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Lenny Carpenter/Wawatay NewsFamily, friends and community members join Lyle Fox on the last leg of the Penasi Walk Against Prescription Drug Abuse as he arrived in Thunder Bay Sept. 1. Fox started the walk Aug. 22 from Pelican Falls First Nation High School in Sioux Lookout to raise awareness and money for the epidemic sweeping First Nations in northern Ontario.

ᓫᐁᓂ ᑲᕑᐱᐣᑐᕑ ᐊᐧᐊᐧᑌ ᐊᒋᒧᐃᐧᓇᐣ

ᐊᐱ ᐅᑕᑕᒪᐣ ᑲᐃᐡᑲᐧ ᐊᓂᒧᒥᑯᐨ, ᓫᐊᔭᓫ ᐸᐧᐠᐢ ᑭᐅᑦᐱᑲᐸᐃᐧ.ᐅᓇᒪᐣᒋᓯᑕᐣ ᑭᔭᐱᐨ ᑭᔭᑯᐱᑌᓂ, ᐁᑲᐧ ᐣᑯᑕᐧᓱᒥᓯᐟ ᒥᓇ ᓂᔭᓄᒥᒋᒐᐣ ᐊᐱᒋᑲᐸᐃᐧ ᒥᓇ 225 ᐊᐱᒋᑯᓯᑲᐧᓂ ᐁᑲᐧ ᑭᐊᔓᐡᑲ ᐊᓴᒥᓴᑲᐣᐠ ᐁᐃᐧᐅᐣᒋ ᐊᔭᒥᑐᐨ ᐅᒪᓯᓇᐦᐃᑲᐣ ᑲᐃᐧᑎᐸᒋᒧᐨ.ᑭᐅᓂᔑᑫᐧᑲᐸᐃᐧ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐱᓇᒪ ᑭᑯᐢᑲᐊᐧᒋᑲᐸᐃᐧ. ᑕᓯᐣ ᑲᑭᐱᔕᐊᐧᐨ, ᑭᐅᑯᐡᑲᐊᐧᐠ ᒣᑕᐁᐧᐃᐧᐊᑲᒥᑯᐠ ᐃᒪ ᑌᓇᐢ ᑊᕑᐊᐣᑭᓫᐃᐣ ᑯᕑᐊᒧᕑᑎ ᐦᐊᔾ ᐢᑯᓫ ᐁᐃᐧ ᐱᓯᐣᑕᐊᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᑫᐃᓇᒋᒧᓂᐨ ᑲᑭᐱᒪᐦᐊᑐᐨ ᑭᒋ ᐅᑕᐸᓂᒥᑲᓇᐠ ᐁᐧᑎ ᐊᐧᓂᓇᐧᐊᑲᐠ ᑲᑭᐅᐣᒋᒪᒐᐨ ᐁᐧᑎ ᑕᐣᑐᕑ ᐯ ᑲᑭᐃᔑᑕᑯᔑᐠ, ᐅᑭᐱᐦᐊᐊᐧᐣ ᒋᒪᒋᑎᐸᒋᒧᓂᐨ ᐁᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒪᐧᐊᐨ ᐁᐅᐣᒋᐡᑲᐃᐧᑲᐸᐧᐃᓂᐨ ᐁᑲ ᓇᐣᑕ ᐁᑭᐃᑭᑐᓂᐨ, ᓂᔕᐧ ᑭᑭᒋᐸᑭᑕᓇᒧ, ᒥᓇᐊᐧ ᑭᒧᒋᐊᐧᐁᐧᔑᑐᓀᓂ. ᑲᐧᐃᐣ ᒪᔑ ᐅᑐᐣᒋᑲᐡᑭᑐᓯᐣ ᓇᐣᑕ ᒋᐃᑭᑐᐨ.ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᐱᐣ ᐅᑕᑕᒪᐣ ᒐᕑᓫᐃᐢ, ᑭᓂᐸᐃᐧ ᐁᑭᐊᐣᑐ ᐃᐧᒋᑲᐸᐃᐧᑕᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑯᓯᓴᐣ, ᓂᔑᑕᓇ ᓂᓴᐧᓱᔕᑊ ᑕᓱᔭᑭᐃᐧᓀ ᐊᐁᐧ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᐢ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᑲᔦ ᐅᒪᒪᒪᐣ ᓫᐃᐣᑕ, ᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᑭᐃᐧᒋᑲᐸᐃᐧᑕᑯᐣ, ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐁᐱᐣ, ᐊᐃᓇᓀᐤ ᑕᓱᔭᑭᐃᐧᓀᐊᐧᐣ ᐅᑯᓯᓴᐣ.ᑭᒪᒪᐃᐧᑲᐸᐃᐧᐊᐧᐠ – ᒐᕑᓫᐃᐢ ᐅᑭᓴᒥᓇᐣ ᐅᑯᓯᓴᐣ ᐅᑎᑎᒪᓇᐠ – ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᐱᐣ ᓇᑫ

ᑭᑭᒋ ᐸᐸᑭᑕᓇᒧ, ᐊᒥ ᐁᑲᐧ ᓫᐊᔭᓫ ᑲᑭᐅᑦᐱᑫᐧᓂᐨ.–ᓫᐊᔭᓫ ᐸᐧᐠᐢ ᐣᑎᔑᓂᑲᐢ,– ᑭᐃᑭᑐ. –ᐁᑲᐧ ᐁᐧᑎ ᒥᒋᑲᐣᓴᑲᐃᑲᓂᐠ ᐣᑐᒋ.–ᐅᐁᐧ ᑲᑭᐃᔑᓇᑲᐧᐠ ᒥᑐᓂ ᐱᑯ

ᑭᐊᑲᓯᓇᑲᐧᓂ ᐅᐱᒧᓭᐃᐧᐣ ᓫᐊᔭᓫ ᑲᑭᒪᒋᑐᐸᐣ ᒥᑕᓱᑯᐣ ᐃᔑᐅᑕᓇᐠ – ᒥᐊᐱ ᐊᐧᐁᐧ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᐢ ᑲᑭᓇᑭᐡᑲᐠ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᔭᓂᒪᓂᐠ ᑲᐃᐧᑲᑫᐧᒋᑐᐨ, ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐅᐊᑯᒪᑲᓇᐣ ᐁᑭᐱᓇᓯᑲᑯᐨ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐊᐱ ᑲᑭᐊᐣᑕᐁᐧᐣᑕᐠ ᒋᐃᐧᒋᐦᐊᑲᓄᐨ.ᐁᑲᐧ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐅᐸᐅᐃᐧᐱᓯᑦ 22, ᐊᒥ ᐊᐱ ᓫᐊᔭᓫ ᑲᑭᔭᓂᒪᒋᐦᐊᑐᐨ ᐁᐧᑎ ᐯᓫᐃᑲᐣ ᐸᐧᓫᐢ ᐊᐧᓂᓇᐧᐊᑲᐠ ᐊᐱᐣ ᐁᐃᐧᐃᓇᐦᐊᑐᐨ ᑕᐣᑐᕑ ᐯ ᐦᐊᔾ ᐢᑯᓫ. ᐅᐁᐧᓂ ᑕᐡ ᑲᑭᐅᐣᒋᐃᔑᒋᑫᐨ: ᐁᐃᐧᑭᑫᐣᑕᒧᐦᐃᐁᐧᐨ ᑲᐊᐧᓂᐊᐸᒋᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᒪᐡᑭᑭᐣ ᐊᔕ ᒥᔑᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᔭᓂᒥᐦᐃᑯᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑌᓇᐠ ᒥᓇ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑲᐃᔑᑲᐯᔑᐊᐧᐨ. ᐊᒥ ᑲᑭᐃᔑᓂᑲᑕᐣᐠ ᐅᐱᒧᓭᐃᐧᐣ ᐱᓀᓯ ᐱᒧᓭᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᑲᑫᐧ ᑭᐱᑎᓂᑲᑌᐠ ᑲᐊᐧᓂᐊᐸᒋᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᒪᐡᑭᑭᐣ.ᐊᒥ ᑲᑭᐃᔑᐅᓇᒋᑫᐨ ᓫᐊᔭᓫ ᐊᐧᐊᔑᒣ 400 ᑭᓫᐅᒥᑕᕑᐢ ᒋᐃᓇᐦᐊᑐᐨ ᐃᐧᓂᑯ ᑫᒋᐊᐧᐨ ᒋᒧᑕᐦᐊᑐᐨ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᐱᐣ ᓂᐦᓱᑯᐣ ᑲᔭᓂᐱᒧᓭᐨ, ᑭᔭᓂᐱᑯᓯᑌᔑᐣ. ᐅᑭᐅᓇᑐᓇᐸᐣ 40 ᑭᓫᐅᒥᑕᕑᐢ ᑕᓱᑭᔑᑲ ᒋᐱᒧᓭᐨ, ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᑕᐡ ᒋᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᑲᐡᑭᑐᐨ. ᐱᓂᐡ ᑲᔦ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᑲᐱᒧᓭᐨ ᑭᑲᑭᒋᓄᑲᓀ, ᑭᐸᑭᐳᐣᑲᓀ ᒥᓇ ᑭᐸᑲᐧᓯᑌ, ᒥᐱᑯ ᐁᑕ 24 ᑭᓫᐊᒥᑕᕑᐢ ᑲᑭᑲᐡᑭᑐᐨ ᒋᐃᑯᐡᑲᐨ.

ᐁᑲᐧ 27 ᑭᓫᐅᒥᑕᕑᐢ ᑭᔭᑯᐡᑲ ᓂᐦᓱᑯᐣ ᑲᐱᒧᓭᐨ – ᒪᒪᐤ 72 ᒥᓂᑯᐠ ᐃᐁᐧ 400 ᑭᓫᐅᒥᑕᕑᐢ – ᑭᐃᔑᐃᐧᓇᑲᓄ ᑎᕑᐊᔾᑎᐣ ᐊᑯᓯᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐠ, ᒥᑕᐡ ᑲᐃᓇᑲᓄᐨ ᐁᑲ ᒋᐱᒧᓭᐊᐧᑫᐨ ᐅᓯᑕᐣ ᓂᔓᐱᒥᑯᓇᑲ.–ᐅᐁᐧ ᑲᑭᐃᑯᔭᐣ ᒥᑐᓂ ᐣᑭᔭᓂᒥᐦᐃᑯᐣ,–

ᓫᐊᔭᓫ ᐅᑭᐃᓇᒋᒧᑕᐊᐧᐣ ᑲᑭᐱ ᐱᓯᐣᑕᑯᓯᐨ ᒥᔑᐣ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐣ. –ᐅᐣᒋᑕ ᐱᑯ ᑲᐸᐧᓇᐃᐧᒋᑫᐨ ᐣᑭᐃᓀᓂᒥᑎᐢ, ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᑯ ᐣᑲᑫᐧᑎᐸᐸᐣᑕᐣ ᐊᔕ ᑫᑯᐣ ᑲᐃᑭᑎᔭᐣ. ᐊᓂᐣ ᐊᒥ ᑲᑭᐃᑭᑎᔭᐣ 400 ᑭᓫᐅᒥᑕᕑᐢ ᒋᐃᓇᐦᐊᑐᔭᐣ.–ᐁᑲᐧ ᑲᔭᓂᐊᐧᐸᓂᐠ ᐅᑭᑯᒋᑐᐣ ᒋᐱᒧᓭᐨ, ᐯᔓᐨ ᐁᑕ ᑭᐊᑯᐡᑲ ᐊᐱᐣ ᒥᓇᐊᐧ ᑲᑭᐃᔑᐃᐧᓇᑲᓄᐨ ᐊᑯᓯᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐠ ᐁᐧᓴ ᐁᑭᐱᒋᐳᐃᐧᓭᐨ. ᒥᑕᐡ ᑲᑐᑕᐊᐧᑲᓄᐨ ᐁᑭᐊᑯᑕᒪᐊᐧᑲᓄᐨ ᒥᓇ ᒪᐡᑭᑭᓂ ᐁᑭᒥᓇᑲᓄᐨ ᑲᑭᑫᐡᑲᑫᒪᑲᓂᐠ ᒥᓇ ᑭᐃᓇᑲᓄ ᑕᓱᑭᔑᑲ ᒋᐱᑭᐁᐧᐨ ᒋᓇᓇᐱᑐᑕᐊᐧᑲᓄᐨ ᐅᓇᑕᐃᐧᐦᐃᑯᐃᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᒋᐊᐣᑕᐱᒋᑲᑌᓂᐠ ᐅᑕᑯᐱᓂᑯᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᓇᒪᒋᓯᑕᓂᐠ.ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᒥᐢᑕᐦᐃ ᑭᐅᐣᒋᐊᔐᓭᓂ ᐅᑎᔑᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᓫᐊᔭᓫ, ᐊᓂᐡ ᐁᑭᐃᑭᑐᐨ ᒋᑲᑫᐧᑭᔑᑐᐨ ᐅᐱᒧᓭᐃᐧᐣ. ᓂᐦᓱᑯᐣ ᑲᔭᓂᐃᓯᓭᓂᐠ, ᐅᐊᐧᑯᒪᑲᓇᐣ ᑭᐱᐅᐣᒋᑕᑯᔑᓄᐣ ᐁᐱᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᑯᐨ. ᐊᒥ ᑲᑭᐃᑯᐨ ᒋᐱᒧᓭᑕᒪᑯᐨ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐃᐧᐣ ᐁᑲ ᑲᑭᑲᐡᑭᑐᐨ ᒋᐱᒧᓭᐨ.–ᐅᐁᐧ ᑕᐡ ᑲᑭᓄᐣᑌᒪᑭᓯᑌᔑᓇᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐁᑲ ᐊᐱᐣ ᑲᑭᐱᒧᓭᔭᐣ, ᐊᒥ ᐣᑕᐊᐧᐨ

