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Vandal damages memorial to unmarked student graves at Mohawk Institute STAFF REPORT

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SIX NATIONS — The makeshift memorial on the steps of the former Mohawk Institute Indian Residential School on Six Nations territory was destroyed by a vandal Friday night.

WCC Director Janice Monture says the person was caught on security camera and arrived at the WCC at 10:30 p.m. Friday evening and stayed until 1:00 a.m..

The individual removed items from the memorial, built a fire and burned some of the items and constructed a circle out of some of the other items in what was reported by some as appearing to have been some kind of suspected ritual or cere-

An unidentified person wreaked havoc on a memorial set up to honor the discovery of previously undiscovered student burials across Canada at former Indian Residential Schools that was set up outside the former Mohawk Institute on Six Nations Territory -- burning BPS items, destroying the memorial and setting up Virgin Mary and crucifixes inside a strange circle on the property.

monial event — where the vandal utilized a Virgin Mary, crucifix and yellow candles.

Police were on scene Saturday afternoon investigating.

Monture said the staff

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Staff at the Woodland Cultural Centre alerted police to the vandalism Saturday morning and have TIM REYNOLDS placed the desecrated items back in their rightful place.

at WCC replaced the items, which the vandal had scattered and thrown across the front entryway and signage to the site.

The Brantford Police Service are working alongside the Six Nations Police Service to investigate. In a statment, BPS says, “Both agencies condemn the criminal acts of the suspect, who is believed to have acted alone, and remain committed to holding them accountable for their actions.”

Police released a surveillance photo of the suspect with the hope that

someone is able to identify the individual.

Anyone who may have information is asked to contact Det. Justin Torek of the Brantford Police Service at 519-756-0113 ext. 2812 or Acting Det. Sgt. Justin Isaacs of the Six Nations Police Service at 519-445-2811.

Anonymous information can be provided to Brantford Crime Stoppers by calling 519-750-8477 or 1-800-222-8477 or by submitting a web tip online at: https://www. crimestoppersbb.com/ submit-a-tip/

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Hamilton votes against removing Sir John A. MacDonald statue DONNA DURIC

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Hamilton City Council has voted overwhelmingly against removing a statue of Sir John A. MacDonald, often cited as the father of genocide by Indigenous people in Canada.

City Councillors struck down a motion last Thursday that sought to remove the statue in a ceremonial way, with some delegates at the meeting calling the desire to remove the statue “ignorant” while others heaped glowing praise on

MacDonald as Canada’s first prime minister.

Kawaowene (John Garlow), a Cayuga man living in Hamilton, called the decision to keep the statue up one of racism and prejudice.

“They know that MacDonald committed genocide,” said Garlow, who was a delegate at the emergency services committee meeting that pondered the removal of the statue. “He actually made it more possible to steal children, openly and without recourse.”

He said the decision, “tells you right there to be proud of that without any

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attempt to change is saying that they really still hate natives, even though they live on unceded Haudenosaunee lands.”

A few non-native delegates argued in favour of removing the statue, including Miriam Sager, a crisis support worker for the Sexual Assault Centre of Hamilton and Area (SACHA).

The removal, she said, “will help Hamiltonians come to terms with the tragic fact that our country…was founded on genocide. The first prime minister of Canada symbolizes that.”

Coun. Narinder Nann introduced the motion to remove the statue. She said she has received racist and threatening messages since calling on her colleagues to support the removal of the statue.

“We have a duty and an obligation to create an environment that is safe, that promotes well-being,” said Nann. “By not removing the statue, unfortunately what we will be doing is saying to Indigenous people [is that this city council] expects you to continue to endure pain and trauma and harm.”

Indigenous people in Hamilton have been calling for the removal of the statue for some time. A group of Indigenous people and allies even held a rally around the statue in 2015, denouncing MacDonald as the “father of genocide.”

There have been renewed calls to remove MacDonald’s likeness from the

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city’s downtown core since the bodies of over 1,300 children have been found in undocumented graves at residential schools across the country since late May. MacDonald is often cited as being one of the architects of the residential school system which sought to assimilate Indigenous people into Canada’s burgeoning colonial fabric through the forced removal of children from their home communities. There is documented evidence of widespread abuse at residential schools.

The last residential school closed down in Saskatchewan in 1996.

“It would behoove us all to have it done in a dignified, ceremonial way under the guidance (of Indigenous groups in Hamilton),” said Sager. “We cannot change the past but you are in a position to lead us in shaping the future of genuine reconciliation.”

Settler Canadian delegate Ken Jones, one of several who were on the city council meeting agenda to argue for keeping the statue up, expressed reverence for Canada’s first prime minister, calling him “our beloved Canadian forefather.”

“The grounds to remove his likeness are not only ignorant, such an act is truly is unacceptable for any self-respecting nation to undertake,” said Jones.

He said MacDonald was a friend to people of colour who advocated for black people, among others, and Jones praised him for “allowing” Chinese immi-

grants into Canada during his reign. MacDonald has been quoted in the House of Commons as saying that Chinese “eccentricities” and “immorality” were “abhorrent to the Aryan race and Aryan principles,” as well as being on record saying that Chinese people and European people are of “separate species.”

Jones, during his five-minute introduction at the meeting last Thursday, said that British Loyalists helped Indigenous people “survive” contact with Europeans, preventing their genocide.

“We have a much richer heritage than recent headlines have led on,” he said.

Jones continued to try to speak during the online meeting despite being told numerous times his five-minute introduction period was over.

The Canadian Anti-Hate Network identified Jones as a “white nationalist” in a tweet after his comments at last week’s meeting. Another series of tweets says no person named Ken Jones exists, but is listed under last week’s agenda as a delegate during his time slot as “Earle Jomes.” During the meeting, he claimed to be speaking on behalf of “The Forefathers Society” but no such society exists in Hamilton or Canada.

MacDonald’s history as Canada’s first prime minister include being instrumental to the creation of the British North America Act and, in 1858, as Attorney General, the introduc-

tion the Gradual Civilization of Indians Act. MacDonald is also known for starvation policies on Plains nations in the prairies, declaring Indigenous nations as “insurrectionists” if they fought back against the colonial government, imposing surveillance and control over Treaty nations through the Indian Act, and, as Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, developing the residential school system.

Coun. Brad Clark supported the motion to remove the statue as an act of “good faith.” Coun. Maureen Wilson also supported Nann’s motion. The remaining council members voted against removing the statue.

Robin McKee, an amateur Hamilton historian, was another delegate arguing in favour of keeping the statue up. He denied that any child was ever murdered at a residential school and said the schools taught Indigenous children how to read, write and sew.

Christine Joseph-Davies, a Tuscarora woman who lives in Hamilton, is the daughter of a residential school survivor. She told city council that the statue represents racist and colonial ideologies and should not be celebrated.

“It is clear that Hamilton is not ready to stand up to racism,” she said. “How many people have to stand up before Hamilton City Council listens? It’s a stab in the heart and twist of the knife every time I walk by.”

