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Chasing her dreamsWhitesand’s Jade Willoughby

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Jade Willoughby has signed with one of the world’s largest modelling companies, and is getting set for a move to New York City. But the Whitesand First Nation member who was born in Thunder Bay is not only focused on modelling - she also works to raise awareness of Indigenous history, culture and current realities and help youth follow their own dreams. Wawatay’s Stephanie Wesley takes a look at Willoughby’s model-ling success and her efforts helping First Nations youth reach their potential on page 9.

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ᕑᐃᐠ ᑫᕑᐃᐠ

ᐊᐧᐊᐧᑌ ᐊᒋᒧᐃᐧᐣ

ᐃᔭᐱᒪᑐᐠ ᑲᐅᒋᐨ ᒪᓂ ᒐᑲᐱ ᐅᑭᐃᐧᑕᐣ ᐊᔕ ᒋᑭᑭᐱᑎᓂᑲᑌᑭᐸᐣ ᑭᒋᔭᐦᐊ ᑲᒪᒋᑐᑕᐊᐧᑲᓄᐃᐧᐨ ᐁᐦᐊᐠ ᐃᐧᑫᐧᑐᐣᐠ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᐃᐧ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᑭᐸᑭᑎᓇᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᐅᐁᐧᓂ ᑭᒋᔭᐦᐊ ᑲᒪᒋᑐᑕᐊᐧᑲᓄᐃᐧᐨ ᒪᓯᓇᑌᓯᒋᑲᐣ᙮

“ᑭᐡᐱᐣ ᐁᐊᐧᐸᑫᔭᐣ ᑫᑯᐣ ᐁᐃᓇᑲᒥᑲᐠ ᓇᐣᑕ ᐃᑭᑐᐣ ,” ᐃᑭᑐ ᒐᑲᐱ ᐅᐅᐁᐧᓂ ᑲᑭᐃᓂᐁᐧᑐᐨ ᒪᓯᓇᑌᓯᒋᑲᓂ᙮ “ᑲᐧᓂᐣ ᔕᑫᐧᓂᒧᐣ᙮”ᒐᑲᐱ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐃᐧᑫᐧᑐᐣᐠ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᐡ ᑕᔭᐣ ᒪᐠᓫᐊᓫᐃᐣ

ᐅᑭᐸᑭᑎᓇᓇᐊᐧ ᐅᐅᐁᐧ ᒪᓯᓇᑌᓯᒋᑲᐣ ᒥᑲᐧᐨ ᓂᐃᐧᔕᐨ ᓂᑭᐱᓯᑦ ᑲᐃᓇᑭᔑᐨ ᐁᐃᐧᐃᐧᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑕᑲᐧᐠ ᐅᐅᐃᐧ ᐃᔑᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐱᑯ ᒍᒋᑭᑫᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯᐠ᙮

“ᑭᐡᐱᐣ ᐁᑕ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᐡ ᐅᐅᐁᐧᓂ ᑲᓄᑕᐠ ᑲᐧᓂᐣ ᐊᑯ ᒥᔑᐣ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᒋᐃᐧᓇᑐᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ,” ᒐᑲᐱ ᐃᑭᑐ᙮ “ᐁᑲᐧᐃᐧᐣ ᑭᐡᐱᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᓇᐣᑕ ᑲᔭ ᑯᑕᐠ ᐊᐃᐧᔭ ᐅᐅᐁᐧᓂ ᐊᓂᒧᑕᐠ ᑫᒋᓇᐨ ᐸᑲᐣ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐣ ᐅᑲᓇᑐᑕᑯᐊᐧᐣ,”ᑕᐣᑕᐢᑐᐣ ᐅᒐᑲᑌᐱᒋᑫᐠ ᐅᐅᐁᐧᓂ ᑲᑭᐅᔑᑐᐊᐧᐨ

ᒪᓯᓇᑌᓯᒋᑲᓂᓂ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᑕᓴᐧ ᐁᔭᑎᓭᐠ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᒧᒪᑲᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᓂᔭᓄᓇᐧ ᐁᔭᑎᓭᐠ ᐁᐧᒥᑎᑯᔑᒪᑲᐣ᙮ ᑭᒋᔭᐦᐊ ᐊᒋᒧᐃᐧᐯᐸᓄᐣ ᑲᔭ ᐅᒪᐡᑭᑯᒪᑲᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᒧᒪᑲᐣ ᒥᓇ

ᑭᒋᔭᐦᐊ ᑲᒪᒋᑐᑕᐊᐧᑲᓄᐃᐧᐨ ᒪᓯᓇᑌᓯᒋᑲᐣ ᑭᐸᑭᑎᓂᑲᑌ ᐃᐃᒪ ᐃᐧᑫᐧᑐᐣᐠᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯᒧᒪᑲᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐁᐧᒥᑎᑯᔑᒪᑲᐣ᙮

“ᓯᔭᑫᐣ ᒪᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᐅᐁᐧᓂ ᑭᒋᔭᐦᐊᐠ ᐅᑲᐅᑎᓯᑯᓇᐊᐧ ᐁᐧᐡᑲᐨ ᐅᑕ ᑲᐅᑕᑎᓯᐊᐧᐨ” ᒐᑲᐱ ᐃᑭᑐ᙮ “ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᔕ ᑲᐧᔭᐠ ᓂᐃᐧᐃᔑᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒪᐠ ᑭᒋᔭᐦᐊᐠ᙮ ᐊᒥᐅᔕ ᐅᐅᒪ ᑲᐅᒋᐊᔭᔭᐠ ᐅᑫᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐁᐧᐡᑲᐨ ᑲᐅᑕᑎᓯᐊᐧᐨ᙮ ᑲᑭᑕᐁᐧᐣᑕᒧᐃᐧᐣ ᑭᒥᓂᑯᒥᐣ ᓄᑭᑦ ᑲᐊᔭᔭᐠ ᑲᑭᔑᑲᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐱᑯ ᑭᒥᓂᑯᒥᐣ ᑭᐃᔑᐱᒪᑎᓯᔭᐠ ᓄᑭᑦ ᑲᑭᔑᑲᐠ”ᒪᐠᓫᐊᓫᐃᐣ ᐃᑭᑐ ᐯᔑᐠ ᑭᒋᔭᐦᐊ ᒪᒪᐤ ᓂᐃᐧᐣ

ᐁᑕᓯᐊᐧᐨ ᑭᒋᔭᐦᐊᐠ ᐅᒋᒪᒋᑐᑕᐊᐧᑲᓄᐃᐧ ᒥᑲᐧᐨ ᐱᑯ ᑫᐃᐧᓇᐊᐧ ᑲᐱᒧᓴᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᐱᒪᑎᓱᓂᐊᐧ᙮

“ᐅᐃᐧᔭᓯᐱᒪᑎᓱᓂᐊᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐅᔓᓂᔭᓂᒧᐊᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐅᒪᒥᑎᓀᐣᒋᑲᓂᐊᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐅᑎᓇᒪᒋᐅᓂᐊᐧ ᑲᐅᒋᒪᒋᑐᑕᐊᐧᑲᓄᐊᐧᐨ” ᒪᐠᓫᐊᓫᐃᐣ ᐃᑭᑐ᙮ “ᐃᐃᐁᐧ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᔓᓂᔭᓂᒧᐊᐧ ᑲᐅᒋᒪᒋᑐᑕᐊᐧᑲᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑲᐧ ᑲᔭ ᓂᓇᒥᓭᓂ ᐅᒪᒥᑎᓀᐣᒋᑲᓂᐊᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐅᑎᓇᒪᒋᐅᓂᐊᐧ᙮”ᒪᐠᓫᐊᓫᐃᐣ ᐃᑭᑐ ᐅᑫᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᐊᒋᒧᐯᐸᓀᓴᐣ ᑲᔭ

