HIV, AIDs among Aboriginal women to be examined

Attack Off To Solid Start

The Batchewana Attack got off to an ideal start in the Canadian International Hockey League which is in its first year of operations. The Attack, coached by former National Hockey League player Denny Lambert, who is Ojibwe, won its first three regular season contests in the eight-team league.

The Attack is playing its home contests on First Nation land, at Rankin Arena in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.

New Relationship Trust has contributed $750,000 to First Peoples’ Cultural Council to launch the First Peoples’ Heritage,

Language and Culture Project. This contribution will support the delivery of services and programs to revitalize First Nations language, arts and culture in British Columbia.

Sculptor broke through artistic/gender constraints

Early 1990s art magazines deemed Inuit stone carver Ovilu Tunnillie “avant garde” and “a woman to watch.” In a male-dominated industry, she pushed limits sculpting images that challenged southern buyers’ sensibilities.

This year’s Sisters in Spirit vigil was extremely personal for organizers and participants at the small New Brunswick Community College (NBCC) campus in Moncton.

Earlier this year, the body of Loretta Saunders, 26, originally from Labrador and attending university in Halifax, was found in a median off Route 2 of the Trans-Canada Highway west of Moncton.

Saunders’ two roommates were charged in her death. She was three months pregnant at the time of her disappearance and was writing her thesis on missing and murdered Aboriginal women.

A delay in an enforcement order is a huge victory for those on the Red Chris Mine blockade.

“Injunctions are the norm on how to deal with any type of Indigenous (action) … when we’re blocking access to any type of development or industry development.

A decision by the Supreme Court of Canada earlier this year that recognized Tsilhqot’in title has led to the designation of more than 300,000 hectares as a tribal park. The Dasiqox Tribal Park will be controlled by the Xeni Gwet’in and Yunesit’in Government.

On a windy and rainy Saturday morning in early October, Dr. Stanley Vollant walked east along the paved trail that hugs the shoreline of the Ottawa River, heading toward Parliament Hill.

He had a message to share with the federal government and Indigenous people from across the country, but was taking the long way to get there.

THE URBANE INDIAN

Recently my community held its annual powwow.  Lots of celebrating and dancing Indigenous people.  One of the delightful rituals is attending the community breakfast where I and many others enjoyed a hearty buffet of scrambled eggs, a potato patty, hash browns, baked beans, sausages, bacon, pulled pork and prime rib. This merely proved the ancient Aboriginal adage stating there are no calories on the powwow trail. Only meat.

As the National Energy Board continues to hear oral presentations about the proposed expansion of Kinder Morgan’s TransMountain pipeline to Burnaby, B.C., First Nations on all sides of the Salish Sea are pressing forward with an intertribal treaty to protect their waters from oil tankers.