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Risk of flooding elevated along Grand River STAFF REPORT

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BRANT COUNTY — Grand River Conservation Authority issued a flood warning for several areas in the Grand River tract Tuesday.

Mild temperatures Monday and Tuesday “triggered a gradual melting of the snow pack resulting in runoff into local waterways,” said the GRCA in a statement.

Elevated water combined with ice jams has left a risk of flooding for the City of Cambridge, Nith River - New Hamburg and Ayr, Brantford and from Caledonia to Cayuga.

“Potential for ice jams and flooding is possible

in low lying areas that are typically prone to flooding,” said the warning.

The GRCA also, as a result of the melt, suspended ice fishing at Belwood Lake reservoir until further notice.

GRCA warns the public to be safe when flooding risk is elevated. “The public is reminded to exercise extreme caution around all water bodies. Banks adjacent to rivers and creeks are very slippery at this time and, when combined with current weather conditions, pose a serious hazard. Parents are encouraged to keep their children and pets away from all watercourses and off frozen water bodies, which will be weakened as a result of the warming trend.”

Retired teacher charged with sexual assault STAFF REPORT

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HAGERSVILLE — Police in Haldimand County have charged a 53-year-old retired teacher with a number of offences including sexual assault.

Officers say they received a report of a sex

attack on Jan. 25.

The assault was alleged to have taken place at Hagersville Secondary School between 2016 and 2018.

Police have now charged a former teacher with sexual assault, sexual exploitation and criminal harassment.

They say their investigation is ongoing.

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SIX NATIONS — A Facebook post advertising a new “Georgia Peach” cannabis dispensary on Six Nations caused community uproar and police investigation leading to drug charges for two men.

On Thursday, January 31 a social media post was widely distributed among Six Nations community members, advertising that the recently shut down Hamilton cannabis dispensary “Georgia Peach” had found new life on Six Nations of the Grand River.

Residents speculated the safety of the dispensary on social media, concerned that non-indigenous dispensary owners may be trying to hide illegal drug activity on reserve land and bringing unknown substances to the territory out of reach of provincial drug enforcement officers.

Six Nations men took action and blocked the road leading to the dispensary at 1715 Third Line. This community-led action followed with Six Nations Police arriving

It didn't take long for Six Nations Police to close a dispensary that opened in this small drive-through structure on 3rd Line across from the creek near Frog Pond. PHOTO BY NAHNDA GARLOW

with a search warrant.

Traffic was halted on Third Line for most of the afternoon.

Police say they searched the premises and found dried cannabis with packaging materials and scales. Those items were seized.

Police said in a statement that a vehicle was found on site and in it suspected cocaine and an undisclosed but “large amount of cash”.

Six Nations Police arrested a 51 year old Six Nations man, Donovan Dell

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This report itself presents findings of a major examination of Indigenous screen-based content internationally, the factors contributing to its success and lessons to expand opportunities for Canadian Indigenous screen-based productions in the global market.

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Reaction to Indigenous languages law: 'landmark' and 'colonial' OTTAWA — A national Inuit organization says it is disappointed in the Liberals' new legislation meant to protect Indigenous languages.

The Liberals tabled the bill Tuesday, two years after promising a law to promote Indigenous languages, which Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez says are on the verge of disappearing.

The bill pledges longterm funding and to create a federal commissioner of Indigenous languages.

While the Assembly of First Nations and Metis National Council are calling the bill a landmark piece of legislation, the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami is calling the bill a symbolic gesture from a ``colonial system.''

Natan Obed, ITK's president, says the Liber-

als' legislation lacks any Inuit-specific content and doesn't address Inuit rights to speak their traditional language, or help to revive and promote it. ``Despite being characterized as a reconciliation and co-development initiative, the Government of Canada engaged Inuit in bad faith throughout this legislative initiative,'' Obed said in a statement.

``ITK wanted nothing more than to truly co-develop a bill that we could champion with other Indigenous Peoples and the Government of Canada,'' he said. ``In no way was this bill co-developed with Inuit.''

The Indigenous Languages Act will now work its way through the legislative process with the goal of turning it into

law before the House of Commons rises in June and an election campaign takes over federal politics.

The most recent census figures from Statistics Canada showed that 263,840 people reported being able to speak an Indigenous language in 2016.

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Ahead of Tuesday's cabinet meeting, Rodriguez said in some cases, only a handful of people now speak a traditional language, meaning it could disappear in a matter of years.

Many of the details of the law will continue to be worked out with Indigenous groups as Parliament considers it. ``We have to make sure first that what we do is flexible so they're able to adapt it to their own realities and second that they have all the mechanisms necessary to protect, preserve and revitalize,'' Rodriguez said.

