Celebrating the Local, Negotiating the School: Symposium on Language and Literacy in Aboriginal Communities

Nov. 7-8, 2008

We are proud to announce that our daughter Aimee Williams, from Kashechewan won the Write to Read Contest for the Ontario region.

This contest is held by A National family literacy project by World Literacy of Canada.

Congratulations to her!

Project Beyshick application deadline approaching (Friday, July 11)

The application deadline is quickly approaching for Project Beyshick 2008, a leadership and career development program presented Aug. 16-23 by NAN and the POA Educational Foundation.

Click here to get a PDF copy of the Application Form

NAN community members are encouraged to apply.

Press release 

First Major Conference at New University Focuses on Indigenous Scholarship 

(16-Jun-2008)

Algoma University News Release

ALGOMA UNIVERSITY IS ONTARIO’S NEWEST UNIVERSITY

SAULT STE. MARIE – Legislation creating Algoma University, Ontario’s newest university, passed third and final reading today in the Ontario legislature.

Algoma University, in Sault Ste. Marie, is Northern Ontario’s fourth university,proudly joining the ranks of Laurentian, Lakehead and Nipissing. 

Abe Scatch Memorial School has been selected as an Indigo Love of Reading School for 2008.  Teachers, Kristin Ward, and Kirsten Ryan put together the application package in December 2007, and received a phone call yesterday announcing their success.  The school will receive $33,000 over the next 3 years to purchase new books for the school.

FROM: http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/May2008/15/c8838.html

Oshki-Pimache-O-Win Education & Training Institute

Thunder Bay, Ontario 

OSHKI-PIMACHE-O-WIN

Oshki-Pimache-O-Win Education & Training Institute

Thunder Bay, Ontario 

ARE YOUR READY FOR A NEW BEGINNING?