since the plane did not have a flight recorder and the community does not have a flight control tower. Since the plane left Winnipeg airspace, it never made communication with the ground.

Keystone Airways said Aba-sabady had 2,400 hours of flight experience, 150 of which were with the type of aircraft that crashed.

Meanwhile, Transport Can-ada is amending the Cana-dian Aviation Regulations to have planes able to carry six or more passengers install terrain awareness warning systems and enhanced altitude accuracy devices so pilots know if they come too close to the ground.

Transport Canada is propos-ing the new rules because from 1977 to 2009, 35 aircraft flew into the ground while under the control of pilots, resulting in 100 fatalities and 46 serious injuries.

The North Spirit Lake crash is the worst in northwestern Ontario since 2003, when a Wasaya Airways pilot and seven residents of Summer Beaver First Nation, including most of the community’s band coun-cil, were killed when a Cessna Grand Caravan C208 crashed 10 kilometers northwest of the community.

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Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo has expressed support for the construction of all-weather roads for remote First Nation communities in Manitoba and Ontario.

Atleo said the roads would improve accessibility to and from remote First Nation com-

Assembly of First Nations calls for all-access roadsmunities, and he urged all levels of government to work together with First Nations to ensure appropriate measures are taken when ice roads are not available.

“Northern First Nation com-munities that rely on ice roads for supplies over the winter months only become more vulnerable with mild win-ter weather,” Atleo said. “We support calls by First Nation

leadership in Manitoba and Ontario for the construction of all-weather roads and other approaches that work for First Nations that better ensure transportation of food, fuel and other essential supplies and services year round.”

Recently, chiefs from remote Manitoba communities have declared a state of emergency, as above normal temperatures for the last few weeks have

delayed winter road construc-tion.

Manitoba Keewatinowi Oki-makanak Inc (MKO) Grand Chief David Harper and a group of remote First Nation communities in northern Man-itoba cited climate change and government inaction, calling for the federal government and Manitoba to work with First Nations to develop a contin-gency plan.

Some northern communi-ties in Ontario have also called for an all-weather road system that would better ensure access and the delivery of essential housing and infrastructure needs to fly-in communities.

Currently, winter roads are still not open along the James Bay coast, and communities like Attawapiskat are waiting for the delivery of new homes, which are much needed. Shawn Atleo


Learning how to see with a new eye

From the Wawatay archives

Wawatay News archivesKindergarten class of Pikangikum First Nation, date unknown.

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Winter ice roads could be fading away and airships might be

taking over. A report by the Conference Board of Canada is suggesting that airships like the ones that dominated the skies in the 1920s and 1930s could serve remote First Nation com-munities.

Experts and researchers are worried that warming trends in the far north will make the construction of ice winter roads more difficult as time goes on. I know for a fact that the life of the winter road up the James Bay coast from Moosonee is get-ting shorter every year. Twenty years ago when I was a kid in Attawapiskat, the familiar ice winter road was started in December and lasted until April.

These days the winter road is constructed in January and begins to melt in late March. This poses a huge problem for remote First Nations as many goods must be shipped by win-ter road. The winter road is a lifeline that makes it possible to transport heavy and bulky items to the community by transport truck.

It is more feasible to trans-port building supplies, con-struction equipment, vehicles, all terrain vehicles, snow machines, fuel and furniture. The winter road really fills a gap because otherwise everything must be transported by barge in the summer and expensive air freight year round.

With the shorter season for the winter road, remote First Nation communities face a shortage in goods and an increase in price for those prod-ucts and goods that come in by barge or must be flown in.

Life is difficult enough in these communities, so things will be even worse once the winter road ceases to become a reality.

I recall many dark and freez-ing nights as I drove our Ford tractor or half ton truck on the winter road while haul-ing a trailer load of lumber, plywood and bulk food items from Moosonee. I was only 15 the first time I did the drive and after two hours on the long two day ride through the wilder-ness I fell asleep at the wheel. I

ran off the road and luckily we managed get the tractor back on the ice road. I have a lot of wonderful memories of my win-ter road adventures. It makes me sad to think that those days may soon be over.

The good news is that cre-ative minds are trying to come up with cost efficient and safe ways of making sure that remote First Nations receive goods from the south. Actu-ally, I don’t think that all these experts are only thinking about being good to remote First Nations as their first priority is to make sure that mines and other resource development projects are being supported and supplied. The idea of air-ships is interesting in terms of the huge loads they are capable of carrying.

The vast mushkeg of the far north is just too much of a challenge in terms of road or rail construction. This kind of development is also not envi-ronmentally friendly and cre-ates havoc in the wilderness for wildlife.

The possibility of airship transportation is very interest-ing from an environmental point of view. It would also be easy to take off and land huge airships. The fact that they would be able to carry many tons of goods on a regular basis throughout the year would be great for remote First Nations.

I know that many of us think of images of the famous Hindenburg disaster in 1937 in Lakehurst, New Jersey, however new technologies and the use of non combustible helium instead of flammable hydrogen could produce reliable and safe airships capable of transport-ing incredible loads and even people.

I think I will see the day when airships will become a reality and I am looking for-ward to it. Already these giant vehicles exist and are in service in other parts of the world. The United States army is actively developing this technology. We still need roads and railways but it will become difficult to build and maintain them in the far north as global warming becomes more evident every year.

There is no doubt that indus-try will create all sorts of new ways to expand into the far north. Already, when I look up into the northern sky I see con-trails from passenger jets criss crossing the heavens. I imagine soon there will be blimps on the horizon.

Xavier Kataquapit

UNDER THE NORTHERN SKY

When I was nine I got eye glasses for the first time. I was born

with terrible astigmatism but it went undiagnosed and uncor-rected until I was adopted. Up until then I had just assumed that everyone saw the world the same way that I did – all fuzzy blurry and devoid of detail. But those new lenses brought everything into a sharp and sudden focus and I was amazed. I never knew such a world existed.

Learning to see was an adventure. I spent weeks examining things that I though I knew, things I thought that I recognized and things I had just believed were the out of kilter things I’d grown used to. My world changed.

Not only was I able to adjust how I moved through it, I changed the way I related to it because I could now define it accurately. It was a huge devel-opment in my life.

Just recently I’ve taken up photography. It’s been some-thing I’ve wanted to do for a

long time mostly because I’m a poor visual artist and the only painting I do that looks like it’s supposed to is on the walls and even there my edges could use a lot of work.

I’ve always been awed by the texture and detail of things and I wanted to be able to capture that sense of wonder. Taking a picture is how I can render the world into art or at least, a semblance of it.

When I was small all that everyone had were those old Instamatic cameras or the Polaroids that allowed you to hold the picture in your hand and watch it develop. I was always amazed when I stood and saw the image emerge from the paper like a ghost from the shadows. Even then photography was like a magic show for me.

Nowadays, of course, we have the new digital cameras. The one I use is a Nikon D80 digital SLR. That’s camera lingo for Single Lens Reflex which in turn is photo nerd for “there’s a lot more buttons on mine.” It just means there’s more to confuse me really and there are times that I miss the old point and shoot cameras. Fortunately there’s an auto-matic mode on the camera that still lets me do that.

That Nikon takes wonder-

ful pictures and I’m amazed at how easily I’ve come to under-stand how to use it. There are a lot of complicated things to learn about a high falootin’ camera but I’ve managed to take some great shots with it and it’s encouraging me to go further.

I experiment with shutter speeds and apertures now and I’ve even become familiar with ISO settings, white balance and the really cool flash attach-ment.

What I like most about pho-tography is that it gets me out onto the land. I don’t want to take pictures of cities, I’d rather preserve images of the land, the small details I usually miss or the view I might not stop long enough to recognize.

Having a camera gives me a good excuse to get out on the land often and I’ve taken a lot of hikes over the past summer just to shoot images.

The other thing I like is that I’m learning to see the world in a whole new way again. Just like when I got my first pair of eye glasses I’m actually learn-ing to really see it.

I used to walk around oblivi-ous to the simple beauty of things but having a camera makes me really focus and look hard at the world. I’m getting used to really looking at things

and seeing them as I might frame them for a photograph. It’s really changed the way I interpret the world.

I never knew such shapes and textures existed. I’ve taken photos of plants, trees, rocks, the sky and stunning landscapes. I’ve taken pictures of moss, fungi, the way a rock overhangs the startling blue of a glacial lake, shadow, the effect of light on the land and the faces of my friends when they don’t know I shooting them.

My camera makes me more conscious of the world and the people around me and I love that ongoing and empowering connection.

That’s odd because one of the things I’ve learned over time is how much the land informs my sense of identity as an Ojibway person. But even we can native people get preoc-cupied and lose connection to the simple things around us.

Having a camera on hand keeps me looking, keeps me searching for art in the sim-plest of places and there’s art everywhere because if there’s one thing I’ve learned – it’s that Creator can really paint.

I’m getting better at recog-nizing the magnificent hand of Creation in the land and the world around me.

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being so excited to find a brand new Nintendo Entertainment System. Thus began the video game aspect of my life as I immersed myself in the playing of Blades of Steel, Contra and of course the eponymous Super Mario games.

This transferred to subse-quent systems: NHL’94, and the Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, and the Lost Vikings on the Super Nintendo; Goldeneye and Star Fox on the Nintendo 64; and Metal Gear Solid, Syphon Filter and the Driver games on the Playstation.

Early on, video games were criticized for enabling seden-tary and anti-social behaviour, and while the former might be true, my video gaming

experience has been mostly social.

As a kid, my friends and I would challenge each other in NHL matches or take turns try-ing to beat the Mario games. In high school, we’d gather and at friend’s, connect two Playsta-tions and play the Command & Conquer games all day; since it was a one-on-one game that could take an hour, everyone else would just hang out while waiting for their turn. And of course we’d have four-player matches in Goldeneye.

There was a period where I didn’t play video games very much.

Then I watched my younger brother play his XBOX 360, which popularized online gaming for consoles. I bought myself a 360 and played online with my younger brother and cousins.

Friends I knew since high school began to get their own consoles, but instead of getting the 360, they bought the Play-station 3, and they would say “Hey, I was playing online with so-and.so…” and name a friend being someone I hadn’t seen since high school.

A few months later, I sold my 360 and bought a

PS3 and joined my old friends in playing Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, which was just released at the time.

We’d make a

clan and often play together as a team against other players from around the world. I recon-nected with my old friends who live in different parts of the province, such as Cochrane, Welland, Toronto, Moosonee and Ottawa.

Using mics or the system’s message system, we’d catch up while we awaited the next match or in-game. It was fun seeing how certain friends’ playing style didn’t change from back then.

One of my friends loved to trash talk, and to our amuse-ment, he often did so against other players from other parts of Canada, the U.S., or some-where in Europe or Asia.

Often we’d work together to win a match, but at times we fooled around and ‘kill’ each other for our amusement when we’re supposed to be team-mates.

When I moved from Tim-mins to Thunder Bay more than two years ago, online gaming helped me keep in touch with my Timmins friends.

In a way, playing with them online was our way of hanging out, since we were in different cities, doing our thing whether it’s going to school, working a full-time job or taking care of a family.

These days, I’m disinclined to play if my friends aren’t online. If I do, I tend to get angry if I’m not playing well. When I’m playing with friends, I don’t really care how well I play.

I realize this may sound nerdy and strange, but I think this is common. I had class-mates and roommates in col-lege who expressed similar feelings.

Online gaming: it’s fun to play against strangers but much more fun playing with friends and family.

Lenny Carpenter

Online gaming helps youth keep in touch

“We’d make a clan and often play together as a team against other players from around the world.”

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Tikinagan Child and Family Services workers hold pieces of paper cut

into leaf shapes.Th ey’ve gathered in Sioux Lookout

for three days in November to learn more about Tikinagan’s Mamow Obiki-ahwahsoowin service model. In Ojibwe and Oji-Cree, Mamow Obiki-ahwahsoowin means “Everyone working together to raise our children.”

At Tikinagan, Mamow Obiki-ahwahsoowin evolved as a service model that respects past traditions and responds to the present by ensuring parents, extended family members, Elders, community resource workers, and First Nations leaders are all involved in child protection.

Near the end of their training, 40 Tikinagan workers write on paper leaves their commitments to refl ect Mamow Obiki-ahwahsoowin values on the job. One by one they share those promises with the group before pasting their leaves onto a 10-foot tall tree drawn on paper.

To get to this personal understanding of Mamow Obiki-ahwahsoowin, participants fi rst learn about the history of First Nations and of Tikinagan.

Th ey watch the fi lm Th e Invisible Nation, which traces how the traditions of the Algonquin of Quebec were gradually undermined after the arrival of Europeans in the 16th century.

Emily Gregg, a member of the Tikinagan Elders Council and of Kasabonika First Nation, brings the same issue closer to home. She describes men taking her from home when she was a child and putting her into a big plane with

a lot of other kids. No one told her she was going to residential school, she says.

Elder Gregg also talks about how traditional child-rearing practices have since been lost.

Chiefs started Tikinagan in the mid 1980s to serve children and families in ways that respect First Nations culture, trainees are informed the following day.

A key point in the agency’s development came at the end of the next decade, notes Eartha Davidson, Tikinagan director of service, when managers found the need

to more clearly defi ne the meaning of “customary care.” A committee explored that question, consulting with chiefs and First Nation communities.

