Wawatay Online, February 4, 2010, Volume 37, No. 3

Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug’s Orion McKay is flying a Cessna 152 as part of his Wasaya Group-Sioux Lookout Area Aboriginal Management Board pilot training program.

ᑭᒋᓇᒣᑯᓯᑊ ᐃᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᕑᐊᔭᐣ ᒪᑫ ᐅᐱᒥᐸᓂᑕᐧᐣ ᓭᐢᓇ 152 ᑲᐃᔑᓂᑲᑌᐠ ᐱᒥᓭᐃᐧᓀᐢ ᐃᐁᐧ ᐊᐧᓭᔭ ᑲᐅᑭᐧᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᒥᓇ ᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃ ᐊᐧᓂᓇᐊᐧᑲᐣᐠ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑲᐅᐣᒋᑕᒪᐃᐧᐣᑕᐧ ᐃᒪ ᑲᐅᐣᒋ ᐱᒥᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒧᐊᐧᑲᓂᐃᐧᐨ.

Three months of planning led to Aboriginal Music Tour, ice roads edition.

Nishnawbe Aski Nation Deputy Grand Chief Les Louttit spoke about Bill C-71 during Thunder Bay’s anti-proroguing Rally, held Jan. 23 at the Lakehead Labour Centre.

Four of Wawatay’s radio broadcasters have been training for the Olympics.

Elder Yvonne Thomas shared tobacco seeds with participants in her Seven Sacred Teachings Youth Gathering workshop.

Marten Falls and Webequie established a blockade Jan. 18 on the Ring of Fire to draw attention to their concerns.

The community of Sandy Lake pulled together Jan. 22 showing their support for a young woman’s desire to help the homeless people in Winnipeg.

The Ontario Court of Appeals ruled in favour of 133 First Nations in Ontario getting their share of the profits from Casino Rama.

Effective Dec. 31, 2009 the Sioux Lookout Zone Family Physicians Association (SLZFPA) has dissolved its corporation. The SLZFPA provided services to 25 of the Sioux Lookout Zone communities.

Kwayaciiwin Education Resource Centre is embarking on a new initiative to encourage academic success within First Nations students.

Brad Wesley is embarking on a quest for correctional change for Aboriginal inmates and ex-inmates.

Traditional, modern lifestyles can mesh: Constant

Youth at the Seven Sacred Teachings Youth Gathering were given tobacco seeds for planting in their home communities by Elder Yvonne Thomas’ helper during her Jan.

A young men’s traditional dancer dances his style during the Jan. 27 Seven Sacred Teachings Youth Gathering evening pow-wow at Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School.

Phyllis Shaugabay shares Elder teachings on tobacco and medicines with a youth Jan. 28 at the Seven Sacred Teachings Youth Gathering.

Nishnawbe Aski Nation youth were jumping through the air to keep balloons aloft during the Seven Sacred Teachings Youth Gathering’s Bullying and Self-Esteem workshop.

A group of youth leap and stretch to keep balloons in the air as part of Collin Graham’s Bullying and Self-Esteem workshop during the Seven Sacred Teachings Youth Gathering.

The NAN Decade for Youth Council rolled out a new name and logo during the Seven Sacred Teachings Youth Gathering.

Pipe carrier Ronnie Beaver, left, spoke about the seven teachings during a Jan. 28 morning presentation at the Seven Sacred Teachings Youth Gathering.

Nishnawbe Aski Nation Elder Josias Fiddler, a Sandy Lake band member, spoke to the youth during a Jan. 28 afternoon workshop at the Seven Sacred Teachings Youth Gathering.

Nishnawbe Aski Nation Grand Chief Stan Beardy helped a group of youth to unveil the NAN Decade for Youth Council’s new name and logo during the Seven Sacred Teachings Youth Gathering: Oshkaatisak -

82 teams from 24 First Nations have registered

The Little NHL tournament returns to the Sudbury area this year with Whitefish River First Nation hosting. The area last hosted the 2007 tournament.