AFN National Chief Perry Bellegarde said the ``landmark legislation'' introduced Tuesday gives hope that original languages will be preserved so Indigenous people can embrace their identities.

He said there would be no better way to mark the United Nations' International Year of Indigenous Languages than by passing a law to protect them in a country that once tried to wipe them out. ``No Indigenous language in Canada is safe.

But now there is hope. This legislation will support First Nations efforts to keep their languages alive, vital and strong,'' he said. ``Canadians and all parliamentarians must support this bill because we all understand that language is identity, language is culture, language is life.''

The Liberals' 2017 budget pledged $89.9 million over three years for Indigenous languages, but the ITK notes the bill tabled Tuesday contains no federal obligations to fund Indigenous language. The bill also requires discussions with provinces and territories. ``Our efforts to revitalize, maintain, and promote Inuktut are often blunted by inequitable federal funding policies that task us with doing much more with far fewer resources than what French and English speakers receive,'' Obed said. ``At the same time, our people do not have the right to access federal services in Inuktut, relegating it to a status beneath English and French.''

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Letters to the Editor

No one size fits all method to heal This week the Liberal government

tabled new legislation to “protect” indigenous languages.

Called the “Indigenous Lan-

But on the indigneous end, it

can feel pretty dehumanizing to

know that instead of finding your own way toward apprehending

guages Act”, the proposed new

law would make long term fund-

ing and a federal officer responsible for the proliferation of indigenous languages in Canada.

But is this a good thing?

what rightfully belongs to us as indigenous knowledge that we

have to reach out first to Ottawa to see if we can afford to do so just seems so wrong.

Perhaps it is one of those

Not in the eyes of everyone.

damned if you do, damned if you

AFN is happy. Perry Bellegarde

don’t situations. Funding for

called it a “landmark” piece of

legislation and said the bill gives

“hope” for language preservation in Canada.

This is not how everyone sees

it. Inuit leadership to call the leg-

languages is needed. But so is

independence. And dignity that

we as nations can claim our own

past, present and future without dictation from Ottawa.

Furthermore it just kind of

islation “colonial”.

feels suspicious — as if someday

Canada’s lawmakers do not have a

will waive this new law in our

And can you blame them?

good track record when it comes to creating laws for the good of indigenous people.

The truth of the matter is that

Canada first legislated indigenous languages out of our families via the Indian Act and Residential school system and now is at-

someone in an argument online face as a way to shut down the reminder of cultural genocide

against indigenous people in Canada and say, ‘yeah well, we *gave* you your language back’, and that we should be grateful.

It feels like part of the gaslight.

And isn’t that just the saddest

tempting to legislate it back into

thing. That the harm that was

not feel like the twilight zone to

severe that even, if they truly are

the Canadian fabric. Does this

done against our people was so

anyone else?

I mean sure we will have access

to funding. That is needed. But it is so depressing to sit back and

accept help from the very body

that it comes with suspicion and mistrust.

There is no one size fits all

method to heal cultural genocide.

that harmed in the first place.

Perhaps from the perspective

Top-down solutions from the col-

of legislators this is an act intended to facilitate reconciliation.

honest gestures to make it right,

onizer absolutely does not make the harm or pain of culture loss go away.

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February 3, 2019 Writing or Rewriting History?

By Alex Jamieson Jr.

I must say, I was surprised last December to read that the Haudenosaunee Chiefs Council (HCCC) appeared to be unaware of the actions of Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation (MNCFN) over the past decade to claim most of southern Ontario as its traditional territory.

Surprised, because as early as 2011 and as late at 2018 I have been making Six Nations leaders and people aware of the claims by MNCFN, that they are the most recent and therefore most relevant First Nation titleholders to traditional lands in southern Ontario.

According to the numerous New Credit people I have spoken with, they are the traditional land titleholders to southern Ontario because they beat Six Nations people back to the Niagara Falls area during a war.

Former MNCFN band council chief Carol King (originally a Six Nations person), told me in 2011 that the MNCFN are the traditional titleholders to these lands after the Ojibway killed so many Six Nation people during the so-called Beaver Wars, that the “rivers ran red” with the blood of Six Nation’s people.

In 2011, I made Onondaga chief Arnie General and other Haudenosaunee people aware of the this claim by the MNCFN, including the current secretary of the Haudenosaunee Chiefs Council Leroy Hill who seemed more intent on chastising me for my criticism of HCCC for their lack of transparency, accountability, and democratic-mandate from the clans to speak on their behalf, than realizing the obvious ramifications for Six Nations from this claim by MNCFN. Arnie and any other Six Nations people I have ever spoken to about this claim scoffed at and laughed outright at the claim that the Ojibway of winning a war against the Six Nations and taking our lands.

