From THE TIMMINS DAILY PRESS

First Nation leaders tackle tough issues

Posted By CHELSEY ROMAIN

March 13, 2009 

After three days of intense debate and discussion, Nishnawbe Aski Nation Grand Chief Stan Beardy is confident First Nation communities will move forward.

Between 50 and 70 resolutions were expected to be passed by the end of the three-day annual Winter Chiefs Assembly in Timmins on Thursday afternoon.

From the Canadian Press

Paul Martin says Canada's top CEOs interested in fund to build aboriginal business

March 11, 2009

TORONTO — A new $50-million fund to build aboriginal business and entrepreneurship has some of Canada's top chief executives and business leaders pledging their support, former prime minister Paul Martin said Wednesday.

The State of The First Nation Economy and The Struggle to Make Poverty History

The 61 page report is available at http://www.afn.ca/misc/FSFNE.pdf   

From the EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

From UNESCO Cultural Sector

UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger is intended to raise awareness about language endangerment and the need to safeguard the world’s linguistic diversity among policy-makers, speaker communities and the general public, and to be a tool to monitor the status of endangered languages and the trends in linguistic diversity at the global level.

INVITATION to

I AM... Gallery Opening

Friday, March 13
7:30pm
A-Frame Gallery, Sioux Lookout

I Am ... is a portrait series that seeks to celebrate Indigenous Peoples of Treaty 3 and 9.

Lakehead University SPEAKER SERIES 2009

Lakehead University, The Chronicle-Journal, and Travelodge Hotel Airlane are pleased to present

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
imagineNATIVE Film Festival Visits Sault Ste. Marie on March 11th

From Indian Country Today

Parents proud, son Barack Black Eagle enters White House

By Ashutosh Bhardwaj, Special to Today - Story Published: Jan 30, 2009

HELENA, Mont. – While the world celebrated as an African American assumed the highest office in the United States, Barack Obama was accompanied by his adopted parents, brother and clan members of the Apsaálooke, or the Crow Nation.

NAN press release 

NAN Women’s Council Celebrates International Women’s Day

THUNDER BAY, ON Friday March 6, 2009: Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Women’s Council spokesperson Jackie Fletcher together with NAN Deputy Grand Chief RoseAnne Archibald are celebrating the accomplishments of Nishnawbe Aski women as International Women’s Day is celebrated around the world on March 8, 2009.

Keewaytinook Okimakanak team members and their partners will be delivering presentations and papers at next week's Aboriginal Policy Research Conference for each of the following subjects ....