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Former Shingwauk Residential School declared National Historic Site STAFF REPORT

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OTTAWA — Minister of Environment and Climate Change and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, Jonathan Wilkinson, announced the designation of the Former Shingwauk (Pronounced: Zhing-waak) Indian Residential School in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, as a national historic site under the National Program of Historical Commemoration.

"As we move forward in this important time, with this important story, the story of so many survivors and intergenerational survivors, and sadly, those who never made it home, we believe the national recognition of the Shingwauk site will help preserve that story, so it is never lost. With the news of the Kamloops and Cowessess children revealing themselves to us, it is a reminder of the important work that we must do here on the Shingwauk site with our survivors and our site partners, so that this does

The former Shingwauk Indian Residential School has been named a National Historic Site.

not happen to another child again. Chi miigwetch/ thank you for distinguishing such an important place for the Indigenous people of this land,” said Jay Jones, President of the Children of Shingwauk Alumni Association.

The Former Shingwauk Indian Residential School is located on Robinson-Huron Treaty Territory within the traditional homelands of Anishinaabe and Métis peoples, in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. During its operation from 1875 to 1970, more than a thousand Indigenous children from Ontario, Quebec, the Prairies, and the Northwest

Territories attended Shingwauk Indian Residential School.

It is one of the few surviving residential school sites where a number of preserved built and landscape elements continue to testify to the long history of the residential school system in Canada. Among these, the Shingwauk Cemetery contains 109 known burials, including 72 students who died between 1875 and 1956.

"We have had a painful reminder recently, with the location of unmarked graves at the former Kamloops, Marieval, and other residential schools, that the

Residential School System is a tragic and shameful period in Canada's history that continues to have profound impacts to this day.

One of the few remaining residential school buildings in Canada, the former Shingwauk residential school stands as a testament to its impact on Survivors, their families and the community. The Government of Canada is acknowledging the past and, in collaboration with Indigenous peoples and communities, is committed to sharing the experiences of Indigenous children in these schools to ensure that this history is remembered and these

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stories are told. In doing so, we hope to foster better understanding of our shared history as we walk the path of reconciliation together,” said Wilkinson.

Since the institution's closure, its site and main building (Shingwauk Hall) have been used for cultural reclamation, cross-cultural education and learning, and reinterpreted as a place for healing and reconciliation. The former residential school property encompasses the present campus of Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig and Algoma University. The Shingwauk Education Trust, Anglican Church and

the Algoma District School Board also have a shared responsibility for areas of the site. Parks Canada worked in collaboration with the Children of Shingwauk Alumni Association and the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre to tell the stories of Survivors and determine the historic values of the site.

The experiences of former students and Survivors of the Shingwauk residential school and other residential schools across Canada continue to affect generations of First Nations, Inuit and Métis families and communities.

"Survivors and descendants of the survivors of the Shingwauk Indian Residential School are still experiencing the pain and consequences of attending the school. With the Shingwauk Indian Residential School being designated a national historic site, we are acting upon the TRC Call to Action 79 and continuing to work with Indigenous peoples to progress reconciliation in a meaningful way,” said Sault Ste. Marie MP Terry Sheehan.

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Walleye or Pickerel, the great debate Ontarians, Americans and other Canadians all have a different name for this freshwater fish—who’s right?

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National Go Fishing Day was June 18, a great day to find a stream, a lake or pond, bait your hook, cast your line and catch a fish or two (or 10). The day brings up a debate that’s been going on for nearly 50 years—is the delicious spiky freshwater fish native to most of Canada and the northern United States a pickerel, or a walleye? It depends on who you ask.

“I call it walleye because it’s the proper name for the fish and there is also a different species of fish called pickerel,” said Jeremy Bochenek, an avid fisherman in southern Ontario. “I think people get it wrong due to a combination of upbringing, ignorance and stubbornness.”

The walleye is a freshwater fish in the perch family that is a popular and commonly-stocked

A comparison chart showing the differences between walleye and IMAGE FROM ASKANYDIFFERENCE.COM pickerel.

game fish, according to the National Wildlife Federation. Walleye are long and thin, primarily gold and olive in colour, with a white belly. The back is crossed with five or more black bands. They have two dorsal fins—one spiny and one soft-rayed.

The walleye’s mouth is large with sharp teeth and is named for its opaque, cloudy-looking eye, which is caused by a reflective layer of pigment called

the tapetum lucidum. This layer helps it (and other nocturnal animals) see in low light.

The fish in question is often called a pickerel, particularly in other provinces like Manitoba, but in fact, the walleye and the pickerel are not at all related.

Now, let’s talk actual pickerels, or chain pickerels to be exact. Often called jackfish. Although the common name pick-

erel is loosely given to walleyes, the true pickerel, upbringing and nostalgia aside, is the chain pickerel.

“Chain pickerels are rather greenish, particularly the colour of their sides. They are about 30 inches in length, but sometimes may reach over 40 inches, and they can weigh up to 10 pounds.

On average, their size is about 24 inches and three; however, pickerels of one to two pounds are most commonly caught,” states difference between.net.

The main reason why this fish is so easily confused with the pickerel is not because of its looks, but it may just come down to preference.

“It’s just what they’re called,” said most of the fishermen asked outside of Ontario, not too concerned with proper taxonomy of the fish. And when it comes down to it, it doesn’t matter what you call it—the real argument that can split up a family is whether you fry it in Shake n’ Bake or something homemade.

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Decolonizing one word at a time, CBC’s new Indigenous podcast JACE KOBLUN

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CBC launched “Telling Our Twisted Histories” in May. An 11-episode podcast series that reclaims Indigenous history by exploring 11 words whose meanings have been twisted by centuries of colonization.

Host Kaniehti:io “Tiio” Horn guides listeners through conversations with more than 70 people from 15 Indigenous communities whose lands now make up Quebec, New Brunswick and Labrador.

Two Row Times caught up with podcast director, Ossie Michelin.

“Savage. Reserve. Indian Time. Words connect us, but also have the power to wound, erase and replace us,” says Horn. ”As Indigenous people, we are used to our stories getting a little twisted. This podcast is all about exploring some of these words, with humour and truth, so that we all better understand how they impact us to this day.”

The first two episodes “Discovery” and “Reserve” are available now on CBC Listen and everywhere else podcasts are available for free. New episodes will be released weekly on Mondays until August 2.

Horn is a Canadian actor from Kahnawake, the

Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) reserve outside of Montreal. She stars as Mari in the National Geographic series Barkskins, based on the 2016 novel by Annie Proulx, and currently appears in the critically acclaimed comedy series, Letterkenny.

Michelin is an Inuk from North West River, Labrador where he grew up in a large family of storytellers. He specializes in print and online reporting, photography, and video and audio storytelling.

TRT: What was your role as director?