But since then I haven’t noticed any action on the part of the HCCC to take issue with these claims MNCFN up until December 2018, which I find curious.

On two occasions, one in 2011 and another in 2018, I also asked Six Nations

band council Lands Department Director, Lonny Bomberry whether there is any validity to the claim that MNCFN won these lands from in a war with Six Nations.

In 2011 Mr. Bomberry also scoffed at and laughed at that assertion by the Mississaugas and then added a few choice words, to the effect that there was no validity to these claims of traditional lands titleholder status by MNCFN. When I asked him again in 2018 about these ongoing claims by MNCFN, he reiterated his earlier statements and added that Six Nations band council is not taking issue with these claims by MNCFN because Six Nations has “too many other land-rights issues to deal with”.

I also found Bomberry’s statement curious.

My interest in this issue was primarily because of the various projects I was managing that required conducting proper consultation with relevant First Nations and accurate “land-acknowledgements” at various meetings and events in southern Ontario.

As a Haudenosaunee person I was interested also in obtaining clarification on whether Six Nations did indeed lose all our traditional territory in southern Ontario after losing a war to the Mississaugas Ojibway.

The last I heard we had controlled an area from the Ohio Valley to the Atlantic Ocean and Sault St. Marie down to south of Pennsylvania approximately.

Also, that there was a historical agreement between the Mississaugas and the Six Nations Confederacy to share the resources of the land, including southern Ontario, in the “Dish with One Spoon” Treaty.

Which begs the question, on what basis did MNCFN claim ownership of the Toronto Islands and subsequently make a settlement with the Crown that saw each of their band members receive 20K and $1,500 yearly since the settlement?

It is my understanding that the Seneca lived in that area and I haven’t heard any Senecas say they lost their lands (including the Toronto Islands) to the Ojibway in a war. Indeed, mounds exist in the area (High Park) that are not of Ojibway making, but rather of Neutral who were later absorbed by the Six Nation.

And how was MNCFN able to parlay

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a claim of traditional titleholder status of the Toronto Islands into a multi-million dollar settlement for its people when the land was part of the Dish with One Spoon Treaty between the Ojibway and the Six Nations?

It has long been a tactic of the colonizers and the Crown to make deals with one group of Indigenous people even though they had no credible title to the land they were surrendering.

There are many benefits to be derived from being recognized as the “traditional titleholders” Most importantly, that recognition, in effect, will write history that will be in place forever, especially if it is not challenged

by SN. It will be in text books and form the basis when settler community try to determine who to consult with or make future treaties and land settlements with.

If Six Nations truly did lose all our traditional territory in southern Ontario in a war with the Ojibway then that’s fine, but that’s not the impression I have received from those Six Nations people I have spoken to.

I just want confirmation on whether this assertion by the MNCFN is accurate, or whether it is disputed by the Six Nations, which seems to be the case.

If the MNCFN claim to proper titleholder status is in dispute, then why isn’t Six Nations voicing this dissent? To not do so only reinforces the position by MNCFN of being the true traditional land titleholders because we lost a war to them.

(The Metis are also trying to elbow its way in being consulted even though, to my knowledge, there was never any Metis settlements of note in Ontario.)

Now the MNCFN flags are flying at Oakville, Mississauga, and Toronto, but not the Haudenosaunee flag, and it is the MNCFN that are the ones being sought for consultation, which has become an industry unto itself, not the Haudenosaunee.

If this MNCFN assertion is not being disputed

by Six Nations, what effect will this have on future land rights settlements?

I have found only one literary source in support of the claim by MNCFN

to having beaten Six Nations in a war from the Mississauga Historical Society, but that assertion by the Society didn’t offer any source for its claim.

I respectfully disagree with the position of the Six Nations Lands Department, that we have more important land rights issues to address rather than the claims to traditional lands titleholder status of southern Ontario by MNCFN. Over a period of time, if left unchallenged by Six Nations, the claims

by MNCFN of being the most recent, and therefore most relevant, First Nations people to deal with in proper protocol, consultation and accommodation, will lead to municipalities in the area to only consult with, and make deals with the MNCFN people thereby strengthening their position to further land settlements, possibly at the expense of Six Nations people.

This would have a negative impact on possible future deals between Six Nations and businesses like Samsung or Hydro, or with municipalities who need to consult with

and accommodate the proper Indigenous people who are the true traditional titleholders to the lands.

If the Ojibway did indeed beat us in a war (in contravention of the Dish with One Spoon Treaty) make the rivers run red with our blood, and drive us east across the Niagara Falls area into NY State, why would we then offer to protect them from the murderous settlers who drove them out of the Mississauga area, by offering them refuge alongside the Six Nations reservation?