ᒪᓯᓇᐦᐃᑲᑌᐊᐧᓄᐣ ᑐᑲᐣ ᑲᑭᒧᑎᓇᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᒥᓇ ᑲᐦᑲᑭᒧᒋ ᐃᔑᒋᑲᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᑯᑕᑭᔭᐣ ᔓᓂᔭᐃᐧ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ ᑲᐅᒋᐊᓂᒥᔭᑲᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᑭᒋᔭᐦᐊᐠ᙮

“ᓂᑲᑫᐧ ᑭᐱᑎᓇᒥᐣ ᐅᐅᐁᐧ ᐃᔑᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᒍᒋᑭᑫᐣᑐᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᐅᐁᐧ ᑭᒋᔭᐦᐊᐠ ᑲᒪᒋᑐᑕᐊᐧᑲᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑕᑲᐧᐠ” ᒪᐠᓫᐊᓫᐃᐣ ᐃᑭᑐ᙮ᐊᔕ ᐁᐊᓂᒥᔑᓂᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯᐠ ᐃᐃᒪ

ᐃᐧᑫᐧᑐᐣᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒪᐠᓫᐊᓫᐃᐣ ᐃᑭᑐ ᐃᐧᑫᐧᑐᐣᐠ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᐃᐧ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᑭᐃᓀᐣᑕᓇᐊᐧ ᑭᔭᑦ ᐱᑯ ᑲᔭ ᐊᒋᒧᓀᓴᐣ ᒋᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧᐱᐦᐃᑲᑌᑭᐣ᙮ᓫᐁᑭᐁᐟ ᐅᑕᐱᑕᒪᑫᐠ ᒥᓇ ᑲᐊᐧᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᐊᐧᐨ

ᐅᑎᐸᒋᒧᓂᐊᐧ ᐁᑭᐅᔑᑐᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐁᐃᐧᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᔕ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯᐠ ᐁᐊᓄᒋᒥᔑᓂᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑲᐧ ᓂᔑᑕᓇ ᓂᐦᓱᔕᑊ ᑭᐅᒋᐡᐱᓭ 2001 ᓀᐃᐧᐨ 2006 ᑲᔭᑭᐊᐧᐠ᙮

“ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᔕ ᐊᓂᒥᔑᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᐱᒋᑯᓯᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᐅᒪ ᑭᒋᑕᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᓇᐣᑕ ᑲᔭ ᑲᐱᑭᐃᐧᑌᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᑫᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᑕ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᓂᑎᔑᒥᑲᒥᐣ ᐁᑲ ᓇᐱᐨ ᐁᑭᑫᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᑭᒋᔭᐦᐊ ᑲᒪᒋᑐᑕᐊᐧᑲᓄᐨ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐁᑲ ᐃᒥᓇᐧᔑᐠ ᑭᒋᔭᐦᐊ ᒋᒪᒋᑐᑕᐊᐧᑲᓄᐨ,” ᐃᑭᑐ ᒪᐠᓫᐊᓫᐃᐣ᙮

“ᐁᑲᐧ ᑭᐃᓀᐣᒋᑲᑌ ᔓᓂᔭᐣ ᑲᑭᐅᑎᓭᐨ ᐃᐃᒪ ᒥᐣᓂᐢᑐᕑᐃ ᐊᐠᑌᕑᓂ ᒋᓂᕑᐅ ᑭᔭᑦ ᐱᑯ ᐅᐅᐁᐧ ᑭᑭᓄᐊᒪᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᒍᔑᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᒍᒋᑭᑫᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᒋᓇᓇᒪᐊᔓᑐᐊᐧᐨ᙮”ᐅᑫᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᒪᓯᓇᑌᓯᒋᑲᓇᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐊᒋᒧᐃᐧᓀᓴᐣ

ᒥᓯᐁᐧ ᑕᑲᐧᓄᐣ ᐃᐃᒪ ᐃᐧᑫᐧᑐᐣᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒪᐠᓫᐊᓫᐃᐣ ᐃᑭᑐ ᐅᐅᐁᐧ ᒪᓯᓇᑌᓯᒋᑲᐣ ᑭᔭᑦ ᐱᔭ ᒥᓯᐁᐧ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᑕᑭᐃᔑᐊᐸᑕᐣ᙮

“ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐸᑯᓭᐣᑕᑲᐧᐣ ᑭᔭᑦ ᐱᑯ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᒋᐊᐸᒋᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᐅᐁᐧ ᒪᓯᓇᑌᓯᒋᑲᐣ ᐃᐃᒪ ᐅᑎᐢᑯᓂᑲᓂᐊᐧ ᒥᓇ ᑲᑕᓇᓄᑭᐊᐧᐨ ᒋᐅᒋᐃᐡᑯᓄᐃᑎᓯᐊᐧᐨ,” ᒪᐠᓫᐊᓫᐃᐣ ᐃᑭᑐ᙮

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May 16-18, 2013Sunset Inn

Sioux Lookout, ONThursday, 6:00 p.m. to Saturday, 4:30 p.m.

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Minister compares Ring of Fire to oilsands

ᐅᑭᒪ ᒪᒪᔭᑦ ᐁᐃᓀᐣᑕᐠ ᐃᐧᑲᐧᓯᑲᒪᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᐸᑲᒥᓂᑲᐣ ᑲᑭᒋᒧᓇᐃᑲᑌᐠ

ᑭᒍᑭᒪ ᑲᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᑕᐠ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᐃᒪ ᐃᐧᑲᐧᓯᑲᒪᐠ ᐁᐃᑕᐠ ᐃᐁᐧᓂ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧᐣ ᑕᐱᐡᑯᐨ ᒪᔭᑦ ᐃᐁᐧᓂ ᑲᐱᑕᓂᐠ ᐅᐁᐧᑎ ᐊᓫᐱᕑᑕ ᑲᑭᒋᒧᓇᐦᐊᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᐸᑲᒥᓂᑲᓂ᙮ᑐᓂ ᑭᓫᐁᒣᐣᐟ ᐁᑭᑕᔑᐣᑕᐠ

ᐊᓂᒥᓂᑯᐠ ᑫᑭ ᑲᐡᑭᐦᐃᐨ ᔓᓂᔭᓂ ᑲᒧᓇᐃᑫᓇᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐃᐧᑲᐧᓯᑲᒪᐠ , ᓇᐣᑕ ᒥᑕᓱᒥᑕᓇ ᓂᔑᑕᓇ ᐱᓫᐃᐊᐣ ᐃᓂᑯᐠ ᐊᐱᑌᐣᑕᑲᐧᐣ ᒋᑲᐡᑭᐦᐃᐣᐨ ᔓᓂᔭ᙮ᑭᓫᐁᒣᐣᐟ ᓄᐣᑭᒥᑫ ᑭᐃᓇ

ᐃᐧᐣ ᒋᑲᓄᒋᑫᑕᒪᑫᐨ ᐃᐃᒪ ᑭᒍᑭᒪᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᒋᐅᐣᒋ ᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᑕᐠ ᒧᓇᐃᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᐃᒪ ᐃᐧᑲᐧᓯᑲᒪᐠ᙮

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DeBeers starts work on expansion

ᑎᐱᕑᐢ ᐁᐊᓂ ᒪᒋᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐅ ᑕ ᓄ ᑭ ᐃ ᐧ ᓂ ᐊ ᐧ ᒋᓇᐣᑭᑐᐊᐧᐨ

