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2015 Great Lakes Pow-Wow Guide | Page 1 Chiefs lend support to families of Murdered and Missing Women nishinabek Nation a closed session between 15 Ontario First included in the interim report. leaders have Nation families of missing and murdered The recommendations are categorized Asupported those Indigenous women and girls, Ontario First under the areas of: people represented Nations leadership, Ontario First Nation • The Foundation at the National Women’s Caucus, Chiefs Committee on • Healing Murdered and Missing Justice, and the Ontario First Nations • Supports Indigenous Women’s Roundtable discussions Young Peoples Council (OFNYPC). The • Leadership and Direction and continue to push for an inquiry. Planning Gathering allowed the invited • Police Investigations An inquiry will enable stakeholders to families to share the stories of their loved • Justice identify systemic issues − racism, poverty ones, to identify barriers and challenges • Our Men and Boys and inter-generational abuse − with respect they encountered in seeking justice for the • Financial to violence against women. death or disappearance of their loved ones, It is important that we support the The Harper government just refuses to to provide direction on what the mandate recognize anything that is going on with families and do our part to ensure that and structure of a First Nation-led inquiry Indigenous Peoples. Our communities need the recommendations identified at the would consist of, and to offer guidance on healing and Canadian society needs to gathering are implemented. the purpose and role of a national inquiry. wake up. We look forward to the pow-wow season We have not stood still while waiting The role of the First Nations leadership, as we do each year. Deputy Grand Chief for an inquiry. The Ontario First Nation Ontario First Nation Women’s Caucus, Chiefs Hare and I look forward to seeing you on the Women’s Caucus planned and conducted Committee on Justice, and the Ontario Pow-wow trail. First Nations Young Peoples Council was to a successful planning gathering for the Miigwetch, families of the Murdered and Missing listen and observe the stories, to keep the Indigenous Women and Girls. This session stories with them, to store for and care occurred on February 10-12, 2015. Deputy for the knowledge that was shared, and to Grand Chief Hare and I had the opportunity respectfully incorporate the knowledge into to attend the gathering. the advocacy efforts of the First Nations Anishinabek Nation An interim report has been issued on leadership in Ontario. Grand Council Chief the gathering. The Planning Gathering was There were 56 recommendations that are Patrick (Wedaseh) Madahbee 2015 Great Lakes Pow-Wow Guide | Page 1 Remembering Helen Betty Osborne: A Sister in Spirit By Marci Since that dreadful not have been killed if she that their daughter and sister Becking November night just over 43 wasn’t a First Nations woman. was so violently murdered, at Today, I years ago, the two communities The four men who abducted her least they knew what happened remember of Opaskwayak Cree Nation off Third Street in The Pas that to her. Helen Betty and The Pas have made a real night were looking for a squaw They had closure. That’s Osborne. effort and have moved beyond to party with. Betty didn’t something that so many families There are the segregation in school lunch want to party, and she was of the murdered and missing times in our rooms, the bars and even at driven out of town near a pump women do not have. lives when the movie theatre. Yet, The house north of town on Hwy 10 To learn more about Helen we take extra notice of what Pas Correctional Centre has a and was murdered. Betty Osborne, visit The is going on around us – make high aboriginal population and I have probably passed that Helen Betty Osborne Memorial linkages to past experiences racism is alive and well in the pump house over hundred times Foundation on facebook. and events that happen today. community. in my life growing up in Mathias As I sat among the some It’s surprising to me that Columb Cree traditional 40 who gathered at the Sisters even at the shopping mall – territory. When I was old enough in Spirit vigil at the North Bay located on reserve – very few to understand what happened Indian Friendship Centre, I First Nations people employed to Betty, I thought of her often. couldn’t stop thinking about there. It seems that self- I thought about how, while her. sufficiency is harder to come by. she was beaten and stabbed to Helen Betty Betty Osborne’s life was Opportunities still are not give death, those men showed their Osborne taken November 13, 1971 – a to First Nations people. own racism and disregard for year before I was born. She was The town of The Pas all another person’s life. Marci Becking serves as attending school in The Pas, shared