“From there, our service model was

born,” Davidson says. Now detailed in Tikinagan’s service

manuals, standards, policies and forms, the Mamow Obiki-ahwahsoowin model requires workers to consult with First Nation representatives on all cases. Critical decisions are made in communities through case conferences.

Th e court system isn’t involved when children need to be placed in care, usually in their home community or a community nearby. Instead, under a Mamow Obiki-ahwahsoowin care agreement, the community forms a “circle of care” around the child and family.

Leading by example

Davidson, who plans Tikinagan training, wants all employees to not

only gain a better understanding of the Mamow Obiki-ahwahsoowin model, but also to express it in the way they do their jobs.

Judy Angeconeb, a Tikinagan family services worker, teaches the model and leads by example. She and other volunteer women in Lac Seul have just started a club for girls 7 to 13 years old. Weekly activities will include cooking and crafts, and the girls will sometimes choose the activities themselves.

“I see young children in the community with nothing to do,” Angeconeb says of her motivation. “I would like to see change.”

As she works with families, “I’ll ask parents to bring their daughters (to the club’s activities) so they’re able to interact with them. Th e parents have skills and we want them to share those with the girls in the community.”

At the training for other Tikinagan workers, it’s time for them to share how they will refl ect Mamow Obiki-ahwahsoowin values in their jobs:

“Show respect for self, clients, co-workers and everybody involved.”

“Retain compassion and understanding of clients and families.”

“Ask more questions about the culture and beliefs of community members.”

“Allow more open communication and collective decision-making.”

“Work closely with First Nations and families.”“Increase the use of elders.”“Find out more about Mamow Obiki-

ahwahsoowin – part of what makes Tikinagan a special and unique place.”

And so on, until the last of the paper leaves representing these commitments have been added to the now fl ourishing tree.

Other recent stories on the Tikinagan website:

Hockey legend visits Tikinagan supervisorswww.tikinagan.org/node/647

To Kasabonika for Christmaswww.tikinagan.org/node/636

Learning from each other: family service workers meet in Deer Lakewww.tikinagan.org/node/592

Many helping hands for Deer Lake feastwww.tikinagan.org/node/579

Mamow Obiki-ahwahsoowin: making a personal commitment

Mamow Obiki-ahwahsoowinEveryone working together to raise our children

TikinaganChild & FamilyServices

Eileen Nanokeesic of Kitchenuhmaykoosib talks about applying Mamow Obiki-ahwahsoowin values to her family services work.

www.tikinagan.org

Editor,

Never before have I had a need to have my say about anything but I feel com-pelled to do so now. Finally someone has come forward and has spoken the for-bidden word “hate” in the media, in regards to Native people.

I read Xavier Kataquapit’s article in the Dec. 22 edition and my mind and heart were perplexed. Everything came flooding into my thoughts and needed an outlet so here I am writing this letter.

I’ll start with myself. I’ve been gone a long time now on a journey, attempting to discover who I am and my role as a Native person.

I guess I too suffer from the intergenerational effects of the residential school sys-tem. I didn’t learn my Native language until I was an adult and to this day cannot speak fluently.

As a child I never saw the importance of my Native language. That is but one of a myriad of negative effects bestowed upon us from that ill begotten system.

Throughout my travels across Canada I saw many urban Natives displaced and lost, not knowing where they belonged and finding solace only in their addictions and homelessness.

What pissed me off the most was the fragmentation evident in the urban Native setting. There was class dis-tinction in our own commu-nities and I experienced this

first-hand. It was the professional-cli-

ent relationship that I found flawed. You were either one or the other. This so-called hate or racist attitude exists within our own people! As soon as I walked in the door and signed my name on the dotted line I was referred to as “the client” and felt continually looked down upon. The reason I say this is because this attitude is everywhere!

We as First Nations people are not unified. There is no solidarity anywhere.

How many of you can say you participated in the land struggle at Six Nations? What relationship do we have with the Mohawks? None. We are all on our own agendas.

We don’t have the time to worry about the repercus-sions of the Far North Act. Did anyone blink when that was announced? Now we’re wor-ried about the Ring of Fire developments!

The way things are now there are more and more peo-ple coming to Canada look-ing for the dream. I’ve lived in Toronto and Calgary and there are so many immigrants working but you never see any Native people.

Most people in Toronto don’t even know where Wawa is, never mind Thunder Bay or Sioux Lookout.

We are so backwards all because we live on remote reserves and we don’t have any of the resources available to become a town or a city.

We don’t have a tax base,

but live off a per-capita dis-bursement from the govern-ment. Soon will come the day when we will not live apart from society, we will be swallowed whole by the population need for expan-sion.

We need massive proactive change in the re-organization of our First Nation communi-ties. The children are crying out for help and the only answer for them is to join a gang or drugs for support or gratification. It is inevitable that we will be integrated into society.

We need to stop looking backwards and stop blaming the government, the church or the treaties. We need to boldly go into the future as a unified whole.

In closing, let me remind you of the economic power of Japan. How did they go from a poor country into a techno-logical and economic colos-sus?

Through radical and com-prehensive social change. Do we wish to become self-sufficient and an eco-nomic strength? Unity is the answer.

Collapse all the walls or suppression, racism, hate, hopelessness and defeatism. In our era of electronic data and technology, we should exploit it to share proven and established methodologies of First Nation successes.

Again, unity, cohesion and integration. This is all but a dream I have.

Dale Sawanas

Unity is key for First Nation prosperity RCMP surveillance marks a “sad state of affairs”

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Editor,

Re: KI Chief disturbed by RCMP surveillance (Dec. 22, 2011)

It doesn’t surprise me at all. We are talking about a right-wing government led by a modern day General George Armstrong Custer: ie Prime Min-ister Stephen Harper. Paranoia rules in Ottawa, anybody and anything threatening or appear-ing to threaten the Conservative agenda is fair game.

The Reform/Canadian Alli-ance/Conservative Party is also very much against what they perceive to be race-based rights. That is, they don’t believe that First

Nations should have spe-cial rights based on trea-ties or anything else includ-ing Aboriginal rights. Prior occupancy of this land by the ancestors of today’s First Nations does not register on their political radar. To them, we are immigrants to the Americas (Turtle Island), the descendants of the first immi-grants just like everyone else.

It is a sad state of affairs when the government uses the police, security and intelligence services to spy on Chief Morris and others who don’t share the corporate agenda supported by the federal government. They should concentrate on terror-

ism and the prevention of terror-ist acts both here at home and abroad.

They should also concen-trate on fixing problems, like the situation at Attawapiskat, instead of creating threats where none existed.

Recently I was browsing at a book store and I came across a quote from a book whose title and author I don’t remember.

“The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you don’t lis-ten you will never know what justice is.”

Meegwetch,

Tom WassaykeesicMishkeegogamang First Nation

Oshki Orientation

Rick Garrick/Wawatay NewsSandy Lake’s Mary Day recently enrolled in Oshki-Pimache-O-Win Education and Training Insti-tute’s Aboriginal Financial and Economic Planning program to learn more about finance for her housing manager position at Whitesand First Nation. Coordinated by Terry Copenace, the program began Jan. 14.


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from page 1Peters was worried that most

of the school’s students would lose half a school year or possi-bly a full school year due to the mould.

“The students’ education is a major concern,” Peters said, noting he was affected by a similar situation during his last year of high school in 2000, when a fuel spill at the school forced him to graduate a year later than he was expecting to.

“I just stayed at home and waited around to see what was done to get the school back up and running. It was kind of frustrating. We had to go to school on Saturdays to make up time.”

After meeting with federal government officials in Win-nipeg during the week of Jan. 9-12, Pikangikum Chief Jonah Strang said considerable prog-

ress had been made regarding the teachers’ accommodations.

“I believe we have achieved an understanding that will ensure a quality investment in our children’s education and accommodations of teachers coming into our community,” Strang said in a Jan. 12 press release. “We are encouraged by the commitment of the federal government and remain opti-mistic these negotiations will result in a return of full opera-tions of the school and teacher’s early return.”

A senior communications officer with Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC) said high school classes in the commu-nity will resume Jan. 18, follow-ing emergency action to find accommodation for teachers.

“Departmental officials are working with the First Nation to

ensure that the project to reme-diate mould from the teachers’ accommodations is completed as soon as possible and with minimal disruption to the stu-dents’ school year,” said John Schmied, in a Jan. 11 e-mail response. “A contractor is on site to prepare a scope of work and cost estimate for this proj-ect.”

Schmied said the Ontario Ministry of Transportation has set aside three rooms as tem-porary accommodations until the teachers’ living quarters are remediated.

“School is in session for some elementary classes at Eencho-kay Birchstick School,” Schmied said. “High school classes will resume on Jan. 18. Remaining classes will resume as remedia-tion to the teacherages are com-pleted and teachers return.”

Nishnawbe Aski Nation Dep-

Mould forces teachers from PikangikumClasses on hold for over 600 students, including potential grads

Wawatay file photo

Many students in Pikangikum are not in school these days as only six teachers remain in the community. Pikangikum’s chief says he is working closely with the federal government to remedy the situation and get teachers, and students, back in class soon.

uty Grand Chief Terry Waboose first raised the issue in a Jan. 10 statement, noting the commu-nity had been looking at a num-

ber of options to keep the high school classes operating.

“For years the community has asked the government of Canada to repair or replace these teacherages, and it is a tragedy that these students are now being denied their basic human and legal right to edu-cation because the government can’t provide teachers safe and healthy living conditions for educators,” Waboose said. “The government of Canada must immediately provide adequate living quarters so that teachers can return to the community and these students can get back to class as soon as possible so they don’t lose the entire school year.”

Schmied said the First Nation is the landlord of the teacher-ages and is responsible for the operation and maintenance of the facilities, adding that AANDC is providing Pikangi-kum with $464,931 to assist with the operation and mainte-nance of the teachers’ accom-modations in 2011-2012.

Regional Chief Angus Tou-louse said the situation illus-trates the challenges First Nations experience stemming from years of government underfunding of First Nations education.

“If immediate action is not taken, we will continue to see and hear about similar crises in other communities,” Toulouse said in a Jan. 12 press release.

Toulouse brought up the Senate Committee on Aborig-inal Peoples report, Reform-ing First Nations Education: From Crisis to Hope, which stated that First Nations edu-cation is in crisis and requires a complete overhaul.

The December 2011 report said First Nations are going into significant debt or can-not deliver basic educational services that are taken for granted elsewhere because the current funding formula, last updated in 1996, does not include money for librar-ies, computer or technology labs, athletic facilities and capital costs.

“Among the most difficult testimony presented to this committee is that, right now, across this country, there are uncounted numbers of First Nations children and youth who are receiving an educa-tion vastly unequal to their non-First Nations neighbours,” said Senator Lillian Dyck, dep-uty chair of the Senate Com-mittee on Aboriginal Peoples. “Alarming drop-out rates and poor academic performance continue to compromise the future of many First Nations youth. In some instances, we heard that children will attend schools that are crum-bling, infested with black mould or that are situated on contaminated land. Most of these children will learn from textbooks that neither reflect who they are or speak to them of who they can become. In time, some will be lost to themselves, to their families and communities, and to this country.”

Toulouse said it is clear for all to see that the funding of First Nations education has been sorely inadequate for many years.

“It is false for the govern-ment to imply funding is not the problem --- it is, and this is clear in their own reports and evaluations,” Toulouse said. “This is fact. Now is time for action to address the funding inequities and to finally pro-vide a first class education for First Nations children.”


