IndigeNews: Oct. 22 – 28, 2024

Kwe’ nitap – Hello friend,

The Mi’kmaw phrase of the week is…

“Na’jipuktaqnej”
🗣 (naa-jip-book-tahq-nej)

Meaning: Bat 🦇

In the News

  1. Lifting our communities – Faculty of Agriculture – Dalhousie University
  2. Six Nations to build Canada’s first Indigenous-led hospice – Brant Beacon
  3. Mi’kmaw Elder George Paul shares his teachings in new book – APTN News
  4. Mi’kmaw rapper Wolf Castle launches tour after album release – CTV News
  5. Families want inquiry after 9 police-involved Indigenous deaths – CBC News
  6. Parks Canada unveils new national Indigenous Stewardship Policy – CBC News
  7.  The Indigenous “Land Back” Movement: A Land Mine for Canadians – C2C Journal
  8. Indigenous leaders gather in Charlottetown to discuss climate change – CBC News
  9. Spook-tacular setups: A haunted barn and Victorian home are gearing up – SaltWire
  10. Meet the participants of Voices of Youth Indigenous Leaders 2024 – Senate of Canada
  11. B.C. Conservative candidate under fire for racist remarks about Indigenous people – CBC News
  12.  Northern Ont. First Nation protests after ancestral remains found during excavation – CTV News
  13. New class lets N.S. students explore environmental science through a Mi’kmaw lens – CBC News
  14. International tribunal to investigate missing children, unmarked graves associated with residential schools – CBC News

Politics & Law

  1. The Artificial Lake tearing apart a Nova Scotia community – The Narwhal
  2. New Brunswick premier says lands ceded ‘many years ago’ – APTN News
  3. FBI surges to help investigate crimes against Indigenous communities – CNN
  4. Woodhouse, Anderson appear before Senate justice committee – APTN News
  5. Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society releases racial equity survey report – Canadian Lawyer
  6. Mary Simon has had to ‘build a thick skin’ during decades of public service – APTN News
  7. Biden says U.S. Indigenous boarding school system was ‘a sin on our soul’ – Global News
  8. President Joe Biden to apologize for 150-year Indian boarding school policy – APTN News
  9. Jenny Brake remains chief of Qalipu First Nation in N.L. following election win – CBC News
  10. ‘Not a free-for-all’: Indigenous communities want limits on how their data are shared -| Science
  11. With Liberal election win, First Nations in N.B. look forward to improved relations – Global News
  12. Federal Court dismisses bid to overturn election at Manitoba’s most populous First Nation – CBC News
  13. ‘People don’t feel safe there’: Some Red River Métis voice concerns about MMF gathering – APTN News
  14. Parliamentary Secretary Jones represents Canada at 2024 Arctic Circle Assembly in Iceland – Government of Canada
  15. ‘For the good of all Indigenous people’: N.L. government discussing implementing United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples – SaltWire

Business, Finance & Economics

  1. Special Chiefs Assembly – Call for Resolutions 1st Notice – NationTalk
  2. Minister apologizes for government’s handling of First Nations’ money in 1800s – CTV News
  3. Nova East Wind signs MoU with Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Chiefs – The Hamilton Spectator
  4. Most contracts awarded to Indigenous businesses through federal program not audited – CBC News
  5. World on pace for significantly more warming without immediate climate action, report warns – APTN News
  6. NICHI announces Atlantic recipients of funding to advance critical Indigenous housing – Government of Canada
  7. The Jericho Lands give First Nations a say in Vancouver’s future. But some say the development is too large – CBC News
  8. First Nations access greater flexibility and increased self-determination through the New Fiscal Relationship Grant – Indigenous Services Canada

Education, Health & Culture

  1. Author Talk: Amanda Peters – Bates College
  2. Land & Sea: Dave Quinton remembers – Youtube
  3.   The NCCIH is seeking an Indigenous Academic Lead– NCCIH
  4. How one teacher is preserving the Wolastoqey language – CBC News
  5. Film from Mohawk actor/writer/director set for national release – Windspeaker
  6. Concerns Raised Over National Park Service’s “Tribal Co-Stewardship Playbook” – NPP
  7. First Nations urge Ottawa to catch up on Jordan’s Principle funding – Winnipeg Free Press
  8. ‘There’s a lot of Mi’kmaq hieroglyphics’: Artist uses pottery as storytelling tool – CTV News
  9. Canadian Senate supports bill to end forced sterilization of Indigenous women – APTN News
  10. Canada’s Indigenous Services minister disappointed with AFN rejection, eyes ‘next steps’ – Timmins Today
  11. Judy Falle is working on her third Indigenous children’s book titled, “Poppa and the Medicine Wheel” – CKVB
  12. Wela’liek te’sioq apoqnmuiek, Asoqmita’yek … We are crossing over, KMFP Mini-immersion Unama’ki 2024 – Youtube
  13. Fourteen Indigenous-led initiatives to prevent violence and promote healing awarded funding by N.L. government – SaltWire

Environment, Science & Technology

  1. Indigenous nations are rematriating bison to the prairies – The Narwhal
  2. Documentary showcases traditions and dangers of salmon fishing – Windspeaker
  3. New class lets N.S. students explore environmental science through a Mi’kmaw lens – CBC News
  4. First-ever biomechanics study of Indigenous weapons shows what made them so deadly – The Conversation
  5. Indigenous stewardship holds the key to wildfire prevention in national parks, Jasper hearings told – CBC News

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

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    • L’nuey blanket
    • L’nuey Toque
    • $200 grocery gift card
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  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.
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    • 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.
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  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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