Free open-source educational resources and educational software are now being used in Sandy Lake, Pikangikum, Kingfisher Lake, Fort Severn and Poplar Hill.
Don’t 4get 2 inject!
Keewaytinook Okimakanak-K-Net’s DiabeTEXTS project has been sending diabetes education messages reminding diabetes patients to inject their insulin since beginning operations last month in five KO communities.
The pilot project is working in Fort Severn, Deer Lake, Keewaywin, North Spirit Lake and Poplar Hill.
Mineral resource developments across Nishnawbe Aski Nation will be discussed a NAN Economic Summit to be held Feb. 22-24 in Thunder Bay.
“How are we part of the economy?” said Deputy Grand Chief Les Louttit, describing one of the topics to be discussed during the Economic Summit. “How did we evolve to where we are now since signing the treaty? And how are we going to fit into the overall provincial and national economy as we go forward into the future?”
Shy-Anne Hovorka’s win at the 2010 Aboriginal People’s Choice Music Awards, PSEUDO album release and tour of the James Bay coast is one of Wawatay’s top arts and culture stories of the year.
Hovorka was surprised to win Aboriginal female entertainer of the year at the 2010 Aboriginal People’s Choice Music Awards Nov. 5 in Winnipeg.
The Thunder Mountain Singers’ win at the 2010 Aboriginal People’s Choice Music Awards, new album release and City of Thunder Bay award is among Wawatay’s arts and culture stories of the year.
The Thunder Mountain Singers won the best powwow CD – traditional for their latest album One Voice One Nation at the 2010 Aboriginal People’s Choice Music Awards Nov. 5 in Winnipeg.
“We were really amazed and shocked,” said David Wilkinson-Simard, a member of the Thunder Bay-based drum group. “We were really surprised that we won.”
The Celebrating the Creators exhibition at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery is among Wawatay’s arts and culture stories of the year.
Lakehead University art student Candace Twance exhibited an acrylic on canvas piece called Surrender, which speaks about her struggles with anxiety, during the April 3-May 23 exhibition of 53 Aboriginal artists and craftspeople.
“It’s kind of like an overbearing figure which came to represent what I was struggling with in my life at that time,” Twance said. “I think you just have to accept your life the way it is and work with what you have.”
The unveiling of the Oshkaatisak – Nishnawbe Aski Nation Young Peoples Council new name and logo at the Seven Sacred Teachings Youth Gathering has earned a spot as one of Wawatay’s youth stories of the year.
“The crane represents leadership,” said youth council spokesman Jason Smallboy, explaining the logo features a large crane designed by Matawa First Nations’ Patrick Cheechoo. “That is what the youth council is about – young leaders leading the way and paving the way for the future of the youth.”
There are many economic challenges and opportunities facing Nishnawbe Aski Nation.
These were discussed during the Keewaywin Conference, June 8-10 in Sandy Lake.
Fred Lazar, an associate professor of economics at York University’s Schulich School of Business in Toronto, discussed the need to create preconditions for consultation during his June 8 presentation.
So You Want To Be an Artist?
The National Gallery of Canada is holding an online art contest Jan. 10 to Feb. 28 for teens aged 16-19 as of May 31.
Teens are being encouraged to check out the NGC’s art collection at www.gallery.ca/english/68.htm or http://cybermuse.gallery.ca, create an original two-dimensional artwork in any media, submit a digital reproduction of the artwork online and encourage Facebook friends to vote for their artwork from March 1-31.
Nishnawbe Aski Nation Grand Chief Stan Beardy plans to speak about Ontario’s imposition of the Far North Act on NAN communities at an international Sharing Power Conference in New Zealand.
“We maintain the position that when we signed the treaty, we established relationships that are supposed to be mutual and respectful of each other,” Beardy said. “We feel that Ontario imposing unilateral legislation on us is an infringement of that international arrangement which we call treaties which were made a hundred years ago.”
When I was a boy growing up in my home community of Attawapiskat on the James Bay coast, I was deathly afraid of looking at the full moon.
I grew up...
I’m happy to see the ongoing support and assistance in our northern remote communities to help our people cope with so many lifelong and generational issues...