Archive - 2013

First Nations Education: The Real Key To Ending The Cycle Of Despair

From HuffingtonPost.ca

 First Nations Education: The Real Key To Ending The Cycle Of Despair

By Sunny Freeman - Posted: 12/27/2013

December 20th

A new 12-step program for addressing our addictive colonial behaviour for all Canadians and government

From rabble.ca

12 steps to a post-colonial future

BY JOYCE GREEN  and MICHAEL BURTON | DECEMBER 20, 2013

December 19th

First Nation students thrive with the right resources and support in their schools

From TheRecord.com

Aboriginal youth thrive with right tools

By Carol Goar - Dec 17, 2013

In the past year, Jennifer Martino has been to Attawapiskat three times.

She has been to Nelson House, a Cree Community 800 kilometres north of Winnipeg; Rankin Inlet in Nunavut; Whitewood in Saskatchewan and Nain in Labrador.

December 18th

"All we want is justice" residential school survivor tells court in trying to get documents from government

From CBC.ca

St. Anne's Residential School: One survivor's story

Edmund Metatawabin recounts abuse he suffered at St. Anne's Residential School

By Karina Roman - Posted: Dec 18, 2013 

December 17th

First Nations receive less government funding per person compared to people in urban centres

From HuffingtonPost.ca

Canada's Relationship With First Nations Is a Failure

By Mark Taliano, Writer, Activist, Retired Teacher - Posted: 10/14/2013

Canada's relationship with First Nations peoples is a rapidly accelerating failure, borne of its contempt for international and national law, and an overarching moral weakness, outgrowths of its atrophied sense of self.

AFN responds to AANDC minister's letter concerning government's First Nations Education Act

AFN Press Release

 

Assembly of First Nations National Chief Receives, Responds to Open Letter by Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt

December 16, 2013

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December 16th

Join us for the Elders Christmas Gathering Dec 17, 2013 WEBSTREAM

Participate via webstream: http://live.knet.ca/korilive

OR STOP BY YOUR COMMUNITY eCENTRE AND SING ALONG

KO eHealth Elders Gathering AGENDA

9:50 - Opening Prayer: Rhoda Beardy

10:00 - Elders Christmas Wishes Chief Donny Morris