Shadhäla, Äshèyi yè kwädǟn Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Draft Minutes Contents ……………………………………………………………………………………….. 1 2015 GA Delegates and Speaker List ...... 2 Day 1 Opening Prayer ...... 3 Welcoming Remarks ...... 4 General Assembly Business ...... 7 Review and Approval – CAFN Financial Audit ...... 25 Elders Executive Report ...... 29 Youth Council Executive Report ...... 29 Champagne Aishihik Community Corporation Report ...... 30 Economic Development Report ...... 33 Community Updates ...... 39 Day 2 Overview / Recap of Day 1 ...... 64 Chief and Council Vision and Priorities ...... 67 Guest Speaker Jim Mustard – Strengthening Communities ...... 74 Better Access to Services and Programs ...... 77 Facilitated Discussion on Citizens Services ...... 78 Process for Resolutions, Workplans and Budgets ...... 83 Day 3 Overview / Recap of Days 1 and 2 ...... 86 GA Resolution Draft Policy Presentation ...... 87 Review Proposed 2015 GA Resolutions ...... 92 Closing Remarks ...... 131 Appendixes 2015 GA Resolutions ...... 138 List of General Assembly Attendees ...... 165

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 1 2015 General Assembly Delegates:

NàKhū/NàKhū Ashèyi/Tthe Yänlin (Takhini/Kusawa): (Aishihik/Canyon): Elder: Betty Smith-Titus Elder: Margaret Workman Youth: Breanna Smith Youth: Chase Smith-Tutin Darlene Jim Marie Martin Georgina Griffith Lorraine Allen Sally Jim Sheila Kushniruk Alternate: Chris Smith Alternate: Larry Joe

Łu Ghą/Shawshe/Deisha DaKwäKada/K’ùā Män (Klukshu/Shawshe/Haines): (Haines Junction/Kloo Lake): Elder: Chief Paul Birckel Elder: Chief Ray Jackson Youth: Jessica Mazur Youth: Ashley John Jessie Grant Cheryle Patterson Phyllis Smith (wasn’t able to be there)Barb Allen Chuck Hume Alternate: Doris Hume Alternate: Fran Peterson

Shadhäla/Ch’yenä Key Tágà Shäw (Champagne/Hutchi): (Whitehorse): Elder: Florence Griffith Elder: Mary Frances Isaac Youth: Michelle Dawson-Beattie Youth: Dallayce Smith Marie Mclaren Anna Fraser Kathyleen Darbyshire Donna Smith Elaine Chambers Debbie Workman Alternate: John Fingland Alternate: Brittney Johnson

Chief and Council: Dän Nätthe Ada Chief Steve Smith Councillor Shadelle Chambers Deputy Chief Rose Kushniruk Councillor Kathleen Van Bibber Elder Councillor Carol Buzzell Councillor Leslie Walker Youth Councillor Nicole Nicholas-Workman

General Assembly Chairs: Chair Pauline Frost Day 1 - Youth Co-Chair - Youth Councillor Nicole Nicholas-Workman Day 2 and 3 - Youth Co-Chair - Tyrell Green

Guest Speaker: Jim Mustard

List of General Assembly Attendees: Recorded as Appendix to the minutes.

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Day 1 – Friday July 17, 2015

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH called the meeting to order at 9:35 a.m.

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said welcome everyone. Since we started with Council, we do our own prayer given to us by our staff, so Council will be saying the prayer every morning. There was supposed to be copies for all Delegates. We will make sure we have it ready for tomorrow morning. Just follow along we ask with your patience. We may not say the words correctly, but we are trying to bring our language back.

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH led the assembly in prayer in Southern Tutchone for everyone to follow.

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said we had a request from one of our Elders so before we get going, we are going to give him a chance to speak. He wants to address the assembly so, as our oldest Elder, I believe we need to afford him the time and place to speak. After he has started speaking, we will start with our General Assembly.

ELDER PADDY JIM SR. said good morning. Well, I’ll say a few things about this land here. First with an old road here and construction long time ago with the superintendent and my Mother-in-law and my Father-in-law. And I asked my Father-in-law and Mother- in-law what they wanted for their people and they said no road but build a corral first. So, they built a road and over the hill aways there is a clearing of land for them. And what happened and when you come here there are sheep everywhere. And going to build a house and have water and everything. And when the Government took the land and cleared all the land and didn’t know what to do for a house and everything taken over. First of all, that land belonged to my Father-in-law and my Mother-in-law over here. And I don’t know what happened. And built a house over here and a trap line and my first time here. And built a house and the Government took over the land. So they are trying to charge me for the land here and how many thousands of dollars I got to pay for that land over there? And somehow I got to talk to the Government that they don’t charge me for the land. So all that kind of thing - why do they do that to us? And in the first place, we own the land. And another thing I would like to see what I was thinking about all the time, like white people - why did they come to us? 60 or 65 they retire, but native they don’t retire, but what I want to know from you people - the kids that we are trying to teach - they need our language teacher. They got to want that. What I am doing now is a language teacher. I will correct them. Every once a week I will correct them to say the right thing and what are you talking about for the native language. If we are doing that and do not teach it right, and let them get away with it, that’s not right. They make their own language. They are going to say to me they are

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 3 making their own language now. Our own language becomes a drain. See, that is why I am doing that. And then language. When teaching language, especially Elders, that native people could have an Elder correct the language teacher so they say the right thing. So, the kids know what I think. What do people think about it? And I would like to hear about it - what I say. And that is what I would do now is language school once a week and I correct the language teacher. Now I am going to have a book come out this month - the Government have the money for us to put the book together. So, everything would be correct in our native language and the stories about what has been happening in this country before long time ago. Well, I will say some words after and what do people think about it. You are going to have an Elder. Not right native Elders all retiring. When we were a kid, did everything for the Elders to tell us a story. This time it would be written down on a paper what an Elder said. But our days we had it up here (pointing to his brain). We did it up there and we keep it there. That is how we learn. When Elders talk to us and tell a story all kinds of things to talk about and tell a story about but what has been happening. And in this country a long time ago when Elders start speaking and everybody listened. And that is the only way you are going to learn. As soon as you start talking to kids and Elders stop you right there and say ‘you won’t learn nothing’. Your mind goes two ways when you want to talk and the mind for when an Elder wants to tell a story. My sister, Marg is pretty good and would be teaching now until she is gone. And that is the native way and that is what Elders are for. If you want to learn, don’t be afraid to come to Elders and ask ‘I want to learn this’ and ‘I want to learn that’. And that is what I would like to see. Ask for it now and we can talk about it. Thank you.

Welcoming Remarks

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said thank you very much, Uncle. I am remiss because I didn’t properly introduce him. All of you know who my Uncle is. He is the Elder of all our community, of all our people. A long time ago my Dad would say ‘If someone can call you a kid, you are not an Elder’. And we have to listen to the life experience. And my Uncle and I share the same name and I am his name sake. Most of my Cousins used to call me Daddy all the time and my Uncles’ name is the same as my Grandpa Paddy Smith as well. So, it is important to remember our names and your role in the community and they are important to the type of people and who they are. So, I welcome and thank everyone for being here, our young people and our old people, and those in the middle who are expected to be here. We are very humbled and excited to be sitting in front of you and, hopefully, we will work through the next three days to get a better direction from our people. Our First Nation is twenty years old and in context to the rest of the world, we are a young Nation in others eyes. But lots of our people are millennia old. Not decades but millennia. When the Chinese were being organized and civilized we were making our laws here. When Jesus Christ was walking the earth we already had our laws here. When the great philosophers of Greece were talking about

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 4 what to do we already had our laws written down. And you are going to see how we have tried to construct our trail for the next four years. We have had a lot of questioning about what we are doing and some of the decisions we have had to make. Sometimes it is tough to make the decisions when sometimes our people are hurting. Our Nation and some of our other brothers and sister Nations have gone through a lot of loss this year. When you look around this table - how many have we lost? We are hurting. And we really need to think about the words we say to one another because we don’t know, unless they share their heart with you, then you don’t know. And important for us to understand when we share our words to be very, very careful how we speak. My Grandma said a long time ago that ‘words are the power in us’. Sometimes it can be good power and bad power. So, you have to be careful how you say things because once you say them, you can never take them back. You can never take back all those words. So, it is very important to think about and listen to what people are saying. One of our Councillors said sometimes when people say things they don’t necessarily need an answer right away; to take it to heart and think about it. And that is what we have to do here. Our Council over the last six months has been to both strategize and to see where our Council is at and where our people are at. A lot of our initiatives over the last little while have been aimed at where do we want to go as a people? Many of you have our strategic plan or mandate. They will be handed out, I apologize. In this document, where we want to go is to really try to set up our Government for the next - I don’t know how long it is going to be - and over the next four years, we are going to work as a team, which is one of our guiding principles is that we are a team. One of our Councillors who spoke about it during the election is team work. Together we can do things and we have to sometimes give and take with what some people think is right. And so with that, we have to always be thinking where we are going. And set up a system and Government that will provide greater opportunities for our young people, for those little ones that we see running around. We have had in the last two days two new ones come. That is the work we are trying to do. That is the work we have heard. We need to look ahead so that their lives may not be necessarily easier, but more fulfilled, and that when they are ready that they will have more opportunities to be on the land, to be speaking our language and learning our culture. More opportunities to gain all types of education in traditional, Southern Tutchone, and Champagne Aishihik way. And more opportunities to provide a good life for their families. That is how we are approaching things. We are - from the way we have structured our Council Meetings, to the way we have tried to lay out the agenda for the GA - we are going to give people a chance to talk, but we are also going to give you a challenge. All of you sitting around in this tent make up only a small percentage of all of our people. We are leaders here in this tent and many people have come year in and year out since before the time we were self- governing. You are the leaders in that we need to provide opportunities for us to talk to make sure the trail we are going to go is going to be the best way for those young ones

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 5 coming behind us. We need the Elders to guide us to bring us the old law. We need the younger ones to be working for our people. We need you to look ahead. That is what we are here for. That is what our Council has committed to do long term. We are looking ahead to the lives of these babies that have been born just this last week and those that are yet to come. Our vision mandate of this Council - for many of you who look - the first couple of pages we have basically not touched what people have talked about in the past, our Vision Statement, where people want to be, our goals - but the important job on the picture, the mandate. Those three circles are really our ideas of how we want, and what we are going to work on in the next four years, and building up where we want to go. And throughout this General Assembly, you are going to hear me talk about it a lot more in terms of Self-Reliance, Better Government and Connecting. Connecting is one that we are going to have to explain to you - what we mean by that. Our goal is what we are trying to do. At that overlap of all of the vision - that is the sweet spot. Everything we are trying to do to get there. Like I spoke about earlier, we are trying to build better understanding of our relationship to our people from Council, our Government. We are quite complex in that we have four very distinct structures set out in our Constitution for Council, Elders Senate, Youth Council and our General Assembly. And what I have personally set for, and Council agrees, is that the relationship to the people is to the Council. We are the ones who are going to do the most talking unless the questions get highly technical. But we are not wanting to go too technical because our vision is high. So you are going to hear a lot of times our Council speak and a lot of the time that is going to be me. That is my role. My role is to talk to you and hear what you have to say. When our Elders speak to us, it is our job to go to their meeting. It is not our staff’s job. And when our Youth Council speak, it is our job to be there and listen. And mainly - how it is structured - that is my job. And I have said in the past it is up to us to lead this. And you are going to see I always question if and when we need somebody - what are they going to do and why do we need them? We are going to talk and find the answers in us. It is going to be our people to find our way. Yes, we need people when it gets technical and we need some guidance. But it is always going to be Champagne Aishihik people to make the trail for our people. One of the ones that I wanted to talk about - one of our big strategic directions - is what we try to think about and put in the best way in Dän K’e (Language, Culture and Heritage). Our way - the way we do things. And it is an over-arching vision of how we want to do business. I went to school. I have higher education. But a lot of time when reading and doing what I had to do, I often went back to the teachings of my Uncle, my Aunts and an overlay - even though it is a western education - you can see where our people figured out those problems. We had our own justice system. We had our own system. And for our Dän K’e it is the mantra that we want to hold to. You hear from our Elders all the time that our traditions are degrading. We have had how many decades of language classes and Yukon Native Language Center, and can we honestly say that we are

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 6 better off today than we were yesterday in knowing our language? When we do business and when people come to this country - even though we are Champagne Aishihik - we have to respect that this belongs to the country. The same as when we go to Dezadeash and K’ùā Män (Kloo Lake) - we don’t just do what we want. We have to be humble and appreciative of being in someone else’s country. And if you think about Dän K’e, that is our way. Even our law today - everyone can go to and do what you want legally. The white man says that, but in our way we have to observe the country we are in and that is what I mean by Dän K’e. And the only way we are actually going to do that is to actually start teaching our people our way. It was the residential school that they spoke about European people who came, and they said the best way that we are going to get rid of the Indian is that we are going to teach them - we are going to get them young in the school. And that is how we are going to get them. And I believe that is the only way we can do this now is to teach in our school and survive and get control of educating our young people, Dän K’e, our way and that is what we are hoping to do. When we are talking today and tomorrow and the next day - have that always in your mind - how did we do it, our way? What is the best way to do it our way? That is the only way in fifty years that we are going to have people talking. My vision is that we are going to have an English translator - not a Southern Tutchone translator - that those babies being born yesterday and the day before, that they are going to be doing business in our language, observing our rules and our law. So, as we go forward over the next three days - as the leaders of our Nation - to always have that in your mind when we are talking and thinking about where are we going to go.

General Assembly Business

Introduction and Acceptance of Chair and Youth Co-Chair

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said as per our own rules, it is up to me to do the introduction of our Chair and our Youth Co-Chair. We did confirm with a young person, we don’t know where he is. Hopefully he does come and I am not sure we need to do a formal recognition when he does come as our Co-Chair. And in his absence, we are going to ask our Youth Councillor to go ahead as Co-Chair. Our Chair is Pauline Frost, the daughter of Alice and Donald Frost from Vuntut Gwitchin country and the Niece of Doris and Harry Allen, and spent quite a bit of time in Klukshu growing up with her Auntie and Uncle, and her people are from Old Crow. We are happy that she has agreed to chair for us for the next three days. Pauline is negotiator and person-in- charge of Land Claims for the Vuntut Gwitchin Government and President of Vuntut Gwitchin Corporation. Pauline is also on the board of Air North, and is Chair of the Salmon Sub-Committee and Past President of Corporate Services of Government of Canada and worked with dealing with Treaties and worked with other First Nations. We are so very happy and humbled to have her. Again, I will go to you as speaking this person is in our country. It is not that she follows our rules. We know she will. It is up to

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 7 us as hosts of her to ensure that, along with all the guests that sit around the table, this is our country which means we don’t own it, but we are responsible for it, and we are responsible for the people who come into our country.

Motion 1 To accept Pauline Frost as Chair, and Youth Councillor Nicole Nicholas-Workman as Co-Chair. Mover: Sheila Kushniruk Seconder: Deborah Workman Decision: Passed by Consensus

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said I now turn the chair over to the Chair, Pauline Frost.

PAULINE FROST said thank you for your welcome. I don’t think any luck is involved. You have guidelines and structures and twenty years of experience to rely on and the advisement of some significant Elders to help and to guide us through the next three days. And I am no stranger to this country. I feel privileged that you have extended me the opportunity to Chair your General Assembly. I have worked with a lot of your senior advisors (Fran Asp, Angie Wabisca, Ian Robinson, and Legal Counsel Brian MacDonald). So, with that, what we are going to do is have our Youth Co-Chair say a few words and then go forward. You have your binders for the next three days and before formalities, we would allow our Youth Co-Chair to introduce herself.

NICOLE NICHOLAS-WORKMAN, Co-Chair, said hello everybody. I am Nicole Nicholas-Workman and the Youth Councillor for Champagne Aishihik First Nations. It was unexpected for me to be the Co-Chair and I will be following the Chair, Pauline Frost and taking her lead. Thank you.

Review and Approval of Agenda GA Rules of Order Resolutions Procedures and Deadline

PAULINE FROST said please introduce yourself when you speak so we can document in the records formally. Please refer to the Rules of Order in your package and we will have a review of the General Assembly procedures. I am also going to refer you to the back wall for the Rules of Order. We will review and approve the GA minutes from last year once we review the GA Rules of Order. One of the main rules I would like to request as you present yourself - be respectful. We want to have good dialogue and respectful dialogue and keep to our timelines, given that we are already behind. The general rules of the GA, as defined and in your procedures binder, you have a structure that is established so you have the Chair and the quorum and at all times we need to have 40 representatives in the room in order to proceed with the General Assembly. We

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 8 ask you to remain in the session as we convene our deliberations. The delegations around the table that represent your villages doesn’t mean that you won’t be given a chance to speak. The advice is to run the GA Resolutions and matters you would like to raise. We also ask that there are requirements of the GA to speak at a very high level. The objective of your General Assembly is to give advice and guidance to your Council. So the advice and guidance you give to your Council will guide them. We ask that we only have one speaker at a time, to allow everyone an opportunity to speak to the matter on the floor. Please raise your hand. And in terms of proceedings for decisions on the floor, we will run the meeting in such a way that resolutions on the floor are represented in a way that is very well thought out. Strategic thinking is what are you asking for, and how do you see the delivery? And we also ask that we have a mover and presenter of a resolution. And follow that same procedure and have discussion and debate. And defer to the Resolutions Committee for proper drafting of the resolutions. As required, the General Assembly will open and close with prayer every day. We also will ask at the close of the day, we will ask the Elders or Delegates to do the closing prayer and Council will do the opening prayer. With regards to the resolutions, we have a new form that is a little different from what you are used to. You will have a new GA Resolutions form. If you are going to be crafting a resolution, there is a draft on the back wall and you can speak to the Resolutions Committee and we will get to that shortly. Anything about the General Assembly?

BARB ALLEN said if we have comments on the Rules and Regulations of the meeting, and clarifications where do we give them, our comments? At the end?

PAULINE FROST said you have all had an opportunity to review Rules and Regulations. You are all familiar with it for your Government structure. It hasn’t changed from year to year. If you need clarification, we would be happy to entertain that now.

BARB ALLEN said Rules of Order No. 3. has voting age. In the past, we always voted in all the abstentions, the majority of the abstentions went to the next vote, and would like to see the abstentions, but recorded as abstention.

PAULINE FROST said I would seek advice from our Legal Counsel because it is critical to your vote as a yes vote.

BRIAN MACDONALD, as Legal Counsel, said my understanding of the question is if a decision goes to a vote, the rules are that it is a majority of those voting in favour. And what the question is whether or not you have three choices when you vote - yes, no, or abstain and not raise your hand one way or the other. And how do those people who abstain get in the vote? Generally, they are abstentions. My understanding is that they generally do not count for or against the resolution but it stands on reading the votes in

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 9 favour. For a resolution to pass, you require 50 percent (50%) plus one, and so abstention would not put that over.

PAULINE FROST said follow Roberts Rules of Order as it applies to abstentions.

CHERYLE PATTERSON said housekeeping for No. 1.d. - can we take out the ‘30’ and just say delegates of the system, if one person leaves?

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said it is to allow for all the delegations. So you can have 30 delegates. That is the maximum. So, quorum for proceeding.

CHERYLE PATTERSON said and if registered under another First Nation under No. 1.e. have to refer to the Constitution as well?

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said in the past, my understanding was that meant eligible Citizens means that you then go to default to No. 3. So, we may need more clarification on that. So, it means those Citizens 16 or over. Our Constitution doesn’t delineate who is a specific Citizen. In the past to go to 16.

CHERYLE PATTERSON said and the voting matters. That may require a vote. The Chair may do a vote by secret ballot. We haven’t done that. We usually do a vote of hands. Just to clarify with new Chairs.

CHERYLE PATTERSON said No. 16 should be worded ‘participants’.

PAULINE FROST said so the document would be revised.

BARB ALLEN said No. 21 in the past we have done resolutions different ways. We have had staff members but I have noticed before some people, when the resolution comes to the floor, they say that is what I said. So, am asking that it be reviewed with the person before coming to the floor.

PAULINE FROST said that is noted for the Resolutions Committee.

DEBBIE WORKMAN said No. 13 secret ballot was requested in there. Sometimes we have a touchy subject and people have a hard time speaking so, that is the only time we would request a secret ballot.

BREANNA SMITH said I just want to on the Constitution have clarification as we are missing pages 3, 5, 7, and 11.

PAULINE FROST said we are getting copies for those who don’t have a proper copy. Now that we have gone over the Rules of Order for the General Assembly, I would like to refer you to your Constitution. Your Constitution defines the formal structure of the GA. And will give a quick overview and ask the Chief to provide assistance if necessary.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 10 The General Assembly - your job is to provide specific direction from the Citizens to the Government by way of resolutions approved by the General Assembly, as taken out of Section 24 of the Constitution. The General Assembly is required to meet on an annual basis and that rotates, and I understand you haven’t been here for eight years. The GA proceeds with its own procedures which we just reviewed, and then the resolutions Committee. And further on in the Constitution, we have also in the structure the Elders Senate and a number of the Elders representatives to provide history and leadership. One of the most fundamental pieces of any Government is to respect the guidance of the Elders and allow the Elders the time to advise the GA, but also respecting that we do have an agenda and try to stick to the topic at hand.

CHUCK HUME said good morning and welcome, Pauline, to our General Assembly in Kusawa Lake. We need clarification and not too sure, but realize we were working on the Government structure and I am not sure if we passed it where we are with the Government structure. It would help if we knew with the Government structure the areas we are looking at. And without the Government structure, I don’t know what we are doing.

PAULINE FROST asked you are asking for an organization structure of the Government? I would like to propose that we get you that information and post on the back board of what the Government structure looks like as it relates to our General Assembly. Our General Assembly is made up of the groups with Chief and Council, Elders Senate, Youth Council, and you have our representation here. In terms of Youth Council, their mandate is to provide advice to the Council and this is their opportunity to give that direction to the leadership so, that it is for the whole community. And we will get you your Constitution shortly.

PAULINE FROST said now for the formal part of the meeting. We will now go through your agenda. (Pauline read the agenda.) So we have some proposed changes.

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said not the agenda in your binders. It was passed out earlier today. Draw a line or rip up the one that was in your binder and use the one on the tables today when you sat down. Alright?

CHERYLE PATTERSON said I went over the agenda and we talked to our Delegation that the CACC and Economic Development report move to Saturday to allow for more time for the Community Delegates to address the concerns and questions given to them prior to the General Assembly.

PAULINE FROST said for clarification, what Cheryle has requested on Day 1 at 1:30 p.m. and the CACC report be deferred to Saturday? Let me have discussion with leadership.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 11 ELAINE CHAMBERS said I would suggest we move through the agenda leadership has set and CACC. If we need time we can carry on with it. Move forward and things can change as we talk. We need to hear some of the reports before we can bring some of our concerns is our thought.

LORRAINE ALLEN said and is it going to be available? I understand there is a Lawyer in the corner to answer for the leadership because I notice in the community concerns there is a question on there about the lands in Whitehorse, or something about the buildings in Whitehorse, and we would like Dave Joe to address the GA and is he here for Saturday or Sunday?

PAULINE FROST said not sure about Dave’s time, so I will ask leadership to respond.

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said yes, Brian MacDonald is on retainer to provide legal advice to Council when we are in Council Meetings. His job here is to provide legal advice to us as part of the General Assembly, and for all of us as the General Assembly. Dave Joe is here as a Citizen, so unless someone older than him tells him he has to stick around and play his card. I wanted to mention a couple of things. I am the one who is going to be leading the reports for both the CACC and the Economic Development discussion. It really depends on how much time to have these discussions. In the past we have seen many times, just using Economic Development as an example. What we tried to do with this is lessen the amount of time for discussion allocated but to give more time to what we felt were priorities for our Citizens. We expressed this to both our Youth and our Elders - our Elders Executive and Youth Executive - that their report is going to be at the most 15 minutes long. Not going to be long reports and entertain questions. So we have embedded our thoughts within that. When we structured the agenda, we tried to structure it in a way that is almost a build up for discussion; that when we go to discussions tomorrow you will have some context for discussions for tomorrow, based on what was said today. And how Economic Development goes into the three circles that we have. Anywhere from 1½ hours for community feedback and concerns. That is up to the General Assembly so that is the context to that.

SALLY JIM said good morning. Nashų k’e shu. For this community feedback, we were talking about it, and we always end the very bottom of the list. Why can’t we move that up after the coffee break? We do have a lot to say and we want to clear all our problems with you guys so we can fix it and deal with it. We always get the end of the picture and we are always rushed.

DEPUTY CHIEF ROSE KUSHINIRUK said we are giving a lot more time to go over resolutions. We have some time to have community feedback so that is where you can give community input. Resolutions continue to Sunday so there is more time for

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 12 Resolutions and community input. Elaine Chambers has made a suggestion that we continue on. I would like to see if we can do that and we can bring up Economic Development at any time. There is a flow and we really did want, in structuring this, we wanted this to flow to get proper background. We can talk about it again on Saturday. We have guest speakers coming in and it is hard moving them around. It is hard to move those things around unless we take up resolutions time. So we can just proceed and as the agenda allows. What is your suggestion - I guess where it should go if you want it moved to Saturday?

PAULINE FROST said there is flexibility to allow for appropriate dialogue for community concerns. So the Motion is to accept the agenda as distributed this morning.

Motion 2 To accept the agenda as presented. Mover: Mary Frances Isaac Seconder: Elaine Chambers Decision: Passed by Consensus

PAULINE FROST said the Chief would look at the agenda and if there was a place to move for community concerns. Before getting into resolutions review, we have the form at the back, please be clear about your resolutions. We have a deadline for 3:00 p.m. on Saturday. You have now until 3:00 p.m. for resolutions, then for Citizens’ review, and then for the floor for discussions. It is very important that we respect the speakers on the floor and it is hard for people to hear the conversation when other conversations are going on. We would ask you to only take the three minutes, and one chance to speak out of respect for all the Delegations and then you would have an opportunity to speak again if there would be more time. To be respectful to others and for good dialogue for others.

Nomination of 2015 Resolutions Committee

PAULINE FROST said moving on to the formal business for the Resolutions Committee with Brian MacDonald, Ian Robinson, Fran Asp, and assistant Amy Hannon-Beattie. We are now opening the floor for two more nominations for sitting on the Resolutions Committee.

SALLY JIM said normally at every meeting we meet everyone. We have been having outside discussions and introductions would be most appropriate right now.

PAULINE FROST said before we do that I would ask Lorraine Stick wanted the floor. And I ask you to keep your introductions short - who you are, where you are from, and your introductions please.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 13 The 2015 GA Delegates introduced themselves. Refer to GA Delegates on page 2 of the minutes.

PAULINE FROST said thank you. I will try to keep that in order. I have my young assistant here to help me remember your names. Again, I will mention the names of the nominees for the Resolutions Committee: Brian MacDonald, Ian Robinson, Fran Asp, and Amy Hannon-Beattie. And now opening the floor for two more Resolutions Committee members.

BARB ALLEN said I would like to nominate Ashley John for Youth.

CHIEF RAY JACKSON said I nominate Cheryle Patterson.

SALLY JIM said I nominate Chuck Hume.

PAULINE FROST asked are there any other nominations from the floor for consideration? We have Ashley John, Cheryle Patterson and Chuck Hume.

DENISE BEATTIE said Amy Hannon-Beattie is a runner today and not available.

PAULINE FROST said we will take Amy off the list. Amy is unable to accept the nomination so we will strike her name and remove her name from the list. So now I would ask to accept the nominations. I just closed it as there were no more names on the table.

BARB ALLEN said my understanding is if we want to have other people on there, do we have the option of having just the delegates?

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said Brian MacDonald has always been the legal person. How many years ago the Assembly suggested two people to sit on the Committee and the senior staff have an inner working of how a nomination could be implemented. So, to provide additional information to the people - if you want to throw it out there ‘we don’t want fishing this year at Klukshu’. So, that is why there has been senior staff and that we have always had two people from Management Committee sit on the Resolutions Committee so they can help structure the resolutions.

PAULINE FROST said thanks for the Committee. I would like to ask Cheryle Patterson if she would like to have her name stand.

CHERYLE PATTERSON said unfortunately, I have to decline.

PAULINE FROST said Ashley John - will you accept the nomination? Think of this as a learning opportunity to work with some pretty amazing people.

ASHLEY JOHN said yes.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 14 PAULINE FROST said so, yes. Elder Chuck Hume?

CHUCK HUME said yes.

PAULINE FROST said Elder Chuck Hume has accepted the nomination. Currently we have five members for the Resolutions Committee. I ask the floor, do you deem that to be enough people or another person, given that you do have that option?

MARIE MCLAREN said I nominate Elaine Chambers.

ELAINE CHAMBERS said I accept.

PAULINE FROST said I will read the Resolutions Committee appointments as Brian MacDonald, Ian Robinson, Fran Asp, Ashley John, Chuck Hume and Elaine Chambers. Do we have a Motion to accept the Resolutions Committee as presented?

Motion 3 To accept those nominated to the Resolutions Committee, as presented. Mover: Sally Jim Seconder: Larry Joe Decision: Passed by Consensus

PAULINE FROST said moved to accept the Resolutions Committee as presented.

Minutes of the 2014 General Assembly - Approval

PAULINE FROST said I’d like to call all Delegates back to the meeting. The next order of business is the minutes from the General Assembly held in July, 2014. I will call for discussion.

ELAINE CHAMBERS asked the Attendees list from the Minutes - has everyone who attended been listed, not just Citizens?

PAULINE FROST said given it is the formal proceedings for your General Assembly, it is probably for the record that these are the attendees who attended the GA, so you want to make note of those.

ELAINE CHAMBERS asked is that what it is Chief? Whoever comes?

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said this is the first time it has ever come up as a discussion piece - a suggestion that it should only be Citizens. My thought, from my standpoint is that we always have had people who were here. It didn’t matter if they were Citizens or not. I don’t know. Okay?

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 15 CHERYLE PATTERSON said my feeling is that it is attendance so that everyone that was here is on the list. And last year I was here and my grandson, Jordan, and also Fran Peterson isn’t on there and we were at the General Assembly last year.

