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Revered First Nations leader Elijah Harper has passed away.
Harper died on May 17 of a heart attack. He was 64.
His wife, Anita Olsen Harper, children and the Harper family issued the following statement:
Lawyers for Grassy Narrows First Nation have asked for leave to take the community’s legal fight over clear-cut logging to the Supreme Court of Canada.
The move towards the Supreme Court comes after Grassy Narrows first won its court case against Ontario in 2011, and then had the ruling overturned by Ontario’s court of appeal earlier this year.
First Nations business owners in northern Ontario can take advantage of business management training through a new partnership between the federal government and Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN).
NAN plans to deliver a series of business management training “mini-summits” across northern Ontario, to help business owners develop in their own communities.
When Wawahte author Robert Wells first heard the audio version of the book, he was amazed at how similar the readers sounded to the people that first shared their residential school stories with him.
One woman in particular, Sharon Bodan, who read the part of Esther Faries of Constance Lake First Nation, sounded so perfect that Wells could not distinguish between the character and the real life person.
“The voices really added a cadence into the story that made it so authentic,” Wells said. “I just couldn’t believe that I was a part of something that sounded so good.”
Thunder Bay Walmart stores have become the corporation’s first outlets in North America to welcome customers in an indigenous language.
At a presentation on June 3, Walmart Thunder Bay manager Paul Anthraper displayed the new welcome signs in Ojicree that will hang in the entrances of all three Thunder Bay Walmart stores.
Ontario Regional Chief Stan Beardy, who visited Walmart for the presentation, said the recognition of the importance of First Nations customers is a positive gesture.
The Guardian Newspaper recently did a series of articles on how global climate change is going to affect food supplies around the world in the coming years. The results were dramatic, and quite frightening.
The temperature increase that The Guardian used as a comparison point was 2 C. That is a conservative estimate of future climate change. Many scientists claim that even if greenhouse gasses were severely reduced starting today, the planet will still reach the 2 C increase. If nothing is done, some predict global temperature increases as high as 3.5 C.
Federal Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt has come under fire for comments he made on the United Nations (UN) Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Valcourt comments to the Montreal Gazette are being deemed insensitive and misleading.
Valcourt told the newspaper that the “UN Declaration is an aspirational document that doesn’t affect the government’s treaty and Aboriginal rights obligation under the Constitution.”
Chiefs of Ontario Regional Chief Stan Beardy took issue with Valcourt’s comments.
Citing a list of holdups with its proposed Ring of Fire chromite project, Cliffs Natural Resources announced on June 12 it has suspended its environmental assessment (EA) for the $3.3 billion mine project.
Bill Boor, Cliffs senior vice president, told Wawatay News that the uncertainty over the federal EA process – given Matawa First Nations’ ongoing legal case calling for a Joint Review Panel assessment – played a significant role in Cliffs decision to halt the project.
A long legacy of service, leadership and dedication to the people of Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) is being commemorated after the passing of one of NAN’s most prominent and well-respected Elders.
Frank Beardy of Muskrat Dam First Nation passed away June 13 after a lengthy illness.
A partnership between Wawatay and Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) on a project training journalists in communities across northern Ontario kicked off last week.
The Northern Ontario Initiative will see two journalism trainers spend three months each in six communities, training community members in print and radio journalism and helping them develop their own freelance journalism business.
Gold has arrived. Here in the north of Ontario we see vast streams of gold shimmering across the landscape as autumn is here and the the leaves are turning...
I am the product, evolution of many thousands of years as are you. I grew up on the land in the remote far north of Ontario following in the footsteps of my...