History is being written through the actions of municipalities to recognize the MNCFN as the true traditional lands titleholders and through the inaction by Six Nations Band Council, Haudenosaunee Chiefs Council, and Six Nations people in general to allow this to continue unchallenged.

I think it is past time for Six Nations people to press those who purport to speak on our behalf to either accept or dispute the claims by MNCFN, and then act accordingly.

Nyaweh, Alex Jamieson Jr.

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Fall Social Gathering Follow Tourism Oxford for upcoming details about Oxford’s annual Fall Social Gathering. This year, this free family event is part of Doors Open Oxford in downtown Woodstock on Saturday, October 5, 2019. Join us for children’s activities, live performances, info booths and more.

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Soldotna man honours Dena'ina heritage with Anchorage statue KENAI, Alaska _ Near Anchorage's Ship Creek, a new bronze statue of an elder named Olga, a Dena'ina matriarch from the village of Eklutna, stands and overlooks land that was once a prosperous Native fish camp.

Soldotna artist Joel Isaak, who is Dena'ina himself, worked on the statue for two and a half years. He said he doesn't take the opportunity to represent his culture through art lightly. ``It's a lot of reflection,'' Isaak said. ``Trying to consolidate the history of cultural annihilation and assimilation in a positive light is tricky. It's a way to convey that we are still living people.''

Isaak, a Dena'ina language professor at the Kenai Peninsula College, created his proposal for the statue after the village of Eklutna sent out a call for art. The parameters of the project included a piece that was in the likeness of Olga and that it tied into the fishing heritage at the site of Ship Creek.

Isaak said it's always a rare opportunity to himself as an Alaska Native in public art. ``Most of the figurative work, if it is of indigenous people, looks like European people,'' Isaak said. ``I don't identify with it from a vi-

sual standpoint. Being able to have the opportunity to be able to be a little more in control of the narrative is an honour. It's exciting to see other people's excitement at that opportunity.''

Isaak's work can be found in many places across Alaska. He worked on a beluga whale diorama in Anchorage's Ted Stevens Airport. Art of Isaak's can be found in the Sheldon Jackson Museum in Sitka.

Locally, Isaak completed statues in front of the Dena'ina Wellness Center and salmon skin bowls in the Kenai Courthouse.

Isaak had two photographs of Olga to base his statue on. The statue has Olga in customary Dena'ina clothing, like fish skin boots and a dress featuring quill work. Isaak said Dena'ina regalia has been important to him to him from an early age. ``Part of my journey in making the bronze statuary is learning how to make the clothing,'' Isaak said. ``I've wanted to learn to make regalia since I was in either first or second grade making paper pilgrim and Indian costume stuff. I researched at museums, and took workshops and learned all the methods needed to produce that clothing so I understood what I was trying to repli-

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OTTAWA - The federal government is signing a new accord with the Native Women's Association of Canada to ensure the organization can fully participate in efforts to improve Indigenous health, housing and education.

Francyne Joe, president of the association, says the accord will ensure the voices of Indigenous women, girls and gender-diverse people will be heard by policy-makers developing programs, services and laws.

She says that for too

long the voices of Indigenous matriarchs, knowledge-keepers and water-carriers have been left out of discussions directly affecting their communities and nations.

Joe says the accord, which is being signed today, is an important step towards reconciliation and healing.

Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett says she believes policies are only good if the people affected by them are involved in setting them.

Bennett says that's why it's important that Indigenous women will be part of policy-making.

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cate before just looking at a picture in a book and trying to make it look something like that.''

The Dena'ina culture is a matriarchal society. Olga was an elder and a leader in Dena'ina land north of Anchorage. Isaak said the piece was not only honouring Dena'ina history and heritage, but also women in our society.

``Honouring our indigenous women and women everywhere _ our society is based off of that model so there's strong precedent for making an elder and then having the elder be a woman,'' Isaak said. ``I think it's poignant in our current situation for the need to honour and respect women in our state and in the world, but especially

with the current statistics.

Bringing a visual voice to honour the role that women have in our society and culture.''

Born and raised in Soldotna, Isaak has many connections to Dena'ina culture, and even Olga herself. His family comes from the Upper Cook Inlet area in Point Possession. He said he's distantly related to Olga, going back several generations. ``I've always had a strong desire to be connected to my indigenous Native culture and all the different cultures that my family comes from,'' Isaak said. ``But living here in Soldotna on Dena'ina land there has been a very strong desire from me from a very early age to learn my language and material culture.''

In Dena'ina culture, clothing is used as fine art. Dena'ina people were semi-nomadic or sedentary and would move between summer fish camp and a winter village, which was sometimes in almost the same spot, Isaak said. For this reason, art would move

with the people in the form of clothing, which would represent things like where a person was from and what family they belonged to. ``You put (your art) on your clothing and you bring it with you,'' Isaak said. ``So the quill work design in the shape of the tunic can tell where you're from _ it can tell your clan information.