ᐃᒪ ᐅᒋ ᐸᑭᑭᓂᑲᓂᐠ 1ᐅᑭᐊᐧᐸᒪᐣ ᒧᑕᑯᓇᐠ ᔑᐟ

ᐁᔭᐱᓂᐨ , ᓱᓴᐣ ᐅᑭᐊᔭᒥᐦᐊᐣ ᒥᑕᐡ ᑲᐃᔑᐊᐧᐸᒪᐨ ᐁᐸᑲᑫᓂᒧᓂᐨ ᒥᓇ ᓴᑲᒪᐨ ᐃᑯ ᐁᐃᔑᔭᐨ . ᓇᐸᓀ ᐅᐃᐧᐣᑲᐧᓂᐠ ᑭᒥᐣᑭᐃᐧ ᒥᓇ ᑭᒪᑭᓭ ᑲᐱᒧᓭᐨ . ᒪᐡᑭᑭᐃᐧᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᓇᑫ ᐅᑭᐃᐧᐣᑕᒪᐊᐧᐊᐧᐣ ᔑᐟ ᐅᐃᐧᒋᐊᐧᑲᓇᐣ ᐁᑭᐱᑯᑲᓀᒐᐱᔑᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐅᐳᐣᑲᓂᐠ ᐁᑭᐸᓴᓀᓯᓂᐠ.ᐊᐱ ᑕᐡ ᑲᑫᒋᓇᐁᐧᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ

ᐅᐱᒥᓭᐣ ᐁᑲ ᐁᐱᒪᑎᓯᓂᐨ, ᑲᑦᐳ ᐅᑭᐃᐧᐣᑕᒪᐊᐧᐣ ᑭᓯᑯᐣ ᑭᔭᐱᐨ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᐱᐣᒋᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᐣ ᐁᐊᔭᐊᐧᐨ.�ᔕᑯᐨ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐊᐃᐧᔭ

ᒋᐅᒋᐊᐧᑲᐃᐧᐨ,� ᐃᑭᑐ ᑭᓯᐠ.ᐅᑕᓇᑭᑲᑫᐧ ᐊᑕᐁᐧᐦᐊᓇᐊᐧ

ᓂᐦᓱᒥᓯᐟ ᐁᐊᐱᑕᑯᓀᓂᐠ ᑯᓇᐣ ᐁᔭᐸᒋᐦᐊᐊᐧᐨ , ᒧᒋᓂᐨ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᐱᐣ ᑕᑭᓯᒋᑲᓀᓯᓂ ᑲᑭᒥᑲᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᐱᐃᐧᓯᓂᐠ . ᑭᓯᐠ ᐃᑭᑐ ᐁᑭᐁᐧᒪᒥᑲᐃᐧᐨ ᑕᐱᐡᑯᐨ ᐃᑯ ᐁᐱᑭᓴᐊᐧᐱᔑᐠ , ᔕᑯᐨ ᑫᑕᑕᐃᐧᐣ ᑯᑕᑭᔭᐠ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᑕᑕᑯᐱᓇᐦᐅᐊᐧᐠ ᐁᑭᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᑯᐨ ᐁᔭᑕᐁᐧᐦᐃᑫᐨ.ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᐧᐁᐧ ᔑᐟ ᐃᐧᐸᐨ

ᒋᔭᓂᑲᑫᐧ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐨ ᒪᐡᑭᑭᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐠ. ᑭᓯᐠ ᒥᓇ ᑯᑕᑭᔭᐠ ᐅᑭᐳᓯᐦᐊᐊᐧᐣ ᑭᓯᐠ ᐅᑎᐢᑭᑐᒥᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᐱᐣ ᐃᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᐡ ᐅᑭᐃᔑᑕᐸᓇᐊᐧᐣ ᒪᐡᑭᑭᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐠ. ᐱᓇᒪ ᑭᐱᐦᐅᐊᐧᐠ , ᐃᑭᐧᐁᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᒪᐡᑭᑭᐃᐧᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᒥᓇ ᒪᐡᑭᑭᐃᐧ ᐊᓄᑭᓇᑲᓇᐠ ᑫᐃᐧᓇᐊᐧ ᑭᐅᐣᑕᒣᑎᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᑭᐃᔑᐸᐣᑭᓯᐠ ᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᐣ.ᐊᐱ ᒪᐡᑭᑭᐃᐧᓂᓂ

ᑲᐱᑕᑯᔑᐠ ᒥᓇ ᔑᐟ ᑲᑭᐃᐡᑲᐧ ᒪᒣᒋᑲᐦᐃᐨ , ᑭᓯᐠ ᑭᑭᐁᐧᐱᓱ ᐁᑭᓇᒋᐃᐢᐯᑐᐁᐧᐨ ᒥᓇ ᐅᑕᐸᓇᑲᐧᐣ , ᒋᐱᑭᐁᐧᑕᐸᑌᓂᐠ ᐅᐱᒥᓭ ᐅᐃᐧᔭᐤ ᐃᒪ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ , ᒥᐊᐱᐣ ᑲᐃᔑᒪᒋᐱᓱᐨ ᑲᑭᐃᔑᐸᐣᑭᓯᓂᐠ ᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᓂ , ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑭᐊᔭᐊᐧᐠ ᐃᒪ ᐁᑲᑫᐧᐊᑕᐁᐧᐦᐃᑫᐊᐧᐨ . ᑭᓯᐠ ᐃᑭᑐ ᓇᐣᑕ ᐱᑯ ᒥᑕᓱ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᐃᒪ ᑭᐊᔭᐊᐧᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᔐᒪᐠ ᐅᑭᒪᒪᓂᐱᓇᐊᐧᐣ ᐃᐢᐯᑕᐣ ᐁᑭᐊᐃᔑᐁᐧᐱᓇᐊᐧᐨ ᑯᓇᐣ ᐁᔭᑕᐁᐧᐦᐊᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᓂ , ᐃᒪ ᑕᐡ ᐊᓇᒥᐠ ᑭᐅᐣᑕᑯᓀᓂ.ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᑕᐡ ᑲᓇᑫ ᓇᐣᑕ

ᒋᐅᒋ ᐃᓇᐸᑕᓂᐠ ᐊᓇᑭᑲᑫᐧ ᐊᑕᐁᐧᐦᐃᑫᐊᐧᐨ.�ᒥᐢᑕᐦᐃ ᑯᐣ

ᐊᓇᐃᔑᐁᐧᐱᓇᔭᐠ , � ᑭᓯᐠ ᐃᑭᑐ . �ᓇᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᑯ ᑲᔦ ᐣᑕᓇᑭ ᒋᐸᐧᑯᓇᑭᔑᒪᒥᐣ , ᔕᑯᐨ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᒋᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᐊᑕᐁᐧᐠ , ᒥᐱᑯ ᑲᐃᔑᓂᐣᑭᓱᐨ ᑯᐣ . ᒥᑕᐡ ᐃᑯ ᑲᐃᔑᐱᒥ ᐱᐢᑲᓀᐠ.�

ᒥ ᐣ ᒋ ᓇ ᐁ ᐧ ᓯ ᐃ ᐧ ᐣ ᐅᓇᑭᐡᑲᓇᐊᐧ

ᐊᐱ ᑭᓯᐠ ᐅᑕᐁᐧᒪᐣ , ᐁᓫᐁᐣ , ᐁᑭᔐᐸᐊᐧᓂᐡᑲᓂᐨ ᐃᐁᐧ ᑲᑭᔐᐸᔭᓂᐠ, ᔐᒪᐠ ᐅᑭᐊᐧᐸᐣᑕᐣ ᐁᑭᒋᐱᐊᐧᓂᐠ . ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᑯ

Federal money helps Kashechewan continue work on housingRick GarrickWawatay News

Kashechewan is looking to build new houses over the next two years thanks to a $3.25 million investment from the federal government.

The new houses will help the growing need for shelter that Kashechewan Chief Jon-athon Solomon said comes as a result of a rapidly growing population.

“We are one of the fastest growing communities along the coast; there’s over 40 kids born every year,” Solo-mon said.

Solomon said the invest-ment would allow skilled tradesmen from the commu-nity to build quality homes for the people who need them.

The chief noted that his community is currently draft-ing a short-term housing strategy to address the most critical priorities, which include overcrowding and homes that are too old.

“It cannot be resolved overnight because, just like any other First Nation, we have a long list of people that require housing,” he said.

The federal money is part

of an on-going commitment to implement a 2007 agree-ment calling for redevelop-ment of a healthy and sus-tainable community at the community’s present location on the Albany River near the west coast of James Bay.

“This investment will allow the Kashechewan First Nation to make strides in addressing their hous-ing shortage,” said Aborigi-nal Affairs and Northern Development Canada Min-ister John Duncan in a press release. “This collaborative step shows that working together is delivering impor-

tant results for the people of Kashechewan.”

Solomon said the foun-dation work is “the killer in regards to the cost” but it needs to be done so the house will not begin falling apart in three to four years.

“When we do construc-tion, we have to do what we can to build a reliable quality home,” Solomon said. “When we build a house, we have to dig seven-eight feet down and then fill it with gravel. We have to scrape off the soil and the muskeg. You have to go down to the solid clay.”

The agreement to rede-

velop a healthy and sustain-able community was signed by Solomon, former INAC minister Jim Prentice and former health minister Tony Clement in 2007.

The plans called for a comprehensive community planning and redevelop-ment process to address pri-ority areas, including skills development, on-reserve housing, socio-economic sus-tainability, health programs and facilities, public safety, infrastructure development, remediation and mainte-nance and schools and com-munity facilities.

Jonathon Solomon

ᒣᒣᑫᐧᔑᐃᐧᓴᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂᐠ ᑲᑭᐸᐣᑭᓯᐠ ᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᐣ

ᐅᑭᐅᒋ ᒪᒥᑐᓀᐣᑕᒥᐦᐃᑯᐣ , ᑭᐅᓇᑌᓂᐸᐣ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓂᐠ ᒋᒪᒐᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᐁᐧ ᑲᑭᔑᑲᓂᐠ.

�ᐊᒥ ᑲᐃᓀᐣᑕᒪᐣ , ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐊᐃᐧᔭ ᑕᑭᒪᒐᓯᐣ ᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐅᐁᐧ ᑲᐃᔑᐁᐧᐸᐠ,� ᑭᐃᑭᑐ. ᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᒪ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᑭᒪᐃᐧ , ᐁᑲᐧ ᑕᐡ ᐅᑭᑲᓄᓇᐣ ᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᑫᐃᐧ ᐊᓄᑭᓇᑲᓇᐣ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐁᐱᐦᐅᓂᐨ ᐁᑲ ᒋᐸᑭᑎᓇᐨ ᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᐊᐧᑲᓇᐠ ᒋᐳᓯᐊᐧᐨ ᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᓂᐠ.ᒥᑕᐡ ᑲᑭᐊᐣᑕᐃᐧᔑ ᒪᑕᓄᑭᐨ

ᐁᑲᐧ ᐃᒪ ᐅᑕᓄᑭᐃᐧᓂᑲᒥᑯᐠ ᐊᔭᐸᐣ ᐊᐱ ᐯᔓᐠ ᐅᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᑫ, ᔕᓇᐟ ᕑᐁ , ᐁᑭᐱᑲᓄᓇᐨ ᐁᐱᐃᐧᐣᑕᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑭᐸᐣᑭᓯᐠ ᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᐣ.�ᕑᐁ ᐅᑕᓂᓴᐣ ᑭᐱᐳᓯᓂᑯᐸᐣ

ᐃᒪ ᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᓂᐠ,� ᐃᑭᑐ ᐃᓫᐁᐣ. �ᐣᑭᓇᑐᒪ ᒋᐱᔕᐨ ᑲᑕᓇᓄᑭᔭᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐁᑲᑫᐧ ᒪᒪᐡᑲᐁᐧᐣᑕᒪᐣ ᐯᑭᐡ ᐁᒪᒥᐣᒋᒥᓇᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐁᐊᔭᒥᒋᑫᑕᒪᐊᐧᐠ.�ᕑᐁ ᐅᑕᓂᓴᐣ ᑭᐃᔑᓂᑲᓱᐊᐧᐣ

ᒪᕑᑕ ᑲᑦᐳ , 38 ᑭᑕᓱᔭᑭᐃᐧᓀ ᐁᐧᑎ ᐃᐧᓂᐯᐠ ᑭᐃᔑᑲᐯᔑ . ᐊᒋᓇ ᐱᔕᑯᐸᐣ ᐁᐱᐃᐧᑕᓄᑭᒪᐨ ᐅᒪᒪᒪᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐅᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ

ᑭᐱᑕᓇᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᒣ ᓂᔑᑕᐃᐧᓂᔭᑭ.ᐊᐱ ᑲᐃᐡᑲᐧ ᑲᑭᒋᐦᐊᐨ

ᔕᓇᑐᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᐱᐣ ᐅᑭᔭᓂ ᑭᐁᐧᐃᐧᓇᐣ , ᒥᐊᐱᐣ ᐃᓫᐁᐣ ᑲᐃᔑᐃᔕᐨ ᑲᑭᐃᔑᐸᐣᑭᓯᓂᐠ ᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᓂ.ᐊᐱ ᐁᐧᑎ ᑲᔭᓂᑕᑯᔑᐠ ,

ᑭᐳᓂᒋᑫᐊᐧᐠ ᒋᐊᑕᐁᐧᐦᐃᑫᐊᐧᐨ . ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᑕᐡ ᒋᑭᐅᒋ ᑲᐡᑭᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᒋᐃᐧᑯᐱᓇᐊᐧᐨ ᑭᔭᐱᐨ ᓂᐦᓯᐣ ᒥᔭᐊᐧᐣ ᐱᐣᒋᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᓂᐠ.

