The Raising the Children program fund (http://raisingthechildren.knet.ca) is over $3500 richer today thanks to efforts of people who made pledges for 11 women and three children to paddle nearly 30km on Saturday and Sunday (Aug 21 and 22).

From <e-notes> from fourarrows@rogers.com 22 August 2010 Edition

Privatization or Progress? Unpublicized Project Surfaces as a RED ALERT!

Indian Affairs Unleashes a “Special Project” on “Reserve Land and First Nations Development”

Thanks to Russell Diabo for this information

Press Release 

ETFO Pledges $225,000 over 5 Years to Aboriginal Summer Reading Camps - Lieutenant Governor's initiative now reaching over 5,000 youth in 29 fly-in communities

Toronto, Aug. 18 - The Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario (ETFO) today pledged $45,000 annually for the next five years to the Lieutenant Governor's Aboriginal Literacy Programs.

From http://wapekekasuicideconference.myknet.org/

The SOS Conference is dedicated to those who have lost loved ones to Suicide.

August 23 - 30, 2010

Our aim is to provide short and long term healing strategies to those participating. 

It is our goal to provide safe and effective educational environments in your healing journey during the course of the Conference.

KERC.ca press release

Educators from Sioux Lookout District First Nations to Attend Kwayaciiwin Summer Institutes this Month in Sioux Lookout

Sioux Lookout, ON (August 17, 2010) Over 100 teachers and principals from northern First Nations schools will gather in Sioux Lookout, August 24, 25 and 26 for a series of summer institutes presented by Kwayaciiwin Education Resource Centre (KERC).

Location:    Balmertown Office

General:    Reporting to the Director of Operations, the receptionist/secretary is responsible for providing office support.

Qualifications:

• Typing and Word processing skills essential.

From the Invest In Kids August newsletter:

From Wawataynews.ca  

From the Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal

Youths geared up for mining workshops

CARL CLUTCHEY - 08/15/2010

Though mining geologists often work more than a stone‘s throw from remote First Nations, young people living at two Northwestern Ontario reserves will have geologists coming right to their doorstep this month.