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Anishinabek Nation hosts Eshki-niigijig Maawanjidiwaad youth gathering

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Post date August 16, 2023
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Lance Copegog, Anishinabek Nation Eshki-niigijig Advisory Council Southeast male representative and Beausoleil citizen, addresses youth on Day 3 of the Anishinabek Nation’s Eshki-niigijig Maawanjidiwaad 2023 Youth Gathering. – Photos by Ryan Peplinskie

By Rick Garrick

THUNDER BAY — Climate change, housing needs, and mental health and addictions support were among the issues raised during the Anishinabek Nation’s Eshki-niigijig Maawanjidiwaad 2023 Youth Gathering, held from Aug. 10-13 at Lakehead University’s Thunder Bay campus.

“This youth assembly was an opportunity for the youth to provide their input and direction to the Anishinabek Nation on their priorities,” says Lance Copegog, Eshki-niigijig (Youth) Advisory Council Southeast male representative and Beausoleil citizen. “We heard that addressing climate change, creating housing for our families in our communities, and supports for mental health and addictions are among the top priorities for youth.”

Copegog says the youth are also looking into doing more gatherings to provide youth with opportunities to give direction to the Anishinabek Nation.

“We are doing a lot of work to build capacity in First Nation communities to support youth leadership initiatives, one of them being the creation of community-based youth councils,” Copegog says. “That is really important to give youth the opportunity in their communities to work on these issues, to advocate, and to represent their peers.”

Katelyn Peters, Eshki-niigijig Advisory Council Southwest female representative and Munsee Delaware Nation citizen, says this was the first youth gathering since 2019.

Katelyn Peters, Eshki-niigijig Advisory Council Southwest female representative and Munsee Delaware Nation citizen.

“I feel like it has been quite difficult, especially considering they experienced COVID-19 for the past three years,” Peters says. “They haven’t been able to see their peers, their own family members, other [citizens] of the Anishinabek Nation, but I…

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School says it’s ‘on track’ one year into $20M renovation project

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Post date July 27, 2023
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Those in attendance at a Corry Area School District Building Committee meeting Wednesday heard an update of the school’s renovation project on the middle-high school.

Mike Munsee, director of buildings and grounds, said the crews are making good progress with the renovation.

“For the most part, everything is pretty much on track,” he said.

The renovation, which was approved by the school board in July of 2022, is over $20 million and is set to be completed in June of 2024.

Contracting work for the project includes general, electrical, plumbing and HVAC. Many of the moving parts worked on up until now are nearing completion, including: replacing the HVAC system, which is 95% complete; electrical lighting replacements, 90% complete; plumbing work and a new water line installed from the city’s main waterline, 90% complete.

He said they’re making good progress on the roof as well, and have even begun some work that was slated for next summer. The nice weather in the summer and the lack of students makes the summer break an optimal work time.

Right now, crews are focused on the main office area in addition to the roof. Munsee said the mailboxes for faculty members are set to come in a little later than anticipated, pushing the project back, but they are working on mudding dry wall and getting ready to paint and move new furniture into that area.

Other work includes replacing windows and patching old vents, along with renovating the bathrooms across from the cafeteria.

Joe Frisina, school board president, asked what areas of the school will have air conditioning for the upcoming school year.

Bill West, director of secondary education, explained that many classrooms and back into the career and technical center will have air conditioning, but the larger areas will wait until next summer.

“Next summer are…

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Florida’s Board of Education Standards Receive Rebuke from NCAI

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Post date July 24, 2023
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Historic Seminole photo; how much history will be taught? (Photo/Detroit Publishing Company/Public Domain)

The new standards approved by the Florida Board of Education on race should be taught in the state’s public schools has received criticism from educators and civil rights groups, including the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI).

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s “anti-woke” rhetoric is being blamed for the new standards approved on Wednesday by the state board of education.. Under DeSantis, the Florida legislature passed legislation that bars instruction in public schools that suggests anyone is privileged or oppressed based on their race or skin color.

