Weytkp,
We would like to announce that, by request from the community, we have created a TIB Facebook page. The page will display news, events and photos from the TIB band office but there will be no wall for comments. Click here to visit us at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tkemlups-Indian-Band/160131284089314.
Chief Shane Gottfriedson will be in Ottawa this week (January 23 – 24, 2012) for the Crown First Nation Gathering with the government of Canada, including the Crown.
The Crown-First Nation Gathering is a major meeting between the Crown (the Prime Minister of Canada and senior Cabinet Ministers) and First Nation leadership.
The Crown-First Nation Gathering is an opportunity to come together as partners – as our ancestors did at the time of Treaty – to strengthen our relationship and set a path forward to give life to First Nations rights, build strong First Nation economies, boost First Nation education and foster healthy citizens and safe communities.
The Gathering will be held in Ottawa on the 24th of January 2012 and will be live streamed on the internet. The link to the website is http://download.isiglobal.ca/afn/2012-01-24/LIVE-EN-DIRECT.html
Chief Shane Gottfriedson will be addressing some of the issues that are most important to the Tk’emlups Indian Band, such as Matrimonial Real Property Law, Day Scholars, and First Nations Property Ownership among others. If you have a chance please tune in as this gathering is really important to all First Nations people.
Have a good week everyone!
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MOVIE: 8th fire, Indigenous in the City.
Airing Thursday January 12 at 9 pm on CBC-TV & Friday January 13 at 10 pm ET/PT on CBC News Network or WATCH IT ONLINE at: http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/8thfire//2011/11/indigenious-in-the-city.html
More than half of Canada’s Aboriginal population now lives in cities. They sometimes call themselves “Concrete Indians”. And they are challenging stereotypes.
In the opening episode of the four-part series 8TH Fire, host Wab Kinew, from the Ojibways of Onigaming First Nation in Northern Ontario, and now a Winnipeg-based TV journalist, invites us to come “meet the neighbours”. It’s about time, since many Canadians say they have never met an Aboriginal person.
This vibrant kaleidoscopic hour, introduces a diverse cast of Indigenous characters living in the cities. They are united in a shared bond as Canada’s First Peoples and in their determination to reassert their culture within a wider population of non-Indigenous Canadians.
“Winnipeg’s Most” are three rising-star rappers, trying to move past their own struggles by using their music to charm kids away from gangster life. In Montreal, Nakuset was adopted in the 1970s by Jewish parents and now, against their wishes, embraces her Aboriginal ancestry. She raises her own kids in their Aboriginal culture and runs a native women’s shelter. In Vancouver we meet siblings Herb Dixon and Leslie Varley. Leslie holds a senior position in BC health, but her much-loved brother has spent years trying to get out of the drug-plagued Downtown East Side. Together their story offers a powerful and moving look at the ties that bind.
Jordin Tootoo, the first Inuk to play in the NHL, escapes the pressure of urban life with trips back to shoot the puck around in Rankin Inlet. In the art markets of Paris, Montreal and Toronto, the work of Cree artist Kent Monkman sells for six figures. His work is fun and subversive, challenging our most widely accepted notions of the colonial relationship.
Litigation lawyer Renée Pelletier works in a law office in the big towers of Toronto, but embraces her Maliseet culture. Successful graphic novelist Steve Keewatin Sanderson loves debunking the notion that as an Aboriginal artist he would only draws buffaloes. In Winnipeg, Ron Linklater teaches Aboriginal ways to aspiring community workers, many of whom are immigrants who have incorporated stereotypical ideas about Canada’s First Peoples.
Dr. Evan Adams, famous for his acting role in the movie Smoke Signals, plays a real-life role as BC’s first Aboriginal Physician Advisor. Kahnawake Mohawk Taiaiake Alfred, an ex-marine, now provocative professor at the University of Victoria, forces us to question our ideas about the place of Aboriginal people in Canada.
As Edith Cloutier, an Algonquin who runs the Native Friendship Centre in Val d’Or, Quebec, says: “Nobody’s going anywhere. Everybody’s here to stay. Now, how do we work it out together?”
