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Eagle & Condor Symposium
Northern College
South Porcupine, Ontario
May 28-29/07

Please visit this website for registration and download information about this symposium!

http://www.wahgoshig.firstnationschools.ca/

Hosted by Martin Millen with our grandmother elder Liz Babin in partnership with Northern College....

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The Eagle & Condor

Our Indigenous Elders Have a Very Timely Message For Each of Us.

Join Us In a Symposium For All Ages With International Elders Who Carry Ancient and Historical Teachings.

Hear Their Words, Feel Their Hearts
and See Their Visions!

May 28-29, 2007

About The Eagle & Condor Symposium

This symposium is a great opportunity for all ages and races to learn about Aboriginal Tribal Peoples profound Indigenous knowledge, and methods of practice that promote balanced and cohesive extended family relationships that are rooted in an ethic of respect and stewardship with the land. Come and share the passing on of traditional knowledge and how it continues to exist today.

More Information on the Symposuim

Download the Info Package (includes registration form, 9 pgs) from the web site at http://www.wahgoshig.firstnationschools.ca/

Information for Symposium Exhibitors & Craft Vendors

We invite enquirers for booths set up at our 1st annual symposium. Symposium offers opportunity to market products and services. For more information, please contact the On-site Coordinators

Mary Boyden (705) 235-3211 ext 2247
Coordinator Access and Community Based Programs
E-Mail boydenm@northern.on.ca

OR Roberta Oshkawbewisens Martin
(705) 672-3376 ext 8819
E-mail martinr@northern.on.ca

Fee for Symposium

Everyone Welcome! $ 80.00 per seat, includes both days.

PAYMENT INFORMATION

Please Make Check/MO payable to:
Wahgoshig First Nation Elders Gathering
Wahgoshig First Nation
RR#3
Matheson Ontario POK1NO

We accept:
Certified checks, sorry no personal checks
Money Orders
Bank Draft ( Call finance dept for instructions, Terry (705) 273 2055. )
Cash at the door, Registration May 28 only, 8:00-9:00 a.m.

SPACE IS LIMITED. This symposium will sell out, so register early!

No registrations will be taken by phone; we must receive a completed registration form by mail, fax or by email by May 23, 2007 prior to the symposium. Confirmations will be sent out, via e-mail or fax, one week before the May 28, 2007 date. Cancellations may be made up to 7 working days prior to the date of the symposium. No refunds will be given for cancellations made after this point.

Deadline to register is May 23, 2007.

http://www.wahgoshig.firstnationschools.ca/?q=node/73

Online Registration for Single Participant
Online Registration for Groups from Schools / Organizations / First Nations

Schedule of Events

Day One | Monday May 28, 2007 | 8:00 to 5:00 p.m.

8:00 to 9:00 a.m. Registration / main Lobby

9:00 to 9:30 a.m.
Opening Prayer. Traditional Welcome
First Nation Drum Group

9:30 to 9:45 a.m.
Opening Remarks & Introductions

9:45 to 10:00 a.m.
Overhead presentation: Titled `The Shift of the Ages'
Don Alejandro documentary produced by filmmaker Stave Copeland.
Film to be released Fall 2007

10:00 to 10:45 a.m.
15 Minutes Audience Question Period: Guest Speaker:
Mayan Elder, Don Alejandro

11:00 to 11:45 a.m.
15 Minutes Audience Question Period: Guest Speaker:
Mayan Elder, Elizabeth Araujo

12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
Lunch Break: (LUNCH NOT PROVIDED) Food available at College Cafeteria

1:00 to 1:45 p.m.
15 Minutes Audience Question Period: Guest Speaker:
Sioux Elder, Chief Arvol Looking Horse

2:00 to 2:15 p.m.
Nutrition Break:

2:15 to 3:00 p.m.
15 Minutes Audience Question Period: Guest Speaker:
Dene Elder, Be'Sha Blondin

3:15 to 4:00 p.m.
15 Minutes Audience Question Period: Guest Speaker:
Alaskan, Aleut Elder, Larry Merculieff

4:15 to 4:45 p.m.
Guest Speaker:
Cree Youth, Jocelyn Cheechoo
Algonquin youth, Bear Babin

4:45 to 5:00 p.m.
Closing Remarks

5:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Opportunity to Network

Day Two | Tuesday May 29, 2007 | 9:00 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.

9:00 to 9:30 a.m.
Traditional Welcome and Opening Prayer

9:30 to 9:45 a.m.
Opening Remarks & Introductions (youth)

9:45 to 10:00 a.m.
Nutrition Break

10:00 am to 12:00 p.m.

Break out sessions. There are four rooms set up to host individual guest speakers. It's your choice to choose the guest speaker you would like to hear more from, this would give you an opportunity to interact with the speaker and learn more about the following subjects.

Room (A)
Subject: Spiritual and Cultural Boundaries:
Mayan Elders: Don Alejandro & Elizabeth Araujo

Room (B)
Subject: World Peace, and the Wolakota Foundation:
Sioux Elder: Chief Arvol Looking Horse & youth Bear Babin:

Room (C)
Subject: Earth Healing & what you can do?
Dene Elder: Be'Sha Blondin and Cree youth Jocelyn Cheechoo

Room (D)
Subject: Global Warming, Elders Concerns, and Environmental
Solutions; Alaskan, Aleut Elder: Larry Merculieff

12:00pm to 12:45p.m.
Closing Remarks; Recognition of presenters; Closing prayer and First Nations Drum Group Traveling Song.