PHYLLIS SMITH said I have a question on the minutes on page 22 with the Youth, the first one was an amendment for the rules of the Youth Council going from 16 to 23 and they want to move it from 14 to 24. Was that amended? Is that the advice now that youth is 14 to 24?

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said yes. That is a report from the Youth Council. The Youth Council, similar to the Elders Senate, has sole discretion for the rules that they follow. They were making a note to the General Assembly and it has to go further on to 2017 when we have a GA around the discussion around the Constitution. Then that amendment would be embedded in the Constitution. But under our Constitution, it is the Youth that get to change their policy and procedure.

PHYLLIS SMITH said if they move it to 14 to 24, are the youth allowed to vote?

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said the voting age is 16 in our governing Constitution. For Youth Council votes, and for people who can be directly involved in Youth Council, they have opened up their parameters so it is for their proceedings.

PHYLLIS SMITH said I wanted it noted so that they don’t get confused that Youth can vote at 14.

PAULINE FROST asked are there any more discussion or amendments for the minutes? We had a few things and for clarity and to make sure Youth are aware and will tie into the Constitution with its own due process, and that the Youth report has also made note. Cheryle Patterson has indicated there were some names not on the list and it was noted in the minutes on page 1 as an acknowledgement that there were some names that are not listed here. Some of these, for the minute taker who takes the names, if she is not aware I don’t think it was intended. Again, if you state your name for the record. If there are no more amendments to the minutes as presented, I would like to move that the minutes be accepted.

Motion 4 To accept the minutes of the 2014 Champagne and Aishihik First Nations General Assembly as presented. Mover: Debbie Workman Seconder: Phyllis Smith Decision: Passed by Consensus

PAULINE FROST said we have accepted the minutes.

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Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said we would give Lawrence the opportunity to read through all the GA Resolutions from 2014 and the responses to them and, at the end entertain questions with regard to the floor with motions and their follow up.

LAWRENCE JOE said good morning. I have been blessed and honored to spend time with many Elders travelling down Kusawa Lake. Where we are holding the meeting is the campsite of Jimmie G. Smith’s father, Jake. Jimmie wanted us to call this place Jakes Landing after his Dad.

This is my 30th General Assembly. 30. So I want to make a comment that in 1986 the General Assembly was held up in Aishihik. I will go through the GA Resolutions for 2014 and will just go through the “Therefore Be It Resolved” portion of the resolution and then the response and actions.

GA Resolution 2014-01 Citizen Client Services: Response/action is that Council’s 2014- 2018 Strategic Plan identifies a one window approach to Citizen based programming. This will require designation of more than one existing position to help Citizens navigate programs and services offered by CAFN. Over the 2015 GA weekend, Council will be seeking direction from CAFN Citizens on potential delivery models that seek to provide a more Citizen focused program delivery.

GA Resolution 2014-02 Takhini Garbage System: Response/action is that bear resistant garbage containers were provided to all homes in Takhini with funding from the Gas Tax.

GA Resolution 2014-04 Salmon Management: Response/action is that the Alsek runs are expected to be slightly above average, but that will not be realized until the runs start making it to Klukshu. The Yukon River Mainstream Chinook runs are expected to be below average and there will be conservative management for the entire Yukon River. CAFN attends both Trans-boundary Rivers and Yukon River panel meetings. We at CAFN also attend meetings with the Salmon Sub-Committee and there are some smaller projects we are looking at implementing. At the CYFN GA, they passed a resolution regarding salmon.

GA Resolution 2014-05 Contracting Procedures: Response/action is that CAFN departments are posting all tenders on the website and emailing to CAFN contact lists. There is a new draft Finance Policy that deals with tendering and contracting. Contract review and award procedure is under development. Draft policy is available over in the tent.

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GA Resolution 2014-07 Expanded Champagne Potlatch House: Response/action is restroom improvements are completed. Other interior improvements will be done this summer. Champagne Hall expansion design, costing and feasibility not completed. Has neither been started or budgeted.

GA Resolution 2014-08 Champagne Graveyard Expansion: Response/action is Lands will assist with mapping and acquisition of necessary land and will inspect and maintain fencing of the community graveyard. Lands, Culture and Heritage can provide past research done on Champagne gravesites. Have been discussions with Yukon Government as to how we might be able to do this, as well as with the Citizen who owns the land, and hope to address this issue this year.

GA Resolution 2014-09 Preservation of Compensation Funds: Response/action is this Resolution is being implemented. No requests for draw down of funds outside the CA Trust Funding Policy have been made since the request for support of Da Kų. That request was supported by a GA Resolution in 2007. Spending Policy is currently under review and also in the booth in the other tent.

GA Resolution 2014-10 Promoting a Unified People: Response/action is Finance and Spending policies are under review. CAFN detailed long form census has been budgeted for in the 2015-16 budget and Governance and ECO are currently creating tools and a process for this project. This data will provide information for decision making.

GA Resolution 2014-11 Promoting a Unified People – Part Two: Response/action is the “S” in Nations has been removed from any non-legal documents. First step is removing “S”.

GA Resolution 2014-12 Community Economic Development: The response/action is CAFN Government is currently reviewing its Economic Development strategies and activities, as well as partnerships with other First Nations within the Western Yukon Region.

GA Resolution 2014-13 Education Support: Response/action is Education summarized cost and number of students involved. 2012-2013: $36,493 – 17 students affected. 2013-2014: $53,138 – 24 students affected. Total: $89,621. More information is

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GA Resolution 2014-15 Facility known as the Aishihik Treatment Centre: Response/action is the property needs to be inspected. Building has not been used in over 20 years and a significant investment in repairs is required. The future potential uses of the building need to be determined. The newer and well maintained Ashèyi Shäkāt Kų Cultural Camp with a hall and four small cabins is located one km. south of the airport buildings.

GA Resolution 2014-16 Increase CAFN Housing Stock: Response/action is in the 2015- 16 budget, the $165,000 capital budget is being used for office and phone system repairs and Da Kų paving. The only replacement to housing stock in 2014 were two insurance rebuilds, one in Haines Junction and one in Takhini. Ongoing relationship with CMHC, First Nation Market Housing Fund, and recent discussion with Yukon Housing to explore options. Asset management strategy needed to ensure proper management of existing assets and replacement reserve. A housing stock analysis is needed as a result of the Department review and the census. We need to get our housing stock and housing in order first.

GA Resolution 2014-17 Land Use Application by Lumber Mill in Canyon Creek: Response/action is the GA Resolution was communicated to Yukon Government and the application was denied.

GA Resolution 2014-18 Bison Herd Reduction: Response/action is CAFN developed a Socio-economic Assessment that made recommendations to address our concerns. The challenge is to find a way to increase harvest without increasing the number of hunters on the land. We are receiving more concerns about Bison hunters than we are about the Bison themselves. We need to increase the cow harvest and not necessarily increase the total number of Bison harvested. This past year, the hunting season was increased by removing the mid-winter closure from some areas. A record high harvest of 176 Bison occurred. There is a regulation change proposal submitted to allow for additional group/community harvesting.

GA Resolution 2014-19 FASC Effects Programs: Response/action is five front line staff from the Community Wellness Department attended an eleven day FASD Collaborative Case Management Certificate Program from October – December 2014. This was a partnership between FASSY, YG, YC and CYFN. Participants learned “best practice” approaches in developing and evaluating FASC case plans.

GA Resolution 2014-20 CAFN Culture Policy: Response/action is the Human Resources Department has hired a CAFN contractor to assist the staff development

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 19 officer with the creation of a training program for CAFN staff that enhances their awareness of CAFN traditions, culture and history.

GA Resolution 2014-22 CAFN Government Office Closures: Response/action is this resolution was discussed with the Elders Senate and is being implemented. The Human Resources Policy is being revised to address this change.

GA Resolution 2014-23 Program Assessment and Review: Response/action is CAFN administration has embarked on a department by department internal review with the assistance of external subject area experts. The Finance Standing Committee has been established as a priority and are developing their mandate based on the direction given by this resolution. Post-Secondary, Income Assistance, Finance and Homeownership Policies are under review. Also updated CAFN website and CAFN Citizens will be consulted.

GA Resolution 2014-24 CA Community Corporation Mandate and Restructuring: Response/action is working with an interim board to identify next steps. The report on the operations of the CA Community Corporation will be delivered later today at this assembly. The shareholder, Council, has taken over the workings of the interim board and the mandate for CACC would be reviewed this fall.

GA Resolution 2014-25 Student and Elder Housing in Whitehorse: Response/action is Education – Yukon College provides affordable housing on campus to meet needs of single and mature students and students with families, below market value. Availability varies, and students need to apply for housing as early as possible. Median rent in Whitehorse is $950, vacancy rate was 6.4%. Living allowances were increased 30% in 2013, and Yukon Grant ($3,652 - $5,452) is no longer being deducted from students by CAFN. No progress on Elders’ housing options.

GA Resolution 2014-26 Economic Development Entrepreneurship: Response/action is continued focus and successes with the Entrepreneurial Equity Fund, Business Employment Enhancement Fund, Employment Opportunities Program and contracting and tendering process which falls under the new Finance Policy. Also it should be noted that the CAFN Government is working closely with the Village of Haines Junction to identify strategic joint venture opportunities. CAFN Government is also working closely with the Yukon Government to build Emergency Medical Service capacity. An Economic Development Standing Committee will be established. Dakwäkada Development Corporation hired seven students with support from CAFN, and big planning such as the recent Da Kų celebration.

GA Resolution 2014-27 Programs and Services for Citizens Off Settlement Land: Response/action is a number of programs and services are being delivered off

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GA Resolution 2014-28 Personal Finance and Budget Training for Citizens: Response/action is currently researching options for delivering this training. The 2015- 16 Employment Opportunities Program has a financial literacy component integrated into its delivery.

GA Resolution 2014-29 Support and Lobbying for Yukon Native Languages: Response/action is potentially part of Language Mandate to come from CAFN Language Act. It is part of a bigger picture of deciding where we want to focus CAFN language efforts and spending. Work is being done at the First Nation Education Commission towards this, may provide assistance to achieving language goals. We continue to partner with the Bi-Cultural Program at St. Elias School.

GA Resolution 2014-30 Summer Students: Response/action is the hiring of summer students has been a priority this year. We currently have 13 students and there will be more by year end. That has been done. Had a meeting with students to impart information about Land claims and every CAFN Department had a summer student. At least twenty summer students hired this year.

GA Resolution 2014-31 Recognition Plaques for St. Elias Language Students: Response/action is Education has funding support for cultural programs in Haines Junction as does St. Elias School.

GA Resolution 2014-32 Acquisition of Elders Stories and Cultural History: Response/action is CYFN administers the Yukon Native Language Centre with funding support from Yukon. Chiefs raised this issue at May 2015 Leadership meetings. Waiting for a response from CYFN.

GA Resolution 2014-33 Takhini Cultural Camp: Response/action is CAFN hosted Traditional Medicines/Culture Camp for Champagne/Takhini communities in the Fall 2014 and Spring 2015.

GA Resolution 2014-34 Community Road Maintenance: Response/action is privatization option will be included as part of Property Services Department review in 2015. Property Services Department has a very limited budget of $30,000 to maintain 20 kilometres of community roads summer and winter.

GA Resolution 2014-35 CAFN Community Hall Maintenance Repairs: Response/action is improvements to the rest room were completed at the Champagne Hall, more repairs and renovations to interior will be completed this summer. Klukshu Hall had significant repairs last year. A checklist will be prepared for the Halls’ cleaning and inspection.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 21 LAWRENCE JOE said there are four resolutions that were not passed or withdrawn and I won’t read those.

PAULINE FROST said I will now open the floor for questions.

DARLENE JIM regarding GA Resolution 2014-33 Takhini Cultural Camp, said Takhini Culture Camp, but why does it say traditional whereas there was just a Traditional Medicine Camp in Takhini? And when are we going to be receiving our Culture Camp? And along with that there is a lot of stuff that has been allocated, like programs allocated just to Haines Junction and Klukshu, and this is all that has happened at Takhini. We would like to see more happen for us and that is all we have received is the Traditional Medicine Camp. Thank you.

BARB ALLEN regarding GA Resolution 2014-05 Contracting Procedures, said all contracts posted on website - I want to know if that exists. Are the contracts always posted?

BARB ALLEN regarding GA Resolution 2014-09 Preservation of Compensation Funds, said Compensation Funds and they talk about the Spending Policy. Any changes before these changes happened? Has the General Assembly been consulted? Have they? So they just draft a policy and we get to look at it after the fact?

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said as always the Spending Policy was adopted by the General Assembly. Any changes that are made would have to come back to the General Assembly for amendment.

BARB ALLEN regarding GA Resolution 2014-19 FASD Effects Programs, said staff training for FASD and I think he (Chief Ray Jackson) was asking about programming for someone to help and assist for caregivers with FASD, but instead we are just training people.

BARB HUME said good morning everybody. One is about having programs and services for all our Citizens regardless of where they live. I wanted to say that is still not happening and the intent of our people, and it has been discussed, and it is still not happening. An oversight, or whatever, but not understanding what the intent of these resolutions are. My cousin here was applying for CHWB Fund. She told me because she wasn’t from here she didn’t qualify. I find that appalling as she is a Citizen and the money is our Land Claims dollars, not programming from DIA, or whatever, and should disallow even in Whitehorse. She was denied and I want to make sure that she is reinstated and can apply. And about Barb Allen and FASD on Resolution 2014-19 and going to say the same thing - that it only speaks to staff training and Citizens’ training. I am not aware of it and it only speaks to training, not programming. In the past, we had looked at other programming and had started the Employment Opportunities Program

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MARGARET WORKMAN said I wanted to refer to GA Resolution 2014-03 No Alcohol at Da Kų Cultural Centre that did not pass. I do not want this to be accepted as is. This is our heritage and, in our heritage, we did not allow alcohol in our celebration. So this is why this resolution was put in that no alcohol would be served at Da Kų Cultural Centre because there are other outlets in Haines Junction that serve alcohol. If they want to drink they can go there. I want this resolution to come back. I don’t want alcohol served in Da Kų.

GEORGINA GRIFFITH regarding GA Resolution 2014-31 Recognition Places for St. Elias Language Students, said giving plaques to St. Elias Community Schools? What about the other schools in Whitehorse and all CAFN children? And Darlene Jim’s comment on GA Resolution 2014-33. For culture, we don’t get the drum making, blanket making, knife making, beading, or language. We would like those options to happen out there too.

PAULINE FROST asked are there any more discussions or clarification needed on the GA Resolutions from 2014?

CHUCK HUME regarding GA Resolution 2014-04 Salmon Management, said yes, I know this resolution seems to not even look at the Takhini River system. All it looks at is the Yukon River and we would like some means of gaining some information. Are we low in that population in the Takhini River? Are we low or high, or is there any fish coming up there anymore? I can remember Annie Ned pulling out five or six fish every day, and then she would go to Dalton Post and get sockeye. She mainly fished that area and I don’t know what the population was like. I think we need to make an attempt to do a count because the system has been harvested so much; it is a system that has been depleted and it was Takhini River that was very high in numbers. Thank you.

PAULINE FROST said what I heard and recommendations and a lot of the recommendations are administrative and directions to resolutions already presented. Reminders there were some recommendations to bring back resolutions from previous years and you do have that opportunity, and I ask you to work with your resolutions Committee. Posting contracts - Council and staff has heard and will be noted in the

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 23 minutes. Changes to Spending Policy was clarified and in terms of programs and services to Citizens. As we all know we get certain amount of funds from the Government. It is not the programs and services down from the Government for what you are to deliver to your Citizens. Anything over and above has to come from over and above, and staff would be informed for future expansion and delivery. In regards to plaques for other children - that has been noted - about equity and fairness for all Citizens including the Takhini and Alsek area. That is my summary back to you in terms of recommendations back to Council. Now going to ask Councillor Walker to comment and then adjourn for lunch.

COUNCILLOR LESLIE WALKER said hello everyone and I am happy to be here. When you are questioning these resolutions, I thought we would give you a kind of response and the other thing is I would hope we have other suggestions. So, when you talk about things that are affecting you directly and you have the solutions. When Chuck Hume talks about salmon, he is on the ground and has the recommendations, not only as a group what the issue is, but what we should do to handle it. And Community Wellness has come up and should be revolving a lot and those people who know how to fill out the forms get the funds. And if someone has an issue, please try to come with an answer as well as to how you think we can address these issues.

MARIE MARTIN regarding GA Resolution 2014-01 Citizen Client Services, said I believe it speaks to what Council wants to do with one window service. And there is a housing first strategy. One of the main approaches for our people who are dealing with addictions, or what not, would be having a study done for our First Nations. There are a lot of studies and a study out of Calgary, Alberta that has reduced homelessness. And Outreach in all services around social determinants of health, pre-natal, and nutritional program. Community care, but Outreach is important - to meet with people where they are at and talk to them about where they want to go. You can’t force people to be clean, but you can meet with them. Crisis intervention to individual crisis in all our communities for a plan to be in place; for a team approach. And a matter of sending in people with different skills depending on the crisis - whether death or dying, house fire, murder - for those things that happen in all communities. A ground up approach. We are not all in the front line. That is where people are able to see and implement different strategies with your communities and Citizens, and breaking down determinants in Departments. It involves every Government Department and it is about working together and having meetings, and discussions with the Departments dealing with the individuals that are on the ground. It seems to be an approach that is more congruent with housing, finance, nutrition, and health. So, those would be my recommendations.

PAULINE FROST said thank you for your great feedback and recommendations. Now we are in the part of our agenda where we are going to call to the front the Chair of the Finance Standing Committee, Shadelle Chambers, and the Finance Director, Trish

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Review and Approval – CAFN Financial Audit

TRISH GEORGE said I would like to introduce Erik Hoenisch as Auditor of Crowe MacKay LLP. Let Erik start and then get right into the financials.

SHADELLE CHAMBERS said before we pass the mike on to Erik, I would like to mention that, as an initiative under Better Government and our three priorities, we have established the Finance Standing Committee. I am the Chair and we have Chief Steve Smith, Executive Director Ranj Pillai, Trish George as Director of Finance, and Fran Asp as Finance/Policy Analyst. We just had our first meeting to focus on the work our Finance Standing Committee would do. Under Better Government, we wanted to ensure that financial resources are used efficiently and will look at that transparency and controls of CAFN, and that all the aspects are in alignment, and ensure we are using the funds appropriately. We met with Auditors and management and we are looking at a number of other initiatives including reviewing the new draft Finance Policy and having for Council in the fall to tighten up procedures. We are also meeting with management with the recommendations from the Auditor and also looking at our Government Administration Act and Financial Administration Act to ensure things are in alignment. That is what we are doing in terms of our Better Government initiatives, and I will pass this back to Erik to discuss the Financial Statements under tab #8.

ERIK HOENISH said Crowe MacKay has been the Auditors for many years and are pleased to again present the Financial Statement. Really quick explanation what the auditor does. We are appointed by Chief and Council. We discuss with management and Chief and Council the timing of the audit and any issue that might affect the audit. We can only do the audit if we have cooperation from the Departments. We supply the Financial Statements to be signed, we issue and prepare a management letter, and we do correcting for the Finance Department. In the package are your statements and we helped prepare them. We just give an opinion that they present fairly and correctly what happened during the year and what your balance sheet looks like on March 31st. We will ask are all those receivables collectible? If you bought a vehicle, can we see the documentation behind that? We check with Lawyers and get confirmations on what happened during the year and we discuss all these with the Finance Department. What we do not do is try to manage your operations. We can give opinions on recommendations and on how to improve this, but this is management and, ultimately, Chief and Council. The Auditor Report is approved by Chief and Council. Just to reiterate that this is a very fast turnaround for us, as Auditors, to sign off by the end of June in three months. Some First Nations take six months or longer before the audits are finished. On the balance sheet, page 4 is a snap shot of what your First Nation is

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 25 worth from an accounting point of view from July 31, 2015. The biggest asset, in terms of buildings, is Da Kų and then assets are accounts receivable and, of course, the biggest assets are in CA Trust. In terms of revenues on page 6, are about $20M and that is fairly consistent year to year, and you have expenses, and you have a surplus, and what that does is give gains and losses with the CA Trust. The only other thing I would bring to your attention is something that we focus in on is on investments. In various entities, you have receivables on page 14 and one thing we are always concerned about with receivables is how those can be collected. The other item that I bring to your attention on page 17 is deferred revenue. To build Da Kų you received money up front from Government. That is now your liability and you have a lease with Parks Canada for forty years, and that liability continues to come down year over year. Those are the highlights of the Financial Statements. If there are any specific questions, I will try to answer them. And thank you for the opportunity to be your Auditors again. We have a very good relationship with CAFN and we are happy to present this audit.

TRISH GEORGE asked are there any questions on our Financial Statements?

DAYLE MACDONALD asked are you going through this or we are just getting an overview? Is that it? As far as the surplus for last year, what is that? Or the deficit?

ERIK HOENISH said yes, there is a $2M surplus showing from an accounting point of view. Again, a good chunk of your revenue comes from investment - about $4.3M from the CA Trust.

DAYLE MACADONALD said I don’t know if this has been discussed, but I have a question regarding surpluses or deficits. In this case, there is a huge surplus and I am not sure how much of that is coming out of the Departments. What I am hearing is a lot of the surplus has to do with capital? Is it the capital? How much surplus is coming out of the Departments? Out of operations? And with that, as far as process goes, I am wondering what CAFN is doing with the surplus?

TRISH GEORGE said every year, the kind of budgeting CAFN does, is called zero based budgeting. Any Department surplus gets transferred back into the fund for the next year’s operations. $115,000 approximately rolled into the working operations for the 2015-16 year.

DAYLE MACDONALD said when budgeting happens, we have the Departments saying this is what we are doing for the year and when that is done, or not done, then there is a surplus or deficit that is rolled back. I am wondering about the accountability and if there is huge surplus, why aren’t the programs there? Why aren’t the services there? When it is rolled back into the consolidated fund, the accountability isn’t there as to why they have such a huge discrepancy, especially when they come and say this is what we

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 26 need for the year. There needs to be some accountability and controls in there throughout the year.

TRISH GEORGE said part of our audit process is management goes through the draft financials four or five times - a long process - but we have rationalization and a cap of $5,000.00. Every management has to manage deficits and surpluses over that amount. We do look at that as well.

SHADELLE CHAMBERS said one of our initiatives, as the Finance Standing Committee is to beef up reporting. Chief and Council have a level of responsibility for oversight, but Directors have day to day accountability. Trying to strengthen reporting and financials are reviewed monthly as a group. We are only nine months into our term but one of our issues to implement when our new budget gets passed in October.

DAYLE MACDONALD said and Finance Standing Committee Terms of Reference, if that is available, would be good to see. Thank you for that.

ELAINE CHAMBERS said I want to know what the investment in CA Community Corporation in 2014 was. $821,180 in 2014 and $1,047,081 this year and I want to know what that is for.

TRISH GEORGE said a lot is the amortization in the building. We don’t budget for amortization.

ELAINE CHAMBERS said you should budget for it; it shows off side. You budget for everything; you should budget for amortization.

TRISH GEORGE said it has not been our practice to date to budget for amortization. The whole audit is consolidated and has a lot of CA Trust, DDC, and amortization.

ELAINE CHAMBERS said this is page 6 budget for Da Kų Cultural Centre, not to do with other Corporations.

TRISH GEORGE said right. So, that is amortization and your question about CACC - could you ask again?

ELAINE CHAMBERS said page 16 advances shows $821,180 for 2014 and this year $1,047,081.

ERIK HOENISH said during the year there was another $250,000 contributed to the CACC and the reason was for management for operational purposes.

PAULINE FROST asked are there any more questions for the Finance Standing Committee specific to the audit?

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 27 DEBBIE WORKMAN said I was wondering this last year and this is where we couldn’t allow the alcohol into Da Kų - is it generating any income on itself? That is why we couldn’t decide. They threw a big wedding. Is there an income actually coming in there?

SHADELLE CHAMBERS said on Page 33 the statements for Da Kų under Other & Retail is revenue of $56,000. That is how much the retail store and rental stores were bringing in for last fiscal year.

PAULINE FROST said seeing as we have no more questions from the Delegates, I would like to propose we go to a motion to approve the Financial Statements.

Motion 5 To accept Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Audited Financial Statements for the period of April 1, 2014 to March 31, 2015 as presented. Mover: Phyllis Smith Seconder: Chief Paul Birckel Decision: Passed by Consensus

PAULINE FROST said the audit as presented has been moved and we now move to accept the Audited Financial Statements as presented. All those opposed to the Financial Statements as presented, now is the time to present your opposition. Seeing as there is no opposition, we accept the Audited Financial Statements as presented.

ELAINE CHAMBERS said over the last two years we have requested the budget going forward for the next fiscal year. We want to know going forward what our money is going to be spent on and how it is going to benefit our people, and where it is all going.

SHADELLE CHAMBERS said we do have a copy of the revenue sheet and we will get that to each community.

ELAINE CHAMBERS said I would like to have that information in our kits so we are prepared. Going forward I do understand sometimes we have to wait but would want to see this. Maybe a list of what everyone wants and get that here.

DAYLE MACDONALD said I would like to support what Elaine Chambers said. Further, when these budgets are in place, I am wondering if there are strategic plans or work plans from the Departments that went with this, or is it just the vision priorities? If you have budgets you have to have some plans in place so you can measure whether you are meeting your goals or not.

SHADELLE CHAMBERS said strategic work plans were approved by Council. Not sure if they would be useful but we did approve for each Department.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 28 DAYLE MACDONALD said it would be good to know what each Department is doing each year. And services in Takhini and Champagne - the Citizens can see this and know what is going to be happening for their communities. Really hard to see just the money - what was spent or not. It doesn’t show if we are getting the programs and services we need.

PAULINE FROST said on the agenda there is specific discussion about programs and services and tomorrow morning strategic priorities tie in with resolutions and strategic priorities from Departments and the strategic document presented this morning. During 11:00 am there will be an opportunity for discussions on Citizen Services. Thanks for the great comments and we will tie those into the notes and the minutes.

PAULINE FROST said we are now going to have reports from the Elders Executive and have Chief Paul Birckel do his presentation as Chair for the Elders Executive. After that, the Youth Council with Jessica Mazur. Then CACC and the Economic Development Report. Chief Smith will have the floor for those two discussions. I would like to call Chief Paul Birckel to do his presentation for the Elders Senate.

Elders Executive Report

CHIEF PAUL BIRCKEL said thank you. The Executive Report we had the past year - we have been working on Terms of Reference for the Elders Council and had quite a few meetings on it and review of certain things. Last meeting we had was a review of the Language Act and spent the better part of the meeting on what the proposed act would be, and our suggestions on what should be included. We were cut back on a number of meetings we were to have. And cut back for an overall Senate Meeting with all the Elders and that was supposed to be in the spring. So I can’t report on that but the few things we were able to review and come with our views and came back into that area. Don’t have a very long report.

PAULINE FROST said thank you, Chief Birckel. I think we will reserve comments and questions until all the reports are done.

Youth Executive Report

JESSICA MAZUR said I am the Co-Chair of the Youth Executive with Co-Chair Andrew Pauls. Last year we talked about ongoing issues with the Youth Centre. We talked about the drugs and alcohol with our Youth. I think we should put a program together to send them away if they need it, and programs in Haines Junction and Whitehorse to get them doing something other than drinking and drugs. At the last meeting, my Uncle Chuck Hume talked about drugs and alcohol and in the schools. We only had one meeting this year. Thank you.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 29 PAULINE FROST asked are there any questions at this point for the Elders Senate or the Youth Senate? There are some great requests from the Youth and they are requesting something that is great. Are there any questions for Youth Council or Youth Senate? Seeing none, I would call on Chief Smith to do presentations on CACC and Economic Development discussion.

Champagne Aishihik Community Corporation Report

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said good afternoon everybody. My report is verbal and for a reason in that I want to engage people in discussion as to thoughts discussions and further clarification. The reports are somewhat pretty basic and I will also give you an idea what our ideas as Council are for moving forward. So for CACC, as of July 2014, the General Manager resigned and left the Board and then when we were elected to office, at that time, two members that were appointed as Council, they were Council appointments at that time and they were Mary Jane Jim and James Allen. So when they were done being Chief and Council, they were done being on that Board. The Board itself and the Corporation has really struggled. We said this last year. There was no General Manager and there was talk about restructuring and redoing of CACC. In my role as Chief and given quite a bit of lee way by fellow Councillors, I felt that that was the prudent thing to do - that the CACC can and should serve a process in a broader CAFN picture. Chief and Council, having reviewed the goings on in the past for the CACC, gave instruction that we were to support it and by, quite literally, appointing a couple of other members from Chief and Council so we could keep the business going, as a going concern because if there is no Board, there are a couple of things going on. CACC does hold some community assets and we have also administered the Fire Suppression contract from Yukon Government. We needed to keep that going and the most cost effective way was to appoint a number of Chief and Council onto the Board and then start the process to develop a proper mandate for the CACC. May or April, 2015 Council appointed Chief Smith and Deputy Chief Kushniruk was already a member of the Board. We appointed our Executive Director, Ranj Pillai and fellow Councillor Shadelle Chambers to join the one and only remaining person, Andres Fortin to the Board. We also, at that time when we came to office, given the fact there was no administrative capacity at all with CACC, we had asked and received assistance from DaKwäKada Development Corporation staff to provide us with the very basic assistance with cheque writing and financial statements tasks. So, now what are we doing with it? This Board is interim and I will tell you, personally, I do not want to be on the Boards. I am the Chief. I am a shareholder of that Board as the rest of the Council and the Nation itself and I don’t think there should be any political appointments on that Board. Having said that, we needed to keep it as a going concern so our idea with the CACC almost immediately after the General Assembly is to redevelop a new mandate - a new vision - and proper financing for CACC. When we have those pieces, we will then be going out

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 30 to solicit interested people to sit on the Board from our membership. I believe we have the skills that can actually operate a Board in a good way as long as they have a proper mandate. We hope by early 2016 we will actually have a functioning CACC. To be honest with you, the slate is completely clean until we hear from our people - until we actually get discussions going on it. This CACC can take many iterations until we find our proper trail, the way that we are going to set it up. There are examples such as Teslin has membership with the Village of Teslin so they work with the Village and a very successful set up and structure that is rewarding them with quite a few contracts right now. A Yukon First Nation has signed a Contribution Agreement with another First Nation to provide municipal services. There are a lot of things that can be done through the CACC. It is up to us to build up what the CACC is actually going to do and finding the right people to be on the Board. When the Board is in place, they would be hiring a General Manager to run the Corporation. So, that is the down and dirty of the CACC. That is a file that sits on my desk. As the Chief, I am the one who is working really closely with our Executive Director and a new economic development officer. My goal would be to have a functioning CACC Board with a new vision for 2016. I will open for any questions.