ᓂᐃᐧᐣ ᑭᔭᐱᒋᔑᓄᐠ ᑲᑭᐸᐣᑭᓯᐠ ᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᐣ

ᐅᑭᒪᐠ ᐅᑭᐸᑭᑎᓇᓇᐊᐧ ᑲᐃᔑᓂᑲᓱᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᑭᐊᐱᒋᔑᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᒉᐣᐁᐧᕑᐃ ᐱᓯᑦ 12 . ᐅᑯᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑕᑯ ᐊᐦᐸᓴᐸᑎ ᒥᓇ ᑲᑦᐳ , ᑲᐧᓫᐁᐟ ᐊᔾᓯᐣᑯᕑ , 39 ᑭᑕᓱᔭᑭᐃᐧᓀ ᐁᐧᑎ ᓴᑭᐣᐠ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐠ ᒪᓂᑐᐸ ᑭᐅᒋ , ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐯᐣ ᐸᐣ ᐦᐅᐠ , 62 ᑭᑕᓱᔭᑭᐃᐧᓀ ᑲᕑᒥᐣ , ᒪᓂᑐᐸ ᑭᐅᒋ , ᒥᐅᑯ ᑲᑭᐊᐱᒋᔑᓄᐊᐧᐨ . ᔑᐟ ᐊᓂᐱᒥ ᒥᓄᔭᐊᐧ ᐃᒪ ᐃᐧᓂᐯᐠ ᐊᑯᓯᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐠ.ᐊᔑᐠ , ᐊᔾᓯᐣᑯᕑ ᒥᓇ ᐸᐣ

ᐦᐅᐠ ᑭᐊᓄᑭᐊᐧᐠ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ (ASI) , ᐃᐧᓂᐯᐠ ᐃᔑᑕᑲᐧᐣ ᐃᐁᐧ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᔓᓂᔭᐃᐧ ᐊᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᐅᒋ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᑕᒪᐃᐧᑕᐧ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ . ᐃᑭᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᓂᔑᐣ ᑭᐅᓇᒋᑫᐊᐧᑯᐸᐣ ᐯᔑᑯᑯᐣ ᐁᑕ ᐃᒪ ᒋᐊᔭᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᐱᐣ ᒋᑭᐁᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᓇᑯᔑᓂᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᑯᑕᑭᔭᐠ ᐊᑎᑯᓴᑲᐃᑲᓂᐠ ᒋᔭᓂᔕᐊᐧᐨ.ᒣᒣᑫᐧᔑᐃᐧᓴᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂ ᐅᑭᒪᑲᐣ

ᕑᐃᑕ ᑕᐧᑦᓴᐣ ᐃᑭᑐ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᑯ ᑭᒋᑯᐡᑫᐧᐣᑕᒧᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᓇᑭᐡᑲᓇᐊᐧ ᑲᑭ ᐊᐱᒋᔑᓄᐊᐧᐨ.�ᑲᐃᐧᓂᐣ ᒋᐅᒋ

ᐱᐃᐧᑌᐃᐧᐊᐧᐨ . ᒥᔑᓄᔭᑭ ᓂ ᑭ ᐱ ᐃ ᐧ ᑕ ᓄ ᑭ ᒥ ᑯ ᒥ ᐣ , � ᑕᐧᑦᓴᐣ ᐃᑭᑐ . �ᑫᑲᐟ ᐃᑯ ᓂᐊᐧᑯᒪᑲᓂᓇᐣ ᓂᑭᐃᓀᓂᒪᒥᐣ.�ᐃᓫᐁᐣ ᑭᓯᐠ ᐃᑭᑐ ᐅᐱᒥ

ᓄᒋᐦᐃᑯᐣ ᑲᑭᐊᐧᓂᐦᐊᐨ ᐊᔾᓯᐣᑯᕑ , ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑭᔭᓂ ᒥᓄᐃᐧᒋᐃᐧᑎᐊᐧᐸᐣ.ᑭᓯᐠ ᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑭᔭᐱᐨ

ᐅᐊᐧᐃᐧᐣᑕᒪᐊᐧᐣ ᐅᐃᐧᒋᐊᐧᑲᓇᐣ ᐊᓂᐣ ᑲᑭᐊᐃᓇᐱᔑᐠ ᐃᐁᐧ ᑲᑭᔑᑲᓂᐠ . ᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᐸᐱᒪᑎᓯᐨ , ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᐧᑲ ᐅᑐᐣᒋᐃᓀᑕᓯᐣ ᐅᐁᐧ

ᒋᐃᔑᓇᑭᐡᑲᐠ.�ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᓂᑭᐅᒋ ᐃᓀᑕᓯᐣ

ᒋᑲᐡᑭᑐᔭᐣ ᐅᐁᐧ ᑲᑭᑐᑕᒪᐣ ᐃᐁᐧ ᑲᑭᔑᑲᐠ,� ᑭᐃᑭᑐ. �ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᔦ ᒋᑭᑫᐣᑕᒪᐣ ᐊᓂᐣ ᑲᐃᔑ ᒪᒥᑐᓀᑕᒪᐣ ᐃᐁᐧ ᐊᐱ, ᓂᑭᑐᑕᐣ ᐃᑯ.�ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᑫᐠ

ᐅ ᑭ ᐱ ᐸ ᑭ ᑎ ᓇ ᓇ ᐊ ᐧ ᐅᐊᐧᒋᔦᒥᐁᐧᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᐃᒪ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐊᐧᑯᒪᑲᓇᐠ ᑲᑭᐊᐱᒋᔑᓂᐨ.ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ

ᑭᒋᐅᑭᒪᑲᐣ ᐢᑕᐣ ᐯᕑᑎ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ : �ᓂᒪᒥᑐᓀᓂᒪᒥᐣ ᒥᓇ ᓂᑕᔭᒥᒋᑫᑕᒪᐊᐧᒥᐣ ᐅᐱᒥᓭ , ᑲᑭᐳᓯᐊᐧᐨ ᒥᓇ ᑲᑭᓇ ᒣᒣᑫᐧᔑᐃᐧᓴᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂᐠ ᑲᐅᒋᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᓇᑭᐡᑲᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᑯᐡᑫᐧᐣᑕᒧᐃᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑭᒋᐊᓂᒣᐣᑕᒧᐃᐧᐣ.�ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᑲᓇᑕ ᑭᒋᐅᑭᒪᑲᐣ

ᔕᐧᐣ ᐁᐃᔓᐟ ᐊᐟᓫᐃᐅ ᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᑭᐱᒋᓂᔕᐦᐊᐣ ᐅᒪᓯᓇᐦᐃᑲᐣ.� ᓂ ᒪ ᒥ ᑐ ᓀ ᓂ ᒪ ᒥ ᐣ

ᒥᓇ ᓂᑕᔭᒥᒋᑫᑕᒪᐊᐧᒥᐣ ᐅᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᑫᐠ ᒥᓇ ᑲ ᑎ ᐯ ᐣ ᑕ ᑯ ᓯ ᐊ ᐧ ᐨ ᒣᒣᑫᐧᔑᐃᐧᓴᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂᐠ , ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᓂᒋ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᒪᐠ ᒥᓯᐁᐧ

ᒋᕑᐃᑎ 9 ᒥᓇ ᒋᕑᐃᑎ 5 ᑲᑐᑭᓂᑯᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᐁᐧᓂ ᐊᓂᒣᐣᑕᒧᐃᐧᓂ,� ᐃᑭᑐ ᐊᐟᓫᐃᐅ.

ᐱᒥᓇᓇᑲᒋᒋᑲᑌ ᑫᑯᓀᐣ ᑲᑭᐅᐣᒋᐸᐣᑭᓯᐠ

ᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᑭᒪᐠ ᑭᔭᐱᐨ ᐅᓇᓇᑕᐃᐧᑭᑫᑕᓇᐊᐧ ᑫᑯᓀᐣ ᒪᔭᑦ ᑲᑭᐅᐣᒋᐸᑭᓯᐠ ᐃᐁᐧ ᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᐣ . ᐃᑭᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔕᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᐅᑭᒪᐅᐣ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔕᐠ ᑭᑲᓇᐁᐧᐣᒋᑫᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᑭᐃᔑᐸᐣᑭᓯᐠ ᐸᓂᒪ ᐅᓇᓇᑕᐃᐧ ᑭᑫᐣᒋᑫᐠ ᑲᑕᑯᔑᓄᐊᐧᐨ (TSB) ᒥᓇᐊᐧ ᑲᔭᓂᐊᐧᐸᓂᐠ.ᐊᐧᐁᐧ ᑲᓂᑲᓂᐡᑲᐠ

ᓇᓇᑲᒋᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐱᑐᕑ ᐦᐃᓫᑎᑊᕑᐊᐣᐟ ᐃᑭᑐ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᑯ ᑕᔭᓂᒪᐣ ᒪᔭᑦ ᒋᑭ ᑭᑫᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᑫᑯᓀᐣ ᑲᑭᐅᒋᐸᐣᑭᓯᐠ , ᐊᓂᐡ ᐁᑲ ᐁᐅᒋᐊᔭᐠ ᐃᐁᐧ ᐱᐣᑎᑫᐁᐧᓯᒋᑲᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐃᒪ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐊᔭᓯᐣ ᒥᑎᑯᑲᐣ ᑲᐅᒋ ᑭᑭᓄᔑᓄᒪᑲᑭᐣ ᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᓇᐣ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᐱ ᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᐧᓂᐯᐠ ᑲᐅᒋᒪᒐᒪᑲᐠ , ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᐧᑲ ᐯᔑᑲᐧ ᒋᑭᐅᒋᐃᔑᑭᑐᐨ ᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐠ.ᑭᐢᑐᐣ ᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᑭᑐ

ᐊᐧᐁᐧ ᑲᑭᐊᐱᒋᔑᐠ ᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᓂᓂ ᐊᐦᓴᐸᑎ ᒥᓂᑯᐠ ᐊᔕ 2 ,400 ᑎᐸᐦᐃᑲᐣ ᑭᐅᐣᒋᐱᒥᓭ , ᒪᒪᐤ ᑕᐡ 150 ᑎᐸᐦᐃᑲᐣ ᑭᐱᒥᓭᐊᐧᑫ ᐃᐁᐧᓂ ᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᓂ ᑲᑭᐃᔑᐸᐣᑭᔑᐠ.ᐁᑲᐧ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᑲᓀᑎᔭᐣ ᑲᐅᒋ

ᐊᓄᑲᑌᐠ ᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐊᓄᑲᑌ ᐁᒪᒥᓇᐧᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᑫᐃᔑᓇᑲᐧᐠ ᐱᒥᓂᔕᐦᐃᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᓂᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᑐᑲᐣ ᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᓂᑯᑕᐧᓱ ᓇᐣᑕ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᒣ ᑲᐳᓯᐊᐧᐨ ᒋᐊᑯᑲᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᑫᐅᒋ ᑭᑫᐣᑕᑲᐧᐠ ᑭᐡᐱᐣ ᓇᐣᑕ ᐅᐣᒋᒪᒋᓭᐠ ᒥᓇ ᒋᒥᓇᐧᔑᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᒋᐸᔭᑌᔭᓄᑭᒪᑲᑭᐣ ᑫᐅᒋ ᑭᑭᓄᔑᒥᑯᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᐱᒥᓭᐠ ᐁᑲ ᐁᐧᓴ ᒋᒥᔕᑭᐦᐊᒧᐊᐧᐨ.ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᑭᐃᑭᑐᐊᐧᐠ

ᐅᐡᑭ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑲᓇᐣ ᒋᔭᓂ ᐸᑭᑎᓂᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐁᐧᓴ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ 1977 ᐊᑯᓇᐠ 2009, ᑲᑭᐱᒥᔭᐸᑕᑭᐣ , 35 ᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑭᒋᑕᑭᑯᑌᐊᐧᐣ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐁᐱᒥᓭᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᐱᒥᓭᐠ , ᐁᑲᐧ 100 ᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᐊᐱᒋᔑᓄᐠ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᒥᓇ 46 ᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᐃᐧᓴᑭᔑᓄᐠ.ᒣ ᒣ ᑫ ᐧ ᔑ ᐃ ᐧ ᓴ ᑲ ᐦ ᐃ ᑲ ᓂ ᐠ

ᑲᑭᐸᐣᑭᓯᐠ ᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᐣ ᒥᐦᐅᐁᐧ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᒥᔑᐣ ᑲᑭᐅᒋ ᐊᐱᒋᔑᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᐁᐧᑎ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᓀᑲᐱᐦᐊᓄᐠ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᐊᑯᓇᐠ 2003 ᑲᔭᑭᐊᐧᐠ , ᐊᐱ ᐊᐧᓭᔭ ᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᐱᒥᓭ ᒥᓇ ᓂᐦᓴᐧᓯ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᐁᐧᑎ ᓂᐱᓇᒥᐠ ᑲᐅᒋᐊᐧᐨ , ᐊᔑᐨ ᐅᓇᔓᐁᐧᐃᐧᓂᓂ , ᑲᑭᐊᐱᒋᔑᓄᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᐃᒪ ᓭᐢᓇ ᑫᕑᐊᐸᐣ C208 ᑲᑭᐸᐣᑭᓯᑭᐸᐣ ᒥᑕᓱᑎᐸᐦᐊᑲᐣ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᐊᐧᐸᓄᐠ ᐃᓀᑫ ᓂᑲᑌ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ.

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Wahgoshig case sets precedent for First Nations, says lawyerBy Shawn BellWawatay News

The lawyer behind Wah-goshig First Nation’s (WFN) successful court action against a gold mining company says the decision in the case will serve as a precedent for other Ontario First Nations Ontario in conflict with mining companies on tra-ditional land.

Kate Kempton, a lawyer with Olthuis Kleer Townshend LLP, said the injunction against Solid Gold Resources sets the bar higher in forcing companies to conduct meaningful consulta-tion with First Nations before exploration work starts.

“We think (this decision) does set and strengthen injunc-tion laws for First Nations,” Kempton said. “The judge was very clear that the parties have to engage in a bona fide, mean-ingful consultation and the pro-cess has to include accommoda-tion.”

