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hello outsider fanz ... how it doin ... it's me (fezzo)

Well our gig at the Thomas Fiddler High School was fantastic. Everybody went crazy, fanz taking pictures and enjoying our music. We made about  5 new songs. Our best song is called "hate industrie". Our new guitarist Eagle Rae made it possible to move to a higher level of jammin. But most of all we like to thank our fanz for being there and listening to our music

coming soon.....

Outsiderz self-release album ... there's going to about 8 songs on our cd. It is coming out this summer. We are making about 300 cds. Some fanz have already reserved the cd.

The December 11 issue of Wawatay News contains three more news stories about the work being completed within the Kuh-ke-nah Network of Smart First Nations demonstration project.

This week's issue of the Kuh-ke-nah page in Wawatay News include the following articles:

• Harnessing ICTs: a Canadian First Nations experience: Jesse Fiddler’s trip to the World Summit on the Information Society gatherings in Geneva, Switzerland is described in this article. The on-line multi-media production with various video productions describing the work completed under the Kuhkenah Smart First Nations demonstration project is also described. This production (and each of the accompanying publications) is available at http://smart.knet.ca/kuhkenah_flash.html.
• Telehealth to be offered in SL Zone nursing stations: Bob Nault, on behalf of Health Canada, announced the launch of the $6.4 million Keewaytinook Telehealth Initiative. Over the next two and half years, the Keewaytinook Okimakanak telehealth team will be working with our partners to support the development of telehealth services in all the health centres across the Sioux Lookout Health Zone. See the announcement.
• K-Net Showcase - contains photos from the K-Net photo gallery at http://photos.knet.ca and First Nation web sites describing the partnerships involved with K-Net to create innovative applications and deliver services with the communities across Nishnawbe Aski Nation.

Rick Garrick is researching additional stories for future articles. If you have a story that you want to share about this project and the work that is happening in your community to get connected, please send us an e-mail.

Various newspaper articles are being scanned and stored for reference purposes in this photo gallery.

All High School students from the northern communities are now on their Christmas Break. Starting tomorrow students will be home.

Located in Dryden, Ontario, the Keewaytinook Okimakanak (Northern Chiefs Council) and Crescive Corporation (a partner of the Keewatin-Patricia District School Board) consortium provides professional, technical and academic training for water plant operators. The delivery of safe potable water to individual community members is a priority for First Nation governments throughout Canada. Provincial regulations (Ontario Water Resources Act) are changing and operators are now required to obtain a valid water operator's license. Courses include: OIT Certification, Class 1 & Class 2 Operator Certification as well as Academic Upgrading. Visit www.watertraining.ca for a complete course calendar for 2004 or call TOLL FREE 1-866-889-1135.

Next Course starts January 5, 2003 in Dryden with staggered enrolment allowed up until January 15,2004. Call today (807)223-4970 for more information or to request a complete registration package.

Mini Pow-Wow & Multicultural Daze

When: December 17, 2003

Where: Dryden High School (Gordon Wood Auditorium)

Agenda

9:00 - 9:20am     Opening Remarks

9:20 - 10:00am     Thunder bay Troupe

10:00 - 11:00am      Zirka Dancers

11:00 - 11:20am     Elizabeth Garder Dance Troupe

12:00 - 1:00pm     Ceremonies

1:00 - 2:00pm      Grand Entry

2:00 - 3:00pm     Intertribals

3:00 - 3:20pm      Feast

    

Everyone Welcome!!!

The Keewaytinook Okimakanak team arrived in Winnipeg and completed the set up for the upcoming Chiefs' meeting and Aboriginal Smart Fair.

Click here to see the pictures.

K-Net now has an on-line multi-media presentation about the work that has been completed under the Smart Communities project. Everyone is invited to watch and listen to the people from the Keewaytinook Okimakanak team tell their stories about the development of K-Net and the resulting Health, Education, Economic Development and Network Infrastructure applications.