ᑲᑭᐸᑭᑌᐣᑕᒪᐣ,– ᓫᐊᔭᓫ ᑭᐃᓇᒋᒧ. –ᐣᑕᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᐱᐣ ᐁᑭᐃᓯᓭᐠ ᒋᑲᑫᐧᒋᒪᑲᐧ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᒋᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᔑᐊᐧᐨ. ᐣᑭᑲᓄᓇᐠ ᓂᐊᐧᑯᒪᑲᓇᐠ ᒥᓇ ᑯᑕᑭᔭᐠ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᒋᐱᐊᓱᓂᔑᐊᐧᐨ.–ᒥᑕᐡ ᑲᑐᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑭᒪᒥᐡᑲᐧᒋᐊᐧᐨ, ᓫᐊᔭᓫ ᑭᐱᒧᓭᔭᑯᐅᑎᓱ ᐁᑭᔭᐸᒋᑐᐨ ᓯᑕᐧᑯᐅᑎᓱᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐅᐊᐧᑯᒪᑲᓇᐣ ᐅᑭᐱᒧᓭᑕᒪᑯᐣ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᑲᔭᓀᐧᔑᐣᐠ ᓇᐣᑕ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐊᑯᓯᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐠ ᑲᐅᐣᑕᒥ ᐃᔑᐃᐧᓇᑲᓄᐨ.–ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᐁᐧ ᐣᑐᒋᐃᐣᓀᑕᓇᐸᐣ ᒋᐃᓯᓭᐠ

ᐣᐱᒧᓭᐃᐧᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ,– ᓫᐊᔭᓫ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ. –ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᔦ ᐃᐁᐧ ᒋᐅᐣᒋᐃᔑᐊᐧᐸᐣᑕᒪᐣ ᐃᐁᐧ ᑲᑭᔭᓂᓯᓭᐠ. ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᑕᐡ ᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᐁᐧ ᓇᐣᑕ. ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᑯ ᐣᑭᒥᓇᐧᐱᔑᒥᑯᐣ ᐅᐁᐧ ᑲᑭᑐᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᑭᐱᐅᑯᐡᑲᐊᐧᐨ.–ᐁᒪᐧᔦ ᐊᓂᒪᒋᐦᐊᑐᐨ, ᓫᐊᔭᕑ ᐅᑭᒥᓂᑯᐣ ᑭᒋᐦᐊᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑲᐊᓱᐡᑲᒪᑯᐨ ᑕᐧᑦ ᒋᓱ ᐃᓂᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᒥᑲᐧᓇᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐃᒪ ᒥᑎᑯᐠ ᐁᓂᐁᐧᑯᒋᓂᐨ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᔕᑯᐨ ᓂᐦᓱᑯᐣ ᑲᔭᓂᐃᓯᓭᓂᐠ ᐅᓄᑲᓂᐠ, ᐅᐳᐣᑲᓂᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐅᓯᑕᐣ ᒥᑐᓂ ᐊᐱᐣ ᑭᐸᐧᓇᐃᐧᒋᑫ, ᐁᑲᐧ ᐅᑕᐁᐧᒪᐣ ᐅᑭᒥᑲᐣ ᒥᑎᑯᓂ ᐁᐸᐱᒪᑯᓯᓂ ᐁᓇᐣᑲᑲᐧᓂᐠ ᒋᐊᓴᐧᑲᐧᐅᑎᓱᐊᐧᑫ. ᒥᑕᐡ ᐃᐁᐧᓂ ᑲᑭᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᑯᐨ ᒪᒋᐨ 8 ᑭᓫᐅᒥᑕᕑ ᒋᔭᓂᑕᑲᐧᐦᐊᑐᐨ. ᑭᐊᔑᐡᑭᐊᐧᑲᓂᐸᐣ ᐃᐁᐧᓂ ᒥᑎᑯᓂ, ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᐱᐣ ᑲᐧᕑᐃᐣ ᑲᔭᓂ ᓂᑲᓂᐸᑐᐨ ᒥᑐᓂ ᑭᐸᔦᑲᑲᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᒥᑲᐧᐣ ᐃᒪ ᑭᓴᑲᐱᓱ.

ᐃᓇᐱᐣ ᐸᑭᑭᓂᑲᓂᐠ 3

Lenny CarpenterWawatay News

After his father introduced him, Lyle Fox stood up.

His left foot still bandaged, he car-ried his 6-foot 5-inch and 225-pound frame across the stage to the podium, where he laid out his speaking notes.

He looked down and remained silent. The audience, who had gath-ered at the gymnasium at the Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School (DFC) to hear him after he began walking from Sioux Lookout to Thunder Bay, could only watch as the young man pursed his lips, took two deep breaths, and pursed his lips again. Still he did not speak.

Then his father, Charles, went and stood beside his 27-year-old son. His mom, Linda, soon followed, then Evan, his eight-year-old son.

All stood together – Charles’s hand on his son’s shoulder – and after a cou-ple more deep breaths, Lyle looked up.

“My name is Lyle Fox,” he said. “And I’m from Bearskin Lake First Nation.”

The scene was a microcosm of the journey Lyle began 10 days ago – where a young man faced a challeng-ing task, and a family that came to his side when he needed them most.

On Aug. 22, Lyle took his first steps at Pelican Falls in Sioux Lookout to begin his walk to DFC in Thunder Bay. His goal: to raise awareness of pre-scription drug abuse that has plagued First Nations people in the city and northern communities. He called it the Penasi Walk Against Prescription Drug Abuse.

Lyle had planned to walk more than 400 kilometres on his own using his own two feet. But after three days, those feet began to wear. His daily goal was 40 kilometres, but he failed to reach it. Walking with a sore hip, swol-len ankle and blistered feet, he aver-aged 24 kilometres.

After walking 27 kilometres on the third day – 72 of the 400 kilometres – Lyle was taken to a hospital in Dryden, where he was told he should stay off his feet for at least two weeks.

“This instruction felt devastating,” Lyle told the crowd. “I felt failure, because I like to stick to my word. I said I would walk 400 kilometres.”

When he tried walking the next day, he only made it a kilometre before he had to be taken to the hospital again because of an infection. This time, he was given an IV and antibiotics and he was told he would need to return each day for the same treatment and to reapply the bandages on his left foot.

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Penasi Walk humble experience

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Nishnawbe Aski Nation is calling for a commission of inquiry into the deaths of seven NAN youth in Thunder Bay after the reggie Bushie Inquest was recently suspended.

“A commission of inquiry is the only way to fully investigate the circumstances surrounding these tragic deaths and to find ways to prevent similar trag-edies from happening again,” said NAN Deputy Grand Chief Terry Waboose Sept. 12. “Last week’s ruling confirms what we have suspected for years – that First Nations have been system-atically excluded from the jus-tice system.”

A commission of inquiry is a body established by govern-ment to look into matters of public concern and report its findings.

Waboose said if an inquest into the death of reggie Bushie were held, it would not address all seven deaths, two of which occurred after Bushie died in 2007.

Waboose believes a commis-sion of inquiry would provide answers to the people of NAN about why the seven youth died and the circumstances of their deaths.

“But more importantly, I think it’s the parents, family

members and even the com-munities that need answers as to why these deaths have occurred over the last number of years,” Waboose said. “That’s a long time, and they need clo-sure. You can’t move on in life with these things troubling you. They are owed answers as to why their children have per-ished, and to the reasons why with the view of fixing and pre-venting most importantly any further tragedies like this.”

David S. Eden, presiding coroner at the reggie Bushie Inquest, said in his Sept. 9 rul-ing that he found deficiencies in the steps taken by staff in the Thunder Bay Judicial Dis-trict during their preparation of the 2011 jury roll. Those deficiencies include sending letters to First Nation chiefs addressed to The Chief instead of their actual names; no effort to ensure, by personal visit or other official contact, that the chief and council of each reserve was informed of the importance of the membership list; and follow-up phone calls to the generic The Chief letters were only to the person who answered the phone at the band office, not the chief or a coun-cillor. Eden’s report also noted there was no evidence that Thunder Bay Judicial District staff sought help from Native court workers, the Crown

Attorney’s office, or any other potential resources as set out in a 1996 memorandum outlining procedures for Court Services staff on collecting lists of resi-dents from First Nations.

“It is therefore my finding that the 2011 jury roll for the Judicial District of Thunder Bay is not representative, and does not comply with Section 6(8) of the Juries Act,” Eden said in his ruling. “The inquest cannot pro-ceed until the jury roll is repre-sentative.”

Bushie, a 15-year-old Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School student from Poplar Hill, died in 2007 while attending school in Thunder Bay. His body was recovered from the McIntyre

river in November 2007 and an inquest into his death was scheduled to begin in January 2009. The inquest was delayed, however, after NAN and legal counsel for the Bushie family questioned the validity of the selection process for the five-member jury.

While Bushie’s death was to be the focus of the inquest, the deaths of four other NAN youth who died in Thunder Bay under similar circumstances were to be considered as part of the overall context. Since then, two more NAN youth, Kyle Morri-seau, 17, and Jordan Wabasse, 15, have also died in Thunder Bay under similar circum-stances.

“The patterns in these deaths are troubling and simply can’t be ignored,” said Julian Fal-coner, NAN’s legal counsel. “It is clear that if the truth is to come out about the deaths of these seven youth nothing short of a commission of inquiry will suf-fice.”

Falconer said it has become apparent since 2008 that the exclusion of First Nations from the justice system is far more serious than what the public was told.

“The truth is coming out and various proceedings are com-ing to a standstill,” Falconer said. “This makes the Iacobucci review all the more important. It is up to this government to

provide First Nations with a process that will credibly look at all seven deaths – the inquest system can’t do it.”

Waboose and Falconer both said the inquest system is not the best way to discover what happened to the seven youth.

“It’s limited, and we saw those limitations from the out-set,” Waboose said. “It’s just not the proper system to investigate and to find out what happened to these young people.”

Frank Iacobucci, a former Supreme Court Justice, was appointed by the Ontario Min-istry of the Attorney General on Aug. 11 to inquire into and report on First Nation represen-tation on Ontario jury rolls.

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Rick Garrick/Wawatay NewsJulian Falconer, right, legal counsel for Nishnawbe Aski Nation, speaks about the need for a commission of inquiry into the deaths of seven NAN youth who died while attending high school in Thunder Bay during a Sept. 12 press conference in Thunder Bay. Falconer is joined by Christa Big Canoe, legal advocacy director with Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto, left, and NAN Deputy Grand Chief Terry Waboose, centre.

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It was a huge setback for Lyle, who had insisted on walk-ing every inch of the walk.

“I know there was a time where he wanted to give up,” Linda, his mother, said.

But Lyle continued to receive a lot of encouragement and support from family and friends.

“That’s what kept him going,” she said.

On that third day, his family came to his aid. They said they would walk for him when he couldn’t.

“With my personal injury and inability to walk, I had to swal-low my pride,” Lyle told the audience. “I had to ask others to help. I reached out to my family and others for that help.”

In a relay style, Lyle would walk on his own using crutches and family members would walk for him while he rested or was taken to the hospital for treatment.

By Aug. 31, Lyle and the walkers were near Kakabeka Falls, just west of Thunder Bay. Since Lyle stopped walking on his own, the walkers had aver-aged 51 kilometres a day. After starting the first kilometre or so, Lyle rested.

“I’m feeling good,” he said of his health as he approached the city.

The rawness of his foot was gone and he was able to put pressure on it. He no longer needed to go to the hospital for treatment or bandage changes. However, he still needed crutches.

“The whole walk is not how I imagined it,” Lyle said. “I never pictured it the way it turned out. It’s not a bad thing. It’s really positive seeing people come together.”

Up ahead, his cousin Corinne carried the eagle feather – the relay stick, so-to-speak, of the walk.

Lyle was given the feather on a stick made of oak by Elder and supporter Tom Chisel. However, on that third day when his hip, ankle and feet took its toll, his sister found a

lighter stick in a ditch that he could use as a crutch. It helped him walk the last eight kilome-tre of the day. It was covered in dirt and mud then, but as Corinne ran ahead, it was now clean and had the feather tied to it.

“Everyone who walked held the stick,” Lyle said.

Corinne continued to run until she reached an intersec-tion where family and support-ers were waiting. representa-tives from various regional and community Aboriginal organi-zations were on hand to help with the walk. Laughter and chatter was heard amongst the group as tobacco was handed to passersby or supporters so that they may make an offering and prayer to the road for their safety.

After Corinne passed on the feather, she said she took part to help her cousin and family in the cause.

“It’s been good,” she said of her experience. “It’s been a team effort doing the run and we’ve had nice weather.”

Among the crowd was a proud father in Charles. He said the experience has been “very inspirational.”

“It’s been satisfying spiritu-ally for everyone involved,” he said.

He said drivers would stop along the highway and donate, and they received many emails and text messages offering sup-port and encouragement.

“When you initiate some-thing like this, the spirit of the issue takes over.”

When the walkers left Kaka-beka Falls, they took a detour through Oliver road instead of Highway 11/17. It was a last minute change of route, Lyle said, because he wanted to visit the grave of his brother.

Penasi means Thunderbird, the spirit name of Darryl Fox,

who passed away from cancer almost nine years ago. Lyle initi-ated the walk to commemorate his spirit, his strength and his memory.

As Lyle approached the grave, he said it was “very emo-tional.” They had a small cere-mony, where they prayed, sang a song and offered tobacco. After 30 minutes, they contin-ued the walk.

On Sept. 1, Lyle – along with family, friends, supporters, DFC students and members of the general public – walked the final three kilometres from Canadian Tire on Arthur St. to DFC.

While he was expecting to speak with DFC students in the school’s gymnasium, Lyle also found himself speaking before leaders, politicians, elders, media and public members.

Jonathon Kakegamic, princi-pal of DFC, said he was appre-ciative of Lyle’s initiative.

“Before we can begin to address our issues, we need to acknowledge that there is a problem,” he said. “So I’m very grateful for Lyle, who’s a former grad.”

In the gymnasium, a 2002-03 boys’ volleyball championship banner is pinned to the wall. The first name listed: Lyle Fox. He captained his team to the championship that year.

“So he did always have lead-ership skills,” Kakegamic, who was a teacher at the time, said.

Leaders and Elders who spoke at the school also com-mended Lyle for his walk and the leadership he demon-strated. But Lyle was quick to acknowledge the support he received: the drivers who trans-ported people and supplies, the cooks who ensured the group was fed, Elders for providing spiritual guidance, the walkers that walked on his behalf, and the family that supported him

from the beginning.For Lyle, the Penasi Walk

Against Prescription Drug Abuse offered an important life lesson. He told the students that stubbornness dictated that he walk the entire way on his own, but “our Creator has his or her own way of teaching us lessons – lessons in humility.”

