Rick Garrick — Wawatay News

An artist’s spotlight on Arthur Shilling is one of the first projects planned by the Thunder Bay Art Gallery’s newly appointed Aboriginal curator in residence.
“His work was quite different than someone out of the Indian Group of Seven, who were practicing at the same time as him,” said Suzanne Morrissette, a Metis curator, artist and writer. “He often gets called an expressionist painter and I’m really trying to flesh that out and see what that means.”
The Arthur Shilling spotlight will be exhibited Sept. 6 to Nov. 27 on the Thunder Bay Art Gallery’s front foyer wall.

Stan Louttit has been acclaimed as grand chief of the Mushkegowuk Council for the next four years.
“It gives me great honour to continue serving the people and their leadership,” Louttit said.
He was previously elected as grand chief in 2004 and 2007.
“There are many challenges before us,” he said. “We have made progress in the past few years and together with the chiefs, would like to build on the progress made while taking up new challenges as directed by the leadership and members.”

Nineteen more women have been murdered or gone missing across Canada since the Walk4Justice walkers began their three-month journey to Parliament Hill June 21.
“When we walked in 2008 to Ottawa, we carried 2,932 women’s names nationally then; what is sad is we’re going backwards (with now) a little over 4,200 women’s names nationally,” said Bernie Williams, one of the co-founders of Walk4Justice. “What is even sadder is that when we left on June 21, just a month and a half ago, we have lost, or murdered or missing, 19 women right up to date when we landed here.”

The 3rd Annual Walk for Good Life was an opportunity to walk your talk.
“It really made me realize that it doesn’t matter what I wasn’t doing or what I was missing; it’s what I’m doing and what I have,” said Larissa Desrosiers, youth coordinator for Oshki Aa-yaa’aag Mino Bimaadiziiwin (Good Life for Young People). “It’s really a chance to walk your talk ... to make a change and do all these great things.”

Nishnawbe Aski Nation has rejected the proposed national education review process established by the federal government and the Assembly of First Nations.
NAN said there is no need for the National Panel on First Nation Elementary and Secondary Education in an Aug. 11 press release. Many issues impacting First Nation education have been set out in many reports completed in the past, including the Auditor General’s reports in recent years and the NAN education strategic plan.