It's a form of visual written communication that we don't really have that Rosetta Stone for. It served as a function for that and it also brings in that visual fine art. We just brought it with us everywhere instead of leaving it behind glass or in a frame.''

The statue is near Anchorage's downtown, which a busy and growing part of the city. Isaak said the statue is a reminder of the area's past. ``Having it be in Anchorage is making invisible people visible,'' Isaak said. ``It's surrounded by this growing city, but we're still here and making that visual presence.''

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Commemoration Fund to include gender diverse victims Ontario Energy Commission de l’énergie Board de l’Ontario

JUSTICE OF THE PEACE VACANCIES Ontario Court of Justice COURT LOCATIONS: Barrie (4) Brampton (4) Hamilton (1) Kenora (1) Kenora (Indigenous-1) Kitchener (2) London (2) London (Indigenous-1) Milton (1)

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Please check www.ontariocourts.ca/ocj/jpaac/advertisements for an updated listing of advertised vacancies.

At the request of the Attorney General and in accordance with the Justices of the Peace Act, the Justices of the Peace Appointments Advisory Committee invites applications for vacant Justice of the Peace positions in the Province of Ontario.

A Justice of the Peace is an independent judicial officer who presides in court over various proceedings under federal and provincial statutes.

Applicants must meet minimum qualifications as set out in the Justices of the Peace Act. The Justices of the Peace Appointments Advisory Committee reviews and evaluates applications and classifies candidates as “Not Qualified”, “Qualified” or “Highly Qualified”. Classifications are reported to the Attorney General, who recommends candidates for Order-in-Council appointments to the Ontario Court of Justice.

In addition to reflecting the diversity of Ontario’s population, applicants should also display the fundamental skills and abilities, personal characteristics and community awareness attributes set out in the Committee’s General Selection Criteria.

Bilingual positions require a high degree of proficiency in English as well as a superior level of oral and written proficiency in French. As Indigenous people comprise a large percentage of the population in the areas being serviced by the courts in Kenora, London and Timmins, we especially encourage people of Indigenous heritage and people with an in-depth understanding of Indigenous communities and the issues affecting those communities to apply for these vacancies.

For detailed information about these vacancies, minimum qualifications and General Selection Criteria, the required application form, and the Committee’s process, visit the website of the Justices of the Peace Appointments Advisory Committee at www.ontariocourts.ca/ocj/jpaac.

See the Committee’s website also to view future vacancies and application deadlines and to sign up for email notifications. Notifications will also be posted on Twitter (@ONAttorneyGen) and LinkedIN (Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General).

Applications must be received by the end of business on Tuesday, February 19, 2019. Applications that arrive after that date, regardless of when shipped, will NOT be accepted. It is the responsibility of the applicant to ensure their application is received by the specified date.

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VANCOUVER — Canada announced a new fund to honour the lives and legacies of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls, including LGBTQ2S individuals.

The Commemoration Fund for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls responds to the National Inquiry’s Interim report declaration that there is a need to fund commemoration activities to help honour the legacies of the victims and surviving family members.

In a statement, Ottawa said, “No relationship is more important to Canada than the relationship with Indigenous peoples. We cannot move forward and eliminate gender-based violence without acknowledging the past.”

Minister for Women and Gender Equality Maryam Monsef made the announcement in Vancouver, saying Ottawa is investing $10 million dollars over two years to provide funding for indigneous governments and organizations to work with families and communities to develop and implement

commemorative initiatives across the country.

"Ending violence against Indigenous women, girls and LGBTQ2S individuals is everyone's responsibility – including all levels of government, police, the justice system, civil society and other partners. Our government is listening to survivors and families who have told us that in order to move forward meaningfully, we must remember and help honour those who are missing and whose lives have been lost. The Commemoration Fund ensures that we have the means to do so,” said Monsef.

Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations Carolyn Bennett said, “Families of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls fought for decades to ensure their daughters, sisters, mothers, and aunties are not forgotten and to have this on-going national tragedy properly investigated. Our government responded by calling the National Inquiry and by acting on the root causes: reforming child and family services, invest-

ments in social housing and shelters, and reviewing policing standards and practices. The Commemoration Fund responds to the Commission's Interim Report and helps families and survivors honour their loved ones and promote the healing which is so important."

Application for Proposals can be submitted at women.gc.ca. The deadline to submit is March 28, 2019 at 11:59 a.m. (noon) Pacific Standard Time.

The work of the Commemoration Fund will complement the other commemoration work already underway across the country.