ELAINE CHAMBERS asked that $1M was a cumulative amount?

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said last year’s Chief and Council had budgeted $250,000 toward the Board. This year we have not budgeted anything towards CACC, but we hope to find the funds. I know the funding pots and we will be pursuing those to actually start our discussion. Are there any other questions?

FRED BROWN SR. said I would like to say a few words myself. I agree, first of all, our talk to the Chief here. I agree with what you said there as support. We need support from the Delegate or the people who live in the community. You actually have to change a way of living. When we first had this land claim, Paul Birckel here - I want to ask you a question afterward. So, I say you got too many different people that doesn’t belong to Champagne Aishihik. That is where all your mix up is. First time, when we sign in 1993 up here so we are going to run our own band. Keep them under control. That is just going on everywhere. There is a lot to be said. Some are really pretty smart, but I am telling you the money problem you are going to have. According to your finance here - you see your finance here, see that paper - now consider sit down and look at it. I am afraid that if you want the kind of life the Government in Ottawa. The Prime Minister said to somebody Native Indian like me would ask him he would say ‘no, we are going to keep it that way - we want you to live like me.’ That is what he said and that is what you are right now. But you have got to have money. You always have to be full of money. Going to be a few years here you are going to see my problem and two years starting already. Your food problem and all different things are going to happen. Our animals going down because I live in the woods. I don’t live in the city - the city life. I live the way

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 31 my parents taught me and that is the way I am going to live. And also my Grandchildren. You will be needing help from them too. Because the time is here now. Right now. In a few years you are going to see a difference. I am telling you the truth. Elijah was my close relation. When he came back from the service and they talked a lot of time but Louie Wolf, his American brotherhood, is the one who started Yukon Native Brotherhood. That is where you are right now. You are changing your culture. If that is the way you want to live, it is up to you. I am saying my last words to you, that’s it. I said it before but it keeps bothering me. I don’t want to see these young people being hungry time after time. They are supposed to work in the wilderness. Now they want a table like this. That is the white man style. Indian style is different. Take my word. Somebody has got to say something. Is there any way to tell you the truth if you want to stay that way? Stay that way and figure it out for yourself. You will find the way I am telling you because I see it. I read it in the paper. I read a lot of paper. You have got a lot of big culture in Haines Junction. Who is going to pay for it? Is it bringing in enough money for you? That is what I would say to you Chief Steve Smith. And ask you, Paul a question - What do you think about how the meeting is going on Paul?

CHIEF PAUL BIRCKEL said it is going okay.

FRED BROWN SR. said well, the way I see it is not going to work. You and I, the time when we signed the paper - we thought a different way. I told you many times, Paul, let that money be spent out of our pocket amongst our people. I study it. I was here before the white man. I was here before the road. That is why you are talking around a table now. A white man’s table - something like this. Are they getting along? No, they argue back and forth. Different law. They got different law. Indian - we got our own law. I see that you are from Old Crow (to Pauline Frost) so you come up here. So, I understand your culture is way different than mine. So that is where all the mix up is. If you had one place to talk to them, you will get really good support. I thank you. Well, Paul, thank you very much for trying to help somebody. Thank you.

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said what I said early on was to listen, hear what our people had to say in their words. You have to listen to the story. We are people with giving stories. So, it is important to hear our Elders. He has the same worries as the rest of us, for our kids. Kwänaschis.

FRED BROWN SR. said good luck.

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH asked is there any other discussion with regards to the CACC itself?

Dän Nätthe Ada CHIEF STEVE SMITH said if there are any other questions, come and talk to me. Don’t let it fester or anything else. Or if you are confused, come and talk to me.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 32 ELAINE CHAMBERS said a suggestion maybe we could put up flip charts and have people write things down.

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said very good. We will direct our staff to do that. And the other thing I want people to understand - I have heard your comments. You know there are people who sit and listen and who don’t engage directly and there are people who talk. And most of you know I am one who talks lots. We listen. We heard what someone had to say. We grab that person and let them know our feelings. That is how we do things. It is what we do. Don’t be too hard on the people who share. They could be talking about others and a Councillor said I am not engaged today. There is a difference between being engaged and participating. People here are engaged. You are here and listening and you are trying to get something from what we are talking about. And our young people - you sit and listen until you learn.

Economic Development Report

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said about economic development for CAFN, I hear people talk and I think our number one goal right now is to create an understanding of what economic development is. If we went around the table, everyone here would have different standpoint. From my understanding, I have a bit of education and experience in economic development. Economic development from a Government standpoint is different from an individual entrepreneur and from a business community. From the economic development side, we are worried about jobs. We are worried about our community. We may not actually be building a store but what we are doing is building policies, laws, and our legislation. Our budgeting is pointed at assisting those individuals, those entrepreneurs to come and invest their time and money in our communities. We know that when someone starts a business in our community and it is successful, the chances are that they are going to create jobs. And I have impressed on our Council - and you are going to hear more of it from me - we are going to do economic development from a Government focus. When you see our budget you are going to see areas where we actually spent money on economic development. It is not business development; it is assisting our people to go to work. A couple of things we are going to initiate right away. We are in the process of doing our Terms of Reference for a Standing Committee of Economic Development. I want to give you a bit of a context for our Standing Committees. One of the things was that for many years our Councillors have sat and had a portfolio - housing, finance and given those Departments something new. It was a really engaging exercise for a Councillor and sometime they had no idea. So I wanted our Councillors to have a real impact on the high level policy for CAFN. It’s the trail that we are going on. Think of it that way. These people are going to try and figure out the trail that we are going to take. That is one thing I saw the Standing Committee was going to do. Our first one created - I didn’t really want to be on the Finance Committee but the resident expert on finance can’t do it so I stepped in. Most

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 33 Standing Committees are internal and goes to the suggestion by Marie McLaren of breaking down the silos. One example was there was an economic development conference in Haines Junction talking about all the things about economic development, human resources. We had one person go to that - our economic development officer. So, that is a silo. Our people said that is the economic development role and I am too busy. Then that is a silo with one person working with no support. When we create policy or a way of ‘how come you didn’t think about this?’ And that is why we started doing the Standing Committees - to give the Councillors a real opportunity to provide input. And silos in our Government. We are all responsible, even everyone around the table is responsible for creating the economic development for our Nation. We have different tasks, but we are all responsible for making it because, if we have strong economic development, we are going to have more opportunities. When our people are healthy, they are going to have more opportunities to work. That is how we have to support them so they can become successful because they are going to be the real drivers of jobs. We struggle all the time. We had to make tough decisions this year because we can’t give every person a job. We have to look at our communities and get the support because they are the ones that are going to drive it. 70% of businesses are mom and pop businesses creating jobs. We have to support them and that is going to be the focus of CAFN in this economic development strategy. The Standing Committee is going to be made up of those Departments who are directly affected by economic development. Education, Lands has to be a resource, for us - our ECO - Executive Council Office that houses our economic development picture. That is how we are going to build it and we want them working together. And hard for staff, breaking down silos. I want to give examples of some of our small wins moving forward. We have initiated in our budget almost 40 jobs this year. We reinstated the EOP and also have students hire program. They have different objectives, but they all overlap with economic development in that by providing student jobs, we are creating and enhancing the human resources capacity of our Nation so they can get jobs and be available for the EOP program. Remember the circles. Remember we are always going to try to hit that very small point. Building self-reliance and enhancing and building our cultural connections. Getting those EOP people not only jobs, but the intent is to provide them with training to take care of themselves, and give them the support they need to take care of themselves. A double benefit is that the Government is putting money into the economy. They can go buy stuff. We need to support them to buy the right stuff, but it is building their spirit. How good it feels for them to be working. So, that is how we do that. If you look at the circle it is the overlap. The other is in regards to supporting our business with what we called the Business Equity Entrepreneurial Fund (BEEF) program designed to assist our Citizens who are entrepreneurs. We have businesses. The ultimate goal is actually supporting our people. A CAFN entrepreneur can call and say ‘I hired so and so - can you help me?’ BEEF is designed to help and give people an

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 34 opportunity to go to work. We provide a subsidy to that business to provide jobs for our people and that goes back to that circle to economic development - supporting those businesses. If those businesses get successful, say for Frosty’s and ‘we are going to hire four people and we guarantee to hire CAFN’ - it provides opportunity for our people, but also goes again to our Connection circle and to our closest neighbour, Haines Junction. Most of you know that it has never been easy. We want to show the rest of Haines Junction that CAFN is committed as much to their success because with their success, our people are going to have opportunities. And there we see the overlap between Self-Reliance and Connections. Whenever we do something, I always push our staff and Council to look at those circles and push for that sweet spot. When we do something, the best one is when we cover off all those areas. So that is how we are focusing our economic development as well. We are going to do it from a Government focus creating jobs and opportunities, but not actually building and running a store from CAFN perspectives. And one last one - our Da Kų Celebration. How many people, honestly, when you hear of the Da Kų Celebration, how many of you went ‘wow, this is economic development’? One person, and he is economic development. The Da Kų Celebration was, again, a sweet spot about creating opportunities for our people and enhancing employment. A number of people who got contracts and connections. It brought our CAFN people and Teslin and Kluane, our brothers and sisters from Klukwan came. The Connections piece - that is a sweet spot again, and it had a strong economic development aspect to it. This is more than a lecture to you, more than a report, but it is building your awareness that economic development is not just opening a grocery store or a gas station, but giving our Citizens an opportunity – a hair salon - that is what economic development is. We are still building the whole strategy again for economic development, but in the small wins we are doing, they always tie back to the sweet spot and Connections, Better Government and Self-Reliance and it is going to be a work in progress. It is up to you and to explain to them what we are all about. Are there any questions with regard to that?

DAYLE MACDONALD said I really like what you had to say about economic development and the development of our people to do that. On Da Kų, I think we have talked in the past about having cultural tourism attached to that and I think one of the things in the past was looking at having a business strategy plan for Da Kų and the way it was operating. Not sure how now. A lot of costs for operations and maintenance. At some point, there are other cultural and heritage centres that are more self-reliant and get financing and time for Da Kų to have a cultural component - a training branch to it for our members. And opportunity for the next celebration to develop a cultural strategy for our members. And training. Then we would have more people involved. For employment opportunities you are talking about, I want to talk and address the Social Assistance program that is part of the Community Wellness Department. There needs to be more of a connection between the employment opportunity; more of a focus on

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 35 the economic development arm of it. I have a huge concern with our Social Assistance program and the people on it. And with a lot of alarm and care and concern. Cheques going out to our members and huge parties, and huge drinking. I have heard one person say ‘I don’t know how it happens - one person always finding money’. Peak right after cheques come. I am saying this with a good way and with concern because it is Social Assistance. There has to be more focus for more jobs and more accountability from our Government. Some people on Social Assistance get to stay in hotels and get their cheques. We have to make this into more of a work program. It is not working the way it is, not for all people, but a critical number. And five or six people in one house with no food, but heavy drinking. We have to do something better. It is not working. It has to be tied with employment opportunities and personal development - whatever it takes to do that. We can’t keep doing that to our people. Years ago I was working and a Citizen needed funding to get his chair operating better. I said ‘we can give you money for that or offer you a contract to do something. How about if you created a calendar for us? Or we will get you the chair.’ And he would take the contract. He died just before it was completed. He died a working man. And including, even us as Elders, we should be promoting our Youth and Elders to be contributing somehow. I think it is really a crisis. Thank you.

DEBBIE WORKMAN said I see the real need in Takhini to develop jobs so people can afford to live there and pay their rent there, and wouldn’t have to travel to work in Whitehorse. That would help with Social Assistance and all in support of creating some sort of jobs for our people.

CHUCK HUME said thank you very much for the opportunity to speak. As you know, I have been doing a lot of work - especially with tourism - and over the years, I had a heck of a time because I was one of the first that ran the trail riding through the territory and I never did get the support from CAFN. So, I had problems all the time with passage through the CAFN Lands. Insurance was a big factor and CAFN I don’t think to help cover some of the costs has even looked at insurance which we should be doing. And look at trail systems we can use. And right now in this area here, we have a lot of people that are grandfathered into this path and if I don’t have a trail riding operation right now, I won’t be grandfathered now, and the other clientele has taken over and offered to go to Germany and do their advertising and come here in summer and set up their camps. Can CAFN help them to do some of the other work that has never happened? This is where we need the help. In order for me to be competitive, I need that help. Otherwise, I might as well get out of the business. I want to run my own business and not be tied to another guiding outfit, which has offered me a huge amount to put my business under his. These are things that are worrisome. We need to get our people out to help them. There has been no money to help them. Everything for my own business I have taken from my own pocket and had to make money back during the

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 36 summer being a National Park Warden. But how do you expect a person now to even look at a fishing guiding business, a horse guiding business, a hunting operation? Those things are all taken up. We are sitting in the back seat. We are talking about small jobs and opportunities like EOP. We have to look further. We need our people to work in permanent jobs and create their own permanent work. We need that help. I look at some of the businesses I ran all at once. We had several businesses - Klukshu Enterprise - and if you look in the CAFN Office you will see a cheque there for $35,000 that belonged to Klukshu Enterprise that never got paid because they couldn’t afford to pay us. We had CA Enterprise with machinery and yet we don’t get paid. And I was an electrical contractor. And being a CAFN Councillor I was also quite busy trying to make money but never got support from CAFN. Not once. Frank Joe and a whole bunch of us took kids all the way to Hutchi on horseback and never charged hardly anything for the trip. You can’t make money if CAFN comes up to you and says ‘maybe you can cut your rate so we can give you the opportunity’. But why is it CAFN members that are always talked to reduce your price? You can’t afford to operate that way and yet you want to be in with the CAFN membership. I just overrun because of the government here. Thank you.

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said thank you, Chuck.

COUNCILLOR LESLIE WALKER said to Chuck Hume - I want to say that we need to help out. You can apply with BEEF to hire someone and make money and employ a Citizen. It is this Council’s intent to help you. I encourage everyone to look at that program and, hopefully, that is given a chance to grow.

GEORGINA GRIFFITH said like Uncle Chuck said, where do you get this money from?

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said typically when businesses are started you have to go into debt unless there are programs. We have Dana Naye Ventures to provide advice, guidance, knowledge, and access to funds. Typically, to a business, it depends on how it starts for you. You go into debt or get an equity for it - get money to operate. But all businesses are different. Some start in deficit and others are on a monthly basis and hey have a positive cash flow. Take CACC for example. One of our immediate tasks is to have money for CACC. It can’t be a draw on the Government all the time. It has to sustain itself. It needs its own cash flow. There are many different examples how many people start getting into business.

GEORGINA GRIFFITH asked what about societies and NGO’s? They can get that and get community grants. Is that possible for all communities?

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said depending on what they are wanting to do, it is all plausible. If they start a society and they want to do a store. Societies in the

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 37 Yukon cannot be income driven. Dana Naye Ventures is a non-profit organization that can have cash come in but they are federally mandated. You can form a co-op.

BARB HUME said I am in agreement with Dayle MacDonald earlier about Da Kų Cultural Centre should be its own entity and shouldn’t be CAFN and reliant on our funding. There is funding available out there for cultural centres and it is quite costly. What happens when there is a problem? The money has to come from someplace, so that they are not getting into deficit. It is tapping into our program dollars. We have Castle Rock and other businesses. It floors me. Yesterday when I saw a big operation at the Hospital with Castle Rock - not one First Nation person was at that sight. We are in a financial crisis. The books might not say that. When you have to lay people off and so forth, and then there is no economic base for our people in Haines Junction or Canyon or Champagne or Takhini. We need better scrutiny and involvement in the way that Castle Rock and Yukon Inn are run. We own Castle Rock and are partners in Yukon Inn. We should have someone actually in economic development and actually scrutinize, and get our people to work. My brother worked with Castle Rock for one week and then sat by the phone. Then they hired and sub-contracted a truck while a Castle Rock truck was sitting there. I think that is deplorable. We need to be more involved in the business that we have and we need more training for our people.

LORRAINE STICK said hello and I feel I needed to say something. I have been in business for a long time and eight years in the fall. So when I started, I was in debt and I have been in debt for a while. But it doesn’t mean that you don’t become profitable after a while. It all depends on how you do things and how you grow, and how you allow your business to grow. So to start, you very much have to go into debt to get your business started. No matter how you do it, you are going to still be going into debt. But I would like to encourage people who want to get into business, just do it. I went to Ian (Robinson) and asked ‘how do I go about do that? How do I export from Vietnam? How do I get a broker in place?’ I don’t deal with Vietnam anymore. I deal with Canadian companies. Don’t be afraid to get out there and ask questions. You may not get an answer right away, but it will come back to you. But go with your dream. So, now I am in business and am embracing it. I am going forward. I love what I am doing. I love the clothing I am selling and meeting people from all over the world. If you do want to go into business, just do it and don’t be afraid to ask questions. I would be happy to help you in any way I can. Go see Ian; he can help you. There are many people around this table that can help you.

ELAINE CHAMBERS said one of the things that people are missing and one thing that we need to work on is to have equity programs. I know from our Corporation we have gone to Council and people need to know about that. That is what is lacking out there.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 38 Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said if you have thoughts and ideas, come and see all of us. We need to build the understanding. That is our number one goal right now - to build economic development.

Community Updates

PAULINE FROST said Community Updates and we are looking for the Delegates. We still have other business to deal with today - not at this formal General Assembly, but the CA Trust Meeting after this business is done. I know there was a call for a break but I think we should just continue on and have a break before going on to CA Trust business. Keep your reports, as we defined in our Rules of Order, and that you speak for seven minutes and then try to move things along.

LORRAINE ALLEN said we are requesting this community concerns go in camera because some issues might be personal to some people and they might want to speak to themselves.

PAULINE FROST said there is a motion on the floor to go in camera. So I will put the motion to the floor. If that is the direction of the General Assembly, then we would move to go in camera, and as defined in the Rules of Order, and have Brian MacDonald give an explanation what in camera means. It does define that you are Citizens and have an opportunity to be present, and staff as required. Those who are non-staff or non- Citizens will be requested to leave the Assembly. So, the motion on the floor is to go on camera.

LORRAINE ALLEN said our Elder wants in camera session and does not want CAFN staff present for the in camera session.

PAULINE FROST said it is the Chair’s role to the Chief to reside over proceedings, so just need clarification on that as well.

CAFN staff and non-Citizens removed themselves from the Assembly. Delegates and Citizens discussed going in camera. An in camera session did not take place and CAFN staff and non-Citizens returned to the Assembly.

PAULINE FROST said we will now have Community Updates.

For the record, Community Updates noted in these minutes are a culmination of verbal reports given at the General Assembly and written records provided from Delegate Community Meetings. Some concerns are noted with verbal and written records combined.

DaKwäKada/K’ùā Män (Haines Junction/Kloo Lake) Community Update

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 39 BARB ALLEN gave a verbal report for Haines Junction/Kloo Lake Community concerns. A written report has also been recorded in the minutes.

• We had five suicides. • Social Assistance reduced wages. National Child Benefit reduces Social Assistance. • People banned from the office. • WCC native art. • Legal system out. • Unlock the Haines Junction doors. • Waivers, job search, deductions. • Clan meetings. Be available to restructure some kind of situation. Youth Concerns: • More cultural activities (dancing, hand games, language, trapping). • More cultural knowledge (language, sewing). • Student exchange trips for students within the Yukon. • Youth Centre needs to be open more. • A Youth Centre is needed in Takhini. • There needs to be a trained Counsellor just for Youth. • The Youth Centre needs an Elder on site. Youth Resolutions: • CAFN pays for the food at the Youth Centre and the Youth pay for food. Why are the Youth paying to eat? Meals on Wheels Elders don’t pay. • Some Youth have allergies to the cat at the Youth Centre. Also, it makes the building smell. From the record of the Community Delegate Meeting held June 25, 2014: • Too many Facebook pages. We should only have one. • Web page not user friendly. • Poor communication on meetings. (Didn’t know about Chief and Council Meetings.) • Phone numbers available for the Chief and Council. • Store? What is happening with the store, we need a store. Too expensive at The Little Green Apple (at Fas Gas). • Elders Care Facility (First Nation Facility) • Build two sweat equity houses until housing needs are met. • Diabetes, foot care services in Haines Junction – First Nation. Health promotion position we want back in Haines Junction, not Whitehorse. • Homeownership? Where is it at? • Homeownership we need to be able to land lease so people can go to the bank to renovate, build or finish their houses. There is communication on where homeownership is.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 40 • Renovations? Where is it at? • We want the five houses to be built again, not to take our money for programming. Two seat equality houses a year. • Elder housing will they be doing more? • Elders should move into smaller houses and families have bigger houses. • Houses should go at market value. • Is housing going to be reviewed? Housing needs a plan or they need a review. • Housing has a data base on what houses have been renovated and how much renovation has been done to each unit this should be public. Why has certain houses been renovated multiple times and then they won’t even look at other houses when they are assets of the First Nation. • Apartment building needs to be demolished and build a new one (health and safety issues). • We need to get our Citizens back into our housing. • The Northern Trust money $3.7Million where did this go? They only did CMHC houses and not subsidy houses. Where did this go and why weren’t all our houses renovated? We would like to see an Audit on this. • What is happening with the Elders program? • Diabetes, heart disease, chronic disease, we need this back in our community. There is unlimited stuff in Whitehorse but nothing in Haines Junction. We need this position back in Haines Junction. We would like a Chiropractor here again. We would like to see the Health promotion position back in Haines Junction. • We would like to see the bus up and running for trips to Whitehorse. • Elders are older and you should respect them. We need to teach the next generations. • The Youth Centre is more closed than open. Why is this? • Ray Jackson wants two Delegate Meetings to talk about resolutions. They have scheduled another meeting at Ray’s house to discuss resolutions. • Community wanted Ray Jackson to move to Elder Delegate and they discussed and voted for Barb Allen to be a Delegate for Haines Junction. • Each community should have their own budget and be able to plan what they want in their community. • What are the General Assembly Roles? What is our Government Structure? Has this changed if so we would like to see? • What was the reasoning with the big layoffs? Why were the layoffs only in Haines Junction? Why were the layoffs mostly our Citizens or spouses of? It has been an ongoing discussion at General Assemblies to hire our Citizens so they could become more self-reliant and then the ones to get laid off are our members.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 41 • Where did the money come from for the celebration? Was that one of our member’s positions? Our community is in grieving with job loss and death and our Government wants to party. We should have had the celebration next summer with all the potlatches. We need healing in our community right now. Community Wellness: • Our communities are in crises and when does Community Wellness kick in to help? Who do we go to for help? Where is our traditional help? • The Youth Center should be open when kids are out of school. There are a lot of people working there, why can’t we employ our Citizens in these positions? • We need to incorporate our Youth with our culture and language. • Daycare should have the language and culture with Elders at the Daycare. • We need positions for addictions, outreach, welfare counselling and Health Promotions in Haines Junction. There is a lot of drinking and addictions in Haines Junction and Takhini. • Management should not be evaluating their own programs. • We should have a sweat lodge in our communities. • A year round harvest camp in Klukshu and Aishihik to help with addictions. The meat could be distributed to needy families. • We should do student exchange with other First Nation communities. • Family allowance was deducted off our Social Assistance clients. They tried to spend on programming for the First Nations this is not right take money from Social Assistance clients and spend on programming. We would like to see this money given back to the clients. They have very little money as it is and we take their money. (We need a resolution for this.) • We need to start training our Youth to run our Government. • CAFN Hire only – We have 1,200 members in our First Nations so we should be able to fill positions with CAFN Citizens. (Resolution for this.) Same with DDC. • No more staff housing, Citizens only in our houses as we have families living in run down places. We need all of our homes, if staff not Citizen, they need to be given notice to find new housing so we could move our Citizens in. • * When we go in camera we should have Citizens only.* • This General Assembly should reflect on the past 20 years. • What is happening with the store in Haines Junction? We need this store, the Fas Gas store cost too much money i.e. $15.00 for little pack of hamburger, $3.50 for a bottle of pop. • Our roads should be fixed we do own a company. • I have a concern on housing allocated to a person that does not occupy the house but another family does. We have a CAFN Citizen I believe that she has a fixed lease she is only member that has a fixed lease.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 42 • Professionalism of counselling, drinking, Facebook activities, and lateral violence. • CAFN has HR policy that asks staff to conduct themselves in certain ways. Would like to see Council abide by that policy too. • Comments about donations. Laying off people but still donating to DaKwäKada Dancers, Native Hockey Tournament. They could fund raise. Everyone knows it is in March. • Rental of old A Ku healing house building - are we going against our agreements? Are we allowed to rent and generate money? • Knowing the language. Start in Daycare. • Start investing in CAFN and train into positions. • Community Wellness: • No support when out of fuel, very cold -34. • No support for some Citizens when emergency. Had to use Social Assistance to bring daughter back. Couldn’t get emergency fund. Was told it was only for medical. • Have to prove you have an emergency to access fund. • No support when crisis in community. No support for Citizens. • This Department is not working; it’s not meeting the needs of members. • There needs to be a worker on call all the time and a post as to who is on call. Managers are always gone. • There are too many Wellness workers in Whitehorse; they should be working out of Takhini and only need one worker there. • When family members are living with their elderly parents, they need to take the responsibility of caring for them, cleaning, etc. • The Youth Centre needs to be open more; they have a large staff and it’s always closed. • Who does the hiring for the Youth Centre? • Where does the money go that is made in the canteen at the Youth Centre? • Human Resources: • Treatment of staff when staff was let go on March 30 and 31, 2015. • How much revenue did CAFN lose with these lay off cause to the tax revenue, members living on CAFN lands? • Purchase life insurance for Chief and Council only and offer life insurance to staff, with staff paying half and CAFN paying half. • Sun Life benefit package; instead of CAFN matching the contribution CAFN should pay 10%. • Who does hires for HR in Haines Junction? • Do we need a Director for this Department? Only one employee under the Director.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 43 • Why are we hiring more Directors? Mike Evans and Lawrence Joe? • Operations of CAFN: • Da Kų to become a seasonal, close the building down in the winter. We spend lots of money and there is nothing happening in this building in the winter. • Close the Whitehorse office. CAFN only has authority on CAFN lands, not on Kwanlin Dün or Ta’an lands. • Management Committee needs to be made up with members from our membership. There needs to be a fair process in place and not who has the best or strongest vocabulary or the smartest. With a new Management Committee made up of membership, then GA Resolutions can be addressed after the GA before the Supplementary Budgets are approved and put into the workplans. We shouldn’t have to wait a year for our directions to be implemented into the workplans. • Housing: • House allocated to one person who does not reside there and is not staying in it. This house is a 3 bedroom and should be given to a family. We need to put single people in smaller houses or apartments. Let’s not forget that these are rental units and should be allocated appropriately. • Why does one of our Citizens have a fixed lease? Other people have been put into units and have gone through the housing process. • Municipal: • Speed bump put in the Haines Junction Village. • Professionalism of Council: • Drinking. • Facebook activities. • CAFN has a Human Resource Policy on how staff are to conduct themselves and this should apply to the Chief and Council; you are representing all members. • Council needs to have more presence in our community; we are the heart of CAFN – we never see them. • Lateral violence. • Donations: • Dance Group: They can become a society and apply for funding. The money used for fuel, food, vehicle, and free use of Hall can be put towards wages for a CAFN member. • Native Hockey: Every year this tournament is held at the same time. There is a huge amount of money donated for jerseys, registration, some hotels from various Departments. This does not fit our Vision Statement and they have one

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 44 whole year to fund raise and we should use that money for wages for a CAFN member. • Rental of the Old Office: • Are we going against our Agreements by generating income? Is that part of our Agreement to look after Parks Canada? We need to look after our people first.

PAULINE FROST said thank you, Barb.

DEPUTY CHIEF ROSE KUSHNIRUK said when we were creating this agenda we were trying maybe at the end of the General Assembly. How do we make this really productive? This is our one time a year to come together. This is our time to deal with issues. That is what we want to do at the end of the day. Community concerns and feedback is very important, but we also need to hear the positives from your community. It can’t all be ‘I need my door step fixed’, but there are people with no jobs, no houses. There are basic, big things we need to touch on, and our wellness, and would like to challenge them to report on the good that happened in their communities.

PAULINE FROST said it would be good and productive business to give suggestions. And dialogue tomorrow for recommendations to leadership. If there is not time today there will be opportunities tomorrow. Do you have any questions for the presentation from Haines Junction?

BARB HUME said I think that I am hearing more about legal advice doing this and operating like Stephen Harper would operate and somewhere along the line we are losing ground with our Citizens. Am I supposed to be a little puppy and roll over and play dead? I am just not proud to be a CAFN Citizen right now. I don’t think you are listening. I know what the intent of our Agreements were. None of us were in agreement for selling our land way back then, but we had to do trade-offs and go management. Now Bill S-6. But more right now, the way it was discussed with us - what our structure was going to look like at a territorial level - was that our people were the bosses. It was flipped around. They explained to us our pyramid was upside down. However, the comments come whether good or bad or negative or positive. It is the people speaking and the people really are your bosses. Don’t ostracize us or make us - I am so tired of being suppressed. Don’t act like the people from the Government. Don’t do that. For people that are hurting, help them. I am still talking to my Cousin who is not qualified because she is from the United States. We have to start treating people with more respect. We are not operating like Government of Yukon. If our people are hurting, let’s sit together. And here I was at a meeting being told by a staff member ‘we cannot afford to do the paperwork and printing of their flyers and offer them services’. What happened? He just pointed at the Vision Statement and said ‘self-reliant people’. How could we get to this? We treat our people badly like this. We try to find a solution. We have businesses and so forth that we could put our people to work. If the people in

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 45 management are far removed from our culture, how are they going to understand us? How are they going to know what we think? We’re here, and we are not making anyone justify. And management, so we are not putting you into a place where you justify your position. Some people here are really hurting. I don’t get it. Start doing your traditional beliefs, and respect is a big part of it.

