Play By Ojibwa Artist Wins Six National Awards
"Agokwe", a new play by 23 year old Waawaate Fobister won six Dora Mavor Moore Awards on Monday, June 29, dominating the general theatre division.
June 2009
June 30, 2009
June 28, 2009
Better Aboriginal Health in BC - Except For HIV
CBC news announced that Dr. Perry Kendall report's Pathways to Healing for the province of BC shows 18 improvements of 57 indicators, for Aboriginal peoples, except for HIV transmittion rates and care.
June 27, 2009
Report Gives Evidence that First Nations People are More Susceptible to H1N1
Following the release of a document by UNICEF Canada that gives evidence as to why First Nations people are more susceptible to H1N1, the Assembly of First Nations has requested all governments to take action in three critical ways.
Harper Concerned About H1N1
CTV.ca reports that the Prime Minister Harper is concerned about the spread of H1N1 among Native groups in Manitoba.
June 26, 2009
Sod Turning Ceremony For Pleasant Hill Revitalization Held
A sod turning ceremony was held to celebrate the start of a major construction project that is hoped will lead to the revitalization of the Pleasant Hill neighbourhood in Saskatoon. Chief Felix Thomas speaking on behalf of the Saskatoon Tribal Council said, “In an area that has the highest concentration of First Nations residents in the city of Saskatoon, the development of a new school and new housing stock can only serve to better the hope, morale, and aspirations of all Pleasant Hill residents.”
June 25, 2009
Jury Non-selection
Christie Blatchford has done an article, in the Globe and Mail, about the systematic exclusion of Aboriginal peoples from juries.
The Lawyers Weekly (Vol 19, No. 8) June 26, 2009, front page, has an article on "Background checks on jurors a potential 'disaster in the courts" by Tracy McLaughlin. She says in June
"defense lawyers inadvertently discovered that local Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) detachments has provided private information on hundreds of people on jury panel lists and then provided that information to the Crown"(The article continues on page 26)
New Book: The Indian Commissioners
The University of Alberta Press has published The Indian Commissioners: Agents of the State and Indian Policy in Canada's Prairie West, 1873 - 1932 by Brian Titley.
"Between 1873 and 1932, Indian policy on the prairies was the responsibility of federal government appointees known as Indian Commissioners. Charged with incorporating Native society into the apparatus of the emergent state, these officials directed a complex configuration of measures that included treaties, the Indian Act, schools, agriculture, and to some degree, missionary activity. In this study, Brian Titley constructs critical biographical portraits of the six Indian Commissioners, examining their successes and failures in confronting the challenges of a remarkable period in Canada's history."
June 24, 2009
First Saskatchewan School Board Signs AED Partnership
The Prairie Valley School Division, 15 First Nations, Métis Nation - Saskatchewan Eastern Region 3 and Western Region 3 and the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 5252 all have agreed to sign Saskatchewan's latest Aboriginal Employment Development (AED) partnership.
June 23, 2009
Metis Nation of Ontario to Participate in Nuclear Panel
Daily Commercial News reports that the Métis Nation of Ontario has received funding to allow participation in a Panel assessment for a Bruce Power Nuclear Power Station.
June 22, 2009
Leroy Little Bear Receives Award
Delon Shurtz reports in the Lethbridge Herald that Leroy Little Bear has been presented with a lifetime achievement award by by the Aboriginal Council of Lethbridge.
June 17, 2009
Meadow Lake Tribal Council Signs Aboriginal Employment Development Partnership
Yesterday the Meadow Lake Tribal Council signed an Aboriginal Employment Development (AED) partnership with the Governments of Saskatchewan and Canada. With nine First Nations communities totalling more than 11,000 people it is hoped that this agreement will address present and future labour shortages by increasing First Nations participation in Saskatchewan's growing economy.
June 13, 2009
CMEC Launches Literacy Legacy
The Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC) have more resources available due to the 2008 Pan-Canadian Literacy Forum held across Canada last year, including Saskatchewan. The Government of Saskatchewan and the Government of the Northwest Territories hosted the Aboriginal literacy portion of the national forum
June 11, 2009
New Book, The Gifts Within
There is a new book out, The Gifts Within: Carrying Each Other Forward in Aboriginal Education which looks at Aboriginal education for the perspectives of those who work within it.