Michelin: I listened to the 20 plus hours of English interviews plus I did a few more interviews myself with some Inuit participants. I listened to them and we all worked together to choose which exact clips we were going to use. I selected all the clips and I wrote all the dialogue for the host.

TRT: How would you describe the host’s style?

Michelin: I was so excited to have Tiio on as a host. She was my number one pick to be the host for this. She brings a lot of her humour, warmth, and personality to the role. We left room in the script to have her able to bring herself into it as well. She’s really funny and such a natural that she just really helped bring everything to life.

TRT: Describe the tone of the podcast?

Michelin: We talk about a lot of serious stuff but at the same time we try to keep it light and conversational so people can digest it. And also it was really important to us at every step to show that if you’re in a room with Indigenous people you’re going to hear laughter. We wanted to make sure that our humour and a bit of teasing was in there too. If you’re around Indigenous people and they’re teasing you, you know they like you.

TRT: What do you hope

to accomplish with the podcast?

Michelin: Two things.

The first is I want Indigenous people to hear this, and say ‘Yeah! I connect with this. I see myself reflected back in this.” Also at the same time, there are so many different Indigenous groups out there, it’s a good chance for everyone to learn about their neighbours. To hear what other people do similarly or differently, or say, ‘Oh man, I can’t believe other people do things that way.’

So, in part, it’s for Indigenous people to see them-

selves reflected and learn about our other Indigenous groups that are out there. Then for settlers, I think that the podcast is also really important because of a few things; chances to hear directly from Indigenous people, one of the things I love about this is that there are no experts telling you what you should think or how you should feel. It’s all just Indigenous folks saying, ’When I hear this word, this is how I feel and this is how it affects me, this is how I see it affecting my community,

and this is how I want the word to change.’

TRT: Who is the target audience of the podcast?

Michelin: It’s for anyone that wants to learn more and decolonize their vocabulary and do better.

TRT: What are some emotions you hope listeners will feel while listening to the podcast?

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Reconciliation and Residential Schools: Canadians need new stories to face a future better than what they inherited

By Kent den Heyer, Professor of Secondary Education, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta

Indigenous leaders have advised Canadians to brace themselves for findings of more unmarked graves of children on the sites of former Indian Residential Schools.

Speaking of the residential school legacies, Murray Sinclair, chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, has said: ``Education got us into this mess and education will get us out.''

To move forward in a positive way requires Canadians to acknowledge how schooling Indigenous people and settlers has advanced colonization.

The problem is, too often, a refusal to know.

Any honest historical examination of contemporary relations will challenge many Canadians' cherished myths about our country, including the belief that Canada is a meritocracy with improving Indigenous-settler and race relations.

It also challenges the idea that all or most of those representing Canadians in government have the desire, power and commitment to solve inequities.

As a scholar concerned with how teachers' own education shapes what happens in classrooms and how curriculum in Alberta schools can help students to be ethically

engaged treaty partners, there are two concepts that may be helpful: considering learning in schools as a process of encounter and thinking about people's relationships to stories about the past.

Learning is an encounter The possibilities of what students learn at school are shaped by how teachers understand what they are doing.

Whether teachers learn to deliver curriculum as just a body of facts, attitudes and skills or whether they see themselves providing students opportunities to encounter new possibilities matters enormously.

For teachers, approaching curriculum as an encounter means looking at the ways in which students at any age have already learned much about making sense of life, their country and themselves in relation to others. What they take for granted as common sense is itself a historical legacy that requires explicit study.

To recognize is to ``re-cognize'': to bring into consciousness so as to know again.

Understanding teaching an encounter asks edu-

cators to not only engage their students to ``re-cognize'' what they have been formally taught _ but also what they have informally learned.

For example, students have been subject to imagined but powerful social ideas related to ideal or acceptable forms of sexuality, gender and racialization. We need look no further than examples of hateful slurs

perspectives in Alberta's (then new) current program of social studies. One finding from that study was the need to get better at equipping teachers and students to navigate discomfort and apprehension.

In teacher education, classrooms and beyond, what is needed is a cultural shift to valuing being ``unsettled'' by the unpleasant facts both of

ability to perceive moral obligations in the present is related to how we position ourselves in relationship to inherited stories from or about the past.

He says our capacities to change our current moral course of action hinges on this and he speaks of ``narrative competence.''

I take this to mean the extent to which a person can learn useful lessons from a variety of stories about the past to think creatively about present and possible futures.

But the big stories about ``our'' origins as members of nation-states _ what the theorist Jean-Francois Lyotard called ``grand narratives'' _ work against narrative competence.

These grand narratives are easily digestible stories around which an imaginary ``we'' can unite through the exclusion of others ``not us.''

Two problems grand narratives present is that they oversimplify the complexity of the past and present, and contribute to narrow national identifications about who has and has not contributed to the building of the country.

As a powerful cultural story template and meme, Canada's grand narratives

Any honest historical examination of contemporary relations will challenge many Canadians' cherished myths about our country, including the belief that Canada is a meritocracy with improving Indigenous-settler and race relations.

on bathroom stall walls or uttered in schoolyards to know that these powerful and dehumanizing ideas persist and require explicit attention.

Tensions with preparing teachers I conducted a study with five university social studies teacher instructors about how to prepare new teachers to engage the inclusion of Indigenous and francophone

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our historical and on-going relationships.

Educational institutions need to find ways to support students in understanding how we might forge our personal and collective identities ethically, responsive to all those with whom we are in treaty relations.

Easily digestable stories The German scholar Jorn Rusen argues that the

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get retold in textbooks, heritage minutes and movies with an occasional addition of women, Indigenous and racialized people, immigrants or workers being added for flavour.

The power of stories to shape us Researchers concerned with how people are understanding the call to truth, justice and reconciliation and what blocks it talk about ``story-ing'' _ the process through which people understand their lives through the stories they are told and tell. It is my hope that non-Indigenous scholars continue to learn from Indigenous scholars and story tellers like Thomas King and Lee Maracle amongst many others in our local communities.

Canadians now need to acknowledge the power of stories to shape how people relate to each other, our non-human relatives, to the past, the nation and the world. And we need to ask whether we have the right stories to thrive well together in the face of present and future collective challenges.

The histories we tell each other must start with questions about justice and who we wish to collectively become. We need education that engages with our stereotypes and educated apprehensions so as to ``re-story'' a future better than that we have inherited.

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Honour those found at residential schools by respecting the human rights of First Nations children today

By Anne Levesque, Assistant professor, Faculty of Law, L'Universite d'Ottawa/ University of Ottawa

The discovery of more than 1,000 Indigenous children's bodies in unmarked graves at the site of former Indian Residential Schools has shocked Canada's national conscience. And the tragic news has left many asking what can be done to honour the memories of the children.

When widespread human rights abuses occur — like those experienced by Indigenous children in the Indian Residential School system — states must at a minimum guarantee they will not happen again.

In this regard, the decisions of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal relating to a complaint lodged by the Assembly of First Nations and the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society provide a roadmap for Canada to put an end to the ongoing cycle of discrimination that continues to harm First Nations children today.