Ontario judge Carol J. Brown ruled on January 4 that Solid Gold had to stop its exploration work on WFN land. The judge gave the company 120 days to conduct meaningful consulta-

tion with the First Nation. WFN filed for an injunction

against Solid Gold in December after the company refused to halt drilling or exploration work while government-ordered con-sultation between the two sides took place.

Wahgoshig’s Chief David Babin said the community first discovered Solid Gold on its traditional lands in the spring of 2011.

“We are very pleased with this decision,” Babin said. “We feel that justice has been done. Exploration and other compa-nies across Canada will hope-fully recognize that Aboriginal and treaty rights really mean something and that the courts will not let our rights be tram-pled on by unilateral actions and failures of industry and government.”

Solid Gold had argued dur-ing the court case that Treaty

9 lands were surrendered long ago, so that WFN had no claim to those lands. The company also argued that the Ontario Mining Act provides for “free entry” to the lands, entitling Solid Gold to proceed with its exploration work.

Under terms of the injunc-tion Solid Gold, WFN and the government of Ontario were ordered to engage in consul-tation and the company was ordered to accommodate the First Nation’s interests during the consultation process.

The judge noted that WFN is entitled to seek an extension of the injunction if it is not sat-isfied with the outcome of the consultation.

Ontario ministry of North-ern Development and Mining spokesperson Adrian Kupesic said the government plans to release new regulations on the duty to consult with First Nations under the Mining Act later in the year.

In the meantime, Kupesic said, the government is “con-stantly looking to bring both sides to the table.”

So far, consultations between the two sides have not started.

“We feel that justice has been done.”

–Chief David Babin

Photo submitted by Wahgoshig First Nation

Wahgoshig First Nation Chief David Babin speaks at a rally in Toronto before his band’s court case against Solid Gold Resources. Wahgoshig was awarded an injunction against the gold mining company. The judge gave Solid Gold 120 days to conduct “meaningful” consultation with the First Nation.


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Verbal sparring over Attawapiskat continuesThird party manager costing band $1,300 a day, despite being banned from community

Shawn BellWawatay News

The war of words between the leadership of Attawapiskat and the federal government continued as northern Ontario rang in the New Year.

The first volley of 2012 came on January 4, when Mush-kegowuk Council accused the federal government of putting Attawapiskat’s essential ser-vices at risk. Mushkegowuk noted that the federal govern-ment transferred $1.5 mil-lion of education monies from the council’s accounts to the accounting firm BDO Dun-woody.

“The First Nation is now con-cerned that payroll and other essential payments will not be made,” Mushkegowuk stated in a press release.

Aboriginal and Northern Affairs (ANAC) Minister John Duncan responded the next day by accusing the leadership of Attawapiskat of withhold-ing information. Duncan said the money for essential ser-vices – including teacher’s sal-aries – will be paid out when the third-party manager is provided with “the necessary

information from the Chief and Council.”

Duncan’s statement prompted a lengthy, angry letter from Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence.

“The issues for my First Nation and all other remote First Nations are similar,” Spence wrote. “The govern-ment of Canada has repeatedly ignored the real issues and for those who choose to speak out is penalized with a Third Party instrument to quell and silence us.”

The crux of the conflict rests on the third party manager appointed by the federal gov-ernment to oversee Attawapis-kat’s chief and council.

Meetings in December between Spence and Duncan failed to come to a resolution

on the third party manager. Following the last meeting between the two leaders Spence filed a court injunction against the third party manager. In the meantime the manager has been banned from the commu-nity, and is working from Win-nipeg.

Attawapiskat’s council said the third party manager is cost-ing them $20,000 a month in salary.

“Why should my First Nation be paying $1,300 a day for some firm to issue payroll cheques for my First Nation with our already limited Band Support Funding?” Spence asked in her letter to Duncan. “We do not need a high priced manager to issue cheques, because we are capable of issu-ing cheques and managing our business affairs.”

Spence also stated that she believes the third party man-ager has been put in place to “decimate” the band’s adminis-trative structures and eliminate the band’s local capacity.

She called Duncan’s decision to install the third party man-ager a “knee jerk reaction” to the questions of opposition MPs in Parliament.

“Why should my First Nation be paying $1,300 a day for some firm to issue payroll cheques?”

-Chief Teresa Spence

photo by Johan Hallberg-Campbell Attawapiskat Chief Teresa Spence has taken the federal government to task for forcing her band to pay $20,000 a month for a third party manager. Spence said the third party manager has been put in the posi-tion to “decimate” the band’s administrative structures and eliminate the band’s local capacity.


Donations and support pour in; Red Cross plan to stay long-term


Support from across Canada contin-ues to pour into Attawapiskat.

Leading up the holidays, commu-nities from across Canada held dona-tion drives and fundraisers to support Attawapiskat. Drives calling for needed clothing, supplies and Christmas gifts were organized by citizens in commu-nities such as Timmins, Ottawa, Six Nations, Peterborough, Toronto, Thun-der Bay and Winnipeg.

The Canadian Red Cross raised $300,000 in donations by Dec. 9, most of which went to purchasing the sup-plies directly for the community. Sup-plies included sleeping bags, heaters, generators and industrial laundry equipment, among other things.

The Canadian Union of Public Employees donated $5,000 and orga-nized a drive to provide heaters and blankets.

The Baagwating Community Asso-ciation, the charitable arm of the Great Blue Heron Charity Casino, donated $100,000 for the Ontario Volunteer Emergency Response Team (OVERT) to assist the community. OVERT arrived in Attawapiskat on Jan. 5 to provide equipment, supplies and assis-tance to the community.

Now in the new year, fundraising drives for Attawapiskat go on.

A benefit concert headlined by rock-blues musician Derek Miller is sched-uled to take place Jan. 19 in Toronto.

Another fundraising drive to buy furniture for the modular homes is being coordinated by the EHL Homes (the builders of the modular homes),

True North Aid and the office of Char-lie Angus. This fundraiser has received a $5,000 donation from the Union of Taxation Employees in Ottawa.

To provide morale support, Aborigi-nal musician Tom Jackson performed in the community over the holidays.

Community resident and council member Jerry Nakogee is impressed with the amount of support the com-munity has received from other Cana-dians.

“If I were the prime minister, I would be embarrassed,” he said.

The Canadian Red Cross is planning to bring new woodstoves to replace old ones used by a number of community members.

The Red Cross was the first outside organization to respond to the housing crisis, as it began to provide emergency relief in late-November.

While the volunteer organization says it has completed its main task or providing immediate short-term aid to ensure the safety and well-being of the 25 families living in shelters, it is co-ordinating the repairs needed to the healing lodge and plans on having a long-term presence in the community.

“We are in discussions with the com-munity to create a permanent presence in Attawapiskat in the form of having a well-trained disaster response volun-teer team in the community,” said Red Cross Media Manager Karen Snider in an email to Wawatay. “So while we will not have a role related to this cur-rent emergency once the shelter is up and running, we expect a long future partnership with Attawapiskat going forward.”

Red cross workers give out supplies to children living in a trailer in Attawapiskat. The Red Cross says it still plans to bring wood stoves into the community, although the bulk of its relief efforts are finished.

‘Monumental shift in thinking’ needed, says national chief AtleoRick GarrickWawatay News

National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo raised the growing awareness of First Nation realities after visiting Attawapiskat just before Christmas.

“We see with the situation in Attawapiskat a growing awareness within Canada and internationally of the urgent needs in our own back-yard, and the importance of working with First Nations to develop long-term solutions to a system that is bro-ken,” Atleo said Dec. 21 after visit-ing Attawapiskat Dec. 20 along with Mohawk Council of Akwesasne Grand Chief Mike Kanentakeron Mitchell, Ontario Regional Chief Angus Tou-louse, Olympian and IndigenACTION ambassador Waneek Horn-Miller and Don Morrison of the Debbie and Don Morrison Family Foundation.

“It is a monumental shift in thinking when we have sixth-graders in a city like Ottawa, reaching out to their peers

almost 1,000 kilometers away. We must take this thinking, and the kind donations by many Canadians through the Red Cross and other initiatives to other First Nation communities, and continue to quicken the rate and pace of change for our peoples and all of Canada to realize the true potential of this country.”

Atleo said real reconciliation and real change will not come without action, noting First Nations have built a strong foundation and are ready to move forward to achieve real change for their people and communities.

“We look forward to 2012 and to a meeting between the Crown and First Nations with a specific focus on resetting the relationship and mutu-ally designed approaches and plans,” Atleo said. “Healthy, stable and secure communities are thriving communi-ties. Through respect and meaningful engagement, we take action to move forward on reconciliation and a better tomorrow for all.”

Life goes on in Attawapiskat


Attawapiskat has become a house-hold name across Canada, since the attention of the country focussed on the James Bay community in Novem-ber 2011.

From outpourings of donations from across the country, to continuous media coverage, to political responses from all parties, Attawapiskat has finally received the attention that a five-year-old housing struggle war-rants.

Yet while the federal government and Canadian citizens have reacted to the housing crisis facing Attawapiskat First Nation with temporary housing and donations, some residents say nothing has changed in the commu-nity.

“Right now, there’s little change in regards to housing,” said Attawapiskat resident Lindy Mudd.

Mudd’s grandmother, Theresa Fireman, has often been talked in the media as one of the 89-years-old Elders who lives in one of the tent frame shelters.

When the federal government finally reacted to the housing crisis more than a month after the state of emergency was declared, it announced that funding would be provided for the construction and transportation of 22 modular homes and the repairs to three other homes that are in disre-pair. In the meantime, the government announced it would provide funds to repair the Jules Mattinas Heal-ing Lodge, which has been closed for years, so that the residents in immedi-ate need of housing would have ade-quate shelter.

And while some community mem-bers have began to move in the healing lodge, Mudd said not all are willing to make the move.

“The people who really need the houses, they don’t really want to move to the healing lodge,” he said, adding that his grandmother is among them.

With the healing lodge being located about three kilometers outside the community, Mudd said those in need of a house are reluctant to move there due to a lack of transportation, with the band council only providing snow-mobile as transport.

“It’s not good for an Elder,” he said.The community’s housing manager,

Monique Sutherland, said that two vehicles assigned to transport resi-dents between the healing lodge and the community are undergoing repairs, and that she has been using her own vehicle to help with transportation.

Mudd said his grandmother contin-ues to stay in the tent frame shelter in relative comfort, as Red Cross volun-teers have brought in insulation pads and other needed supplies.

While most of the needy in the com-munity have had help from the dona-tions flooding in from across Canada, others remain on the outside looking in.

Pauline Nakogee is on the band list

“We’re still struggling with housing. There’s a long list of people.”

- Councillor Jerry Nakogee

to receive a new house in the com-munity, but she still feels she should have been “part of the housing crisis” and included with the other 22 fami-lies who are set to live in the modular homes.

Nakogee’s house burned down in 2006 when she was out of town. She has lived mostly at her mother’s since then.

Her mother’s house has four bed-rooms in the basement, but Nakogee said they were damaged by a series of sewage backups beginning in 2004, rendering them inhabitable. Now Nako-gee shares the remaining upstairs bed-room with at least five other people.

When the state of emergency was declared and the band council was col-lecting names of the community mem-bers who need immediate housing, Nakogee was upset that her name was not on the list.

“I said, ‘What the (heck) is this, I’m not even included in this housing cri-sis?’” Nakogee said. “I’m homeless, and have these grandkids and my children and I don’t think anyone ever heard me.”

When council members told her

she was next in line to receive a new house, Nakogee brushed it off since they’ve continually given her move-in dates and nothing was done.

“They’ve been telling me, ‘Oh, you’ll get a new house in October,’ ‘Oh, you’ll get a new house in June,’” she said.

While Nakogee and Mudd wait for more changes to happen, band coun-cilor Jerry Nakogee agrees that not much has changed in the community. He said donations continue to come in and they are receiving morale support from Canadian citizens.

“Other than that, we’re still strug-gling with housing,” he said. “There’s a long list of people. But we got some-thing (modular homes), which is bet-ter than nothing, I guess.”

The 22 modular homes, which were constructed in New Brunswick, began to arrive in Moosonee in early January by rail and are awaiting the opening of the James Bay winter road for trans-port to Attawapiskat.

Meanwhile the community’s politi-cal situation also remains stagnant. Technically Attawapiskat is being run by a third party manager, but that fed-eral government official has been

OPPOSITE PAGE: School children hop aboard for the daily trip home from school.TOP: Red Cross workers and community volunteers deliver supplies to a home. While donations continue to come in, the bulk of aid to address immediate needs has finished.ABOVE: A man tows a sled with fresh water towards his home.BELOW: A birds eye view of Attawapiskat. The community is waiting on the opening of the James Bay ice road to get the 22 mod-ular homes purchased by the federal government. The homes are waiting in Moosonee. Meanwhile a healing lodge has been renovated to house up to 25 people, but many elders are hesitant to move in because the lodge is three kms from town.

The media spotlight that surrounded Attawapiskat for much of the past two months has started to fade. For the people who live in the James Bay commu-nity, it is back to living as they always have, without the glare of the camera crews. Now the question remains: has anything changed in Attawapiskat?

banned from the community and is working from Winnipeg.

And nothing has changed on the status of the legal injunction that Chief Teresa Spence and her council brought against the federal government over the third party manager, despite some harsh words from the chief in a letter to Aboriginal and Northern Affairs Minister John Duncan earlier in 2012.

