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Ambassador to Vietnam a Circle of Honour Recipient SEPTEMBER 2010 VOLUME 13 - NUMBER 9 FREE Back to School Treaty 4 style Lori Whiteman (left) with Connie McNabb and Kai-La Pegig. McNabb, 19, graduated last year from Peepeek - isis Pesakastew School and plans to study social work in university. Pegig, 10, is a student at Fort Qu'Appelle Elementary Community School. (Photo by Michael Bell) HE’S A FIRST Leon Thompson is the new Vice- PresidentofStudentAffairsonthe UofSStudentsUnion. - Page 4 FIGHTINGFORRIGHTS Darlene Lancely has been a tireless fighter for the treaty right to education. - Page 6 Student Success Program offers support TAKINGRESPONSIBILITY FordecadesBuffySainte-Marie By Michael Bell administration; a student reporting system. With the has been writing and singing For Eagle Feather News support of the program, school teachers and staff will feel aboutissuesthatareimportant less isolated, have more financial resources and stability to her. -Page13 eachers, principals and staff from Treaty Four schools gathered to mark the beginning of a new to build on the work they already do, Whiteman said. school year on August 30 in Regina. The Treaty 4 Student Success Program will also have HAPPY CHIEF The gathering was well attended, beginning with a resources to track student outcomes across the system Chief Wally Burns is pleased Tmorning pipe ceremony, followed by welcome speeches, over time. that a deal to construct a major a guest speaker, entertainment and a discussion panel. Data shows that on and off reserve, First Nation hydro project is getting closer The event was inspirational in nature, a chance to “come students have overall lower levels of literacy, numeracy tobecomingreality. -Page18 together in unity to celebrate the start of a new school attainment, and higher dropout rates than non-First year,” according to organizers. Nation, Whiteman said. HER EXCELLENCY The event was organized by the Treaty 4 Student “This is a program that’s designed to channel addi - Deborah Chatsis has been Success Program. The program aims to improve Treaty tional dollars and resources to address some of those namedCanada’sambassadorto Four students’ quality of education. With funding from issues,” she said. Vietnamandherfamilycouldn’t Indian and NorthernAffairs Canada, the 10 member staff The challenges facing students, teachers and the bemoreproud. -Page19 of Treaty 4 Student Success Program will offer a variety system in general are great, but Whiteman also points to of support to the 18 schools within Treaty Four. the positive aspects of the current situation. A growing Welcome to our “It’s all focussed on student outcomes,” said Lori body of young, dynamic leaders are challenging the status Education Edition Whiteman, program director of Treaty 4 Student Success quo, Whiteman says. Coming In October: Program. Under the umbrella of the program, the schools “We have a growing number of highly educated, absolute - Role Model Issue will get support in a variety of areas: curriculum; instruc - ly amazing people out there, that are stepping forward.” • Continued on Page 2 CPMA #40027204 tion; assessment; information technology; program 2 Eagle Feather News SEPTEMBER 2010 Day of Mourning honours memory of Time right to Saskatoon’s deceased sex trade workers strengthen education By Darla Read system: Lonechild For Eagle Feather News couple hundred people gathered in Pleasant Hill • Continued from Page One Park to honour the lives lost due to the sex trade “The fact that communities from all over Treaty in Saskatoon. Four have come together around learning is also a The 11th Annual Day of Mourning is organized by bright spot.” Ayouth at EGADZ downtown youth centre, and many of “We think it’s high time that a First Nations them have been affected personally by the sex trade, education system be equal or greater than provincial whether they’ve been victims of violence or lost a family schools,” Chief Guy Lonechild of the Federation of member. Saskatchewan Indian Nations said after delivering his This year, Saskatchewan Lt.-Gov. Gordon Barnhart opening remarks. was in attendance. “It’s a new era marked by the Prime Minister’s apology to First Nations for the abuses of the resi - Don Meikle, who works with the youth at EGADZ dential school system, and now is the time to strength - and helps them plan the event, says that means a lot to the en the educational system,” Lonechild added. youth. “The other thing is to ensure that language and “They’ve worked really hard to bring awareness, so curriculum is reflective of values and cultures of our the premier had madeAugust 14 the Day of Mourning to First Nations,” he said. remember victims of the sex trade. The more people they “To get student outcomes higher, parents, can get out, the more education they