BARB ALLEN said to Deputy Chief Rose Kushniruk, a positive thing from CAFN is community members brought Bill Stewart in to meet our needs because we didn’t get that from CAFN. If a positive is happening, you aren’t going to hear about it.

PAULINE FROST said good points brought to the floor and tomorrow facilitated discussion and substantive issues you want to bring to your leadership. You take that under advisement and tomorrow morning an opportunity to respond to what is working and not working, and how do you work at improving self-reliance and efficiency for your Government. Being that you have a new Council that don’t have a lot of experience they have noted your concerns, and noted in the minutes as well. Tomorrow bring those discussions to the meeting at 11:00 a.m. Housing and support and program deliveries for your Citizens. Don’t feel that you haven’t been heard. That will be noted and it will be raised again tomorrow with in depth discussions. And I ask now to move on to the next Delegate speaker.

Ashèyi/Tthe Yänlin (Aishihik/Canyon) Community Update

LORRAINE ALLEN gave a report for Aishihik Community concerns. A written report has also been recorded in the minutes.

• The Citizens have elected a body to work with us and help us with our problems with alcohol, drugs, housing issues, or they want to make this good, better. That’s why we have the meeting before the General Assembly and the Delegates bring this paper from what the Citizens tell us to bring to the table. I know most of what it is is ‘I want, I want, I want’ because we don’t have it. Asking for help for social welfare and have to have time to listen to them. And the Delegates have listened to their constituents and this is what we are bringing forth. And after the Community Concerns have been read, have backed up all mine with resolutions. And comments from Aishihik are ‘I want, I want, I want’ only because Aishihik people have been neglected for a long time. Compensation money from the power dam but have been talking about the road forever and ever. Someone has got to take a look at it. We keep hiring different Council and we talk, we talk, we talk and somebody has to be there to listen. I will start with the Aishihik. We have myself and eight members that attended the Meeting. Just bringing the message through so don’t shoot arrows. • Attention to Graham Boyd and Lands Department that there are 3 open wells at the Äshéyi Shäkāt Kų Airport that need to be capped. These are a danger to young

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 46 children and others as the wells are open and you cannot see the bottom if you look in. Soil in those wells needs to be checked for contaminants. Water wells open so in the winter time someone could just be walking and be gone. I have brought this to attention of Graham Boyd. Cultural Camps that go on in Aishihik - there is the Harvest Camp and the Youth Culture Camp and Medicine Camp - all these camps have sixty plus people and most of them are children, so we are concerned about those wells. • Äshéyi Shäkāt Kų requesting a large upright fridge and an upright freezer, a better bigger propane stove as the current one is not big enough to cook for 50 + people. Last Medicine Camp had to dig in the ground for our five day camp so this is something that we want. • Requesting a shower house with bench to change at Äshéyi Shäkāt Kų. We usually go down to Carnation Point. • A gravel haul for Äshéyi Shäkāt Kų yard and road, as the fine dust is extreme and not good for adults, Elders, adults and children to breathe. • The cabins at the Äshéyi Airport all have woodpecker holes in them, need to repair. Woodpeckers are getting through sheet board walls. So, resolution for walls, some cabins at Äshéyi Shäkāt Kų and the Airport cabins. • Single sleeping mattresses for the cabins at Äshéyi Shäkāt Kų and the Airport cabins. Some cabins at the Airport don’t have mattresses - some do, but when making a camp and hauling things in a truck already loaded, so some didn’t have mattresses when they came in and some were bringing in four or five kids, so no room for bringing mattresses. Requesting go into cabins and check for mattresses. • Smoke House needs to be built by Äshéyi Shäkāt Kų, one like at Da Kų, or Łu Gha (Klukshu) style. We could hold programming when it is raining. Last time, Luke Campbell had to sit with students out in the rain for carving. We need that structure to do some programming in it. If we get some fish to dry we need that place, so that is why we are asking for one of those caches to be built. • Please fix up Carnation Point Road, brush it out and gravel fill the mud holes. The whole Aishihik road needs to be brushed and the road to Carnation Point beach needs to be brushed. If you noticed your Government truck is all scratched up that is where it went. Can’t use conventional vehicle to Carnation Point. • And the election promise was Aishihik Road repair right down to the Village. Haven’t seen that done yet. Asking also for that road and mud hole to be filled in to get to the Village. That part we are asking to be filled in with gravel. • Canyon Creek concern: A Citizen has a large Rottweiler that gets loose when she is not home for a few days. This breed was banned from any and all CAFN Communities because of her last Rottweiler she had in Takhini Subdivision that chased children and adults. This dog has chased one of the kids home and he was very scared of him.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 47 PAULINE FROST said thank you for your report. Chief Smith would like to respond.

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH asked can we actually have your reports tabled into the minutes so we have an accurate reflection in the minutes? Charlene Hume has copies and will give them to the Minute Taker. For me, specifically, I need to be reminded.

LORRAINE ALLEN said on my resolutions, it has got that.

DEPUTY CHIEF ROSE KUSHINRUK said I think it would help if it was tabled in the minutes. Then we can have them. And it seems that sometimes they get lost. It would be good to have all this up next year to see and have checked off as a measurement and that would do that better.

Ashèyi/Tthe Yänlin (Aishihik/Canyon) Community Update

MARIE MARTIN said thank you for the dance group. My children are very involved in the dance. I made my first button blanket and tunic and my kids are dancing and drumming and I want to thank Luke Campbell and the ladies. Thank you for that.

Aishihik and Canyon Community Concerns: • The road to Aishihik needs to be slashed away from the road. (Could be employment for CAFN Citizens) • Some older trails in Aishihik are being grown over. Would like the trails to be slashed out. • They are hauling transport trucks down Aishihik Road to the mining site just the other side of Thirty Mile. We want road closure in the spring including the mining company. The mining company should upgrade the road. • We need to have a CAFN Board that is called NOSSA (YESAA). • We don’t want any fracking on our lands. • We would like a discussion around where the General Assembly stands and if the General Assembly still gives direction to the Government. If so why is none of our resolutions dealt with? • We need to close the Whitehorse Office. We should not have an office in Whitehorse. This is costing us $80,000 a year plus added salaries and we want those positions moved back to Haines Junction. Why are we operating on another First Nations’ Settlement Land? Examples: • Some staff works in schools when they have nothing in their job description saying teach in schools. I could see the CELC working in schools in Whitehorse because we have Citizens in some schools. We should not be teaching

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 48 traditional medicines in the schools. Is there a liability with Government making and handing out traditional medicines? • Where is our land in Whitehorse? Why do we have to conduct business in Whitehorse on someone else’s Traditional Territory? Thought we were trying to save money. Is this not why we laid our Citizens off, to save money? • Our bus should start running back and forth from Haines Junction to Whitehorse. • There should be a trained fire crew in the communities with operating fire water truck in Communities. We have discussed this in many General Assemblies. • We need training for the new crew and some safety courses. • Each community should have First Aid training. • If we were to have a huge emergency who is going to look after our Elders and people who need a ride to be able to evacuate. • We need an emergency response team for each community. • How do we know who is in Aishihik in case of a fire? They need to have a central place to register, like Parks. Yukon Energy needs to come clean around their power lines before it causes a fire or power outage. • We need a fire alarm system in our community to warn people and to let volunteers know we have a fire. Same with Takhini. • We need someone in Wellness that is connected to the community. We need a Health Manager to coordinate health issues. We also need a Director that is connected to the community so if there is a death or suicides in the community, there is a plan to assist the families or those affected. • Fire Smart needs to happen in the community. • In the Kluane National Park in Haines Junction, there are many dead trees that could be a threat to Haines Junction. Something needs to be done about this. • The Government just laid off 20 of our people and decides to throw big parties with the money they laid our people off with. Is this showing care and compassion for your people? • Why are we registering the societies with YTG why can’t we register in with our own Government? • Other communities are so rich in their culture and language and we’re not, why is that it really saddens us we are slowly losing our tradition and language. • You need to take out self-reliant out of our Vision Statement or redo a new Vision Statement. • We need EOP crew to go into the communities to fire smart and slash some brush • The logging company at Canyon Creek should clean up their mess. We are going to have a fire soon from them. They are the reason why we have beetle infested trees.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 49 • VGFN have their post-secondary graduates sign a contract for when they are done school, they have to come back and work for their First Nation for one year. When they come back to the community for one year, they work with the administration, as well as out on the land learning culture, heritage, language and traditions. • Why can’t First Nation people in Haines Junction vote for Mayor? We need to get rid of that discrimination in the community. There is no reason why we can’t vote. We direct our Chief and Council to negotiate this. • How could we look at becoming a municipality in Canyon? We should be able to; there are enough people in our community. • Native language teachers at the schools should be able to teach more than 20 minutes a day. They should be able to have a budget to be able to buy some supplies too. The French are getting a new school. Why can’t we have a First Nations Language school? • Why don’t we have traditional schools in Aishihik and Klukshu were our children could go in the summers? The CELC staff could be coordinating this all summer in Aishihik and Klukshu. • Our Youth need to start learning how to run our Government. • Each employee needs to learn our language and our culture if they want to work for our Government. • Communities need to be able to have some way to list slashing and such jobs that need to be done in the communities. • All the houses have been inspected by an engineer and owners need to know what health and safety issues are on their homes. They are assets of CAFN so they should meet health and safety standards. • There have been no actions on some houses that were inspected and nothing has been done to these homes. • We want a report on the houses on what has been done on each home and how much money on each home. • Why do we have a policy that states if you live in subsidies, we won’t help? This is like first class and second class Citizens. Treat our Citizens all the same. Let us all be same class and be rid of that policy. Each house should be treated the same, regardless if they are subsidy or not.

SHEILA KUSHNIRUK gave a report for Canyon Community concerns. A written report has also been recorded in the minutes.

• We had a good turnout for Canyon Creek. Our concerns for both Canyon and Aishihik:

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 50 • The road to Aishihik needs to be slashed away from the road. Could be employment for CAFN Citizens. • Some older trails in Aishihik are being grown over. Would like the trails to be slashed out, which could be another employment opportunity. • They are hauling transport trucks down Aishihik Road to the mining site just the other side of thirty mile. We want road closure in the spring. We want road closed in the spring including the mining company, who should upgrade the road. One of the bridges on Aishihik Road washed out so they were allowed to use the dam road - the road going across the dam - but one of the mining trucks was hauling equipment on it. Is that road even able to handle that? That is a concern because, if not, we could be flooded at Canyon. So we want Lands to check that and want that followed up on. • We need CAFN to call this NOSA, not YESAA. • We don’t want any fracking on our lands. • The General Assembly gives direction to the Government. We would like a discussion around where the General Assembly stands and if the General Assembly still gives direction to the Government and, if so, why are some of the resolutions not dealt with? And if not dealt with, give us feedback. • We need to close the Whitehorse Office. We should not have an office in Whitehorse. This is costing us $80,000 a year plus added salaries and we want the positions moved back to Haines Junction. • Why are we operating on another First Nations’ Settlement Land? Where is our land in Whitehorse and why do we have to conduct business in Whitehorse on someone else’s Traditional Territory? I thought we were trying to save money. Is that not why we laid off our Citizens – to save money? • Some staff work in schools when they have nothing in their job description saying teach in schools. Could see the CELC working in schools in Whitehorse because we have Citizens in some schools. We should not be teaching traditional medicines in the schools. Is there a liability with Government making and handing out traditional medicines? • Our bus should be running back and forth from Haines Junction to Whitehorse. • There should be a trained fire crew in the Communities with an operating fire water truck in Communities. We have discussed in many General Assemblies. • We need training for the crew and some safety courses. • Each Community should have First Aid training. Each staff member should have First Aid training, especially if dealing with our Elders, our Youth. I heard someone say way back that one of the staff didn’t have First Aid because they didn’t want it. • If we were to have a huge emergency, who is going to look after our Elders and people who need a ride to be able to evacuate? That one year with fire on top of

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 51 Otter Falls, we had Citizens at home without a vehicle. I left my job to support them. • We need an emergency response team for each Community. • How do we know who is in Aishihik in case of a fire? They need to have a central place to register, like Parks. Yukon Energy needs to come clean around their power lines before it causes a fire or power outage. • We need a fire alarm system in our Community to warn people, or to let volunteers know when we have a fire. Same with Takhini. • We need someone in Wellness that is connected to the Community. We need a Health Manager to coordinate health issues. We also need a Director that is connected to the Community, so if there is a death or suicides in the Community, there is a plan to assist the families or those affected. And plans to assist families when events happen. • Fire Smart needs to happen in the Community. Brush is growing again. • In the Kluane National Park in Haines Junction, there are many dead trees that could be a threat to Haines Junction. Something needs to be done about this. I know we are with KNP. Can we not work with them to cut down some of those trees? • The Government just laid off 20 of our people and decides to throw big parties with the money they laid people off with. Is this showing care and compassion for your people? • Why are we registering the societies with Yukon Government? Why can’t we register within our own Government? Why are we not doing this with CAFN? • Other Communities are so rich in their culture and language and we’re not. Why is that? It really saddens us. We are slowly losing our tradition and language. • Slowly losing our traditional language. “Oh, we don’t dance like that no more.” That hurt me real bad. That was my grandmother taught me and I will still continue to dance the way I was taught to dance. That hurt coming from a Youth. • You need to take out self-reliant out of our Vision Statement or re-do a new Vision Statement. • We need EOP crew to go into the Communities to Fire Smart and slash some brush. • The logging company at Canyon Creek should clean up their mess. We are going to have a fire soon from them. They are the reason we have beetle infested trees. We now need them to clean up their mess before a fire starts. Lots of sawdust. • Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation have their post-secondary graduates sign a contract that when they are finished school, they have to come back and work for their First Nation for one year. When they come back to the Community for one year, they work with the administration, as well as out on the land learning culture, heritage, language, and traditions. • Why can’t First Nations people in Haines Junction vote for Mayor? We need to get rid of that discrimination in the Community. There is no reason why we can’t vote.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 52 We direct our Chief and Council to negotiate this. They might turn around and say ‘why can’t we vote for CAFN?’ We utilize the services, but still we do not have a say in it. • How could we look at becoming a municipality in Canyon? We should be able to. There are enough people in the Community. • Native language teachers at the schools should be able to teach more than 20 minutes a day. They should have a budget to be able to buy some supplies too. The French are getting a new school. Why don’t we have a First Nations Language school? • Why don’t we have traditional schools in Aishihik and Klukshu where our children could go in the summers? The CELC staff could be coordinating this all summer in Aishihik and Klukshu. • Our Youth need to start learning how to run our Government. • Each employee needs to learn our language and our culture if they want to work for our Government. • Communities need to be able to have some way to do list slashing and such jobs that need to be done in the Communities. • All the houses have been inspected by an engineer and owners need to know what health and safety issues are on their homes. They are assets of CAFN, so they should meet health and safety standards. • There have been no actions on some houses that were inspected but nothing has been done to these homes. • We want a report on the houses on what has been done on each home and how much money on each home. • Why do we have a policy that states if you live in subsidies we won’t help? This is like first and second class Citizens. Treat our Citizens all the same. Let us all be the same class and be rid of that policy. Each house should be treated the same, regarding if they are subsidy or not.

Łu Ghą/Shawshe/Deisha (Klukshu/Shawshe/Haines) Community Update

CHIEF PAUL BIRCKEL gave a report for Klukshu Community concerns. A written report has also been recorded in the minutes.

• We had a meeting June 27th with approximately 20 people. • We keep asking for the same thing every year. All they do is put up a sign that says “Don’t drink the water” instead of doing something. We had to pipe in the water myself and pipes and things to make it work. Because we don’t expect anything. • Fix water hose. Filtration system on our water line hose that has been there 25 years. Bear like chewing on it and I have had to tape and plug up holes.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 53 • Some concerns were Bill S-6 and we want Chief and Council to make some kind of political statement saying that in our agreement we were supposed to negotiate changes, and it should have been negotiated. • What kind of Government structure we are looking at. We would like to review this. • We have willows and brush on the other side of the creek that needs to be cleaned, where the bears hide. Kind of dangerous for people. We need a work crew down here to clear the brush around here. Needs to be cut back every year. Don’t know why they don’t bring the Fire Smart crew down here. • New Graveyard. We need to stop where the existing graveyard is and select a new site. Too much buildings going up around the graveyard. Have another graveyard. Maybe a different place. A lot of houses going around. Some people don’t like the ideas we have to have houses around the graveyard. • One member worried about non-insured health benefits. One week to wait is too long and not servicing all people. • Need trail camera to see what bears are breaking into the sheds so we can get the trouble bear and not shoot just any bear. Citizen had cache got broken into twice, and so was another Citizen’s sheds. • We should be testing the fish for radiation. • At the beaver dam and new boat launch the salmon have taken over that part and spawning there and not good for us when laying eggs. • Playground needs fixing. Bushes need to be cut down behind and around. • New Klukshu signs and street signs. • Blanchard crew needs to plow inside Klukshu. • Hall: Buy generator for Hall, General Assemblies, etc. New generator is still a little bit small with not quite enough power to run. • Telephones. • Need map showing where everyone is at so we can get telephone and propane for people asking ‘where is your cabin?’ • Beaver dam and garbage. • New boat launch. We need a road going to a new boat launch. • We need ownership of our land (Kusawa, etc.) • Parks Canada needs to do something about Fire Smart. • Yukon Government road to Klukshu was actually Government road they need ownership under and crew in wintertime. Road crew should be plowing road at Klukshu. • Salmon concern for count. Supposed to have good salmon coming back, but haven’t seen them. What is the count at? What kind of management is happening to bring salmon back? That is our report.

PAULINE FROST said thank you Chief Paul Birckel.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 54 Tágà Shäw (Whitehorse) Community Update

DEBBIE WORKMAN gave a report for Whitehorse Community concerns. A written report has also been recorded in the minutes.

• We just had a meeting and, basically, all that showed up as usual is the Delegates. We had a couple show up as Alternates. We have a hard time connecting with our Citizens in Whitehorse, even though we have a large membership in town. I don’t feel a connection to CAFN other than when we have the band office in Whitehorse. I would hate to see it disappear. • Social Assistance in Whitehorse. If there is no housing in Takhini, we should be able to go to our Whitehorse office. Why do we have to come to DIA when we could go to our own office? We don’t like going to this office. Would prefer to go to our own First Nations. I don’t want my baby to go to daycare; I want to be able to raise my baby at home. • Some people have trouble with Social Assistance. Also happening when people have to go to DIA and now have to beg for money to support your kids. We have young person here who is trying to move back to Takhini and tired of fighting with DIA. • If Ta’an could buy duplexes in town, why can’t we buy something too? I have (Citizen) been trying to get into Takhini for years. I have (Citizen) been applying for years and would like to move on to my own Settlement Land. • Why can’t we make agreement with Kwanlin Dün for land for houses for Citizens? • We were able to take over the Education from DIA. Why can’t we take over our own Social Assistance? • Chief and Council met and there is $600,000 owing in arrears. There is a person who doesn’t want to pay rent and Council needs to decide how to deal with it. Does staff have to pay their rent back? Chief and Council have three big things they are raising at the General Assembly – wellness, housing and economic development. • People are getting old news in the newsletter that events are already done and gone. Newsletters and the dates have past. We would like better communication. Advertise in the newspapers, not just newsletter, or Facebook. A lot of us don’t have Internet. • Family and children services. Are the workers notified when a CAFN child or parent is involved? We need better representation to help us. Want to know if a child comes under Social Services care, does CAFN have any kind of support for these people if they run into problems with that? • Programming for children in our Communities, traditional programming. Want more traditional programming for children, especially those not yet in school. • Every Sunday we always start doing resolutions. Could we start reviewing posted resolutions earlier rather than on the spot approval? We want time to ponder on the

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 55 resolutions. We should post them earlier. We would have a better understanding on what the resolutions would entail.

Shadhäla/Ch’yenä Key (Champagne/Hutchi) Community Update

ELAINE CHAMBERS gave a report for Champagne/Hutchi Community concerns. A written report has also been recorded in the minutes.

• Some of our concerns are in resolutions, but the Community still wants them to be brought up. • Boat landing at three mile still needs work. Still has not been done. Slippery and people getting stuck trying to fix ourselves and get into trouble. Please fix. • Need some signs in the Community. Need signs that ask the people to respect the Community and be careful of the children walking around. Need signs for parking. Need some signs for the hill in Champagne to describe what the motorized vehicles and off road vehicles are doing to that area, and how long it takes for the area to regrow and replenish the plants in the areas. • People are driving very, very fast coming into our Community. Fly in and fly past the house and a lot of children on the weekends. Need something done about speeding, maybe RCMP with speed gun. Speed bumps don’t help. People just go around them • Dust to be done. Due to a lot of dust; scatters all over and cannot see very well from fast vehicles. • Hall at Champagne still needs a lot of work. Some stuff has to get done. Always a mess after people use the facilities and not nice to see. And we need a lot of stuff maintained within it. • Loose dogs and people that come into our community bring their dogs. We want signs for playground areas saying ‘no dogs and if you bring dogs, leash them up’. • Communication news is old. Have to move that around. Put a section in the newsletter on what’s going on in each Community. Have a separate newsletter that goes out each month on what’s going on in the Communities. • Workshops. Some are good. A lot of us don’t get notice for the workshops until two to three days before. Need more notice. • Champagne dump needs to be looked after. There was supposed to be meeting on Tuesday and half of us didn’t know it was happening. Under the understanding that the meeting is now Friday, July 24th at night. If we could have communications. The dumping from Takhini and Whitehorse gets dumped in our area. White garbage bags. Big concern with so much stuff. A cleanup of all the surrounding waste at the dump. And not to bury it around the surrounding areas. YTG should be asked what they are going to do about it. Information to and from YTG and CAFN about what’s going on about it. Can the information be sent out to the Citizens about what is going on?

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 56 • Need garbage bins in the Community. • Our graveyards. One resolution put forward. Need to be upgraded. Need fences around them. • Delegate selection not to be every four years in the Communities. Need some work on what is for the Delegates. Some of our Delegates, even if CAFN Citizens, but don’t live in the area. Need to live there or be there on the weekends. • Need training for Delegates. It is our concern that we are having Delegates Meetings. The meeting is set and half of us can’t make it. The first year we had over 45 people come out. The last one there were six people - whether given to the Government or the Delegation - I don’t know. • Hunting. If going back to our traditional way, go back to enforcing people in our community. Back in our cabins and our areas are being broken into. Recently somebody broke and cut a lock and found it in the lake. • Sewing classes for the community on the weekends • Issues of people that want to build cabins and there are no areas for them to build. We want conditions for time frame for building, and deposit and land applications reinforced. • All of our trails are not trails anymore but have different trails within that. Need CAFN to work with lodges. Canoeists stopped at gravel creek and even though no fire burn in effect, they left their fire burning. • Status cards. If any Citizens go for renewal of status cards you should know that you are not eligible for tax free outside of Yukon. That is not correct. When we gave up our right that was not correct. They can’t tell you that you can’t buy anything tax free. • Flooding concern in our areas. Handed land use plan - wasn’t sure what was happening in our area for people to apply. Needs to be updated. • Want list of names on Boards and Committees so we know who is on it. A lot of people don’t go onto the website. • Generators at the General Assembly. Who authorizes the use of the generators and who gets to use them? If they are being supplied generators, we should all be supplied, and gas included. • Heritage buildings at Champagne. We are not getting any assistance. Trying to get them fixed up. Once they are gone, they are gone. • Housing. People have requested wood stoves, water tanks in cabins. They have to move to Haines Junction for winter. • Requested a CAFN vehicle be bought for transporting minors for education programs. Staff using own vehicle. Liability issues and insurance, and for the driver taking them back and forth. Need to look at areas for transporting people. • Need signs for the hills and areas around Champagne to let vehicles and off road vehicles know the damage they are doing in the area.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 57 • Good news is Kathleen Van Bibber had a grandson and Grandma Wilmonica. Harold Johnson has been in business for 20 years. We just finished the Chambers- Dickson reunion and that all went well. One of our young people Skylar Gee has just won a Gold cup racing – the youngest person ever to win.

PAULINE FROST said thank you for your great report.

Champagne/Hutchi Community Concerns:

• Need the walk in freezer to be fixed or get another one. • Outside freezer to be removed if they will not fix it. • The old Hall should be a non-smoking place, signs placed. • Community Hall: What is this Hall, potlatch house, or a community hall? • There should be more of a clean-up of the hall when events are in the Hall. The stove, grease needs to be done; fridge cleaned; kitchen cleaned better; toilets flushed. Maybe a deposit made to the Hall and, if not cleaned properly, they will not receive it back. Pay someone to clean the Hall good. Or find some volunteers. Should hire the ‘Twist and Shine’ to clean it if no one doing it. Should get the Hall floors waxed. Have person to check the Hall on regular basis after every event. • The pictures in the Hall should be fixed up. The pictures should not be up on the wall because of other events held here and it makes it feel like a funeral home. Why is Champagne the only Community that has pictures up on the wall? Have further consultation about the pictures. Maybe move them to another place to put up. Who is Wolf and Crow should be separated in the pictures. Have Wolf and Crow carvings made to hang on each side. • Need to get new tables in the Hall as they are wearing out. Need to get tables back from Burwash that were lent to them. Housing should be going to retrieve the tables from KFN. • Have a sign in book for the Hall to see who the people were using the Hall. • The houses in Hutchi should be cleaned out and the people should not leave anything in the cabins like sleeping bags food, supplies that animals can get into. • Community Wellness: What are the supplies we are allowed to buy, the stuff you can get for cabin repairs? Can we combine our costs? Is it immediate family? Can the policy be changed and/or reviewed with Chief and Council and Citizens and Delegates? • Housing: The water tanks should be cleaned on a regular basis. The only tank cleaned was Jacquie Chambers. Should have someone test the water from the water tanks. • Fix the boat landing and three mile road. Maybe some gravel can be spread. The roads should be made to where it is graveled and made into a real road.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 58 • The flooding has always been in the area where it floods. Lands should have information on the land where it has flooding areas. • They should have a certain amount of time for property on land if you haven’t developed on the property. • Where do you get information about the Lands Committee, and who they are and how to approach them with questions? And have all the information available. • Land application reinforcement - what is being done? • Loose dogs: There should be a dog catcher in the community. Dog owners should clean up after their dogs when they soil other people’s yards. • A Community clean up should be done around the communities. • Allocation of resources • Kids should be funded. Written letter from a member. • Request a statistic of all the members and what age range and where they are in a graph of the ages. A ten year projection in allocations, Elders.

NàKhū/NàKhū (Takhini/Kusawa) Community Update

DARLENE JIM gave a report for Takhini/Kusawa Community concerns. A written report has also been recorded in these minutes.

Positive things happening: • Doing bottle drive to buy own barbeque, huge barbeque. • EOP building an old people’s cache which is good. • Youth, Paddy Jim, is doing Yukon tour as a rapper for a group called 867 Heaven. Gone to Watson Lake this weekend, then Dawson, Teslin and communities every weekend. So, he is making it big and also going to be taking up music training program in B.C. Also, First Nation ‘red nation’ Alberta that came here to have an eye on him for future rapping.

Community Concerns

• The naming of the streets have not been done yet for the third time now. We want traditional naming of streets. Would like to see native language and English meaning underneath and re-number the houses and make the numbers consistent. There was supposed to be a contest for naming of streets. • Would like to see a First Nations made sign at the entrance by highway. Not done yet. Want to see CAFN signs at the highway for all Communities, but large signs, not the little green signs. • Speed bumps we asked for last General Assembly and nothing yet. Still don’t have speed bumps. People drinking and driving and speeding.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 59 • There is no housing. We have non-Citizens staying in our homes and single mothers can’t get housing. Others in communities don’t stay in their houses. There is a person that has houses in other First Nation Communities too and don’t stay in their house here. And happening in Takhini. • A traditional gathering for our Community to Bison hunt and teach our youth would be nice. • Bylaws where we only have one dog, not two or three. Dogs should have their shots up to date. • Water delivery should still happen, even when the office shuts down, because it is hard when we run out of water. My Niece couldn’t go home to Takhini for a weekend because her water ran out. • We need water sampling done on our houses. • Water tanks need to be cleaned on all houses, including subsidy. • We need another maintenance man in the community because it’s too much work for one person. This was addressed last year and nothing was done. We need work projects here. Lots of people on Social Assistance in this Community. Need something for SA people in our Community. • We have nothing in the Community for the Youth and the children. We need to have culture and language taught in our Community to our future generations. • Need activity coordinator for Youth Center/Recreation programs. Nothing happening anymore since the last activity coordinator. • We would like to say thank you to all First Nations for all the programing Drug testing done with the First Nations. We should be doing testing. If they want a job, they should not be doing drugs. • Education. Structure today is very confusing. Now we have to complete a booklet which is very intimidating. Almost need training to fill out paperwork for a course. What is the allowed dollars per student? Is this per year or five years? • Clean community and haul old cars out of the community. • Hang our CAFN flags in our communities. • We should have signs welcoming people into the Traditional Territory of CAFN with our Youth, Dallayce Smith, to design the signs. • We would like to have picnic houses in the community, seeing as we are getting our own barbeque. • We should have our roads paved. We have our own business, but roads need work. • Kitchen equipment needs to be updated at Mundessa Kų. • Sign still not up at the Hall. • Governance. We want more buffs again for the General Assembly. • Would like to see new Governance Structure. Who made changes?

