Media.Knet.Ca

There is a two page overview of the NORTH AMERICAN INDIGENOUS (.NAI) proposal for a cultural and linguistic top-level domain in the current (ca 2008/9) ICANN new gTLD rounds. The overview can be seen at http://wampum.wabanaki.net/vault/2008/04/004460.html (Wampum).

From the Canadian Press

Tories delay healing as wait drags on for native truth-telling panel: critics

OTTAWA — Critics say the federal Conservatives are taking too long to officially apologize and launch a truth-and-reconciliation commission on native residential schools.

From the Business Edge

First Nations lag behind in connectivity - Service providers urged to improve services to remote communities

By Monte Stewart - Business Edge - 04/04/2008 - Vol. 8, No. 7

Canada's telecom and broadband-service companies should be providing better connectivity to First Nations reserves, particularly those in remote areas, says a communications professor.

 Nishnawbe Aski Nation Press Release

NAN suspends Northern Table until KI leadership released

     THUNDER BAY, ON, April 3 /CNW/ - Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Grand Chief Stan Beardy announced today a unanimous decision of support for Kitchenuhumaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) leadership by NAN Chiefs-in-Assembly and the decision by NAN to suspend bilateral discussions with the Government of Ontario regarding lands and resources until the immediate and unconditional release of KI Chief and Council currently serving a six month jail sentence.

Canada Goose Fly's Over!

Spring is truly here. This weather is for real.

Tonight at approximately 7:45 pm a Canada Goose flew over our community.

So stop planning or talking about when would be a good time to get out on the land.

Just grap what you can and head out to our spring hunting camp ground.

From the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Speech-language pathologists test videoconferencing for speech and hearing assessments

Rick Garrick - April, 2008

Three speech-language pathologists have been looking into the use of videoconferencing to test children for speech and hearing problems in remote northern Ontario First Nation communities.

From the Prince George Citizen 

Women begin 'wave fast' to protest jailing natives in mining fight

By Sue Bailey, THE CANADIAN PRESS - April 1, 2008

OTTAWA - A group of native women in northern Ontario was to stop eating for 24 hours in hopes of launching a "wave fast" across Canada to support a great grandmother jailed in a mining dispute.

Hopefully these types of micro-management clauses are being added to all the contracts being issued by the military and every federal government department. This move will probably keep the acountants and the lawyers happy for years to come ...

INAC press release ... 

From Macleans.ca

First Nation’s Technical Institute avoids closure — for one year

By Macleans.ca | April 1st, 2008

Feds can't shirk responsibility for aboriginal education programs: minister