can get out to people, students and teachers all need to be supported with the better yet they feel.” the right resources, and the (Treaty 4 Student Success Meikle hopes societal views change, because he Program) is helping to provide that support,” he said. believes many think those in the sex trade want to be there. Other highlights of the day included a keynote “That’s the furthest thing from the truth. I’ve been address given by RobertAnimikii Horton. The young doing this job for almost 18 years now ... I’ve never had activist from Rainy River First Nation in Ontario is anybody that I’ve talked to say this is what I want to do, currently completing a master’s degree in Sociology. this is the career chosen,” Meikle says. In the afternoon, CTV journalist Nelson Bird “It’s a horrible life. It’s kind of like they live by the Lt.-Gov. Gordon Barnhart joined the youth at Egadz moderated a panel discussion on education called sword, they die by the sword.” for the Day of Mourning. (Photo by Darla Read) “Hope for the Future.” SEPTEMBER 2010 Eagle Feather News 3 Governor General hears concerns of youth By Andréa Ledding $9 billion on new jails instead of spending preventatively For Eagle Feather News on youth centres and programming. ov. Gen. Michaëlle Jean spent a few hours April Rogers spoke emotionally about the murder listening to youth at Egadz talk about their lives, of her father and the incarceration of her brother, who is their challenges, their realities and what needs bi-polar and “requires medical assistance, not jail time.” to be done to make Saskatoon and the world a better “We need to remember those who have died on the Gplace. streets – they had hopes and dreams,” Rogers said, “Despite youth achievements, there are still those through her tears. who laugh off your ideas as being too utopian or idealist,” “My mother committed suicide when I was three Jean said in her opening remarks. years old. But we can't give up – we are the seventh “And let me say that even though their criticisms generation. Our ancestors signed a treaty not for them - may sting, I encourage you not to let them stick … these selves but for us.” people should know that for any revolution and major She invited everyone to the Arnold Nicotine turning point in world history, young people have always, Memorial Feast which was coming up, in memory of her always been deeply involved.” father and also to fundraise for various causes – including The Governor General listened and took notes as a lawyer retention fee of $5,000 for one of the fathers youth talked: about costs and difficulty in accessing post- whose son died in the foster care system, so that he can secondary education, the loss of the Saskatoon campus continue to pressure for positive change and accounta - of First Nations University of Canada, homelessness and bility. the high rates of housing in the city, life on the streets, “I’m a bilingual Métis disabled guy – I can check the importance of treaty education for all Canadians. every box there is,” said Julien Gaudet, adding that the One young woman, currently a member of the Child obstacles faced had nothing to do with why he’s Métis, Welfare Review Panel, spoke about her experiences in but everything to do with how society treats that partic - foster care, saying the focus should be on these children ular box. and their families of origin, enabling them to stay with “My parents told me to try and be as white as you family and community, rather than bouncing from house can, it will make your life easier.” Gov. Gen. Michaëlle Jean admires a walking stick to house with paid strangers. Amber Bellegarde, FSIN youth rep, asked why she was given as a gift. (Photo by Andrea Ledding ) “Two kids died in care within a six-month period Native Studies was only an elective, and sometimes not from just one reserve,” she noted. in foster homes that locked up their food.” even available in schools. She shared her frustration in “There is so much to change – an average of 260 Mike Tanton, a youth worker at White Buffalo Youth not being educated enough in treaties herself to answer cases per social worker means they can’t even keep track, Lodge, spoke about the day-to-day situations of the those who negate or minimize them. and get the kids mixed up. I would just run away. I lived youth, questioning why the government was spending • Continued on Page 5 4 Eagle Feather News SEPTEMBER 2010 Thompson a 7rst on U of S student union Leon Thompson is VP of Student Affairs for the University of Saskatchewan Students Stand up for education Union (USSU). He is the first First Nations repre - pend 20 minutes with Darlene Lancely talking about the evolution of sentative on the executive funding for First Nation post secondary studies and she will make in its 101-year existence.
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