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 60 • Why were there so many layoffs and then celebration? What was the cost of the dance festival? • Button blanket making. Would like to have in Takhini as well. Why did we have two - one at Da Kų and one other? What happened to budget cuts? • Why is there no fish in Kusawa Lake? Need no fishing until fish are okay. And Steamboat. • Fire alarm. Last year we asked for a fire alarm to be put in at the Community Hall. We requested this last year and don’t see anything done about it. We want that fire alarm at the Community Hall. Someone could run to the Hall and ring it. • Fire truck. Last time we had fire training was Cisco, when he was alive, he was going to do fire training there. The truck started okay, but no transmission. If there was a fire in the Community, how is that truck going to go anywhere? We were invited by Mendenhall Fire Department. They had a course and invited us to go there, but we shouldn’t have to rely on them. We should have our own training courses.

GEORGINA GRIFFITH also reported for Takhini:

• The garbage system is working. We are thankful for the bins but it would be nice if we could get more than one bin. • Kids are happy with Luke Campbell and after school activities. He did a lot of cooking and dancing and after school activities with lIsa and Maury. Would like to see more parents involved with our kids and going to the programs instead of them babysitting.

Takhini Community Concerns:

• Our Committee concern is to move the Community Concerns to the beginning of the day. (at the GA) (in camera) • Should have drug testing done at the First Nations. We should be doing testing if they want their job they should not be doing drugs. (Bring up at the GA.) Education and Employment Training: • Structure today is confusing. Was simple when we went to Vera Owlchild only. Now have to complete a booklet (which is very intimidating. Almost need training to fill out papers to take a course). • What is the “allowed” dollars per student? Is this per year or 5 years? Property Services: • Clean Community and Hall. Old cars out of the Community. • Hang our CAFN flag in our Communities. • Should have signs welcoming people into the Traditional Territory of CAFN with our Youth, Dallayce Smith, designing the signs.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 61 • Picnic house in our communities would be good. • Should have our roads paved. We own the company and we drive on rough roads. • We need a school bus in our Community because our kids sometimes get kicked off for five days sometimes. • Our CAFN bus needs to start going back and forth from Haines Junction to Whitehorse. • Kitchen equipment needs to be updated. • Sign not up yet at our Hall, Mundessa Kų. Governance: • We want more buffs again for the General Assembly. • Would like to see the new Government structure. Why so many changes within Governance? By whose choice to make these changes? What is a senior director’s duties? • Why was there such a big layoff of our Citizens? Talking about budget cut, then hold a big expensive dance festival? This makes no sense … budget cut to party? What was the cost of the dance festival? • Button Blankets and Cultural Courses: Would like to have the courses in Takhini as well. The Button Blanket making - why did we have two separate courses following one another - one from Da Kų and then one from recreation (what happened to budget cuts)? • Renewable: We need more FAC courses. • Why is there no fish in Kusawa Lake? We need fishing to stop until population is okay.

PAULINE FROST said that concludes our community reports and we are past our adjournment time so would like to request that we defer any questions you may have for the community delegations and adjourn the meeting today and then go into our next course of business.

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said I think we should hear from one individual because we do have guests as part of the CA Trust. It is important that they have come. We will be formally closing the General Assembly because the CA Trust and DDC are separate business. Still open to be in the meeting and not a closed meeting, but I think we are okay with having Nora express community concerns as the only person, and then again tomorrow to have another discussion. Alright?

NORA JIM introduced herself from the clan of the Tlingit Sovereignty. Our heads were counted for our people. There was no money for non-status people and you people keep referring to our people as drunks. You make about $16M a year and you refer to our people as drunks. We were stripped of our own identity, our land where our grandparents fought so hard for. Now I look around the table and find very few Tlingit

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 62 people here, Hän people, Vuntut Gwitchin. We are Tlingit people and we are letting them take over our land. We were already assimilated and our people have been pushed aside. We are homeless in our own land. We can’t even go back to our grandparents’ land because the band owns it. This Territory belongs to the Tlingit people. Read the maps. As far as the Alsek River - down to Twin Lakes and down the other side of Lake Laberge - down to the bottom of Teslin Lake and all the way back. We need to do something and I thank you people to rally our grievance and asking for road repairs. Think about people living in vehicles and campsites that our people can’t even go to. How do you think our people are going to heal? They have to be able to come back to their own land. And you can’t keep taking from our people. And there will be no ultimatum here, now that the Government has passed Bill S-6. I can put on a moratorium on all the lands and that would take away from the First Nations. Our people should not be kicked off of our lands. This mandate. We don’t adopt other people’s Constitution to oppress or suppress our people. If you keep this up it will be further for our people will definitely not have anything at all. But you come together as a sovereign nation and your inherent right tells you who you are and that is people from Pelly Banks, Little Salmon, Big Salmon, Vuntut Gwitchin. The Kaska people have respect for our people. They have respect. They know we have a big nation that is diverse and unique. So, have our own Government system. We don’t need to have someone else’s. This is our Grandfather Paddy Smith’s land. He brought us here. You people talk nice here and think about it. There was no money for non-status people so how did it escalate to this? Because the way this Government system is going, we are being excluded from our own land. Our Grandparents did not work hard and fight for this land for nothing. How many people know about Nonlin Mountain? Our Tlingit family? I want to leave that with you people because there is no ultimatum to this and I will put a stop to this. Our Uncle - when he negotiated “Together Today For Our Children Tomorrow” - worked and borrowed money from Annie Ned to go to Ottawa to fight for our rights, for our people. And what you people are doing now is depressing our people now. Enough of our theft of our land. $16M. Why not do more? Our land. Bring our people back to our home land. We were stripped of our land. That is all I have got to say.

PAULINE FROST said thank you, Nora. We would officially like to adjourn the proceedings with a closing prayer. I would like to ask someone from the Delegation to do closing prayer.

Closing prayer was given by Elder Lorraine Allen.

The General Assembly adjourned for the day at 5:25 p.m.

The CA Trust Meeting convened at 5:30 p.m. with the Chair, Nathan McCowan, Cheryle Patterson, Fran Oles, and Odessa Epp. Two of the Trustees could not attend due to work commitments. The CA Trust Meeting adjourned at 6:00 p.m.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 63 Day 2 – Saturday July 18, 2015

The General Assembly was called to order at 9:30 a.m. Opening Prayer was given by Dän Nätthe Äda Chief Steve Smith. A moment of silence was held to honour those who have passed away.

Overview / Recap of Day 1

PAULINE FROST said good morning everyone. I would like to recap Day 1 which will lead us into the agenda today. A really good discussion yesterday around Community Concerns that were brought forward. Some very good messages brought to leadership yesterday. We also went through the Rules of Orders for the General Assembly to allow respectful dialogue during the day and reflecting on the previous day workshop around working together in a team context and environment. Respect the speakers and that we have one speaker at time. We have Tyrell Green here today. He is going to be supporting the Chair and will make note of who needs to speak if I miss you. Please just raise your hand and let us know. We also have a schedule of social activities. We are not going to go through that in detail, but it will be posted on the back wall. I want to make note of the GA Resolution process. We had some that came forward and we had the Resolutions Committee that was struck yesterday and will be helping you. As the resolutions come forward we have them processed for your review. The submission cut off for today is at 3:00 p.m. We are going to try and see the resolutions are more administrative requests to leadership and will try to keep track of that. For Day 2, our agenda goes that first thing in the morning we are going to have leadership do their vision and priorities and give a summary of their documents, and what they see for their vision and priorities for the coming years of their term in office. We have Jim Mustard making a presentation with a focus on Youth. At 11:00 a.m. we have a facility discussion to set priorities and set the tone for how you want to see programs improve, and get quite involved in what you see as a way forward on housing, education, programs and services, Elders and Youth programming, and local services as well was raised. We would continue on during the day discussing the resolutions coming forward and won’t formally recognize the resolutions today. Tomorrow will be passing resolutions into your record. From yesterday, the key messages from my interpretation, for those that were not here yesterday, that will help with our agenda. We had a couple of Elders speak to the Delegation about linking the Government structure to the Government. Language was a good one that came up as well. It is priority here as well. The mandate of this leadership is Self-Reliance, Better Government and Connecting. As we go through the day, that is what you will see and hear. There was some really great input from Youth yesterday. We had community dialogue and the Youth and Elders present, so they provide the advice to the leadership and have some good messages in terms of what they would like to see be effective for the use of alcohol and drugs, for the Youth Centre, and the ability to meet more frequently and be more involved. The notes

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 64 for yesterday for the record are that all the reports presented are in the records. This leadership will have the notes for guidance as they help to direct their staff. At the end of the day we didn’t allow time for community questions and our questions to the community reports, so now we will take a few minutes to do that. At this point, I would like to open the floor to questions specific to yesterday.

ELDER CHUCK HUME said good morning everybody and good to be back here again. Yesterday morning I asked the delegation and Chief and Council - I was wondering what Government structure we are working under. I would like to see that posted on the wall here. It is something we were working on under Chief Allen. Whether we are under that structure or a new structure, I have no idea. I would sooner see the structure on the wall so I can see it.

PAULINE FROST said it would be posted on the back bulletin for anyone that would like to look at it.

ELAINE CHAMBERS said Happy Birthday to Dave Joe who is 66 years of age today.

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said we would also like to congratulate and acknowledge the 45th Wedding Anniversary of Elder Chuck Hume and Elder Barb Hume.

CHERYLE PATTERSON said I missed one thing yesterday when I gave Barb Allen the information yesterday - this was on our table. It says Stella left her house to Kim for her wishes.

PAULINE FROST said I would stop you as that is a personal matter and pass that on to the Director.

CHERYLE PATTERSON said thank you. An Elder brought me an issue about the masks at Da Kų because they face the door. They belong to the Klukshu Clan and they should be returned to them. She doesn’t like to go to Da Kų because how they were placed and they make them very uncomfortable.

PAULINE FROST said that would be another request you would give to your Language, Culture and Heritage Department and your Elders could give you advice.

CHERYLE PATTERSON said it went to the Elders Council and they thought the Elders report was bringing it to the General Assembly.

PAULINE FROST asked are there any more questions for the reports from yesterday?

SHEILA KUSHNIRUK said good morning. One of the good things for our people is we got one of our Citizens into detox - somebody that had gotten their money. So my partner and I took control of this young person. We approached our First Nation and

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 65 they said all the places down South were full. If we had Aishihik. I am scared when he gets out he is going to go back again. I am asking for help at this time. I don’t want to bring him back to the community. If I could get some help from somebody to continue on with this person. But that is good news that we got him in there. And other good news - my daughter, Sharmane Jones is going out to represent the Yukon in baseball tournaments and in the Canadian Women’s National Slo-Pitch Championships in August, 2015. There are two of our First Nations people on the team, Sharmane Jones and Florence Kushniruk. Kwänaschis.

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said I was talking to the sister of the person and she expressed such thanks for what you are doing. And a great segue about what I am going to speak about - how we have to fundamentally change our business to help our people and what we have to do as a Nation. It is so appreciated. She said she was talking about that on Thursday and how much she appreciated what you and John have done.

CHERYLE PATTERSON said good news that Bill Stewart, a psychologist in Whitehorse who is supposed to be retiring in August. As a favour to me, he has been coming to Haines Junction to work with our Citizens and members. If you know people that want to see him, he is supposed to retire in August, but he is willing to help our community. The other person willing to work through NIHB is Andy Neiman. I could do the organization for the people to see the psychologist. And the ones that are seeing him first are those that need the most help. Some is hard work. They are the ones who have to do the healing. I am really proud of those who are willing to see him. His feedback is that we have an amazing, brilliant people. We have so many sharp people. He said what we are missing is the community support to help them get through their stuff. If you know anyone, let me know. It doesn’t cost us anything. It is paid for through the residential school program. We should take advantage of it.

MICHELLE DAWSON-BEATTIE said the gravel pit. People in the community have said there are tourists dumping their sewage and shooting up there. Kind of a concern. I don’t know if you can work with Highways on the camping there.

PAULINE FROST said I will now turn the floor over to Chief Smith.

Chief and Council Vision and Priorities

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said good morning everybody. For this discussion, we handed out our vision and priorities so if you can have this handy. The one thing I would ask all of you that presented all of your community reports - can you quickly look at your list and count out two things - how many concerns you had from the community, and how many concerns involved housing and social. When you become a leader you have many, many things to worry about and it was one of the things, the

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 66 reason why I tell you that I don’t think we are far off with really what we are trying to do as the Government helping our people. Personally, I lost a Cousin and a Niece this year so it is tough. Lots of us, look at our Council. We are not above or not aware of the hurt that goes on in the community. When I was running and told people that I wanted to do this, I always remembered the words of the Elder who I knew ever since I was young. And I know the sacrifice that her and her family have had to go through because her husband is always gone. What she told me then is ‘It’s tough. People are going to want things from you, but you have to focus that you are there for everybody. It is tough. You are going to make decisions that are going to hurt people, but making decisions better for the whole Nation, you can’t go wrong with that.’ And that stuck with me and I told my brothers and sisters “Now that I am Chief, your life is going to be harder. I am going to expect more from you. I have to show people that I care for everybody.” And I may not have the right answer for that person at that time, but this booklet, hopefully, shows you that we and I have heard you, and what we are trying to do is for everybody. The decisions that we made - that is the first thing I go to when I think about things is - is this good for our people? Is it going to set up a better life for those little ones? That is why we are at the table is for those little ones. What they are doing right now - playing around - how many times do you see your Grandchildren for a few hours? That is how we grew up. I love Champagne. Usually, we go there for a hard time. Usually, I have good memories, and all I did was pack ten pounds of sand home with me, and put a ring around the bathtub. That is the life I hope for them. I want all our kids to do that all the time. Look at how free they are. How many of them go to sleep when they are ready to sleep because their heart and spirit is happy? How many do you see walking around here sad or upset? Not one of them. They are all healthy. We are not having them on a leash saying don’t go here. We want all our children to have that kind of life all the time. When we sat down as Council and talked about this, we had a fight the second day after our first meeting to try to decide what we were going to do. So, has everyone done their count? A couple of key things that overarches what our Council does with everything that we do. I came across some Kaska people and was able to read their study and one of the Elders said you have got to focus on the critical few things and do them good instead of worrying about the trivial many. Worry about the critical few items. With our Council, we tried to get them as narrow focused as we can, so we can get good at it. Yes, we can fight for the land, but the land is going to be here long after we are gone. Hopefully, our kids are going to tell stories about coming to Kusawa and sing songs hundreds and hundreds of years from now. That is our goal when they come back here. If we don’t have those goals today, we won’t have that tomorrow. Our health, our culture, and our language. If that is what we are talking about. It is the overarching one. Another one I read in a leadership book. Stephen Cubbie is one of leadership in the Vuntut Gwitchin world. It doesn’t matter how you climb the ladder if the ladder is on the wrong wall. It’s on the wrong wall - what good is it? What good is it if we aren’t doing

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 67 the right work? We are focused on team work. We want to hear from you. We want to hear your anger. You need to let it go. I promised myself to always let people get mad at me so, I can take it. That is the job that I believe is in this chair. I am okay with it. It’s hard sometimes to get in trouble but I have got to do it. I have got to do it for your kids, my kids, all our kids. When we talk about that stuff, that is why we do this work and, hopefully, today you will understand the trail that we want to take. And, hopefully, you come with us, because I am not doing this for me. Now I worry all the time for our kids. I worry that they are not going to be able to hunt gopher and know where to get gopher and where to set a net. I go because my Grandma told us a long time ago ‘this is the setting spot’. When they see a moose track, they are not going to follow all over. The Elders don’t follow. They know where the bull moose or cow moose is going to go to the lake. That is the focus of our Council is try to change fundamentally how we do business because of the systems that we run on. How many concerns do you have? How many were social?

SHEILA KUSHNIRUK (for Aishihik/Canyon). We had seven concerns in housing and seven in social, out of 29.

CHERYLE PATTERSON (for Haines Junction/Kloo Lake). 15 for housing in Haines Junction and 27 for Community Wellness. We probably had about 50 concerns in the weeks that we prepared.

ELAINE CHAMBERS (for Champagne/Hutchi). Most of our concerns were Lands and Municipal, but we do have lots of social problems.

LORRAINE ALLEN (for Aishihik/Canyon). We have five housing and one social.

GEORGINA GRIFFITH (for Takhini/Kusawa). We have 12 concerns and Community Wellness we have three or four.

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said out of all the concerns - if you go around the table - what is the focus? What is the number one thing? It is our social programs. I say social programs and that includes wellness, education, and housing. It is going to lead into Citizen Client Services and what we are trying to do in breaking down silos. A lot of what Marie McLaren talked about. She is one that we need to talk more about. We need to do that as well. What is the critical focus for us? If we don’t have healthy people we are not going to have self-reliant people. If we don’t have healthy people we are not going to have a work force. We are always going to be struggling. Until we take care of the critical things we can’t take care of the other stuff. And I include language and culture, and education as a healthy person. That is what our Council would want to go on. How can we expect to have healthy people if we run on a system that is not ours? The Department of Indian Affairs was created two years after Canada was created. They created the Indian Act in 1869 because they needed to get rid of us. Back then

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 68 they saw that we were an issue. Back then, and in previous years, they knew they needed to control us. They set up programs that they said were here to help us. DIA. We heard about NHIB. We heard about housing. Then what did CAFN do? I am not condoning any one person, but the challenge is to highlight to our people - what did we do? We drew down DIA programs, DIA education, DIA SA, DIA housing. How can we expect to actually help our people if we are using the very programs that were created to kill us? What is the sign of being a little crazy? It’s doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different outcome. How can we as a people expect to run programs that were designed to get rid of the Indian and expect those programs to make us healthy, to keep our language, and expect those programs to maintain our culture? So, what we are sharing with you is a fundamental change. I want to blow up our social program and create and include our Language, Culture and Heritage, our Social, and our Housing because those are the ones that have to help our people. The other Departments take care of our Government and our land. But those Departments take care of our people. If you people think that is the way we want to go, that is what we would do for the next four years. The reason we are giving you this is so you take this hand in hand with your Constitution and anyone that works for administration, it is our vision together. It is not just Chief and Council. If you agree to this, then we are going to set the path for what you see out there. Children running around free getting to know one another and knowing our land. That is what we are hoping for. My dream is that we have an English translator in our meetings when those little ones are here. It is a lofty goal, but someone told me we had no right telling people that this was our land. This is our land. And that is where we want to go. That is the high level and what we talked about teamwork. We are only going to achieve this lofty goal is to do teamwork. Lots of Elders told me ‘we want you to do this’. I asked them to do one thing. You give me ‘heck’ when I need to be given ‘heck’. I don’t want to walk down that trail by myself. All that I have comes from you. Every fight that I have comes from you. I see you people in my mind whenever I have to get angry with people when I see anything that is not right. Let’s go through this - our Vision Statement. Unless people want to change it, I agree with it. I am sworn to that statement. But if people want to change it, let’s talk about it. Last Chief and Council made ownership statements with their strategic goals. What this Council has agreed to operate on is our values. What do we believe in? We believe in the ultimate thing of self-reliance. Self-reliance is an English term for what our old people were like. They didn’t need too many things to live. They knew how to hunt, how to set up a brush camp. They knew how to do all those things. Citizens giving back to the community. We are going to create what we call a Citizen reciprocity. We heard that in part of the statements yesterday. We heard that when we help certain Citizens that we expect they come back and help their community. Another one is equitability and fairness. What is fairness is not equitable. In your mind, envision four people overlooking a baseball game. Then turn that picture around and look at them from

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 69 behind. One of those little boys is standing on a milk crate. One little girl is standing on a stack of books. The other two are just standing there. For me, they have opportunities and the right to watch that game, but some of our people need a little bit more. The support we give is the milk crate. The support we give is that stack of books. That is the equality. It may not always be that everybody gets something, but those that are in need, we give it to them, so that it is fair and gives them a chance at a good life. We are always wanting to hear from you and approaching us, but we want you as well to think about that in terms of your communities and what you do. Try to include as many people as you can in the conversation. Our culture that is expressed in Dän K’e. Informed decision making. We saw over the years we need this. We need this, and not to disregard that, but what do we really need in housing? We have lots of applications. Do we have that many people that are homeless, or do they choose to live in our community? It’s different. We are embarking on and budgeting for a census as to where our people are at. How many people need education, housing? What is the trend going to be in ten to fifteen years? That is how we want to do our decision making. We have pushed our staff to give us as much information as possible to be as informed as we can. And it is up to you people to let us know when we do things in the community. Encourage people to share their stories because that is the best way we are going to go making our trail. Open communication. I believe part of my role is to take what is grieving you people. I have set up my own ceremonies and deal with healers. We encourage you to talk to us first about what is hurting you so we can try to take care of it and, at least, hear what you have to say. Respect your actions. Adaptability is the ability for us to change the way we are doing things, not only as a Government, but as a people. We were highly adaptable. Someone tried to kill us off and remove everything for us. But I am forever thankful that we are here today. Inspiration and creativity. No ideas are bad, but maybe some are better than others. We are all there by doing that. The three circles which we really feel is our mandate. Self-reliance. Better Government. I heard in the campaign and went to school to try and always find a better way. Connecting is going to take a couple of years to figure out. It is about us being a part of a greater community. Our children. At Da Kų we let people go and then we had a Celebration but, again, we didn’t do that to throw sand in somebody’s face. We had two button blanket workshops that were full. Our Celebration and workshops were actually full because people wanted a Son, Daughter, Niece, or Granddaughter to have a button blanket for the Celebration. We were successful two weeks before the Celebration. People were talking to one another. That is connecting. We want to develop a one window approach to our Citizen based programs. We want to be able to provide when those people need help. Sheila Kushniruk was just talking about it and worried about someone coming back to the community. That is the only way we can work is, when we hear those stories and are allowed to share them, we open a whole new world. Accountability in the human world. They call it dialogue. In our way, we call it talk. We

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 70 built land claims by talking, talking, talking about things. A one window approach that someone can come in our way with a spirit builder whose job it is to help our people walk through our system. That is complicated. We made it complicated. Help them with education, treatment, a house - not just fill out an application. How can we hear that person’s story? My vision is that we have three, four, or five people and that is their job - to sit and listen to the story and encourage them by getting them to share their story. And, in that, we need to provide opportunities creating promoting economic and business development, but doing it from a Government standpoint. It can’t be CAFN that creates a business that gets a Citizen working. How does that help self-reliance? We want Citizens to do that, if we can hear people’s story. Another bigger picture - as we gain in our culture - we should be hearing less of ‘we want’. It is ‘we need’. Our people need this and use the land. We need to start having real discussions about what our land really means. Our Elders selected that land for very specific purposes. We need to understand why that land was picked. We have to have a good discussion about what our land is. Is it tourism? Is it industry? Is it hunting and fishing? Connecting. Dän K’e. This year we budgeted $100,000 to start a real discussion on Dän K’e and that will include everything - how we govern, how we do business. How can we really start working on our culture? How can we displace laws if we need to? Create policies if we need to? But, that is going to be over the next three to four years and have a good idea of what that means to us. We talk about things, our culture. What does that mean when it comes to a General Assembly? Continue activities. I don’t want to answer in an argument, but to give an understanding and hear my story as to why we wanted to come out here. Coming out on the land is expensive for a General Assembly. We are here together. Connecting. And Da Kų was a bigger one. It connects us with lots of connections. We support our cultural ceremonies. Who in that picture blows us away that he is standing with us. Wow. To get him to say ‘I am going to get you to drum’. How much money is that even worth? To have someone to say ‘I am part of the drum group’. He would come and pick up sticks and come on. Is that not important to us as well? Right? Better Government. Informed decision making. Policy review and rationalization. We heard what you said. We understand that we need to look at what our Government is doing. I push everybody - staff, our Council - you are not to spend money unless it is strategically important for us. Not just classes, training, and meetings. It is to be strategically important. Ensuring financial resources; that goes to that. We are pushing our Communications Department and our whole Nation to get talking and get the word out for our people. Always evaluating programs and what that means to be successful. Even evaluate this General Assembly. Our last page on strategies for teamwork; culture of reciprocity (giving back); connecting with our Elders and our Youth and; support Youth with summer positions. We felt really strongly with that - to have our kids to not only work with CAFN, but put their foot in the door. We gave money to Dakwäkada Development Corporation. Yes, we own them, but we have to allow them to grow. All

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 71 businesses do that. They reinvest. They buy more equipment. We asked them ‘how much is it going to cost you to get some of our students in Dakwäkada? For students to get an understanding if that is the trade they want to be in. Ensuring professional public service focus on initiatives. If staff see on the ground and see it is going to work, we encourage them to talk to Council about that. Roles and relationships. One of the first things we said we were going to do was that staff is no longer a reporting mechanism for those bodies. That relationship is between Chief and Council and the General Assembly, and the Chief and Council and the Elders, and the Chief and Council and the Youth. We can’t have our staff confusing people. They are our staff - the Government’s staff. These are four distinct groups of government, but between the groups, not staff people. And community groups and discussions. That is what we are going with. Think about this. I am not asking for your input right now. Think about what I had to say. Read it over. I have no problem talking with people if they think this is the wrong way. If you have an idea how to do something better, share with us today. Thank you for your time. I hope you have a better understanding and if you don’t, then I encourage you to talk to us more. If our people agree this is the path we are going to go on, my goal is that we are going to take this to the next Council and have it for our people. We have it as the level.

BARB ALLEN said I like your speech, but I don’t like to talk about give them ‘heck. Not our way. The policies of First Nation people - we never had policies. Let’s change it back to make it ours. Take policies away. You go to the community now and say it is a problem now and you create more problems.

DEPUTY CHIEF ROSE KUSHNIRUK said how our Council operates. Have focused on the team building and for our Council, it is really important for us to work hard together and respect each other. I want to share with you that our Council is solid. We have been here nine months only, making teamwork. The big part is you people, the General Assembly. We have been empowering our staff to be creative. For many years, we have been doing the same and if that is not working, why are we doing it that way? We need ideas from our Citizens and our staff because what we are doing is not working effectively for everyone. Write them on the flip charts. We talked about new Government and how to incorporate change into the Government system.

PAULINE FROST said thank you. The floor recognizes Mary Jane Jim and then on to the agenda and to our next speaker.

MARY JANE JIM said good morning. Thank you for that wonderful overview Chief Smith. I really appreciate the direction you are going in. In relation to our environment - our land, our water, the air that we breathe, the resources that are diminishing - the strategic political direction is what I believe I elected this Council for. To take us in a direction to continue to protect our environment, as well as our people. I don’t know how

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 72 that conveys in the strategy. Bill S-6. The current Government has broken our agreement and I know you are talking about it with the other leaders across the Territory, but we need to know what you and your Council are doing. Forest fires everywhere. And American’s buying water in B.C. What are you doing, as our leaders, to protect our water? Fracking. What is your position on the next election? When they vote for the Conservative Government, they have changed our Agreement and what impact that has on our Citizens. As much as we think we can put our check mark beside a name, we are going to spend millions of dollars to fight the Agreement. When they put their check mark they are not voting as an individual. How are you going to hold them accountable to Government actions? Would like to have a response before we leave here.

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said that might be, in terms of a well-worded resolution that may help us provide some of the debate. Part of our goal here, Mary Jane, I can say comfortably there is no fracking, but I don’t know what the position is on our water. This is part of us working together. If this is important to our people, it becomes important to me. I want to include as many people in the discussion. Bill S-6. CAFN has allocated resources to go as far as we need to go to fight Bill S-6. We may have to get tighter with our spending, but we feel as a Council we gave direction to our senior staff that CAFN is completely opposed to this for what we believe is a fundamental breach of our Agreement. We are prepared to fight for Bill S-6. That is our strategy. With regard to water, it would be nice to come back with a resolution to have a debate as a people and an understanding, and have clear direction from our people. And again, for the election, what kind of strategies do we have for moving forward? We need to be more strategic. If we marshalled the resources for all the people who ran in our Chief and Council election, we would make a huge effect, just on the ground with stuff we had. That is kind of what we are thinking of, but not exactly what we have for CAFN. At CYFN we are talking about in our strategy. They requested to identify one individual in each of our communities to help with the primary task of getting the vote out. Some strategies at the higher level as well and then figure out at CAFN how we support that and get that going.

PAULINE FROST said thank you for that. There are some resolutions and separate issues going on and then social programs, and transfer agreement discussions. We have some good feedback for you from the communities that would help to guide that process. In terms of my own knowledge for political strategies, there are discussions with leadership and federal opposition parties regarding Bill S-6. I will now turn the microphone over to Ranj Pillai to introduce the guest speaker.

RANJ PILLAI said good morning everyone. I have been meeting with people over the past four or five months and over the past days I hope to meet more individuals. Why we chose the speaker we chose today and the purpose of having this discussion on

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 73 early childhood development. This is really for the staff of the organization, not really to speak at the Delegates. And the Elders in the room today. It is pretty hard not to see them without a child beside them. This is about accountability for our Directors of Education, Wellness, and Human Resources, and Housing staff, and to keep our feet to the fire as a group of people that work for you. To have this message today for our staff if we want to have a long term vision to make sure we have the healthiest people possible. Last year the Dákwänje Náts’ὺal Act (Language Act) was passed and communities have great retention of the language. You have K-7 of complete immersion and a reason they put the money and everything in place if you focus on language on 1 to 5 year olds. Working with FASE, we focused on 0 to five year olds. Great athletes you focus on 0 to 5 years of age. We will be looking at the budget cycle early in October and looking at where the energy would go with a limited finance. We are hoping to set the stage so when I walk into the opportunity to create our budget in October, we will know we have heard the message - do we make sure we put the appropriate amount of money into Daycare, and for how long? I feel that is the direction we need to go in. If the Citizens feel so, they give the direction to Chief and Council and Chief and Council give direction to CAFN staff. Our speaker, Jim Mustard, worked for years and years and was taught by his Dad, who was foremost in early childhood development. His father, Fraser, passed on to him his interest, and was always interested in how we can build a more prosperous world. Jim Mustard has received international recognition for making a better world with one child at a time. We are making a call of action for all levels of Government to keep this journey going on the talks today. And Shauna Strand just completed her degree in this matter and hoping for a ‘Shauna Strand’ to work with us.

