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From Canada's Policy Research Initiative (www.policyresearch.gc.ca)  

Hope or Heartbreak: Aboriginal Youth and Canada’s Future

Volume 10 Number 1
Horizons
March 2008

From National Geographic

Enduring Voices - Documenting the Planet's Endangered Languages

Losing Our World's Languages

Every 14 days a language dies. By 2100, more than half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken on Earth—many of them never yet recorded—will likely disappear, taking with them a wealth of knowledge about history, culture, the natural environment, and how the human brain works.

AHF press release

From Truth to Reconciliation Transforming the Legacy of Residential Schools

Click here to download the entire publication

Prepared for the Aboriginal Healing Foundation By
Marlene Brant Castellano, Linda Archibald and Mike DeGagné, 2008

Dedication

A 90 KM prayer walk was completed by over 30 young people who risked the harsh wilderness life.

GET Youth Ministries, a group from North Caribou Lake began their walk late friday night at 12:30 AM with a determination to arrive in Muskrat Dam on Saturday evening. The walk took over 20 hours. The purpose of this prayer walk was to pray for issues that are affecting most of the northern communities.

The following article about the urban-based debate on "net neutrality" is just another example of how urban groups are insisting that that everyone be treated equal for the things they want while on the other hand it is often these same groups who are preventing the telephone companies from rolling out the broadband deferral fund that will provide the necessary telecom supporting infrastructure upgrades so the folks in the remote and rural communities might access equitable online services.

Minstry of Health Promotion, Communities in Action Fund 2008-09

Applications for this year’s CIAF program are now open and local or provincial not-for-profit organizations are encouraged to apply. This year, the McGunity government is again providing $7.5 million for projects that will help remove barriers to physical activity, said Minister of Health Promotion Margarett Best.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Community Liaison & Student Recruitment Officer

The Oshki-Pimache-O-Win Education & Training Institute is an innovative, independent institution that offers post-secondary education and training programs to the people in Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) and other learners.  These programs are primarily offered through distance delivery with minimal on-campus sessions in Thunder Bay.  We offer choice, accessibility, flexibility, opportunities and support services for our students. 

KI Press Release ...

Strange New Twist in Legal Battle Over Mining on First Nations' Land - Platinex Denies Asking Court to Jail First Nation's Leaders

THUNDER BAY, ON, Feb. 28 - Chief Donnie Morris and five other leaders of the were recently held in contempt of a court injunction which prohibits them from interfering with a mineral exploration program by Platinex Inc. on KI's territory.

In a strange development, Platinex released a statement on February 26 in which they deny seeking the incarceration of KI leaders:

The following open letter announcing the establishment of the Keewaytinook Okimakanak Board of Education (KOBE) was distributed in all the Keewaytinook Okimakanak First Nations and to the district chiefs. Click here to download a PDF copy of this letter.

NAN press releases ...

NAN community takes policing message to Parliament Hill

            THUNDER BAY, ON, Feb. 27 /CNW/ - Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Deputy Grand Chief RoseAnne Archibald together with Kashechewan First Nation Chief Jonathan Solomon will bring a message to the Government of Canada regarding First Nation policing during a news conference at Parliament Hill this week.