ᑎᐱᕑᐢ ᐅᑭᐸᑭᑎᓇᓇᐊᐧ ᐅᑲᑫᐧᑌᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᐊᐦᑭ ᒋᓇᓇᑲᒋᒋᑲᑌᓂᐠ ᑯᑕᑭᓂ ᑭᑦᐱᕑᓫᐊᐃᐟ ᐱᐊᐧᐱᐠ ᒧᑕᑲᒥᐠ ᑲᔕᐸᐧᐱᑭᓯᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᒋᑭᐊᑐᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᐃᐁᐧᑎ ᓇᐊᐧᐨ ᓀᑲᐱᐊᐧᓂᐠ ᐊᑕᐊᐧᐱᐢᑲᐟ᙮ ᐃᐁᐧᓂ ᑕᐃᐣᑯ ᐁᑭᐢᑌᐣᒋᐣ ᑲᐃᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᐊᒋᑕᐃᐧ ᓇᔐᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᐊᓯᓂᐣ ᐊᐱᒋᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᐃᒪ ᐱᐠᑐᕑ ᒧᓇᐃᑫᐃᐧᐣ᙮ᐃᐁᐧ ᑲᐣᐸᓂ(ᑎᐱᕑᐢ) ᓂᔓᔭᑭ

ᐁᐸᑯᓭᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᒋᐱᒥᓭᓂᐠ ᐅᑲᑫᐧᑌᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᐊᑭᓂ ᑲᐃᐧᓇᓇᑲᒋᒋᑲᑌᓂᐠ ᑲᐃᐧᐅᐣᒋ ᓇᐣᑭᒋᑫᐊᐧᐨ , ᐁᑲᐧ ᑭᐡᐱᐣ ᒥᓄᓭᓂᐠ ᐅᐸᑯᓭᐣᑕᒧᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ, ᐅᑲ ᒪᒋᐅᔑᐦᐊᐊᐧᐣ ᔓᓂᔭᐃᐧᐊᓯᓂᐣ 2018 ᐊᐦᑭᐊᐧᓂᐠ᙮ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐃᐁᐧ ᐊᐦᑭᐊᐧᓂᐠ ᑎᐱᕑᐢ ᐁᐃᔑ ᐅᓇᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᐁᐧ ᐱᐠᑐᕑ ᒧᓇᐃᑫᐃᐧ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧᐣ ᒋᑭᐸᐃᑲᑌᐠ᙮

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Constance Lake grocery store shipping food north

ᐊᒋᑲᒥ ᐊᑕᐁᐧᑲᒥᐠ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᐁᐃᓯᓴᐦᐅᑐᐊᐧᐨ

ᐊᑕᐁᐧᑲᒥᐠ ᐃᐁᐧᑎ ᐊᒋᑲᒥᐠ ᐁᓇᓇᐣᑕᐁᐧᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᐣ ᑫᑭᐃᔑ ᐃᐧᒋᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᑲᐊᔭᑭᐣ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐁᑲ ᐊᐱᐨ ᒥᐡᑕᐦᐃ ᒋᑭᑎᐸᐦᐊᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᒥᒋᒥᓂ᙮ᐃᐢᑎᐱᐣ ᒐᐧᐣ ᒐᐨ , ᑲᑎᐯᐣᑕᐠ

ᒉᒋ ᑭᕑᐅᓯᕑᐃ , ᐃᑭᑐ ᐊᔕ ᐁᓂ ᐊᐃᓯᓴᐦᐅᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᒥᒋᒥᓂ ᐊᑕᐊᐧᐱᐢᑲᐟ ᐁᑲᐧ ᑯᑕᑭᓂ ᐁᓇᓇᐣᑐᓇᐊᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᑫᔭᑕᐁᐧᓂᐨ ᑭᔭᐱᐨ ᐃᐃᒪ ᐳᕑᐟ ᐊᓫᐸᓂ ᐁᑲᐧ ᑲᓭᒋᐊᐧᐣ᙮ᐁᐸᑯᓭᐣᑕᐠ ᑲᔦ ᒪᑕᐊᐧ

ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓇᐣ ᑫᐃᐧᓇᐊᐧ ᒋᑭ ᐱᓇᓇᒋᓂᔕᐦᐊᒧᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᒥᒋᒥᓂ᙮ᐁᑲᐧ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᑭᔭᐱᐨ

ᐃᐃᒪ ᐊᒋᑲᒥᐠ ᑕᔑ ᐸᑭᓯᓂ ᐅᑕᑕᐁᐧᑲᒥᐠ᙮

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Juno-nominee brings music to Treaty #3 schools

ᒍᓄ ᐸᑭᓇᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᐅᑕᐱᓂᐨ ᐁᐱᑐᐨ ᐅᑭᑐᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᐃᒪ ᒋᕑᐃᑎ 3 ᐃᐡᑯᓄᑲᒥᑯᐣ

ᒍᓄ ᐸᑭᓇᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᑭᐅᑕᐱᓂᐨ ᐅᑭᑐᒋᑫ ᑕᐧᐣ ᐊᒣᕑᐅ ᐅᑭᐃᔓᓇᐣ ᐅᑭᑐᒋᑲᓇᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐅᐱᒪᑎᓯᐃᐧ ᑭᑭᓄᒪᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐃᐃᒪ ᐅᑎᐢᑯᓂᐠ ᒋᕑᐃᑎ 3 ᑲᐃᔑᐊᔭᓂᐨ᙮ᐊᒣᕑᐅ, ᑲᑭᐃᔑ ᐅᑕᐱᓂᐨ ᑫᑲᐟ

ᑲᑭᐸᑭᓇᑫᐨ ᐃᐁᐧᓂ ᒍᓄ ᐸᑭᓇᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᐃᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᑕᐱᐡᑯᐨ ᓂᐦᓯᐣ ᐁᑭᐃᔑ ᐸᑭᓯᓂᐨ ᑲᐅᑕᐱᓂᐁᐧᓇᓂᐊᐧᓂᐠ ᐃᐁᐧ ᑲᑭᑐᒋᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᐅᔑᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᐁᐧ ᑲᑭᐊᐦᑭᐊᐧᐠ, ᐁᐃᑭᑐᐨ ᐁᑭᑲᑫᐧ ᒋᑫᐣᑕᒧᐦᐊᐨ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓂᐠ ᓂᑲᓂᐠ ᒋᐃᔑ ᐸᑯᓭᓂᒧᐊᐧᐨ᙮ᐊᒣᕑᐅ ᑭᓂᑕ ᒥᑎᑯᓇᐯᐃᐧ

ᐊᓄᑭ ᐊᐸᐣ ᑲᑭᐊᓂ ᐸᑭᑎᓇᐠ ᑲᑭᓇ ᑫᑯᓂ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐁᑭ ᐱᒥᐣᔕᐦᐊᐠ ᑲᑭᐃᔑ ᐸᑯᓭᓂᒥᑎᓱᐨ ᒋᑭᑐᒋᑫᐨ᙮ ᐁᑲᐧ ᓂᑯᑕᐧᓱ ᐊᐦᑭ ᐊᔕ ᒥᓯᐁᐧ ᐅᒪ ᑲᓇᑕ ᐁᑲᐧ ᑭᒋᒧᑭᒪᓇᐦᑭᐠ ᐁᐸᐸᒥᐊᔭᐨ, ᐊᐊᐧᔑᒣ ᒥᑕᓱᒥᑕᓇᐊᐧ ᐊᔕ ᐁᐸᐸᒥ ᑭᑐᒋᑫᐨ᙮

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Cat Lake on road to recoveryShawn BellWawatay News

Over one year since Cat Lake First Nation declared a state of emergency over prescription drug addictions, the commu-nity is taking strides on the path of recovery.

An old building in the com-munity has been transformed into a wellness centre, a sub-oxone program is planned to start in the coming months and a trailblazing group of commu-nity members is now meeting regularly to determine how to keep Cat Lake moving towards a healthy future.

But perhaps the most impor-tant victory is an increasing sense of engagement and a belief that the community can deal with its issues by working together, said Erin Horvath of New Vision Unlimited, who has been working with Cat Lake on creating a community-based healing strategy.

“Yes, there has been a lot of pain but there is also lots of overcoming, a lot of working together to make something possible,” Horvath said. “Over the last year there have been opportunities to see many small victories, and the process of knitting back together the com-munity ties.”

Cat Lake Chief Matthew Kee-waykapow declared a state of emergency on Jan. 23, 2012, saying that the community could no longer cope with the prescription drug abuse epi-demic or provide essential ser-vices to its members.