Jim Mustard

Strengthening Communities Through Focus on the Youngest Members

Guest Speaker, JIM MUSTARD said Däanch’e in Southern Tutchone. I want to thank the Champagne Aishihik First Nations for the invite to be here on your Traditional Territory. This is my fifth or sixth time here in the Yukon, though not right here. I have had the opportunity and have been on the Peel with my father and on my own. We are not so different in Cape Breton for First Nations struggling for self-reliance, and the Acadian who are struggling for their language. For some ways, we are all here on the same journey and what is a sense of beauty and commitment I see in this room. Two stories to understand what the Chief said. The predeterminant of health, of a strong culture, and what we know about language is fantastic. We now know that children between the ages of 6 to 8 months, that when they hear sounds, they catalogue them, disregarding all the things it means in terms of what they speak. If exposed at 6 to 8 months, you can speak it without an accent as an adult. What would be a really wise investment if we want to get our language embedded in our children - we create spaces so there is no disconnect. What that space looks like in Haines Junction and your

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 74 communities is up to you, but the babies’ brain - by the time she is three - she is going to have a trillion connections. The capacity is there, but we need to think of it being way up high in the mountains, and that is the time to be there – surrounding the baby - even though the baby doesn’t have all the tools that are given when they start to speak. It is there and Elders know that even if you don’t speak it, you understand it. We have an opportunity to build what we want to see in terms of a culture that knows its language, because we shared it between 6 to 8 months. I will send the link to the staff that says this straight up, and then we don’t have to wonder if this is the investment we make. It will work. Trust the babies because they are our teachers. And respect our Elders and our young people. This is our North Star and that should be our child. And talking in- utero time when the mother is carrying the baby and the baby’s growth and nutrition. Giving the child the wrong stimulus. That is why we are here, as a community, to help mothers when in-uterus and that first year as a beautiful, sacred time building the knowledge. The second story is that I didn’t come to the same understanding as my father. I am a forest dweller. I just moved to Cape Breton to find a place that I felt I belong. I have foster kids 13 and 10 years old, and try to give them a sense of beauty from the wilderness. My journey with my foster kids is I couldn’t make dramatic changes a lot of time. They couldn’t maintain the support of the family. It really starts upstream - before those children come into your home. So, if we were going to do this right. A girl, Jeanette, came at four years old, who had lived in five homes already and was quite unable to cope with change in herself. She taught me she couldn’t control things that were in her head. She is 13 now. I talked to her about porcupine brain quills and how when the baby cries, the porcupine shows its quills, and another part of the brain, the hippocampus, so when the porcupine got me really upset and got me feeding the hippo, that puts the porcupine to sleep. Hunger. Touch. Love. Babies need that constant touch. When you carried them in the papoose. Maybe this is the journey your hippo is asleep to put your porcupine out. Jeanette was having a difficult time self-regulating and was un-consolable, and couldn’t stop her behaviour. Not a bad child - just put this part of the brain was asleep. But what would that mean if we had our mothers and fathers holding our babies? I know in non-aboriginal families we have babies in plastic seats in front of televisions at very young ages. I am putting out the challenge to staff and to Council to create the North Star and we are going to use that in our communities and, in that way, I bet we will be leaders right here and leaders in the world, and we can show that we are wise beyond our advice. A number of things are in place to make Government work. Easiest way is to have communities working tougher. From you, what would you see the challenges being in terms of using a framework like this? And you put the North Star in there. It could be early childhood development under Connecting, and very strong under Language, Culture and Heritage. Let’s say this is early development and anchor this in our community places. Have that drop in piece where we are working with our Elders and language teachers. What do you see some of the challenges are?

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 75 ANGIE CHARLEBOIS said a lot of places where people live; geography.

SEAN SHEARDOWN said buy in from the community.

JIM MUSTARD said geography and buy in - where you have to work all the time with everyone. Your health care practitioners have to work with the pregnant mothers; help them feel valued and belonging and giving them information. What would be wrong with if CAFN created a certificate like a First Aid Certificate, but a certificate in Early Childhood Development? Really nurture the babies. These are the three things you have to do. A Nutritional Centre with food available for baby’s development inside the mother. Back to the knowledge - so why would the Mother want to do this? If you give this knowledge that they can be in this most beautiful place and support all the time. Food as a component and part of celebration. Dictating that is your job; you are smart enough and you can find the resources. So, the buy in is an important thing. Working with Chief and Council and Citizens reconnecting to our culture and heritage, and we are going to do this as a team including our Elders, our community health workers. And the second is the jurisdictional challenges that everyone can get to a place that supports the fathers’ and mothers’ health and wellbeing while raising their babies. There are few supports for pregnancy and year and a half support. As a country, we don’t start childcare until 6 months, so who is doing anything? We are starting with one hub in a community that only has a Hall. Hard to heat and hard to keep going in the winter. Finding ways to have capacities in communities. To find one model that works, start where it is easiest and give the green light to communities that want to build capacity right now with families and building the North Star. Buy in is about awareness. This is a message that creates incredible hope and faith in our people. We have health care and Elders, and sure you have the space. And be a team. And the result of this? If you talk about places in North America – Revelstoke, B.C. reduced children’s vulnerability down to 6% that are not getting the support, the team. Have done ten years outside of the Government with Citizens and community Council, so I see this working. And building those three pieces that the more connected. We are better for our Government the more connected we are. The little brooks coming out of the mountains and no one is paying attention, or they are paying attention because they have been given the support or have just been given the message that the father should hold their daughter. Who doesn’t want to protect their daughter, to prepare them not to get into a situation that doesn’t work for them? You have the people here. This isn’t about big money. It is about team. So, you represent all of the communities, right? You are the biggest to organize and support what it is in your community. But you have support from health and education. And easy to do when everyone gets behind it. You have a beautiful opportunity to track this. Five years from now, throw the gauntlet down and our kids are attending school at five with Southern Tutchone knowledge. How would that feel for the other things we want to do? How would that feel to us to know that we would do this?

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 76 Beautiful baby Kathleen, who showed us how it works as at just over two, she cried. She had a need. Someone with love and affection, and on to the next thing that I want to do as a beautiful baby. Does everyone think this something we can do? We had events like this with 120 people. Always bring someone else in to see what we are doing because it is magical and sometimes they come with a different spin that we didn’t see. If they really care about us, they will stay connected. I will be there, in my Cape Breton home, with my brothers and sisters here.

DAYLE MACDONALD said I really like what you had to say about early childhood development. I am a Grandma so my Grandchildren are important, but I am looking at the agenda and we are behind. Are we still going to be talking about better services and programs?

PAULINE FROST said that is on the agenda. We are moving that up although behind time and touching all the subjects on our agenda. Once we are done, Chief Smith can take the microphone again and present access to services and programs and then Mary Jane Jim and Tim Cant can lead the facilitated discussion.

JIM MUSTARD said I am going to connect you to this video. Beautiful and easy to see 12 minute video everyone can have access to that. Thank you very much. Leadership is not talking, but someone who is open minded, compassionate, looks at people first, and doesn’t judge them. It is important that I can’t blame anyone or judge them. Did our baby not feel good when she got what she needed? We put our teachers and make them the ones that can own the issues. Be hard on the issues, like Chief Smith said, but be soft on the people that you know nothing about. Don’t give up the courage and commitment. Right now we need to stick together. We need time to shape and don’t give up the courage and commitment. I am looking forward to the rest of the day.

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said we would like to call Jim Mustard back up here. We would like to present you with a small token for sharing your thoughts that goes with how we are trying to structure our General Assembly. We appreciate your stories. It inspired me in how to think with a broader sense of where we are going. Kwänaschis. Kwänaschis.

JIM MUSTARD said thank you so much for the gift of slippers. I am very touched and will wear these all winter in Cape Breton. Thank you so much.

Better Access to Services and Programs

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said this talk is about going on our one window approach and how we would like to really fundamentally change the way we do business. Our two facilitators are Mary Jane Jim and Tim Cant. They have a vision of where we want to go, but we had to put some of the items in place. We really want to

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 77 have this is a starting point. I mentioned to staff and Council on a number of occasions is that this is something that is going to be a work in progress. 40 years ago we wanted to do our own thing. 20 years ago the Government decided we were better to do things. Critical juncture and is this the path? Is this the trail? If you look around with what people say, I think the trail might be a little over, not over the mountain, still get to the top, still a lot of hard work, still going to be a struggle, but if we work together, we really will get there. With that I would turn the floor over to Tim Cant and Mary Jane Jim.

DAYLE MACDONALD said I liked what you have to say about wanting to involve our Citizens and I think this facilitation will be a real working General Assembly and I like that approach. I see that we need to strengthen more when we look at the vision. When you talk about Citizens and Self-Reliance, we need to look at empowering our communities to do a lot of the work that the Government has been doing for us. When you went around the room today and did the priorities and issues in our communities, I believe we are willing to do some of those in the communities ourselves. What do the communities want for each of our communities? We need to do the planning from that level. Right now it is top down and talking about getting rid of the silos. I think the Departments are good, but at the community level I think there should be community plans and empower the communities more. I know you mean more than this. Our communities can take on more responsibilities now with some training - things that are too much for our Government. We can work over the next four years and our Delegates to think about what we can do in our communities. We have our Delegates who can work in the communities and it is not a new way of looking at it, but a long time ago each of our communities looked after their areas and then they met together and had their General Assembly. Moose Jackson talked about the General Assemblies that used to happen every five years. And what do we know? What do the Aishihik people want to see happen for Aishihik for the next ten years, or Whitehorse? We are not looking at it that way. We are looking at individual issues. I hope you consider what our communities can do and, if you really want Self-Reliance, we have community members with a lot of skills that can be taken over from the Government.

Facilitated Discussion on Citizens Services

TIM CANT said good morning. Däanch’e. My name is Timothy Cant I work for DuChuu Management and with Mary Jane Jim and today we are working with CAFN. We go into every community in the Yukon and we facilitate processes, mainly to work with you to address the goals and objectives you have today, and look at the short term and long term. It needs to come from the communities and this process we are going to do today, we are going to engage you for direction. 45 years when our leaders talked to Prime Minister Trudeau and 20 years ago when you signed the Agreement. Currently, CAFN is in the growing pains of Self-Government. I have worked for Government for 30 years. We understood it would take 30, 40, 100 years to get where you want to be as a Self-

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 78 Government. You are only in 20 years. Don’t be so hard on yourself. The facilitative process we are going to do today is just a start, but we are going to get you to where you want to be. That is our role.

MARY JANE JIM gave her greeting (in Southern Tutchone). Welcome to my Grandfather’s Traditional Territory. I was thinking about my Mom who kept me here and she is the last one of the Smith children from Annie Ned and Paddy Smith. My Grandfather’s family had a community just on the other side of the narrows. I grew up all around this Lake. And I feel the connection to this and I know some of the trails they were on here. With that, we had a really good discussion the other day and did a CAFN historical scan. So, those Delegates that were here participated in this exercise with Jordana, that was my assistant. Delegates wanted to do 200 years as it is significant. Still going through many changes. That is an important document. That information is really about how much we have gone through the many, many changes. When I talk about my Grandfather and others, it is my memory and now a scientific term in our DNA memory. Our children who are here have an innate connection to this land and to the air and water and the mountains. When we talk about our history today, what are some of the important moments, memories and events that have shaped our community of Champagne Aishihik over the last 200 years? I encourage you to write them on the paper and put dates. We were challenged with our dates and we are going to find some of our community artists and reconstruct that, with your permission. We were really challenged before 1915 because a lot of our Elders weren’t here. Then from 1915 to 2015 we were busy. The board was chocked full of information. And, again, we challenged - what happened in the last year? We were challenged about what happened this last year. Staff did a good overview. In 1876, when the Indian Act became law, it still forced a change on our life, on our Grandfathers and Grandmothers. They banned the potlatches so we were no longer allowed to gather. And they put us into the communities. And so today, the Indian Act still bothers us. Some of those very programs and services we drew down, we signed off on our Agreements. We brought them down. We have our own Government. We created our own laws. We have the opportunity to change our Government. Annie Ned and Paul Birckel. Our challenge is going to try to stay above water. We are going to talk about process first. We want to talk about first is where and when do you want to talk about this, and how do you want to talk about this? How can Citizens help shape programs and services for CAFN? We had a suggestion from a Citizen for a little exercise. We are going to ask you to get out of your comfort zone.

CHERYLE PATTERSON said we did this exercise the other day at GA Delegate training. Cheryle led the General Assembly in an exercise stretching our arms to the side, bringing our hands together with fingers spread out, and placing a thumb over the top of our hands with the fingers clasped together. After repeating the exercise three

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 79 times, Cheryle asked the General Assembly to now try bringing their hands together with the opposite thumb on top. Cheryle asked “How does that make you feel?” Comments from the General Assembly were ‘awkward’, ‘weird’ and ‘unbalanced’. Cheryle said change feels awkward, weird, and unbalanced, but we still do it anyway. Try doing this a few times, changing thumbs. The exercise was by Tony Robbins.

MARY JANE JIM said now, put a different thumb up. I would like to engage some Youth in this exercise. I need your help. How can the Citizens help shape programs and services at Champagne Aishihik? Your challenge is to give us some direction - to write one suggestion on each paper. The Youth Delegates are handing out those papers and then they are going to take around markers. How can the Citizens help shape Citizen Client Services at CAFN? We want to have you help give Chief and Council direction. One idea on one card and use your markers so people can read. Take the three top priorities that you want. Services in housing, education and health and wellbeing such as Elders, Youth Programs, housing repair program, allocation of housing, language program - those are some of the services you currently have. We spend a lot of time and energy in education. Wellness Department has a lot of services. Some of the Delegates weren’t here the other day when we talked about it and when Chief and Council went around to the communities, one of the main concerns was programs and services. They heard a lot of issues and concerns around services, delivery of services, and the treatment of people coming into CAFN. For example, you heard about children and Youth this morning and about a service we should be focusing on our babies and Mothers. Whether this is pre-natal care, how do you want to talk about it, and where and when? Please list three priorities, one on each sheet of paper, and place on the wall.

MARY JANE JIM said we would put some conclusion around it and then you could continue with your agenda. When they are done, the Delegates can go for lunch and then after lunch, we would wrap it up in ten minutes.

TIM CANT said with process, usually we have you help the group, but over lunch we will talk about how we are going to proceed with your suggestions here today.

TIM CANT said we reviewed the notes the GA Delegates provided over the lunch hour. Programs and services, health, education, economic development, human resources, entrepreneurial training, natural resources, clean water above all, buffalo and problems. The next and final grouping is process and one of the biggest ones. This is the start of a process. We only have a short period of time and at other G.A.’s, if you don’t have a facilitative process you can talk for two days on one item and you would not stay in touch with your agenda that you have, and you have a big agenda. This last part was answering that question “How can Citizens help shape programs and services with CAFN?” You are going to have everyone in your community answering to the process. Look back in the history of your observations of good governance. What really stands

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 80 out for you? We are going to ride on the positive things you have seen in your lifestyle and respect for each new idea you have will be implemented into the process. We are getting out to the communities with personal visits and you will be involved. And to truly respect your thoughts and your knowledge, we would short change that. This is a kick start of a longer process that will engage you to help shape your Government to help shape what programs and services will look like. CAFN is a very, very strong community and this type of process will help make you that much stronger and help you move ahead. Not just Council, you as a community. You, as a Government, are only in place for 20 years. You have come a long way, but the Indian Act is still in some of the programs, and you are working away from that. History repeats itself. The book 1491 is the year before Columbus came in 1492. They had this idea that they were going to come and civilize an uncivilized country. What the book talks about is how sophisticated the Governments were in indigenous populations. You were more civilized than them in many areas. You had relations with Russians in 1867 when they sold Alaska, and then new relations with the United States. Then the Indian Act and pressures of non-First Nation Governments and residential schools. And then get back to really strong first contacts. And now slipping with Governments starting to come in and erode your Self- Governments. Trying to take control back of our Self-Government Agreements and so forth.

MARY JANE JIM said there is some duplication and that is okay and doesn’t indicate anything for priorities. When we get into the communities, I ask again one more time before the next session - most of this - what you have suggested in terms of engagement - is that we work together as Citizens and that we look at the programs more in depth, list and name the programs and then talk about them. What I am hearing here is you want to get into the nitty, gritty about the programs and that you want to know what the programs are about before you make changes. And key programs you want to work on right away. That is key messages to your leaders as to what you want to do. I am going to ask each Delegation one more time, when do you want to talk and where do you want to talk? Feedback is you want to talk in your communities at community meetings with in-depth discussions. Then I heard that you want this kind of a forum as well. I ask you again, one more time. The only one here is for community workshops. It means that maybe that is where we need to start is with community workshops and then come together one more time for changes that you want to see as Citizens. Is that clear?

TIM CANT asked is this Government body happy with the fact that this Government is going to take this out to the communities as a process? This is a suggestion we heard this morning - that the communities want to speak and gain ownership of these topics. So, we have talked with the executive here and they like that concept as well, and are willing to work on a process with you and engage you. We can start in the communities

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 81 and that this is what we heard. So, your voice is heard. We document and construct how the Citizen Client Services at CAFN will look like. We construct it with you and bring it back to a larger forum. This is what all of the communities say and we move along like that. How does this community feel about that process? We don’t end it today. We keep it going. This is just purely the ignition.

RANJ PILLAI said I would like us to be able to walk out of the General Assembly and work for the community workshops. Would October be the time to figure out scheduling to come back?

MARY JANE JIM said August and September are harvest and busy time, so October is a good time to start the community meetings.

TIM CANT said between now and October too, there would be people working on the logistics as to how we work with the communities and a facilitative process, an active process, and in your community in October that you would be involved with.

MARY JANE JIM asked the Delegations to confirm October for community meetings.

GA DELEGATES from all six communities said yes and confirmed to Mary Jane Jim that community meetings are to be held in October.

MARY JANE JIM said it is a go. We will work on the content and process with your leaders and administration. Good job everybody. This is an ongoing process - our historical scan. I added “November 1972 was a meeting to join Champagne Band and Aishihik Band”. So, this is a good educational sheet. If you still have information to add, please feel free to add. If you have suggestions of good community artists that can help us put this in the community to design, please let me know. We are going to have this on the website. It is going to be yours. My Granddaughter put on the wall “1994 Jordana was born”.

SALLY JIM said you are saying email, web. What happens to the people that don’t have web?

MARY JANE JIM said you would get a report and this would be brought to community meetings. And again, if you have suggestions as to how to do that, put it out there please.

COUNCILLOR KATHLEEN VAN BIBBER said for the CACC, our vision when we started - that was to have a Community Corporation representative of the communities and have them own their own businesses. With the Community Corporation, we are having problems getting on the ground. Have oil, water, fuel delivery, carpenters building your houses. It’s a thought down the road, if you follow Mary Jane Jim’s thought, and get your communities organized. The communities could have members

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 82 and get the Community Corporation going and businesses set up, and turning around your community. It is a thought for you. Thank you.

MARY JANE JIM said there was economic development and HR issues which need to be addressed. And Buffalo. And clean water - above all - clean water. Home care. Some things don’t have a lot to do with the three things we talked about being Community Wellness, Education, and Housing. Of your leaders, it is a good contract of when we are talking about self-reliance, when we are talking about programs and services. Food for thought. The Citizen thought ‘we don’t see a whole lot of self-reliance in CAFN’ and I said ‘well, I think there is lot of self-reliance. We have about 150 of our people on Settlement Land. We are there and we feel good about it. Thank you everybody.

PAULINE FROST said thank you, Mary Jane and Tim. Recapping and moving on to the presentation from the Resolutions Committee. In regards to this information, it will continue on, as I understand it, into your strategic planning and your vision that your Chief and Council have defined and that process. This is the opportunity to become involved. There is a lot there that CAFN is not resourced for and that will be - how do you get the finances to continue? Some of it may not happen this year, but my perspective is it will lead you to defining a very solid Government.

Process for Resolutions, Workplans and Budgets

PAULINE FROST said at this point, I call Brian MacDonald in. Brian will take some time to run over with you the resolutions and how they structured the resolutions for this General Assembly. On the back wall you have the forms to fill out for the 3:00 p.m. closure of resolutions. There were recommendations from yesterday. If you want those to come to the floor, see your Council before 3:00 p.m. We are not going to go today with new resolutions but look at the resolutions that were submitted and look for resolutions that are defined for your leadership, looking at the specific priority areas, and that is how it is being organized. The GA Resolutions discussion from last year - there are a few resolutions that resurfaced from last year and Brian MacDonald will review them as they may come back again with some amendment. Amy McKinnon would like for everyone to convene at the end of the Lake for a photo of this General Assembly.

BRIAN MACDONALD said our Resolutions Committee has been working through your resolution proposals and this is what we have so far. What we have been trying to do in some cases, and I know yesterday there was discussion the way some of the resolutions were put forward before, when people did not feel it was an accurate reflection of what people had proposed. The mandate for the General Assembly, as laid out in the Constitution, is to have guidance and input. Trying to find ways to structure

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 83 the resolutions that fulfills the GA authority to provide that high level guidance and direction to the Government. Trying to find a way for the input and direction provided by the GA falls within the three circles that Council has set as their three main priorities of Self-Reliance, Better Government and Connecting, to make sure they stay as priorities for both parties. Working through and consulting with those who put forward resolutions so far. Working on other resolutions and will get back to them to ensure the resolutions are what the people have said. I have been on the Resolutions Committee for 20 years now. I have no problem with doing that. What we are trying to do? And the challenge is that a lot of times, people bring resolutions that ‘I would like a fence built.’ How is that defined as a resolution to ensure that that actually gets done? So long as it gets addressed and dealt with, that is what the resolution is trying to achieve. What is the resolution asking for and how are you trying to do that? Trying to find a way to get it done. It should be in the Supplemental Budget. Some of those things - trying to keep those off the table for the General Assembly. At this time, we have 13 resolutions that we have been able to categorize and more to come forward. You need to have enough time to fully discuss all the resolutions and give an informed decision to them. Trying to find ways of merging some of them into their common themes. Trying to come back and consult with the people who brought forward the resolution to not lose what is behind the resolution. Worked together as a Committee. A lot of guidance. All working by consensus as to how best to achieve them. At this point, we have identified and listed them out and explain where we are with them, and that we created some together. The idea is what we can tell you - what some of them are already. You may come to us and see what has been proposed that could accommodate your needs as well. Please consult with others to see if another resolution has already been drafted.

A resolution is coming forward speaking to a mandate to address Bill S-6 and the amendments to the Yukon Assessment Act to endorse a strategy. A resolution is coming forward to develop a language and culture strategy. There are a number of resolutions that speak to signage, traditional names - all individual and specific, but spoke to a broader strategy in line with the new Language Act. So, there will be a resolution coming forward for strategy presented to them next year. And one resolution on maintenance and structure upkeep, and collection of perennial requests by the General Assembly for upgrade and maintenance of the Aishihik area. Consolidate them all in one resolution to speak to all of those. Also speaking with Ian Robinson, Acting Director of Property Services, to try and find ways make sure things get addressed in the budget and workplan. There would be a resolution requesting community planning. And another resolution prioritizing upgrades or maintenance or a new facility, so the thinking was really what it spoke to a specific ask and engagement plan to address those issues with long term strategy to see how a plan would address their concerns over a one, two or five year period. One resolution coming forward on CAFN membership hires - making it mandatory for that hiring. And a resolution to support

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 84 people with Diabetes. One resolution is to strike a Constitutional Review Committee by the General Assembly. One resolution to speak to prioritizing the promotion of a communication and information strategy that will build awareness in the larger Yukon community for protecting our land; that they appreciate they are in our Traditional Territory and made aware of how to treat our land. And a resolution brought forward seeking a mandate for CAFN to protect the rights of those Citizens that are Status Indians that have rights outside of the Yukon. There is concern the rights are being restricted and status card for non-tax exempt. They are putting restriction on your status card and that is inconsistent to our treaty and the resolution is to protect interests and rights. One resolution with respect to Da Kų Cultural Centre and consumption of alcohol on those premises for reconsideration of the Assembly from GA Resolution 2014-03. And one resolution brought forward for consideration on prioritizing of building of new houses from Resolution 2014-16. Also a resolution brought forward with respect to education of CAFN Citizens and the implications of their vote. Also to be aware there a couple of other resolutions we would put on as well that we have not received yet. Fracking, health services, location of GA coming forward with respect to access for Citizens with mobility challenges. A resolution would be brought forward on the special designation of special trails and villages. One resolution on economic development support for Citizens as well. Those are some of the resolutions we have to date. Reminder that the cut off for resolutions is 3:00 p.m. Please bring to the Resolutions Committee. If you need help with wording, we are available for questions at this time. We will get back to you with questions or comments and have drafts for consideration Saturday morning. Anything else at this point, or do you want to continue drafting your resolutions? And they fall in the role and relationship the General Assembly has to the Government, consistent to the laws and Vision Statement of CAFN to promote a healthy, unified and self-reliant people, while conserving and enhancing our environment and culture. We have to ensure our mandate and direction is consistent as well, and the responsibility and roles of the Constitution and the laws and regulations currently in place with the Government.

PAULINE FROST said thank you, Brian and the Resolutions Committee. At this point that concludes our formal business and presentation today. At this point, we don’t have any more formal business to conduct. We wanted an opportunity for the Resolutions Committee to receive the resolutions for 3:00 p.m. We are now going to adjourn the formal business for the day.

Closing prayer was given by Mary Jane Jim.

The General Assembly adjourned for the day at 3:00 p.m.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 85 Day 3 – Sunday July 19, 2015

The General Assembly was called to order at 9:30 a.m.

Opening Prayer was given by Youth Co-Chair, Tyrell Green, with Chief Steve Smith’s assistance.

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said I had a request to add something to this prayer - a special request to the Creator to watch over and help our Elders. They are committed and sit with us all day. Watch over them and take care of them while they help to guide us. Kwänaschis.

Overview / Recap of Days 1 and 2

PAULINE FROST said good morning and I would like to provide a recap for the past two days of your General Assembly. The Resolutions Committee is not here right now as they are putting together the draft resolutions. There are 35 draft resolutions on the floor, so it is going to take lot of time. We want to give you the time to discuss those resolutions. Fran Asp would review the process for implementation. As we heard at the opening of our General Assembly, you have 119 GA Resolutions that came to past leadership since 1995. All of those resolutions have led your Government to where it is at, provided advice to leadership. Yesterday you had the opportunity to talk about strategic priorities and Chief Smith gave you the priorities for the four years of his term and what he would like to see in the community. You had an opportunity to give your request of what you would like to see in the priority planning exercise. That led into a discussion with Jim Mustard, as it ties into the Youth of your community and how that leads into your successful plan. That led us to an exercise to tie in your Community Concerns into a visioning exercise. Mary Jane Jim and Tim Cant led us with the exercise toward community and identified some of what you have identified as priorities. Most of your requests went into the minutes for the leadership reports and that would help leadership with their mandate and priorities. You also had a review of budgets in your binders and the renewal of the Government based funding, consistent throughout Yukon. A lot of requests that came before the General Assembly. Attached to the request should be the workplan, strategy, and budget to deliver on the requests of the community. The resources are going to have to come from your Government based money of what we have to run our Governments. The First Nation has negotiated $10M to give you more money for better and efficient programming. Here is this Government and six other First Nations to negotiate all that is asked for that is not covered in your budget. That will lead into the next five years. The gross expenditure review of how much is it going to cost for us to deliver specific aspects of your Government for wellness, income support, and housing. Your leadership went through that exercise. You can only deliver within your means. Just giving you where things are at that will

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 86 lead into your request. You have seen the same GA Resolutions come forward year after year and the objective is to tie back into the priorities and that comes from your resolutions. Your CAFN base budget, which is consistent to other First Nations. You have 1,200 Citizens and that is really how you get your base and how you get your Citizen programs. You have six communities and you get resources to fund one community, but the base funding needs to fund six communities. There is pressure on Government and long range planning. Base funding is like balances - it costs this Government $20M to run the Government. It is not inconsistent with any other Governments from trust and Government negotiating programs. For every Self- Government, we negotiate two houses and negotiate the rest not in the base, but through CMHC, so you have to compensate for that in your budget. It is really important, and as we put our resolutions forward on the table that it is time spent as to how you fit into your deliverables for leadership. New and past leaders have set the tone for how you want to run your Government. Your vision leads you to where we are today and the exercise for Better Government boils down to how much resources you have to deliver programs. Not any different than anywhere else. The Resolutions Committee will review all resolutions and present to you. The process for today will be to have the resolutions presented and the person putting the resolution in the room on the floor to speak to the resolution. A mover and seconder would open the floor for debate on the resolution. If we do not have consensus, we will go to the vote. Co-Chair, Tyrell Green will help and Brian MacDonald will help to lead that process and make sure we follow your practices and customs. Be respectful and mindful that there may be many people that want to speak to resolutions.

GA Resolution Draft Policy Presentation

I will try to keep us to 4:30 p.m. If we can try to deal with as many resolutions this afternoon, but allow for necessary dialogue as that is important. Resolutions need to speak not to persons or individuals, but to be presented in a respectful, broad way for the rights of individuals.

ELAINE CHAMBERS said when you mentioned we have $15M; we spend $8.3M on salary, so only $7M left for programs and services. We asked for the budget that helps us move forward for funding for things.

PAULINE FROST said I was speaking from my own experience, based on the FTA process, program services and Government base - just to clarify.

COUNCILLOR LESLIE WALKER said it comes up a lot that we spend a lot on wages, but we have to provide services to Citizens, so we have to pay the employees’ wages. Every company is like that. Fifty percent (50%) is not that much for wages. It is

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 87 standard. I don’t understand why people are surprised that we have questions about wages.

PAULINE FROST said you had an opportunity when we discussed the budget.

COUNCILLOR LESLIE WALKER said I just wanted to say we do spend that money, but it is for services.

PAULINE FROST asked Fran Asp for an overview of resolutions. And there is a handout that Fran Asp is going to speak to.