Canadians who wish to pay tribute to the children who died at Indian Residential Schools should demand the government stop fighting First Nations children in court and fully comply with the huan rights tribunal decisions

aimed at not repeating the harms of the past.

How ongoing litigation against First Nations children relates to those recently found Despite its obligation to ensure non-recurrence of human rights violations, Canada's pattern of inequitably funding services to First Nations children continues today.

In 2016, the human rights tribunal found that Canada was racially discriminating against 165,000 First Nations children by providing them with inequitable services.

Failing to act on this decision, 19 other non-compliance orders by the tribunal and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action pertaining to child welfare services, Canada's discriminatory conduct towards First Nations children is ongoing.

Meanwhile, the government of Canada's discrimination incentivizes the removal of First Nations children from their families, homes and communities rather than providing support for preventive, early intervention and minimally intrusive measures.

There are more Indigenous children in state care today than there were at any time during the residential school era. According to Marie Wilson, one

of the three TRC commissioners, the harms experienced by children today when removed from their families, homes and communities are comparable to the experiences of those who attended residential schools.

Canada's discrimination against First Nations children continues to have fatal consequences.

In 2017, Wapekeka First Nation wrote to Health Canada seeking funds to provide mental health services when it learned about a suicide pact amongst children in the community.

Health Canada ignored the request saying that it ``came at an awkward time in the funding cycle.''

That year, three 12-yearold girls from the community died by suicide. And according to the family physician for Wapekeka First Nation, these deaths could have been prevented had the girls received the mental health services they needed.

Since issuing its 2016 decision, the human rights tribunal has closely monitored Canada's response to the various findings of discrimination against against First Nations children.

When Canada has shown itself to be either unable or unwilling to comply with the orders, the tribunal issued non-compliance or-

ders that detail the precise measures the government must take to reduce the harmful impacts of discrimination against First Nations children and their families.

Canada has contested most of these orders before the tribunal and is now seeking to quash two of them before the Federal Court of Canada.

The federal government has spent millions of taxpayer dollars fighting First Nations children, some of whom are the children and grandchildren of residential school survivors.

Why is it important for Canada to compensate?

One of the decisions Canada is currently challenging before the Federal Court requires Canada to compensate some of the First Nations children and their parents who were harmed

by Canada’s discrimination — including those who were unnecessarily removed from their families and homes. The compensation order is one of the most important of the 20 decisions the human rights tribunal has issued during this lengthy litigation. Why? Though the tribunal properly noted no amount of money can ever recover what the victims have lost, the compensation aims to symbolically acknowledge

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the infringement of dignity that has occurred as a result. This is also an essential first step to restoring trust in the federal government _ a vital element to reconciliation.

A report by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-reocurrence, emphasized that compensating victims of human rights violations helps perpetrators understand what they did was wrong. It also encourages Canada to cease its discriminatory behaviour.

The litigation process revealed that Canada knew that it was under funding services for First Nations children and was aware of its harmful impacts. Despite this, it intentionally chose to continue its behaviour because it considered ceasing to do so was too expensive.

And even after Canada was found to be in breach of the Canadian Human Rights Act, internal documents reveal that it deliberately chose to disregard the human rights tribunal's legally binding orders because the cost of complying would have ``far reaching resource implications.''

Simply put, Canada thinks respecting the human rights of First Nations children is not worth the

Regarding the Father’s Day Golf Event 2021 On Friday, June 25, 38 golfers participated in 1st Annual Father’s Day Golf tournament at Monthill Golf & Country Club. They Are Coming Home, Carmen Thomas and Ganohkwasra Family Assault Support Services Men’s Program managed to put this event together in 4 weeks raising a total of $3,600 to go towards Men’s Program activities. Ganohkwasra staff stated funds will be used to further support men on their healing journey (special guest/speaker, training, workshops etc).

Organizers of the event wanted to see fathers come out with their children to play and enjoy a round of golf while supporting men’s wellness program. Based on player’s feedback we may look at coordinating a

Family Golf Scramble event sometime during Community Awareness Week, says Thomas.

We would like to thank all our financial supporters of the event including:

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As well, we’d like to thank Ganohkwasra staff and the following volunteers: Lana Bomberry, Lisa Green, Kevin Sandy & Karen Bomberry who all helped make the day a smooth transition.

Once again Nya:węh / Nia:wen / Nya:węnha for all your support as we begin planning for Father’s Day Golf Classic in 2022!

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What can be done today to honour the memories of those who died?

The survivors of IRS shared their stories to the TRC in hopes that their children and grandchildren would not experience the harms they did.

Canadians who wish to stand in solidarity with Indigenous communities that are mourning the loss of their children must demand the government not repeat the mistakes of the past.

This starts with urging the federal government to fully comply with all of the legally binding orders of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal and demand the government stop fighting First Nations children in court.

If you are an Indian Residential School survivor, or have been affected by the residential school system and need help, you can contact the 24-hour Indian Residential Schools Crisis Line: 1-866-925-4419 Anne Levesque is one of the lawyers representing the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society on a pro bono basis in its litigation against the Government of Canada regarding its ongoing discrimination against 165,000 First Nations children and their families.

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OTTAWA — RoseAnne Archibald of the Taykwa Tagamou Nation in Ontario has become the first woman to serve as national chief of the Assembly of First Nations. ``The AFN has made her-story today,'' she said Thursday, using a play on words to outline the historic win. ``Today is a victory, and you can tell all the women in your life that the glass ceiling has been broken. And I thank all of the women who touched that ceiling before me and made it crack. You are an inspiration to me.''

Archibald secured victory after her rival, Reginald Bellerose, who has been serving as Chief of Muskowekwan First Nation in Saskatchewan for the last 17 years, conceded.

The election had stretched to a second day and went to a fifth round of voting after neither Archibald nor Bellerose received the necessary 60 per cent of votes to win.

That remained the case when the AFN announced the fifth-ballot results Thursday evening, but Bellerose then withdrew from the race before a sixth round of voting could begin.

In an effort to unify the organization, Archibald made a point in her speech to reach out to the seven candidates who ran against her for the job. The AFN represents 634 First Nations with 900,000 members.

Describing them as akin to ``competitive siblings,'' she called the other candidates brave and applauded them for wanting to serve their communities

and First Nations across the country.

She also thanked all the chiefs who voted in the AFN election, even those who did not vote for her, saying she has learned from their guidance and ideas. ``While there are things and differences that divide us, there is much that we share,'' she said. ``We all want our children to grow up proud and surrounded by love, culture, ceremony and language and safe and vibrant communities. We want a mother earth for them that is not threatened by wildfires and climate change and wildfires and a warming planet. We want to be good ancestors and leave a strong legacy for the seven generations ahead.''

