Piitaapun Healing Arts Project

Responsible Gambling Strategy,
Nishnawbe Aski Nation

… got talent ?

A R T  C O N T E S T

Open to NAN First Nation Members

Theme: Nature & New Beginnings

DEADLINE: July 18, 2008

Lots of PRIZES

Selected artists will have an opportunity to have their work promoted.

Grand Prize: $1,000
2nd Prize: $500

From INAC Headquarters in Ottawa ...

Please be advised that the Statement of Apology to former students of Indian Residential Schools will be broadcasted live from the House of Commons on Wednesday, June 11 at 3 p.m. ET.

It will be available on CPAC in real time and on their website (www.cpac.ca).

To find your local CPAC channel please call 1-877-287-CPAC or check the CPAC channel listings at:

From the Toronto Sun

Medical risk for rural patients? OMA concerned about number of 'nurse-led' clinics with limited access to physicians in under-serviced areas

By CHRISTINA BLIZZARD - June 6, 2008

The province's doctors are raising the alarm that new "nurse-led" clinics being set up in rural and underserviced areas will not meet the health care needs of patients in those communities.

From Wunnumin First Nation site ... 

Wapakeka First Nation, 16th Annual SOS Conference, July 21-28, 2008.

posted June 6th, 2008

The Conference is Dedicated to the Survivors and all who have been affected by Suicide.

Join us in our Wapakeka First Nation’s 16th Annual Survivors of Suicide (SOS) Healing Journey Conference. July 21-28, 2008.

NALS and Dilico press release ...

Nishnawbe-Aski Legal Services & Dilico Partner for Healthy Families

June 6, 2008

THUNDER BAY, ON: Nishnawbe-Aski Legal Services Corporation (NALSC) together with Dilico Anishinabek Family Care (Dilico) announced a unique partnership that brings alternative dispute resolution services to Nishnawbe Aski Nation (Treaty 9) communities at an official protocol signing held today at the NALSC office in Thunder Bay.

NAN press release ... 

NAN Welcomes Inquest into First Nation Student Death

Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Deputy Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler together with Poplar Hill First Nation members Berenson and Rhoda King welcomed today’s announcement of a coroner’s inquest into the October 2007 death of 15-year-old First Nation student Reggie Bushie.

From the Edmonton Sun

Tensions Mounts Over Apology

By THE CANADIAN PRESS

What was meant to be a highly symbolic gesture to salve the historic wounds of native residential school abuse has become a source of tense frustration.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is to officially apologize Wednesday for decades of trauma and cultural losses inflicted by institutions once geared to "kill the Indian in the child."

NAN's 2008 Keewaywin Conference

CONSTANCE LAKE FIRST NATION
AUGUST 12, 13, & 14, 2008

Grand Entry

Let’s Gather Together to Witness

Canada’s Apology to
Residential School Survivors

Wednesday June 11
Gather at 1 PM
Pelican Falls Centre
Broadcast is at 2 PM

From the Toronto Star

Judge bars aboriginal protests in Brantford

THE CANADIAN PRESS - Jun 02, 2008

BRANTFORD, ONT.–A judge has prohibited aboriginal protesters from demonstrating at construction sites in Brantford, Ont., in order to prevent what he describes as "irreparable harm" to the city.