At the time Keewaykapow estimated that 70 per cent of the community was addicted to prescription drugs.

Horvath said that declaring the state of emergency helped with making the governments aware of the extent of the issue, and the support required. She said the government has been good on its word in the provi-

sion of support, but noted that a lot of outside support is still needed.

“There is still a large amount of pressure put on a small group of people,” Horvath said.

Yet the need for outside sup-port has not diminished the group’s efforts to tackle the problem through its own initia-tives.

One of the first steps in deal-ing with the epidemic, after the state of emergency was declared, was to hold a week-long community wide consulta-tion process to create a commu-nity-based plan.

Horvath said the plan used a strength-based model – deter-mining what the community is good at and how to use those strengths to promote wellness in the areas of addiction and family relations.

All of the community was invited to participate, and at the end of the week a plan was cre-ated that outlined what role dif-ferent people and organizations within Cat Lake would take on.

Beginning last summer, edu-cation and outreach efforts began with the intention of con-necting with people who were using drugs but not necessarily considering change. Then last autumn attention was focused on how band employees could do their own healing and get off

drugs, if they were using, with-out losing their jobs.

Throughout that period com-munity members volunteered their time to renovate and refurbish an old Nishnawbe-Aski Police Services building into Cat Lake’s wellness centre.

Horvath said that creating the wellness centre played a big part in bringing some people together.

“For the most part, it was volunteer labour,” she said. “People realized that if it is going to happen, we have to do it together.”

Horvath said she started to see a shift in the community around November of last year, as people started to realize how serious and detrimental the drug abuse problem was to the community as a whole.

“We started to see the strength of people coming for-ward and saying ‘I want to get off of this too,” Horvath said.

Now, community mem-bers have formed a group that includes drug users, ex-drug users and people who have never used drugs - people who are taking a leadership role in their own lives and in the lives of their family members to deal with addictions. The group is meeting regularly to continue promoting the healing work taking place. As trail blazers, they intend to set an example of humility and perseverance that others in the community can follow.

And a new doctor has begun to service the community, so a suboxone program is expected to start in June.

Meanwhile community mem-bers have been hosting and par-ticipating in a range of work-shops and activities, including bead work, candle-making, sharing circles, land-based activities and other intergenera-tional activities.

Horvath said that some com-munity members are beginning

to understand that this sort of healing takes time and requires a sense of personal and col-lective empowerment. She remains optimistic that momen-tum will continue to build as people replace their sense of helplessness with a conviction that they are able to make posi-tive change in their lives and families.

“There are lots of positive things happening,” Horvath said. “These things are not instantaneous, but people are beginning to want to talk about some of the root causes. All of these small victories are worth celebrating.”

She added that Wellness Ini-tiative has adopted an old quote of Franklin Rosevelt’s as inspira-tion:

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

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“Over the last year there have been oppor-tunities to see many small victories, and the process of knitting back together the com-munity ties...”

– Erin Horvath

One year after state of emergency community continues to take strides

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On the trail of history

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I find travelling liberating. When I first started to visit other countries I did so with

a minimal knowledge of history. The more I travelled, I realized I wasn’t getting a good sense of where I was. It was wonderful to climb up to the Acropolis and view Athens from the ancient ruins but I did so initially with-out really knowing much about where I was.

As the years went by, I became more interested in world history. For the past decade, this has become one of my obsessions and I read as much as I can about our shared past on this planet. One of the striking things I found was that war and violence has played such a huge role in the develop-ment in we human beings.

As a First Nation person, I have been part of an experi-ence that has resulted in being conquered by the European. All of the European cultures were very well developed by the time they reached our shores. Often I think that my ancestors must have been amazed at the arrival of the tall ships, the warriors and missionaries that spread out across the land. To me, I think it would be more or less the same as we inhabitants of earth today being visited by some advanced race of aliens from outer space.

I have been so fortunate to have travelled much of the world over the past 15 years. It has been a real thrill to be able to look at ancient ruins like the Roman Forum where Caesar ruled and met his end through assassination, the Moorish cas-tle of the Alhambra where Isa-bella greeted Columbus on his arrival from the new world, the Acropolis hill where civilization as we know it today was born, the mysterious prehistoric stone monuments of Stonehenge in the Salisbury plain in southern England and the old medina market centre of the city of Fez in Morocco.

Once I researched and studied some of the historic importance and relevance of these monuments it made me more respectful of the time, the places and the people I was honouring. It didn’t take me long in reading about the Phoenicians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Carthaginians, the Germanic tribes, the Ara-bic nomads and the Egyptians

before I realized that there was a predominant theme. This theme had to do with a very small aristocratic, wealthy and powerful group that controlled and in many cases enslaved the greater population. To maintain this power and flow of wealth, all of these peoples through history have turned to war, vio-lence and conflict.

I was shocked to discover that almost all of the develop-ments through history have centred around people’s quest for expansion, control, power and wealth. I discovered pock-ets of special moments when some of these cultures paused to reflect and wonderful things happened. Some of these peri-ods included classical Greece that was the seed of our west-ern culture, the Roman expan-sion that spread this knowledge throughout Europe over hun-dreds of years, the Moorish / Islamic period of Spain that saw the first universities in Europe in the middle ages and the Renaissance of Italy that rediscovered ancient knowledge that had been forgotten for centuries.

It occurred to me as I read about such historic leaders like Alexander the Great, Hannibal of Carthage, Pyrrhus of Epirus, the great Roman leaders Sulla, Julius Caesar and Augustus and in our modern era with characters like Bonaparte, Pat-ton, Eisenhower and Churchill that war and violence has dominated our development as a species.

In looking back on this I find it enlightening yet sad that we live in a world today that continues the same nar-rative. The names and places have changed but the story has remained the same. These days our western culture is after the oil and resources in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and throughout Africa. Those who control the wealth of the world are still few while most of the population except for about ten percent regarded as the middle class are impoverished.

As a Native person of Can-ada, I consider myself very for-tunate and unique in that I have walked in the footsteps of so many giants in history at some of the most spectacular historic places in the world.

It is my humble prayer for humanity as we move forward that somehow miraculously we will grasp the concept of justice, equality, fairness and respect for each other and our environ-ment. At this point, it doesn’t look very good.

Xavier Kataquapit

UNDER THE NORTHERN SKY

I was honoured with the opportunity to attend another writing-related

event in Winnipeg a couple of weekends ago. It was an event orchestrated by Renate Eigen-brod and Cheryl Suggashie, and included youth participants who are 3rd and 4th generation residential school survivors.

Members from the Aborigi-nal Writers Collective hosted workshops for the youth, and I am happy to say that they remembered who I was from the Manitoba Indigenous Writer’s Festival I had attended in the fall. I am hoping that as a writer, our paths will only con-tinue to cross as the days go by.

It was very inspiring to see

the youth participate in the workshops. Most of them had not been involved in any sort of creative writing so it was nice to see them open up and produce written work. It was also amazing to hear the differ-ent but similar stories of how everyone’s life was affected by residential school in one way or another. I think it is great that the youth were aware of what was lost, and are trying to reclaim the culture and their stories.

Introductions would take place anytime the group met anyone new. By the end of the event, I think that each of the participants had introduced themselves and explained why they were there at least 10 times, which was starting to become a reason for laughter each time.

I enjoyed being around so much creativity and it really inspired me to continue on with writing. I was given an oppor-tunity to read out loud or say

a few words at the concluding event that evening, but I passed because I did not have anything of mine to read and wasn’t sure what I would say. Right now I feel I should have just borrowed an iPhone and at least recited a column I wrote from Wawatay News Online, or even accessed the short story I wrote last year from its website.

I am happy that the youth enjoyed their time and found their inner voices as Aboriginal storytellers. After speaking with them about their experience, I feel that they came away from the event with a new view of the world of Aboriginal litera-ture.