Archibald, who previously served as regional chief for Ontario, has been involved in First Nations politics for 31 years. She was the first woman and youngest chief elected to represent her home nation at 23 and went on to become the first woman and youngest deputy Grand Chief for Nishnawbe-Aski Nation in Ontario.

She campaigned on a platform to build a solid post-pandemic recovery plan for First Nations, to increase the involvement of women, youth and LGBTQ and two-sprit peoples in the AFN's political processes, and to support and co-ordinate community-driven solutions to move First Nations beyond reliance on federal dollars toward economic self-sufficiency.

Archibald has also pledged to work with governments to implement the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's 94 calls to action, with specific goals of creating community-driven solutions

for healing, similar to the former 'Aboriginal Healing Foundation' and to work with nations and survivors to establish memorials to those lost to residential schools. ``With the recent discovery and recovery of our little ones across this country, we are all awake ? and what people need to understand and what people need to come to terms with is how settler Canadians have benefited from these colonial practices and how we, as Indigenous people, have been the target of genocide,'' she said. ``We are going to stare this straight in the face and kick colonial policies to the curb. Change is happening.''

In his concession speech, Bellerose said he felt the tide was against him because the AFN chiefs had decided against two back-to-back leaders from Saskatchewan.

Outgoing national chief Perry Bellegarde is from Little Black Bear First Nation in the southern part of the province.

While he admitted he is disappointed, Bellerose also made a point to say he ran a clean campaign, making veiled references to social media posts and comments by other chiefs that may have suggested otherwise. ``I would encourage the chiefs on a go-forward basis that whatever we're going to do on renewal, whatever we're going to do in restructuring, let's add some stability to the election,'' Bellerose said. ``Let's put some criteria on social media, let's put some criteria on how candidates conduct themselves. That way when people say the AFN chief is irrelevant, no it's not.

It's ethical, it's strong, it's fair.''

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ent peoples they hear from. Or just more about their history. A lot of the words we’re decolonizing and explaining, they’re not accurate, like Europeans didn’t discover here, and we know that, but it’s still getting thrown around.

We want people just to be curious and become critical and think about some of these words that they’ve been taught and really just see how that affects their lives and the lives of people around them.

I hope it sparks a curiosity. And even for Indigenous folks as well, I hope it sparks a curiosity to go out and learn more about other Indigenous people out there. I’m from Labrador and I loved hearing all the Cree perspectives. Because we come from very similar lands and it’s just nice to hear somebody who comes from a place that’s like yours but different. I think anybody would find that fascinating.

The visual was created by Cree graphic artist Sébastien Aubin. The rising raven against the sun symSUBMITTED bolizes power, resilience, transformation and rebirth.

TRT: The tagline on the artwork says: Decolonize, one word at a time. What does that saying mean to you?

Michelin: Each episode we examine words and we ask people ‘how does it make them feel?’ We talk about the history of the word and then we learn about the word. I think the best way to recolonize anything is to start being curious and critical and

you need to think about it in a way that’s honest and really this whole podcast is the practice of doing that.

TRT: How did you select the words being discussed?

Michelin: Eleven words were chosen because there are 11 different Indigenous groups in Quebec. It started off in Quebec. So there are 10 First Nations and then

Six Nations man named candidate for People’s Party of Canada STAFF REPORT

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BRANTFORD — The Brantford-Brant People’s Party of Canada has named a Six Nations man as candidate for the riding in the upcoming election.

Cole Squire was named candidate by PPC officials on June 29 and will represent the party in the upcoming election.

“I am very proud to be acclaimed to represent Maxime Bernier’s People’s Party of Canada in the riding of Brantford-Brant.

Maxime’s voice and message represent the opinions and perspectives of thousands of Canadians across the country who feel like the establishment political parties have ignored them in favor of identity politics, pandering, and globalist ideologies. We will put Canada first and be staunch defenders of our God-given and constitutional rights and freedoms. I am excit-

Six Nations resident Cole Squire has been named the People's Party of Canada candidate for the riding of Brantford-Brant. He FACEBOOK will represent the riding in the next federal election

ed to stand with Maxime Bernier and our growing team of PPC Candidates across the country,” said Squire Paul Maletta, CEO of the PPC Association for Brantford-Brant says, “I am very excited to begin working with Cole Squire as our PPC candidate for Brantford-Brant. Cole Squire is

an authentic Canadian and an excellent representative for the citizens across Brantford-Brant. I am excited to start campaigning immediately, working with Cole Squire to spread our message of individual freedom, fairness, personal responsibility, and respect across Brantford-Brant.”

Inuit in Quebec. That’s how we chose 11. Basically, we picked words that we knew would elicit a reaction from Indigenous people.

TRT: How can podcasts and other advancements in technology help Indigenous people heal or unpack from colonization?

Michelin: It’s on-demand. It’s there when you’re ready for it. If you’re in the right space

to listen to these conversations, you can. When it’s on broadcast [TV] you have to wait for it to come on again or record it, but in a podcast, you can listen to it when it’s accessible for you and when you have the time. And I think that kind of goes with one of the episodes we had on “Indian Time” and just the perceptions of time. You don’t need to worry about being late and missing the beginning of it, you listen to it when you’re ready.

There’s no wrong time to listen.

One more thing — this podcast feels really fresh and new. We’ve been inundated with stereotypes and these weird two-dimensional portrayals of Indigenous people for too long and these have all been done to death.

You can tell Pocahontas in a fresh new way. And I think that because our voices haven’t really been present in this big nation-

al Canadian conversation as much as they should be, that these appear to be new and exciting to anybody who’s not familiar with them.

Also for us as Indigenous people, it’s really exciting to hear these stories and conversations we’ve been having among ourselves forever getting out there and being shared with the country. I think it shows that there is an appetite out there for Indigenous people telling Indigenous stories.

Telling Our Twisted Histories is a CBC co-production in association with Terre Innue, based on an original concept

by Karine Lanoie-Brien and produced by Francine Allaire and Élodie Pollet. An award-winning French-version of this podcast, Laissez-nous raconter : L’histoire crochie, was released by Radio-Canada in June 2020.

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CHEMAINUS, BC —A newsletter circulating online from a First Nation community on Vancouver Island says more than 160 unmarked and undocumented graves have been found at a former residential school site.

The Penelakut Tribe could not be reached for comment, but the newsletter said the graves were found at the former Kuper Island Industrial School site near Chemainus, B.C.

The Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre at the University of British Columbia said records show more than 100 students died at the school between 1890 and 1966.

Two sisters are reported to have drowned in 1959 while trying to escape the school.

The federal government took over the administration of the school in 1969 before closing the institution in 1975.

There has been a series of recent discoveries using ground-penetrating radar of what are believed to be

the remains of hundreds of children in unmarked graves at former residential schools.

Eric Simons, a PhD student in anthropology at the University of British Columbia, has been working with the Penelakut Tribe at the former school site.

He said in an interview Tuesday that researchers have been working off and on at the site since 2014.

The ground-penetrating radar doesn't find actual bodies but grave shafts, as well as changes in the soil, Simons said.