You will need to download the latest version of Flash (Flash 7) to view the videos in this on-line presentation. You can get to the presentation at http://smart.knet.ca/kuhkenah_flash.html (the link to Flash 7 is available at this site)

Keewaytinook Okimakanak’s team will be sharing this information with the folks attending our Smart Fairs that are happening in each of the Keewaytinook Okimakanak First Nations as well as in Winnipeg. Everyone is invited to visit us on-line for the upcoming these Smart Fairs on Dec 10 and 11. Please visit the web site and leave a message in the Comments section located at http://smart.knet.ca/fair

Be sure to check out the credits in the flash presentation to see some of the great team players involved in creating another wonderful on-line product that I hope everyone will be able to use to encourage and support others as they develop ICT initiatives.

The print material that accompanies the videos is also being made available on-line at:

The executive summary and acknowledgements

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http://knet.ca/documents/Summary-acknowledgements-KNet-ver.pdf - 190K - 2 pages

An Introduction to K-Net

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http://knet.ca/documents/INTRO-KNet-ver.pdf - 657K - 8 pages

K-Net Case Study on Network Development

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http://knet.ca/documents/NETWORK-KNet-ver.pdf - 732K - 9 pages

K-Net Case Study on Economic Development -

http://knet.ca/documents/ECON-DEV-KNet-ver.pdf - 1.1M - 9 pages

K-Net Case Study on Health

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http://knet.ca/documents/HEALTH-KNet-ver.pdf - 1M - 8 pages

K-Net Case Study on Education

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http://knet.ca/documents/EDUC-KNet-ver.pdf - 793K- 8 pages

Jesse Fiddler is on his way to Geneva, Switzerland to do a number of presentations and showcase the work of Keewaytinook Okimakanak First Nations. There are over 100 events scheduled to take place this week at the United Nation's World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Jesse is now scheduled to participated in a number of these events.

On Monday, Dec 8, Jesse will be at Local Content CyberFestival at the World Summit on the Information Society to do a presentation about the on-line work he has been creating over the past few years. This event is described as "Organized by cyberty.net, a Swiss not-for-profit association, the festival is devoted to promoting freedom of expression and content diversity in cyberspace. The use of local languages and the impact of ICT on cultural identity in local communities are its principle issues on the agenda of the Local Content CyberFestival."

Jesse will also be attending the Global Forum on Indigenous Peoples and the Information Society throughout WSIS as part of his work with First Nations SchoolNet and the Institute for Connectivity of the Americas. From their web site, this event is intended to "start a discussion process on the opportunities offered to indigenous groups through the Information Highway, strengthen a global network of stakeholders on ICT and indigenous peoples and foster partnerships, paving the way for the coming Summit in Tunis. The meeting will include the participation of indigenous groups from around the globe, gathered to discuss key topics such as access, territorial-based development, intellectual property and modern technologies, education, public-private partnerships. It is intended that the meeting will increase the visibility of best indigenous practices in the world, transfer knowledge and know-how, while at the same time raising key issues for policy-makers worldwide."

On Wednesday and Thursday afternoons, Jesse will be on hand at the Canadian Pavilion to coordinate the presentations on Indigenous e-Culture (Wed) and e-Learning (Thurs) with live video conferencing connections between Geneva, the KO Smart Fair in Winnipeg and First Nation sites across Canada. The Communications Research Centre (CRC) is coordinating these live video conferencing connections. They are decribing this event as a means "to advancing R&D on the technologies that form the basis of new and emerging telecommunications systems across Canada. The emphasis is to develop and demonstrate how technologies can work together to form cost-effective and reliable telecommunications networks, serving all of Canada, especially the remote and underserved areas."

Broken Wings

(For those who survived the Residential School System or for those who need to find a way to heal)

A fine day for a child to rise with the sun, trees, wind, warmth from the sun rays and most of all with the Migisis (eagle).

One day, a little child rose from their sleep early in the morning and noticed the eagle soaring in the distance and pictured flying with the eagle along side it. Migisi said to the child, "how are you "Little One", are you going to fly with me"?

The "Little One" replied "Migisi I will fly with you today and the rest of time". The "Little One" flew with the great Migisi, behind it. Migisi looked behind and noticed the "Little One" was missing.

Wondering where the "Little One" was the great majestic Migisi kept flying on its own. Migisi felt something had happened to the "Little One", it felt very unhappy and very sad. Migisi turned around to search for the "Little One". Migisi started a journey for the lost "Little One" - a journey of sadness, heartache, sorrow, rage, anger, broken hearts but most important of all, a journey to heal the broken spirit and hope for the "Little One"….

