IndigeNews: April 11-16, 2023

A Canadian Indigenous News Update from L’nuey

Kwe’ nitap – Hello friend, the Mi’kmaq word of the week is…

“Nujkima’q”

Meaning: melt; thaw; defrost

In The News

  1. Eastern Passage students unveil Mi’kmaw Moons project – CBC News
  2. Cultural classes aim to make Mi’kmaw language thrive on P.E.I. – CBC News
  3. Mi’kmaw regalia repatriated after more than 100 years in Australia – CBC News
  4. P.E.I.-based Abegweit First Nation signs 5-year fisheries deal with Ottawa – CBC News
  5. First Nations in B.C. get $8.2B from Canada to fix disparities in heath care – APTN News
  6. 3 First Nations sign agreement with Ottawa, Alberta to take over child welfare – CBC News
  7. Moderate livelihood fishery in Abegweit First Nation receives funding, recognition from DFO – SaltWire Network
  8. Trudeau encourages reconciliation efforts but says decision on Orange Shirt Day holiday up to provinces – CBC News
  9. Five First Nations reach historic $800 million, 44,266 hectares settlement with B.C., federal government – Global News
  10. Manitoba government says it doesn’t have consensus to make Orange Shirt Day a statutory holiday in 2023 – CBC News

Politics & Law

  1. Looking at the legal side of class action lawsuits on InFocus – APTN News
  2. Panel to release roadmap for Thunder Bay, Ont., police reform – APTN News
  3. Family of Cindy Gladue says province has ‘misplaced’ her remains – APTN News
  4. Intervenors join Gitxaała in court to argue against B.C. mining law – APTN News
  5. Canada, Yukon fail to consult over proposed mine says Kaska Nation – APTN News
  6. Now What? Next Steps for the Uprooting Doctrine of Discovery – First Peoples Law
  7. Onion Lake Cree Nation suing province over Saskatchewan First Act – National Observer
  8. 15 First Nations Justice Council centres to open throughout British Columbia – CTV News
  9. Premier Scott Moe fights feds over First Nations natural resources comment – Global News
  10. Ex Millbrook First Nation employee faces charges in multimillion-dollar fraud: RCMP – CTV News
  11. First Nations leaders want Quebec to drop plans for Indigenous language law – Montreal Gazette
  12. Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs wants to create First Nations courts to reduce incarceration – CBC News
  13. First Nations police association accuses Ottawa of failing to live up to funding commitment – APTN News
  14. Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug celebrates First Nation-led family law, one of the few in Canada – CBC News
  15. Justice minister says he lacks the power to call an investigation into First Nations woman’s death – Windspeaker
  16. ‘We’re angered’: Indigenous leader displeased with Prime Minister Trudeau’s comments on resource control – CTV News

Business, Finance and Economics

  1. Alberta plugs $10M into sustainable rural, Indigenous tourism – Cochrane Eagle
  2. On the way to Wehwehneh: What it takes to transform downtown Winnipeg’s former Bay – CBC News
  3. Opportunity for First Nations, northern communities to partner on forestry: regional chief – Business in Vancouver
  4. Indigenous Tourism Ontario enters into a Memorandum of Understanding with Camping in Ontario, formalizing a mutual partnership and commitment to the education of land stewardship – NationTalk

Education, Health & Culture

  1. University ethics boards are not ready for Indigenous scholars – nature
  2. Funding for Yukon First Nation School Board more than doubles – CBC News
  3. ‘Defiant Dene:’ Former Northwest Territories premier publishes memoir – APTN News
  4. ‘You feel part of history’: William Prince on making his Grand Ole Opry debut – CBC News
  5. More Yukon children in care being placed with family members, report shows – CBC News
  6. Jackie Vautour’s family home demolished inside Kouchibouguac National Park – CTV News
  7. Missing, murdered Indigenous men and boys need to be part of the discussion – Windspeaker
  8. Trudeau speaks at FNUniv on cost of living, importance of public dialogue – Regina Leader-Post
  9. Jackie Vautour’s family’s belongings boxed up from Kouchibouguac National Park – Global News
  10. COVID-19 pandemic stalled progress on eliminating tuberculosis among Inuit: officials – National Post
  11. Indigenous people represent 95% of children, youth in out-of-home care in the Yukon: report – Yukon News
  12. Ontario ombudsman slams foster care company, child welfare agencies for failing Indigenous girl  – Global News
  13. Analysis of anti-Indigenous racism in hospitals reveals pattern of harm, no tracking mechanism – National Observer