DEPUTY CHIEF ROSE KUSHNIRUK said we do have staff coming to bring the budget. It was just an oversight. We are sorry that it has taken so long to get to you. You are right.

FRAN ASP said good morning. I am the Finance and Policy Analyst for CAFN. I wanted to start by reviewing a resolution that came to the floor and was passed – Resolution 2013-02 GA Resolution Process which states “WHEREAS the Constitution mandates that the General Assembly provides direction from the Citizens to the First Nations Council by way of resolution. THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Assembly directs the First Nations Council to draft General Assembly Resolutions Procedures that include rules and processes for the preparation, adoption, tracking, reporting and follow up of resolutions passed by General Assemblies and bring back to the 2014 General Assembly for approval.” This process has and this isn’t the first that dealt with the General Assembly process. The documents Angie Charlebois handed out to Delegates you may have seen before, but has not been fully implemented. Documents went to a GA Delegates session in 2010 and the Delegates liked it. Going forward, this will be the process that is being proposed for the General Assembly Resolution Process. Part A is schedule for Actions for GA Resolutions with submission and tabling, and cut off time so the Resolution Committee has time to do its work. Getting better at that with 3:00 p.m. cut off yesterday and then the resolutions work starts. Once the resolutions have been vetted and approved at the Assembly, it goes back to Management Committee to review all the GA Resolutions and try to see what it would take to implement the resolutions. Fiscal resources, people to be reassigned. Some resolutions don’t cost anything, so they are put into a work order format and given to the Department responsible. That would happen next week, on July 22nd, when the GA Resolutions will go forward at that time. The following week Chief and Council meet on July 30th and they will take Management Committee’s recommendations and review their priorities and strategic goals and see how the GA Resolutions tie into the strategic planning and vision. There is an opportunity in October to do Supplemental Budget where we would have surpluses and deficits from the audit. We may have Contribution Funding and that gets put into the Supplemental Budget, including the priorities of the GA Resolutions.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 88 That is the procedure for the implementing of resolutions. The General Assembly Resolution Process - a number of years ago - there was a request or recommendation that there be two people from Management Committee for every Resolution Committee so, when resolutions come forward, it would be good to talk to people. And the connection to Government; people putting forward understand if resolutions are already in the works or not. It rotates within Management Committee for which two people will volunteer each year. And Brian MacDonald has been on the Resolutions Committee for 20 years. In terms of resolutions, I don’t think there is a lot of intention of changing wording of a resolution. If there are a number of resolutions now talking about Property Services and things that happened within that Department. We talk to that person bringing forward the resolution to try and put it into a capital planning process. Good idea to do it that way. A lot of little resolutions we have to look at what. Pauline was saying limited number of dollars and, if we have long term, five year capital planning process, within one or two or three years that might work. Something to think about. Every year this is process for reporting back on resolutions. The GA Resolutions will be put on the website. They will be tracked and they will always be there and on record and that is important. A good way to see how our Government has progressed by the resolutions. Think that is a good process. Every year we have a staff member reporting on the resolutions and the actions done. Let me know if you have any questions or ideas as to how to improve the General Assembly Resolution Process.

DAYLE MACDONALD said yesterday we talked about zero based budgeting. There is an understanding of base budgeting that each Department starts at zero again. When you are starting a new budget, and shouldn’t be just as far as Finance goes, but should be looking at programs. With the GA Resolutions that come forward each year, they should be looked at as the priorities for the Government for the fiscal year and if passed here, it is giving you the list of priorities for the coming year. We have programs and services in place and if money is left over and new money is there - if enough money to do projects, we do them. But we should look at the resolutions as priorities and see how they fit into what the Departments are already doing instead of leaving them and not getting them done for years. This forum is the one that should be setting the priority. Workplans are really important; they are more than the administration of the Government. They are about programs and services delivered to our members and impacts the lives of our members. More than administration of program and services. We have a right to know when we are going to have programs and services; when programs and services are going to happen in their communities for housing, community wellness and for any of our Departments; what they are doing. Our communities have a right to know what is going on and what the priorities are. They are trying to say that the priorities are coming from here. Often, we don’t hear for years on what is happening with communities.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 89 FRAN ASP said this process may put more accountability as to how the Government does respond to GA Resolutions. That is what we are hoping.

DEPUTY CHIEF ROSE KUSHNIRUK said I have an idea for everybody to consider. I know this process has been getting better over the years. Previous Council may have done work to improve this. Last year we agreed we need to figure out a way to prioritize. Hopefully, we get through all 35 resolutions today. Exercise to do first try at Dot.mocracy today and we can look at it and see what the priorities are for the year. Da Kų took two terms for it finally to get done. If we see all the resolutions up there, we can see if they can be done in one year or two years. Wondering if we could do that process at the end.

PAULINE FROST said given the schedule, let’s get through the resolutions. I like your idea and it ties in really well with the exercise done yesterday, and could set the tone for next year for how you are going to budget and prioritize. My understanding is Mary Jane Jim and Tim Cant’s exercise had a lot of resolutions formed from that yesterday, and from Community Concerns. Good recommendation, but suggest we work through the day and if there is time at the end of the day, we can talk about what resolutions you want as priorities and Supplemental Budget, and what will follow with fiscal planning.

BARB ALLEN said I can’t help and feel that we did ourselves in when we took the “S” off our First Nations. We would have been more successful if we argued that we are two Nations to implement Self-Government Agreements. We did it to ourselves. If struggling, so much for money. We don’t seem to have enough money. Then we should trim fat and learn how to fund raise, and try different things. We only have one weekend a year to bring concerns from membership and that is our input to Government. Before they had a Community Planning team and that might be a successful thing where you get feedback from the community.

FRAN ASP said thanks for that suggestion. Community Planning teams would provide people with more planning throughout the year. We need to develop a capital planning process. A number of recommendations the Finance Standing Committee is looking at to improve communication and accountability back to the Citizens. Thanks.

ELAINE CHAMBERS said on the revenue and budgets handed out, we need the budget of where things are spent. Education has $1.5M in the budget, but doesn’t say what it is being spent on. For going forward with resolutions, we need clarification to see if some of the resolutions are doable. So this budget does not help me one bit.

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said in talking with financial wizard, Nathan McCowan, wanted to follow up with your concerns. There is confidentiality in terms of salary. It is easy to peg out who makes what. I wonder if the General Assembly would like a Department budget in three sections with 1) consolidated salaries 2) Operating

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 90 and Maintenance (O&M) actual costs of running an office, with such things as chairs to sit on, and 3) actual programming, so Citizens can have an idea that “X” Department has seventy percent (70%) of its budget toward salaries and only ten percent (10%) is actually going to programs. To have it broken out and each Department could have a pie chart for visual of what has been broken out. We can consolidate some of the ones more so that we are not breaching our confidentiality.

ELAINE CHAMBERS said I want to see what is being spent on travel. Certain areas over the last three years for travel. Wages are confidential, but need a breakdown of where the money is being spent.

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said if, on the side for expediency sake for the discussion - like you said travel – yes, we do have real discretionary, but no problem putting out that with accountability factors. The question to the rest - aside from salaries - what are some of the real areas you want to look at, like the travel? Other areas like ‘You seem to be buying too many extension cords’ - what is the cost effectiveness of even our Culture Camps and programs like that. And if that is fine, we can work at getting that and that would be no problem to give you that one extra level of information. I want to ask a clarification question - the 2014-15 Financial Statements in your kit - previous year financials on page 13 should be doable. Was noted to me by the Chair that these are last years and if we fill out a Financial Statement for the budget for this year, that would probably do it, right?

ELAINE CHAMBERS said yes.

PAULINE FROST said and the request for Departmental information in the kits - there is the 2014-15 Annual Report and written reports from Departments that accompanies the expenditures from last year. We started late, so would like to continue on with resolutions and break around 10:30 a.m. I would ask for the Resolutions Committee to put everything up on the Power Point.

FRAN ASP said there are 19 resolutions that are here now and Brian MacDonald and Ian Robinson are still drafting resolutions. In order to get going on the process, we will read them into the record and then have discussion, and try to get through some of them before lunch. Thank you.

Review Proposed 2015 GA Resolutions

Motion 6 FRAN ASP read Resolution 2015-01 “Bill S-6 Amendments to YESAA”. Mover: Larry Joe Seconder: Debbie Workman Decision: Passed by Consensus

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 91 PAULINE FROST said at this point, you have in front of you GA Resolution 2015-01 and we would ask the person who proposed the resolution if they would like to speak to the resolution and have a debate.

MARIE MARTIN asked does this refer to Bill S-6?

PAULINE FROST said we have made an amendment to the resolution to include Bill S- 6. We need the mover and seconder to accept the amendment and then open for discussion. Seeing as we don’t have the person who drafted the resolution coming forward, we open the floor for discussion. Once discussion has concluded, we will go to a vote.

ELAINE CHAMBERS said I was one of them to present the resolution for Chief and Council to go forward.

PAULINE FROST said with that explanation, we will open the floor for engagement. Anyone that wants to speak to the resolution, now is the time to do that. Now to vote. Is there any opposition to the resolution as presented? Do we have any opposition to the resolution as presented? Do we have any opposition to the resolution as presented? Seeing no opposition, I would move that the resolution is accepted by consensus. Your first GA Resolution.

Motion 7 FRAN ASP read Resolution 2015-02 “Traditional Language Strategy”. Mover: Cheryle Patterson Seconder: Lorraine Allen Decision: Passed by Consensus

PAULINE FROST said we would change “compute” to “computer” and spell out “APS” and at the bottom to support that. Resolution is specific to promotion of languages to the Champagne Aishihik First Nations people. I would like to request a mover to accept the resolution. Cheryle Patterson moves to accept the motion. Lorraine Allen is seconder for the motion. Lorraine will speak to her resolution and then discussion.

LORRAINE ALLEN said I didn’t present, but put this together. I know the Language Act is a new thing to revitalize the language. So, when you bring new programs into the system, we need more information. Have to spend more money to get information from Elders. Trying to develop more literature and put on computer so accessible for our members. And then concern was brought to me from Whitehorse. Along with our names on the registration list such as, for example, Lorraine Allen - there would be my name. That is my First Nations name. Then beside my name is ‘Wolf”. All these names are from your ancestors on your mother’s side. So people will know your Wolf or Crow name.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 92 DEPUTY CHIEF ROSE KUSHNIRUK said I have a question for the Resolutions Committee. In the Resolution form we have who it was submitted by. Are we going to see who they are submitted by? I understand we are trying to amalgamate a few resolutions into one, so how do we see how these motions were brought forward?

FRAN ASP said Brian MacDonald and Ian Robinson have documents, but could get documents.

DEPUTY CHIEF ROSE KUSHNIRUK said that is great. It helps us to go to the individual and communicate that a GA Resolution was done. Good to have that attached.

MARGARET WORKMAN said I wanted to say that all these things when they are written in Southern Tutchone - I would like it to be checked for spelling errors and to be accurate information in there. A lot of Southern Tutchone words used in the Annual Report are misspelt and it changes the meaning. For one example - you celebrated the waking of our earth celebration. You have ‘fell down’. You are supposed to be woken up. So, please make sure you check with your fluent speaker and make sure it is spelled accurately. What? My ‘nun fell down’? And here I am today.

PAULINE FROST said seeing as we have no more speakers to this resolution, I would like to move to vote on Resolution 2015-02. Do we have any opposition to the resolution as presented? Are there any opposition to the resolution as presented? Are there any opposition to the resolution as presented? Seeing none, you have passed GA Resolution 2015-02 by consensus.

Motion 8 FRAN ASP read Resolution 2015-03 “Education Support”. Mover: Jessica Mazur Seconder: Breanna Smith Decision: Passed by Consensus

PAULINE FROST asked do I have a mover? Jessica Mazer, Klukshu. Seconder is Breanna Smith, Whitehorse. The resolution is now open to the floor for discussion.

BARB ALLEN asked I am wondering if we passed this last year, why are we putting it through again?

PAULINE FROST said the question on the floor is this resolution was before you last year and was passed as GA Resolution 2014-13 to give direction to leadership. To the person who presented the resolution - were there changes to the Resolution that directed it to be put to the stand?

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 93 DIANE STRAND said I had asked for this resolution to be drafted because, under the response in the action item out of this document, it states that the compensation will be considered at Supplemental Budget Planning. And, as stated by Barb Allen, GA Resolution 2014-13 was to compensate those Citizens. We know the amount is $89,621. They did the research to find out the students that had been deducted. The situation is not the fault of the students. This money should have already been allocated to the students. This was an error that was done by the administration of the staff. This money, if the Government would not have deducted from the students, this money would have been given to the students. The kids may not get this money. It is not the Youth’s fault that they are not receiving this money. There are some Youth that ended up getting a student loan. The funding they will receive back from this will go toward the student loan. It has nothing to do with finding the money now. And why should it be the Youth are at fault? The money would have already been there. There were some pretty hard times, not even being told that they would be deducted. I am curious. My daughter is blessed to have parents who can help. I talked to other Youth that have been affected. Curious to know how many Youth that were not compensated and did not have the blessing of a parent to help them out.

PAULINE FROST said I would like to refer to GA Resolution 2014-13 presented yesterday. This speaks to the resolution last year that directs the Council. There is a specific resolution to ensure all students are fully compensated. So, it would ensure that this resolution is implemented for the Supplemental Budget and appropriate for the resolution. Are there any more discussion on this resolution?

BARB ALLEN said this resolution is from last year. At that time, we directed the Government to pay them. Should we make it stronger language with a timeline? We may have to come back next year with the same thing. Are we giving guidance or giving direction?

PAULINE FROST asked do you want it revised to be on a regular basis?

BARB ALLEN said no, it should have a date to be done by September 30th, or October 1st, after the Supplemental Budget. Has to be a deadline. Don’t want to come again next year to compensate students.

PAULINE FROST said Rose Kushniruk wants to speak and then we would go back to the resolution to add timeline. We recognize Rose and back to Diane Strand who presented this and ask for her input.

DEPUTY CHIEF ROSE KUSHNIRUK said Diane is looking for reinforcement. Food for thought. Fran Asp went over some of that this morning - the previous years that said ‘go do this. We did not know. The Chief and Council administration did not have the numbers, at the time, to see how much money would have to be paid back. This money

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 94 is going back rightfully where it should go because it was wrongly deducted for the students. Now we have the financial number. We need the budgets to see how much. Now we can move forward because that is good financial management to know the number in front of you.

LORRAINE ALLEN said each Department has a Director who should look at the resolutions. They should look at that. Getting paid a lot and shouldn’t be put on Chief and Council. Directors are paid a lot of money. They should be accountable for some of the workload. Thank you.

DIANE STRAND said I would have been happy with the GA Resolution from 2014 the way it stood until the report with the money. You need to do the research, which is there. What gave me concern was more information is required before it moves forward for decision, and then compensation would be considered. It gave me caution that they may not pay the students this money. No idea what other information they need to move forward. This resolution didn’t need to be done if those two sentences weren’t in there. I want assurance.

PAULINE FROST asked are you looking for clarification? Your recommendation – is it specifically to do with this resolution? Are we looking at removing it and going with the old one, or make specific for the assurances you are looking for? For information purposes, CAFN has taken down the Post-Secondary Education program. The money you get is something like $250,000. That is number from my community. You get funds for education and money over that would need the Government to have Supplemental Budget.

DIANE STRAND said we have a policy. This is money that should not have been deducted from students. This was an error that should have already been given to the students from the get go. I would only want to change “the Government has reported that it would seek to identify funds.” Could be stronger with “the Government has reported to identify the funds during the 2015 Supplemental Budget”. If there is a problem with our Post-Secondary Education Policy and we are spending too much money, then fix the Policy and let students know so they can be prepared. They were not prepared for the deductions at that time.

PAULINE FROST said GA Resolution 2014-13 before you - this current leadership are resolving to address the matter so that is being taken care of. This resolution is amended and I will now ask the floor for specific discussions.

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said my recommendation is that the second “Be It Further Resolved” is the actual direction. My recommendation is to amend the resolution so that the second “Be It Further Resolved” is that “this Assembly directs that the compensation payments be budgeted for in the 2015 Fall Supplemental Budget”.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 95 We have to go within our own laws as well. We can’t just make payments. We, as a Government, need to pass a budget to expend cash that hasn’t been budgeted for in the Supplement Budget and paid out. That would be my recommendation.

PAULINE FROST said before the General Assembly, there is another proposed amendment that is the last “Therefore Be it Further Resolved”. Back to the mover and seconder to ask if you are okay with the adjustments before you - the amendments to this resolution. Jessica Mazur, you moved this resolution - are you okay with the amendment?

JESSICA MAZUR said yes.

PAULINE FROST asked Breanna Smith, are you okay with the amendment?

BREANNA SMITH said yes, I am.

PAULINE FROST asked are there any further discussion on the resolution, as we have it before you, as amended?

CHIEF PAUL BIRCKEL said my understanding was the money was already there. So. why do you have to re-budget it?

PAULINE FROST said the 2014-15 Budget is done. They are going into the new year and they are trying to see they have the resources, so the students aren’t impacted, and use the resolution from last year to guide the process.

COUNCILLOR LESLIE WALKER said it makes it seem like the Department took money from the students. It doesn’t give you the information that the Education Department is usually over budget every year. As far as I know, it was used for other students. The money wasn’t used by the Lands Department or Chief and Council; it was spent on other students. We are over budget every year and I support that, but the money was spent on other students. When we do this, the money taken from the pot will affect the students this year.

SHIELA KUSHNIRUK said I call question.

PAULINE FROST asked are there any opposition to the Resolution 2015-03? Do we have any opposition to Resolution 2015-03? Do we have any opposition to Resolution 2015-03? Seeing no opposition, we see that this resolution is passed by consensus.

Motion 9 FRAN ASP read Resolution 2015-04 “Constitution Review Committee”. Mover: Elaine Chambers Seconder: Cheryle Patterson Decision: Deferred for additional information

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 96

PAULINE FROST said in regards to Resolution 2015-04, we would like to now open the floor for a motion to accept the resolution as presented. Elaine Chambers moves to accept the resolution and seconded by Cheryle Patterson, and now open the floor for discussion.

DEBBIE WORKMAN said I thought we already did this a couple of years ago. Not sure exactly what they need to do over again. Curious as to what did that cost us then?

PAULINE FROST said I think the clarification was this was previously brought forward to the General Assembly? We would ask the Executive Director to get that information. This resolution provides direction to this particular leadership for continuing amendments.

CHERYLE PATTERSON said it was our community that brought this forward. When we reviewed the Constitution, there are things we need to really clean up such as Citizenship on our list, and anybody from another First Nation are on the list. Do they get to vote? Do they get to vote here? And other things when we were doing our community meetings. What is the General Assembly? What is our authority? What is our role and how does that clean up? That was confused. Listening to Chief and Council discussion, over the years there have been questions. Are these recommendations or are these directions? We can bring changes sixty (60) days before the Constitution. Good for every community to have input. This General Assembly is going to appoint the Committee. Not sure if we are going to do that or if Chief and Council will find available people.

ELAINE CHAMBERS said my understanding is each community would appoint a Delegate and then a Community Meeting to bring to the community, and everyone would have an opportunity.

LORRAINE ALLEN said since we are in 20 years since the Lands Claims, we are still ironing out stuff that our First Nation needs to be straight forward to them. No ifs, and, or buts. That is why we are reviewing some of the Constitution wording. I don’t mind doing the Constitution. Wherever it has to be reworded or changed, then it becomes a perma press order, you know. There might be some loop holes we have to fix, but it is our job to do that as GA Delegates. Thank you.

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said I have a process and clarification question because, when our last Constitution was done, we had agreed that a Constitution General Assembly would be held every five years, and I thought our last one was 2012. That would make 2017 the year that we go through and actually have amendments. It was our General Assembly ourselves that stated that we were always going through

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 97 stuff, but we as a group agreed to that last amendment at that last one. So, if we are going to jump ahead, we would have to do an amendment or seventy five percent (75%) of us have to agree to open up the Constitution. That is what I recall of it. I may be wrong, but for a fact - as a group - we agreed we were going to leave it for five years. That was discussions from our Elders. The five year date came directly from our Elder, at that time, Moose Jackson. His story of getting together every five years. It is okay. I am assuming that we, at next year’s budget, is that if and when there is a Committee to be established, you might want to direct this resolution to “give direction to Chief and Council to ensure that in the 2016-17 Annual Budget the First Nations Council make preparations to have budgeted dollars available”. So, when we come here next year that is a discussion we can have again. Okay. You have the money to do this and here are our recommendations, so we are prepared going into 2017. We are already going to start amending our Constitution and several discussion pieces we heard from our Citizens that we want, every five years, to open up the Constitution and talk about if we actually need work done. We will make a note of it when we are putting together next year’s General Assembly to put aside time to have a Constitution Review discussion and time to talk about how we are going to look at our supreme law, our law. I personally don’t agree with the second “Be It Further Resolved”; way too descriptive. There are two different mandates within a committee where I think someone would be strong with the Constitution. We are your elected Citizens. We are the people who have been given the mandate from all the Citizenry to conduct the talks. Having another committee will bury us in bureaucracy. That kind of discussion happens in other communities that have committees that override the elected officials. We are the elected official and our people, as a whole, gave us a mandate. Yes, there can be direction. I thought it was a good idea to have Chief and Council to have meetings similar to Yukon Government for a Fall tour, and embed into our Chief and Council to direct us to have community meetings similar to that. In October, we come back to our communities and have budget discussion and ask what are you planning to do moving forward? That works with how we actually want to do business. It may be very mixed up. You are directing the committee that would oversee the budget process. You have already elected a committee of your Citizenry to oversee the budget process. That is the Chief and Council. I don’t know where we go from here. Those two “Be It Further Resolved” are mixed up in my mind and will cause further confusion and frustration as we move forward.

PAULINE FROST said thank you, Chief Smith for the clarification. As stated, your Constitution is clear as to when you recall and amend your Constitution. On page 8 of your Constitution, I understand there was one review in 2015 and another would be conducted in 2017 in two fiscal cycles.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 98 BARB ALLEN said page 8 section says “may be reviewed”. It was explained that we just want to clear up a clarification. When we go into community meetings we can define that. Don’t believe we are doing a great big Constitutional Review. That is different from tidying it up a bit.

PAULINE FROST said we are seeking clarification from your Legal Counsel in regards to a process. Before that, we have more speakers and then move on to providing the clarification.

LORRAINE ALLEN said at the beginning of the General Assembly, we asked for some pages that were missing out of the Constitution and have just been handed the new one now. Some people might not have it, but there is a five year overview focus in the future in which direction the First Nations should be going. Revision of the Constitution every five years, but we have to get these Constitution items right, especially because there are loop holes. Some people in our First Nation and another First Nation, and allowed to vote at both First Nations. Would create problems and overhead. That was double dipping. We talked about double dipping two years ago. That doesn’t seem to have been resolved yet. If we need to revise the Constitution, it says it may be done 90 days prior to a General Assembly, and says this Constitution may be reviewed every five years. So, it may mean whether the Citizens want it. This must be a Citizen’s request here. It is up to the Delegate to look at the Constitution and try to give guidance and direction to Chief and Council. The Delegates here should decide about this Constitution Review. Thank you.

PAULINE FROST said for my clarification, your Constitution is specifically clear and ultimate law that says that in a year that the five year review is proposed to take place, and where Constitution revisions have been provided and my understanding is that has already been done. For clarification, this resolution as presented - this is your law. Your resolution doesn’t allow you to do a review until the year defined in your Constitution. But, nothing in your process that you couldn’t strike working groups to provide recommendations to the Constitution going forward. I have asked Legal Counsel what options do you have for your Citizenship to tie into recommendations to the Constitution? This leadership has committed to do that and for consultation. For clarification, your resolution for Constitution Review would be out of order.

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said most of the discussion is centering around Citizenship. At the last Council, after our first initial meeting with the Elders Senate Executive, we read into law the First Reading of the Enrollment Act and would start to define what our Citizens are, and how they become CAFN people. After going to our Elders, we feel our Elders know best who should be Champagne Aishihik Citizens. The legislative process is that you read it into the First Reading and that starts our process. We now have a workplan for consultation, review, Chief and Council review, Second

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 99 Reading, and Third Reading where it becomes law. If there are discussion with that, that may fulfill the intent. The only thing I have heard that what is wrong with the Constitution is Citizenship and, if that answers it, I am part of the Delegation. This resolution seems to be outside of the scope of the Constitution. Remember, we have to talk about things until we get it right. This one still seems mixed up - a Constitution Review Committee and, all of a sudden, a Budget Committee.

CHERYLE PATTERSON said just because there is some confusion, the clarification is the second “Be It Further Resolved” is asking the Government for a budget to do this work, not to take care of the budget for the whole organization.

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said that is duly noted. That is why I say talk about stuff until it is understood. If it is Citizenry to be reviewed - the legislative process and the laws we are creating - we are, as Council, talking about that as the most fundamental law we would create is who we class as Champagne Aishihik people. If we are going to jump ahead, we may cause more confusion going forward. Let the Government go through the process before we do any more substantive amendments. Let’s be prescriptive as to the dates. If it is a five year review to get ready for, the clear descriptive for that is the 2016-17 budgeting year. That is when the direction should come - that this General Assembly wants the First Nations Council to ensure that they budget for that committee as support. We can come into 2017 and we didn’t budget for it.

ELAINE CHAMBERS said the intent was to establish a committee for the Delegation to look and review some information and the Constitutional Review next fiscal year, but allocate budget for community meetings for Citizen concerns to speed it up. Right now we don’t have the budget to do that. Okay with amending, so we get it correct, and start the work in the next fiscal year, not this fiscal year. Maybe we put it on hold? Do some wordsmithing and bring it back?

CHERYLE PATTERSON said thank you, Elaine, I agree. We need to take it back, reword, and bring it back. Fiscal year starting April 1st so this is to help with setting up the Constitution Review Committee the next year. It is important for the resolution Committee to clarify with the people who bring a resolution forward. It wasn’t brought like this. The way it was written I didn’t like it either and am glad they wordsmithed it, but we drafted in totally different roles. Not just Citizenship. That is the role of the General Assembly. We pay people to sit here and are we getting a good bang for our buck? Depending on what our authority is, we would then know that.

PAULINE FROST said Resolution 2015-04 is going to be deferred and move on to the next resolution. This is your General Assembly. This is your time to speak to resolutions. I have asked Council not to counter with suggestions and what Chief and Council are doing. I wanted to let you know that we have made that clarification.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 100 Motion 10 FRAN ASP read Resolution 2015-05 “Status Cards”. Mover: Elaine Chambers Seconder: Larry Joe Decision: Passed by Consensus

PAULINE FROST said we are trying to have the drafter of the resolution to speak to the resolution, but as we amalgamated some resolutions that isn’t possible. I would like to have the resolution presented. Can I have a mover? Elaine Chambers moves Resolution 2015-05 and Larry Joe seconded the motion, and I would now ask people on the floor.

ELAINE CHAMBERS said at the CYFN GA, they were passing around a letter. New status card has restriction on back of card that you are taxable. So, a concern going forward. We gave up our right for not taxable in the Yukon but it is not for outside of the Yukon. For people living on reserve in Calgary - they are non-taxable - but, if living off the reserve - taxable. Has to be consultation. With this resolution, also asking the Government to go to CYFN and work with them. Probably the other First Nations have the same concern. I don’t know that.

PAULINE FROST said thank you for the clarification. Are there any other concerns for this resolution? Question has been called. So to vote on Resolution 2015-05. Are there any opposition to this resolution as presented? Are there any opposition to Resolution 2015-05? Any opposition to Resolution 2015-05? As I see no opposition, this resolution is passed by consensus.

Motion 11 FRAN ASP read Resolution 2015-06 “Aishihik Village Infrastructure and Maintenance”. Mover: Margaret Workman Seconder: Lorraine Allen Decision: Passed by Consensus

PAULINE FROST requested someone from the floor to accept the resolution. We need a motion. Mover Margaret Workman and seconder Lorraine Allen. Now open the floor for resolution on Aishihik Infrastructure and Maintenance. Ask the presenter of the resolution - do you have specific comments you would like to make on this particular resolution?

FRAN ASP said this is a consolidated resolution from Aishihik.

LORRAINE ALLEN said the ‘wants’ list, but they amalgamated all these requests for the buildings, but we were talking about the Shäkāt Kų area, but I see on there it says the village. We all have our own homes. We just want extras to maintain the operation of

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 101 the grounds and roads to Carnation Point. And airport buildings to be sided from the woodpeckers. So, that is the airport area and the Shäkāt Kų area, and the road to the Aishihik village. Could put Aishihik village area, or Airport, or Shäkāt Kų and just the request to fix the road to the village. We didn’t ask for anything to be fixed at the village. Everything is good at the village.

PAULINE FROST said with that clarification, we have a slight amendment to the resolution in the “Whereas” section of the resolution. Are there further discussions on this resolution?

MARGARET WORKMAN said you have Aishihik traditional village and Shäkāt Kų. Those were the two areas that were not included. The Aishihik traditional village and Shäkāt Kų and the road in the village should be upgraded. Also the Airport condition - the field with man holes are still open. Kids are running all over the place and horses through there. We want someone to check it and make sure the manholes are covered because it is a dangerous situation there. We wanted the road improvement going to Aishihik. The corners are overgrown and willows, trees have not been brushed back for many, many, many years.

PAULINE FROST said thank you for the clarification. Are there any further discussions on this resolution?

JANET VAN BIBBER said to look at this and talk about the road, curious if we put finances into that - what is it going to mean for the other communities? Is that money going to have to come from somewhere else?

PAULINE FROST said the recommendations from here affects all the communities. They would be prioritized going out, so the resources you have shown transparency. There have been deliberations on that already.

DEBBIE WORKMAN asked is there any way to go to YTG for some of these road conditions for their Bison hunt and four wheelers? They are just as responsible, if they want to run around in our Traditional Territory.