The school was de-

molished in the 1980s and Simons said that has been a challenge for both researchers and the community. ``Where it once stood is the core or centre of the main Penelakut town, so people live around that space,'' Simons said. ``That's part of the emotional and spiritual stress caused by the fact there was knowledge of missing children buried on the landscape but without knowledge, of specifically in many cases where they are.''

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a news con-

ference Tuesday that the findings by the Penelakut Tribe deepen the pain of Indigenous people across the country.

He said the government is committed to telling the truth about what happened at residential schools.

Premier John Horgan said he's worked to reach out to Indigenous groups to get a better understanding of what can be done to help, and the government will make resources available for affected communities. ``It would be, I think, premature for us to do

Ontario Government Notice Invitation to a Community Engagement Webinar about The GTA West Highway and Transit Corridor Environmental Assessment Study THE STUDY The Ontario Ministry of Transportation (MTO) is in Stage 2 of the GTA West Transportation Corridor Route Planning and Environmental Assessment (EA) Study. After confirming the Preferred Route and 2020 Focused Analysis Area on August 7, 2020 (please refer to the enclosed key plan or view mapping at www.gta-west.com), the GTA West Project Team commenced developing the Preferred Route to a preliminary design level of detail.

The GTA West Study is being undertaken as an Individual EA in accordance with the Ontario EA Act and the GTA West Corridor EA Terms of Reference, which was approved by the Ontario Minister of the Environment on March 4, 2008. On May 3, 2021, the Federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change determined that the GTA West Study also warrants designation under the Federal Impact Assessment Act. More information is available on the project website at www.gta-west.com/processandtimeline.

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT WEBINAR To further meet the public’s needs and address community questions, the GTA West Project Team is hosting a Community Engagement Webinar where the public and stakeholders can understand more about the project and have their questions answered. You are invited to attend the Community Engagement Webinar hosted by the GTA West Project Team on July 28, 2021 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. The GTA West Project Team will provide a brief overview of the project followed by a question & answer period. Expert panelists from a variety of disciplines (e.g. noise, air quality, fisheries, archaeology, etc.) will be in attendance to answer your questions. Public and Project Team member health and safety is of utmost importance. Given the current COVID-19 pandemic, this Webinar will be conducted as an online session hosted through the Zoom platform. For the best experience, we encourage you to join the Webinar on Zoom through an electronic device. If you don’t have access to an electronic device, you can listen to the Webinar through your telephone.

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anything other than to await the direction of the communities that are going through not just the grieving of the revelations of these discoveries but generational trauma,'' he said.

The Tk'emlups band in Kamloops, B.C., announced the discovery of potentially 215 unmarked graves at the site of the former residential school in their community in May. The band is expected to release a report of the findings into the discovery on Thursday.

Officers face new review in BMO case

VICTORIA — A retired judge has determined that a further investigation is needed in the case of two Vancouver police officers and their alleged treatment of an Indigenous man.

The Office of the Police Complaints Commissioner had initially ordered an investigation into the officers' conduct involving the detainment of Max Johnson in December 2019, when he attempted to open a bank account for his granddaughter.

Victoria Police Chief Del Manak carried out the initial investigation, determining no disciplinary action was needed.

But the police complaints commissioner concluded there ``was a reasonable basis'' the decision was wrong and appointed a retired judge to independently review the case.

Retired justice Brian Neal says the case will proceed to a disciplinary process, which could lead to a future proceeding where the officers face questioning and witnesses are called.

Marilyn Slett, the elected chief of the Heiltsuk Nation, says in a statement that the band -- of which Johnson is a member -- is pleased with the latest development but wants recognition of the systemic discrimination they say occurred.

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NAN seeks emergency declaration from province over northern Ontario wildfires An organization representing 49 First Nations in northern Ontario is urging the province to declare a state of emergency over wildfires that it says are threatening several remote communities.

The Nishnawbe Aski Nation said the declaration is needed to trigger an immediate response to the situation, including aircraft and watercraft for evacuations. ``This situation is worsening by the hour,'' NAN Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler said in a statement, adding that full-scale evacuations of several communities may be needed if the wildfires grow significantly.

Since the weekend, hundreds of residents of Poplar Hill First Nation and Deer Lake First Nation have been evacuated to Thunder Bay, Ont., and other communities due to the threat posed by two different wildfires.

Thunder Bay is hosting

174 residents from Deer Lake First Nation, who evacuated on Monday, and 357 evacuees from Poplar Hill First Nation who arrived over the weekend, the city's fire chief, Greg Hankkio, said in an interview Tuesday. ``The first steps are just to make them as comfortable as we can,'' Hankkio said, noting that the evacuations went smoothly.

Evacuees will be staying in hotels in the city where they'll be provided food, medical help and other necessary resources, he said. ``It's a stressful, challenging time for the people coming out of their community, so we'll do our best to take care of them,'' he said.

Other residents from those communities are being evacuated to different towns and cities such as Kapuskasing, Cochrane and Cornwall.

The Ontario government said about 65

vulnerable residents of Pikangikum First Nation have also self-evacuated as a precaution.

Fiddler said many more residents of those three communities still need to be evacuated, while the communities of Bearskin Lake, Sachigo Lake and North Spirit Lake are on high alert for potential evacuation. ``This is quickly becoming a NAN-wide emergency and requires an immediate, co-ordinated response,'' said Fiddler.

A spokesman for Solicitor General Sylvia Jones said she has been in contact with Fiddler ``to reiterate our commitment to take all required action to keep all Ontarians safe from these fires.'' ``Our top priority is the health and wellbeing of individuals currently being impacted by wildfires in the northern part of our province,'' said Stephen Warner.

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CSHF will launch two projects focused on Indigenous athletes STAFF REPORT

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Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame officials are continuing their quest to raise awareness and raise the voices of some of its indigenous peoples.

Last year, Calgary-based Hall launched its We Will Do Better project, a digital, storytelling campaign to raise awareness of the role racism played throughout the careers of Indigenous, Black and Asian Hall of Famers.

Hall officials also hosted an indigenous summit last October. The summit virtually included family members of six surviving indigenous inductees as well as eight other indigenous individuals who were included but passed away.

Discussions at the summit enabled Hall officials to develop a 10-year vision for their indigenous sports and reconciliation ventures.

For this, the civil will be issued on August 9. The project, a digital multi-me-

Indigenous Hall of Famer Waneek Horn-Miller.

dia exhibition, is being deliberately released on that day to mark the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples.

The Swadeshi Sports Heroes Education Experience is designed for all students from Kindergarten to Grade 12.A second indigenous-themed project Hall Officials plans to launch this September is the Be-

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The initiative aims to organize virtual learning sessions for school-age children at both the primary and high school levels, including the Swadeshi Hall of Famers. These sessions will be held in Prerak’s hometown and surrounding communities.

During these sessions, the Hall of Famers will

discuss their careers and a variety of topics including goal setting and overcoming adversity.

