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Mike Holmes partners with Canada First Nations to improve housing (www.digitaljournal.com)The Assembly of First Nations and Mike Holmes held a press conference Wednesday morning to announce the creation of a First Nation Center of Excellence, as well as a partnership that seeks to address housing issues for Canada's First Nations people.
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Sagamok (www.sagamok.ca)Sagamok First Nation is located on the north shore of Lake Huron. It is a beautiful community whose name means 'two points joining'. Sagamok's culture and language is Anishinabek and is made up of the Ojibwe, Odawa and Pottawatomi tribes. Also known as the Three Fires Peoples, the community members of Sagamok number well over 2000
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White Sparrow Wigwam (www.whitesparrowwigwam.com)My Path My dream and quest is to stay true to myself and to bring my own brand of awareness to all readers who find their way to my insights and my web site. Know that you are welcome to return to the Wigwam for information, change, personal growth, and new wisdom!
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First Nations should accept assimilation: guest editorial Peter Best Espanola (www.midnorthmonitor.com)Canadians pay lip service to the ideal that our society should always be striving for equality of social, economic and political opportunity for all our citizens.
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5.National chief Shawn Atleo considered declining Nipissing degree (www.nugget.ca)
Issue of First Nation education more important than Harris name debate
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6.Garden River FN plans toll booth (www.midnorthmonitor.com)
Garden River appears to be proceeding on plans to erect toll booths on highways running through its territory. A public notice "authorized by the government of the Garden River First Nation" was erected in recent days at the entrance to the reserve at Highway 17 announcing it as "future site of the Garden River First Nation traffic management toll booth."
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7.Kap hit with another Native blockade (www.kapuskasingtimes.com)
Members of the Kapuskasing Cree First Nation have set up a road blockade on Mileage 34 of Freddy Flatt Road, preventing members of Ontario Power Generation Corporation (OPG) and their sub contractors from performing any further preparatory work on the massive lower Mattagami redevelopment and extension project scheduled to begin in June.
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YouTube - Oka Crisis 1990 Part 001 of 21 (www.youtube.com)The Oka Crisis was a land dispute between the Mohawk nation and the town of Oka, Quebec, Canada which began on July 11, 1990. It lasted until September 26, 1990. One person died as a result.
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Sagamok First Nation Produces First of Its Kind Language Preservation Kit (www.pr-inside.com)Today, many communities throughout the world are finding difficulties when trying to preserve their native language
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10.First Nations protestors visit CAS office, demand control over children's welfare (www.manitoulin.ca)
-For several hours Marjorie Beaudry joined fellow protestors pacing the Highway 6 shoulder outside the Little Current Children's Aid Society (CAS) office, waving to passers-by and urging them to honk their support
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11.Elliot Lake art show gets $3,000 ad boost (www.elliotlakestandard.ca)
Titled Northern Star Meets Southern Cross, the exhibition will feature period examples from such creators as Canadian Native artist Norval Morriseau and Australian Aboriginal painter Clifford Possum
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12.Natives participate in ‘sustainable’ seal hunt - Alan Asher (www.northernlife.ca)
Those that work to end the beating of suckling seals for the fur trade are being told that they’re working against the rights of native peoples. Natives are being associated with an unnecessary bloodbath. This is disrespectful and ignorant.
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YouTube Redbone - Come And Get Your Love (www.youtube.com)Redbone is a Native American rock group that was most active in the 1970s. They reached the Top 5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1974 with the million-selling Gold-certified single, "Come and Get Your Love".[1]
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14.Aboriginal mental health aim of meeting (www.thesudburystar.com)
Mental wellness is a goal for many First Nation communities.Aboriginal mental health professionals met this past week at the Holiday Inn for the Raising the Spirit Conference.Speakers shared their expertise in mental health, justice and traditional healing practices.
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15.Residential school project aims to digitize more than three decades of archives (www.saultstar.com)
As early as this summer, Algoma University plans to make thousands of photos, files and publications documenting the plight of Indian residential schools available to the world.
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FreeGrassy.org: Home (www.freegrassy.org)2,500 square miles of forests, lakes and rivers north of Kenora, Ontario have sustained the people of Grassy Narrows First Nation for thousands of years. Today, increasing levels of clear-cut logging threatens to uproot their traditional way of lif
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17.New Timmins law office offers service in Cree (www.timminspress.com)
It is obvious from the start that this is not your average law office.The sage, part of a smudge ceremony, was used to give Ramona Sutherland a "fresh start," at the grand opening of her new law office in Timmins.Looking to her Cree heritage, Niska Law Office will focus on criminal law, with services provided to the general public in both English and Cree languages.
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Shoal Lake 39 band challenges two-laning - (www.thesudburystar.com)Close to a year after Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty announced they would provide $100 million for twinning Hwy. 17 from the Manitoba border to Clearwater Bay, Shoal Lake 39 members say they still haven't been consulted.Even though the project will cut through their traditional lands, Kenora-Rainy River MPP Howard Hampton agreed the governments acted as though the community doesn't exist.
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Friendship Centre Programs (www.nfcsudbury.org)The Friendship Centre was first established in 1967 through the efforts of the Nickel Belt Indian Club. By that time, the Directors and some of the Members of the Club were already involved in voluntary work such as courtwork and referral work.
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New career tool targets Aboriginal youth for mining careers (www.northernontariobusiness.com)Start them young.It's the rationale behind a recruiting tool designed to attract more Aboriginal youth into mineral exploration and mining careers.
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A youth corps for native people - (www.thestar.com)In Canada we tolerate Third World conditions on First Nations. ... In the fly-in reserves of Northern Ontario, whose wonderful people I have come to know so well, unemployment can be as high as 70 per cent or higher, transportation costs are prohibitive, milk in some communities is $13 for three litres, schools in some places are filled with disease-causing mould.
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British educators treated to aboriginal feast (www.northernlife.ca)Twelve educators from the United Kingdom visiting Sudbury last week were treated to an aboriginal celebration and feast at Marymount Academy Feb. 18.
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Natives eye a stake in Hydro One expansion (www.globeinvestor.com)A group of 22 first nations recently formed the Lake Huron Anishinabek Transmission Co. and named veteran Ontario native leader John Beaucage as chief executive officer
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Kahnawake natives near Montreal move to evict non-natives (www.torontosun.com)Mohawks in the Kahnawake reserve south of Montreal are reportedly sending out eviction notices to non-natives in the community.
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RedWorks.ca - Nadya Kwandibens (www.redworks.ca)Red Works Studio empowers contemporary Indigenous lifestyles and cultures through photographic essays, features, and portraits
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