In 2016, the Government of Canada dedicated $53.8 million to establish the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, with a two year mandate from September 1, 2016 to December 31, 2018, to complete its important work.

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Study finds integrating cultural practices helps with recovery VANCOUVER - After recovering from the trauma of being separated from her family as part of the '60s Scoop, Roberta Price has co-authored a study that applies the same traditional methods that helped her to other Indigenous women.

Price, who is an elder from the Coast Salish Snuneymuxw and Cowichan Nations, said finding her family as an adult and reading about the horrors of the '60s Scoop in court documents brought her to a dark place.

But when a friend and former colleague got Price in touch with her own traditional elders, they took her under her wing and knew what she needed. ``I was so broken, so wounded, so beaten down in my spirit,'' said Price, who's also an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia's family medicine department. ``Those elders, they are the ones who helped lift me up.... Learning about the culture _ cultural teachings, stories, songs _ really brought my strength out.''

Price and her co-authors applied a similar technique to Indigenous women recovering from the trauma of partner violence, in a

study published in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence.

The study did not include a control group that received treatment without elder-led circles or cultural elements, and the results were self-reported.

However, the research suggests that the health of the women improved when the healing process integrated elder-led circles and other cultural elements.

The study from the University of British Columbia and Western University focused on nurses working with women individually over the course of six to eight months.

Their treatment included weekly circles or group activities led by an elder, which involved sharing personal stories and aspects of Indigenous culture through ceremonies, cultural teachings and traditional crafts.

Colleen Varcoe, a professor of nursing at UBC, said at the end of the program, the women reported significantly fewer symptoms of trauma and depression, as well as a better quality of life compared with how they felt in the beginning. ``What was really important to us, is that we get advice from Indigenous

elders regarding what a supportive program would look like,'' said Varcoe.

Participants included 152 Indigenous women from different communities and language groups who were living in Vancouver and Surrey, B.C. Most had survived childhood abuse in a residential school, in addition to partner violence.

Price said treatment can be much more effective if integrates traditional ways of knowing and being, because that gives women who have experienced trauma an identity that they ``should have known from birth.''

Varcoe said researchers measured women's trauma symptoms before the start of the study and again six months later, and found ``enormous changes'' over the course of the study.

Price said some of the changes are rapid, while others take time. ``It's not that I walk in as elder and say I'm going to share this and you're going to be fine tomorrow,'' she said. ``But I work with people. It's on their time.''

Price said she wants to see the program, which is now being tested in three provinces, extended throughout the country.

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Drum group headed to Grammys TORONTO _ When the Alberta-founded First Nations collective Young Spirit rolls into the Grammy Awards this weekend it'll be a co-ordinated effort to rival any pop star's massive entourage.

Some members of the 16-person singing group will fly south on commercial airlines, while others who live in the United States plan to embark on road trips to Los Angeles where the music industry's most prestigious event takes place.

All counted, 10 performers in Young Spirit will descend on the Grammys pre-telecast on Sunday where they're nominated for the first time.

Their album ``Mewasinsational - Cree Round Dance Songs'' is contending in the best regional roots category.

Co-founder Jacob Faithful says locking in so many tickets from organizers wasn't easy, but he hopes the group's enthusiastic attendance bodes well for a win. ``Travelling and singing together has brought us a lot of good fortune,'' he said in a phone call ahead of the awards ceremony. ``It's challenging but at the same time very rewarding.''

After 18 years of playing pow wows and other Indigenous events, Faithful has Young Spirit running like clockwork, even though the effort requires endless co-ordination.

Its members are spread across places that include Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia, as well as in Nevada, California and Idaho.

Faithful insists the distance isn't necessarily a setback. ``We're close-knit,'' he says. ``They bring their families on the road.''

Working together has grown into an annual tradition, Faithful adds.

It begins every spring at the Gathering of Nations in Albuquerque, N.M. where the Cree singers convene to participate in the largest pow wow

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in North America. It's a warm-up for a few months of extensive touring across states and provinces _ from Quebec to southern California. ``It's like riding a bike,'' Faithful, 40, says of the process. ``We essentially save up all year for the summertime _ and then we hit the road.''

But before that begins, Young Spirit heads into a recording studio to lay down a full album of new material that works as the foundation of their summer tour dates. The Grammy-nominated ``Mewasinsational - Cree Round Dance Songs'' was recorded two years ago.

With each album, Faithful oversees the production as a composer and lead singer. He also shares drumming responsibilities with his group and plays the Native American flute.

Faithful says the group's primary goal is to inspire younger generations of Indigenous people. They began that objective back in 2001 when the group, based in the Frog Lake Cree First Nation in Alberta, didn't have a name and only consisted of Faithful and two of his brothers.

