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Successful fall hunt in Bearskin Lake

Submitted photo by Ziggy BeardyTreyden Munroe was learning from the hunters in Bearskin Lake for the Severn River fall hunt. 62 hunt-ers in 31 boats participated in the hunt, with big cash prizes handed out. See more photos on page 6.

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As temperatures begin to drop to signify the emergence of fall and the upcoming winter, Attawapiskat First Nation is working to find housing for about 100 community members.

Earlier this year, a trailer complex housing about 100 residents was con-demned by the Mushkegowuk Tribal Council due to mould. The trail-ers were donated to Attawapiskat by DeBeers in 2009. Almost half of the occupants have moved out, most to the healing lodge that was converted last winter to a residence.

Attawapiskat acting chief Chris-tine Kataquapit said they are working with Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development of Canada (AANDC), Mushkegowuk, and third-party consul-tants to develop a short-term housing solution for the displaced community members.

“We’re calling it round two,” Kataquapit said, referring to last win-ter’s housing crisis that made national headlines after it was revealed that some community members were expected to spend the winter in sheds and tent frame shelters.

The federal government responded a month after the community declared a state of emergency by providing funds to ship 22 modular homes, upgrade houses and retrofit the heal-ing lodge.

This time around, the community is looking south for a housing solution after a survey was conducted.

“A lot of people are choosing to go down south,” Kataquapit said, adding that some want to stay. “We’ve asked the town of Moosonee to use their bar-racks. We’ve connected with Timmins Native Housing, as well as Schumacher and Kapuskasing.”

Kataquapit said the challenge is finding proper accommodations, “because we don’t want to put them in a hotel.”

The First Nation is meeting with AANDC this week in Thunder Bay to submit their proposal and discuss other possible solutions. They will also continue to speak with the southern municipalities.

The community is also developing a long-term housing strategy. Kataquapit said the community needs more than modular homes.

See Attawapiskat on page 3

Attawapiskat planning for housing crisis ‘round two’

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ᐊᐧᐊᐧᑌ ᐊᒋᒧᐃᐧᓇᐣ

ᔑᐸᐧᑲᒪ ᐅᑭᒪᑲᓇᐠ ᐅᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᑲᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐨ ᒪᑲᓇᐟ ᑭᓂᑲᐧᓇᐡ ᐅᐃᐧᑭᑫᑕᐣ ᑫᑯᓀᐣ ᐊᐧᐁᐧ ᑲᓇᑕ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᐱᒧᑕᒪᑫᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᒪᒋᑕᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑲᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᐃᑭᑐᐨ ᒋᑭᐡᑭᓇᐨ ᔓᓂᔭᐣ ᐃᒪ ᑲᐱᒥᐸᐸᑭᑎᓂᐨ ᐅᑭᒪᑲᓇᐠ ᐅᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᑲᐅᒋ ᐊᓄᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂ ᐊᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧ ᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ.

“ᒥᐱᑯ ᐁᑕ ᑲᐃᑭᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᓇᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᒣ ᒋᑭᑲᐧᑫ ᒥᓄᓭᓂᑭᐸᐣ ᑲᐃᔑ ᐱᒧᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐅᓄᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᐊᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐃᒪ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐠ ” ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᑭᓂᑲᐧᓇᐡ . “ᒥᓇᐦᐃᐁᐧᓂ ᑲᐃᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᔓᓂᔭᐣ ᒋᓇᓇᐣᑭᐸᑭᑎᓇᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓇᐣ ᑲᐃᔑᐊᔭᑭᐣ. ᒥᔑᐣ ᑭᔭᐱᐨ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ ᐊᔭᐊᐧᐣ ᑲᓇᑕᐁᐧᐣᑕᑲᐧᑭᐣ ᒋᑭᑲᑫᐧ

ᐸᔭᑌᐃᐧᐣᒋᑲᑌᑲᐧᐸᐣ.”ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᐱᒧᑕᒪᑫᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ

ᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᒪᒋᑕᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒐᐧᐣ ᑕᐣᑲᐣ ᐅᑭᐸᑭᑎᓇᐣ ᐅᑎᐸᒋᒧᐃᐧᐣ ᐊᐧᑌᐸᑲᐃᐧᐱᓯᑦ 4 ᑲᐃᓇᑭᓱ ᐁᑭᐃᑭᑐᐨ ᑕᐃᔑᒋᑫ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐣ ᒋᐸᑲᓇᒋᑫᐨ ᑲᐃᔑᐱᒥ ᐸᐸᑭᑎᓇᐨ ᔓᓂᔭᐣ ᐃᒪ ᐅᑭᒪᑲᓇᐠ ᐅᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐃᒪ ᑲᐅᒋ ᐊᓄᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂ ᐊᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧ ᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᐱᐣ ᑲᑭᐱᔑ ᐱᒥᓂᔕᐦᐃᑲᑌᑭᐸᐣ ᑕᐃᔑᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒋᑲᑌᓯᐣ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂ ᐊᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧ ᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ, ᑫᒋᓇᐨ ᒋᐃᓯᓭᐠ ᐃᓂᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᐊᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒋᐅᒋ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᒪᑲᑭᐣ ᐃᒪ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐠ ᑲᐱᒥ ᐸᑭᑎᓂᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᑫᐱᒥᔭᐸᒋᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᐃᐧᓇᐣ.

“ᐁᑲᐧ ᐅᓄᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᐸᐸᑲᐣ ᐊᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑲᓂᑲᓂ ᐱᒧᑕᒪᑫᔭᐣᐠ, ᐊᒥ ᑫᐃᔑ ᓇᑕᐁᐧᐣᑕᑲᐧᐠ ᒋᑲᑫᐧ ᒥᐡᑲᐧᑕᒋᑲᓂᐊᐧᐠ,” ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᑭᓂᑲᐧᓇᐡ.

“ᐊᐣᑎ ᑕᐡ ᑫᐅᐣᒋ ᑎᐸᐦᐃᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐅᓄᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᒣᑎᓂᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ. ᐊᒥ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐁᔑᓇᑲᐧᐠ ᐃᒪ ᐱᑯ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐠ ᐃᐧᓇᐊᐧ ᒋᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᐦᐃᑫᑕᒪᓱᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᓄᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᐅᑕᓄᑭᑕᒪᑯᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ. ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᔦ ᐅᔓᓂᔭᒥᓯᐊᐧᐠ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐠ ᐊᐣᑎ ᑕᐡ ᑫᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᑎᐸᐦᐊᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐯᔑᑲᐧᐣ ᒋᐃᓯᓭᓂᑭᐣ ᐅᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᑯᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᐃᒪ ᐱᑯ ᐃᐧᓇᐊᐧ ᑎᐱᓇᐁᐧ ᒋᐅᒋ ᐱᒧᑕᒪᓱᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐠ.”ᑭᓂᑲᐧᓇᐡ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᑭᐡᐱᐣ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓇᐣ

ᐊᓄᓇᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓄᑭᓇᑲᐣ ᑭᑫᐣᑕᓱᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᐊᔭᐊᐧᐨ ᒋᐊᓄᑲᑕᒪᑯᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂ ᐊᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧ ᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ, ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᑯ ᒥᐢᑕᐦᐃ ᐅᑲ ᑭᒋᒣᑎᓂᑫᐦᐃᑯᓇᐊᐧᐠ.”ᐁᑲᐧ ᑕᐣᑲᐣ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᐅᑭᒪᑲᓂ

ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐃᒪ ᑕᐅᒋ ᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒋᑲᑌᐊᐧᐣ ᐃᓂᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᒪᔭᑦ ᓂᔭᓇᐣ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂ ᐊᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧ ᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒋᐃᔑᐱᒥᓂᔕᐦᐃᑲᑌᐠ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᑲᐃᓇᑌᐠ ᔓᓂᔭ ᑲᐃᔑ ᐅᓂᑎᐱ ᐸᐸᑭᑎᓂᐨ , ᐁᑲᐧ ᔕᑯᐨ ᐅᑭᒪᑲᓂ

ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑭᔭᑦ ᐃᒪ ᑕᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᐊᓂᑫ ᐊᓄᑲᑌᐊᐧᐣ ᑭᐡᐱᐣ ᐃᒪ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐠ ᐃᑭᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᒥᐦᐅᐁᐧ ᐁᔑᓇᑕᐁᐧᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ, ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᑭᐡᐱᐣ ᑲᑭᓇ ᑫᑯᐣ ᐃᔑᓇᐦᐃᓭᐠ.ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐃᒪ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂ ᔓᓂᔭ

ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧ ᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᐊᓄᑲᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᑭᐃᑭᑐᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᓇᓄᑭᓯᐊᐧᐠ ᐃᒪ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂ ᐊᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧ ᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒋᐃᔑᐸᐸᒥᓯᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᐧᐁᐧ ᑕᐣᑲᐣ ᑲᑭᐃᑭᑐᐨ.

“ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂ ᔓᓂᔭ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧ ᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᐊᓄᑲᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᒪ ᑲᓇᑕ ᒥᓇ ᑲᐃᓇᑌᓂᐠ ᐅᑎᓇᓄᑭᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᐸᔭᑌᓇᑲᐧᓂ ᑲᐃᓇᔓᐊᐧᓂᑕᐧ ᐊᓂᐣ ᑫᐃᓇᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᐃᓀᑫ ᔓᓂᔭᐃᐧ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐱᑯ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧ ᓂᑲᓂᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᒋᐃᔑ ᐸᑭᑎᓇᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒋᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᐃᐧᑕᐧ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᑫᑭᔭᓄᒋ ᐃᐧᒋᑐᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒋᑭᔭᓂ ᑌᐱᓇᒪᓱᒪᑲᑭᐣ ᑲᐡᑭᐦᐅᐃᐧᓇᐣ ,”ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᑌᕑᐃ ᑯᐟᕑᐊᐠ , ᑲᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂ ᔓᓂᔭ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧ ᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᐊᓄᑲᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᒪ ᑲᓇᑕ.

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Brandon Ross (left) was one of the big winners in the Severn River Fall Hunt; Fall harvest festivals are gearing up (2nd from left); Bob Wells’ book on residential school gets released in 2nd edition (2nd from right); and Attawapiskat prepares for more housing shortages as winter comes.

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Shibogama criticizes cuts to tribal council fundingRick GarrickWawatay News

Shibogama First Nations Council executive director Mar-garet Kenequanash is questioning Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada’s plans to cut tribal council funding for band advisory services.

“They’re saying they want to improve efficiency and delivery at the community level,” Ken-equanash said. “Are they going to be increasing those funds for the communities? There are a number of questions that still have to be answered.”

AANDC Minister John Dun-can announced in a Sept. 4 statement that the ministry will be shifting the focus of

funding for tribal councils and band advisory services away from the requirement to deliver specific advisory ser-vices, in order to ensure that resources are directed toward the more efficient and effective delivery of essential programs and services.

“In terms of the different level of services that we are provid-ing, there has to be replacement of that,” Kenequanash said. “Who’s going to be covering those costs? It looks like now the communities are expected to be paying for those services. I don’t think the communities have those kind of dollars to provide the same level of services at the community level.”

Kenequanash said if the

communities have to use con-sultants to provide advisory services, it will be “very costly.”

Duncan’s statement said tribal councils will no longer be required to deliver the five spe-cific advisory services required under the existing funding for-mula, but tribal councils may continue to provide advisory services if mandated by their

members, provided that the requirements of the program have been satisfied.

Meanwhile, the Aboriginal Financial Officers’ Association announced that they do not provide advisory services as stated in Duncan’s statement.

“AFOA Canada and its chap-ters are very clear on its man-date of providing financial and management training to indi-viduals to assist in the capac-ity development for Aboriginal communities and organiza-tions,” said Terry Goodtrack, president and CEO of AFOA Canada. “AFOA is not in the business of providing financial advisory services at any level and have built a solid reputa-tion on training and certifica-

tion programs for financial managers and professional administrators.”

One of the other two orga-nizations specified in Dun-can’s statement, the National Aboriginal Economic Develop-ment Board also does not pro-vide advisory services for First Nation communities.

The National Aboriginal Economic Development Board was established in 1990 to provide strategic policy and program advice to the federal government on Aboriginal eco-nomic development.

National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo said severe cuts to First Nation organizations are the wrong move, particularly in light of key commitments across

the country and specifically by the federal government to work toward reconciliation.

“These funding reductions have the potential to create very serious negative impacts for First Nation families and in turn the broader community and all Canadians,” Atleo said.

Atleo said First Nation lead-ership has been very clear that critical services to First Nation peoples must not be impacted by budget cuts.

“First Nations demand an end to unilateral decisions that impact our people, urging a full and concrete commitment by government to implement First Nation rights and responsibili-ties as necessary to advance self-determination,” Atleo said.

Duty to consult called into question with judge’s decision on Wahgoshig mining caseShawn BellWawatay News

As a legal decision, the Sept. 4 finding that Solid Gold Resources will be allowed to appeal its case against Wah-goshig First Nation over mineral exploration on Wahgoshig’s tra-ditional land was hardly remark-able. It was simply a matter of a company asking for and receiv-ing approval to take its appeal to a higher, precedent-setting court.

The finding of the judge, how-ever, has the potential to have far-reaching consequences on whether mining companies have the duty to consult First Nations before conducting exploration on traditional lands.

Justice H.P. Wilton-Sie-gel’s ruling to give Solid Gold Resources leave to appeal took aim at the duty to consult – spe-cifically, whether Ontario can pass its duty to consult with First Nations to a mining company.

“I see no basis in the facts of this case for an imposition of a duty to consult on Solid Gold,” Wilton-Siegel wrote. “If the Crown wishes to delegate oper-

ational aspects of its duty (to consult First Nations) it … must establish a legislative or regula-tory scheme (to do so). The min-ing act does not presently con-tain such a scheme.”

The case stems from Wah-goshig’s efforts to block Solid Gold from exploring on its tra-ditional lands in an area thought to contain sacred burial sites.

Wahgoshig took the matter to court in January 2012 and won an injunction against the com-pany, forcing Solid Gold to stop its planned drilling program while consultation took place.

Rather than consult with the First Nation, Solid Gold responded by asking for a leave to appeal the decision. That leave was granted by Wilton-Sie-gel’s decision, meaning the case will now come before Ontario’s Court of Appeal.