It was on a very warm autumn morning when a young child woke up and decided to play early. The young one noticed the little birds playing and flying with happiness so the young one sat on the stairs outside to admire the little birds. The little birds got bolder and were landing beside the young one. One of them was brave enough to land on top of its head. The little one did not move or breathe and slowly tried to reach up and grab the little bird but the little bird flew away. This is how the little ones portray the world around them - a world of innocence, happiness and full of energy and joy.

On that day the "Little One’s" world was turned upside down. The young one found out early that the world was not a very happy place to live. The "Little One" found a very harsh and degrading environment different from the one he shared with his parents, brothers and sisters that were left behind.

"Little One" could not figure out what was right any more. All it knew was violence, hate, rage and abuse beyond that which any parent could imagine for their six, seven or eight year old child. This went on and on, day after day, up to a point where the "Little One" did not even care about family, tradition, language and most of all family values. Somewhere deep down the young one can still feel something inside, something that was missing.

Every night before he went sleep, the "Little One" would slow down wondering if there was someone out there or if there was something missing. But "Little One" just stuffed it back inside its soul.

The "Little One" does not cry anymore and will not cry when it is punished for something it did not do. It will not feel anymore and will lose all sense of direction and reality. Through the eyes of the "Little One" there is no happiness and joy only to keep on fighting and survive.

One day they told the "Little One" it is time for you to go home and it wondered what’s home. Suddenly, the "Little One" was in a different surrounding, a place it did not understand, a place where children were happy and being loved by big people. The "Little One" wondered what they were doing and it fought back when someone tried to get close to it. It felt they were trying to hurt the little child so the "Little One" fought back when someone tried to touch it. The little child did not want anyone close to it or even touching.

This kind of behavior went on as the "Little One" grew up to be a young person. The "Little One" was not small any more, it kept on hurting people and was very destructive. It did not respect the other people or the things around it. The "Little One" took the drink and the drugs for many years and lived a life of self-destruction and did not realize it or even cared about its own life. For the "Little One" the street, gutters, drugs and the bottle were the only way to cope from day to day. It did not understand why it was doing the things it was doing. All it knew was, it was hurting the "Little One" inside. The only thing the "Little One" can do was to drink and take the drugs to keep the hurt from coming out.

Finally, the ‘Little One" was asked what happened when it was a child and this enraged the "Little One" more. It was afraid of this man and "Little One" wanted to hurt this man. But this man kept on coming into the "Little One’s" domain, probing and going into the past in the "Little One’s" life until the "Little One" gave up fighting.

All the years, the "Little One" only knew hate and rage and it kept this inside its body destroying the very soul that kept its life alive. All the hate, destruction and the rage within was slowly coming out of the "Little One’s" body.

"Little One" has found a way to face the fears and the demons that it was afraid of. On many occasions when it was alone or into the night "Little One’s" tears would come out like a river. Learning to cry, learning to live from day to day, most of all learning to love. Little by little the "Little One" is learning how to respect and learning how to love from the heart.

It may take the "Little One" the rest of its life to learn about love and how to love from the heart. "Little One" is now ready to begin the journey of healing and to search for a reason to live and give whatever is left to give.

…….as the great Migisi journeyed into the past it found the "Little One" with Broken Wings. Migisi took care of the "Little One" until it could once again fly on its own. If you see the eagle and hear it screaming, it has found the "Little One" and will show the "Little One" its way home to start a journey of healing.

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Hello:

Learning to face my problems head on, instead of hiding or running away from them, is a very powerful emotional experience to go through.

I am also on my healing journey to sobriety. I am trying to deal with my anger, hate and rage. But even at times I don't want to deal with them personally. But I now know these must be dealt with in order for me to break this destructive cycle.

I am submitting this article for others. I experienced this teaching while attending a sweatlodge ceremony with others. This is what I came up with. I had several heartbreaking moments when writing this article. I have written things here that will touch or relate to another individual. I have written about the many events that I went through growing up. Every statement that I wrote on there is for a reason.

I hope someone out there will understand some or even the whole article.