IndigeNews: July 16 – 23, 2024

A Weekly Canadian Indigenous News Update from L’nuey

Kwe’ nitap – Hello friend,

the Mi’kmaw word of the week is…

“Tkismi”
🗣 (day-gee-si-me)

Meaning: swim 🏊‍♂️

In the News

  1. Lennox Island hosts event highlighting reconciliation through sport – SaltWire
  2. Mi’kmaw STEM summer camp brings learning out of the classroom – CBC News
  3. Historic agreement to see Ste. Madeleine land returned to Manitoba Métis – CBC News
  4. K’omoks First Nation signs draft treaty with B.C., federal governments – Vancouver Sun
  5. Residential school survivor Phyllis Webstad on upcoming Orange Shirt Day – APTN News
  6. Mi’kmaw society unveils its plan for the first lacrosse facility in Atlantic Canada – CBC News
  7. Federal money for unmarked burial search projects will be drastically reduced – APTN News
  8. Funding cut for residential school searches ‘reflects a troubling denialism,’ says chief – CBC News
  9. Survivors group calls for more federal funding for organizations probing residential schools – CBC News
  10. Treaty-protected sxwayxum village site returned to Snuneymuxw: ‘Where our people have lived for thousands of years’ – IndigiNews

Politics & Law

  1. K’omoks First Nation nears treaty completion – Global News
  2. First Nation in B.C. calls for delay in its neighbour’s treaty – CBC News
  3. Ktunaxa mark milestone in Columbia River Treaty modernization – Trail Times
  4. Assembly of First Nations rescinds support for activist Leonard Peltier – CBC News
  5. Treaty Rights at the Supreme Court of Canada: Restoule Appeal – First Peoples Law
  6. Manitoba moves to transfer 100 acres of historic land to Red River Métis – APTN News
  7. AFN head meets with Manitoba’s vice-regal to seek independent inquiry into killings – APTN News
  8. What were the biggest developments from this year’s AFN annual general assembly? – APTN News
  9. First Nations across Canada join Chiefs of Ontario in challenging carbon pricing inequities – Chiefs of Ontario
  10. Apology ‘a significant step’ says Wahpeton Dakota Nation Chief, but only if accompanied by action – Daily Herald
  11. Manitoba Métis Federation president says he wasn’t breaking the law after ticket for fishing without licence – CBC News
  12. Flooding caused by failed muskrat management project in 1940s destroyed Manitoba First Nation’s lands: lawsuit – CBC News

Business, Finance & Economics

  1. Sudbury’s Stobie Mine getting new life above ground – CBC News
  2. No mineral claims, exploration without permission, say Gitanyow – Business in Vancouver
  3. This American company is selling ‘ulu-inspired knives.’ Inuit say that’s not right – CBC News
  4. National non-profit approves over 70 Indigenous-led housing projects with federal funds – CBC News
  5. Cash-strapped First Nation spent at least $4.4M on consulting firm controlled by Winnipeg developer – CBC News
  6. ‘It’s important for places like this to exist’: Highlighting Indigenous businesses The Canal Landing in Cape Breton – SaltWire
  7. Manitoba Métis Federation expands footprint in downtown Winnipeg, buys 2 office towers near Portage and Main – CBC News

Education, Health & Culture

  1. Mi’kmaw youth culinary camp blends past, present – CBC News
  2. Fire damages cabins on sacred Mi’kmaw island in Cape Breton – CBC News
  3. Sask. First Nation calls for support over mental health and addiction crisis – CTV News
  4. NHL champ Brandon Montour bringing Stanley Cup home to Six Nations on July 24 – CBC News
  5. Memorial park at former Mohawk Institute among projects at risk due to funding cuts – CBC News
  6. ‘Indigenous futures’: Cape Breton Centre for Craft and Design unveils Elmi’knik exhibition – SaltWire
  7. ‘We can create a new history’: Indigenous burial mounds on northern Ontario golf course fenced off – CBC News
  8. ‘The game symbolizes who I am,’ says Wagmatcook elder and undefeated Waltes champion, Molly Pierro – SaltWire
  9. AI presents opportunities and challenges to Indigenous collaborators trying to retain languages – The Globe and Mail
  10. Potlotek dancer among Cape Bretoners at World Dance Cup, gets dance scholarship from TV’s Abby Lee Miller – SaltWire
  11. Super Ne’le’k: Jeff Ward relocates to Cape Breton’s Wagmatcook as new director of Community Culture and Heritage – Saltwire

Environment, Science & Technology

  1. Quebec police set up ‘surprise operation’ against illegal waste dumping in Oka – CBC News
  2. Yukon government says it’s ready to step in at mine site following cyanide leak – APTN News
  3. Opponents voice concerns as Nova Scotia project bets billions on green hydrogen – Global News
  4. This research project hopes to ensure that nothing from industrial fishing goes to waste – CTV News
  5. Cape Breton moose hunting suspended for 3 years due to ‘significant’ drop in population – CTV News
  6. New tool aims to harness the power of AI to combat internet hate against Indigenous people – CBC News
  7. ‘Every minute matters’: Experts with first-hand accounts at Victoria Gold mine disclose gravity of problems – CBC News

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

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  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.
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  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.

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  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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