in the conspiracy of While I watched the slide the communications officer Manitoba which was a long ways silence – not talking about the show at the vigil I thought about for the Union of Ontario from her home in Norway House big elephant in the room called Betty’s family. As much as her Indians and is editor of First Nation. racism. Betty Osborne would family endured the pain to hear anishinabeknews.ca COVER PAGE ... BLANKET OF HOPE In January 2015, the Union Jody says that there is a we can do,” says Jody. “We need of Ontario Indians HIV/AIDS hummingbird earring placed to encourage and promote love Coordinator, Jody Cotter,started in the middle by Norma whose and respect one another. the “Blanket of Hope” project. sister’s remains were found on We need to lead and mentor The blanket will have 1,181 the Pickton farm in BC. each other – reach out and give earrings – each symbolizing the All the experiences that Jody someone a compliment. It can Murdered and Missing Indigenous heard at the gathering made change a person’s whole life.” Women in Canada. her realize how strong all of our Jody encourages all women to The blanket was taken to the Women are. make a vow to help fellow woman. Murdered and Missing Indigenous “Women are so powerful and “By helping each other, it will Women roundtable discussions in need to realize this and if we are shift the world into order and the Ottawa in February 2015. united strategically imagine what healing can begin.” 21st Annual Great Lakes Pow-wow Guide e Great Lakes Pow-wow Guide 2015 is the 21st annual directory/magazine produced by anishinabeknews.ca sta and published by the Union of Ontario Indians. Over 10,000 copies Box 711, North Bay, Ontario, P1B 8J8 are circulated and also posted on issuu.com. Copies are provided at no cost to the 39 member Tel: (705) 497-9127 communities of the Anishinabek Nation. Toll free: 1-877-702-5200 We have made every attempt to ensure the accuracy of our pow-wow listings. However, some Fax: (705) 497-9135 dates may change and some may contain errors. Please conrm information in advance to avoid a Email: [email protected] Website: www.anishinabeknews.ca long drive to an empty pow-wow ground. Views expressed are not necessarily the opinion or political position of the UOI. No portion of Editor: Marci Becking this magazine, including advertisements, photos and other editorial content may be reproduced or Design/Layout: Priscilla Goulais published in any form (electronic or print) without the written permission of anishinabeknews.ca. Printing: New Life Printing, North Bay Advertising Sales: Marci Becking Chi-Miigwetch to content contributors: Jingle Dress Dancer ..............................4 Mental Health ...........................................12 Jennifer Ashawasagai, Kelly Crawford, RCMP Report skewed ........................5-6 Dance steps ........................................13-14 Liz Eshkibok, Charley Hebert, Ray Johns, Pamela Palmater, Muriel Sawyer, Christine Indigenous knowledge ..........................7 Education AES ....................................15-16 Smith-McFarlane, Maurice Switzer and Mollie Doodle ......................................... 8 Pow-wow Glossary & Etiquette ..............17 Sharon Weatherall. Me Artsy ................................................. 9 Pow-wow Listings ..............................18-26 Language ..............................................10 2015 Great Lakes Pow-Wow Guide | Page 2 2015 Great Lakes Pow-Wow Guide | Page 3 Ziibaaska Iganagooday Oniimii (Jingle Dress Dancer) By Jennifer Ashawasegai Wanda McQuabbie has always been a Ziibaaska Iganagooday Oniimii – Jingle Dress Dancer. It’s what she’s always known. She donned her first jingle dress before she can remember. Early this spring, McQuabbie recalled the story one evening while sitting at her kitchen table in Henvey Inlet First Nation. It’s a story full of emotion and rich with memories for the 46 year- old who grew up in her home community of Wauzhusk Onigum in northwestern Ontario. Her father, the late Alex Skead, sat her down when she was about 11 or 12 years old and told her the story of how the first jingle dress came to be. Skead told his daughter, that his mother, her paternal grandmother was the first woman of the jingle dress. Jingle Dress dancers, far right is Wanda McQuabbie’s cousin Ida Skead, Gail Skead, her cousin’s wife; Elizabeth Joseph, and Caroline White. “He told me that the 365 cones was only meant for her, of the story, and she excused to dance, the cones would bang That’s when she also began not everybody after, as people herself for being so emotional. together and the prayers were to seek more knowledge and thought. Then he spoke of She let the tears escape, and sent out to the universe and direction about the very special the spirit, Manitou Ikwe, the gently blew her nose, and after upon hearing the sound of the and sacred dress.