While Wahgoshig’s legal council Kate Kempton of Olthius Kleer Townshend LLP noted that there is no precedence setting value to Wilton-Siegel’s decision, she said her legal team “com-pletely disagrees” with the rea-soning of the ruling.

“It’s not just a case about the

duty to consult,” Kempton said. “The company is infringing on Aboriginal Treaty rights by looking to explore in a location where there are known burial grounds and sacred sites. You can’t just infringe an Aboriginal Treaty right without justifying that infringement.”

Kempton will have the chance to present Wahgoshig’s case to the Ontario Court of Appeal sometime in the next few months. Solid Gold has already filed the papers bringing the case to the higher court.

In the meantime, another point made by Wilton-Siegel in the decision brought the case directly into the realm of the Ontario government’s new min-ing act.

Wilton-Siegel wrote that the current mining act does not contain anything to imply that a company can be held respon-sible to fulfill the Crown’s duty to consult with First Nations.

“The proposed amendments to the mining act, which have been passed by the Ontario Leg-islature but not yet brought into force, would have such a result,” he wrote.

Robert Merwin, the direc-tor, mining act modernization secretariat with the ministry of Northern Development and Mines, said that the new mining act will provide the Crown the ability to “delegate procedural aspects” of its duty to consult with First Nations.

Merwin explained that com-panies are often in the best posi-tion to describe their project and deal with the practical elements of consultation and accommoda-tion with First Nations.

He added that the new min-ing act ensures that the Crown helps facilitate the duty to con-sult by identifying which First Nations a company must consult with, providing capacity within the First Nation to support con-sultation and setting up an inde-pendent dispute resolution body to deal with instances where consultation does not satisfy both parties.

The new mining act amend-ments have been sent to a government committee for approval. A decision by the com-mittee is expected sometime this fall, Merwin said, at which time the new regulations will roll out.

Attawapiskat trailers con-demned, 100 homeless Continued from page 1

“We’re looking for some-thing that would last for a long time, not temporary,” she said. “They’re just trailers and they’re not going to last long.”

Last month, the community learned that its application with the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation for a loan to build 30 housing units could not be approved because AANDC Minister John Duncan would not sign off on it.

In an email to Wawatay News, AANDC spokesper-son Michelle Perron said the department was unable to sign off on the loan because the community “was not able to demonstrate the necessary capacity for the department to

support their loan application.”“We recognize that there

is a need to address housing issues in Attawapiskat over the long term and while hous-ing remains the responsibility of the First Nation, addressing the long-term housing needs of the community requires a long-term housing strategy,” Perron wrote. “We have offered repeatedly to assist the chief and council in developing that strategy.”

Kataquapit said the First Nation is now working with the federal government to develop the long-term strategy and plans on resubmitting the loan application. They hope con-struction of new houses will begin next year.

Photo submitted by Canadian Red Cross

Residents of this trailer complex in Attawapiskat are looking for housing after the building was condemned, adding to the housing pressures already facing the community as winter approaches.

“I don’t think the com-munities have those kind of dollars to pro-vide the same level of services at the commu-nity level.”

- Margaret Kenequanash


From the Wawatay archives

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Editorial

Road versus rail in the Ring of Fire

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ᓂᐢᑕᑦ ᑲᑭᒪᑕᓄᑲᑌᐠ 1974 ᐁᐅᒋᐊᓄᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᑭᐧᐁᑎᓄᐠᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᑕᐃᑦᔑᑫᐧᐃᓇᐣ. ᑕᓱᓂᔓᐱᒥᑯᓇᑲ ᐅᔑᒋᑲᑌ ᐧᐊᐧᐊᑌ

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With the Ontario govern-ment now acknowledg-ing that the north-south

access road into the Ring of Fire is solely going to be for industrial users – “for developers to go in and get ore and minerals back out”, as a government spokes-person said – it is time to look at whether a road is actually in the best interests of the north.

The debate over which way a Ring of Fire road should go, either north-south or east-west, framed much of the transporta-tion conversation around the development over the past few years. Certain First Nations chiefs expressed their skepticism that any road would ever be acces-sible for local people anyways, but their voices were generally ignored amid all the optimism around connecting communities to the highway system.

Then, earlier this year, the east-west road corridor that was proposed to connect Webequie, Wunnumin, Nibinamik and Neskantaga to Pickle Lake via a highway was blown out of the water. Ontario came out in sup-port of Cliffs’ north-south road proposal, seemingly without any debate over the merits of choosing north-south rather than east-west, but in reality with a decision based solely on cost. The east-west road’s main proponent, Noront Resources, changed its tune and decided that the north-south road is fine for its purposes too. Lost in the hubbub were the voices of the chiefs who had called for the east-west road to connect their communities. Ontario had showed clearly that it was much more interested in doing what was best for its big American mining ally than it was in helping First Nations meet their needs.

Now that any last hopes of using the Ring of Fire road to con-nect First Nations to the highway system seem to be gone, the very idea of building a road should be put up to consideration.

In Cliffs’ proposal, the com-pany estimates it will have to move 2.3 million tones of chro-mite out of its mine site per year, along the estimated 350 kilo-metre road. Considering that an average nine-axel tractor-trailer has a carrying capacity of 46 tonnes, it is going to take some-where around 50,000 truck-loads per year to move the ore south. A rough calculation shows that will be 140 trips each way over the road per day.

The effects of that much truck traffic are considerable, espe-cially when taking into account the estimated 250 trips each way

per year that a railway would need to make.

Numerous reports have clearly demonstrated the increased environmental impact of ship-ping by truck compared to rail. Trucks emit greater carbon diox-ide, greater nitrous oxide and greater sulfur dioxide than rail. One report on the environmental effects of freight prepared for the OECD Joint Session of Trade and Environmental experts, for example, found that shipping by truck has four times the impact on global warming than shipping by rail.

Besides the pollution caused by running that many trucks up and down the Ring of Fire access road, the impact on wildlife will also be severe. If the estimate of 140 truck trips each way per day is accurate, a point along the road will see a truck pass approxi-mately every five minutes. There is the potential for a lot of wildlife accidents with that much traffic travelling through untouched boreal forest.

Add to that the fact that the above calculations are based sim-ply on Cliffs’ estimates. Start fac-toring Noront into the road’s use, the effects of road versus rail get that much worse. And it is widely accepted that these two projects are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to mining in the Ring of Fire. The road versus rail debate is bigger than Cliffs.

Cliffs acknowledges that the environmental affects of using road to transport ore are much greater than rail. In its EA, the company states that “from an environmental perspective, transporting concentrate using conventional truck and trailer configurations along a dedicated all-weather access road provides few inherent advantages in com-parison to rail haul. Increased traffic volumes on the proposed access road is likely to increase wildlife/traffic conflicts (more so than rail), result in increased noise and air pollution, and associated impacts on climate change. However, the transport of concentrate from the Mine Site to a Base Case Transload Facility using the all-weather access road and trucks is significantly less costly, improving the economic viability of the project.”

Ontario has refused to con-sider transportation options that would have connected First Nations to the grid, and is now planning to limit who can use the road it is planning to help build, all in the name of helping a multi-billion dollar company get its project off the ground. The minimum that the decision makers can do now is mitigate the environmental effects of the transportation corridor. If local people cannot use the infrastruc-ture being built, at least the local environment should not have to needlessly suffer too.