Symposium Outcome
As a result of attending this symposium, you will:

• Know how you or your organization can support the education of cultural heritage;
• Have an appreciation for the complexity of the ethical issues regarding indigenous cultural traditional knowledge, and how Western and Traditional education play a key role while providing transparency of practice towards future initiatives;
• Ethical issues facing our youth and Indigenous wisdom and knowledge and the future responsibilities for earth, water, air, and fire;
• Learned practical approaches to processing multi-format ethnographic collections or multi-media and documentation of cultural events;
• Learn about international initiatives designed through cross-cultural awareness to safeguard intangible and tangible culture and heritage.

Presenters Biographies

Mayan Elder, Don Alejandro

Don Alejandro Perez Oxlaj, whose Mayan name is Wakatel Utiw, Wandering Wolf, is the 13th generation in a lineage of Mayan Medicine People. He received his sacred bundle at the age of 13. He is president of the National Mayan Council of Elders of Guatemala, a body of 440 men and women elders of wisdom who represent 23 Mayan ethnic groups of Guatemala. He was instrumental in creating the reunion of Indigenous Elders and Priests of Americas and is known as the Grand Elder of the Americas. Don Alejandro holds the wisdom of the Mayan Cosmology and travels the world sharing the Mayan prophecies on the major earth changes coming in this millennium. He is a medicine man and works as a catalyst for Indigenous knowledge and healing on global levels. To the indigenous world he is known as "Wandering Wolf". Don Alejandro, in behalf of the Mayan Council of Indigenous Elders in Guatemala, has commissioned a film to be made to reveal visions, concepts, and subject matter previously concealed from the masses. According to Mayan prophecy, we have entered into a period when it is safe to release this information to the public. This film will be released in the fall of 2007. For more information go www.shiftingages.com

Mayan Elder, Elizabeth Araujo

Mayan Elder, Elizabeth Araujo was raised in El Salvador. She is a warm, compassionate person manifesting a discernment that crosses cultural boundaries. As the wife, soul mate and translator of Don Alejandro Cirilo Perez Oxlaj, she travels extensively  throughout the world to wherever they are called to do ceremony and hold council with Elders in the process of bringing unification, balance and harmony to Mother Earth. Her gentle spirit and clean intent creates an atmosphere of acceptance, love and allowance for all who come into her presence to enjoy. Elizabeth works through the Mayan traditional healing ceremonies with the Sacred Fire and is a guide for spiritual journeys to sacred sites. Elizabeth is co-producer of "The Shift of the Ages" , a documentary/ movie.

Dene Elder, Be'Sha Blondin

Dene Elder, Be'Sha will speak about the current state of the environment, how Traditional Ceremony can assist in the Earth's healing, as well as her experience as an Indigenous Elder at the level of the United Nations. Be'Sha had a dream that one day our people will walk hand in hand, many people will become great teachers and help other nations all over the world.

Sioux Elder, Arvol Looking Horse

Sioux Elder Arvol Looking Horse, is the 19th generation keeper of the White Buffalo Calf Pipe Bundle and holds the responsibility of spiritual leader among the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota People. He holds an honorary Doctorate from the University of South Dakota, and travels and speaks extensively on peace, environmental and native rights issues. He has been the recipient of several awards, including the Wolf Award of Canada for his dedicated work for peace. A skilled horseman, he shares his knowledge with the youth on the long distance rides that take place in South Dakota throughout the year. Arvol has been asked to speak about the message from the bundle of the original pipe that he carries from White Buffalo Calf Woman.

Arvol sits on the board of directors for the Wolakota Foundation which is a grassroots non-profit organization emerging from the needs of traditional Lakota (Dakota/Nakota) people to maintain their cultural and spiritual lifeways for the sake of future generations. Since its inception, the organization has sought to promote and protect as well as educate others about the traditional values and wisdom of Indigenous People. For more information go to www.wolakota.org

Alaskan Elder, Larry Merculieff

Alaskan Elder, Larry Merculieff (known as Kuuyux in Aleut, pronounced Koo-yux) has over 35 years experience serving his people, the Aleuts of the Pribilof Islands and other indigenous peoples throughout Alaska, nationally, and internationally in a number of leadership capacities.

Larry is the co-founder and former chairperson of the Indigenous Peoples' Council for Marine Mammals; co-founder of the Alaska Oceans Network and the Alaska Forum on the Environment, co-founder of the International Bering Sea Forum and co-chair of the Indigenous Working Group, founder of the Indian Education Program at the University of Washington, and former co-director of the Alaska Region of the Native American Fish and Wildlife Society.

Larry has had many of his writings published in such magazines as Red Ink, YES, Winds of Change, Cultural Survival, and First Alaskans. Larry received the Alaska Native Writers on Environment Award from the Alaska Conservation Foundation, Buffett Finalist Award for Indigenous Leadership, Rasmuson Foundation Award for Creative Non-Fiction, and the Environmental Excellence Award for lifetime achievement by the Alaska Forum on the Environment.

Larry is careful to note, in the traditional Aleut way, that all his works are Taanaa Aawaa…The Work of the Land. All that he knows, all that he shares, all that he is, is the Work of the Land and his ancestors who guided his people over ten thousand years in the Bering Sea where he was born and raised. For more information about Larry go to:
http://www.ecotrust.org/buffettaward/2006/larry_merculieff.html

Contact Persons
For all other Inquirers regarding symposium or registration, please contact

WFN Education Services
(705) 273-1065 or (705) 262-2851
Or after business hours:
Coordinator: Martin Millen (705) 262-2851
Email: firestarter4812@yahoo.ca

Co-coordinators for symposium:

Mary Boyden (705) 235-3211 ex 2247
E-Mail boydenm@northern.on.ca

Or

Roberta Oshkawbewisens
(705) 672-3376 ext 8819
E-mail martinr@northern.on.ca