The First Nation noted it is being forced to pay a $20,000 per month sal-ary of a manager it did not ask for out of a budget already stretched thin.

“Why should my First Nation be pay-ing $1,300 a day for some firm to issue payroll cheques for my First Nation with our already limited Band Support Funding?” Spence asked in her letter to Duncan. “We do not need a high priced manager to issue cheques, because we are capable of issuing cheques and managing our business affairs.”

So while the immediate needs for emergency supplies in Attawapiskat were met, the verdict remains out on whether all the attention given to the community will result in the long-term change so desperately needed.

Photo by Christopher Kataquapit, special to Wawatay

Photo by Johan Hallberg-Campbell with Canadian Red Cross

Photo by Johan Hallberg-Campbell with Canadian Red

Photo by Johan Hallberg-Campbell with Canadian Red Cross

Photo by Johan Hallberg-Campbell with Canadian Red


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Battle lines drawn on nuclear waste storageShawn BellWawatay News

As the list of northern Ontario com-munities interested in having nuclear waste buried in their section of the Cana-dian shield grows longer, First Nations in the North are readying for a fight.

The latest volley was launched on January 6, when Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) repeated its stance of having no nuclear waste buried any-where in northern Ontario.

“We have a mandate from the Cre-ator to protect our lands and waters and have been doing so for thousands of years,” said NAN Grand Chief Stan Beardy. “Nuclear waste is a poison that will damage our homelands.”

Beardy told Wawatay News that NAN’s stance is a reaction to the fact that First Nations are being ignored when it comes to selecting a site for the planned nuclear waste storage facility.

NAN’s statement came after the Anishinabek Nation announced its opposition to nuclear waste being bur-ied in northern Ontario.

Combined, the two organizations represent 88 First Nations in Ontario.

Although a decision on where to bury nuclear waste may be still years away, communities across northern Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan have started exploring the possibility of accepting the spent fuel rods – and the jobs that follow the waste.

The list of northern Ontario commu-nities expressing interest in hosting the nuclear waste storage facility includes Wawa, Ear Falls, Elliot Lake, Blind River, Ignace, Nipigon, Schrieber and Horne-payne. Saugeen Shores in southern Ontario and three Saskatchewan com-munities have also expressed interest.

Clearly there is an economic ben-efit to being the host site. The Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) – the body tasked with find-ing a host site – has stated that there will be hundreds of skilled jobs at the site while the estimated $24 billion

facility is constructed. The organization also stated that

spending over the first 30 years of the facility’s lifespan could total $200 mil-lion per year, mostly in the host commu-nity. Plus the host community has been promised a “center of expertise” on nuclear power, bringing more high-pay-ing technical jobs to the selected region.

Beardy knows that the economic development potential is attractive for the people of northern Ontario, where the struggling forestry industry has left many communities without their main lifeline. But he insists that the long-term risks outweigh the short-term gains, and that if communities look beyond the pos-sibility of jobs and money they will real-ize the drawbacks of storing radioactive material for thousands of years.

“When First Nations people talk about existence, we always speak of the next seven generations,” Beardy said. “The communities are looking at the benefit of immediate jobs, but in the long term it is unknown what is going to happen to the environment.”

Engagement with First Nations

NWMO spokesperson Mike Krizanc told Wawatay that while engagement with First Nations has been ongo-ing since 2002 when the NWMO was formed, active discussions on a specific site only begins after a potential host community expresses its interest.

The first step from the NWMO is to send a letter to neighbouring First Nations, and the treaty organization representing them, informing them that a nearby community has expressed

interest in hosting the nuclear waste facility. Krizanc said that more in-depth engagement with the First Nation would begin as community visits are held and the process moves into feasi-bility studies for a specific site.

In the meantime he said potential host communities are encouraged to contact

neighbouring First Nations to inform them of the community’s intention.

Krizanc also noted that actual consul-tation with First Nations on a nuclear waste storage facility is the responsibil-ity of the Crown. Although that respon-sibility may be delegated to NWMO, the consultation process will not start until

a site is selected, something that may take up to a decade to complete.

“We are hopeful that over the next while we can learn about and address the concerns of First Nations,” Kri-zanc said. “We believe it is important to have First Nation communities fully informed and, in particular, those who are neighbours to the potential site.”

Michipicoten: ‘Not in our backyard’

Michipicoten First Nation is one of the “neighbouring” First Nations get-ting so much attention. The First Nation is located just down the road from Wawa – one of the potential host communities – sharing the same water source as the municipality that wants to see a nuclear storage facility.

Michipicoten Chief Joe Buckell has seen this debate before. First in the 1980s and then in the 1990s, his tra-ditional lands have been targeted as potential nuclear waste storage sites.

For Buckell, the decision is easy. His community has always opposed nuclear waste in the region, and noth-ing has changed.

“We get a bad feeling about this thing,” Buckell said. “We don’t know what the long-term effects for our land and community are.”

Buckell said that officials from Wawa sent letters and phone messages to his band office before signing the list of potential host communities. Michip-icoten did not respond.

“We don’t even want to give them the idea we’re entertaining it,” Buckell said. “As far as supporting it, no way. They’re not going to get any traction from First Nations.”

Buckell’s stance is very similar to that of Beardy’s. Both leaders insist that First Nations are unified against having any form of nuclear waste depository in northern Ontario. And as both made clear, their position has not changed for decades, despite the desire from leaders across northern Ontario municipalities to bring nuclear waste north.

“We get a bad feeling about this thing.”

– Michipicoten Chief Joe Buckell

Graphic courtesy of Nuclear Waste Management OrganizationThe plan for a deep geologic disposal site involves burying used nuclear fuel rods in the Canadian shield, 500-1000 meters below ground. According to the NWMO, the used fuel would be transported from nuclear reactor sites, and then transferred into corrosion-resistant containers that would be placed in rooms excavated in the rock over a period of 30 years.


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Calls for inquiry on missing and murdered Aboriginal womenRick GarrickWawatay News

Mishkegogamang’s Tom Was-saykeesic welcomes a United Nations call for an inquiry into missing and murdered Aborigi-nal women after a recent inves-tigation into his mother’s 1976 death failed find anything new.

“To me, there was no smok-ing gun,” said the Mishkeegoga-mang councillor about the Ontario Provincial Police’s 2011 investigation into Sophie Was-saykeesic’s death in Central Patricia, now part of Pickle Lake. “We’re talking about witnesses who are no longer around. Those who are still alive can’t really recollect anything.”

Wassaykeesic and his three

brothers were disappointed after meeting with representa-tives from the Coroner’s office and the OPP in Thunder Bay in late December. The original verdict in Sophie’s death still stands: death by asphyxiation.

“My brother Ernie was asking for closure,” Wassaykeesic said. “He still gets nightmares about 1976 in Central Patricia. He was looking for closure and he never got it.”

Although the OPP investiga-tion did not find a new cause regarding his mother’s death, Wassaykeesic said there are other women from his com-munity who have gone missing over the years.

“My next-door neighbour, his mother disappeared back in

1992 in Sioux Lookout and she has never been found,” Wassay-keesic said. “I’m sure my next-door neighbour wonders what ever became of his mother.”

Wassaykeesic also noted that Rena Fox, a long-time employee of the Office of the Register General in Thunder Bay and his brother Gary Wassaykeesic’s

half sister, was found deceased on the outskirts of Thunder Bay in 2003.

Nishnawbe Aski Nation Deputy Grand Chief Mike Meta-tawabin and the NAN Women’s Council also welcomed an inquiry into missing and mur-dered Aboriginal women in Canada.

“It is too often that our moth-ers, daughters, sisters and grandmothers face death in such a tragic way,” Metataw-abin said. “The way which all levels of government, includ-ing the policing and the justice system, have treated our sisters is horrendous. If these crimes occurred in a middle class sub-urban neighbourhood, you can be rest assured that an inquest

would have been completed years ago.”

In October 2011 the UN Committee on the Elimina-tion of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) made the decision to initiate an inquiry, following a call by the Native Women’s Association of Canada and the Canadian Feminist Alli-ance for International Action. Over the past two decades, more than 600 Aboriginal women and girls have gone missing or been murdered across Canada.

“It’s time we take the govern-ment to task on how they treat Aboriginal people and women in particular, especially when Canada has been called to task by the CEDAW,” said Jackie

Fletcher, spokesperson for the NAN Women’s Council. “Can-ada is a signatory to the CEDAW convention, therefore they need to put into action what the con-vention states and not do what the government of the day pro-poses.”

CEDAW decided to initiate an inquiry procedure under article 8 of the Optional Protocol of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women based on infor-mation it had received.

CEDAW stated in a Dec. 16 press release it had not decided whether it would conduct a visit at this initial stage of the process, and is currently not in a position to provide additional information in this regard.

“It is too often that our mothers, daughters, sisters and grand-mothers face death in such a tragic way.”

– Mike Metawabin

Chris KornackiWawatay News

A drug investigation is on going in Weagamow Lake where a quantity of controlled drugs and large amounts of cash were seized from a residence in the First Nation community.

On Jan. 6 as a result of information received from the community, the OPP organized crime enforce-ment bureau, drug enforce-ment unit, OPP canine unit and the Sioux Lookout com-munity drug action team exe-cuted a controlled drug and substances search warrant in Weagamow Lake.

The cash and controlled drugs were seized, and the investigation is still on going.


A Kashechewan band member has been arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.

Kathy Kimberly Koosees, 32, was charged Dec. 29 after the Nishnawbe-Aski Police Ser-vice Drug Enforcement Unit with the assistance of the Fort Albany detachment and North East Region Crime Unit inter-cepted a shipment of drugs des-tined for Kashechewan.

Police seized a parcel con-taining about 61 grams of mari-juana with an estimated north-ern street value of $2,400.

Koosees was released on conditions and is scheduled to appear in court March 28 .

Drug busts in remote communities

Comedy Night in Thunder Bay

Rick Garrick/Wawatay NewsLake Helen’s Ron Kanutski is miked by Thunderstone Picture’s Michelle Derosier for a videotaping of his opening act at the Jan. 13 Stand Up Comedy Night in Thunder Bay. Kanutski plans to use the videotape to promote his comedy act to agents and other comedy venues.


Hydro One Remote Communities Inc. (“Remote”) has applied to the Ontario Energy Board (the “Board”) for permission to increase its delivery charges beginning May 1, 2012. The application was filed on November 25, 2011 under section 78 of the Ontario Energy Board Act, 1998, S.O. 1998, c.15 (Schedule B), under the Board’s guidelines for 3rd Generation Incentive Regulation Mechanism which provides for a mechanistic and formulaic adjustment to distribution rates between cost of service applications.

Remote indicates that if the application is fully approved, the monthly bill for a year-round Residential customer (R2) who consumes 1,000 kWh per month would increase by about $0.38. The monthly bill for a General Service Single Phase customer consuming 13,000 kWh per month would increase by about $5.41.

For additional information on billing items visit the Consumer page of the Board’s website at www.ontarioenergyboard.ca.

The Board has assigned the application File No. EB-2011-0175. The Board’s decision on this application may have an effect on all of Remote’s customers.

How to see Remote’s ApplicationTo see a copy of the application, go to the Consumer page of the Board’s website and enter the case number EB-2011-0175 in the “Find an Application” box. A copy can also be seen at the Board’s office and at the applicant’s office at the addresses indicated below, or on the applicant’s website http://www.hydroone.com/RegulatoryAffairs/Pages/2010HORC.aspx.

Written HearingThe Board intends to proceed with this matter by way of a written hearing unless a party satisfies the Board that there is a good reason for not holding a written hearing. If you object to the Board holding a written hearing in this matter, you must provide written reasons why an oral hearing is necessary. Any submissions objecting to a written hearing must be received by the Board and copied to the applicant within 10 days of the publication or service date of this notice.

How to ParticipateYou may participate in this proceeding by requesting either intervenor or observer status, or by submitting a letter of comment:

1. Intervenors participate actively in the proceeding (i.e., submit written questions, evidence, and arguments, and cross-examine witnesses at an oral hearing). You may request intervenor status by sending a letter of intervention to the Board and copying the Applicant no later than 10 days from the publication or service date of this notice. The letter of intervention must include:

a. A description of how you are, or may be, affected by the outcome of this proceeding;

b. If you represent a group, a description of the group and its membership.

The Board does not intend to award costs in this proceeding as the applicant has only made proposals of a mechanistic nature within the Board’s guidelines.

2. Observers do not participate actively in the proceeding but receive documents issued by the Board in the proceeding. (There is no fee for observers to receive documents issued by the Board.) You may request Observer status by sending a request to the Board no later than 10 days from the publication or service date of this notice.

3. Letters of Comment are to be sent to the Board no later than 30 days from the publication or service date of this notice. All letters of comment will be placed on the public record, subject to the privacy terms for personal information stated below. This means that the letters will be available for viewing at the Board’s offices and will be placed on the Board’s website.

Interrogatories and Submissions

Board-approved intervenors or Board staff wishing information and material from Remote that is in addition to the evidence filed with the Board and that is relevant to the hearing shall request it by written interrogatories filed with the Board and delivered to Remote on or before January 20, 2012. Remote shall file with the Board complete responses to the interrogatories and deliver them to all intervenors no later than February 3, 2012.