Environment, Science & Technology

  1. Salvaging the sacred from climate disaster  – National Observer
  2. Traditional Mi’kmaw practices maintain Nova Scotia’s forests – CTV News
  3. UBCIC critical of First Nations owned gas facility in British Columbia – APTN News
  4. Mining, climate change decimates the Bathurst caribou herd in N.W.T. – APTN News
  5. Documentary on West Coast tsunamis from an Indigenous perspective – APTN News
  6. Why is High Park on fire? How Indigenous-led prescribed burns protect the land – CBC News
  7. Beavers could help replace artificial dams being decommissioned in B.C. watersheds – CBC News
  8. These scientists are teaming up with Inuit communities to study climate change in Labrador – CBC News

Wela’lioq, Msit No’kmaq – Thank you, All My Relations

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‘How We Say Home’ Contest Rules

  1. The contest is open to all persons who reside in Prince Edward Island and are eighteen (18) years of age or older except for employees of L’nuey, their immediate families, cohabitants, agents or contractors.
  2. To enter the giveaway, submit your full name, phone number and email address on the form at lnuey.ca/howwesayhome, and answer the question as stated in the field provided.
  3. Contest begins on November 6, 2023 at 12:00:00 a.m. AST and ends on March 4, 2024 at 11:59:59 p.m. AST
  4. The prize consists of:
    • Basket by master basket weaver, Keptin Jimmy Bernard
    • L’nuey blanket
    • L’nuey Toque
    • $200 grocery gift card
  5. Prize winner will be selected via a random draw on March 12, 2024.
  6. L’nuey will contact the Prize winner through the email address provided on the contest entry form. If it is not possible within a 48 hour period to contact the Prize winner, L’nuey will disqualify that Entry and randomly select another Entry as the winner. Once the winner is successfully contacted, they will be required to answer a skill-testing question to be verified.
  7. Once verified, the Prize winner must make arrangements with L’nuey to pick up their prize.
  8. The Prize must be accepted as described and may not be transferred to another person prior to being awarded. L’nuey retains the right to replace the Prize with a different prize of equal or greater value if the original prize becomes unavailable for reasons beyond L’nuey’s control.
  9. The name of the winner upon receiving their Prize will be posted on L’nuey’s website, as well as shared on their social channels.
  10. L’nuey reserves the right to cancel, modify or suspend the Contest without notice, for any reason, including if they are not capable of running as planned or the Contest is adversely affected by computer virus, fraud, technical failures or other causes beyond its control.
  11. All Contestants agree to be bound by the rules of the Contest and release L’nuey and all parties associated with the Contest from any liability with respect to this Contest or any prize.
  12. All decisions by L’nuey with regard to all aspects of this Contest are final.

‘Definition of Home’ Contest Rules

  1. The contest is open to all persons who reside in Prince Edward Island and are eighteen (18) years of age or older except for employees of L’nuey, their immediate families, cohabitants, agents or contractors.
  2. To enter the giveaway, submit your full name, phone number and email address on the form at lnuey.ca/ourhome, and answer the question as stated in the field provided.
  3. Contest begins on July 17, 2023 at 12:00:00 a.m. AST and ends on September 30, 2023 at 11:59:59 p.m. AST
  4. The prize consists of:
    • Basket by master basket weaver, Keptin Jimmy Bernard
    • L’nuey blanket
    • L’nuey Toque
    • $200 grocery gift card
  5. Prize winner will be selected via a random draw on October 6, 2023.
  6. L’nuey will contact the Prize winner through the email address provided on the contest entry form. If it is not possible within a 48 hour period to contact the Prize winner, L’nuey will disqualify that Entry and randomly select another Entry as the winner. Once the winner is successfully contacted, they will be required to answer a skill-testing question to be verified.
  7. Once verified, the Prize winner must make arrangements with L’nuey to pick up their prize.
  8. The Prize must be accepted as described and may not be transferred to another person prior to being awarded. L’nuey retains the right to replace the Prize with a different prize of equal or greater value if the original prize becomes unavailable for reasons beyond L’nuey’s control.
  9. The name of the winner upon receiving their Prize will be posted on L’nuey’s website, as well as shared on their social channels.
  10. L’nuey reserves the right to cancel, modify or suspend the Contest without notice, for any reason, including if they are not capable of running as planned or the Contest is adversely affected by computer virus, fraud, technical failures or other causes beyond its control.
  11. All Contestants agree to be bound by the rules of the Contest and release L’nuey and all parties associated with the Contest from any liability with respect to this Contest or any prize.
  12. All decisions by L’nuey with regard to all aspects of this Contest are final.