“I want to share this lesson with you: that it’s OK in your time of need to reach out and ask for help,” Lyle said. “Do not let your pride, stubbornness or shame get in the way of reach-ing out. This will enable you to reach your full potential as a student, as a First Nations per-son, as a teenager, as a human being.”

At the end of his address, Lyle announced that another walk will take place next year.

“I want you all to join and maybe take a few steps,” he said. “What matters is we take those steps together.”

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–ᑲᑭᓇ ᐊᐃᐧᔭ ᑲᑭᐱᒧᓭᐨ ᐅᑭᑕᑯᓇᐣ ᐃᐁᐧᓂ ᒥᑎᑯᓂ,– ᓫᐊᔭᓫ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ.ᐊᐱ ᐅᐸᐅᐃᐧᐱᓯᑦ 31 ᑲᐃᓇᑭᓱᐨ, ᐅᐱᒧᓭᐠ ᑲᔭᓂᐯᔕᐧᐸᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᑕᐣᑐᕑ ᐯ, ᐅᑕᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫᐠ ᐱᑯ ᐊᐣᑎ ᐃᓀᑫ ᒥᓇ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑲᑕᓇᓄᑭᐊᐧᐨ ᑫᐃᐧᓇᐊᐧ ᑭᐱ ᐱᒧᓭᐊᐧᐠ. ᑭᐸᐱᓇᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑭᓇᓄᑕᑯᓯᓇᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᐃᒪ ᑲᑭᐅᑯᐱᒧᓭᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᐯᑭᐡ ᑲᔦ ᓇᓭᒪᐣ ᐁᑭᒪᒥᓂᑕᐧ ᑲᐱᒧᓭᐊᐧᐨ ᓇᐣᑕ ᑲᐊᓱᐡᑲᒪᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᒋᐸᑭᑎᓂᑲᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᓇᐣᑕ ᒋᐅᐣᒋᐊᔭᒥᒋᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᐧᔭᐠ ᒋᐃᓯᓭᐊᐧᐨ.ᑲᐧᕑᐃᐣ ᐸᐧᐠᐢ ᐃᑭᑐ ᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐁᑭᑕᑭᐧᐨ ᐁᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᐃᐧᑐᑲᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᐊᐧᑯᒪᑲᓇᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑯᑕᑭᔭᐠ ᐊᐧᑯᒪᑲᓇᐠ ᐅᐁᐧᓂ ᑲᑭᑐᑕᒥᓂᐨ. ᓄᒪᑫ ᑭᐱᒥᐸᑐ ᐁᑭᑕᑯᓇᐠ ᒥᑎᑯᓂ ᒥᑲᐧᓇᐣ ᑲᐃᔑᓴᑲᐱᓱᓂᐨ.–ᒥᑐᓂ ᑭᒥᓀᐧᐣᑕᑲᐧᐣ,– ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᐃᐁᐧᓂ ᑲᑭᐃᔑᐊᐧᐸᐣᑕᐣᐠ. – ᑭ ᒪ ᒪ ᐃ ᐧ ᑐ ᒋ ᑲ ᑌ ᑲᑭᐱᒥᐸᐦᐃᑎᓇᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᑭᒥᓄᑭᔑᑲ.–ᐁᑲᐧ ᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐊᐧᐁᐧ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑭ ᑭᒋᒥᓀᐧᐣᑕᐠ ᐅᑕᑕᒥᒪ ᒐᕑᓫᐃᐢ. ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᐅᐁᐧᓂ ᑲᑭᐃᔑᐊᐧᐸᐣᑕᐠ –ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᒋᑭᐡᑲᑯᐨ.––ᒥᑐᓂ ᑲᔦ ᑭᓇᐦᐁᐣᑕᑲᐧᐣ ᐃᒪ ᐅᑕᒐᑯᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᑭᓇ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᑲᑭᐃᐧᒋᑕᐧᐊᐧᐨ, – ᑭᐃᑭᑐ. ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᑲᐸᐱᒥᐱᓱᐊᐧᐨ ᑭᑲᑭᐱᒋᐊᐧᐠ ᐃᒪ ᑭ ᒋ ᐅ ᑕ ᐸ ᓂ ᒥ ᑲ ᓇ ᐠ

ᐁᑭᐸᐸᑭᑎᓂᑫᐊᐧᐨ, ᒥᓇ ᑭᐱᒪᒪᓯᓇᐦᐊᒪᐊᐧᐊᐧᐠ ᐃᒪ ᐱᐊᐧᐱᑯᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐃᒪ ᑭᑐᐃᐧᓀᓯᐠ ᑲᐅᐣᒋ ᒪᓯᓇᐦᐊᒪᑎᓇᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐁᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᐃᐧᐣᑕᒪᐃᐧᐣᑕᐧ ᐁᐊᓱᓂᑕᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐁᔑᐣᑭᒥᑕᐧ.–ᑭᐡᐱᐣ ᑫᑯᐣ ᑲᑲᐧᑫᒪᒋᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᑐᑲᐣ ᐅᐁᐧᓂ ᑲᑭᑐᑕᐠ, ᐊᒥᐱᑯ ᐊᐱᐣ ᐁᓂᔑᐱᒧᓭᒪᑲᐠ.–ᐅᐱᒧᓭᐠ ᑭᐸᑫᐡᑲᐊᐧᐠ ᐃᒪ ᐅᓫᐃᐳᕑ ᒥᑲᓇᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᐡᑲᐧᐨ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᑭᒋᒥᑲᓇᐠ 11/17. ᑫᑕᑕᐁᐧᐣ ᐃᑯ ᑭᐅᐣᒋᐃᓀᐣᑕᑦ ᒋᐸᑫᐡᑲᓂᐊᐧᐠ, ᐃᑭᑐ ᓫᐊᔭᓫ, ᐁᑭᓇᑕᐁᐧᐣᑕᐠ ᒋᑭᐅᑫᐨ ᑲᐃᔑᐱᒥᔑᓂᐨ ᐅᐢᑌᓯᐸᓂᐣ.ᐅᐁᐧ ᐱᓀᓯ ᑲᐃᑭᑐᓇᓂᐊᐧᐠ, ᐊᒥ ᑲᑭᐃᔑ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯᐃᐧᓂᑲᓱᐸᐣ ᑌᕑᐊᓫ ᐸᐧᐠᐢ, ᑲᑭᐳᓂᐱᒪᑎᓯᐸᐣ ᑫᑲᐟ ᓴᐣᑲᓱᔭᑭ ᐅᑕᓇᐠ ᑲᐊᒧᐁᐧᒪᑲᓂᐠ ᐊᑯᓯᐃᐧᓂ ᑲᑭᓂᓯᑯᐨ. ᓫᐊᔭᓫ ᐅᑭᒪᒋᑐᐣ ᐅᐁᐧᓂ ᐱᒧᓭᐃᐧᐣ ᐁᐃᐧᐅᐣᒋ ᒪᒥᑲᐃᐧᐣᑕᐠ ᐅᐱᒪᑎᓯᐃᐧᐣ, ᐅᒪᐡᑲᐃᐧᓯᐃᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑲᑭᐱᐊᐃᔑᔭᐨ.ᐊᐱ ᓫᐊᔭᓫ ᑲᔭᓂᐯᐧᔕᐸᐣᑕᐣᐠ ᓂᐣᑲᐧᐦᐊᑲᓂ, ᐊᒥᐁᑭᑐᐨ –ᒥᑐᓂ ᐁᑭᒧᔑᐦᐅᐨ.– ᐅᐸᐣᑭ ᐃᒪ ᑭᐊᔭᒥᒋᑫᐊᐧᐠ, ᑭᓂᑲᒧᐊᐧᐠ ᒥᓇ ᑭᐸᑭᑎᓂᑫᐊᐧᐠ ᓇᓭᒪᐣ. ᐊᐱᑕᐃᐧᐊᐧᑲᓭ ᑲᐃᐡᑲᐧᑭᔑᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᒥᓇᐊᐧ ᐊᐱᐣ ᑭᔭᓂᒪᒐᐊᐧᐠ.ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐊᐧᑌᐸᑲᐃᐧᐱᓯᑦ 1 ᑲᐃᓇᑭᓱᐨ, ᓫᐊᔭᓫ – ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᔑᐨ ᐅᐊᐧᑯᒪᑲᓇᐣ, ᐅᑐᑌᒪᐣ, ᑲᐱᒥᐊᓴᐧᐸᒥᑯᐨ, ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓂᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐱᑯ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ – ᐅᑭᐃᐧᒋᐱᒧᓭᒥᑯᐣ ᒪᒋᐨ ᓂᐦᓱ ᑭᓫᐅᒥᑕᕑᐣ ᐃᒪ ᑲᓀᑎᔭᐣ ᑕᔭᕑ ᐊᑕᐁᐧᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐠ ᐊᕑᑐᕑ ᒥᑲᓇᐠ ᐁᐧᑎ ᐊᐱᐣ ᐦᐊᔾ

ᐣᑯᓫ ᑲᐃᔑᐸᑕᑭᑌᐠ.ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐁᐃᓀᐣᑕᑭᐸᐣ ᐸᓂᐢᑫᐧ ᒋᑎᐸᒋᒧᑕᐊᐧᐨ ᐦᐊᔾ ᐢᑯᓫ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓂᐠ ᐃᒪ ᒣᑕᐁᐧᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐠ, ᓫᐊᔭᓫ ᐅᑭᐊᐧᐸᒪᐣ ᑫᐃᐧᓇᐊᐧ ᐃᒪ ᐁᑭᐱᔕᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᑫᐠ, ᑭᒋᐦᐊᐠ, ᑲᓇᓇᑕᐃᐧᑎᐸᒋᒧᐃᐧᓀᐊᐧᐨ ᒥᓇ ᐱᑯ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ.ᒐᐧᓂᑕᐣ ᑲᑭᑲᒥᐠ, ᑲᐃᐡᑯᓄᑭᒪᐃᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᑌᓇᐢ ᑊᕑᐊᐣᑭᓫᐃᐣ ᑯᕑᐊᒧᕑᑎ ᐦᐊᔾ ᐢᑯᓫ, ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᑭᓇᓇᑯᒧ ᓫᐊᔭᓫ ᑲᑭᑐᑕᐣᐠ.–ᐁᒪᐧᔦ ᑕᐡ ᐃᐧᔭᓂᒧᑕᒪᐠ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ ᑲᐃᔑᔭᓂᒥᓭᔭᐠ, ᐅᐣᒋᑕ ᐱᑯ ᐃᓯᓭᐸᐣ ᒋᐃᐧᐣᑕᒪᐠ ᐁᑕᑲᐧᐠ ᒪᒋᓭᐃᐧᐣ,– ᑭᐃᑭᑐ. –ᒥᑕᐡ ᑲᐅᐣᒋ ᓇᓇᑯᒪᐠ ᓫᐊᔭᓫ, ᐅᒪ ᑲᑭᑕᔑ ᑭᔑᑐᐨ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓄᐃᐧᐣ.–ᐁᑲᐧ ᐃᒪ ᒣᑕᐁᐧᐃᐧᑲᒥᐠ, ᐃᐁᐧ 2002-03 ᓇᐯᓴᐠ ᐸᐧᓫᐃᐸᐧᓫ ᐸᑭᓇᑫᐃᐧ ᑭᑭᓇᐊᐧᒋᒋᑲᐣ ᓭᓂᐸᐣ ᐊᑲᐧᐦᐃᑲᓱ ᐊᓴᒪᑎᑯᐣᐠ. ᓂᐢᑕᑦ ᐃᒪ ᑲᒪᓯᓇᐦᐃᑲᓱᐨ: ᓫᐊᔭᓫ ᐸᐧᐠᐢ. ᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᑭᓂᑲᓂᐡᑲᐊᐧᐸᓂᐣ ᑲᐃᐧᓂᑐᐦᐁᒪᐨ ᐃᐁᐧ ᐊᐱ ᑲᑭᐸᑭᓇᑫᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᑲᔭᑭᐊᐧᓂᐠ.–ᒥᐱᑯ ᑲᐯᐦᐃ ᑲᑭᐱᐃᔑᔭᐨ ᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐁᐃᔑᑲᐡᑭᐦᐅᐨ,– ᑲᑭᑲᒥᐠ ᐃᑭᑐ, ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᐦᐃᐁᐧᐸᐣ ᐃᐁᐧ ᐊᐱ.ᑲᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᒥᓇ ᑲᑭᒋᐦᐊᐃᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᑭᐊᔭᒥᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᑲᒥᑯᐠ ᑫᐃᐧᓇᐊᐧ ᐅᑭᓇᓇᑯᒪᐊᐧᐣ ᓫᐊᔭᓫᐊᐧᐣ ᑲᑭᐱᒧᓭᓂᐨ ᒥᓇ ᑲᑭᓇᑯᑕᒪᑫᐨ ᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐃᓀᑫ. ᔕᑯᐨ ᓫᐊᔭᓫ ᔐᒪᐠ ᐅᑭᐃᐧᐣᑕᐣ ᒥᐢᑕᐦᐃ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᑯᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᑭᒥᓇᑲᓄᐨ: ᐅᐱᒥᐱᓱᐠ ᑲᑭᐱᒥᐱᓇᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐊᐸᒋᒋᑲᓇᐣ, ᐅᑭᔑᑌᐳᐠ ᑲᑭᐊᔕᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ

ᑲᑭᐱᐃᐧᒋᑕᐧᐊᐧᐨ; ᑭᒋᐦᐊᐠ ᑲᑭᐊᓱᐡᑲᒪᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᒐᑯᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐃᓀᑫ, ᐅᐱᒧᓭᐠ ᑲᑭᐱᒧᓭᑕᒪᑯᐨ, ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐅᐊᐧᑯᒪᑲᓇᐣ ᓂᐢᑕᑦ ᐃᑯ ᑲᑭᐱᒥᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᑯᐨ.ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᐧᐁᐧ ᓫᐊᔭᓫ, ᐅᐁᐧ ᐱᓀᓯ ᐱᒧᓭᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᑲᑫᐧ ᑭᐱᑎᓂᑲᑌᐠ ᑲᐊᐧᓂᐊᐸᒋᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᒪᐡᑭᑭᐣ ᐅᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᑯᐣ ᑭᒋᑫᑯᐣ ᐃᒪ ᐱᒪᑎᓯᐃᐧᓂᐠ. ᐅᑭᐃᐧᐣᑕᒪᐊᐧᐣ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓂᐠ ᐃᒪ ᑲᑭᐊᔭᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᐧᓂᑯ ᐅᑎᓀᐣᑕᒧᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᑭᐱᒥᓂᔕᐦᐊᐣ ᐃᐧᓀᑕ ᒋᐱᒧᓭᐨ ᒥᓂᑯᐠ ᑲᐊᐱᓯᓇᑲᐧᓂᐠ ᑲᐃᐧᐃᓇᐦᐊᑐᐨ, ᐁᑲᐧ ᔕᑯᐨ ᑭᒪᑐᒥᓇᐣ ᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᑐᓀᐣᑕᐣ ᑫᐅᐣᒋ ᑭᑭᓄᐃᐧᓂᑯᔭᐠ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ – ᒋᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᑯᔭᐠ ᓂᐸᐧᑲᐃᐧᐣ.––ᒥᑕᐡ ᐅᐁᐧ ᑲᐃᐧᐣᑕᒪᐃᐧᓇᑯᐠ: ᑲᐃᐧᓂᐣ ᓇᐣᑕ ᑭᐡᐱᐣ ᐅᐣᒋᓄᑌᔑᒥᑯᔭᐣ ᑫᑯᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᐱᐣ ᒋᓇᒋᐸᐦᐃᐊᐧᓇᐨ ᒥᓇ ᒋᓇᑐᑕᒪᔭᐣ ᒋᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᑯᔭᐣ,– ᓫᐊᔭᓫ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ. –ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᒥᒋᒥᓇᐣ ᑭᑭᒋᓀᓂᒧᐃᐧᐣ, ᐁᑲ ᑲᔦ ᒋᔕᔑᐱᑕᒪᐣ ᓇᐣᑕ ᑭᒪᒣᓂᔐᐣᑕᒧᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᒪ ᒋᐅᐣᒋ ᓇᑲᓂᑯᔭᐣ ᒋᓇᓇᑐᓇᒪᐣ ᒋᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᑯᔭᐣ. ᒥᐦᐅᒪ ᑫᐅᐣᒋ ᑌᐱᓇᒪᐣ ᒥᓯᐁᐧ ᒋᑲᐡᑭᑐᔭᐣ ᑲᐃᐧᑲᑫᐧᑐᑕᒪᐣ ᑲᐃᐡᑯᓄᐃᐧᔭᐣ, ᑲᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧᔭᐣ, ᑲᐅᐡᑲᑎᓯᔭᐣ, ᑲᐱᒪᑎᓯᔭᐣ.–ᐊᐱ ᑲᔭᓂᑭᔑᑐᐨ ᐅᑕᔭᒥᐃᐧᐣ, ᓫᐊᔭᓫ ᐅᑭᐃᐧᐣᑕᐣ ᒥᓇᐊᐧ ᒋᐱᒧᓭᐃᐧᓂᑫᐨ ᒥᓇᐊᐧ ᐊᐦᑭᐊᐧᓂᐠ.–ᑭᐸᑯᓭᓂᒥᓇᐊᐧ ᒋᐃᐧᒋᐃᐧᔑᔦᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐸᐣᑭ ᒋᐱᑕᑯᑭᔦᐠ,– ᑭᐃᑭᑐ. –ᐃᐁᐧ ᑕᐡ ᑲᑭᒋᓀᐣᑕᑲᐧᐠ ᒋᑭᑐᑕᒪᑭᐸᐣ ᒪᒪᐤ ᒋᐱᒧᓭᓇᓂᐊᐧᐠ.–

Chris KornackiWawatay News

Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) is continuing their call on the federal and provincial governments and the general public to recognize the rapidly increasing rates of prescription drug abuse in NAN territory and Canada at large.

“OxyContin addiction did not begin in NAN communities; this drug is not made in our territory,” said Mike Metatawabin, NAN deputy grand chief, in a press release. “NAN First Nations face a very dangerous epidemic of an ultra-addictive drug amongst children, youth and all members.”

Metatawabin’s comments coincided with a walk led by Lyle Fox, a youth from Bearskin Lake First Nation who is working to raise funds for the fight against prescription drug abuse. Fox walked from Pelican Falls First Nation High School near Sioux Lookout to Thunder Bay. He arrived in Thunder Bay Sept. 1.

In 2009 the NAN chiefs declared a state of emergency as a result of the prescription drug epidemic, but so far NAN said the response from the government has been minimal.

“In the North we lack addiction treatment programs and facilities. Our communities do not have resident health professionals for community treatment services. There is an overall shortage of community-based recovery programs. Our efforts to enhance the training of our workers are challenged by the absence of training institutions and trainers for community workers to learn addictions interventions,” Metatawabin said.

In 2010 Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service (NAPS) led 180 drug investigations and seized 8500 OxyContin tablets worth an estimated $3.4-million in northern communities. NAPS also reported a steady rise in policing services from 13,437 calls in 2005 to 20,325 calls in 2010.

“We have been forced to stretch our already limited policing and security personnel in order to attempt to keep this drug from entering our communities. More resourcing must be in place to protect our members against crime, violence and gang-related activity,” Metatawabin said. “Action must be taken now in order to save our communities and future generations from harm.”

Family, friends aid Fox in walk

Chris Kornacki/Wawatay NewsLyle Fox stops for a break near Kakabeka Falls Aug. 31 during his Penasi Walk Against Prescription Drug Abuse. The walk began at Pelican Falls First Nation High School in Sioux Lookout Aug. 22 and ended in Thunder Bay Sept. 1.

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There are three traditional hand drums in our home. Two were gifts and one

was made by my wife a hand-ful of summers ago. They hang on our walls as reminders that we’re supposed to be prayer-ful, to be in gratitude and live our lives as though they were a ceremony. When we centre our lives on the traditional teachings within those drums everything is harmony. We use them at gatherings and ceremo-nies or whenever the feeling of praise and thankfulness hits us. They’re good friends and their comforting presence is a bless-ing. I always feel empowered when I play them.

For a long time I had no access to the drums of my people. I was gone for over 20 years, lost in the maze of foster homes and adoption and I was effectively removed from all things Ojibway. But when I found my way back in the late 1970s I found my way back to traditional teachings and the vibrant culture of my people. My life became better, hap-pier, more fulfilled and when I learned to drum and sing with it, I found a measure of redemp-tion I had ached for.

Nowadays, singing with a drum is natural and my wife and I often collaborate and sing and drum together. It’s wonder-ful. There is a resilient strength in drumming that feels right to us. Maybe it’s the echo of the eternal heartbeat within it that resonates with us. Or maybe it’s just the knowledge that we are engaged in something tribal, something real, something ancient and something infi-nitely healing. Either way we are heartened and happy when we drum.

But there’s also a traditional African drum, a djembo that came into my life a little over a year ago. Its head is made of goatskin and its body is the hollowed out trunk of a tree. There’s a hefty webbing of rope that keeps everything in place and provides a carrying sling. It has nothing to do with my Ojibway roots or heritage but it still affects me in the same good way.

I’ve listened to African music over the years and part of my music collection is devoted to

it. I’ve always found something similar in the tribal inflections in the music and the rhythms have always entranced me whether in the guitar of Ali Farka Toure or the mande, the gourd harp of Toumani Diabate. But until that drum came into our home I’d never considered how much that form of expres-sion might fulfill me. I mean, I’m a North American Indian after all.

But when I sit and play that drum and allow myself to just express my emotions through it, the time just slips away and I become transported just like I do when I use our traditional instruments. There’s joy to be found there and nowadays my life would be less without that African drum.

I sat on our deck one sunny day in mid-morning. My wife was away and I was lonely. But it was a glorious spring day and I began playing a soft, slow beat on that djembo drum. I closed my eyes and just allowed it to flow out of me. I beat out that solitary rhythm and I was swept up in its spell, scarcely able to believe that it was coming from me. I don’t know how long I sat there with my eyes closed and my face raised to the sky and my hands beating out that soft rhythm but I do know that noth-ing else existed in my world except that sense of communion with the drum and the sky.

When I stopped and looked around me it was the same day but the lonely feeling had van-ished. In its place was a sense of order, of belonging, of being connected – exactly the feelings I get from using an Ojibway drum. There was no place for loneliness in that. There was no place for emptiness and there was definitely no place for self-pity. Instead there was only room for gratitude and a sense that Creation was smiling and I was an essential part of that glee.

There are a multitude of spiritual tools in this world. There are thousands of ways to be connected to spirit. I learned some time ago that I limit myself when I tell myself that I can only express myself with Native things. The truth is that there is no one race of people, no band, no tribe that has a claim on the experience of the spiritual or a claim to owning the right way.

Because it’s all about spirit. There’s no colour or no race in spirit – there’s only connected-ness and celebration and we all need that. So free yourself. Experience.

Richard Wagamese

ONE NATIVE LIFE

I sat down at the cottage recently and looked outside a picture window facing the

lake. It was a cool afternoon and I watched the light fade under layers of dreary clouds that hung lazily overhead. I sat comfortable in my warm chair as I sipped on a cup of hot tea while being warmed by the crackling fire in the huge old stove. There’s nothing like that feeling of coziness that you get when inside a comfy warm place with cold, wet weather situated on the other side of the window.

A cool wind blew in from the west and the pine branches on the towering trees nearby swayed under the force. A light misty rain showered the scene and I could almost feel the cold penetrating the forest. I sipped at my tea to relish in a little more warmth and I thought about times like these when I

was a boy growing up on the James Bay coast.

I recalled one trip we took in September by freighter canoe to Akamiski Island. It was a late season voyage and we were taking advantage of a free weekend mom and dad had taken off from their work schedules. However, as we left town, we realized early on that the weather was not with us. Clouds hung low overhead pregnant with rain. A nasty cool north wind pierced our fall jackets but mom and dad consoled us with promises of sun and a blue sky. So we headed out.

The water was rough on the Attawapiskat river as we set forth in our freighter canoe and a cold rain pelted us as we made our way out onto the great salt water James Bay. My brothers and sisters and I sheltered with mom under a layer of blue tarp along with all our supplies. Dad braved the rain and the salt water sea spray at the controls of the outboard motor. He made light of the cruel weather and teased us in a game of peek-a-boo as we children ducked under the protective tarp. To keep us

feeling safe he sang or more or less shouted religious hymns over the roar of his two-stroke motor. He seemed to enjoy the adrenalin rush he got from fac-ing the storm.

When we finally landed on the southern pebble shore of Akamiski, our world was a misty rain driven by a frigid wind and framed by dark clouds.

My younger brothers and I stayed with the canoe and hung tight to the tarp to keep our supplies warm while our parents and my older siblings headed out to make camp. We watched patiently but anx-iously as the prospector tent slowly sprouted on shore.

Once the tent was up, our older siblings came to fetch us and we scrambled for shore and the safety of the huge canvas tent. I fell happily on

the soft pine boughs safe from the twirling storm outside. The light faded fast and my parents and the older children raced to set up the little camp stove and fetch wood.

As the light faded and the shadows bled away dad pulled out the Coleman lantern, which he filled with fuel and primed. The swish, swish sound of the primer made me feel hopeful as the last threads of light left our world. In a mat-ter of minutes, the lamp hissed to life and filled our dark tent with bright yellow light.

The next thing we knew our little camp stove was alive in a roaring fire. We had light, the heat of our stove, the protec-tion of our old prospector tent and the comfort of a fresh pine bough floor.

On this day our timing was perfect as the weather had taken a turn for the worse and the wind howled while heavy rain pelted the tent. It felt good to be in a cozy, warm place with a raging storm just a few inches away. Hopefully, I will always have the luxury of find-ing shelter from the storm.

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It felt good to be in a cozy, warm place with a raging storm just a few inches away.


I was coming back to Thunder Bay last Christmas and was passing through Sudbury.I was standing outside the

Greyhound terminal with a big green backpack – one I use for hunting – when a Native man approached me with a joke: A Native man is with politicians on a plane that is going down with limited parachutes on hand. The politicians assert their importance before jump-ing out. With three men and two parachutes left, the last politician takes one and jumps out. Then the Native man turns to the other guy and says, “It’s OK, he jumped out with my backpack.”

We laughed and the man said, “Always funny seeing a Nish traveling with a bush back-pack.”

“Nish” is a term I began to hear and use in my early teens. It’s derived from the Anishnaabe word … well, Anishnaabe. Nish can generally refer to any Native person since Anishnaabe is Ojibwe for “the people.”

Being a Cree from the James Bay coast, it might seem odd that the term Nish is used where I’m from, but I think that can be attributed to the pres-ence of Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service and Nishnawbe Aski Nation in the area.

When my friends and I would say Nish, however, it usually referred to someone appear-ing, acting or talking in a way unique to Native people.

So, to the guy I met at the terminal, I was pretty Nish to be traveling through the city with my big green bush backpack.

When I moved to Thunder Bay for school, I had not used the term in a while. Then I met my classmate Tyler, who grew up in Sioux Lookout, Ont. It wasn’t long after that we began to talk about Nish things. We’d joke about eating Klik, using bed sheets as curtains or speak-ing in broken grammar. We’d talk with our Nish accents (“Jish stug, ever deadly”). Tyler suggested I grow my hair, wear a bandana, put on rubber boots and walk around the city as the “ultimate Nish.”

Naturally, this term raised a lot of questions among our non-Native classmates.

“You guys keep using this word, Nish,” one said. “What does it mean?”

And we’d try to define it but found it very difficult to do. We’d list off characteristics, use it in context and at times I’d want to briefly give a bit of socio-political history to explain why these characteristics exist. But we found that they didn’t “get it.” They’d still look confused or look blankly at us or pretend they understood. It’s pretty hard to explain our humour to which they can’t identify with.