The Gifts Within is the second in the Our Schools/Our Selves occasional book series. It is edited by Professor Rebecca Priegert Coulter, Director of Aboriginal Education in the Faculty of Education at The University of Western Ontario.
June 10, 2009
Aboriginal Data and Statistics Canada at the University of Saskatchewan
Statistics Canada is offering a free half-day information session on the data that is available on First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples. This session be held in the Sasktel Theatre, Royal University Hospital, at the University of Saskatchewan.
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
9:00 am - 12 noon
There will also be opportunities to ask questions as well as a brief demonstration of how to access the extensive free data that is available from the Statistics Canada websites. Please see the poster:
House of Commons Motion Receives Consent To Declare June National Aboriginal History Month
Jean Crowder, Member of Parliament for Nanaimo-Cowichan (B.C.) introduced the motion. Two provinces, Saskatchewan and Alberta, already celebrate June as National Aboriginal Month.
Saskatchewans Chief Coroner Receives RCMP Response To Pelletier Inquest Recommendations
Saskatchewan's Chief Coroner Kent Stewart has received the RCMP's response to the recommendations from the coroner's jury inquest into the death of Delbert Kenneth Pelletier which occurred November 13, 2006 on the Muskowekwan First Nation.
June 09, 2009
Onion Lake First Nation to Invest $22 Million on Infrastructure Projects
Onion Lake Chief Wallace Fox announced on Friday that the Cree First Nation north of Lloydminster will spend $22 million on 13 projects ranging from 41 on-reserve houses, a 48 unit apartment complex in Lloydminster, reserve water treatment plant upgrades and highway paving. Approximately 150 jobs for members of the Cree Nation will be created at the construction sites.
June 08, 2009
First Nations Business Ensures Safety of Oilsands Workers in Northern Alberta
For the last 30 years, the Goodfish Lake First Nation manufacturing plant has been producing high quality, fire-retardant clothing for oilsands workers in northern Alberta. The plant also includes a second highly profitable business - a drycleaning plant that cleans the coveralls worn by the oilsands workers. The plants success has attracted other First Nations in Canada who hope to create the same accomplishments.
June 05, 2009
Residential School Student has Alleged to Have Witnessed a Murder
At a Vancouver Press Conference, Eliza Charlotte Stewart publicly described what she believes to be the murder of her sister Victoria, and named Ann Knizky, a teacher at the United Church's Edmonton Indian residential school as the person she believes responsible. A letter of demand has been issued by the family to the United Church of Canada which requests justice and compensation for the family's loss.
June 04, 2009
Government of Canada and ITK Sign Agreement to Improve Inuit Health
The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health and Mary Simon President of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK), signed an agreement to improve Inuit health by forming a Task Group that will directly report to the Minister and the President of ITK.
Aboriginal Judge Reported To Be New Chair of Residential Schools Commission
Mr. Justice Murray Sinclair, a respected aboriginal judge from Manitoba's Court of Queen's Bench, will be appointed the new chair of Canada's residential schools truth and reconciliation commission, The Globe and Mail has learned.
June 02, 2009
Delay in Residential School Cheques to Victims of Sexual or Physicial Abuse
Richard Foot reports in the StarPhoenix that there is a delay in issuing cheques to victims of sexual or physical abuse.
IBM Signs the 100th Aboriginal Employment Development Agreement
First Nations and Metis Relations Minister Bill Hutchinson and Advanced Education, Employment and Labour Minister Rob Norris are attending a two day conference on June 2-3 in Saskatoon. The conference, Workforce: Strategies for Success Conference aims to attract more First Nations and Metis people into Saskatchewan's labour market.
June 01, 2009
Government of Canada Assists a TSouke Band Member With Disablilities
The Government of Canada, through the Wage Subsidy component of the Opportunities Fund is providing a band member of the TSouke Nation assistance to develop employment skills.
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