IndigeNews: April 23 – 30, 2024

A Weekly Canadian Indigenous News Update from L’nuey

Kwe’ nitap – Hello friend,

the Mi’kmaq word of the week is…

“Weleyi”
🗣 (wey-lay-ee)

Meaning: I am good 👍

In the News

  1. The Haida Get Their Land Back – The Tyee
  2. Hundreds of ’60s scoop survivors connect in Winnipeg – APTN News
  3. National council overseeing reconciliation closer to realization – APTN News
  4. Elver case involving 5 Mi’kmaw men ends with single guilty plea to obstruction – CBC News
  5. Environment commissioner gives Canada failing grade on Northern contaminated sites – APTN News
  6. Air Canada apologizes to national chief after flight crew tried to take her headdress away – CBC News
  7. Air Canada needs ‘protocols for First Peoples’ says AFN national chief after headdress taken – APTN News
  8. Ottawa failing to meet Jordan’s Principle deadlines for First Nations kids’ care most of the time – CBC News
  9. Treatment of national chief and her headdress by Air Canada ‘scary’, ‘humiliating’, Woodhouse Nepinak says – Windspeaker
  10. Watershed moment: Atlantic First Nations Water Authority partners with Dalhousie to deliver world‑class water treatment – Dal News
  11. Media release: New $4.3 million grant powers partnership between Atlantic First Nations Water Authority and Dalhousie University to deliver world‑class water treatment – Dalhousie University

Politics & Law

  1. Nuchatlaht granted partial land title on Nootka Island – CBC News
  2. Garden River says no to 100 per cent treaty settlement payouts – CTV News
  3. Abenaki in Quebec take identity fraud concerns to the United Nations – CBC News
  4. Manitoba First Nation seeks court order to halt logging in Duck Mountains – CBC News
  5. Don’t leave us out of UN plastic treaty talks, says Aamjiwnaang First Nation – City News
  6. First Nations leaders disappointed Yukon’s Health Authority Act is not yet law – CBC News
  7. With future of Bill C-53 in doubt, Métis Nation of Ontario exploring all options – APTN News
  8. Ongoing colonialism shows itself in Ontario’s legislature says Independent MPP – APTN News
  9. Crown-Indigenous Relations minister talks budget, reconciliation and the Bill C-53 – APTN News
  10. Funding for Manitoba landfill search welcome, but First Nations-led response still needed – AMC News
  11. Collective or individual? The key question behind distributing $10B Robinson Huron Treaty settlement – CBC News
  12. Peguis First Nation files $1 billion claim against all levels of government over devastating 2022 flood – Global News
  13. First Nations families who lost loved ones in Thunder Bay seek answers amid renewed heat on police service – CBC News
  14. Indigenous sovereignty at the Supreme Court: Case comment on Dickson v. Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation – First Peoples Law

Business, Finance & Economics

  1. First Nations housing focus of Indigenous and Northern Affairs Committee – APTN News
  2. Deputy Prime Minister says new Indigenous loan guarantee program is ‘a really big deal’ – Windspeaker
  3. What could a $5B government loan program do? Turn Indigenous communities into powerful investors – CBC News

Education, Health & Culture

  1. New series features Indigenous youth warriors – Windspeaker
  2. ‘Every word is life’: Folks gather to learn Wolastoqey language – CBC News
  3. Annual Dreamspeakers Film Festival set to begin in Edmonton – Windspeaker
  4. Six Nations works with National Research Council to digitize languages – APTN News
  5. Eskasoni rapper ‘L’nu Joker’ releases new album, celebrates 20 years in music – SaltWire
  6. Cree teacher who incorporates land-based education receives prestigious award – APTN News
  7. Inuit leaders disappointed with budget’s lack of money for tuberculosis elimination – CBC News
  8. Documentary about Cree Elder ‘The Star Guy’ to premiere at Toronto film festival – Windspeaker
  9. Manidoo Miiniigooizowin, A Gift from the Creator exhibit at the Manitoba Museum – APTN News
  10. First annual poverty report card, reveals the harsh realities faced by Nunavut’s most vulnerable populations – APTN News

Environment, Science & Technology

  1. Indigenous electrification strategy released – Windspeaker
  2. Solar farm in B.C. expected to save 1.1 million litres of diesel a year – CBC News
  3. For First Nations in Alberta, drought only compounds existing water issues – CBC News
  4. Can these far northern First Nations protect the world’s Breathing Lands? – The Narwhal
  5. ‘Fire is medicine’: WFN company utilizes prescribed burns to mitigate wildfire risks – IndigiNews
  6. First Nations in the oilsands hope Trans Mountain will be catalyst for a new chapter – CBC News
  7. As wildfire season approaches, remote First Nations prepare to fight from the ground up – CBC News
  8. It’s the world’s first Indigenous-led ‘blue park.’ And Kitasoo Xai’xais Nation pulled it off without waiting on Canada – The Narwhal
  9. Making friends with fire: More First Nations in B.C. are rediscovering the cultural use of controlled burning to protect communities from wildfires – CBC News

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

© L’nuey 2024. All Rights Reserved.

‘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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