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Chief Tracy Gauthier leads one of Canada's smallest First Nations. Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation has a territory of 321 hectares (one hectare equals 100 acres), which is home to around 22 members. About 100 others live off-reserve.
Located in Durham Region, Scugog Island is northeast of Toronto and close to Peterborough.
In July this year, the First…
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Ontario's newest law enforcement agency is now in operation.
The Treaty Three Police Service was officially launched Aug. 5 at the Kenora harbourfront in Northwestern Ontario.
The new service, which has actually been operating since April 1 this year, is responsible for 23 First Nation communities within Treaty 3 territory. That encompasses 55, 000 square miles,…
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A woman adopted out of her band as a child has officially been welcomed home.
One of the highlights of Aundeck Omni Kaning's powwow included a custom adoption ceremony. On June 7, community members welcomed former Sudbury resident Patricia McCauley back into the fold after many years of struggling to regain her status.
McCauley was adopted out of the community as…
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When Community Health Representatives (CHRs) met in Ottawa, June 12 to 14, they had a full agenda. The National Indian and Inuit Community Health Representatives Organization (NIICHRO) hosted a training session for them: Coming Full Circle: Healthy Living and the Aboriginal Frail Elderly. CHRs also participated in NIICHRO's 12th annual general meeting, and got an update on wage…
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Another Aboriginal tradition returned to the ancestral homelands of the Chippewas of Nawash at the end of June, when storytelling became part of the Return of Drums Powwow at Owen Sound's Kelso Beach.
With the steady beat of the drums in the background, Priscilla Yellowhead Tobey enthralled children and adults with her stories about her Ojibway family who once lived on…
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Rain may have dampened the dancers feet but not their spirits, as Six Nations of the Grand River hosted their 24th annual Grand River Powwow on July 26 and 27.
Alan Emarthle, manager of Six Nations Tourism, estimated the crowd at 16,000.
Saturday was hit with rain, but Sunday turned into a hot and humid day with lots of sunshine.
There was a wide array of…
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Visitors to the annual Wikwemikong Powwow on Manitoulin Island have always witnessed the best First Nations have to offer in competitive dancing. The annual event held August 2 to 4 this year provided all of the celebration's traditional excitement and more.
The Wikwemikong Heritage Organization (WHO) has been working to ensure that the event retains its goal of cross-…
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Strong Women Stories:
Native Vision and Community Survival
Edited by Kim Anderson and Bonita Lawrence
Sumach Press
264 pages (sc) $26.95
Strong Women Stories picks up where Kim Anderson's last book left off. In A Recognition of Being, published in 2000, Anderson explored the ways in which Native women have been stereotyped and stripped of power…
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D. Memee Lavell Cooper received a boost to her high educational aspirations recently, when she learned she was one of the recipients of the inaugural Trudeau Scholarship.
On June 26, the Trudeau Foundation announced its first 12 scholarships for doctoral candidates from around the world studying social sciences and humanities. Each receives $35,000 a year for up to four…
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The six communities that comprise the Ogemawahj Tribal Council (OTC) have collaborated to produce a social studies curriculum for Grade 6 students that teaches how contemporary Native people live, both on and off reserves. The classroom activity package developed by two teachers was put together to help overcome old stereotypes still prevalent about Native people and because…
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Community Health Representatives (CHRs) attending the National Indian and Inuit Community Health Representatives Organization's (NIICHRO) annual general meeting in Ottawa June 12 to 14 got an update on wage parity, and heard about NIICHRO's work on issues affecting the CHR role and compensation.
The CHR program started in 1961 under the Department of National Health and…
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Niagara Falls added another first to its history June 26 and 27, as the site for the Aboriginal Women in Business conference. Sponsored by Ontario Federation of Indian Friendship Centres, Grand River Employment and Training Initiative, and O-GI, with support from the Native Affairs Secretariat, Staples Business Depot, and Spirit 91.7 FM, the conference aimed to unite and…
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Participants in an annual two-spirit gathering at Geneva Park, near Orillia, had an opportunity "to teach, to learn and to share together," according to organizing committee member Art Zoccole. The theme of the week-long event, held on the traditional territory of the Chippewas of Mnjikaning First Nation, was "Transforming Generations."
From July 20 to 25 an estimated 160…
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After 28 years, the Canadian Native Fastball Championships were held for the first time at Garden River First Nation this year. Organizers spent two years preparing to host the 29th annual tournament in Ontario, after the games' long history in the West. Last year the tournament was held in Brandon, Man.
More than 30 teams from across Canada competed Aug. 1 to 3: 10 in the…
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On May 30, graduating students from Matawa First Nation's community based Native Teacher Education Program (NTEP) headed to Ottawa to celebrate the culmination of two years' hard work.
Gloria Hendrick-Laliberte, NTEP co-ordinator for Matawa First Nations Management in Thunder Bay, accompanied the group to their graduation ceremony.
She said she accompanied a group…