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As Mnaamodzawin Health Services enters its third year of a federal health transfer agreement, a new home is on the horizon.
Aboriginal wellness programs on Manitoulin Island will soon be housed in a brand new building based in Aundeck Omni Kaning.
Mnaamodzawin Health Services Inc. was incorporated on Oct. 5, 1999.
The agency administers federally funded…
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A legal move by Ontario and Canada to prevent a title claim of the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation and the Saugeen First Nation from going to trial has failed a second time. A brief decision without reasons was rendered by Justice P. T. Matlow in Ontario Divisional Court Sept. 15.
The two governments' previous attempt to quash the Aboriginal title claim to a…
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The proposed First Peoples' National Party holds its first strategic planning conference in Sault Ste. Marie on Oct. 15 and 16.
The meeting to discuss the fledgling political party is the brainchild of Kathryn Skov and her cousin Tyrone Souliere from Garden River First Nation, who are trying to resurrect an old idea that periodically is raised in Indian Country.
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Lawyers for the family of slain protester Dudley George, who was killed by police during the Ipperwash Park occupation in September 1995, appeared before the public inquiry into his death Sept. 29 to play a tape for Chief Commissioner Sidney Linden in the hopes of having it made public.
The two lawyers-Murray Klippenstein and Andrew Orkin-and Sam George, Dudley's brother…
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Dear Editor:
On Oct. 13, 1854 our ancestors signed a treaty with the Crown in Canada. By that treaty we lost some 500,000 acres in the Bruce Peninsula but reserved land, including lands still home to the Chippewas of Saugeen and the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation.
Treaty 72 was negotiated by threat and signed in deceit. Government negotiators had…
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PETERBOROUGH-The official opening of the Peter Gzowski College, Enweying building and the First Peoples House of Learning takes place at Trent University on Oct. 16, expanding multiple student services and education supports for both Native and non-Native students.
The Enweying building-Enweying being an Anishinaabe word for "the way we speak together"-houses both the…
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VICTORIA, B.C.-A member of Batchewana First Nation, Chief Petty Officer Debbi Eisan of the Canadian Forces Recruiting Centre in Halifax, N.S., is the recipient of this year's Aboriginal Women in Leadership Distinction Award.
Eisan, who was born in Sault Ste. Marie, began her career with the Canadian Forces in 1975.
Her roles have included service as a supply…
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This year marked the ninth time the Ontario First Nations Technical Service Corporation (OFNTSC) held an annual technical conference and trade show, but it was the first time they invited firefighters to join in.
OFNTSC fire safety officer Brian Staats, who co-ordinated the event, said they wanted to include "all three major organizations out there that deal with some kind…
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It was a night like any other in the sleepy town of Eden Mills when an author named Leon Rooke came across a woman who told him, "Aside from arson, burglary, illegal moonshining, wife and husband-swapping etc., nothing of interest ever happens in this God-forsaken village." The woman, a fellow writer, inspired Rooke to launch the Eden Mills Writers' Festival.
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A coalition of organizations with a stake in mental health service provision is hosting a conference for mental health professionals, para-professionals and interested community members in Sudbury next month. In a field that often seems dominated by female health care providers, one thing that makes this conference stand out is a workshop to address specifically men's issues.…
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Today, opportunities exist as never before for young people to get a good education. Sometimes it is a lot harder to spot the educational opportunities for adults who may have missed some schooling the first time around.
At Brock University in St. Catharines, however, a very flexible program is underway for Aboriginal adults who want to obtain credentials that will enable…
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It is quieter now on Webequie First Nation than in mid-July when a rash of suicides brought a flurry of outside visitors to the beleaguered reserve 480 km northwest of Thunder Bay.
First Nations and First Nation organizations stepped in to do what they could.
But calls for substantive government action to solve the problems blamed for creating the suicide epidemic…
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The work of seven First Nations artists-Bob Boyer, Dana Claxton, Ruth Cuthand, Faye HeavyShield, Robert Houle, Ron Noganosh, and Edward Poitras-was featured in the exhibition A History Lesson, which ran from Aug. 7 to Sept. 5 at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA) in Toronto as part of the Planet IndigenUs festival. All the works are part of the permanent collection…
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The Planet IndigenUs festival, which took place at Toronto's Harbourfront Centre from Aug. 13 to 22, featured plenty of visual arts programming from artists based right across Canada.
Haisla photographer Arthur Renwick's exhibition of black-and-white photo diptychs, Totem Hysteria, paired totem poles from the Northwest Coast with various commercial representations of…
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Planet IndigenUs, a 10-day-long, multi-disciplinary festival celebrating Indigenous artistic expression, took over Toronto's Harbourfront Centre from Aug. 13 to 22. The festival, co-sponsored by Harbourfront and the Brantford-based Woodland Cultural Centre, featured more than 300 artists from every continent.
"This is a ground-breaking event," Harbourfront CEO William…