I’ve gotten to know Canada pretty well as a journalist. Since it all started in 1979, I’ve

lived and worked in most of Can-ada’s major cities and I’ve expe-rienced a lot of what we’ve come to know as our cultural mosaic. I’ve spent time with a lot of differ-ent cultures and it’s been an out-standing thing. The idea you get of a unified yet diverse homeland is empowering.

But years ago, when I was rootless and looking for a peg to hang my life on, I got to know Canada pretty well too. You don’t have to have a college degree or a high paying job in order to find yourself in this country or get educated in how it works. What it takes is experience. The land is there to be experienced. When you allow yourself the time to be with it, she informs you of your place and your function. I didn’t

know that philosophy back then, I only understood that I had a hunger.

That hunger drove me out onto the roads to hitchhike. I wandered everywhere. I worked at a plethora of positions, none of which meant security or fortune but rather, a pay check, food and shelter. When the job ran out the road was always there beckoning and I always responded. I spent a long time with my thumb in the wind. I saw a lot of territory.

But in the early fall of 1975 after a fairly lucrative run of con-struction, factory and foundry work I could afford a car. It was a beat up old Datsun wagon, originally tan but freckled with rust. I set out to drive across the country. The run of work was over and I headed out as I’d done before to test the horizon and seek my fortune somewhere else. It was different as a motorist but the road still held that magnetic, gypsy appeal.

Well, that old car broke down outside of Elkhorn, Manitoba just as night was falling. I left it at the side of the road and walked to a service station. It was closed and it was dark by then so I bedded down in the box of a pickup truck

for the night. I feel asleep to the cries of coyotes and the smell of the wind rich with straw. The RCMP woke me early the next morning.

They didn’t like drifters or vagrants in Elkhorn so I was offered the choice of a job or jail. I took the job. I went to work as a field hand for a wheat farmer. There were about a dozen of us who shared a bunkhouse and we were from everywhere. My new friends were from places with names like Wandering River, Snag, Come By Chance, Sissiboo Falls and Moosehorn. They were Swedes, Hungarians, Chinese, Blackfoot and Cree. We worked hard all day and shared stories at night. It was a marvelous adventure.

Everyone came with stories that crackled with the light of the fire outside the bunk house and songs were sung while goatskins got passed along with the last of someone’s hash. The moon hung like a blind man’s eye throwing everything in that prairie night into a mazy, snowy blue. Then the voices stilled, the fire died and the lot of us stumbled to our bunks to dream of better days somewhere beyond the dry rasp

of wheat and the press of heat like an iron to your back and clouds of chaff in your nose.

We got paid out after ten days and the farmer drove us to town in his stake truck. We sat in the back and smoked and laughed. We were all young and adven-turous and filled with dreams. I smoked and watched the land sail by and wondered where I’d land next. I remember someone bumping my foot with the toe of a broken shoe and I handed off the smoke and watched him lean his head back against the wooden slat and exhale, the cloud of it vanishing back behind the truck like dreams born somewhere I never heard of before.

When we parted we exchanged promises to hook up somewhere again down the road. We never did but the memory has stuck with me.

See, this country we share is filled with stories. They come from every corner and they are carried by everyone from every stripe and color. Without them we are less. All of us. That’s what I learned around that fire out-side that bunkhouse in all those stories outside of Elkhorn, Mani-toba.

Elkhorn, Canadian memories

Shawn Bell

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Children’s views of residential school vary.

Robert P. Wells collected and published the stories of Esther Faries, Mary Elizabeth Tenniscoe, and Stanley Stevens who attended white-run schools.

Whether Wells chose the people as friends who wanted to tell their stories or to depict differences in residential schools is not known. The stories are different and activities at the schools created different responses.

All three began life on the land, listening to bird calls, learning the way of the land and water while living in harmony with family who followed seasonal activities. As Faries says, ‘The sun was our clock and nature our calendar.’

Stevens, who lived in the same community as Faries, attended an Indian day school where he was strapped six times on each hand within the first 15 minutes of the first day.

Faries and her two brothers were removed forcibly from their family to be housed at Pelican Lake Indian Residential School. On arrival she was stripped naked in front of others, her hair bobbed, and her new clothes from home were burned. That pattern worsened as the children did not know the rules and quickly knew fear of authority of the people in charge.

Tenniscoe’s mother was in hospital giving birth and

her father felt he would lose the only job and income they had. He took Tenniscoe and her sister to the nuns at the McIntosh Indian Residential School to be raised as their child for the next 11 years.

The circumstances of their arrival and acceptance by the staff at the church-run schools as their children appear to have defined their treatment by the nuns and priests and potentially their life situations.

While Wells has done an excellent job recording the three stories, as part of the book he attempts to inform readers about treaties and government

policies. He is misinformed in the views he presents about the ceding of lands and does not address the 60’s scoop as continued efforts by the government to erode family unity.

Wawahte: Indian Residential Schools -- Robert P. Wells (Trafford Publishing, Bloomington, IN; 2012; ISBN 978-1-4669-1717-0 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-4669-1719-4 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-4669-1718-7 (ebook); 173 pages; paperback $18.50 ($9.62 US for First Nations) and $28.50 ($14.82 US for First Nations))

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Severn River fall hunt

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The Severn River Fall Hunt was a big success, with 62 hunters in 31 boats heading out from Bearskin Lake on Sept. 19. The hunters returned to Bearskin Lake on Sept. 20 with their haul, and the commu-nity spent the next two days feasting. Brandon Ross, bottom left, was one of the big winners of the hunting competition. He and his hunting partner won $15,000 for their hunting prowess.

ᐃᒪ ᐅᒋ ᐸᑭᑭᓂᑲᓂᐠ 1“ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᓂᓇᐃᐧᐟ ᐣᑎᓇᓄᑭᓯᒥᐣ

ᒋᑐᑕᒪᐣᐠ ᑫᐃᔑᑭᑫᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᔓᓂᔭᐃᐧ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᐱᑯ ᐊᓂᐣ ᑲᐊᐱᑌᐣᑕᑲᐧᑭᐣ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐱᑯ ᐣᑭᐱ ᑭᑫᐣᑕᑯᓯᒥᐣ ᑲᐧᔭᐠ ᐁᔭᓄᑲᑕᐠ ᑲᐸᐸᑭᑎᓇᒪᐠ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧ ᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑲᑭᔑᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᑯᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᐁᒥᓇᑭᑕᐧ ᒪᓯᓇᐦᐃᑲᓂ ᐃᑭᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᒪᔭᑦ ᑲᓂᑲᓂᐱᒧᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᔓᓂᔭᐃᐧ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑭᒋᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧ ᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ.”ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐃᐁᐧᓂ ᐯᔑᐠ ᑯᑕᑭᓂ

ᓂᔑᐣ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑲᑭᒥᑯᑕᐠ ᐃᒪ ᑕᐣᑲᐣ ᐅᑎᐸᒋᒧᐃᐧᓂᐠ , ᒥᓯᐁᐧ ᑲᓇᑕ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂ ᔓᓂᔭᐃᐧ ᒪᒋᑕᒪᓱᐃᐧᐣ ᐊᐱᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᑫᐃᐧᓇᐊᐧ ᐃᓇᓄᑭᓯᐊᐧᐠ ᒋᐅᒋ

ᐸᑭᑎᓇᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧ ᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐃᒪ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓇᐣ.ᐁᑲᐧ ᐅᐁᐧ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ

ᑭᐅᐡᑭᒪᒋᒋᑲᑌᐸᐣ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ 1990 ᐁᑭᐃᓇᐧᑌᐠ ᒋᐃᓇᓄᑭᐊᐧᐨ ᒋᐅᒋ ᑭᑭᓄᐡᑲᒪᐊᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᓇᑕ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐊᓂᐣ ᒪᔭᑦ ᑫᑭᐃᔑᓇᑯᑲᐧᐸᐣ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᓀᓴᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐅᔓᓂᔭᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᑯᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᐅᓄᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᑲᐠ ᑲᔓᓂᔭᐃᐧ ᐱᒧᑕᒪᓱᒪᑲᑭᐣ.ᑲᓇᑕ ᑭᒋᐅᑭᒪᑲᐣ ᔕᐧᐣ ᐁᐃᐣᔓᐟ

ᐊᐟᓫᐃᐅ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᐅᓄᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᑲᑭᐊᔭᑭᓀ ᑲᑭᐡᑭᓂᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᔓᓂᔭᐣ ᑲᐅᒋᒥᓂᑕᐧᐸᐣ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᑯ ᑲᐧᐣᑕ ᐅᑭᐊᐃᐣᑐᑕᐣ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐣ , ᐃᐁᐧ ᐅᑎ ᐁᑲ ᐁᐃᔑᓇᐦᐃᓇᑲᐧᓂᐠ ᑲᑐᑕᐣᐠ ᒥᓯᐁᐧ ᐅᒪ ᑲᓇᑕ ᐊᔕ ᑲᑭᐃᐧᐣᑕᒪᑫᐸᐣ ᐯᔓᐨ ᒋᔭᓂ ᐃᐧᑕᓄᑭᒪᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ

ᒥᓇ ᐊᐧᐁᐧ ᑲᓇᑕ ᑭᒋᐅᑭᒪ ᑲᑭᐃᑭᑐᐸᐣ ᒋᔭᓂ ᐊᓄᑲᑕᐠ ᓇᓇᐦᐊᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐃᒪ ᐃᓀᑫ ᑲᑭᐱᔑ ᐊᐧᓂᑐᑕᐃᐧᑕᐧᐸᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ.

“ᔓᓂᔭᐃᐧ ᑭᐡᑭᓇᒪᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒥᑐᓂ ᐱᑯ ᐅᑲᑭᒋᒪᒋᓴᐦᐃᑯᓇᐊᐧ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᑎᐯᐣᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐱᑯ ᐃᒪ ᑲᐃᔑᐸᐱᑯᔭᑭᐣ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐱᓂᐡ ᐅᒪ ᒥᓯᐁᐧ ᑲᓇᑕ ᐊᐦᑭᐠ ᑲᑲᐯᔑᐊᐧᐨ,” ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᐊᐟᓫᐃᐅ.ᐊᐟᓫᐃᐅ ᒥᓇ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ

ᑲᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᔕ ᐅᑭᐸᔭᑌᐃᐧᐣᑕᓇᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑭᑕᐸᒋᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᓄᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᑐᑲᓂ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐁᑲ ᐁᓇᑕᐁᐧᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᒋᐅᒋ ᒪᒋᓴᐦᐃᑯᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᑭᐡᑭᓇᑲᓄᐨ ᔓᓂᔭ.

ᔑᐸᐧᑲᒪ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑲᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐨ ᒪᔭᑦ ᐅᐃᐧᑭᑫᐣᑕᐣ ᑲᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᑭᐡᑭᓂᐨ ᔓᓂᔭ


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Women in Moose Factory had the chance to develop a healthy and fit lifestyle when they took part in the Rez-Fit challenge over the summer months.

By participating in fitness, nutritional and obstacle course challenges during the eight-week program, the women were able to create a support network for each other as they worked to achieve their fitness goals.

“We had people lose weight but more importantly, they made fitness a part of their lifestyle,” said Christina Linklater, a community health coordinator at the Moose Factory Health Centre.

The Rez-Fit challenge came about after Linklater received an email from Suzanne Hajto, a fitness leader and registered dietician who previously worked in the community as a diabetes dietician.

While the community already had most of the programs Hajto was offering, Linklater said there were not any fitness programs for adults, particularly for women.

“We had a bit of trouble within our personal lives in having that initiative to get going after having kids and stuff,” Linklater said. “It would be nice to have someone to motivate us.”

So Linklater connected with Hajto to develop a fitness challenge program and “lay the spark” for the women to get fit.

Hajto lives near the Chippe-was of Rama First Nation. She extended an invitation to the Chippewas to take part in a friendly fitness challenge with Moose Factory, which they accepted.

From May to August, women from both communities registered for the challenge and took part in fitness and nutritional classes.

“Suzanne would videotape herself doing zumba and people would come in for a half-hour nutrition session,” Linklater said.

Zumba is a Latin dance “with some Cree moves in there,” Linklater said with a laugh. They also had a glow-in-the-dark zumba dance event where the participants wore glow-in-dark paint and bands.

The challenge incorporated an obstacle course event on a Saturday, which Hajto called a Spartan race.

“There would be things like a ladder between two trees that they had to cross,” Hajto said.

“And we had big man on a log, and using towels around an oar, they had to gladiator-fight the man.”

The challenge had a point-based system where participants earned points for each session they attended. Hajto created a private group on Facebook, where she would post a recipe and participants would earn bonus points if they posted a photo of the completed dish.

The Facebook group also allowed the women to post questions or comments related to fitness and nutrition, but it also evolved into a support system.

Hajto said some women would become distressed if they

did not feel they were getting the results they wanted.

“Without any motivation from me, the group brought them up and motivated them to keep going,” Hajto said.

“The women just embraced it.”

Linklater said the challenge turned into more than a fitness program as the women connected during the sessions.

“We talked about what we were going through or what was difficult,” she said.

More than 35 women registered for the challenge and each session averaged more than 20 participants, said Hajto. The ages ranged from mid-20s to 50s.

After the challenge, one

woman lost 20 pounds while a woman in her 50s lost five inches off her waistline.

To conclude the challenge, the women had a gala in late-August where they were presented with certificates and fitness-related prizes.

Linklater said the challenge received a great response from the community.

“One of the things they learned is realizing that you’re not alone,” she said. “There are a lot of women out there who feel the same way.”

Linklater and Hajto are working to acquire more funding to do the program again, this time involving more James Bay coastal communities during the winter road season.

INSPECTIONApproved Contingency Plan InspectionWhiskey Jack Forest (2012–2014) Contingency Plan

The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), the Kenora Local Citizens Committee (LCC) and the Red Lake Resource Management Committee advises you that the (2012–2014) Contingency Plan (CP) for the Whiskey Jack Forest has been approved by the MNR Regional Director and is available for inspection.

Why is a Contingency Plan Required?

The CP is required to enable the implementation of forest operations until the FMP is completed and approved.

CP Inspection – Final Opportunity

The approved CP is available for inspection during normal office hours for 15 days from September 25, 2012 to October 10, 2012, at the Kenora District MNR office, 808 Robertson Street, Kenora, (tel: 807-468-2597), and on the MNR public website at ontario.ca/forestplans. The Ontario Government Information Centre in Toronto at 777 Bay Street and ServiceOntario locations in Kenora at 220 Main Street South and in Red Lake at 227 Howey Street provide Internet access.

