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The conference report summarizing the organization and results of the First Nations Connect conference is now available on-line at http://smart.knet.ca/conference/KOConferenceReport.pdf.

Spring, is a time when we all face bad roads, Dangerous road slides and most importanly, waste a lot of (ShooNiA) Money on dented And fixed car Placements. This would be the cause On April 4th As Mike Van-Voris, a Off Duty House Councillor drove back to his community of Hudson which is about a 10 minute ride from Pelican Falls High School. He encounterd a dangerous Slpit secound off the road stunt. According to the other house councillors, the Sliperry roads caused this to happend. The Van was in a very bad shape, including the Telephone and Hydro Pole, which runs around the PFC (Pelican Falls Center) Principle Wayne Mercer, later announced that a power outage would take a few hours to get the pole replaced. According to the House 4 Guys, in which the Councillor keeps, Their responces to this accadentil event, they said, "hhhhhhhOooooooLlllYyyyyy" No Major injeries were reported excpet for a few little soar-ness and of course, the van cost well take a lot of money, according to my sources...

Norval Morriseau

Norval Morriseau had an exhibition in Thunder Bay on April 4 and 5, 2002. The exhibition was located in Victoriaville Mall in the Creative display area. Norval Morriseau is a world renowned artist known for being the founder of the Woodland Painting school. For more of a biograhy look here.

Helping with the exhibition were his family members Christian Morriseau (son), Eugene Morriseau (son), Christie Kakegamic (grand-daughter), Tammy Morriseau (grand-daughter), Kyle Morriseau (grandson), and Joshin Kakegamic (grandson). This show is Norval's first exhibition since a show 3 years ago in Toronto. He will be doing another in Winnipeg during the month of May, 2002. All the paintings show in the exhibition were the result of his work in the past year. This series of paintings also have an black print of his thumb alongside his signature.

Christian Morriseau, Norval Morriseau, Eugene Morriseau, Christie Kakegamic, and Kyle Morriseau in front

There were approximately 60 paintings in the show ranging in size from 5x7 to 48x36. The prices for his paintings range from $200 for the 5x7 to $6,500 for the 46x38. Norval has been living in Thunder Bay for the past 6 weeks and was previously living in Keewaywin First Nation, Sandy Lake First Nation, and in Nanaimo B.C.

See more of his pictures in our Photogallery. If you would like to reach Norval about his artwork you can contact: Lisa Meekis Band Administrator Keewaywin First Nation tel. (807) 771-1210 fax (80) 771-1053 email: lisameekis@knet.ca

Keewaytinook Internet High School recently posted the Grade 9 and 10 courses that will be offered starting in September 2002. For those First Nations with existing KiHS classrooms and for those developing new KiHS classrooms, students now have the option to stay in their own community to get high school credits. The poster announcing the 2002-2003 school year courses can be seen at http://kihs.knet.ca/PosterAd0203.htm