Asking their elders for guidance, Faithful says they were urged to consider how to inspire younger generations to maintain their culture and traditions. ``They named us 'Oskiyak kisik' _ the exact translation to youngster,'' he said.

In English, they became known as Young Spirit _ or Young Spirit Singers as the Grammy nominations list

them.

Over the years, Young Spirit grew both in popularity and size. The group collected numerous accolades within Indigenous communities, including a prize at the Indigenous Music Awards last year.

But recognition from the Grammy organizers is something entirely new. ``The big difference... is to get recognition on a world stage,'' Faithful says.

Being nominated alongside ``performers from Hawaii or other parts of the world, it's a great feeling for our First Nations people to be recognized.''

Faithful says regardless of whether Young Spirit wins, he's confident the group will reap many other rewards from the experience. They've rented a large house a couple blocks from the Grammy venues with a pool and enough room for all the members. ``It'll be a cool little vacation,'' he says. ``We're making memories. Sometimes people only get nominated once in their lifetime, so this may be our one time.''

Faithful says he's hopeful for the future of Indigenous music too, both inside the traditional communities and with new listeners from around the world. He says recent political shifts in Canada have created more awareness for various issues, whether it's the impact of residential schools or missing and murdered Indigenous women. ``I don't think people are taking a blind eye to everything now - there's an awareness out there,'' he says. ``It's not something great and monumental right now, but for generations to come, decades upon decades after us, you're going to see a little bit more of understanding... There's a lot of beauty, a lot of love, and we're having more of an openness to see it now. More importantly to hear it.''

Indigenous astronaut shares space with students at CMHR WINNIPEG — Last Thursday, 150 Grade 8 to 10 students from Winnipeg and the Wuskwi Sipihk First Nation, travelling from their community near Swan River, Manitoba and more, were given the opportunity to learn from and listen to the world’s first indigenous NASA astronaut at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR).

During his trip to space as the first and currently the only indigenous astronaut, John Herrington, now 60, of the Chickasaw Nation took along a handmade Indigenous flute, an eagle feather and other treasured items significant to his heritage into space in 2002.

As a mission specialist with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, he spent 13 days, 18 hours, 47 minutes on the International Space Station during his assignment and

Astronaut John Herrington is of the Chickasaw Nation. FILE PHOTO

the items he took with him during his trip out of Earth’s orbit now reside at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C..

He connected via twoway video technology with young people in 15 remote and northern communities across Canada from Nunavut to the Yukon, the largest virtual session ever held

by Connected North which is an initiative designed to

foster student engagement and enhanced education outcomes in remote Indigenous communities.

Connected North itself, is a leading-edge program managed by TakingITGlobal that delivers immersive and interactive education services through Cisco's high-definition, two-way TelePresence video technology.

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Oshawa pulls away from tie to steel the win from Six Nations Snipers CHEZNEY MARTIN

Longboat to hustle and bury twice.

This made for a reoccurring tie that the Outlaws were eager to avoid again as they put away 5 goals within minutes of each other to end the period 5-10.

After half-time, the third

period seemed promising for the Snipers as they kept Outlaw scoring at bay until Ian Martin earned his first with a break out pass from tender Jake Lazore. While 20 seconds later, Tyler Brown went for his second from Martin and Miller.

Without skipping a beat after the Outlaws returned one, Vernon Hill buried from Miller, and Martin came in with a hat tick goal from Bomberry and Miller.

But the Outlaws were fast on their feet with three returns, and Chadwick went

for his second from Gavin Skye to make the game 1013 for the Outlaws.

The fourth period opened with a lot of work from the Snipers, who were trying to close and maintain the gap. Vernon Hill went for his second

from Pierce Abrams, while Brent Longboat went for his second from Miller and Chayton King. This set up a lull for scoring for about five minute as both teams rallied defensive support, as the Outlaws were pushing to keep ahead.

After rounds of offence-defence, Skye Sunday buried from Daris Anderson and Steve Wizniuk and Richard Imus scored from Vernon Hill within seconds of each other. This brought the Snipers to the lead, 1514. However, the Outlaws put in the work and broke the tie and then some within the last five minutes. This finalized the game 17-15.

Although the Snipers have moved down in their overall ranking, Ian Martin has taken his level of play to the leader board. Martin holds 11 goals and 18 assists, giving him 29 points overall with a four point per game average. Goaltender Jake Lazore also sits at the fifth spot for his tending in the league.

Their next home game is set for Sunday, February 10 at 4 p.m..

players shined while the game wasn’t decided until the final second.

The Seals budding star, Austin Staats, gave his lowest point total in a game since his NLL debut, but earned four goals and two assists in their previous game versus the Saskatchewan Rush. In the end and to the disappointment of their home fans, the Seals stole the win from the Warriors 11-10, making the Warriors continue their home losing streak.