As the youth editor of SEVEN, I only want to continue to encourage artistic expres-sion of any kind on any type of medium. We Anishinabe people have a lot to be proud of, and we have our own stories to tell. I know that sometimes it is hard to be Anishinabe, especially with the ill-treatment

our people are subjected to now and then and it can take a toll on one’s self-esteem. It is easier to remain silent and not speak a word about your problems, but it is not the right thing to do. It is important to continue to share and tell stories, to let it all out so to speak and to continue learning. Listen to storytellers, read their words, write your own even if nobody reads them. Writing is very therapeutic.

Perhaps one day, I will help organize a writing workshop here in Thunder Bay for Anishi-nabe youth. I will have to make that one of my goals as a writer and as a supporter of Anishinabe youth and creativ-ity. I hope it would have the same eye-opening effect the workshop in Winnipeg had on the Anishinabe youth who attended it.

We all have our stories to tell; some just need a little direction and help with how to get them out from the inside.

Stephanie Wesley

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April 25, 2013 – The Joint Review Panel for the Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste (DGR) today announced that it has set a deadline of May 24, 2013 to receive public comments on the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and documents in support of the application for a Licence to Prepare Site and Construct, submitted by Ontario Power Generation.

The EIS and licence application documents are intended to examine the potential environmental effects of all phases of the project and address all requirements for the Licence to Prepare a Site and Construct the DGR.

The Panel initiated a public comment period on the EIS and licence application documentation in February 2012. The end date of the comment period was extended as a result of requests by the Panel for additional information from Ontario Power Generation.The public is invited to submit comments on the EIS, the application for a Licence to Prepare a Site and the additional information received from Ontario Power Generation since February 2012 in response to questions from the Panel.

The documents in relation to the review are available on the Canadian Environmental Assessment Registry at www.ceaa.gc.ca , reference number 17520.

or fax to the attention of either or both Panel Co-Managers by May 24, 2013. Documents submitted or generated as part of the review will be posted on the online public registry for the project.

When the Panel determines that the information adequately responds to the EIS Guidelines, the

to the start of the hearing and will be provided with instructions on how they may participate.

To be kept informed of the panel review process and ongoing activities, send an email [email protected] to be added to the interested parties distribution list.

About the ProjectThe DGR is a proposal by Ontario Power Generation to prepare a site, and construct and operate a facility for the long-term management of low and intermediate level radioactive waste at the Bruce Nuclear site, within the Municipality of Kincardine, Ontario. Low level radioactive waste consists of industrial items that have become contaminated during routine clean up and maintenance activities at nuclear generating stations. Intermediate level radioactive waste consists primarily of used nuclear reactor components, ion-exchange resins,

the DGR.

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Christian QuequishSpecial to Wawatay News

There is no single statistic to define the growing problem of violence

against Aboriginal women in Canada and abroad, but it’s safe to say that our sisters have had enough.

Operation Thunderbird, or #OpThunderbird in the twitter-verse, is a movement that seeks to shed light on systemic vio-lence against Aboriginal women in Canada, stemming from the abduction and rape of an Aboriginal woman in Thunder Bay on Dec. 27, 2012, according to the main operating site of Operation Thunderbird.

The incident is being investi-gated as a possible hate crime. And it came in a time when Canada was still barely coming to terms with the conviction of Robert Pickton, believed to have murdered up to 49 women, many of them indigenous.

One of Pickton’s victims was my aunt.

“Operation Thunderbird began [when] a group of committed activists started speaking about their desire to help bring justice to marginalized indigenous women everywhere,” the site’s ledger reads. “We looked at our worlds and saw women missing, abused, murdered with impunity, beheaded, raped, dismembered, disrespected, unheard and forgot-ten by the media and legal institu-tions like trash.”

One of the big things that OpThunderbird has been able to produce is a map to show, visu-ally, the sad case of “unsolved

missing, murders of indigenous woman…[as well as] unidenti-fied found human remains. There are also categories to report solved murders and hate-ful or racist verbal assaults,” the crowd-map site reads.

The map indicates the number of indigenous women who have been murdered or gone missing (as well as both indigenous and non-indigenous women who have been sexually assaulted), and was created to raise awareness of the lack of interest in the loss of Aboriginal women by law enforcement.

Another initiative intended to help Aboriginal women developed in the form of a crowd-funded project called Arming Sisters, developed by Patricia Stein, a Lakota activist working from Cairo. She’s the OpThunderbird’s politics and social sciences educator, origi-nally from North Dakota. Her goal, as indicated by her public IndieGoGo campaign page, is to arm women, “not with weap-ons, but with the courage and knowledge to fight back.”

Stein said 330 out of 1,000 indigenous women in any given district would be assaulted, with one in three being raped, two in five experiencing domes-tic violence, and three in five being physically assaulted. The project, if it meets its financial goals, will seek to bring self-defense courses to women in 20 of the largest indigenous communities in Canada and the United States.

“Should this goal be com-pleted, we will directly reach 2,000 women, and thousands

more as they share their knowl-edge,” the IndieGoGo campaign reads.

So why have we, in the 21st century, come to a point where women still don’t feel safe in their own communities? Women have always had a hard lot. I won’t deny that I feel fine going for a stroll in the evening without a thought of hesitance, but I think the issue goes beyond male privilege.

Stein said in her video that indigenous women are specifi-cally being targeted, as 88 per cent of assaults are by non-indigenous men.

“Targeted to flawed laws, racism, and deep rooted corrup-tion in the institutions set up to protect and serve the public,” said Stein. “Up until recently, when the Violence Against Women Act was reauthorized including tribal provisions, tribal governments had no authority to properly address cases.”

This particular act only affects women in the United States, and Stein said a “signed bill, regardless of borders, will not bring down the rate of assault for years to come, or delete the racism and corrup-tion from society.”

Aboriginal people are a tough bunch. Our ancestors survived cultural and actual genocide; we endure ongoing systemic racism stemming from Canada’s archaic Indian Act of 1867, and struggle every day just to sur-vive in some cases.

It’s a dangerous world out there for Aboriginal people, but it’s even more dangerous for

Aboriginal women.I recall visiting The Forks

in Winnipeg one summer with my mother and another female relative – they had just parked when a (white) man approached them and started yelling racial slurs at them for allegedly “stealing his spot.” They were outside the car deal-ing with him; I was inside the van wondering what the com-motion was.

From where I stepped out of the van on the right, my mother and aunt were on the left side dealing with the man. As I made my way over to the confrontation, the man slowly backed away from us and, I’m sure, decided the parking spot was no longer worth fighting for. He was more willing to cuss out a couple of indigenous women than deal with a 6’0 Aboriginal man.

That’s just one of the count-less, more subtle examples. And I’m very grateful to have been able to act as a guardian for my mother in public situations – it’s not the quintessential solution to the bigger issue, but it’s what I can offer to help my family.

I praise Aboriginal women for gathering resources, engag-ing in movements set to create positive change for future gen-erations. It’s important for the marginalized to speak up, it’s important for women to start feeling safe in a society they’re very much a part of. Operation Thunderbird seeks to make it condemningly difficult to avoid justice—not just for victim of the December 27 hate rape, but for all women.

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Minister says Ring of Fire will be next oilsandsShawn BellWawatay News

The Ring of Fire mining development could be Cana-da’s next oil sands, says federal minister of FedNor Tony Clem-ent.

Clement, who was appointed earlier this year as the federal government’s point man on the Ring of Fire,

told the Huffington Post that the mining development will change northern Ontario for the better.

“It has the potential to trans-form what was hitherto a very poor, underdeveloped area of Ontario and give people who live there, particularly First Nations people, a chance for a decent life,” Clement said.

Clement, also Treasury

Board president, said the Ring of Fire could eventually be worth $120 billion, including the smelter and additional eco-nomic activity tied to mining.

“You’re looking at $120 bil-lion, right in line with the oil sands or some of these other major developments,” Clement said.

Clement is not the first Con-servative politician to compare

the Ring of Fire to Alberta’s oil sands. Provincial Conservative leader Tim Hudak made simi-lar claims in 2012 after visiting the mining area.