In our second year in the film production program at the college, we had to make a docu-mentary. I struggled with ideas at first then it hit me: why not do it on being Nish?

So I teamed up with Tyler and we interviewed seven Nish youth who live in Thunder Bay. They are from different reserves or communities and each were able to offer similar definitions of the word. We asked them what Nish means, what are the characteristics and why we laugh about it.

It was a very fun experience for us. For one interview, it was a Sunday and I was grumpy having been editing other proj-ects all day. I felt annoyed when Tyler said we had to do another

interview. The interview was with two friends who were too shy to be interviewed on cam-era separately, so they asked to be interviewed together. We agreed and set up. It turned into the best interview we had. They described the things I could identify with and they were able to feed off each other’s comments and energy. I struggled not to laugh as I asked questions and I would look over and see Tyler hunched over by the camera trying to stifle his laughter. After the interview, my stomach hurt from all the laughing and I was in a great mood for the rest of the day.

There were also some very insightful comments about our humour during some inter-views. One girl commented that we joke about these characteris-tics because “to laugh at others is to laugh at yourself.”

We handed the documentary in to our professor and he – hav-ing lived in Peawanuck, Ont. for a year and understanding and appreciating Aboriginal culture – loved it.

The Nish people we showed it to laughed throughout. I showed it to a few of the non-Natives in my class who had asked what Nish was. Obvi-ously, they didn’t laugh as much but I sensed in them a better understanding of our culture.

Hearing the positive recep-tion and encouragement, I submitted Ever Nish to some film festivals and it has been accepted to two of them.

It’s set to screen at the Biin-digaate Film Festival on Satur-day, Sept. 24 here in Thunder Bay. Then it will play at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto Oct. 23.

Tyler and I are very excited to be able share this documentary with a wider audience. Hope-fully, we’ll be able to make more Nish’s laugh and more non-Nish’s understand a bit more about us as a people.

‘Ever Nish’ doc about Native humour

Lenny Carpenter

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Four Matawa First Nations are looking for jobs, education and other benefits from the development of an infrastruc-ture, transportation and service corridor to the ring of Fire.

“It’s going to create a lot of employment, a lot of opportu-nity, a lot of business interests,” said Neskantaga Chief Peter Moonias. “It will also bring in connections to the urban cen-tres. That is the intention of this agreement: to try to have access roads to the First Nations.”

Neskantaga, Webequie, Eabametoong and Nibinamik signed the collaborative agree-ment Aug. 31 to develop, own and operate a 230-240 kilome-tre east-west corridor from the Pickle Lake area to the ring of Fire mineral exploration area in the James Bay lowlands with connections to the communi-ties.

About 35 mining companies are exploring the area, which spans about 4,000 square kilo-metres, for chromite, nickel, copper, platinum, zinc, gold and diamonds. The ring of Fire could become one of the world’s largest discoveries of chromite and the only one located in North America.

“This is an important step that will ensure our communi-ties are actively involved in the planning, development and operation of this preferred cor-ridor with the other three com-munities, and that all of the impacted communities benefit socially and economically from this development,” Moonias said.

Northern Development, Mines and Forestry Minister Michael Gravelle said the agree-

ment was “good news” and a “positive development.”

But he said there is still a need for a north-south corridor to the ring of Fire for transpor-tation or industrial use as well.

“There is still significant work that needs to be done,” Gravelle said. “What is most exciting from my perspective is that I think all the communities are expressing their very clear support for economic develop-ment opportunities. They want absolute assurance they will have real benefits for their com-munities and that is absolutely correct.”

Moonias said the corridor would lower the cost of living in the four fly-in communities due to lower transportation costs. The communities now rely on air transportation for most of the year and winter roads dur-ing the coldest part of the win-ter.

“Once we have this east-west corridor, we will be able to transport everything by road,” said Webequie Chief Corne-lius Wabasse. “They (commu-nity members) will be able to travel.”

Nibinamik Chief roger Oski-neegish is also looking forward to the development of a power transmission line along the cor-ridor.

“We need transmission lines,” Oskineegish said. “We’ll

also be able to do that fibre-optic line. There are a lot of opportunities out there and I feel we should grab them while we can.”

The communities began working on the community-driven strategy for the corridor in March 2010.

“I see this collaborative agreement as history in the making among the four First Nations who are now taking control of our traditional home-lands and are becoming a force to be reckoned with,” Wabasse said.

The communities chose their preferred corridor route to miti-gate environmental impacts and to ensure community mem-bers realize the maximum pos-sible benefits. The route follows a higher elevation route than the one announced by Noront resources Ltd. in March 2011 along the winter road network to Pickle Lake.

“This preferred route allows our First Nations to pursue vital development opportuni-ties while minimizing the cor-ridor’s impact on species at risk and overall environmental foot-print,” said Eabametoong Chief Harry Papah.

Papah said the corridor would also bring benefits to youth in the future.

“We need to plan for them to make sure everything is in place for them,” Papah said. “We know (with) the road there will be pros and cons, but hopefully everybody will use the pros for the road.”

The communities have estab-lished a working group with representatives from each com-munity.

The group’s first task is to consult with community mem-bers throughout September.

Four Matawa communities plan Ring of Fire corridor

Rick Garrick/Wawatay NewsMatawa chiefs Peter Moonias, Roger Oskineegish, Harry Papah and Cornelius Wabasse sign a collabora-tive agreement Aug. 31 to develop, own and operate a 230-240 kilometre east-west corridor to the Ring of Fire mineral exploration area in the James Bay lowlands.

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Three Matawa First Nation communities have agreed to work together on common interests in their shared tradi-tional territories about 350 kilo-metres northeast of Thunder Bay.

“This is our land, this is our traditional territories, this is how we became to be so we want to make sure that it is con-trolled right, it is done right,” said Aroland Chief Sonny Gagnon. “We have companies that are up in our territory that are into the advanced stages of their early exploration. So they are moving along and they are just moving along without talk-ing to us.”

Gagnon said the communi-ties have formed a technical committee to look at how devel-opment is happening in their shared traditional territories.

“Our First Nations are all going to be impacted by devel-opment happening in the area – not just one of the communi-ties,” Gagnon said. “These are our shared territories ... this isn’t about divide and conquer.”

Gagnon said the communi-ties want to be part of develop-ment, not just stakeholders.

“We want to be part of it,”

Gagnon said. “We all want to make sure what our forefathers signed as a treaty becomes a reality, in terms of when they said share.”

Gagnon said his commu-nity is looking for it’s fair share after having to stand by in the past and watch as trees from their traditional territory were hauled away on logging trucks.

“We watched trees go by, but this time around we’re saying you took all the trees and got away with it,” he said. “Now (with) the minerals and the riches from the ground, they’re not going to take those out without having to hear us out and be meaningful partners in any development that hap-pens.”

Aroland, Ginoogaming and Long Lake #58 signed a letter of intent Sept. 7 to unite the First Nations and prevent indus-try from plotting communities against each other.

“Currently companies and industry are approaching our First Nations individually and we don’t have the resources,” said Long Lake #58 Chief Veronica Waboose. “Working together as three First Nations, we can assist each other and guarantee we are all in the know about projects happening within our traditional territo-

ries.”The communities identified

the absence of a government-to-government process for con-sultation and accommodation between First Nations and the federal and provincial govern-ments as a major issue.

Michael Gravelle, minister of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry said he works with each of the Matawa com-munities on an individual basis as well as working with the Matawa First Nations organiza-tion.

“The federal and the pro-vincial governments are work-ing together on putting some agreements in place whereby the communities can build their capacity in order to have the negotiations and the discus-sions they need to have for this project,” Gravelle said.

The three chiefs said the letter of intent is the next step after the nine Matawa chiefs signed a Unity Declaration in July to protect the natural resources and territories of member First Nations.

“If you look at the his-tory, these three communi-ties are all interconnected,” said Ginoogaming Chief Celia Echum. “All of our membership has ownership of the lands – it is shared territory.”

Aroland, Ginoogaming, Long Lake #58 join forces


Michael Fox will engage min-eral resource companies in the ring of Fire as Webequie’s ring of Fire senior director.

“We will be assembling our negotiating team and executing our community-based strategy with both companies (Noront resources Ltd. and Cliffs Natu-ral resources Inc.) in the very near future,” said Fox, presi-dent of Fox High Impact Con-sulting. “We will also be engag-ing with Marten Falls First Nation at a council-to-council level for the mine sites devel-opments. And we definitely look forward to continued dis-cussions with regional First Nations on infrastructure cor-ridor initiatives.”

Fox said two project descrip-tions for ring of Fire corridors that have been officially submit-ted to government, an east-west corridor submitted by Noront and a north-south corridor sub-mitted by Cliffs.

“Because we don’t know

where the government sits in terms of both corridors or more than two corridors, we need to engage our neighbours around the impact on land as well as the impacts on community members around any potential corridor development,” Fox said. “We’re trying to structure a dialogue with those commu-nities as well as make sure we all have the same understand-ing of what the impacts may be.”

Neskantaga, Webequie, Eabametoong and Nibinamik recently signed an agreement to develop an east-west corridor to the ring of Fire mineral explo-ration area in the James Bay lowlands. (see story on page 6).

“I think the communities are realizing that it’s their land, it’s their resources and it’s their rights that are being impacted by any project development,” Fox said. “Together, through their community membership, they will find a way to strike that balance as well as benefits for their membership.”

Fox, who began his new posi-

tion Aug. 29, said he had been working with Webequie on a part-time basis since the begin-ning of the ring of Fire staking rush.

“But we realized that there was some full-time attention required for the volume of the work forthcoming,” Fox said.

Fox said there will be teams for each of the different initia-tives, such as the regional pro-cess, land use planning and business development.

Webequie Chief Cornelius Wabasse said Fox’s strategic thinking, business acumen and community focus will be an asset for Webequie as it con-tinues to develop its role in the ring of Fire.

“Michael recognizes that agreements with companies and governments are premised on the community’s Aboriginal and treaty rights and that any impact and benefits agreement has to be ratified by the com-munity members,” Wabasse said. “He brings this critical community-based approach to the business process.”

Webequie hires Ring of Fire director

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The Chief Coroner of Ontario, Dr. Andrew McCal-lum, released a 215-page report Sept. 2 dealing with 16 youth suicides that occurred in Pikangikum First Nation during 2006-2008.

The report was released to the general public three days after Gordon Peters, a Pikangi-kum band member, sent an open letter to Canadians dis-cussing the issue of youth sui-cide because this past summer, within a period of 44 days, he said Pikangikum lost five more youth to suicide.

In his letter Peters wrote: “As a member of Pikangikum First Nation, I feel obligated in let-ting Canada and the interna-tional community know about these tragedies. I feel strongly that no one cares and maybe I am being ignored by thinking this way. The Government of Canada, national and regional First Nation leadership and the Canadian public have to know what is happening in Pikangi-kum. We cannot live alone within the boundaries of our reservation and think that this is the way life is. This is not nor-mal! I have not seen or heard any word or movement from any of our national and regional elected officials offering any condolences or offering any sort of assistance to Pikangikum and to those families directly affected.”

The Chief Coroners’ review began in 2010 and involved working with health care pro-fessionals, the provincial advo-cate for children and youth, child welfare providers and

the Chief Coroners office. A total of 100 recommendations are made in the report to stem the loss of life for First Nations youth across Ontario. Some of these recommendations are to build new schools, upgrade housing, upgrade indoor plumbing, connect communi-ties to the hydro grid, develop healing treatment centers, men-tal health and addictions pro-grams for children and youth and the development of anti-poverty strategies for Aborigi-nal people.

“The report is a substan-tial piece of research which supports the need for stron-ger infrastructure in our com-munities,” Mike Metatawabin, deputy grand chief of Nish-nawbe Aski Nation (NAN) said. “The basic necessities that mainstream society take for granted like clean water, sew-age, schools and housing is not in place in our communities and this is the result. Our youth are frustrated, despondent and sui-cidal.”

Metatawabin said the report only reiterates what NAN has been advocating and working towards for years: clean water, proper housing, good schools and mental health programs for its communities.

In his letter Peters addressed the details of the coroners report. He said more than 400 homes have no water and sew-age, over 700 students attend schools in temporary portables, and housing shortages grow each year. Peters said about 200 new homes are needed.

“I pray that theses recom-mendations be adopted and not be shelved as so many in the past have been,” Peters wrote.

Chief coroner releases report on youth suicides

Breakfast fundraiserRick Garrick/Wawatay News

Shy-Anne Hovorka sang her hit song Can’t Change the World to about 400 United Way supporters during the local Thunder Bay organization’s Sept. 8 breakfast kick off of their fall campaign to raise about $2.5 mil-lion for 27 local agen-cies, including Shko-day Abinojiiwak Obimi-wedoon.

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Grand Council Treaty 3 is challenging the development of a Hydroelectric Contract Initiative (HCI) and sale of five hydroelectric generation plants in their territory without Aboriginal consultation.

Treaty 3 filed an application for judicial review Sept. 1 in the Ontario Court of Justice Divi-sional Court over the alleged actions of Ontario’s Minister of Energy and the Ontario Power Authority (OPA). The application claims the minister directed the OPA to develop and implement the HCI and questions the OPA for entering into a contract with ACH Lim-ited Partnership for five existing hydroelectric generation facili-ties. The facilities are located at Calm Lake, Sturgeon Falls, Fort Frances, Kenora, and Norman and were owned at the time by Abitibi Bowater and the Caisse de depot et placement du Que-bec.

“We are very concerned that the minister of Energy and the OPA intervened on behalf of the Abitibi dams to cause new impacts to our rights and inter-ests,” said Ogichidaakwe Diane Kelly of Treaty 3. “The govern-ment action should not have occurred without consulting us. The HCI contract set the stage for new ownership and new impacts from these dams.”

Abitibi Bowater and the Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec had previously owned ACH Limited Partnership, but they sold their stock in the

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Treaty 3 is concerned the HCI could lead to new and poten-tially increasing damages from flooding on Lake Sturgeon and to wild rice, a traditional staple of the Anishinabe culture.