However, in the Eastern Division, the Georgia

Swarm have also climbed.

They find themselves in the second spot behind the Toronto Rock who may slip out of first in their coming games as the Swarm boasts momentum. Swarm rattled off five-straight goals and ended the first quarter 6-1 versus the Saskatchewan Rush on Sunday, January 27, to later finalize their face off 13-10.

While they did not dominate the game, the Swarm did use strong performances from Randy Staats and Lyle Thompson to their advantage in bringing a

victory. Thompson himself hit a career goal with his 300th career point.

Thompson racked up seven points (2G, 5A) in the game to hit 138 goals and 162 assists overall.

For week eight, Staats of the Swarm has taken a top performer spot as he buried three goals and added eight assists for a huge 11-point evening against the Knighthawks, with the game ending 16-12 for the Swarm last Saturday. They also took a victory over the Black Wolves, 10-8, after losing their previous match

on January 19.

Outside of the top, the past 4 weeks were not good to the Rochester Knighthawks. Since their season opening win against the Philadelphia Wings the Knighthawks have lost 3 straight games to Buffalo, Saskatchewan and San Diego. In that span the Knighthawks were outscored 37-21, but looked to this weekend against the Buffalo Bandits to see if they could spark the offence with the likes of Cody Jamieson.

The last time the

Knighthawks matched up with the Bandits, they had trouble with their former goalie Matt Vinc, who stopped 55 shots out of 59, resulting in the 13-4 Bandits win. But, on Saturday, Buffalo could not keep up with the Knighthawks offence as they earned a lead and kept it, finalizing the match 13-18 on January 26. This broke their three game losing streak for a moment, but still sits them at fifth in the Eastern Division as the Swarm was quick to take victory last Saturday.

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OSHAWA — After beating down the Whitby Steelhawks the week before, the Six Nations Snipers met up with the Paris RiverWolves on Sunday, January 27 for a game that almost ended in victory.

But this past weekend the Snipers held another close game on Saturday, February 2, while being hosted by the Oshawa Outlaws at the Children’s Arena.

In the first few minutes, Danton Miller broke the scoring from Josh Miller and Jake Bomberry while Jake Chadwick buried his first a mere 30 seconds later from Lyle Hill. However, the Outlaws were quick to return three consecutive goals which brought them to a point lead.

The second period opened with a tie, as Tyler Brown scored from Ian Martin and Ashton Jacobs.

But the Outlaws returned twice, which prompted Jake Bomberry and Brent

As pictured above, the last home game the Snipers hosted with the Paris RiverWolves brought out a close game, but no dice for league standings. The Snipers lost another close game on Saturday, February 2, while being hosted by the Oshawa Outlaws at the Children’s Arena.

PHOTO BY CHEZNEY MARTIN

League climbing in the National Lacrosse League

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The game between the Paris Wolfpack and the Simcoe Warriors, which finalized 3-4 for the Mechanics, ended with a large “brawl” amongst parents last Sunday evening.

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Keeping a level head during a peewee hockey game last weekend was out of the question for

Norfolk County OPP were called to reports of the large fight at the Talbot Gardens Arena just before 5 p.m., after the young athletes gave their best on the ice.

The fight had broken up by the time officers

arrived but police say that several parents were involved in a verbal altercation that turned physical. They were told that as many as 30 adults were involved.

“Our kids are looking up to us, and we need

to make sure that we set that example for our young kids,” said Norfolk OPP Cst. Ed Sanchuk to Global News. “Parents need to use some common sense. We don’t always need to agree with each other, but we should

show our kids even when we do have disagreements, that we show each other respect.”

There were no reports of injuries or complaints and police say there were no arrests.

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VIRGO – Aug 24/Sept 22 It can be challenging to wrap your head around certain goals, Virgo. However, you will manage to pick and choose those tasks that are most important and get things done.

LIBRA – Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, you may be compelled to be introspective this week. Use this time to reflect and explore all the reasons why you typically enjoy being an extrovert.

SCORPIO – Oct 24/Nov 22 If there is something on your mind, Scorpio, now is not the time to share it with everyone.

Let this settle for a bit, then choose the right time to share your discovery.

SAGITTARIUS – Nov 23/Dec 21 People around you who are irritable might try to pull you into their situations, Sagittarius.

Resist the urge to become influenced by their bad moods and perceptions.

CAPRICORN – Dec 22/Jan 20 Capricorn, a little extra concentration will have you flying through your to-do list in no time.

Devote the time now and enjoy the reward and time off later.

AQUARIUS – Jan 21/Feb 18 Aquarius, it is never too late to get some exercise, even if you think that a dedicated workout regimen can’t fit in your schedule. Try socializing while working out.

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