“In many ways, the Ring of Fire is Ontario’s oil sands – an enormous wealth beneath the earth that can break open a new frontier for job creation and investment in our prov-ince,” Hudak said in June 2012. “Sometimes we look with wonder and awe at what Alberta can do; we can do that in Ontario and we can do that with the Ring of Fire.”

First Nations in the region have also made comparisons to Alberta’s oil sands – but with-out the enthusiasm shown by the Conservative politicians.

Chief Eli Moonias of Marten Falls has expressed his con-cern of a potential “Athabasca River” situation on his tradi-tional lands.

First Nations downstream of Alberta’s oil sands have long claimed that the Atha-basca River, which runs from Fort McMurray through the oil sands region and north into the Northwest Territories, is being polluted by industry. Recent scientific studies, notably those done in 2010 by eminent freshwater ecologist David Schindler, have also shown a correlation between oil sands development and increases in toxic chemicals on the land and in river water.

The Matawa First Nations

have also taken the federal gov-ernment to court to try and get a stricter environmental assess-ment process used for Cliffs Resources’ chromite project in the Ring of Fire. That judicial review should come before the courts later this year.

Clement acknowledged that getting First Nations on board with the Ring of Fire is essential to the Ring of Fire’s success.

“The only way this proj-ect is going to work is if First Nations people are included as partners,” Clement said. He promised that the govern-ment would consult with First Nations and develop plans to allow them “to participate in the economic activity that this project is going to generate.”

Shawn BellWawatay News

DeBeers has filed its envi-ronmental assessment for a project that would expand production at its Victor dia-mond mine west of Attawapis-kat.

According to a company press release, DeBeers has asked the federal minister of the environment to conduct a comprehensive environmental assessment under the Cana-dian Environmental Assess-ment Act for its potential Tango Extension kimberlite deposit.

DeBeers said the announce-ment came after pre-consulta-tion with the Canadian Envi-

DeBeers looking to expandronmental Assessment Agency (CEAA), the government of Ontario and First Nations in the area.

The company has been exploring since 2008 the 15 kimberlite pipes that extend away from the main Victor deposit, where ongoing dia-mond mining takes place. It stated that the Tango Exten-sion kimberlite, while smaller and of lower grade than Vic-tor, offers the best potential to extend the life of the mining operation and the related eco-nomic benefits.

The environmental assess-ment process is expected to take two years. DeBeers said it will be done in parallel with community consultation, fur-ther baseline environmental studies, engineering and eval-uation of the Tango Extension resource.

“If those activities prove favourable and are success-fully concluded early in 2016, then DeBeers will request development approval from the board of directors,” the press release stated. “The target date to begin process-ing ore from Tango Extension kimberlite is in 2018, as the Victor ore body is forecast to

be exhausted by that time.”The company stated that it

will be “actively seeking pub-lic input into, and support for, the environmental assessment process.”

The environmental assess-ment falls under the new Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, which was passed through parliament in 2012. Under the new act, only projects described under a regulations list are subject to environmental assessments, unless the federal environ-ment minister designates a project for environmental assessment.

According to Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency spokesperson Celine Legault, diamond mines do not currently fall under the regulations list. Therefore, the federal environment minister has to designate the project to undergo environmental assessment for an EA to hap-pen.

The government is consid-ering adding diamond mines to the regulations list under the revised regulations, which are out for public comment right now, Legault said.


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Aboriginal health access centres to expandRick GarrickWawatay News

Two northwestern Ontario Aboriginal health access centres are looking to add physicians and offer more primary and tra-ditional care programs thanks to recently announced increases in provincial funding.

“We can add to the num-ber of physicians providing services in the Kenora area,” said Anita Cameron, execu-tive director of the Waasegi-izhig Nanaandawe’lyewigamig Aboriginal Health Access Cen-tre in Kenora, noting the clinic currently has six nurse practi-tioners and “not quite a full-time” physician. “We provide services, not only within the city of Kenora, but to the 10 surrounding First Nations in 12

different community points, so that is a fair bit of outreach and travel.”

The provincial govern-ment announced a 36 per cent increase for Waasegiizhig Nanaandawe’lyewigamig, for a total of $2,339,955 in 2012-13, and a 39 per cent increase for the Gizhewaadiziwin Aboriginal Health Access Cen-tre in Fort Frances, for a total of $2,305,004 in 2012-13.

The funding is aimed at help-ing the two health centres to retain and recruit primary-care physicians, recruit up to two additional nurse practitioners and offer more primary and traditional care programs and services.

“Aboriginal health access centres play a vital role in help-ing Ontario’s Aboriginal com-

munity get the care they need, close to home,” said Deb Mat-thews, minister of Health and Long-Term Care. “This addi-tional support for the Waasegi-izhig Nanaandawe’lyewigamig Aboriginal Health Access Cen-tre and the Gizhewaadiziwin Aboriginal Health Access Cen-tre will ensure improved access to high-quality health care and other services for local resi-dents.”

Cameron said about 4,000 of Waasegiizhig Nanaandawe’lyewigamig’s 9,500 registered clients are active within a given year, but they are spread out across the area and many are sicker than average with more than one health issue.

“We obviously deal with a lot of diabetes,” Cameron said.

“And that disease alone causes a lot of secondary complications.”

Cameron said clinical ser-vices are provided in each mem-ber community at least once per week.

“So instead of coming to town to get medical care, you can just go to your local nurs-ing station,” Cameron said. “But you can only take so much (equipment) on the road, so depending on how sick you are, we may have to see you at the central location because there are resources and facilities there that we can’t bring to the community. But we try to do our best and see Elders in their homes as opposed to requiring them to come out if it’s easier for them that way.”

Cameron said the home visits provide an opportunity for the

health practitioners to see how their patients live.

“We are distinguished also by providing a holistic model of care that looks at the whole person, not just the one symp-tom they are presenting that day,” Cameron said. “You don’t get any better insight into the person than to go to see them in their own environment.”

The funding is also aimed at renovations for both health centres and an expansion at the Gizhewaadiziwin Aboriginal Health Access Centre.

“Our government is com-mitted to building a vibrant province with opportunities for everyone — and health care is the basic building block of a fair society,” said David Zimmer, minister of Aboriginal Affairs. “We’re pleased to be supporting

these two northern Aboriginal communities’ health centres, which provide services tailored to the unique needs of the pop-ulations they serve.”

Cameron said the Waasegi-izhig Nanaandawe’lyewigamig renovations include better workspaces for staff, better spaces for delivering services and some specialized spaces at the 4th Avenue site.

“We’re not just about clinical services — we’ve got this huge health promotion component that I don’t think gets enough credit for what it does because we are never able to do it in our own space,” Cameron said. “So to have a public gathering space where we can have events and community kitchens is going to be really exciting.”

Elder abuse videos launched in Thunder BayRick GarrickWawatay News

Eabametoong’s Ma-Nee Cha-caby called for an end to Elder abuse in a recently released Thunder Bay Police Elder Abuse video.

“If you see something going on, say something,” said Cha-caby, who narrated the video. “Don’t hold back.”

Chacaby and Thunder Bay Police Service Det. Const. Diane MacLaurin launched the video on April 24 to create more awareness of the issue among First Nations people.

“If the police are doing all the talking, people don’t often listen,” Chacaby said. “But if it’s another Anishinabe or another Native person talking, then they

might listen out of curiosity.”Produced by Thunderstone

Pictures, the video includes 10-minute Oji-Cree and five-minute English segments. Elder

abuse pamphlets were also produced in Cree, Oji-Cree and Ojibwa syllabics and English.

“I hope this reaches the Elders, the old people,” Chacaby

said. “I’d like people to treat old people like they’re made out of gold. That’s why we are here, because of our old people. They gave us the knowledge we have today, and they gave us how to be who we are today.”

MacLaurin said one in four Elders are abused at some point in their lifetime.

“The abuse can range from financial, physical, psycho-logical, emotional and sexual,” MacLaurin said. “A lot of the abuse that we wind up seeing is financial, but not perceived by itself. You have some embedded emotional or sometimes psycho-logical abuse that goes along with it.”

