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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 ....

Call for Applicants: UN Indigenous Fellowship Programme

On Tuesday afternoon, the Chiefs of Keewaytinook Okimakanak and their partners from across Canada honoured Carl Seibel as he retires from Industry Canada's FedNor program in Thunder Bay. Carl is now venturing forth (after his two week vacation in Florida) into the fun-filled world of doing all those things that he has always wanted to do.

A 4 minute video clip of Carl describing his work with Keewaytinook Okimakanak was shown and is available online.

Press release from Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services

New date for inquest into the death of Reggie Bushie announced

    TORONTO, March 3 /CNW/ - Dr. Bonita Porter, Deputy Chief Coroner for Inquests, today announced further details on the inquest into the death of Reggie Bushie.

    The body of Reggie Bushie, 15, was recovered from the McIntyre River in Thunder Bay on November 1, 2007. He had last been seen alive at the riverside on October 26, 2007.

From Tuesday's Globe and Mail

Secret documents reveal sweeping new rules for natives

Native leaders warned Ottawa not to re-open the governance file unless it's willing to hold wide-ranging consultations but classified papers show government moving ahead.

BILL CURRY - March 3, 2009

GET Youth Ministries, a youth group from North Caribou Lake completed their second prayer walk to their neighbouring community of Muskrat Dam on Saturday Feb 28.

The walk took approx. 18 hours, 2 hours earlier than planned.

The mission of this walk was to pray against all the activities that have been deeply hurting many communities in the last while such as drugs and alcohalism, suicides, murders, etc.