Photos from yesterday’s rally for First Nations education in Ottawa. Slide Show + -Full Screen Photography by Tim Fontaine & Martha Troian . . . → Read More: PHOTOS: First Nations education rally
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(OTTAWA) — Hundreds of First Nations people from across the country rallied on Parliament Hill yesterday in support of increased education funding. Among the messages displayed on demonstrators’ signs: ‘Our children, Our future, Our way!’, ‘Respect our Treaties’, and ‘Education Means Graduation.’ The rally was the culmination of a ‘National Week of Action on Education,’ which kicked [...] . . . → Read More: First Nations education rally heads for the Hill Some recent tweets by RezSuperstar and YorkAboriginalU have alerted me to a disturbing, decade-long trend in federal support for First Nations students. According to the Chiefs of Ontario‘s Summer 2009 newsletter, an internal Indian and Northern Affairs Canada audit published last spring January reveals a less-than-rosy picture regarding the number of Status Indians attending post-secondary (i.e., [...] . . . → Read More: More youth, less education: What’s wrong with this picture? Well, it wasn’t what most people wanted to hear, but it sure was what many expected. The 2010 Federal Budget was released to much fanfare in Ottawa today, and by the looks of things, it’s time to lace up those moccasins reeeeeal tight (or belt, it’s your fancy). Here’s a quick breakdown of how some federal programs fared (those [...] . . . → Read More: Budget Day! Budget Day! How some Aboriginal-related programs fared It’s with great interest that I came across the release of Culture Camps for Language Learning: An Immersion Handbook, produced by the BC-based First Peoples’ Heritage, Language and Culture Council. In my experience, culture camps like these present great opportunities for language learning. In July 2004, I participated in a week-long Cree immersion camp in Sturgeon Lake First [...] . . . → Read More: Language Goes to Camp In 1976, two major events happened. The first, my birth, went largely unnoticed — except of course by my parents and family. Now, thirty-four years later, I join with the other members of mediaINDIGENA in another “birth” of sorts — one that we hope won’t go unnoticed. Here’s to a fair and balanced conversation beginning among us and [...] . . . → Read More: A Beginning and an Ending, FNUC and mediaINDIGENA |
     
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