Wilton Littlechild, who was inducted into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame through the builder category in 2018, will work with Hall officials for the pilot project. His story will be told to students in his home community of Hobe-

ma, Alta. And in nearby places, starting from this September will continue till December.

Littlechild attended residential schools from 1951 to 1964. A standout athlete, he was later a member of the University of Alberta’s men’s hockey and swimming teams. He became Alberta’s first First Nations person to become

the recent discoveries of unmarked graves at native boarding and resident schools,” reds the PLL statement.

“These institutions attempted to systemically dismantle native culture through forced assimilation of native children, with records of over 5,000 Indigenous children found dead under school care.

Though they did not succeed in their ultimate mission, the schools ave had a devastating impact on native communities.

Every Child Matters can serve as a healing journey for native survivors through a commitment by all to recognize these historical injustices and forge a path forward through truth and reconciliation.

Athletes from the PLL will be wearing orange helmet straps for the remainder of the season to spread awareness of the atrocities committed at native boating an residential schools. Additionally, the PLL will be selling orange straps with all

proceeds going to the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition.

This mission of NABS is to lead in the pursuit of understanding and addressing the ongoing trauma created by the U. S. Indian Boarding School Policy.”

The straps in question are available for purchase or view here: https://www.laxstraps. com/shop/native-american-boarding-school-healing-coalition-fundraiser-laxstraps-two-pack.

a lawyer and later served as a Confederate politician for the riding of Waitaskiwyn-Rimbe from 1988 to 1993.

Littlechild was one of the founders of the North American Indigenous Games and was instrumental in bringing the 2017 World Indigenous Games to Alberta.

In addition to Waneek Horn-Miller, Littlechild, Trottier and Firth, other Indigenous Hall of Famers who survive are Alwyn Morris and Colette Bourgonje.

The list of deceased Indigenous Hall of Famers includes Shirley Firth, Tom Longboat, Joe Benjamin Keeper, Gaylord Powless, Ross Powless, Alex DeCoto, Bill Isaacs and Harry Manson.

Video stories from nine athletes, including Waneek Horn-Miller (Mohawk), who co-captained the Canadian women’s water polo team that competed at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, can be viewed here: https://www.sportshall. ca/campaigns/wewilldobetter.html?lang=EN

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In a move prompted by grieving Indigenous communities, the Premiere Lacrosse League has announced that players of the league will be donning orange straps on their helmets to stand in solidarity and raise awareness.

“The PLL stands with Indigenous communities across the continent as they grieve and process

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A look at Tracey Anthony’s work featured in NLL Indigenous Art Series

By TRT Staff with notes from NLL The National Lacrosse League has long been a leader in championing the awareness of Indigenous Peoples and their crucial role in the continued growth and development of their native sport of lacrosse. In that continued spirit and in conjunction with June’s Indigenous History Month in Canada, the league launched a pop art initiative featuring three standout Indigenous artists.

Anthony’s father was Six Nations/Delaware, and his mother is from the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. He resides on Six Nations as the Owner and Sole Proprietor of Vision Artworks. His business produces custom apparel screen printing, vinyl decals, signage, promotional items, graphic design, limited edition prints, and original mixed media artworks.

Anthony described his piece and the messages hidden within it to the NLL, saying the the work is a reflection of older works he created.

“The head and body design in the piece come from other works I completed over the years. I have always been aware of Norval

The incredible artwork of Tracey Anthony will be featured in the T ANTHONY NLL Indigenous Art Series.

Morrisseau, and while at school at the Ontario College of Art and Design I studied up on him further.

The X-Ray technique of the Woodland School Artists has always been of interest and I have tried to take their designs and ideas a bit further and make my own style. When I was commissioned to do the piece for the NLL I decided to use the X-Ray style with the lacrosse designs and

ideas I had in place. I wanted the design to convey the fierceness of the traditional game and show the respect we have for the true intentions of the Creator’s Game … The Medicine Game. The Wampum Men on the top of the design represent the generations that have come before to bring the game forward, to show the respect we have for the older generations that kept the traditions alive.”

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With the goal to become a truck driver, hockey player or artist in his lifetime, Anthony made the decision in high school to pursue art. He was accepted at a half dozen universities and colleges before deciding upon Ontario College of Art & Design University (OCAD). In the end, he said he believes he made the right choice and the experiences at OCAD has helped shape his artwork ever since.

When asked about art and its importance to Indigenous people, Anthony shared that art can be used as a myriad of expressionism.

“Art is important to Indigenous people as it helps to keep traditions alive and strengthen us at a personal and communal level. It is a positive outlet for creativity and character that enriches the lives of those close. It helps showcase the talents that are prevalent in Indigenous peoples and bolsters the sports, music, and other areas of our lives,” he said.

Anthony explained that the significance of lacrosse is intertwined into his piece as a depiction of the good medicine within the sport.

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ONTARIO — Parent, coaches, & team manag-

Indigenous Sport and Wellness Ontario is accepting nominations until August 20.

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following criteria: Must be an Indigenous (First Nation, Metis or Inuit) youth residing in Ontario, must be between the ages of 13-19, must include a short letter of reference from a former/ current coach, teacher, peer, teammate, Elder, Chief or member of Council. Youth can be nominated by a parent, guardian, family member, coach or teacher who is over the age of 18.

Must include a short letter of reference from a former/current coach, teacher, peer, teammate, Elder, Chief or member of Council.

Up to 88 Indigenous youth will be featured on ISWO’s website and social media pages and will receive a FREE Team Ontario prize pack.

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Fishing Derby Fundraiser on the Grand River Dance Classes

Mudcat Milling & Forestry Services is a local forestry company owned and operated in Six Nations. As avid outdoorsmen we are always looking for a way to help preserve our fishing and hunting territory for future generations. We came across this program put on by Kayanase called the Kayanase Youth Connect for Species at Risk.

Kayanase Youth Connect For Species At Risk, is an Aboriginal funded program that works to protect and recover wildlife and other species at risk. Currently, they are working to restore and protect the wildlife and water banks along the Grand River that is of immediate concern. They will be planting and installing live stakes (willow and dogwood shrubs, for example) to help to reduce some of the impacts of flooding, erosion on the shoreline, as well as improving the habitat. Kayanase Youth Connect for Species At Risk, along with Mudcat Milling & Forestry Services, will be hosting a summer-long (catch and release) fishing derby, to bring awareness to this initiative, and bring in any volunteers who are interested in helping to restore our water, enrich the river, increase the health of our fish, and create a stronger access to traditional medicine. This event is not just for our community, but those in our surrounding communities as well.