“We believe we should have been consulted, one, at the beginning of the develop-ment of this HCI program, and two, when it comes to the sale because of the potential increase (in damages),” Kelly said. “Wild rice has always been a huge part of our livelihood prior to Canada being a country and Ontario being a province and those harvesting rights are guaranteed in the treaty. We feel that our rights have been overlooked.”

Kelly initiated the judi-cial review along with Oc hiic hagwe ’babigo ’ ining Chief Lorraine Cobiness, Mitaanjigamiing Chief Janice Henderson, Northwest Angle #33 Chief Kimberley Sandy-Kasprick and Seine river Chief Earl Klyne on behalf of all mem-bers of the Anishinaabe Nation.

“The province and the OPA were aware of the Anishinaabe Nation’s Aboriginal and treaty rights,” Kelly said. “They also knew that operations of the ACH generating stations and

related dams had caused dam-age. It was reasonable to expect that terms of the HCI agree-ments would lead to new and potentially increased damages, such as more deleterious flood-ing related impacts on Lake Sturgeon and on a traditional staple of the Anishinaabe cul-ture, manomin (wild rice).”

Henderson said the impact of dam operations and expansion on wild rice harvesting, fishing and trapping is of significant importance to the Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty 3.

“We feel we are at a crucial period in our history and must stand up and protect our rights, claims and interests to govern, manage and ensure the sustain-ability of the traditional prac-tice of ricing within all Treaty 3 communities,” Henderson said. “Especially, within the Lake of the Woods and rainy Lake watersheds.”

Klyne also brought up the issue of high electricity rates in Treaty 3 communities.

“Treaty 3 communities have become more and more diffi-cult to administer and manage, in part because of the expense of home heating and electric-ity,” Klyne said. “This situation exists despite there being large hydro-electric generating dams within Treaty 3 territory.”

Once the judicial review was filed, Treaty 3 has 30 days to file all their evidence related to the issue.

Kelly said Ontario has an obligation to respond. A hear-ing and decision would likely be made within eight months of the Sept. 1 filing date.

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Weenusk Corporation 500, in partnership with the Ministry of Natural resources, is heading the mountainous job of clean-ing a radar site near Weenusk (Peawanuck) First Nation.

“The clean-up of the radar site has been a long time com-ing and Weenusk First Nation is eager to move forward with this project,” Chief Edmund Hunter said. “Jobs will be created over the next three years for people from my community and that is very important to us. As well, the clean-up will improve the health of the environment for the people who live on this land.”

The radar site, one of many across Canada, was an initiative by the Department of National Defense and decommissioned in the mid 1960s. Known as the Mid-Canada radar Line, the purpose of the system was to provide early warning of attacks by air.

According to the MNr, there are 98 similar radar sites aban-doned across Canada, 17 of which are in Ontario and 14 along the Hudson and James Bay coasts.

The clean up at the Win-isk river radar site, known as Site 500, is projected to take three years to complete, cre-ate employment for 40 people in the first year, and cost about $41 million.

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containment, are tackling the technological aspects of the clean up.

Mike Cartman is the MNr project manager for the clean up of the Mid-Line radar site. He feels this is a great opportu-nity to build partnerships and create economic opportunities for the people of Weenusk.

“This also represents signifi-cant economic contributions to the communities,” Cartman said. “One of our key objec-tives is to maximize the eco-nomic opportunities through jobs, use of equipment, other opportunities that come with the contractors such as running the equipments. They are also running the camp, I think that is the good news story is the economic benefit the project brings.”

Ontario signed a one-year agreement with Weenusk Cor-poration 500 worth $3 million and the province is providing training and job opportunities to complete the general clean up. The province also signed an $8 million contract directly with Weenusk First Nation to provide and operate a remote base camp at the site.

“The priority was to get the project going, to get the clean up done,” Cartman said. “These sites have been here for 40, 50 years. The concerns about the environment have been raised by the First Nations for some time now, so it was important to get the clean up going.”

An old army truck sits on the property, a vision of days gone and past. The site also has 11 major derelict buildings and 17 deteriorating vehicles. Several 55,000-gallon fuel tanks also

occupy the land. Meanwhile, more than

50,000 empty 45-gallon drums were individually cleaned, sani-tized of any remaining contami-nants, crushed and buried in a landfill on location. Drums still containing oil or diesel-fuel are being diverted from the bury-ing process and removed from the site.

The total cost of clean up for all 17 sites in Ontario is expected to be about $85-mil-lion, with $30 million from the federal government and $55 million from Ontario.

Weenusk resident Louis Bird said he and others were “fasci-nated with this thing,” a relic of the Cold War era between 1946-1991,

“What confused us was that by the time it was complete in ’65 they said it was obsolete,” Bird said.

The russians never did attack, but a slew of environ-mental contamination remains.

Jonathan Andrew Bertrand conducted research in the area for his Master’s dissertation for the University of Waterloo in 2008. The list of chemicals in his report reads as clusters of acronyms and incomprehen-sible words.

“Peawanuck residents had relatively higher concentra-tions of CB180, DDE and hexa-chlorobenzene and relatively lower levels of DDT and Mirex,” Betrand said in his report. “results are suggestive but not conclusive that MCrL (Mid-Canada radar Line) Site 500 may have influenced body bur-dens of Peawanuck residents. This is subject of critical con-cern.”

While there is not much con-cern for chemical contamina-tion of the environment near Site 500, Bertand noted that people living near abandoned radar sites contain higher PCB (Polychlorinated biphenyls) levels in their blood. Peawa-nuck residents contained higher levels of PCB’s than elsewhere along the James Bay coast.

PCB’s are a group of syn-thetic chemicals belonging to the family of organic chemicals known as chlorinated hydrocar-bons.

A November 1994 paper titled Environmental Health: risks Posed by PCB’s by William Murray of the Library of Parlia-ment research Branch of Sci-ence and Technology Division outlines the risks of these con-taminants.

There were no documented cases of human deaths result-ing from acute PCB exposure according to the report. How-ever, “victims of industrial PCB accidents report chloracne, eye discharge, swelling of the upper eyelids, hyperpigmentation of the nails and skin, numbness of limbs, weakness, muscle spasms, and chronic bronchi-tis,” Murray reports.

PCB’s are often referred to as cancer-causing result-ing in the efforts of the United States Environmental Protec-tion Agency to classify PCB’s as potential carcinogens.

Bird reflected what life was like before the Cold War brought the radar site to the mouth of the Winisk river.

“In 1955, everyone lived off the land, no one had potbellies and no one had any diseases like today,” Bird said.

The clean up of Site 500John Gagnon/Wawatay News

About 50,000 oil and fuel drums were cleaned, sanitized, crushed and buried as part of a clean up of the Mid-Canada Radar Line Site 500 radar site near Peawanuck First Nation.

Ginoogaming Chief Celia Echum plans to continue pursu-ing her vision of a vibrant, self-reliant community after being re-elected in late August for a third two-year term.

“Our people are very capable of becoming managers, teach-ers, lawyers, doctors and our youth have special talents and aspire to be actors, singers, and professional athletes,” Echum said. “My role is to empower them, support their dreams and put those resources in place as they supported my dream to lead as chief.”

Echum wants to continue

emphasizing the importance of increasing post-secondary edu-cation rates among community members.

“If you are going to have a prosperous community, you have to have an educated com-munity,” Echum said.

Echum is also planning to reopen a wafer-board plant and part of a plywood plant in Lon-glac to create 330 jobs.

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Six Canadian rangers from northern Ontario told thou-sands of visitors to a mili-tary display at the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) in Toronto what Canadian rang-ers do across Canada’s North.

“I’ve never talked to so many people in my life,” said Master Cpl. Bill Morris from Kingfisher Lake, which has a population of 420. “People asked us who the rangers are and what we do. They were pretty amazed when we told them.”

The ranger exhibit, cen-tred around a traditional tipi, helped attract visitors to a large display of military equipment showcasing the army, navy and air force. The display attracted about one million people to it during the 17 days of the CNE, the biggest fair of its kind in Canada.

“The Canadian Forces exhibit builds a better understand-ing of what we do,” said Capt. Ben Lee, the site manager. “The rangers are a significant part of what the Canadian Forces do, especially on the domestic operations side of things, which we saw recently with the forest fire evacuations in northwest-ern Ontario.

“They show the general pub-lic that there are many different backgrounds and diverse trades and skill sets within the Cana-dian Forces. They highlight the growing presence of Canada’s

Aboriginal population in the Canadian Forces.”

The rangers spoke to visi-tors from across Canada and the United States as well as Ger-many, France, Britain, China, Japan and many other coun-tries.

“Many of them ask me if I can speak my language,” Morris said. “So I say something in Oji-Cree for them. They are pretty amazed when we tell them what the rangers do.”

ranger Jason Mawakeesick, from Sandy Lake First Nation, said he often showed his mili-tary identification to convince visitors that the rangers are reserve soldiers. Most visitors, he said, were surprised when he described life in his isolated community and the roles played by the rangers in domestic mili-tary operations, such as forest fires, search and rescue, spring floods, plane crashes and other emergencies.

“They couldn’t believe how cold it gets at home in the win-ter and that we can live with it,” he said. “When I told them Sandy is a fly-in community people had trouble grasping that there are still places like that in Canada. That’s why we’re here at the CNE – to tell people that the rangers are part of the Canadian Forces and that we’re up North and what we do up there when we are needed.”

The other rangers at the CNE were Master Cpl. Savan-nah Neotapin from Constance Lake, and rangers Jacob Ander-son and ryan Anderson, both from Kasabonika Lake, and Karen Meeseetawageesick from Eabametoong.

Sgt. Peter Moon is the public affairs ranger for 3rd Canadian Ranger Patrol Group at Cana-dian Forces Base Borden. See www.canadianrangers.ca.

Rangers ‘significant part’ of military display

“They couldn’t believe how cold it gets at home in the winter and that we can live with it.”

– Jason Mawakeesick


Nishnawbe Aski Develop-ment Fund (NADF) president & CEO Harvey Yesno has taken a one-year leave of absence from the organization.

Yesno has been with NADF since 1993 and this will be his first extended leave from the organization.

Months ago, Yesno began to discuss with the NADF board of directors about taking time off.

“I wanted a leave just so I could take some time off and to deal with some personal stuff,” he said.

Yesno said he discussed with the board how he would take the appropriate time off.

“We agreed mutually that I should ask for a leave of absence, because the other option obviously was to resign, which I had considered,” he said.

NADF Chairperson Madeline Commanda confirmed the board’s decision.

“Considering his time and service with NADF, the board approved his leave of absence,” she said.

The leave took effect Aug. 12.But Yesno said taking per-

sonal time off from work was initially the plan “until a couple of business opportunities came up.”

One of those opportunities was the opening of the new ring of Fire office in Thunder Bay.

Yesno began serving as the office manager and the director for Aboriginal community and stakeholder relations when the office opened Aug. 25.

“This came about very quickly,” Yesno said.

He said he was offered the position two weeks before he accepted it.

“This (opportunity) inter-ested me only because it’s in our area,” he said. “I’m familiar with a lot of the communities – I’ve worked with them for more

than 30 years.”Yesno said there are two

potential large projects within the ring of Fire that interested him and these projects would require infrastructure such as hydro lines, railroads, roads and fibre optics.

“It can become a fairly signif-icant project,” he said.

The new office and advisory council will help promote eco-nomic opportunities and help facilitate successful develop-ment in the ring of Fire area.

Its goals are to develop stra-tegic vision and framework for development, promote economic opportunities for northern Ontario and Aborigi-nal communities, and to part-ner with other ministries in development of creative solu-tions that meet the interests of both the mining industry and Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities.

Yesno said his plan is keep the NADF “option open” and “see how this position evolves” over the next 6-9 months. At that time, he said he will give the NADF board plenty of notice if he does not plan on returning.

In the meantime, both the NADF board and Yesno believe the organization will continue to operate smoothly in his absence.

“I set up the organization so that managers can run their division individually,” Yesno said. “It took time to recruit the right people … so it’s in very good hands.”

“The board believes that we have a very capable staff that can keep business going while he’s away,” Commanda said.

NADF provides business and financial services like loans, leases and business counselling services to Aboriginal people across northern Ontario look-ing to start or expand a busi-ness.

The ring of Fire is located 535 kilometers northeast of the new ring of Fire office in Thun-der Bay.

It spans nearly 4,000 square kilometres and there are about 25,000 claims held by 35 min-ing companies exploring the area for chromite, nickel, cop-per, platinum, zinc, gold and diamonds.

The ring of Fire could become one of the world’s larg-est discoveries of chromite and the only one located in North America.

Harvey Yesno takes leave from NADF

“I set up the organization so that managers can run their division individually. So it’s in very good hands.”

– Harvey Yesno

Employment OpportunitySocial Policy Analyst (Full-Time to March 31, 2012)

Nishnawbe Aski Nation is seeking a Policy Analyst to assist the Social Services Director and Director of Women’s Development responsible for Social Services, Child Welfare and Women’s Issues. Th e Policy Analyst‘s duties include, but are not limited to: preparation of policy documents, analyzing government legislation, preparing proposals and reports and liaising with other First Nation organizations and third parties.

Th e deadline for applications is 4:00pm EST, September 23, 2011. To download the complete job description, please visit www.nan.on.ca or contact Ian Beardy, Human Resources Coordinator, at (807) 625-4941, or Sabrina Marion, Human Resources Director, at (807) 625-4948 for more information.

www.nan.on.ca



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Aboriginal Sports & Wellness Council of Ontario (ASWCO) is the Provincial Territorial Aboriginal Sport Body (PTASB) for Ontario and provides input and services via Aboriginal Team Ontario for the North American Indigenous Games, National Aboriginal Hockey Championships and other in Canada.

ASWCO promotes healthy living and offers training, certifications and support for coaches, athletes and other organizations in each of the 3 regions, North, Central and Southern Ontario.

SENIOR MANAGER (Full time salary: $60,000/yr): The Senior Manager will report directly to the Chair, Executive Committee, and Board. This individual will develop and support strategic planning while maintaining responsibility for the day-to-day operations of ASWCO. This individual will function at a senior level in developing and directing organizational goals, financial and business plans to ensure the effective planning and development as per ASWCO’s six Pillars. The ideal candidate will have a background in corporate planning and development, strong IT/Communications skills, a minimum of 10 years of experience in project, program and personnel management and possess considerable experience in Aboriginal communities, sports, recreation and youth development. The candidate should be familiar with the NAIG and NAHC. The ideal candidate will be an energetic self starter with strong leadership skills.