‘Shaping the Epekwitk of Tomorrow’ Contest Rules

  1. The contest is open to all Mi’kmaq who reside in Prince Edward Island and are eighteen (18) years of age or older except for employees of L’nuey, their immediate families, cohabitants, agents or contractors.
  2. To enter the giveaway, submit your full name, phone number and email address on the form at lnuey.ca/progress, and answer the question as stated in the field provided.
  3. Contest begins on January 23, 2022 at 12:00:00 a.m. AST and ends on April 30, 2023 at 11:59:59 p.m. AST
  4. The prize consists of:
    • Basket by master basket weaver, Keptin Jimmy Bernard
    • L’nuey blanket
    • L’nuey Toque
    • $200 grocery gift card
  5. Prize winner will be selected via a random draw on May 8, 2023.
  6. L’nuey will contact the Prize winner through the email address provided on the contest entry form. If it is not possible within a 48 hour period to contact the Prize winner, L’nuey will disqualify that Entry and randomly select another Entry as the winner. Once the winner is successfully contacted, they will be required to answer a skill-testing question to be verified.
  7. Once verified, the Prize winner must make arrangements with L’nuey to pick up their prize.
  8. The Prize must be accepted as described and may not be transferred to another person prior to being awarded. L’nuey retains the right to replace the Prize with a different prize of equal or greater value if the original prize becomes unavailable for reasons beyond L’nuey’s control.
  9. The name of the winner upon receiving their Prize will be posted on L’nuey’s website, as well as shared on their social channels.
  10. L’nuey reserves the right to cancel, modify or suspend the Contest without notice, for any reason, including if they are not capable of running as planned or the Contest is adversely affected by computer virus, fraud, technical failures or other causes beyond its control.
  11. All Contestants agree to be bound by the rules of the Contest and release L’nuey and all parties associated with the Contest from any liability with respect to this Contest or any prize.
  12. All decisions by L’nuey with regard to all aspects of this Contest are final.

‘Connected by Home’ Contest Rules

  1. The contest is open to all persons who reside in Prince Edward Island and are eighteen (18) years of age or older except for employees of L’nuey, their immediate families, cohabitants, agents or contractors.
  2. To enter the giveaway, submit your full name, phone number and email address on the form at lnuey.ca/connected, and answer the question as stated in the field provided.
  3. Contest begins on December 12, 2022 at 12:00:00 a.m. AST and ends on January 31, 2023 at 11:59:59 p.m. AST
  4. The prize consists of:
    • Basket by master basket weaver, Keptin Jimmy Bernard
    • L’nuey blanket
    • L’nuey Toque
    • $200 grocery gift card
  5. Prize winner will be selected via a random draw on February 6, 2023.
  6. L’nuey will contact the Prize winner through the email address provided on the contest entry form. If it is not possible within a 48 hour period to contact the Prize winner, L’nuey will disqualify that Entry and randomly select another Entry as the winner. Once the winner is successfully contacted, they will be required to answer a skill-testing question to be verified.
  7. Once verified, the Prize winner must make arrangements with L’nuey to pick up their prize.
  8. The Prize must be accepted as described and may not be transferred to another person prior to being awarded. L’nuey retains the right to replace the Prize with a different prize of equal or greater value if the original prize becomes unavailable for reasons beyond L’nuey’s control.
  9. The name of the winner upon receiving their Prize will be posted on L’nuey’s website, as well as shared on their social channels.
  10. L’nuey reserves the right to cancel, modify or suspend the Contest without notice, for any reason, including if they are not capable of running as planned or the Contest is adversely affected by computer virus, fraud, technical failures or other causes beyond its control.
  11. All Contestants agree to be bound by the rules of the Contest and release L’nuey and all parties associated with the Contest from any liability with respect to this Contest or any prize.
  12. All decisions by L’nuey with regard to all aspects of this Contest are final.

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