The Kayanase Youth Connect Fishing Derby begins on Victoria Day week-

end, May22nd at 6:00am, and ends on Labour Day weekend, September 6th at 12:00pm. To Register, please go to Grand Passage Outlet at 1935 Chiefswood Rd, Ohsweken. Cost to enter is $20.00 per person which covers your first fish to be submitted. Any fish entered beyond that will be an additional $10.00 and can be submitted via email. Every fish entered will be 1 ballet towards our GRAND PRIZE! Our grand prize will be a 2-person, full day chartered fishing trip on Lake Erie with Bassmaster Canadian Pro, Joe Ford.

More prizes to be announced on our Facebook Event page “Kayanase Youth Connect- Fishing Derby”. We would like to thank our sponsors, Grand Passage Outlet, Joe Ford Fishing, and the Two Row Times! Without our sponsors, this event would not be possible. If you are interested in becoming a sponsor or volunteer, please email mudcatmilling@gmail.com or visit our Event page on Facebook- “Kayanase Youth Connect- Fishing Derby”. If you are interested in the Kayanase Youth Connect for Species at Risk, please email info@ kayanase.ca All money raised will go towards the Kayanase Youth Connect for Species at Risk. So dust off those rods and bring the kids, registration opens may 15th!

Join our event on Facebook for more information along with the derby rules and regulations.

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National Gallery of Canada offers free admission to Indigenous Peoples CANADIAN PRESS

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OTTAWA — The National Gallery of Canada announced Monday that admission will be free for Indigenous Peoples when it reopens this week for the first time since April.

The gallery reopens Friday with four new exhibitions and installations, including one featuring Rembrandt's ``The Blinding of Samson,'' a large-scale oil on canvas from the St?del Museum in Frankfurt, and another featuring work from Jamaican-Canadian artist

Tau Lewis.

The gallery also announced that admission for a companion of a person with a disability is free. General admission for adults is $20.

The National Gallery of Canada says in a release it is home to ``the largest contemporary Indigenous art collection in the world.'' It also hosts a collection of historical and contemporary Canadian and European art from the 14th to 21st centuries.

But it's not the first to offer free admission to Indigenous Peoples.

Several other large institutions have already established the prac-

tice, including the Royal Ontario Museum and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, and the Royal Alberta Museum in Edmonton.

COVID-19 guidelines remain in place for the National Gallery of Canada, including limiting the number of visitors in the venue at one time.

The gallery was closed three times due to pandemic restrictions: from March 13 to July 17, 2020; Dec. 21, 2020 to Feb. 17, 2021 and again from April 2 to July 15.

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Card of Thanks

Ward Paul LaForme Jr. Miishioobneya (mish-kob-ne-ya) - Red Sunset December 13, 1964 - July 5, 2021

We want to send a heartfelt thank you to each and every person that attended Ken Anderson’s celebration of life. Thank you to everyone that helped with donations of every kind. Without the love and support of family and friends, our sorrow would be much greater. You are truly appreciated.

The Anderson Family

Ward LaForme Jr. was called home by the Creator on July 5th, 2021. Ward has travelled on to be reunited with his father Ward LaForme Sr. and his mother Bessie (Hill) LaForme. He will also be met there by his brother Irvin, sister Virginia and his brother Martin. He will always be loved by his sister Joan, his sister Erma (Brent) and his sister Dale. He will be remembered by his nephews and nieces Tracey, Tammy (Kyle), Mark (Karmen), Shawn (Monika) Amy (Jeff) Jake.

Will always be sadly missed by his great nephews and nieces Andrew (Drew), Tashina, Taylor (Andy), Randi, Jessica (Jacob), Alex (Alley),Theda-Joan, Aurora, Nick Max, Myah, Phoenix and Hawkley (mother Katie).

Great, Great Uncle to Kaiden, Jackson, Gracie, Addy, Devin, Sophia, Hudson, Ellie and Emerson.

Ward was a proud member of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. After Graduating from Hagersville Secondary School Ward continued his educational journey at Carlton University and Humber College in Toronto studying Journalism - Print and Broadcast. Some of his career highlights included: Mediator of First Nations Land Claims, Communications Consultant, Cultural Awareness, Communications and Outreach for MCFN Pillar 5 and the Six Nations Police, as well as the First Nations Chiefs of Police Association, Strategic co-ordinator for the First Nations Programs division of The OPP, Head of Security for Grand River Enterprises and Director of Security for Redican. Ward has been a facilitator at numerous events for the First Nation Communities and Organizations. In his younger years he enjoyed roller skating, hockey, baseball, music, sketching, riding dirt bikes. His recent hobbies include golf, photography, and cycling. He spent many years doing photography for the Six Nations Arrows and Rochester Knighthawks Lacrosse teams. Ward is best described as being kind, humble, a good friend with a great sense of humour and quick wit. The family will receive friends at Hyde & Mott Chapel of R.H.B. Anderson Funeral Homes, 60 Main St. S., Hagersville on Saturday from 2-4 pm. and 6-8 pm. where funeral service will be held at 2pm. on Sunday, July 11, 2021 (by invitation only). Interment at New Credit Cemetery. (Covid restrictions apply - masks required.) www.rhbanderson.com

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ARIES – Mar 21/Apr 20 Aries, an unexpected financial windfall that comes your way this week allows you to make some changes. You may move or upgrade your home or car.

TAURUS – Apr 21/May 21 You are looking trendy and fabulous lately, Taurus. Others are taking notice, including your spouse, significant other or potential mates.

Expect sparks to fly.

GEMINI – May 22/Jun 21 Gemini, you may be introduced to an artistic talent you never knew you had this week. Develop these skills by taking a class or fine-tuning your skills at home.

CANCER – Jun 22/Jul 22 Cancer, a social gathering may put you in touch with many like-minded, friendly people.

Overcome your concerns if you’re on the fence about attending.

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LEO – Jul 23/Aug 23 An opportunity to meet one of your heroes comes your way, Leo. Whether he or she lives up to your expectations remains to be seen. Move forward with an open mind.

VIRGO – Aug 24/Sept 22 Virgo, a romantic partner asks you to attend an event that will not necessarily be your thing.

Despite that, be supportive of this person and his or her interests.

LIBRA – Sept 23/Oct 23 Don’t shy away from the potential for some intense discussion this week, Libra. It could be between you and a significant other and dictate the future of your relationship.

SCORPIO – Oct 24/Nov 22 Scorpio, you’re in the mood for love, so channel your sensuality and plan a one-on-one evening with the person you love. Make it a spectacular date night.

SAGITTARIUS – Nov 23/Dec 21 Someone new on the scene catches your eye, Sagittarius. You’ll like what he or she has to say and this could be a catalyst for the formation of a lasting friendship.

CAPRICORN – Dec 22/Jan 20 Some difficult decisions must be made this week, Capricorn. You may have been avoiding them for some time, but it’s time to approach them headon.

AQUARIUS – Jan 21/Feb 18 You are motivated to be close to your romantic partner this week, Aquarius. Express your love and engage in a gesture that illustrates your feelings.

PISCES – Feb 19/Mar 20 A trip down memory lane makes you wish you could speak to someone who is no longer in your life, Pisces. Try to track this person down.

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