PROJECT OFFICER (Full time salary: $48,000/yr): The new Project Officer will report directly to the Senior Manager. This individual is responsible for researching, developing, administering and evaluating projects and programs in response to the identified needs of client groups and organizations. Strong IT/Communications skills are required. Primarily, the Project Officer will develop and implement projects under the following Pillars: Long-term Holistic Development, Leadership and Coaching Development, Recognition of Excellence and Partnership and Development.

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT (Full time salary: $36,000/yr) The new Administrative Assistant will report directly to the Senior Manager. This individual is responsible for providing administrative and clerical services in a manner to ensure that ASWCO operations are maintained in an effective and efficient manner. Again, strong IT/Communications skills are required.

Visit www.aswco.ca/jobs.html for full details on all jobs listed.

Jobs open until filled.

All qualified applicants for Senior Manager, Project Officer and Administrative Assistant are invited to submit their applications by e-mail to [email protected]. Location of Sr. Manager and establishment of an ASWCO central office to be Toronto, Thunder Bay or Ottawa, with other proposed regional hub locations submitted by Senior Manager to be considered by the board

NOW HIRINGSenior Manager, Project Officer

and Administrative Assistant

Please contact the Human Resources Department at: Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre Tel: 807 737- 3030Fax: 807 737-6263 Email: [email protected] And visit our website at: slmhc.on.ca

Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre is an equal opportunity employer. In addition we invite interested candidates to visit the website for Sioux Lookout Ontario at: www.siouxlookout.com

Are you interested in paddling this canoe,

OR Breathing fresh clean air, swimming in clean warm water, catching fresh fish, walking home for lunch, quietly watching birds, skiing along beautiful trails

AND You are a Health Care Professional: Physiotherapist, Physiotherapy Aide, Registered Nurse, Radiology Technologist, Dietitian or RN specializing in Diabetes Care, Clinical Coordinator (RN), Pharmacist, Outreach Screening Program Coordinator

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SIOUX LOOKOUT FIRST NATIONS HEALTH AUTHORITYClient Services Department

SECURITY WORKERFull Time (1 position) Casual (2 positions)

Internal/External PostingLocation: Sioux Lookout, Ontario

Under the direction of the Team Leader, the Security Worker provides security for the Hostel facility, parking lot and other SLFNHA property.

QUALIFICATIONS• Minimum Grade 12 and/or post secondary education;• Post Secondary education in Law and Security;• Previous Security experience;• Experience/training in the area of Non-Crisis

Intervention;• Possesses excellent verbal and written communication

skills;• Possesses excellent team building and networking

skills.

KNOWLEDGE & ABILITY• Ability to communicate in one or more of the First

Nations dialects of the Sioux Lookout Zone will be an asset;

• Experience and understanding of Native cultural issues, the geographic realities and social conditions within remote Northern First Nation communities;

• Innovative problem solving and decision making skills; • Excellent time management and organizational skills, as

well as the ability to work independently.

Please send cover letter, resume, three most recent employment references and an up-to-date Criminal Reference Check with a Search of the Pardoned Sexual Offender Registry to:

Human Resource DepartmentSioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority

P.O. Box 1300, 61 Queen StreetSioux Lookout, ON P8T 1B8

Phone: (807) 737-1802 Fax: (807) 737-1076Email: [email protected]

Closing Date: September 30, 2011

The Health Authority wishes to thank all applicants in advance. However, only those granted an interview will be contacted.

For additional information regarding the Health Authority, please visit our Web-site at www.slfnha.com



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(Northern Chiefs Tribal Council)

Is now accepting applications for the position ofRECEPTIONIST/SECRETARY

(Full time position)

Location: Balmertown Offi ce

General: Reporting to the Director of Operations, the receptionist/secretary is responsible for providing offi ce support.

Qualifi cations:• Typing and Word processing skills essential.• Must have excellent verbal and communications skills.• Must have excellent organizational skills.• Must have a valid Ontario Driver’s License.• Ability to communicate professionally with the public.• Ability to work independently.• Knowledge of internet usage and email.• An awareness and sensitivity to the native culture.• Ability to speak Ojibway, Ojicree and Cree an asset.

Duties and Responsibilities:• Answer telephone and direct calls accordingly or take messages.• Preparation of mail/comats, sort and distribute accordingly.• Prepare bank deposits on a timely basis.• Record incoming/outgoing faxes/mail and distribute accordingly.• Maintain the purchase order log system.• Make travel arrangements as requested.• Prepare correspondence as requested.• Prepare outgoing COMATS for all offi ce staff.• Maintain fi ling system.• Assist other department secretaries as required.

Submit resume and references to:

Hiring CommitteeKeewaytinook OkimakanakBox 340, 8 Mine RoadBalmertown, ON P0V 1C0Fax (807) 735-1383Email: [email protected]

Closing Date: September 19, 2011.



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COMMUNITY LEGAL WORKER

KINNA-AWEYA LEGAL CLINIC

ONE YEAR CONTRACT

Kinna-aweya Legal Clinic has an opening for a community legal worker for a thirteen month contract starting November 7, 2011. Primary duties are to provide advice and representation in poverty law including social assistance and housing law, and to engage in public legal education and community development work. Some overnight travel may be required.

QUALIFICATIONS:• Post-secondary diploma or degree preferred.• Relevant experience and effective advocacy skills.• Excellent judgment and problem-solving ability.• Excellent oral and written communications skills.• Information gathering and issue identifi cation skills.• Familiarity with relevant acts and regulations (Residential

Tenancies Act, Ontario Disability Support Program Act, Ontario Works Act).

• Knowledge of community resources.• Knowledge of and sensitivity to Aboriginal culture would be

an asset. • Computer skills.• A valid driver’s licence would be helpful.

Commensurate salary with additional RSP contributions

DEADLINE: Friday September 30, 2011

Interested candidates are asked to submit their resumes and two written references to:

Hiring CommitteeKinna-aweya Legal Clinic

86 South Cumberland StreetThunder Bay, Ontario P7B 2V3

Fax: [email protected]



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SIOUX LOOKOUT FIRST NATIONS HEALTH AUTHORITYNodin Child & Family Intervention Services (NCFI)

MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELLORInternal/External Posting

Permanent Full TimeSioux Lookout, ON

This full time position reports to the Clinical Supervisor. The Mental Health Counsellor will be responsible for providing direct Clinical Intervention and Prevention Services to referred clients in the Child and Family Intervention catchment area of Aroland, Fort Hope, Marten Falls, Nibinamik, Neskantaga, Webequie, Mishkeegogamang, Sandy Lake, Saugeen and Mcdowell Lake. The Mental Health Counsellor worker will be based out of the Sioux Lookout offi ce, with considerable travel.

QUALIFICATIONS• Degree in Social Work/Psychology with relevant clinical/

counselling experience is preferred;• Minimum two years experience in the health services environment;• Specialized courses in specifi c areas of mental health;• Experience with video counselling technology an asset; • Travel is a requirement of the position.

KNOWLEDGE & ABILITY• Ability to communicate in one of the First Nations dialects of the

Sioux Lookout Zone is an asset;• Ability to manage a case load independently; • Familiarity with working in acute care situations; • Knowledge of community resources;• Knowledge of Microsoft Offi ce Professional Plus 2007.

Experience with a Client Database (e.g. CIMS), Child and Adolescent Functional Assessment Scale (CAFAS) & Brief Child and Family Phone Interview (BCFPI) an asset;

• Excellent time management and organizational skills, as well as the ability to work independently;

• Experience working with youth, a defi nite asset;• Education assistance and training available dependent

upon applicant’s qualifi cations and in accordance with SLFNHA Policies and Procedures.

• Must be willing to relocate.

Please send cover letter, resume, three most recent employment references and an up-to-date Criminal Reference Check with a Search of the Pardoned Sexual Offender Registry to:

Human Resource DepartmentSioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority

P.O. Box 1300, 61 Queen StreetSioux Lookout, ON P8T 1B8

Phone: (807) 737-1802 Fax: (807) 737-2969Email: [email protected]

Closing Date: September 29, 2011

The Health Authority wishes to thank all applicants in advance.However, only those granted an interview will be contacted.

For additional information regarding the Health Authority, please visit our Web-site at www.slfnha.com



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Sioux Lookout Out of the Cold

Frontline Worker

The Out of the Cold programs - Emergency Shelter, Transition Program, Transition Housing, Food Bank and Meal programs – are the responsibility of the Sioux Lookout Out of the Cold Non-Profi t Organization.

The Frontline Worker duties include:• Support and supervise overnight guests of the

Emergency Shelter• Work as part of a team to support clients of the Out of the

Cold Transition Program• Ensure the safety and comfort of all clients, staff, and volunteers• Prepare and serve meals as required• Organize soup donation program.• Organize the community volunteer program.• Input data and prepare statistical reports as required• Assist with proposal writing• Ensure the smooth operations of the Community Food Bank

Hours of Work: The work period is 12 hours per day (6 am to 6 pm), 4 days on, 4 days off.

Minimum qualifi cations:• College Level Diploma in a related fi eld• (ie. Social Services, Drug and Alcohol)• Three to fi ve years of related work experience• Valid Ontario Driver’s License• Excellent written and oral English skills• Understanding and appreciation of Aboriginal history and culture • Ability to understand and speak Ojibway or Oji-Cree an asset.

Please forward your resume with a cover letter and three references to:

Sioux Lookout Out of the Cold,Box 674, 25 Fair St.,Sioux Lookout ON P8T 1B1,Phone 807 737-7499 Fax: 807 737-0065 faxEmail: [email protected]

Apply by: 4:00 pm September 23, 2011

Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.



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Community Futures Development Corporation

BOARD MEMBERSHIP VACANCY

NADF is a non-pro t Aboriginal owned and operated nancial institution, providing business and nancial

services to Aboriginal entrepreneurs and businesses in northern Ontario, including

Treaty #9, Treaty #5 (Ontario portion), Treaty #3 and Robinson-Superior 1850.

NADF’s Board of Directors is representative of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation and consists of 12 members, 9 of which are elected as Directors of the Corporation. A vacancy currently exists within NADF’s membership

and NADF is seeking to ll the vacancy from the Keewaytinook Okimakanak (KO) First Nations.

NADF is inviting eligible candidates from the KO First Nations to submit their resume highlighting education, work history and experience related to business and

economic development.

A strong nancial background is an asset.

Nominations for membership are also accepted.

Candidates holding a political leadership position are not eligible for membership.

DEADLINE: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2011

Please mark all submissions ‘CONFIDENTIAL’

MAIL: Nishnawbe Aski Development Fund Attn: Colleen Martin, General Manager 106 Centennial Square, 2nd Floor Thunder Bay, ON P7E 1H3

FAX: (807) 622-8271

EMAIL: [email protected]



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INTERPRETER(Casual)

Qualifi cations:• Excellent communication skills (oral and written in English)• Profi cient and Fluent in one or more Sioux Lookout area First

Nation languages (Cree, Ojibway, Oji-Cree, Swampy Cree) required• Demonstrated profi ciency in the “interpretive process”• Excellent interpersonal skills with a positive caring approach• Good understanding of cross-cultural issues• Ability to work fl exible hours• Profi cient with computers• Medical Interpreter certifi cate an asset• Ability to communicate in First Nation Syllabics an asset

Job Requirements:• Provide bi-directional interpreting services to patients, residents,

family and all service provider at SLMHC & ECU.• Articulate, report information accurately to convey the client’s

questions, concerns and messages consistent with risk management directives and reports related to client data.

• Maintain accurate daily records on all requests for service as well as the provision of services.

• Must be willing to work assigned shifts including 8 and12 hour rotation of day and night shifts

• Maintain confi dentiality in all matters related to client care and visitor issues.

• Other duties as assigned.Salary: Start rate: $20.97, benefi ts in accordance

with CUPE Collective Agreement.

Closing Date: September 30, 2011, or when fi lled

Submit Resume to:Human Resources

Competition #TRP 05/11Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre

Fax (807)737-6263Email: [email protected]

Competition No. TRP 05/11 (Please quote on your application)Only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted, we thank all others for their interest. The successful candidate will be required to provide a criminal records check.

ExcitingHealth Care

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NORTHERN NISHNAWBE EDUCATION COUNCIL

Secondary Teacher

Wahsa Distance Education Centre is operated by the Northern Nishnawbe Education Council under the direction of District Area Chiefs and First Nation communities. Wahsa provides secondary education services to northern communities across the Sioux Lookout District by radio and Independent Learning courses. Wahsa develops, delivers, and co-ordinates courses, training and support services in consultation with participating First Nations. Students receive instruction, instructional packages, tutoring, and academic and personal counseling through local and central support systems.

NNEC invites applications for the following teaching positions for the fall of 2011 at the Wahsa Distance Education Centre.

1.0 Secondary Teacher

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS• Certifi cate of Qualifi cations and Intermediate/Senior

qualifi cations in required subject area(s);• Member of Ontario College of Teachers• Experience teaching First Nation students an asset• Computer literacy• The ability to speak a District First Nations language an asset.• Willingness and ability to travel

TERMThis position is full time starting October 2011 with possible renewable annual contracts.

Please fax your resume complete withStatement of personal philosophy of educationCopy of Ontario Certifi cate of Qualifi cationsCopy of most recent performance appraisalWritten permission to contact three most recent employment references

Applications must be received by 4:00 pm, Friday, September 23, 2011. Fax or email your resume to Human Resources at (807) 582-3865 fax, email [email protected] or mail to Box 1419, Sioux Lookout, Ontario P8T 1B9. For further information contact the Wahsa Principal (807) 737-1488

Only those selected for an interview will be contactedNNEC requires a Vulnerable Person Check to be completed for all staff at time of hiring.

www.nnec.on.ca



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CAREER OPPORTUNITIESNAANDEWE GAMIG – NURSE PRACTITIONER LED CLINIC

Naandewe Gamig Nurse Practitioner Led clinic provides chronic disease management and health services to the Aboriginal residents of Thunder Bay and the catchment area.