Interested and affected persons and organizations can arrange an appointment with MNR staff at the appropriate MNR District or Area office to discuss the CP.

For further information, please contact:

Kurt Pochailo, RPF Kenora Local Citizens Committee Plan Author c/o Abby Anderson, RPF Ministry of Natural Resources Ministry of Natural Resources 808 Robertson Street 808 Robertson Street P.O. Box 5080 P.O. Box 5080 Kenora, ON P9N 3X9 Kenora, ON P9N 3X9tel: 807-468-2597 tel: 807-468-2556e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected]

Dutchie LomanRed Lake Resource Management CommitteeP.O. Box 86, Ear Falls, ON P0V 1T0

The approved CP will be available for the two-year period of the CP at the same locations listed above.

The Ministry of Natural Resources is collecting your personal information under the authority of the Crown Forest Sustainability Act. Any personal information you provide (address, name, telephone, etc.) will be protected in accordance with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. Your personal information may be used by the Ministry of Natural Resources to send you further information related to this forest management planning exercise. If you have questions about the use of your personal information, please contact Stephen Duda at 807-468-2543.

Rez-Fit challenge motivates Moose Factory women

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SIOUX LOOKOUT FIRST NATIONS HEALTH AUTHORITYClient Services DepartmentTRANSPORTATION DRIVER

Internal/External PostingFull Time Position

Location: Sioux Lookout, ON

The Transportation Driver is primarily responsible for providing ground transportation to First Nations medical clients and escorts from the First Nations communities. The incumbent will provide general outreach to the clients and perform routine maintenance for the Client Services Department Vans.QUALIFICATIONS

KNOWLEDGE & ABILITY

geographical realities and social conditions within remote

Please send cover letter, resume, three most recent employment references and an up-to-date Criminal Reference Check with a Search of Vulnerable Persons Screening Registry and a Driver’s Abstract to:

Human Resource Department

P.O. Box 1300, 61 Queen Street

[email protected] Closing Date: October 12, 2012 at 4:30 p.m.

No resume’s received after that time will be acceptedThe 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

www.slfnha.com

SIOUX LOOKOUT FIRST NATIONS HEALTH AUTHORITYFinance Department

PHYSICIAN TRAVEL CLERKInternal/External Posting

Full Time PositionLocation: Sioux Lookout, ON

This full time position of Travel Clerk is responsible for all the travel related Physician travel to the First Nations communities in the Sioux Lookout area. The Travel Clerk should have a good understanding of accounting concepts and a working knowledge of ACCPAC.QUALIFICATIONS

Finance or Business Program;

management, excellent organizational skills, as well as ability to work independently.

KNOWLEDGE & ABILITY

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

Human Resource DepartmentSioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority

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

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

[email protected] Closing Date: October 9, 2012 at 8 a.m.



www.slfnha.com

EMPLOYMENTOPPORTUNITY

Ojibway/Ojicree TranslatorWawatay Native Communications Society (Wawatay) is seeking an energetic, motivated and reliable individual for the position of Ojibway/Ojicree Translator.

Wawatay is a self-governing, independent community-driven, entrepreneurial native organization dedicated to using appropriate technologies to meet the communication needs of people of Aboriginal ancestry in Northern Ontario, wherever they live. In doing so, its founders intended that Wawatay would serve their communities by preserving, maintaining and enhancing indigenous languages and culture. Wawatay’s mission is to provide media capabilities and content that address the unique needs of the Nishnawbe people.

Reporting to the Business Manager, the Ojibway/Ojicree Translator will work with other translators and staff to translate documents for clients and internal Wawatay products and services. The successful applicant will work with an experienced translator to learn all aspects of the position.

RESPONSIBILITIES:• Translate written documents English documents to Ojicree and/or Ojibway.• Translate written documents Ojicree and/or Ojibway documents to English.• Translate editorial content and advertisements for Wawatay print products

(Wawatay News, Sagatay, Seven, etc).• Ensure that completed translations can be delivered in a format

compatible with clients computer/printing systems.• Work with Wawatay Radio Network staff to produce translated

voiceovers for public service announcements, news reports, audio fi les and other related activities.

• Work with Wawatay Multimedia staff to translate and transcribe audio and video fi les for on-line production.

• Transcribe interviews and other related activities.• Proofread translations to ensure accuracy, meet newspaper

and contract deadlines.

QUALIFICATIONS:• Must have excellent verbal and written communications skills in Ojibway and/

or Oji-Cree and also English.• Must be profi cient working a computer-based work environment and possess

excellent keyboarding skills.• Familiarity with InDesign, Photoshop, Macintosh and Windows based

computers are an asset.• A high degree of initiative, motivation and the ability to observe strict

confi dentiality is essential.• Ability to work with little or no supervision is essential.• Experience in translating documents from either Oji-Cree or Ojibway to

English is an asset.

Location: Sioux Lookout, ONClosing date: Friday September 28, 2012, 4:30 PM CST

To apply, send a cover letter and resume to:Tabatha JourdainWawatay Native Communications SocietyP.O. Box 1180Sioux Lookout, ON P8T 1B7Fax: (807) 737-3224By email: [email protected]

SIOUX LOOKOUT FIRST NATIONS HEALTH AUTHORITYClient Services DepartmentACCOMMODATION CLERK

Internal/External PostingFull Time Position

Location: Sioux Lookout, ON

The Accommodation Clerk is primarily responsible for the overall care of the hostel and private accommodation boarders. The incumbent will process boarder information, assist the dispatcher with daily pick up lists, and work cooperatively with other staff and agencies.QUALIFICATIONS

KNOWLEDGE & ABILITY

geographical realities and social conditions within remote

Please send cover letter, resume, three most recent employment references and an up-to-date Criminal Reference Check with a Search of Vulnerable Persons Screening to:




www.slfnha.com

SIOUX LOOKOUT FIRST NATIONS HEALTH AUTHORITYClient Services DepartmentHOSTEL GUEST SERVICES

REPRESENTATIVEInternal/External Posting

Full Time PositionLocation: Sioux Lookout, ON

The Hostel Guest Service Representative will be responsible for providing customer support services for all Hostel guests.QUALIFICATIONS

KNOWLEDGE & ABILITY

issues, the geographical realities and social conditions

Please send cover letter, resume, three most recent employment references and an up-to-date Criminal Reference Check with a Search of Vulnerable Persons Screening Registry to:

Human Resource Department




www.slfnha.com

SIOUX LOOKOUT FIRST NATIONS HEALTH AUTHORITYNodin Child & Family Intervention Services (NCFI)

MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELLORInternal/External Posting

Permanent Full TimeLocation: MISHKEEGOGAMANG

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

or Mishkeegogamang, with considerate travel.

QUALIFICATIONS

experience is preferred;

KNOWLEDGE & ABILITYAbility to communicate in one of the First Nations dialects of the Sioux Lookout Zone is an asset;

Assessment Scale (CAFAS) & Brief Child and Family Phone Interview (BCFPI) an asset

ability to work independently;

Procedures.

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

Sioux Lookout First Nations Health AuthorityP.O. Box 1300, 61 Queen Street

Sioux Lookout, ON P8T 1B8Phone: (807) 737-1802

Fax: (807) [email protected]

Closing Date: October 12, 2012 at 4:30 p.m.

