Unemployment rate five times Lake, Sask., between 1952 and share revenue with all bands. higher for First Nations 1994. Merchant says he plans Markers will be The unemployment rate for to appeal the decision. The Burial site forces re-routing of ’s First Nation plaintiffs claimed they were gasoline physically, sexually and something to people is close to five times Work on a TransGas higher than non-Aboriginal emotionally abused. The Timber Bay School is one of many transmission line has come to a residents, according to halt near Bethune, Sask., where remember them by September’s labour force across the federal government does not recognize ancient human bones were survey. Unemployment for First discovered. University of ( Continued from page 8.) needs may be accommodated. Nations people was 18.5 per as a residential school. As a The steering committee that result, its former students were Saskatchewan forensic cent averaged over a three- anthropologist Ernie Walker is It will be difficult to obtain drove the commemorative month period, compared to non- left ineligible for compensation GPS for some of the schools, under the residential school examining the bones which markers project includes Aboriginals, who have a 3.8 per seem to be the remains of a admits Kettler. In the Arctic, representatives from Canada cent unadjusted employment settlement that awarded $1.9 billion to thousands of victims. single person. Archaeologists hostels were temporary tent-like Heritage and Parks Canada. rate, the lowest in Canada. The have determined the remains structures and in other places the Cooper-Bolam is hopeful that First Nations distinction does not Little Pine seeks FSIN support are human and estimate the buildings have been dismantled these federal departments will be include Métis or Inuit. The three bones are more than 1,000 or burned down. Other Little Pine First Nation is able to identify additional month average for years old. properties have been subdivided funding that will allow the Saskatchewan’s total Aboriginal seeking support from the Carry the Kettle First Nation Federation of Saskatchewan and now have multiple owners, project to move beyond the population is 12 per cent. Chief Barry Kennedy wants the including private land owners. Although it’s a complex issue, Indian Nations in their plans to IRSSA-recognized schools. As pipeline company to stop digging Others have been repurposed well, additional funding will be one thing most experts agree on build a casino complete with in the area, claiming they are is that education is one of the key sports betting, 800 slot and now serve as provincial required to include schools that developing through a cemetery. buildings, post-secondary win court cases that put them on factors to lowering the jobless machines, a 200-room hotel and He says the bones are likely schools or commercial the IRSSA list of approved- rate. a 1,500-seat convention centre ancestral remains and operations. in Lloydminster. However that ceremonies need to be schools, to maintain Judge dismisses Métis support did not come in October performed. TransGas, which is Kettler knows of one former commemorative markers on-site, residential students’ class- because of a lack of delegates a subsidiary of SaskEnergy, said residential school where the and to update the virtual map. at the FSIN assembly. The vote action lawsuit the pipeline will be redesigned private landowner would not Cooper-Bolam anticipates the will likely take place in to minimize impact to the newly allow a commemoration marker virtual map will be layered, Regina lawyer Tony December. Chief Wayne to be placed on site. In cases like starting with the 139 residential Merchant says a judge has discovered cultural grounds. Semaganis is asking for FSIN TransGas says First Nations that, markers will either be put schools. Additional layers would refused to give class-action approval to make Little Pine First Elders and monitors will be on on nearby public property or in include schools that applied, certification to a Métis lawsuit Nation the sole owner of the the neighbouring community. over residential school abuse of site to give advice on the project. schools that were excluded, and casino. All six First Nations TransGas is installing a That lack of legal locations has other pertinent information. about 2,000 students who casinos in the province are under transmission pipeline to supply set the National “We’re laying the foundation attended the Timber Bay the control of the Saskatchewan natural gas service to a new Commemorative Marker Project residential school in Montreal Indian Gaming Authority, and for something much, much potash mine site. back. Funding needs to be larger,” she said. “We want it to committed by March 2014, but grow and we’re laying the ground frozen ground will make it work for that to happen.” difficult to install markers. The virtual map, which could Kettler is seeking direction from become the property of the Aboriginal Affairs and Northern National Research Centre, will Development Canada to be accessible to survivors and determine how the project’s other Canadians.

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