Written final submissions by an intervenor or Board staff must be filed with the Board, and copied to all other parties, by February 17, 2012. If Remote wishes to respond to the submissions, its written response must be filed with the Board and delivered to all other parties by March 2, 2012.

YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IS TREATED DIFFERENTLY DEPENDING ON HOW YOU CHOOSE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE HEARING:

• Intervenors - everything you file with the Board, including your name and contact information, will be placed on the public record (i.e., the public file and the Board’s website).

• Letters of comment or observers - the Board removes any personal (i.e. not business) contact information from the letter of comment or the request for observer status (i.e., address, fax number, phone number, and e-mail address of the individual), however, your name and the content of the letter of comment or of the request for observer status will become part of the public record.

Filing Information for IntervenorsIf you already have a user ID, please submit your intervention request through the Board’s web portal at https://www.errr.ontarioenergyboard.ca. Additionally, two paper copies must be submitted to the address set out below.

If you do not have a user ID, visit the Board’s website under e-Filing Services and complete a user ID/password request form. For instructions on how to submit documents and naming conventions please refer to the RESS Document Guidelines found at http://www.ontarioenergyboard.ca/OEB/Industry, e-Filing Services.

The Board also accepts interventions by e-mail, at the address below. Additionally, two paper copies must be submitted to the address set out below. Those who do not have internet access are required to submit their intervention request in PDF format, along with two paper copies.

Need more information?For more information on how to participate please click on “Get Involved” under the “OEB and You” menu on the Consumer page of the Board’s website, or call the Board at 1-888-632-6273 (toll-free).

How to Contact the Board or Hydro One Remote Communities Inc.Please reference Board file number EB-2011-0175 in the subject line of your e-mail or at the top of your letter. It is also important that you provide your name, postal address and telephone number and, if available, an e-mail address and fax number. All communications should be directed to the attention of the Board Secretary at the address below, and be received no later than 4:45 p.m. on the required date.

IMPORTANTIF YOU DO NOT FILE AN OBJECTION TO A WRITTEN HEARING OR DO NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE HEARING BY FILING A LETTER IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS NOTICE, THE BOARD MAY PROCEED WITHOUT YOUR PARTICIPATION AND YOU WILL NOT BE ENTITLED TO FURTHER NOTICE IN THIS PROCEEDING.

ADDRESSES

The Board:Ontario Energy BoardP.O. Box 231927th Floor2300 Yonge StreetToronto, ON M4P 1E4Attention: Board SecretaryFilings: https://www.errr.ontarioenergyboard.caE-mail: [email protected]: 1-888-632-6273 (Toll-free)Fax: 416-440-7656

NOTICE OF APPLICATION AND HEARING ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION RATE CHANGE

HYDRO ONE REMOTE COMMUNITIES INC.

The Applicant:Hydro One Networks Inc.8th Floor, South Tower483 Bay StreetToronto, ON M5G 2P5Attention: Mr. Pasquale CatalanoE-mail: [email protected] Tel: 416-345-5405Fax: 416-345-5866

Counsel for the Applicant:15th Floor, North Tower483 Bay StreetToronto, ON M2G 2P5Attention: Mr. Michael EngelbergE-mail: [email protected] Tel: 416-345-6305Fax: 416-345-6972

ONTARIO ENERGY BOARDOriginal Signed By

Kirsten WalliBoard Secretary

DATED at Toronto, December 16, 2011

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Energy strategy to be discussedRick GarrickWawatay News

Nishnawbe Aski Nation chiefs will be meeting Jan. 31- Feb. 2 in Thunder Bay to discuss energy needs, share challenges and develop an energy strategy.

“We’re bringing in the key players from the Aboriginal-First Nations side to help us connect the dots on what does the blueprint look like for energy development for NAN territory,” said Grand Chief Stan Beardy. “We’re trying to bring in all the players in one room and come up with a plan.”

The conference will be held at the Valhalla Inn, with day one featuring government presentations on various leg-islation, policies and regula-tions and day two featuring industry dialogue.

NAN is looking for commu-nity representatives, including chiefs and technical people, to develop energy strategies on

the third day of the conference.“How do we connect the

dots, how do we integrate all the planning that is already in place to make sure there is a clear path forward in terms of energy development,” Beardy said.

While different groups of First Nation corporations and communities have been devel-oping energy plans and strate-gies over a number of years, Beardy said they have not developed an overall snapshot of the energy potential or plans within NAN territory.

“Whoever controls energy development to a large extent will control what happens in terms of resource extraction activities within the far north,” Beardy said. “If the NAN com-munities, the NAN leadership, the NAN First Nations are in a position to develop energy, with their needs and other eco-nomic interests, it would have a strategic advantage.”

Beardy noted the mainte-nance and fuel costs for diesel-powered electricity genera-tion plants are becoming very expensive in NAN communities.

“The costs keep going up continuously and they are not necessarily environmentally friendly,” Beardy said.

Beardy said NAN has been researching energy concerns and opportunities over the past five to six years.

“We’ve looked at inter-pro-vincial connection with Mani-toba,” Beardy said.

“We’ve worked closely with the Ontario govern-ment in terms of their pol-icy development in regards to energy, for example the Ontario Green Energy Act. A lot of First Nations are on the ground doing research and planning, but now I feel is the time to bring all the different players together to begin to connect those dots: what does it look like?”

Fort Severn and Sandy Lake now feature new Nishnawbe-Aski Police Services stations, after ribbon cutting ceremo-nies on Jan. 11.

The stations were funded by partnerships between the federal and provincial govern-ments. For the Fort Severn station the federal govern-ment contributed over $1.2 million, while the provincial

government contributed over $1.1 million. In Sandy Lake the total cost of $2.1 million was split between the two levels of government.

“This new facility provides better working conditions for our police officers in their efforts to provide a safer com-munity for the people of Sandy Lake First Nation” said Chief Adam Fiddler of Sandy Lake.

Conservative MP Greg Rick-ford, representative for both communities, helped cut the ribbon on the new stations.

“The opening of these facil-ities will deliver a boost to the local economies and help to better ensure the safety of the residents in both these com-munities by providing modern policing infrastructure,” Rick-ford said in a press release.

Two new police stations open in northwestern Ontario

Fort Severn Chief Matthew Kakekaspan, Kenora MP Greg Rickford and Fort Severn com-munity members gather in front of the brand new Nish-nawbe-Aski Police Services facility. Sandy Lake also cut the ribbon on its new NAPS station on January 11.

Photo submitted by the office of MP Greg Rickford


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SIOUX LOOKOUT FIRST NATIONS HEALTH AUTHORITYElectronic Medical Records Project

EMR PROGRAM SPECIALISTInternal/External Posting

Full TimeLocation: Sioux Lookout, Ontario

Reporting to the Director of Health Services, the Program Specialist will provide program and technical expertise in all aspects of the set-up and maintenance of an electronic medical records management system. This will include training, coordination and implementation of all upgrades. Coordinate and carry out the communication plan to support the EMR system.

QUALIFICATIONS• Previous experience (minimum 2-4 years) in a Medical setting;• Experience and education in medical terminology;• Previous experience working with electronic medical records

an asset; • Possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills (both

verbal and written);• Possess strong computer skills.

KNOWLEDGE & ABILITY• Working knowledge of medical record management;• Ability to maintain effective working relationships;• Superior time management and organizational skills;• Ability to work independently in a fast paced work environment;• Ability to work under pressure and with tight deadlines; • Ability to provide training and facilitate individual or

group sessions; • Experience in developing policies and procedures.

Training will be provided to the specifi c Electronic Medical Records system.

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

Human Resources DepartmentSioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority

61 Queen Street, P.O. Box 1300Sioux Lookout, ON P8T 1B8

Phone: (807) 737-1802 Fax: (807) 737-2969Email: [email protected]

Closing Date: January 25, 2012

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

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

ADVERTISEMENTEXTERNAL POSTING

The Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service is taking applications to participate in the NAPS Auxiliary Constable Program. The program is geared to provide individuals the opportunity to gain valuable employment experience if they want a career in law enforcement.

Program Requirements The NAPS auxiliary members are required to perform a minimum of 20 hours of patrol per month for a minimum of six (6) months.Auxiliary members are able to commit the time and effort required inclusive of mandatory patrol and training.Auxiliary members to receive mandatory Firearms and Personnel Safety trainingAuxiliary members to attend additional special events as required.

Be nineteen (19) years of age or older.Be a Nishnawbe-Aski Nation citizen or citizen of Canada.Be of good moral character.Does not have a criminal record, or has one that would be eligible for a Pardon.Subjects will have to consent to pre-selection testing.Driver’s License not mandatory if in the process of obtaining a license.Has grade 12 Education, or GED (General Education Development), or is in the process of obtaining GED.

Applications may be downloaded from naps.ca If you are interested please submit your applications to:

Attention: Sgt. B.Baxter Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service309 Court Street SouthThunder Bay, ON P7B 2Yl [email protected]


HEALTH RECORDS COORDINATORInternal/External Posting

Term Full Time (1 year duration)Location: Sioux Lookout, Ontario

Reporting to the Operations Manager, the Health Records Coordinator provides overall coordination of Health Records services which include the transition from paper medical fi les to electronic medical records for the establishment and maintenance of health records in accordance with departmental, regional and legislative requirements.

QUALIFICATIONS• Health Information Management diploma or certifi cation; • Certifi cation with Canadian College of Health Records

Administrators;• Signifi cant work experience in Medical Records and/or

electronic medical records an asset;• Superior time management and organizational skills;• Excellent leadership skills; • Excellent analytical skills;• Strong computer skills.

KNOWLEDGE & ABILITY• Working knowledge of medical records management; • Ability to maintain effective working relationships;• Ability to work independently in a fast paced work environment;• Ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines; • Knowledge of the Privacy Act; • Experience in developing policies and procedures.





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EMPLOYMENTOPPORTUNITY

Finance Clerk Wawatay Native Communications Society (WNCS) is seeking an energetic, motivated and reliable individual for the position of Finance Clerk. Wawatay has the mandate to provide access to communication technologies and services to the people of the Nishnawbe-Aski Nation utilizing various media to preserve, maintain and enhance indigenous languages and culture.

Duties and Responsibilities:• Maintain all Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable invoices,

statements and vendor fi les in an up-to-date and orderly manner.• Generating and mailing of all A/R customer statements and

provide copies within one week of month end.• Process MasterCard and Visa transactions and provide copies

for the costumer and bank reconciliation fi les.• All data entry required for the invoice and payment modules of

a computerized accounting system and the maintenance of all required journals.

• Responsible for the maintenance of purchase orders and petty cash and the tracking, replenishing and reconciling as required.

• Prepare and process the biweekly payroll of all employees and the maintenance of all payroll records, personnel fi les and related documentation.

• Maintain, reconcile and fi le all staff travel advances, expense claims and monthly employee leave stats for overtime, sick and holiday leaves.

• Assist with the annual audit.• Be in charge of the company vehicle, including tracking and

maintaining vehicle keys and company gas cards.

Qualifi cations:• Minimum Grade 12 with 2 years experience in a computerized

accounting environment.• The ability to work independently, to meet deadlines and

maintain fi les and records.• Must possess good interpersonal communications skills and maintain

professional courteous relations with all coworkers and suppliers.• Valid Ontario Driver’s license.• The ability to speak Cree, Oji-Cree or Ojibway is an asset.• Successful applicant must pass a Criminal Reference Check

and must provide a copy thereof.

Location: Sioux Lookout, OntarioSalary: Commensurate with experience.Apply Before: Friday, January 27, 2011.

Please send resume and three references to:

Tabatha Jourdain, Finance/HR ManagerWawatay Native Communications SocietyBox 1130, Sioux Lookout, ON P8T 1B7Fax: (807) 737-3224

WNCS thanks those who apply. However, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.


HEALTH RECORD DATA CLERKS(5 POSITIONS)

Internal/External Posting Term Full Time (6 month Duration)Location: Sioux Lookout, Ontario

Reporting to the Health Records Coordinator, the Health Record Data Clerks are responsible for entering client records from paper medical fi les into electronic medical record fi le(s).

QUALIFICATIONS• Successful completion of post secondary education in

Offi ce Administration; • Two years minimum of Offi ce Administration experience; • Experience working in a health or medical offi ce; a

defi nite asset; • Advanced computer skills; • Experience with medical data systems an asset; • Profi cient oral and written communication skills; • Good time management skills• Travel may be required.





Phone: (807) 737-1802Fax: (807) 737-2969

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FIVE NATIONS ENERGY INC.

JOB POSTING SECRETARY/RECEPTIONIST

Five Nations Energy Inc. is seeking a Secretary/Receptionist for their Timmins offi ce; and will be responsible for overall reception, and offi ce support to various departments. Job responsibilities will include the following:

• Perform support functions requiring the exercise of considerable independent judgment, a high level of confi dentiality, and thorough knowledge and adherence of Five Nations Energy Inc.’s policies and procedures.

• Answer the telephone, take messages and/or refer caller to the appropriate source for assistance.