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 www.slfnha.com


Aboriginal LiaisonStrategy CoordinatorCity Manager’s Office, Office of the City ClerkOne full-time vacancy exists Competition #CMGR-13-12

You will support the progression of the City of Thunder Bay AboriginalLiaison Strategy. Your key responsibilities will include communicatinginformation to the corporation and the Aboriginal community relating tonew initiatives, programs, services or partnerships and providing generalsupport to the Aboriginal Liaison.

Applications must be received by 4:30 p.m. (EST) on Monday, October 1st,quoting the appropriate competition number.

City of Thunder Bay, Human Resources Division, 141 May Street South,Thunder Bay, ON P7E 1A9 fax: (807) 625-3585 e-mail: [email protected] TTY users, please call: (807) 623-3974

For more details, please visit:www.thunderbay.ca/jobs

As an equal opportunity employer, the City of Thunder Bay encourages applications fromAboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities, members of visible minority groups, and women.

ONTARIO FIRST NATIONS TECHNICAL SERVICES CORPORATION

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTContract Position to March 31, 2013

The mandate of the Ontario First Nations Technical Services Corporation (OFNTSC) is to provide technical and enhanced advisory services to all First Nations in Ontario. The OFNTSC requires the services of an Administrative Assistant. This is a contract position until March 31, 2013 located in the Toronto or New Credit offi ce. Under the direction of the OFNTSC Emergency Planning Public Information Offi cer, the Administrative Assistant will be mainly responsible for collection of First Nation emergency plans, data entry and contact with First Nations and Emergency Planning Community Advisors.

DUTIES:• May have to attend OFNTSC Phase 2 Emergency Planning Training Sessions.• Liaise with Emergency Planning Community Advisors and/or participating

communities for the collection of emergency plans.• Receive, document and track First Nation emergency plans.• Maintain and update database for First Nations emergency plans.• Direct First Nation’s requiring assistance to the appropriate sources for assistance

and/or independently answer their questions regarding emergency plans.• Maintain a good network of contacts amongst the diverse client base of the OFNTSC.• Photocopy, collate and distribute various documents.

STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS:• High School Diploma or Equivalent;• Public relations skills with the ability to deal tactfully with the public and to

exercise good judgment in appraising situations and making decisions.• Must have good project management skills.• Ability to use computers for Word, Excel, and other programs.• Strong analytical, evaluation and assessment skills.• Must be self motivated with extremely good communication skills.• Possess a valid Ontario Drivers License and be willing to travel.• Preference given to First Nations persons.

CLOSING DATE: Friday, October 5, 2012, 4:30 p.m. (EST)

Please mark very clearly on the envelope “Administrative Assistant-Emergency Planning” and Email, Mail/Fax your Resume to:

Brian Staats, CRSP, Operations ManagerOntario First Nations Technical Services Corporation111 Peter Street, Suite 606Toronto, Ontario, M5V [email protected]

We thank all applications, however only those receiving an interview will be contacted.

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NOTICE TO PATTHEW ALBERT QUEQUISH (D.O.B. 8/28/1980): Stephanie Lynn Mattinas has petitioned Hennepin County District Court to change the name of Mystery Morning Rain Mattinas-Quequish, a minor child, to Mystery Morning Rain Mattinas. A hearing will be held in this matter before the Honorable Robert A. Blaeser, District Court Judge, on Tuesday, October 9, 2012 at 9:30 am at the Hennepin County Government Center, 300 South Sixth Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. If you fail to appear at the hearing, default will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the petition. Requests to appear by phone should be directed to Hennepin County Court Administration: (612) 348-3164. For other questions, you may contact Ronald Walters, attorney for Stephanie Mattinas, at (320) 532-7798.

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NAN Legal victim witness liaison program expandsRick GarrickWawatay News

Nishnawbe-Aski Legal Ser-vices Corporation has expanded its Victim Witness Liaison Pro-gram to Sioux Lookout and Tim-mins through Department of Jus-tice funding.

“For the past five years we have had one victim witness liaison worker located in Thun-der Bay with no travel dollars,” said Celina Reitberger, executive director of NALSC. “The expan-sion has meant that we will have one (victim witness liaison worker) in Timmins who will serve the Wabun and the James Bay coast communities and one (victim witness liaison worker) in Sioux Lookout who will serve all of the communities in the west.”

Caroline Ignace-Spade, the new victim witness liaison worker in Sioux Lookout, has already travelled to work with people in Kitchenuhmaykoo-sib Inninuwug, Wunnumin and Weagamow since joining NALSC in June.

“I’ve been supporting them a great deal and I’ve actually encouraged many of them to get counselling,” Ignace-Spade said. “People really think there is a big taboo on counselling, but it’s not. It’s just there to get some pressure off you and to see things clearly and go forward in your life.”

Ignace-Spade, who previ-ously worked as a courtworker for Nishnawbe Gamik Friend-ship Centre for two years, said her main roles are to provide information, support and court accompaniment.

“With the friendship centre work, you tried to help as many as you can,” Ignace-Spade said. “I’m kind of like in the same role, but now I have to concentrate on the victim. My job is to focus on the victims and if they want to go through the trial, to get through that process. It’s very hard for them sometimes.”

Ignace-Spade encourages vic-tims to go through the court pro-cess because any violence they are suffering will continue if not dealt with.

“If you expose it, then people can get help,” Ignace-Spade said. “They’ll see the light of what is

going on and hopefully get help.”NALSC held an opening cere-

mony for the new Sioux Lookout position on Sept. 19 at the Sioux Lookout office.

“She is already getting refer-rals and she has been doing a lot of community develop-ment, going into communities and letting people know she is there,” Reitberger said. “We’re very pleased that she has hit the ground running and is out there.”

Susan Chokomolin is the new victim witness liaison worker in Timmins.

“As more and more people are victimized and more serious

crimes are committed, there is more of a need for someone to help the witnesses and the vic-tims,” Reitberger said. “For exam-ple, our worker here (in Thunder Bay) had 23 referrals of victims in one case of a homicide, so she goes to court and tries to help all of those people who are there as witnesses.”

Reitberger said the Thun-der Bay victim witness liaison worker, Michelle Donio-King, travels to courts in Geraldton and Longlac as well as some of the Matawa First Nations fly-in com-munities.

Submitted PhotoNAN Legal celebrated the opening of its victim liaison program on Sept. 19 in Sioux Lookout.

Chris Kornacki/Special to Wawatay NewsFirst Nations, Métis and Inuit students met with Aboriginal Recruitment Officers representing colleges and universities across Ontario at Lakehead University Sept. 18. Aboriginal DJ crew A Tribe Called Red and host of CBC’s 8th Fire series Wab Kinew also put on a musical performance at LU’s Outpost to finish off the afternoon.


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‘A memorial to the children taken and the families left behind’Wawahte is a recently published book, as told to author Robert P. Wells by Indian Residential School Survivors. Written in two parts; the story of three representative survivors, Wawahte also mines Canadian history, bringing the reader to know how colonial “Indian” forced integration has affected so many lives. The book has been published by Trafford Publishing.Wells said he hopes the book ends up in every Canadian high school to help educate the country on the effects of residential schools.“History is full of stories of how one culture, overpowers a different culture or set of ideas,” he said. “Wawahte deals with one form of injustice visited upon the native peoples of Canada. Can-ada should know its own history and live in truth about it. We could all learn from it.” The following excerpts were written by Wells based on stories from the book.

