The Anishinabek Nation honoured the resilience of its citizens on March 25 with the unveiling of a monument dedicated to those impacted by residential schools.
“Keep banging on the hand drum.”
That’s the advice Shibastik offers in his latest video — Hand Drum — after he was asked to write a hip hop anthem for Cree people.
“I thought that was kind of silly to have a hip hop anthem,” said the Moose Cree hip hop artist and workshop facilitator. “Right away I thought that our anthems are our big drum songs and our hand drum songs and our traditional music. So right away that was the chorus I came up with: that we don’t need an anthem, we just have to keep banging on our hand drums.”
Employment opportunities look good in the Treaty 3 area with Treasury Metals’ Goliath gold mine set to spin off about 1,000 jobs by late 2015.
“About 200 direct (jobs) and we think there will be about 800 indirect jobs,” said Norm Bush, vice president of operations for Treasury Metals. “So the total employment impact should be about 1,000 people.”
Gary Wassaykeesic’s relentless search for information about his mother’s 1976 death has led him to an activist role for a variety of causes.
The Dennis Franklin Cromarty Student Living Centre is scheduled to open for the beginning of the 2015-16 school year with accommodations for 150 students and up to 50 family members.
A group of Sachigo Lake youth have completed the winter-road portion of their 1,000-kilometre Journey of New Beginnings fundraising walk to Thunder Bay.
“At 12 o’clock I got a call from them saying they were at the Windigo Road already,” said Dean Beardy, spokesman for the 10 walkers, on April 8. “They pushed it for last three days before the winter road got too wet.”
Fort Severn Chief Joe Crowe said polar bear numbers are not down after the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species recently defeated a ban on polar bear trade.
“The MNR (Ministry of Natural Resources) was claiming that the population of polar bears are declining,” Crowe said. “I don’t believe that.”
Ontario changed the classification of the polar bear population from special concern to threatened in 2009, and has since developed a Recovery Strategy for Polar Bear in Ontario.
Lac Seul First Nation is developing a culinary school and restaurant in an old grocery store in Hudson.
A group of Youth for Lakes walkers is raising concerns about Lake Winnipeg’s deteriorating environmental conditions by walking more than 2,100 kilometres to Ottawa.
“It’s very important to protect our water — we’re walking for our water,” said Ben Raven, a Jackhead First Nation Treaty 7 citizen from Winnipeg. “Some of our last consumable water is under threat, especially in our home communities on Lake Winnipeg, which is one of the most threatened lakes in the world. We’re the next generation so we’re trying to protect our future.”
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...