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As the following three stories show, getting to the truth about residential schools is going to be a long and difficult road for all Canadians to take ...

From the Globe and Mail

Residential school payouts spark pain and death

UNNATI GANDHI - May 1, 2008

From Rabble.ca 

Canada's Tibet(s) 

by Martin Lukacs - May 2, 2008

In this small, impoverished northern village, people eke out a miserable existence. One of the world's most powerful countries occupies their land, plunders their resources, interferes with their governance and seems intent on assimilating them into wider society.

AFN press release 

AFN press release

Assembly of First Nations launching fitness challenge

     OTTAWA, May 2 /CNW Telbec/ - On National Aboriginal Diabetes Awareness Day, the Assembly of First Nations is announcing that it will launch a fitness challenge, this summer, as part of an initiative to encourage healthy lifestyles.

Leave a message, share your story or learn how you can help the walkers on their new web site at

http://mother-earth-walk.knet.ca 

Press release ...  

 KO Research Institute Director, Brian Walmark, on an invitation from the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) joined Alvin Fiddler, NAN's Deputy Chief, on a panel discussing Indigenous People's Communication for Development during the Seventh Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, NY Wednesday April 30, 2008.

NAN press release ... 

Where the Pavement Ends; Canada's Aboriginal Recovery Movement and the Urgent Need for Reconciliation

by Marie Wadden

Prepared by Marlene Brant Castellano

Where the Pavement Ends records the author’s search for answers to the question: Does anyone know what to do about the soul-destroying realities of life in Aboriginal communities that briefly but repeatedly capture the attention of the media? Those realities include poverty, overcrowded and substandard housing, violence, substance abuse and, with devastating frequency, youth suicide.

A one million dollar grant from the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation, along with $100,000 from Indian and Northern Affairs Canada and network upgrade funding from Industry Canada's FedNor program is making it possible to develop two pilot cellular sites in the remote First Nations of Keewaywin and North Caribou Lake. Along with developing these two pilot sites, the Chiefs of Keewaytinook Okimakanak supported the development of cellular services in the four other Keewaytinook Okimakanak First Nations.