KO Telehealth Website Launch

We are pleased to announce that the KO Telehealth Website has a new and improved look. This new website will act as a communication tool for all partners and stakeholders throughout the Sioux Lookout Health Zone. Our goal is to provide key up-to-date information that is useful and informative to educate all readers on Telehealth and what it can mean to improving and enhancing health care in First Nation communities.

Please visit http://telehealth.knet.ca to access information that relates to the integration of Telehealth into the Health Care Structure.

-- CANCELLED --

Memorial Gathering

"Liz Bonnie Sakakeesic"  

Cat Lake First Nation

July 9, 10, 11, 2004

Planned events for gathering:

Gospel Jamboree

Church Service

Dinner Gathering  

These are the planned events we will be having. We will keep everyone updated on what will be happening.

Anybody is invited to come. Of course at your own cost, but we will arrange for accommodations.

More information call :

Beverly Wesley @ 347 2100 (w) or 347 2158 (h)  

Joanne Pasquel @ 347 2335 (w) or 347 2385 (h)

EASTERN NAN WOMEN & SELF GOVERNMENT WORKSHOP

Timmins Native Friendship Centre, Timmins, Ontario

April 27-29, 2004

Hello,

The Province of Ontario Smart Growth Secretariat is providing an opportunity for one young person from North Eastern Ontario and one young person from North Western Ontario to participate in the World Youth Centre Pilot Project in Toronto this July.  

To apply for this, please complete the application, which is availalbe by clicking here to see the WORD document, (39K).  

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.  

Sincerely,

Carolyn Taylor
Executive Director
ctaylor@worldyouthcentre.com

World Youth Centre http://worldyouthcentre.com

Two NAN First Nations are working with an organization called First Nations Youth At Risk to develop and deliver services supporting their young people. Weenusk and Pikangikum First Nations each received $50,000 from FNYAR last year to develop new youth programs. Click here to read the newspaper article in the Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal describing their local program.

First Nations Youth At Risk (FNYAR) is hosting a national conference on youth at risk on April 17-18 at Musqueam First Nation in Vancouver, BC. More than 50 First Nations youth and youth workers will gather to exchange strategies on youth at risk and to learn of new approaches to youth at risk by several First Nation communities. Cindy Blackstock, Executive Director, First Nations Youth and Family Caring Society will be the guest speaker. This is an important conference for anyone working in the First Nations and Aboriginal youth at risk field. If you wish to attend, please register by contacting Harvey McCue, President and Coordinator, FNYAR, at 613-237-3033 or hmccue@sympatico.ca before April 8, 2004.

FNYAR is a charitable not for profit organization managed and directed by First Nations. It provides annual grants to First Nations to work with youth at risk. For more information on FNYAR, visit http://fnyar.ca.

Today the community of Poplar Hill will be visited by the Ontario Lieutenant Governor. He will be travelling with the Nishnawbe Aski Nation Grand Chief Stan Beardy. They will be visiting the school as well as the band office. The visit should last a couple of hours. They will be meeting with the Chief and Council as well as the school board and the health unit. We are planning to provide them with a tour of Poplar Hill.

On the afternoon April 2, Jesse Fiddler, Cal Kenny and Leon Fiddler, along with members of Jesse's family (Angie, Mya and Keenan) met via video conference with a class of post-secondary Maori students from New Zealand. The laughter, sharing and exchanges went on for over an hour between the two groups. Click here is see some pictures from this meeting.

Below are some of the e-mail messages that lead to this exchange, explaining the objectives of the meeting. Click here to see an earlier story about this Maori Post-secondary institution.

----- Original Message -----

Kia ora koutou,

Once again I find myself saying thank you. Our students were really amazed at the whole experience and enjoyed the knowledge and stories that were shared. Today has set the benchmark and I look forward to more events in the future.

na
Graeme

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Jesse Fiddler (jessefiddler@knet.ca) wrote:

Hi Graeme,

Cal and myself would be interested in joining your class for that  session.  As Brian mentioned, Cal has been working on telling the story of  the Wasaho Cree Nation Traditional Lands through video and  websites (http://fortsevern.firstnation.ca/washaho).  I have some material on the legends from Sandy Lake (http://legends.knet.ca).  I can also talk about what other people and organizations have been doing in our area (http://sandylake.firstnation.ca).  Much of it was showcased at the Native Language gathering that we just had http://language.firstnationschools.ca

Jesse

----- Original Message -----

From: "Graeme Everton"  <graeme@everton.co.nz>
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 1:47 PM

Kia ora Brian,

Hope you have all recovered from the last few weeks of online activity. Thank you once again for giving us such a good and positive experience. It has certainly helped us focus our thoughts on where to with eLearning and the possibilities of video conferencing.

As indicated a week or so back I would like to ask if our students in  Maori Information Management (Diploma/Degree) can have the opportunity to talk with your team. The group is made up of Maori who are either Librarians or Archivists and are training to support Maori efforts to preserve Maori toanga (treasures) both physically and electronically. What I'm thinking is maybe talking about anything you have done to preserve the stories and knowledge of the tribes (the interactive river map for example). Do you have any Librarians or Archivists who would like to talk to us? We have a three hour class Saturday here/Friday afternoon your time and would love to fit you in for an hour

na
Graeme

Teachers, Teachers' aids and administrators gathered on April 2 at Pic River Elementary School near Marathon, Ontario to participate in the First Nations Schools Web Site Construction Workshop. The Pic River Elementary, Pic River High and Netamisakomik schools, each now have their own web site as a result of Industry Canada's First Nations SchoolNet program that is administered in Ontario by Keewaytinook Okimakanak.

The staff at Pic River Elementary was particularly impressed by Jesse Fiddler's historical project on the K-Net web site. The teachers want to work with community members in Pic River to do a similar project on their new website... "We have the tapes and other historical materials.  Now we need to do what you have already accomplished on the Internet.  It will be a valuable tool for the classroom as well as the community at large," said one of the participants.

Click  here to see some more pictures from the session.

KiHS will begin it’s fourth and final semester on April 13, 2004. Students interested in taking a grade 9 or 10 course and living in one of communities with a KiHS classroom can enroll now.

Drop in or call your KiHS community classroom today!!