Sioux Lookout Flyer A.J. Wensley (right) skates the puck by Fort William North Star Ryan Magill. The Flyers played the North Stars Jan. 31 in Sioux Lookout. Sioux Lookout won 5-3.

If Nathan O’Nabigon were to wrap up his hockey career today, he would have had more success than most players.

Longlac band member Nathan O’Nabigon has seen success in his hockey career from junior to university and now professional hockey.

Students join city curling circuit

Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School student Randall Barkman throws a stone during a teachers versus students curling game Jan. 28.

Audience appreciates Native humour in Drew Hayden Taylor’s work

Dead White Writer on the Floor playwright Drew Hayden Taylor checks out the set prior to the Jan. 29 world premier at Magnus Theatre in Thunder Bay.

Brad Wesley speaks during a recent meeting in Kenora about trying to make changes in the correctional system to better serve Aboriginals.

Elder Gerry Martin, left, and Seven Media Network director Joyce Hunter were among the guests who read to youth during a literacy night Jan. 27 at Agnew H. Johnston Public School in Thunder Bay.

Rubicon Minerals Corporation announced it has entered into an exploration accommodation agreement (EAA) with Lac Seul First Nation in a Jan. 21 press release.

Several hundred people, including Nishnawbe Aski Nation Deputy Grand Chief Les Louttit, attended the anti-proroguing rally in Thunder Bay Jan. 26.

A newly-trained Canadian Ranger in Ontario’s Far North has been credited with saving the life of a man who tried to commit suicide.

Jeffrey Beardy started CPR and saved a man’s life in Kingfisher Lake.

Shy-Anne Hovorka performs in Thunder Bay.

Marten Falls Chief Eli Moonias speaks with the media during the blockade.

Webequie Chief Cornelius Wabasse and a group of Webequie and Marten Falls protesters man the Koper Lake landing strip blockade Jan. 20 in the Ring of Fire.

Three YouTube videos making fun of homeless people in Kenora have been removed after Wauzhusk Onigum Chief Ken Skead raised the issue in the Kenora.

Wawatay Radio Network broadcaster George Nakogee is among a handful of staff who were recruited to provide translated coverage of the Winter Olympics for APTN.

Matawa First Nations chiefs will host their own mining consultation session called the Mineral and Exploration Symposium Feb. 9 and 10 at the Italian Cultural Centre in Thunder Bay.

Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School held a snow day at Loch Lomond Jan. 25. Carlton Pascal rides a tube down the hill.

Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School held a snow day at Loch Lomond Jan. 25. Mae Quill, right, jumps off the ski lift.

An agreement was signed Jan. 27 between First Nations Limited Partnership and McDiarmid Lumber Ltd.

Representatives of First Nations Limited Partnership and McDiarmid Lumber Ltd. sign a contract for the company to take over FNLP’s retail space in Sioux Lookout Jan. 27.

The Ring of Fire mineral discovery area is in the James Bay Lowlands of northern Ontario. The Lowlands are where the last glaciers melted away approximately 8,500 years ago. It is a virtually impassable flat bog for hundreds of miles in any direction.

Customers line up to pay for purchases made at the store in Pikangikum, date unknown.

It was the butterflies, my people say, who brought the first human babies to their feet. The New Ones sat in innocence beneath a tree watching the world around them with eyes of wonder.

The Cree that younger people speak today is different from the old style of Cree used by our elders.

Sheena Rae, right, and Sandy Lake Chief Adam Fiddler work the phones and radio airwaves looking for donations for Rae’s plan to help homeless people in Winnipeg.

Former Treaty 3 Grand Chief Leon Jourdain’s lawsuit against the Ontario Provincial Police is moving forward.

After more than two years before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the lawsuit by Rachel Paquette-Flanagan and John William Dudley against Northern Nishnawbe Education Council was dismissed.

Friends and loved ones gathered in Moosonee Jan. 28 to celebrate Marguerite ‘Granny’ Wabano’s 106th birthday. A surprise birthday party was held including a pinata, one of her favourite games.

The 40 communities of the Anishinabek Nation are launching a comprehensive information and direct-action campaign against the proposed Harmonized Sales Tax (HST), which Grand Council Chief Patrick Mad