MacLaurin said the pam-phlets also include information on scams, frauds and different

types of financial issues that affect Elders.

“We’re trying to prevent things from happening and to educate people on things they didn’t know about abuse,” MacLaurin said.

As the Aboriginal popula-tion increased in Thunder Bay, MacLaurin said the Thunder Bay Police Service realized it would be a good idea to pro-duce information for them in their own language. A Lakehead Social Planning Council report indicated that Thunder Bay’s Aboriginal population increased by 23 per cent from 2001 to 2006.

“Now that there are more people either moving into the city or people coming to visit in the city of First Nations or

Aboriginal descent, we’re find-ing that they don’t have a lot of information sometimes about Elder abuse and what consti-tutes Elder abuse,” MacLaurin said. “So the idea was, from a grant from the Ministry of the Attorney General, to produce information in a format that people would understand and that they are familiar with.”

Although the videos and pamphlets are available at community service agencies throughout the Thunder Bay area, MacLaurin said the video can be used anywhere across Ontario.

“It’s hoped that people use the video in their own com-munities or their own agencies to educate as well,” MacLaurin said.

Rick Garrick/Wawatay NewsMa-Nee Chacaby recently narrated a Thunder Bay Police Elder Abuse video in English and Oji-Cree.


J-G Grocery delivers groceries northRick GarrickWawatay News

J-G Grocery in Constance Lake is looking to deliver lower-priced groceries to remote com-munities across the north.

“I’m working on Attawapis-kat first and trying to get more customers from Kashechewan and Fort Albany,” said Stephen John-George, owner of J-G Gro-cery. “We’ve shipped two plane loads to Attawapiskat so far. We’re trying to let more people know about it.”

John-George shipped the food, which is subsidized under the Nutrition North Canada program, on a Hearst Air air-craft from nearby Carey Lake,

located about a 10-minute drive from Constance Lake.

Nutrition North is a federal retail subsidy program that focuses on increasing access to perishable healthy foods in isolated northern communi-ties. The program subsidizes a variety of perishable foods, with the most nutritious foods such as fruit, vegetables, milk, eggs, meat and cheese getting a higher subsidy; country or traditional foods commercially-processed in the north and direct or personal orders.

“I filled a box of fruit for about $80 and a box of meat for about $75,” John-George said. “I made about 20 boxes of each.”

John-George usually ships the food north as soon as pos-

sible after it arrives at his gro-cery store.

“We get our deliveries on Wednesday and we’re trying to get out there by Thursday or Friday,” John-George said.

He opened the grocery store about a year ago after his daughter-in-law, who is from Kashechewan, told him about the high costs of food in the remote fly-in Nishnawbe Aski Nation communities.

“There was no small gro-cery store in Constance Lake so we built one to try to help the reserve out,” John-George said, explaining that he had first opened up for business as a con-fectionary store in late 2011.

“We had to sign a contract

with Loblaws for five years. They supply our food.”

John-George paid for the changeover, which included the purchase of four coolers, a walk-in freezer, a walk-in cooler and a check-out counter with scanner, with a Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corpo-ration grant and a bank loan.

“I underestimated the check-out counter,” John-George said. “The scanning system was like $30,000. So I had to dig around deep.”

John-George also renovated the building to accommodate the grocery store as it was ready to be torn down.

“They were trying to tear it

down but we salvaged it,” John-George said.

John-George’s wife works full-time as the grocery store manager, while two full-time clerks and three-to-four part-time workers are also employed.

“We’re similar to the pricing (at other grocery stores), but they have better deals,” John-George said, explaining that he cannot match the sales offered at other stores. “I’m trying to keep my meat down to near-cost for the people up north and back home.”

John-George is currently looking to add customers in the nearby Matawa communities.

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Stephanie WesleyWawatay News

On April 19, 2013, White-sand First Nation member Jade Willoughby, 22, signed a contract with Wilhelmina Models and Talent Manage-ment Agency. Willoughby, who has been in the model-ing industry since she was 16, said that being signed to Wil-helmina Models is “unreal.”

“It’s just everything I ever dreamed of in this industry,” Willoughby said.

Born and raised in Thun-der Bay, Willoughby did not have the easiest childhood after being diagnosed with a rare illness that had her on her deathbed by the age of 12.

“It (the illness) went into remission when I was 15,” Willoughby explained. “I was home schooled. But I kept pushing myself.”

It was the determination to keep moving forward regard-less of the challenges life pre-sented to her that helped Wil-loughby find success and a career in modeling.

“It’s not easy,” Willoughby said of modeling. “While there are a lot of things that can be fun about it, it is a lot of hard work.”

Willoughby’s favourite part of what she does in mod-eling is hair and make up. “It teaches me a lot about patience each time. It can take anywhere from two to five hours. I can also see the char-acter come to life.”

“That’s my favourite part of the transformation.”

Willoughby has been fea-tured in numerous edito-rials, fashion shows, and magazines. Most recently she appeared in the spring 2013 issue of Elements magazine.

Willoughby has garnered a large following online and has become a role model for young First Nations through her career as a model and also the work she has done with programs like the Cana-dian Roots Exchange (CRE). She was involved in the CRE’s Indigenous Reconciliation Leadership Initiative, a pilot project that involved six youth from across different regions of Canada to organize recon-ciliation and education activi-ties for their area.

Willoughby was a youth facilitator for the project and participated in workshops put on by the group to help raise awareness of Indigenous cul-ture and history.

“Our work was done with Indigenous and non-Indige-nous participants, which is what initially drew me to the project,” Willoughby said. “I truly believe in order to move forward, we must be able to understand, examine, and question each other in a set-ting that draws on our ability to look inward and also step back and see the big picture.”

Willoughby has been a

motivational speaker at events to help inspire and encourage First Nations youth. She has also organized two youth fash-ion shows in Thunder Bay to help the youth showcase their beauty and talent.

Willoughby’s contract with Wilhelmina makes her the first First Nations model from northwestern Ontario to be signed with the company. The company itself is one of the most recognized and largest modeling agencies in the world with offices in Los Angeles, Miami, and New York City.

“The contract entails that in the New York market, Wil-helmina will be my represen-tation. So they will handle everything in regards to my image, likeness, my voice. They are my management agency in that market as well as LA,” Willoughby explained. “Anything I do as a model will be guided and helped along by Wilhelmina Models.”

She said that a contract is something that people in the modeling industry aspire to obtaining. The contract also requires Willoughby to relo-cate to New York City, a move that she is nervous but also excited about.

Willoughby was recently in New York for five days to attend appointments with a few modeling agencies,

including Wilhelmina Models. She went with five other mod-els along with her “mother agent.”

“A mother agent is exactly what it sounds like,” Wil-loughby said. “She takes care of everything. She’s my business partner. We have a respect for each other, she guides my career as it stands.”

Willoughby admits that upon returning to Ottawa from NYC, she was somewhat aware of Wilhelmina’s interest in her. Wilhelmina Models liked the fact that as a model, Wil-loughby is able to work “across the board for every market” through editorial, runway and commercial modeling.

Willoughby said that it was about a week and a half after she had returned to Ottawa

from her New York City trip when the contract was sent over and she officially signed with the company.

“It was nerve-racking,” Wil-loughby explained of wait-ing to see if any offers would come in from the agencies she had visited. “Everyday my par-ents were checking in to see if I had heard anything. I was always checking email. Finally my agent mother texted me and told me ‘you did it.’”

“I’m exited about moving,” she said. “The energy (in New York City) is unlike something I have ever felt. And I thought Toronto was big.”

Though being away from her family, with whom she has always been close, will be a struggle for her, Willoughby is confident that she will be OK.

“I have to draw on my own independence when I am in a new city. But sometimes trying to find your way on a bus or a subway can be defeating.”

Willoughby will spend two or three months in New York, and then two or three months in Los Angeles.

Willoughy said that she is now in a place she never thought she would be. “I am excited, I am scared,” she said. “I will just embrace everything that comes.”