• Filing of invoices, reports, and various other documents.• Maintain offi ce supply inventory and order supplies as required.• Prepare purchase orders, as required.• Maintain Petty Cash Fund.• Pick up and sort/distribute mail to appropriate departments.• Perform Bank deposits, as required.• Operate standard offi ce equipment in the performance of

job duties. • Provide offi ce support for other departments, as required.• Perform other related duties as required, or as the

situation dictates.

Qualifi cations: • High School Diploma• College diploma in Offi ce Administration or a related discipline.• One or more years of work experience in an offi ce setting.• Demonstrated knowledge of computers; Microsoft Offi ce’ ie:

Word; Excel; e-mail; and use of internet as a research tool.• Ability to maintain confi dentiality, respect of company’s ethics.• Must be reliable, and have ability to plan, organize workload.• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.• Must possess a valid Ontario driver’s license.• Ability to speak Cree an asset.• Familiarity with the First Nation communities affi liated with Five

Nations Energy Inc.

Please forward cover letter and resume outlining your qualifi cations/experience by:February 10, 2012 at 4:30 pm to:

Ms. Lucie Edwards, Chief Executive Offi cer By fax: 705-268-0071 or by e-mail to:adminassistant@fi venations.ca

Note: We thank all who apply, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.


KWG Resources Inc. is look-ing to help raise funds for the founding of student residences at Dennis Franklin Cromarty (DFC) First Nations High School in Thunder Bay.

The company, involved in a drilling program at Cliffs Natural Resources Ring of Fire chromite deposit, plans to have investors donate flow-through shares to the United Way of Thunder Bay, for use by DFC students.

“The purchasers of the flow-through shares will donate the shares to the United Way of Thunder Bay,” said Theresa Okimaw-Hall, executive direc-tor of KWG’s transportation subsidiary Canada Chrome Corporation and former chief of Attawapiskat. “The funds derived from their sale will then be made available for the acqui-sition, furnishing and mainte-nance of residences for students attending the Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School.”

Frank Smeenk, president and CEO of KWG, developed the funding strategy after dis-

cussing the DFC residence issue with Tom Kamenawatamin, president and CEO of Wasaya Group Inc., who told him about some of the business plans DFC students had developed.

“Some of their ideas are really neat,” Smeenk said. “They want to have a residence of their own with two students in each room.”

Smeenk also noted that his company’s business with Webequie slowed down last year while the search for Jor-dan Wabasse was going on, as many of the community’s lead-ers were helping in the search. Wabasse went missing in Febru-ary 2011 and was found in the Kaministiquia River in May.

“I came to understand this wasn’t the first time, in fact, it goes on on an almost annual basis,” Smeenk said. “It kind of struck a chord. I was going to buy some more flow-through shares and I thought that per-haps Cliffs (Natural Resources) would want to participate in this with me.”

Smeenk has already started the process by donating flow-through shares in KWG he had already purchased to the

United Way of Thunder Bay in late December 2011 before he purchased more flow-through shares.

Now Smeenk is looking for other people or companies to make additional flow-though share donations to the resi-dences through the United Way of Thunder Bay. He noted that it works as a charity deduction for tax purposes.

“If you buy flow-through shares, you get to deduct the value of the investment from your taxable income,” Smeenk said. “But when you sell flow-through shares, you realize a taxable capital gain. The exception to that is if you give away flow-through shares you bought before, you don’t have to include the value of that gift in your income, but you also get to deduct it from your income.”

Smeenk and M.J. (Moe) Lavi-gne, vice president exploration and development with KWG, are together guaranteeing the first 10 per cent of the donations.

“What I’ve really done is given about a quarter of a mil-lion dollars to a charity that would have otherwise gone to Ottawa.”


Mamow Obiki-Ahwahsoowin“Help care for our children, Help care for our future.”

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Tikinagan Child & Family Services has a great need for foster homes. We are looking for dedicated people who are able to provide a home and meet the needs of a child in care. There are a number of different types of Foster Homes, which can be specifi c to meet a child’s needs.

Specialized Foster Homes: For children that would require more care and attention.

Regular Foster Homes: Short or Long term placements for children.

Emergency Foster Homes: For children on an emergency basis.

Tikinagan Child & Family Services is committed to keeping our Children within our Communities, but we need your help in order to make this happen.

Please contact us today if you are interested or need more information regarding how you can be a part of helping a child.

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Stock sales to benefit First Nations high school residence

Car deal spins donations to DFC initiativeRick GarrickWawatay News

Wasaya Group Inc. has a car deal for you, or more accu-rately, DFC.

For every vehicle purchased from three car dealerships in Winnipeg, $300 will be donated to Wasaya Wee-Chee-Way-Win Inc. to provide programs and initiatives for Dennis Franklin Cromarty First Nations High School students in Thunder Bay.

“We made the first sale last week,” said Wasaya Group president and CEO Tom Kamenawatamin, noting the first customer was a police offi-cer from Sioux Lookout. “We will be looking at all of our sub-sidiary companies to get their vehicles from there.”

Wasaya Group partnered with Mid-Town Ford Sales Ltd., Waverley Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ltd. and Gauthier Cadil-lac Buick GMC in Winnipeg to provide a convenient way for people to purchase a new or used vehicle based on Wasaya Group’s preferred pricing.

“We need to do this because the initiatives we have here are not really covered by the gov-ernment,” Kamenawatamin said. “The only option I had was to approach businesses for the youth initiatives.”

Kamenawatamin has a long

list of businesses he will be approaching in the future to help with the youth initiatives.

Kamenawatamin said the car dealerships will offer cus-tomers under the program the same price as offered on their websites.

“The cost of the vehicle won’t jump,” Kamenawatamin said. “We have talked to them exten-sively how important it is if we want to do this fundraising with them that the customers are satisfied.”

Customers just need to tell the car dealership they want to buy their vehicle through the Wasaya program to become involved in the $300 donation

initiative.The development of a stu-

dent residence at DFC is the main initiative already identi-fied by students at DFC.

“They feel that if they had a residence right at the school site, they would feel more comfortable and safer,” Kamenawatamin said. “Right now they are all over the city and they feel it is not safe for them.”

Other identified initiatives include peer-to-peer leadership programs in the communities for students who will be going off to DFC for the first time, counselling services and spiri-tual services.

Rick Garrick/Wawatay NewsWasaya Group CEO Tom Kamenawatamin has plans to help Dennis Franklin Cromarty students raise money for their future residence.

Wawatay News file photoStudents at Dennis Franklin Cromarty high school in Thunder Bay have been pushing for a residence for the school. Now a company involved in the Ring of Fire has plans to help them fundraise.


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FN youth to run in BrazilChris KornackiWawatay News

On Sunday July 8, 2012, a group of dedicated First Nation partici-pants from northwestern Ontario will be going to Rio de Janeiro, Bra-zil to run in a marathon to help fight against diabetes.

“We just wanted to do something for the youth and get the youth involved with illnesses that are affecting our people,” Adrienne Morris, a Kitchenu-hmaykoosib Inninuwug band member said. Morris is running in the July mar-athon, along with her friend Anthony Esquega from Gull Bay.

“It was a spur of a moment decision,” Morris said about their decision to partic-ipate in the run. “AJ (Anthony) did team diabetes in Hawaii, so we researched it online and decided to do it.”

The two began organizing in Novem-ber and are currently raising funds to participate in the run. So far there are six others who are interested in run-ning the marathon with Morris and Esquega’s team.

Each member is seeking a goal of $6,100 to be able to participate and all proceeds go to Team Diabetes Canada. The deadline is June 2012, but each participant has to have $2,500 raised by March.

Currently the group is sending out info soliciting donations from

Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug and other Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) communities.

“It’s tough getting in contact with people and to have to chase people around. Sometimes it’s hard to get ahold of people up north,” Morris said.

The 42-kilometer marathon starts at Recreio dos Bandeirantes beach and ends at Flemengo beach in Brazil.

Participates can choose to run the full 42 kilometers, a half-marathon or do a six kilometer run.

Morris plans to run the half mara-thon.

Morris said she’s been walking and going to the gym more often in prep-aration. Also, she’s been jogging and doing more cardio activities.

In Canada, there are nine million people living with diabetes, includ-ing over a million people in north-western Ontario who are affected by type 1 and 2 diabetes. The disease is especially common among the First Nations population.

Morris’ mom has diabetes and her brother got it at age 12.

Morris said their goal is to raise awareness about diabetes and to get proceeds for Diabetes Canada.

“We’re just looking for funds and help,” she said. “Diabetes is so com-mon with Aboriginal people and a lot of them aren’t aware of this chronic illness.

Christmas meals delivered to EldersRick GarrickWawatay News

Fresh bannock topped off a surprise Christmas dinner served to 49 Elders in Mishkeegogamang.

“My wife made fresh bannock the day we delivered the meals,” said Nish-nawbe-Aski Police Service Senior Con-stable Mel Coles, who organized the preparation and delivery of the meals along with his wife Bonnie Coles.

“It was a very traditional Christ-mas meal; everything was made fresh right at the (Mishkeegogamang) band office.”

Mishkeegogamang Chief Connie Gray provided the band office kitchen space for preparation of the Christmas meals, which included roasted turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, mixed veg-etables, cranberries and gravy, while the Northern Store, Frontier Foods, Casuals Convenience and the Winston Motor Hotel donated the food.

Coles arranged for four of the six turkeys to be cooked by volunteers Glenda Verge, Emma Pashewan, NAPS Auxiliary Const. Michael Pelletier and NAPS Constable Kelly Marchand in their own homes the day before the meals were delivered.

“It’s imperative,” Coles said. “You can’t do it yourself. It’s far too much work.”

The Coles also cooked the other two turkeys in their own home, while about

40 pounds of potatoes, eight packages of stuffing and the gravy, cranberries and vegetables were cooked at the band office on the day of the delivery.

“My wife and I peeled all the pota-toes by ourselves,” Coles said. “It ended up that we had one turkey left over after the meals were delivered, but that turkey was donated to the Missabay Community School for the school lunch program.”

Coles said the Elders were surprised when the meals were delivered to their homes by Marchand and Ontario Pro-vincial Police Const. Diana Dauphinee.

“The police officers said they were met with a lot of smiles and hand-shakes — it was very well received,” Coles said. “As a police service, espe-cially as an Aboriginal police service, it is very important that we get involved

in our communities and become engaged. The reaction this year was absolutely fantastic and we’re look-ing forward to doing a little more next year.”

Coles and his wife also prepared Christmas meals for the Elders and shut-ins over the past five years during his previous posting in Poplar Hill.

“It’s very rewarding,” Coles said. “It’s nice to give back to the commu-nity; it’s nice for the community to see a different side of policing.”

Coles also coordinated a toy drive in partnership with members of the Pickle Lake OPP detachment and the Pickle Lake Northern Store on Dec. 17, which resulted in the delivery of 121 donated toys to Tikinagan Child and Family Services for under-privileged children and children-in-care.

Submitted photoMishkeegogamang elders got a surprise when they opened their door to find police officers on the front step. Instead of a ticket they got a turkey dinner.


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Building Aboriginal Women’s Leadership 2012Sunset Inn, Sioux LookoutFebruary 7-9, 2012

Aboriginal Women Leadersand Youth (Age 18-29)are invited to attend

Purpose: To recruit Youth for Leadership Training. Youth will train by participating as a co-

facilitator in the community workshops in Summer 2012.

Topics: • Building Aboriginal Women’s Leadership • Youth Leadership Training

• First Nations History • First Nations Governance

• First Nations Elections • Aboriginal Women Leaders/Role Models

• Leadership & Self Esteem • Public Speaking

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Registration Deadline: January 16, 2012 See the Registration form for details.

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Ottawa residents donate sports equipment to FNChris KornackiWawatay News

Residents in Ottawa have sent donations of new and used sports equipment for youth in four northwestern Ontario First Nations.

“We’ve been overwhelmed by the response” organizer Tony Belcourt said. “It started with just a few things and now we have U-Haul truckloads of donations.”

The donation drive began when Belcourt mentioned to Elder Peter White of Naotka-megwanning First Nation that he had extra sports equipment he wanted to give away. White remembered the kids in need in his community.

“I went to the skating rink and there were only about six kids skating and about 30 kids stand-ing around watching. I asked them why they weren’t skating and the kids said, ‘no skates’. It broke my heart. I’d like to get a hockey program and golf pro-gram started for the kids in my community. Many of our com-munity members simply don’t have the kind of money it takes to purchase all the equipment kids need to play sports like hockey and golf,” White said.

Belcourt began sending the call for donations out to local

friends via email and social media and within hours began receiving phone calls and emails of people wanting to donate equipment.

Shortly after the City of Ottawa, City Wide Sports, Canadian Tire, the Jump Start Foundation and the Ottawa Senators held their annual hockey equipment give-a-

way and they set aside hockey equipment for Belcourt to send to northwestern Ontario.

“It was great that the orga-nizers responded this way,” Bel-court said.

The donations were sent to Noatkamegwanning First Nation, Northwest Angle #33 and #37 and Onigaming First Nation.

Submitted photoCommunity members sort donations of hockey equipment gathered by residents of Ottawa to send to First Nations. The donations went to Noatkamegwanning First Nation, Northwest Angle #33 and #37 and Onigaming First Nation. In the end 14 Uhaul trailers were needed to transport the equipment. Below, youth in Noatkamegwanning try out some of the gear.

January 19, 2012

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