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One standard approved on Wednesday includes “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit” has been criticized across the country.

On Friday, the NCAI released a statement, authored by the organization’s treasurer Shannon Hosley (president of the Stockbridge- Munsee Band of Mohican Indians), that rebuked the new standards. The statement reads:

“Native people are far too familiar with the devastating consequences caused by education systems that have at various times ignored, fabricated, and misrepresented the often painful histories of our people. And as the state of Florida threatens to dangerously alter the history of enslaved people and teach it to generations of future leaders, the National Congress of American Indians stands united with our diverse partners, both Native and non-Native, in shaping a promising future. We firmly believe that it is our responsibility to preserve our unique histories and not allow outsiders to rewrite them on our behalf. Together, we will champion our own…

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Human harmony: new school to receive Indigenous name

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Post date July 22, 2023
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The namesake for north Winnipeg’s newest elementary school is an Anishinaabemowin phrase that celebrates what it means to be human and live in harmony in an interconnected world.

École Mino Pimatisiwin School is slated to open in Aurora at North Point, an up-and-coming suburb near the intersection of McPhillips Street and Murray Avenue, in September 2025.

Trustees voted unanimously in support of the Indigenous title — the first of its kind in the Seven Oaks School Division, and one of only a handful of public schools in the province named in a language other than English — at a spring meeting.

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‘Can’t wait to be a part of it’

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Post date July 21, 2023
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Lighthouse Christian two-way star Carter Munsee signs with College of Idaho

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Post date July 19, 2023
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Annual July 4th reading of Declaration of Independence, historical documents at Williams College

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Post date July 3, 2023
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Williamstown—The Chapin Library of Rare Books at Williams College will host its annual July 4th reading of historical documents by actors from the Williamstown Theatre Festival at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 4, 2023. Readers at this year’s event include President of the Stockbridge Munsee Community Shannon Holsey, offering excerpts from a speech by nineteenth-century Mohican leader John Quinney.

The event is free and open to the public.

Visitors are invited to gather on the college’s Library Quad to hear the readings delivered from Sawyer Library’s second floor outdoor balcony. The program includes:

The Declaration of Independence and Preamble to the U.S. Constitution read by stage, film and television actor Kevin O’Rourke
Excerpts from Frederick Douglass’ “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” read by actor, writer and voiceover talent TL Thompson
Excerpts from John Quinney’s Fourth of July, 1854, Address at Reidsville, New York, read by Shannon Holsey, president of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians

In the event of heavy rain, visitors will be invited to gather in Sawyer Library for an indoor reading. Limited seating will be available.

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Tiny artifact leads to big discovery on the Outer Banks

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Post date June 26, 2023
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Dr. Eric Klingelhofer, vice president of research for the First Colony Foundation, is sitting on a camp stool on the north end of Roanoke Island in a small section of the Elizabethan Gardens that has been closed for safety reasons for years. It is an area of the island that has faced significant erosion for some time.

In his hand is a small thin piece of metal that is clearly drawn wire. The shape is circular, and it is difficult to say what it was originally — maybe a ring, or perhaps an earring.

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Dr. Eric Klingelhofer, vice president of research for the First Colony Foundation, discusses the implications of a brass ring found during an archeological dig on Roanoke Island on the Outer Banks. (Photo by Kip Tabb/freelance)

Whatever it may have been, it is indeed tiny, yet its potential significance is far greater than its size.

This little ring of copper came from one of the archeological pits that surround Klingelhofer, pits that are searching for Roanoac, the Native American Algonquin village that Sir Walter Raleigh’s first expedition to Roanoke Island encountered in 1584.

The volunteers, who had been digging at the site for a few months, had already found a lot of charcoal from fires and some sherds of pottery.

“Sherds are for pottery. Shards are for glass. That’s the archeological rule,” Klingelhofer explained.

But that little round piece of copper, there’s only one way it could have gotten to Roanoke Island and there is only one place that it could have originated.

“That is drawn wire,”…