“Don’t ever give up,” Wil-loughby concluded. “Just never forget who you are and success will follow. I always remember who I am.”

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Don Amero brings music to Treaty #3Rick GarrickWawatay News

Juno-award nominee Don Amero recently performed for youth at schools in a number of Treaty #3 communities.

“I did an hour-long session with the kids and I shared my story, played a few songs and answered some questions the kids might have had about music as a career or even life questions about something they might be going through and how I over-came some of the things I went through,” Amero said. “It has always been a goal of mine to inspire students to do what I do and hopefully I inspired a few.”

Amero wants to continue working with youth in their communities to encourage them to “not let the tragedies and the tough things in life define what they do.”

“My hope is that they will overcome those things and do whatever they want to do and believe in their dreams and pur-sue that,” Amero said.

The Cree-Metis musician from

Winnipeg finished third after winner Crystal Shawanda and runner-up BURNT-Project 1 for Aboriginal Album of the Year at this year’s Juno Awards in Regina.

His fourth album, Heart On My Sleeve, was nominated for the award at the April 21 annual awards ceremony.

Amero previously won Single of the Year and Best Pop CD at the 2012 Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Awards, Best New Artist at the 2011 Native Ameri-can Music Awards and Aborigi-nal Songwriter of the Year at the 2011 Canadian Folk Music Awards.

“Playing at the MTS Cen-tre for the Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Awards has been one of the biggest highlights,” Amero said. “If I could play for 5,000 people I’d be set. The energy in that place is unbeliev-able; the Aboriginal music fans are so great. It’s unbelievable being able to share the stage with some of my mentors and the people who have started up the Aboriginal music scene.”

Amero began pursuing a music career about six years ago after first developing an interest in writing music when he was

about 15 years old.“It took me a long time

to figure out how to write a decent song,” Amero said.

“About six years ago I started doing this full-time. I was working as a hardwood floor installer and I didn’t want to become an old guy and look back on life saying why didn’t I give it a shot. So I jumped in with both feet and haven’t looked back since.”

Amero has since performed across Canada in concerts and festivals, with the symphony, on national television and at the National Museum of the Ameri-can Indian in New York City.

“I’ve been coast to coast in Canada,” Amero said. “I do from 100 to 150 shows a year, a lot of them in Manitoba because that is my own province.”

Amero is currently working on putting together a travel-ling stage show in theatres across the country, which he aims to launch in about a year and a half.

Mocc Walk Challenge for diabetes preventionRick GarrickWawatay News

Talk4Healing coordina-tor Robin Haliuk and seven other Talk4Healing staff are looking forward to exercising regularly during this year’s Mocc Walk Challenge.

“Talk4Healing has two teams entering this year,” said Haliuk, a Metis woman originally from southern Ontario. “We’re excited to get active and fit and collect points for every 10 minutes of walking. As somebody that has that (family) line of dia-betes, that is one way to pre-vent it and get healthy and have fun with friends.”

Haliuk said the Mocc Walk Challenge, being held by the Ontario Native Women’s Association Aboriginal Dia-betes Program from May 1-June 30, will also help motivate her to keep active.

“My team is counting on me and it ’s a lot of fun,” Haliuk said. “You get a point for every 10 minutes of walk-ing, so even if it means 10 minutes around the building or whatever the case may be to get in those points, that’s kind of how we’re kind of looking at it.”

Haliuk usually enjoys going for a “good long walk” after her children go to bed in the evening.

“It ’s also a good stress reliever and it keeps me healthy,” Haliuk said. “I went last night down to McVicar

Submitted photoCree-Metis musician Don Amero recently finished third for Aboriginal Album of the Year at the Juno Awards in Regina.

“It has always been a goal of mine to inspire students...”

– Don Amero

Creek and the water was nice and high and the dog and I went walking. It was nice and peaceful; closer to nature is always nice.”

The Mocc Walk Challenge was developed to increase awareness about diabetes as well as promote physical activity among Aboriginal people across Ontario.

“We had our best regis-tration last year,” said Rob-ert Fenton, Aboriginal dia-betes worker with ONWA. “We had 710 people from across Ontario walking and I’m really hoping we hit the thousand mark this year.”

Fenton said participants have previously walked in a wide range of communities, all the way from Moose Fac-tory to Akwesasne.

“A lot of urban Aboriginal agencies participate too,” Fenton said. “For every 10 minutes of walking you get one point, so you keep track of your points and submit them at the end of the chal-lenge.”

Prizes are awarded to indi-viduals and teams, depend-

ing on the number of points raised. The higher the points, the greater chance to win a prize.

“Everybody that partici-pates is acknowledged and they get a certificate of par-ticipation,” Fenton said. “They’re quite coveted in the communities.”

People of any age can par-ticipate, either as individuals or teams of four, by walk-ing anywhere, such as on a treadmill, outside or at a mall.

“We’re trying to encour-age physical activity amongst Aboriginal people and this is one of the easiest ways to do that,” Fenton said. “In some communities it’s turned into a community event where the community is out walk-ing and they are encouraging each other and it becomes a

challenge within the commu-nity to see who is doing the most walking.”

One mother even used the Mocc Walk Challenge as an opportunity to teach her chil-dren math and how to tell time.

Another family earned points while delivering news-

“We’re trying to encourage physi-cal activity amongst Aboriginal people and this is one of the easiest ways to do that.”

-Robert Fenton

papers on a newspaper route and some schools have par-ticipated by going for walks on recess breaks.

For more information, contact Fenton toll-free at 1-800-667-0816, by phone at 807-625-8579 or by e-mail at [email protected].

Noreen Bighead (left) and Robin Haliuk (right) walking along Ontario St. during a morning break.

Rick Garrick/Wawatay News


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Goodwill tournament celebrates 25 yearsShawn BellWawatay News

The 25th annual Goodwill Hockey tournament capped its milestone year with a tight championship game, and the host team taking home the tro-phy.

The host Gull Bay Ice Lords won their second-straight Goodwill tournament with a 2-0 victory over the Pic River

Sharks, the last team to win the tournament.

Three years ago, Pic River took the title by beating Gull Bay, so the final game at the Fort William First Nation arena on April 28 was extra sweet for Gull Bay.

Tournament organizer Rod-erick Bouchard of Gull Bay said the 25th anniversary of the tournament was a great chance for old and new players alike to

enjoy the weekend.“Everybody had fun,”

Bouchard said, adding that some of the players involved in the tournament have played every year for the past quarter-century. “Everybody had the chance to meet up with friends and have a good time.”

Overall the tournament fea-tured 28 youth teams in four divisions, and 20 men’s teams.

The men’s consolation prize

went to the Makok Lake Out-laws, featuring a number of players from Eabametoong First Nation, who beat the Huskies from Big Island 9-5 in the con-solation final.

In the youth divisions, Lac Seul was the most successful community. Lac Seul’s novice team beat the Oji Crees from Constance Lake 4-2 in the nov-ice final, and the Lac Seul pee-wees beat Thunder Bay Thun-

der 5-4 to take that division title.

In the Atom division, the TTN Eagles beat the North Shore Thunderbirds 4-3 in the final. TTN Eagles was made up of players from the Cochrane area, while the North Shore team was players from the Ger-aldton area.

In Bantam, the Long Lac Hit-men took the title over the Fort William North Stars by a score

of 3-2.Bouchard said the feedback

he received about the tourna-ment was very positive.

“A lot of people told us to keep up the good work,” he said.

Planning for next year’s tournament will begin soon, Bouchard added. He said the 2014 tournament will continue with the same format it had in 2013.

Rick Garrick/Wawatay NewsThe TTN Eagles, top and bottom left in blue, won the Atom title 4-3 over the North Shore Thunderbirds and the Lac Seul Jr. Eagles, top right in white, won the Peewee title 5-4 over the Thunder Bay Thunder at the 26th annual Goodwill Hockey tournament, held April 26-28 in Thunder Bay and Fort William First Nation. The Shoal Lake Flyers, bottom right in black, beat the Long Lake Hitmen 4-3 during an April 27 roundrobin game.

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