Pic River is getting eco-friendly washroom facilities for its waterfront.
Featuring solar-powered ventilation and lighting, the washrooms will be installed through one of eight recently announced Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation (NOHFC) projects in the North of Superior region.
The family of Chapleau Cree’s Glen Wesley has been searching for him since he went missing Sept. 15, 2010 in North Bay.
“We are very concerned for his well-being and his safety. He needs to be on his medications,” said his mother, Cecille Wesley.
Wesley said her son has been off his medications since he went missing. The six-foot-three, 220-230-pound, 28-year-old man with black hair and brown eyes requires regular medications for his mental illness. He was last seen wearing a black hoodie jacket and black pants and is friendly and polite.
Shannen’s Dream is being carried on by a documentary film now available online on YouTube.
“Shannen (Koostachin) had a dream – that every First Nation child should have the right to go to a safe and ‘comfy’ school,” said Timmins-James Bay MP Charlie Angus, who introduced Motion 571 — Shannen’s Dream — in Parliament Sept. 23. “Her story is inspiring people across Canada to get involved in the campaign for equal school rights. This film will help make this dream a reality. The response has been overwhelming.”
Marten Falls First Nation is planning another blockade in the Ring of Fire over concerns of a work camp set up near the community.
Chief Eli Moonias said protestors from his community will likely have the blockade set up within a week. The Ring of Fire is a chromite deposit in the James Bay lowlands.
“This is our territory,” Moonias said. “If you want to set up a camp there you have to come and see us.”
Fort William First Nation has voted 849 to 16 in favour of the $154 million Fort William First Nation Boundary Claim settlement offer.
“It was an excellent turnout of our eligible voters,” said Fort William First Nation Coun. Ian Bannon, noting six ballots were rejected and 24 set aside.
Aboriginal graduate students at Lakehead University now have a $100,000 scholarship to aim for.
Barrick Gold Corporation, operators of the Hemlo mine near Marathon, donated $50,000 towards the Barrick Gold Graduate Scholarship. The Ontario Trust for Student Support matched the donation.
The scholarship will be awarded to a Lakehead University graduate student with financial need who is focused on mining issues with preference given to persons of Aboriginal heritage.
A Northern Nishnawbe Education Council student is concerned the Indigenous worldview is non-existent in mainstream university studies.
Wasaskwun Winston Wuttunee is a Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug band member and student at Vancouver Island University. He was taking part in the Assembly of First Nation’s virtual summit for First Nation students on post-secondary education Jan. 27.
The Ecole Gron Morgan cultural powwow was a bit ‘corn’y.
Presenters offered tasty corn bread and corn teachings to students at this year’s cultural powwow Jan. 20 in Thunder Bay.
“Corn originated here in North America,” said Teresa Magiskan, traditional healing coordinator at Anishnawbe Mushkiki in Thunder Bay. “First Nations people were great agriculturalists. Corn had been cultivated here for 4,000 years and it is what we used to make our bread.”
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...