Esther Love (Feries)Constance Lake First Nation

Watchea (Hello)I am Esther. Bob, an old friend, called me one day

and said, “Esther, you are a very special person, you have a story that needs to be written”. His call was as if the Great Spirit had answered my prayers. I do not naturally seek recognition or exposure, however, I have worried that soon there would be no one left to tell about how life was for many “Indian” people living in the boreal forest regions of Canada.

Wawahte is a non-fiction book. Although this is the story about me, Bunnie and Stanley, it is not unique to the three of us. It was much the same for more than 150,000 “Indian” children who, between 1883 and 1996, were forced to attend 130 residential schools in Canada.

As a child, my home was Mammamattawa Village, called English River Village/Indian Reserve. That was until one day when a man came and took me and other children, to live at Pelican Lake Indian Residential School near Sioux Lookout, Ontario. I credit my sanity at this terrible place to the strength of cultural traditions. I will never forget how we kids would all gather around and watch ‘Wawahte’ (northern lights). When alone and no one else could hear us, we would speak in our beautiful Cree language telling each other things like; “There, see that one is the spirit of my Mama who died when I was little. She has come to dance for me. She is telling me to be strong and that she loves me.” We asked the spirit angels to take dream messages to our parents and grand-parents and to bring their dream letters back to us.

All mail to and from children was censored. Any mail, written in “Indian” was destroyed. The only letters allowed to be sent to our parents were the lies that the teacher wrote on the blackboard and we copied as our own. There was no limit to our misery yet in our own very special way we found moments of peace–Wawahte.

Although this was a very long time ago, I remember the tranquil feelings that came over me as I stood before my heavenly altar. I went to bed those nights with a smile on my face and I slept well. The spirit angels had lifted me to my feet when my wings had trouble remembering how to fly.

They Call Me BunnieBunnie Gavin

(Kries/Tenniscoe)Thunder Bay,

Ontario

M c I n t o s h Indian Residen-tial School

Bunnie at two years of age

“I am told that my mother nick-named me Bunnie. I have also been told that it was the Nuns at the Roman Catholic McIntosh Indian Residential School that began calling me Bun-nie because I was so small and darted about like a baby rabbit. My parents named me Mary Elizabeth but at the residential school they had no record of my having been baptized and they baptized me for the second time, giving me the name Marie Louise. I answer to Bunnie!

When Bunnie was one-year-old, her father placed her and two year old sis-ter in the care of the McIntosh Indian Residential School. He never came back for them. There, she felt loved and was well cared for. Upon leaving the school at age 14 she spoke, Eng-lish, French and Anishinabek (Ojibwa) as the children were allowed to speak “Indian” while at play and in their dor-mitory. Bunnie was one of the lucky few!

Elder Stanley StephensConstance Lake First Nation

I still hold a license to a registered trap line but now only trap as a hobby and to show young people how we once lived and earned a living. Over the centuries our native culture evolved into a respectful relationship with wildlife and nature. I was taught from an early age that upon taking the life of an animal to reverently pause and thank the Creator as well as the animal for giving its life so our people could live. To disrespect nature would result in terrible consequences.

In 1969, the International Fund for Animal Welfare began to mobilize public opinion against the annual hunt of baby harp seals off Canada’s east coast. Like many well-meaning people, I supported the animal welfare movement of whose aim it was to end the seal hunt. It was not the killing of the baby seal that troubled me but the disrespectful way in which it was done. In the end, our well-meaning intentions and the deceptive business practices of animal rights organizations ended in another setback to our way of life.

What began as the ‘kill the seal hunt movement’ very quickly generated enormous amounts of money and soon it became a successful advocate to end the wearing of all natural furs. Gov-ernment and professional wildlife management were powerless in the face of the parade of “cleavage scientists” who found their way to European rule makers and the western fashion industry. The consequence was that people who once earned their living fur trapping went from middle class to demoralizing poverty. For a great many “Indians”, as well as white trappers the effects went well beyond economic loss. It was difficult to believe how quickly the change came. People went from economic middle class to a life of dependence on social assistance. Gone were the family building blocks of personal pride, the teaching tools of a strong work ethic that for centuries measured and made us who we were.

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Submitted photo by the Canadian Red CrossAttawapiskat First Nation is worried about a repeat of last winter’s housing shortages after a trailer hous-ing nearly 100 people was condemned.


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Metis jigging and wild goose roasting are two new activities at Seven Generations Education Institute’s Thunder Bay Fall Harvest Celebration.

“They’re going to show and demonstrate jigging,” said Mark Sault, director of Seven Generation’s Post Secondary Student Support Program.

Fall harvests on the horizon

“And they’re going to get the students to do a few steps.”

Sault said the wild goose is going to be roasted over an open fire.

“I’m going to try to have someone cooking the geese over the fire, you know how they twirl them on a string,” Sault said. “The only problem this year is we are not allowed to serve the students any wild meat or game.”

The Thunder Bay fall har-vest is scheduled for Sept. 25-27 at the Fort William Historical Park while the Fort Frances fall harvest is sched-uled for Oct. 2-4 at the Nanic-ost Complex.

“This is our seventh one in Thunder Bay and we’ve been doing them in the Fort Fran-ces area for over 20 years,” Sault said. “We’ve gone to two streams so we accommodate more students (in Thunder Bay). We try to limit it to 600 students a day from the school boards, from Grade 5 and up. We have limits of 30 students per class.”

Sault is planning to set up two stations for bannock mak-ing this year, one for fry bread and one for bannock on a stick.

“And we have jam making,” Sault said. “We’re going to have blueberry jam, wild cran-berries and some strawberries and raspberries.”

Storytelling, drum teach-ings, fishnet making, wild rice preparation, fish preparation, bird preparation, medicines and teas, hide preparation, moccasin making, traditional foods and traditional crafts are among the other activities at the Thunder Bay fall har-

vest.“And we have one we call

the interactive booth, where a guy will be making snow-shoes,” Sault said. “The (Fort William Historical Park) is involved with that one as well. They have some of their hides out there.”

Sault said the Fort Frances fall harvest is smaller than the Thunder Bay fall harvest with about 200-300 students per day and about 10 stations.

“The students zip through the stations in the morning,” Sault said. “They all have their own fire pit and fry pans and pots, so they get to cook their own lunch.”

Sault said the bannock mak-ing station is the most popular activity at the Fort Frances fall harvest.

“After the guys get the fish cleaned, they’ll start cooking the fish for up some samples,” Sault said. “And they’ll usu-ally pop some wild rice. And if they have some deer or moose meat, they’ll fry up some of that.”

Sault said the goal is to pass on some of the traditions to students.

“This is a lost art, especially in the city here,” Sault said. “A lot of the students, not just the students but the adults too, have never seen this stuff and they don’t know how to do it. So they get hands on and learn how.”

In addition to the two Seven Generation fall harvest gath-erings, Sault also organizes fall harvest gatherings for Lakehead University and Wil-liam W. Creighton Youth Ser-vices in Thunder Bay.

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Wawatay file photoAn Elder plucks geese during last year’s fall harvest celebration.

september 27, 2012

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