We are looking to fi ll the following positions:

1. Nurse Practitioner Lead (One full time management position)- Degree in related discipline and/or a combination of education and/or working experience in business and/or accounting- Practicing Nurse Practitioner for a minimum of 3-5 years- Experience in working in a variety of environments, knowledge of provincial health policy, knowledge of the continuum

of community resources and supports available for patients within the Thunder Bay area and progressive leadership experience.

- 3-5 years of supervisory/management experience in a community health care setting

2. Nurse Practitioner (One full time position)- Active and valid NPAO Membership with the College of Nurse of Ontario as a Registered Nurse Practitioner (EC)- Practicing Nurse Practitioner for a minimum of 3-5 years- Three to fi ve years working knowledge of Aboriginal urban community and services- Experience in organizing and facilitating health education workshops.- Experience in program development and delivery.- Proven experience in organizing and facilitating wellness clinics.

3. Registered Nurse – (One full time position)- Active and valid registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario as a Registered Nurse- Three to fi ve years experience working as a Registered Nurse in a community setting.- Currently certifi ed as a Diabetes Educator and/or close to completion.- Three to fi ve years of experience working with mental health patients.

4. Registered Practical Nurse – (One full time position)- Active and valid registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario as a Registered Practical Nurse- Two years experience working as a Registered Nurse in a community setting.- Knowledge and experience working with Aboriginal communities.

5. Dietician – (One full time position)- Member of Dietitians of Canada and College of Dietitians of Ontario- University graduate, majoring in Foods and Nutrition, Nursing- Certifi ed Diabetes Educator or working towards it.- Three to fi ve years working in a community setting.- Knowledge and experience working with Aboriginal communities- Excellent leadership skills.- Teaching and presentation skills are required.

6. Medical Secretary (One full time position)- Graduate of a Medical Secretarial Program or equivalent education and experience- Three to fi ve years work experiences in a community based medical/clinical setting- Ability to work independently and with little supervision- Sound decision making and problem solving skills

7. Social Worker (One half time position)- Masters Level Degree in Social Work/Psychology enrolled in the regulatory body of discipline.- Five years of social work experience in a community based human service environment - Demonstrated knowledge of and competence in the principles of Social Work as they apply to persons with a serious

mental illness in the areas of depression, anxiety, grief and or loss as it relates to chronic disease.- Demonstrated strong commitment to the right and ability of each person with a serious mental illness to live in normal

community residence and have access to helpful, adequate and continuous supports and services.- Experience and ability in problem solving critical incidents with clients as they arise.- Experience and ability to develop program themes and adapt lessons and skill training sequences according to client

needs and the objectives and orientation of referring agencies.- Knowledge of Mental Health Act and other relevant legislation

8. Administrative Assistant (One full time position)- Degree in related discipline (business admin or accounting from a recognized University with Canadian Accreditation or

a combination of education and experience in the accounting fi eld- 3-5 years of administrative experience preferably in a community health care setting- Excellent time management, organization skills and multi tasking abilities- Advanced computer skills and familiarity with relevant software programs.- Self starter that possesses excellent problem solving skills.

Additional requirements- Awareness and respect of Ojibway/Cree traditional healing practices.- Ability to speak and/or translate Ojibway/Cree is an asset.- Successful completion of a police security check- Strong communication skills, interpersonal skills, computer literacy skills- Working experience with Aboriginal health access centre (s) or clinic is preferred- Superior organizational and time management skills- Solid working experience with electronic medical records system- Demonstrated ability to work independently and as a member of a multi-disciplinary health services team

PLEASE SUBMIT A RESUME, COVERING LETTER AND THREE WORK REFERENCES BY:

September 23, 2011 to:Anishnawbe Mushkiki, 29 Royston Court. Thunder Bay, on P7A 4Y7

OR FAX TO: (807) 343-4728

OR EMAIL TO: [email protected]

Only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted

**We give fi rst preference to the hiring of qualifi ed Aboriginal Persons”



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A member of Moose Factory will be on the Oct. 6 provincial ballot as a member of the Lib-eral party.

Leonard rickard was named Liberal candidate Sept. 1 for Timmins-James Bay riding.

He joins PC Alan Spacek of Kapuskasing and NDP incum-bent Gilles Bisson of Timmins as the candidates for the Timmins-James Bay riding.

rickard said one of his goals is to be a “bridge for the future of Timmins-James Bay.”

“For a long time people I think have divided the riding to Timmins and Highway 11 and then there’s the James Bay coast, as if we have very differ-ent interests,” said the Moose Cree First Nation member. “But I think in the end we all want the same thing whether we live in Attawapiskat or if we live in Timmins: good schools, good education, (that) our elderly are taken care of, and we want to make sure that we have jobs and a vibrant economy.”

rickard said he joined the Liberal Party because he identi-fies with a lot of the party’s val-ues such as the focus on family and economy.

“Those are things important to all of us,” he said. “Or things like senior healthcare, educa-tion; those are things that hit home for all of us, regardless of whether you’re from Moose Factory or Timmins.”

Born and raised in Moose Factory, rickard moved south to Timmins to attend high school and again to London, Ont. for university.

Majoring in political science,

he graduated from the Univer-sity of Western Ontario (B.A. – 1998) before moving back north where he was elected to the community’s chief and council as a youth councillor.

“It was my first foray into pol-itics,” he said.

It gave him the opportunity to listen to issues affecting peo-ple locally and be involved in local committees.

“Just getting a hands-on approach to things like band membership concerns or band bylaws.”

rickard has owned a small airline company, CreeWest GP Inc., since 2005 and has worked with local community economic development organizations,

where he gained experience working in community eco-nomic development special-izing in business development and small business financing. It’s this business background that rickard believes separates him from the other candidates.

“One of the fundamental things about running a business is to have a solid plan for the future,” he said. “My business wouldn’t be successful if I just sat back and pointed fingers and blamed someone else for my business’ problems. That’s not how I run my business. I have to think what do I need, what do the people I work for need.”

Bisson (NDP – Timmins-

James Bay) has held the riding since it was realigned in 1999 and the Cochrane-North before that.

“For the past 21 years, we’ve been represented by one indi-vidual,” rickard said. “One thing that I’ve heard is that things haven’t changed here in Timmins-James Bay.”

Bisson said his long ten-ure has allowed him to know the issues facing the people and that he knows the people and communities. “My record speaks for itself,” he said.

Speaking on rickard’s candi-dacy, he said, “I think it’s good for democracy (having a First Nations representative), how-ever the Liberal party will be

too hard for him.”He cited the Far North Act

– introduced by the McGuinty government – as one example of the Liberal party not working for the North.

Mushkegowuk Council Chief Stan Louttit weighed in on rick-ard’s decision to run.

“I think it’s great that one of our own members is running in the provincial election,” he said. “This gentleman could be a role model for some of our young people and bring our issues to the forefront.”

Mushkegowuk Council repre-sents four First Nations commu-nities that are in the Timmins-James Bay riding, with many community members living in

Timmins or other urban areas. There are also at least two other First Nations communities in the riding.

As for the impact rickard could make in the election, Louttit said “you never know.

“Our members could influ-ence the outcome by deciding to go out and vote. (rickard) might be a major force.”

Although he doesn’t “want to be labeled as the First Nations’ Liberal candidate,” rickard is proud to possibly represent those communities.

“The people that have reached out to me from back home so far have been so sup-portive and enthusiastic to see one of their own running in this provincial election,” he said. “I think it opens up a new dia-logue about the need to engage First Nations people.”

rickard noted the people in Treaty 9 have a very unique relationship to the province of Ontario because it is a signa-tory to the treaty and that there aren’t very many treaties with a provincial signatory to it.

“Ontario’s pretty unique in that instance,” he said. “I really just want to be part of that pro-cess and engaging those com-munities.”

He added the hospital board in Moose Factory recently amal-gamated with the provincial hospital board.

“I think there’s a growing rec-ognition that the province plays a very instrumental role in our day-to-day lives,” he said. “For so long we’ve been federally focused. I think we need to keep opening those doors and keep that dialogue going if we’re really going to assert ourselves as we should in this area.”

Rickard represents Liberals in Timmins-James Bay

submitted photoLeonard Rickard of Moose Factory poses with one of his election signs. The Moose Cree First Nation member is running as the Liberal candi-date in Timmins-James Bay riding for the Oct. 6 provincial elections.



A group of Fort Albany bas-ketball players brought their game to the Aboriginal Girls Basketball Camp Aug. 29-31 in Thunder Bay.

“I like defence, I like guard-ing,” said Vera Metatawabin, one of seven basketball players from Fort Albany. “When I stop the ball from someone, I just get a good feeling.”

Metatawabin also enjoys tak-ing three-point shots and driv-ing in to the basket. “We just practice, practice, practice,” Metatawabin said. “We like to practice all the time.”

Metatawabin and about 30 other Grade 5-12 Aborigi-nal girls from across Ontario attended the basketball camp, which was hosted by the Aboriginal Sport and Wellness Council of Ontario (ASWCO) at Hammarskjold High School.

A group of Lakehead Univer-sity Thunderwolves basketball players provided coaching each day as did a group of Aboriginal coaches. Lakehead University Thunderwolves basketball head coach Jon Kreiner also helped out on the first day of the bas-ketball camp.

After picking up some train-ing and skill techniques from

the university basketball play-ers, Metatawabin is considering her future goals in basketball. She has played basketball from Grade 6 to Grade 10.

“I do want to play university basketball,” Metatawabin said. “I really want to play basketball in my life.”

The basketball camp fea-tured skills development, game basics, scrimmages, fitness ses-sions, a girl empowerment ses-sion and a movie night.

“Shooting is the big thing – they’re learning how to shoot,” said Jasmine Sutherland, one of the Aboriginal coaches and an Aboriginal Team Ontario bas-ketball player at the last two North American Indigenous Games (NAIG). “They’re learn-ing defence, offence, all the spots on offence, they’re learn-ing passing and pivoting and ball handling.”

NAIG is a sporting event for Indigenous athletes in North America held in various loca-tions throughout Canada and the United States since 1990.

Sutherland, a Lakehead University student originally from Moose Factory, saw a big improvement in the younger girls’ skill levels during the bas-ketball camp.

“They don’t know how to play basketball and they are

learning so much,” Sutherland said. “It’s good to see them smile and learn.”

“Their skill level has improved dramatically,” said Marc Laliberte, another Aborig-inal coach and chair of ASWCO. “They seem to be more confi-dent in their abilities and the way they are conducting them-selves.”

Andrea Yesno-Linklater, a youth from Thunder Bay, learned how to shoot better at the basketball camp.

“I always stick my arm out when I shoot, so they told me to tuck it in and it will help me score better,” Yesno-Linklater said. “When you’re defending, you have to be quick on your feet.”

ASWCO plans to hold another basketball camp for girls next summer. The selec-tion process for NAIG 2014 Aboriginal Team Ontario girl’s basketball team will be held during the summer of 2013.

Sutherland encourages youth to aim for the NAIG. She said her experience at games was “unforgettable.”

“I say go for it because it is such a good experience to travel away from your home town and meet other First Nations and play the sport that you love,” she said.

Girls basketball camp helps improve skills

Rick Garrick/Wawatay NewsOne of the Fort Albany basketball players drives for a lay up during a basketball skill session at the Aboriginal Girls Basketball Camp, hosted Aug. 29-31 by the Aboriginal Sport and Wellness Council of Ontario at Hammarskjold High School.


Keewaywin’s Patrick Charles Kakegamic said it was “pretty cool” bringing home two gold medals and one silver medal he won at the Ontario ParaSport Summer Games Aug. 19-21.

“My family wanted to see them and they said they were proud of me,” said the 17-year-old athlete. He won gold in dis-cus and shotput and silver in javelin at the games, held in the Sarnia-Lambton area in south-ern Ontario.

“It feels great. It was a good experience to go down there. I saw new faces,” he said.

The games are an opportu-nity for athletes with physical disabilities to compete in a vari-ety of sports.

Kakegamic said the com-petition was “pretty intense” between himself and randall Whiskeyjack, an athlete from Slate Falls who won gold in javelin and silver in discus and shotput.

“We would intimidate each other before we competed,” Kakegamic said. “We’d try to scare each other, nothing mean or anything, but we’d just try to get our mind off the competi-tion a little bit.”

Kakegamic was born with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, a con-

dition that affects the skin and joints.

“It curves my spine so I guess some of my bones are weak,” Kakegamic said.

He had never taken part in track and field activities until this spring when his coach Scott Haines saw him during a coach-ing session at his school in Kee-waywin.

“He noticed how I didn’t let my disability stop me from try-ing,” Kakegamic said. “I try not to let anything bring me down. I just try my best.”

Kakegamic had previously played soccer, dodge ball and kick ball at school.

“I try to get around on my wheelchair whenever possible, whenever the ground isn’t muddy, when it’s nice and flat and hard,” Kakegamic said. “I can’t even go anywhere when it’s raining and muddy.”

Kakegamic attended a track and field training camp in Windsor this past July and is aiming for three gold medals at

his next competition.“I’m just trying to get some

training in and get my bones stronger so I can do better next time,” Kakegamic said.

Kakegamic plans to finish high school and attend college or university in the future.

During the games, Kakeg-amic took part in a number of training activities and social events along with Whiskeyjack.

Haines, who is also head coach of Keeper Athletics and head coach of Team Ontario Athletics at the 2006 and 2008 North American Indigenous Games, said the games were “an excellent opportunity” for the two athletes to meet other athletes who use wheelchairs but live very active lives.

“For them, they have a chance to be able to wheel around just like the rest of them,” Haines said.

Kakegamic and Whiskeyjack dueled it out between them-selves in the F57 division at the games.

“They have a sense of value and a sense of hope in the future because they have goals to try to be on the national team,” Haines said. “They have goals to go to international events because they met a lot of kids down there that fly all over the world representing Canada.”

submitted photoKeewayin’s Patrick Kakegamic claimed a gold medal in discus and shotput and a silver medal in javelin at the Ontario ParaSport Summer Games in Sarnia, Ont. Aug. 19-21. Kakegamic was born with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, a condition that affects the skin and joints.

NAN youth win gold at Ontario ParaSport Games

“I try not to let anything bring me down. I just try my best.”

– Patrick Kakegamic

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