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From the "About NDHR" (National Day of Healing and Reconciliation) web site  

Mission Statement

National Day of Healing and Reconciliation is a movement of people committed to moving forward collectively within our families, communities, and across Canada for the purposes of healing and reconciliation.
 
Objectives:

The following e-mail appealing for funds for the Queen's Park camp organizing committee; the Canadian Press article concerning Chief's Donnie Morris' position on Ontario's free entry for mining law; and the press release concerning the letter to Ontario from Robert Kennedy, Jr, indicate growing support for First Nations and the May 29 National Day of Action where all Canadians can come together to demand equal treatment for First Nations across this country.

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Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2008

Ontario press release ... 

McGuinty Government Invests In New Research Chair At Northern Medical School

May 23, 2008

The Northern Ontario School of Medicine is teaming up with the province and the Heart and Stroke Foundation to improve the health of Aboriginal people and rural residents.

The government and the Foundation will each invest $1.5 million to establish an endowed Chair in Aboriginal and Rural Health at the school.

The book review of Marie Wadden's "Where the Pavement Ends" follows this article and provides another context for the National Day of Action efforts on the part of First Nations and their organizations to help Canadians understand the importance of strategically investing in the children, their families and their communities.

From Saskatoon Star Phoenix

From the Peterborough Examiner

Plucked from his family in Curve Lake, artist Freddy Taylor endured life in a residential school

GALEN EAGLE - May 24. 2008

Freddy Taylor barely looks up from painting when asked about the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission and a forthcoming apology from Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Grassy Narrows First Nation members and their supporters began walking from their community in northwestern Ontario to protest provincial and corporate destruction of their forests on their traditional lands. They will be arriving at Queen's Park on Monday to be part of the four day camp at Queen's Park.

Diane Kelly of Onigaming First Nation near Fort Frances was elected this past week as Grand Chief for Treaty # 3. She is the first woman elected to this position.

From Kenora Daily Miner and News

New grand chief inaugurated

By Mike Aiken - May 23, 2008

Less than 24 hours after she was selected, Treaty 3 Grand Chief Diane Kelly was back at the roundhouse on Powwow Island for her inauguration.

NAN press release

NAN welcomes KI release

    THUNDER BAY, ON, May 23 /CNW/ - Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Grand Chief Stan Beardy today welcomed the release of the jailed Kitchenuhumaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) leadership to attend their sentencing appeal at the Ontario Court of Appeal May 28 in Toronto.

AFN press release

Corporations continue to benefit from attacking First Nations through their claims to traditional lands and resources, ie. the "free entry" mining act or "forestry" or through the "developments" such as in Caledonia. And if they do not get what they want from the First Nations, then they simply sue the provincial government so they can get the dollars they require to continue their attacks on First Nation territories.

From the Canadian Press