PAULINE FROST said thank you. The First Nations’ priorities going forward, the one thing always on the agenda is to find the Government that is responsible. Duly noted. We will tie that into the notes for leadership and organization. Call for move to vote. Are there any opposition to the amended resolution? Are there any opposition to the resolution as presented? Are there any opposition to the resolution as presented? Seeing none, I move this resolution is passed by consensus.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 102 Motion 12 FRAN ASP read Resolution 2015-07 “Location of General Assembly”. Mover: Barb Allen Seconder: Chief Ray Jackson Decision: Not Passed, In favor - 1 61 Citizens present

PAULINE FROST said we need a mover to accept this resolution. Mover Barb Allen and seconder Chief Ray Jackson. Open the floor for the presenter of this resolution or the drafter of the resolution. Chief Ray Jackson will speak to the resolution.

CHIEF RAY JACKSON said there is a problem with having this and on behalf of Elders I want you to know the last time we had a meeting in Takhini - all the Delegates there - and I complained about that. This morning it was cold and if I get the wrong cold, I get problems with my lungs. I have been to the hospital five times since the meeting last year in Takhini. Because of that, I had pneumonia. Since then I have been going downhill. It is a problem. Another thing too is emergency. I don’t see emergency tent to go to if someone collapsed. There is no plan for anything like this. And yet we want to save money. But we spend more money meeting like this. The real reason for General Assembly is to receive reports, make recommendations, and we could do that. We don’t have to come into the country to do it. This is the purpose - to make a report of what has been done and yet we don’t have all the Departments but we do have staff. If we were in Haines Junction we could call the staff in to ask what happened here. I don’t have access to Internet when I would make recommendations, so it is a problem. Also a financial problem. And it is also a problem of Elders. This is why I put this resolution forward. We could come all the time. I can’t stay here. I have to travel back and forth to Takhini right now because of this machine. During this four days I have gone through six (oxygen) bottles. Because of electricity I have to back there. Also to keep warm I have to go to my brother’s place. Four times in two years rushed to the hospital and if it happened here, I don’t know how you would rush me to the hospital. Stabilized then, but not again. This is the danger we have. And also, if anybody gets hurt here, who is responsible for people that are called to come here and then they get hurt? It is a problem we have to think about. We like to be in the country because it is part of our Nation. We want to be near the country. It is good, but there are lots of times we don’t need three days to go to the country.

PAULINE FROST said thank you for the clarification. Refer to the Constitution which speaks to part of the explanation for Chief Ray Jackson speaks to the health and wellbeing for Elders in section 25 with “the General Assembly shall meet annually and until such time as is determined by the Chief and Council in consultation of the General Assembly, the location is easy to access for Elders with mobility.” It was clarified

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 103 through the explanation and the specific change is that future General Assemblies be held at Haines Junction, Champagne or Klukshu. Open the floor to discussion on the resolution.

DARLENE JIM said back in 2008 we set a resolution for one General Assembly on the land and one in the Halls. So we cannot change that right now. The Youth and our families do like the land trips. Kids in the lakes and all kinds of activities happening here, and we do get connected to our land. We respect our Elders, but also consider the wellbeing of our Citizens. The “History of our GA Locations” list in the 2014-15 Annual Report shows 1 in Takhini, 6 in Klukshu, and 3 in Kusawa. That is telling me that Champagne and Haines Junction has been mostly highlighted as GA locations. Good to see the General Assembly on the land for the future and our Youth, with respect to our Elders as we try to accommodate them.

PAULINE FROST asked is there any further discussion on this resolution? Any further discussion?

MARGARET WORKMAN said our Constitution says we are supposed to alternate between on the land and between an established community. As an Elder, I still like to get back to the land. We haven’t had one in Aishihik for many, many years because we were told ‘your road is not worth travelling’. If we pass this resolution it is going to restrict us to Champagne or Haines Junction.

ELAINE CHAMBERS said I agree with having them on the land. We need to ensure for our Elders that we have the proper services - a tent with a bed. If an Elder needs electrical, they should have that and it is looked after. We also need First Aid people in case we need them.

PAULINE FROST said no further discussion, so move to vote on this resolution. Are there any opposition to the resolution as presented? Any opposition to the resolution as presented? If you are opposing, please raise your hand and the Co-Chair would count.

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH asked for point of order. All you are asking for is opposition and then formal vote process?

PAULINE FROST said just wanted to note for the record. Thank you for the clarification. We have opposition to the resolution. Now we go to a vote. All those in favour - we are going to count the Delegates here and we need fifty percent (50%) plus one. Our Youth Co-Chair would count and then we would go into vote.

PAULINE FROST said the count in the room is 61. We need 31 to pass the resolution. I call all those in favor, please raise your hand for voting to pass this resolution. We see

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 104 one vote. We see that this resolution is defeated 60 to 1. So we move to the next resolution.

PAULINE FROST said all the comments from the resolution are taken into the record and provide direction to the leadership for future help, and First Aid.

Motion 13 FRAN ASP read Resolution 2015-08 “Protection of CAFN Traditional Territory”. Mover: Mary Frances Isaac Seconder: Michelle Dawson-Beattie Decision: Passed by Consensus

PAULINE FROST asked can we have a mover to accept Resolution 2015-08? Mover Mary Frances Isaac and seconder Michelle Dawson-Beattie. Now we have mover and seconder, we move to the floor for discussion and the person who presented the resolution.

ELAINE CHAMBERS said that was community concerns brought forward on the canoeists down our rivers leaving campfires. Want First Nation information packages given to lodges, Parks Canada, and when picking up canoes from businesses, so they know what to expect when travelling on our trails. And people using our traditional trails. It won’t happen while we have buffalo hunters there.

DEBBIE WORKMAN said I had the same thought about the Bison. Nice to expand this to all our traditional lands.

SHEILA KUSHNIRUK said within Kluane National Park (KNP) we do talk to the hikers and the people that camp in the back country on ‘leave no trace’ and ‘be bear aware’. We make them watch the bear video and we make sure they have a food canister which is mandatory when they go into KNP. Also, our Traditional Territory. Also with Kluane First Nations. We do that for those people that come out and hike in our country.

PAULINE FROST said there is a recommendation to make amendment to include all the territories of CAFN.

MICHELLE DAWSON-BEATTIE said I think that is really great KNP is doing that, but take it one step further. When getting Bison licences that that information is available to them, not just in the Park. And request the Government to engage in all of our land. Okay as putting in there as well, Traditional Territory.

PAULINE FROST said so minor amendments to the resolution to be the Traditional Territory collectively, not just one area; it encompasses all your land. So move on to vote. Are there any opposition to the resolution as presented? Any opposition to the

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 105 resolution as presented? Any opposition to the resolution as presented? Seeing none, I move that the resolution is passed by consensus.

Motion 14 FRAN ASP read Resolution 2015-09 regarding Youth activities in the Takhini Subdivision. Mover: Darlene Jim Seconder: Sally Jim Decision: Not Passed, In favor – 24, abstain – 6, opposed – 24 + 1 (Chief Smith broke tie) 54 Citizens present

PAULINE FROST asked can we have a mover to accept Resolution 2015-09? Mover Darlene Jim and seconder Sally Jim. Now open the floor for discussion on this resolution. Do we have any discussion on this specific resolution?

JANET VAN BIBBER said I wonder if the wording can be changed. Not just for Takhini but all Youth, Whitehorse, Takhini, and Haines Junction. Wondering if for the DaKwäKada Dancers - can this vehicle also be accessible to them?

PAULINE FROST said we had someone present this resolution for discussion and then have clarification and then have vote.

GEORGINIA GRIFFITH said not sure how many Youth in Takhini, but I see a lot of them that don’t attend a lot of the Youth activities because their parents just can’t go. There are no rides. There is no transportation. I can take only two. Youth Coordinator. These kids don’t have anything to do after school. No soccer, baseball, hockey. Expensive to go back and forth. A Youth Coordinator could pick up some of these kids and take them to the Canada Games Centre, to Mt. Sima, and to all the places that the kids from Haines Junction are going. They are running around and have fun, but should be doing other things, and be included.

PAULINE FROST asked are there any further discussion on this resolution?

DARLENE JIM said we did this resolution in regards to Takhini Youth because there is a bus in Haines Junction for Youth and Elders’ transportation. When they are coming into Whitehorse, they never come into our community in Takhini and take the Youth to Mt. Sima or wherever they go. We would like to see them involved in sports, hockey, baseball, soccer, and that is not doable for most of the families in Takhini are unemployed, and it is expensive.

ELAINE CHAMBERS said we have to be careful when we put these kinds of resolutions forward. There is also liability for Youth. If people need to get kids into swimming and stuff, and a van to take them swimming, there would be conflict. We have to define these when we put them up and look at some of the procedures as well.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 106 BARB ALLEN said I wholeheartedly support this for Youth in Takhini. We support Haines Junction kids going in every two weeks. We have dance practices in Champagne. When Youth are coming from Whitehorse they bypass Takhini. I talked to someone that didn’t even know they existed. This is a new and growing community. If we are going to have services in Haines Junction, we need to start putting services in other communities. We can’t have one community that has all the services and others that don’t.

JANET VAN BIBBER said currently, if staff are transporting Youth in private vehicles, there are issues with insurance. With a staff vehicle, if Youth were being transported, there would be no issues with insurance. There are a lot of Youth in Takhini and the Youth in Whitehorse have access to more in their community. There is a barrier for those Youth to do other activities. Haines Junction Youth have access to vehicles. And the allocation of resources - if there are a whole group of children with parents that have less income, they may have less chance for activities. More income, higher chance to do outside activities. The number of children in Takhini in families, I can see the resources are limited.

PAULINE FROST said let’s move to vote on Resolution 2015-09. Do we have any opposition? We have an opposition, so we are going to go to a vote. We would count again as people come and go, so that we have solid numbers. We need 28 votes to pass Resolution 2015-09. All those in favor of this resolution, please raise your hand. We have 24 votes and we don’t have enough to pass the resolution. I would seek clarification from Denise. Although we have 24 in favor and that means we have the remainder of the 54 that opposed. Those that would abstain: 6 Abstentions. If there is a tie the Chief would vote. We now have 24 in favour and 6 abstaining. You abstain from voting and the vote does not count yes or no. The process says you need to pass a resolution by majority. We have 28 votes to pass and 6 abstentions to the resolution. We have taken from the top of the 56, less 6 abstentions leaves us with 48. We need a majority, so now we are at a tie on your vote. I have now been advised to go through the whole motion and we need to vote in favor, opposition and abstentions. They wanted to go through this process. We have two requirements for clarification. I am going to call all in favor, all opposed, all abstained. I will allow two questions and then seek legal clarification.

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said what an abstention means is that you are refraining from voting in this particular situation. You then reduce the number of your majority. If we had 45 in the room and 6 abstained - to ensure that it is recorded and read into the minutes. Our quorum is 40. So if 15 voted for and 15 voted against - that means there would be 30 votes. If you do not effectively count the abstentions, you have not gone with your need for quorum. The abstentions in that case show if we had 15 for and 15 against and 15 abstentions - that means we would have 45 in the room,

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 107 and then to make the decision. When you voted yesterday, you had a count of 60 people. That meant that you had quorum. But on paper, abstentions count to prove that you were voting in a duly constituted forum. No one can question that we had no quorum. When you abstain, the abstention does not go for or against the motion - it only shows you had enough people in the room. If you do not vote, you are present to be quorum. So, thank you very much for putting me on the hot seat. You need to go through, if the floor is okay, an actual quorum. If you are in the room, we should have someone back there. We should have someone saying you cannot enter or leave once the count is done.

LORRAINE ALLEN said in the past, abstentions were counted as a yes vote. Yes, they were and that is why people were confused right now. We need to have this in black and white and should be in the Constitution for the General Assembly. I know for a fact. I sat at the table and the abstentions were counted as a yes vote.

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said this is a General Assembly. You have now placed a rule and calling for an actual decision on your process which is whatever processes you had in the past. If you make a decision today to follow a certain guideline, that is in your prevue outside of the Constitution, as the General Assembly has the ultimate authority to run and operate under its own rules and procedures. I think our Elders can override and say ‘we are not following law’. No other part of our Government can override the procedures of the General Assembly. I have heard you say this has happened in the past. We are confused. Let’s have a debate about this and have it clarified because we have counted that and, in the past, I have operated abstentions go with the majority - be it negative or positive.

LORRAINE ALLEN said I understood it to be that abstentions are up to the people. If they want to vote on this or not, and it should have been like that. For some reason, a person chose not to vote, or there is a reason why they abstained from voting on that resolution. Now that it is clear that abstentions is an abstain - not a yes or no - so we don’t get into an up and down.

PAULINE FROST said to resolve this, we have clarifications for abstentions. It is clear when we voted we had 54 Citizens present - 24 in favor, 6 abstained, and 24 not in favour. So, this is the Chief and the rules state that the Chief will vote yes or no.

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said opposed.

PAULINE FROST said this resolution is not passed.

BARB HUME said I want to know if we can have an external - or somebody who knows who our people are - to be appointed as a ‘sergeant-at-arms’ at the door. Some people commented they didn’t have a chance to vote.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 108 PAULINE FROST said we ask for the General Assembly - before we proceed further - there has been some not so clear process and we need someone to be assigned as sergeant-of-arms to guide the process when we are voting. We are going to vote. Look at voting in favor, opposition and abstention, not just going to go with majority. I ask for the General Assembly to recommend a sergeant-at-arms, as recommended. When we are doing official motions and establish quorum, and those that are Citizens. Put that to the floor for recommendation as to who that person might be. Any suggestions? Maybe from Elders Council? Nomination that Barb Hume be the sergeant-in-arms. I would ask Barb Hume if she accepts that nomination.

BARB HUME said yes.

PAULINE FROST said Barb Hume is going to act as a sergeant-in-arms as we are voting and she will help with the numbers, and with the process.

Motion 15 FRAN ASP read Resolution 2015-10 “Water Protection and Preservation”. Mover: Larry Joe Seconder: Chase Smith-Tutin Decision: Passed by Consensus

PAULINE FROST said now that we have reviewed the Resolution 2015-10, do we have a mover to the resolution? Mover Larry Joe and seconder Chase Smith-Tutin. We now move to discussion on the resolution. Do we have any discussion on the resolution?

ELAINE CHAMBERS said from the management - if this resolution goes forward with legislation to change and costs of $200,000 to $300,000 - maybe Lawrence Joe to speak to this resolution before we put it to vote.

PAULINE FROST said I know you have water resource. If the floor is okay, we are going to ask a staff person to provide clarification, and then back to the floor for discussion.

LAWRENCE JOE said we had Chapter 14 about our water rights. Might be pushing the envelope to say that we have legislation to preserve our water. We would have to explore that. May be $5,000 or $10,000. It requires more research.

PAULINE FROST asked do we have any more discussions on this resolution?

DEBBIE WORKMAN said what are we targeting about protection of our water? We fight all the time - the Dalton Trail people fishing our lakes - and we are told that we cannot do anything. What are we trying to protect and what we are allowed to?

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 109 PAULINE FROST asked for clarification. The Director responsible was to remove ‘legislation’.

LAWRENCE JOE said it takes more work and research.

PAULINE FROST asked do we have further discussion? Seeing as no further discussion, we would have Brian MacDonald provide clarification shortly. It says in your Constitution that fifty percent (50%) plus 1. I have been asking if there were any opposition, so I am going to go through that.

DAYLE MACDONALD asked I thought we were just taking that out?

PAULINE FROST said Lawrence Joe clarifying for amendment and we are moving for the resolution as presented. Resolution 2015-10. Do we have any opposition to this resolution? Do we have any opposition to this resolution? Do we have any opposition to this resolution? Seeing none, this resolution is passed by consensus.

Motion 16 FRAN ASP read Resolution 2015-11 “No Alcohol at Da Kų Cultural Centre”. Mover: Mary Frances Isaac Seconder: Margaret Workman Decision: Passed, in favor - 30, opposed - 20, abstain - 6 56 Citizens present

PAULINE FROST said a resolution was requested last year but was not passed - asking for Resolution 2015-11 to prohibit alcohol being served at Da Kų Cultural Centre, to reconsider the decision to have the General Assembly reconsider the policy of allowing the consumption of alcohol at the Da Kų Cultural Centre. I ask for a mover to this resolution. Mover Mary Frances Isaac and seconder Margaret Workman. Now asking the person who put this on the floor for discussion please.

MARGARET WORKMAN said they have had two parties there so far. The Elders Room had to be cleaned because it was soaked with alcohol and alcohol was never in our culture. If we are going to go back to our traditional ways, you go back and practice your culture, and no alcohol allowed in our heritage building. Thank you.

PAULINE FROST said I now open up the floor to Resolution 2015-11.

ELAINE CHAMBERS said we have to be very, very careful. We expect the Da Kų Cultural Centre to be efficient. Then we don’t have funds. It is a separate business and entity. Maybe one thing that can be resolved. If people have a problem with alcohol being served, we could have no alcohol for CAFN events. A lot of events are planned and had to cancel events. Chief and Council have advised us that they are working with

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 110 the Village of Haines Junction to do things. There are always open houses and events, and keep that in mind as well.

BARB ALLEN said I really strongly believe that the Cultural Centre should be alcohol and drug free. When the plan was put forth to the General Assembly, the alcohol is not in our culture. People would be more likely to support it if there were more cultural things happening there. If this is supposed to be our Cultural Centre, we didn’t have alcohol. Or change it, if this is supposed to be a business operation.

LORRAINE ALLEN said it should be alcohol free entity. It is our Cultural Centre and why are they distinguishing that? Why do we want the other entities to wreck this facility and bring in their booze? Since it was allowed that they have some kind of celebration, the last time Margaret said we have trouble with people bringing booze into the other rooms. It is truly our focus that it is to be alcohol free. We want our communities to be alcohol free and we do not want to promote alcohol in our Cultural Centre.

CHIEF RAY JACKSON said I looked up on the Internet and the Alaska Centre doesn’t have funding. They generate their own funding, so why can’t we? It is something we should be having - story telling, everything else. When we have Elders come in we pay them and have an audience to generate funds for the buildings. We don’t look at this. All we want is grants for the First Nation to run the thing. I don’t think it is to say we are going to do something that is going to drain us dry, but have a way to be self-sustaining and have an aspect of our theme. Just have to think about more than just the dollar sign. Thank you.

SALLY JIM said I agree with Barb and Lorraine, and I agree with those that want to have alcohol. I am going to ask you to please remove our artifacts. My Grandma and Auntie Marge’s things that we would not be able to replace. So might as well move them to another museum if you are going to have alcohol. It does get very rough there when there is alcohol involved.

PAULINE FROST asked do we have any opposition on Resolution 2015-11? Do we have any opposition on Resolution 2015-11? Do we have any opposition on Resolution 2015-11? Seeing that we have opposition, we are going to formal vote and our sergeant-of-arms, Barb Hume will assist.

PAULINE FROST asked please hold up your hand high and you will be counted. We have 56 and you need majority to pass this resolution. So that gives us 29. So we call for all those in favor to please raise your hand to be counted. In favor – 33. Opposed to Resolution 2015-11 - please raise your hand to be counted. Opposed - 20. 33 in favor and 20 opposed. Now ask for those abstaining from voting to please raise your hand. Abstentions - 6. Given you have majority, we have 59, not 56, so there is three more

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 111 somewhere. We have 3 votes too many from what we counted. In favor - 30. Abstentions - 6. We are going to go with that and Resolution 2015-11 being passed.

Motion 17 FRAN ASP read Resolution 2015-12 “Increase CAFN Housing Stock”. Mover: Marie McLaren Seconder: Sally Jim Decision: Passed by Consensus

PAULINE FROST asked can we have a mover to accept Resolution 2015-12? Mover Marie McLaren and seconder Sally Jim. Now I ask the Citizen who put this resolution forward to speak, or would you like to go to discussion?

MARIE MCLAREN said I did put forward again this year. I sit on the Housing Committee and we have applications and no houses for them. We need new units.

DEBBIE WORKMAN said I also got on the Housing Committee. We also have a big problem for people who have not paid for their rent. We are $500,000 in the hole right now and we cannot afford to build any more units.

BARB ALLEN said I strongly believe that we need more houses. Some people couch surf. Some are homeless. Rent for up to $1,400 a month. We need to do something to address it. If we have that much in arrears, let’s make them pay, or evict. We let them stay and accumulate the deficit more and more and more. Somewhere along the line, we have to put our foot down and stop it.

PAULINE FROST said you did provide some clear direction from your leadership for more housing, a Housing Policy, and resources, so you have that defined for direction also.

SALLY JIM said we do have houses out there that we have for Citizens , but they don’t live in it. A house in Takhini - if they were evicted then someone can move in because, for the last two or three years, they have not been staying there. And look at evicting people not occupying and give to people with children.

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said to let everybody know - what we have been going through over the last four months is an assessment of what the Government itself knows about the houses, the conditions, the people in them, the arrears. We are waiting for a report from Ian Robinson. We asked him to do an assessment for us. One of the first initiatives we want to do is to provide everybody with an idea of how many different types of houses do we have. You hear there is Bill C-31 houses, CMHC, rental, and homeownership houses. All these categories that make it confusing. What do people pay? What is the relationship? People think they own the house - what is the real legal

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 112 side of it? We asked Ian Robinson to look at each scenario and have a two-day housing symposium to meet with our Citizens and explain what our housing is. It goes to one of our values and key strategies this year is informed decision making. Even in my position, I still don’t have a really good grasp of do people actually owe that money? We have had people in the past have receipts and get mad. It is not up to them to take care of the books for housing. For so many years we have tried to put a bandage on it and not looking at the whole thing. A question we can ask ourselves is what is the reasoning why these people want to move back to Champagne Aishihik land? What is the real reason? Do they want to move to our home? Do they want cheap rent? What is that? I am not guessing the intent of those people, but we don’t know. Our staff should be able to ask these questions and that is what we asked them to do. The intent of this is really good. Maybe let’s try to understand it first. Housing is a really important part of our whole infrastructure. Where people live is important. I wonder if we can amend the resolution to read that we want to have a symposium first to get an idea of who wants to live with us, where they are, and what kind of house they are in, to start making a plan that is fair to everybody. And to have more houses, are we having more Elders? More families? I see single men, and our single women staying in a hotel. Is that the kind of housing we need? We don’t know yet. If we have two days in the Fall, we can take the time and talk about it instead of a little bit of time here. Maybe amend the resolution to say we would have a symposium to start with the strategies. We don’t know the whole story. We had Elders come in before and ask ‘how come you want to kick me out? I pay every month.’ It is because our books aren’t in order. If we can make that picture and what it looks like. Kwänaschis.

PAULINE FROST said the recommendation is to have more information and directing a housing symposium around new housing, and efficient houses.

CHERYLE PATTERSON said I was part of what Chief Smith was talking about because I was here with people with receipts. As an amendment, if we are not going to get new units, if we could get houses that have non-Citizens returned to the pool, that would allow for Champagne Aishihik Citizens and families and singles into units.

PAULINE FROST said that would form more of a policy. My understanding is we are going to go through a housing symposium in the Fall that would address the specific asks and the resolution was to allow people to have the First Nations Council prioritize the allocation of appropriate funds.

CHUCK HUME said thank you very much. It is my understanding that when you go through the process of electing Chiefs, resolutions that have been passed at the time by other Chiefs and some of the things the older Chiefs said was 'you will own your homes in 20 years'. I don’t know why, when we elect a new Chief, they change what the old Chief made - a decision which should never happen. We talk about homeownership and

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 113 all these things and its sets back your First Nations quite a bit. We have to continue with the older Chief’s advice that you look at homeownership. If you have lived in the house for 20 years, that house should belong to you. Only discussion we are not having here is for land application that the house is sitting on through a lease or something. That is the only thing that is holding us back and we need to get into those kinds of decisions.

BARB HUME said there has been a number of conferences and studies done to date on housing. We have to start building houses again. Other communities all have new sub- divisions with new housing, so they are able to build new houses every year. We have a serious problem with people that are in need. We don’t even know what the number is. Maybe it shouldn’t be just the responsibility of the Housing Department but Health and Social, and Lands to see what the housing situation is. Doing a random research about what our problem is. Every Citizen should be contacted to get a clear picture of what our problem is. Again, we have had housing summits, all kinds of data collected from the Housing Department. They had monies allocated to address the safety and health issues in the current houses. I live in so called subsidy house and there is a policy that says we shouldn’t get any services. Those should be listed in a very clear picture of what our Housing Department should look like, or our housing needs. We need to know what that is. Not another study. There is actually a study with Cheryle Patterson. There were four engineers into our home. Not one of those mold issues caused by water delivery or sewage backup has been addressed to date. At some point, we need to say we don’t need another study to put on the shelf. Maybe the research and that kind of stuff needs to happen, but we have a crisis.

PAULINE FROST said we should review Resolution 2014-16 that says “Therefore Be it Resolved that this Assembly directs the First Nations Council to ensure that new housing be prioritized in the capital allocation of the Annual Budget. This resolution 2015-12 requests that the First Nations Council prioritize the allocation of appropriate funds. It is the same resolution that you passed by consensus last year. There is discussion right now around policies and some priority areas for housing matters. This speaks to housing allocation where it speaks to new housing. It does not speak to housing issues. Chief Smith has indicated his focus and his priority in the coming Fall is to make sure all the issues on the table have been identified and strategize the way and means to address the issues in the communities. Marie McLaren - you moved to accept this resolution. You also moved last year, so are you comfortable with the resolution you had on the table in 2014? I need some clarification there is the same issue, but need policy direction.

MARY JANE JIM said my feeling of the mover and seconder is that there has been nothing done, so I am going to suggest that we add “C. Whereas that would instruct the Government to look at Government alternative funds to create an ongoing fund for housing.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 114 PAULINE FROST said back to the mover and seconder. Are you okay with the proposed amendment? Marie, are you okay with the proposed amendment? Sally - are you okay with the proposed amendment?

MARIE MCLAREN said yes. SALLY JIM said yes.

CHERYLE PATTERSON asked is this feasible with the 2015 Supplemental Budget? That is short notice for next month to adjust the budget. My understanding of Supplemental is to not add big major items, but to adjust the budget as necessary. The deadline is what I am concerned about.

ELAINE CHAMBERS said once we build houses - those that are paying taxes- 80% of that comes back to the First Nations. So it is very important to get people back on our lands. If the house is going to cost you $400,000 to build a house, that is where the Supplemental Budget comes in.

PAULINE FROST said so the recommendation is for more future clarification. The recommendation is one of the other options or suggestion was to take the Fall Supplemental Budget and allow Chief and Council to work with your priorities.

KATHYLEEN DARBYSHIRE said with the last Government, I lobbied with them to home the homeless. And the third time, I produced everything. They did help a lot of people out, including myself.

PAULINE FROST said thank you. We have added another clarification. Are you - the mover and seconder - okay now with the amendment to the clarification? Does this speak clearly to what you are requesting? Now we would go to vote.

MARIE MCLAREN said yes. SALLY JIM said yes.

FRAN ASP asked should the 2015 Fall Supplement Budget process be removed?

CHERYLE PATTERSON said yes, because it says prioritize.

PAULINE FROST said so the recommendation was to take out Fall, but put in appropriate allocation. Now to vote on this resolution. Move to vote to accept Resolution 2015-12. Do we have any opposition to the Resolution 2015-12 as amended? Do we have any opposition to the resolution as amended? Are there any opposition? Seeing no opposition, this resolution is passed by consensus.

PAULINE FROST said we amalgamated resolutions. We have 24 resolutions.

Motion 18 FRAN ASP read Resolution 2015-13 “Support for Diabetes”. Mover: Kathyleen Darbyshire Seconder: Barb Allen

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 115 Decision: Passed by Consensus

SALLY JIM said “Therefore Be It Resolved that this Assembly requests Government to research and offer a pilot foot care clinic project in Haines Junction, Canyon, and Champagne. Why not “and Takhini”? We all have feet down there too.

PAULINE FROST said to be all inclusive in all of your communities, not just a few.

MARIE MARTIN said we added the health promotion part of this resolution as we need to prevent it before it even happens. More diet and health promotion and active living for our children before we get there. I would like that in the amendment and the specific wording “also health promotion around nutrition, active living” – all that. And I believe they have some sort of program around that, but may be more focused on, or enhanced, and brought to the community specifically.

PAULINE FROST said there was a request to add to the resolution. I ask the mover and seconder - are you okay with the proposed amendments?

KATHYLEEN DARBYSHIRE said yes. BARB ALLEN said yes.

PAULINE FROST said we are now open for discussion. As there is no discussion, we go to vote. Do we have any opposition to the resolution as amended? Are there any opposition? Do we have any opposition? Seeing as we have no opposition, we will declare the resolution passed by consensus.

Motion 19 FRAN ASP read Resolution 2015-14 “Educating CAFN Citizens on the Implications of Their Vote”. Mover: Darlene Jim Seconder: Chief Paul Birckel Decision: Passed by Consensus

PAULINE FROST asked can we have a mover to accept Resolution 2015-14? Mover Darlene Jim and seconder Chief Paul Birckel. Now to Mary Jane Jim - do you need further clarification, or do we go to general discussion? Are there any discussion on this resolution? We open the floor to discussion.

DEBBIE WORKMAN asked do we have to look into budget? Is this going to cost something for somebody to do this?

PAULINE FROST said we will ask Deputy Chief Rose Kushniruk to clarify.

DEPUTY CHIEF ROSE KUSHNIRUK said our Chief mentioned yesterday that, at the CYFN GA at Minto Landing, CYFN has agreed to help coordinate our communities and

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 116 it was passed at the GA that they are going to identify a person in each First Nation, and going to strategize how to get our people out to vote. Everyone thought it was a good idea. So, that is what is happening at the CYFN level. We don’t know when, but this is a priority for the First Nations.

BARB HUME said I was at the CYFN GA and the background why the wanted a person from each community to help Citizens is because they want a block vote to get the Conservative Government out because of Bill S-6. A little more to why this is happening. Other First Nations are also doing the same thing.

PAULINE FROST said thank you. Political movement. So I will ask Mary Jane Jim to speak to her resolution.

MARY JANE JIM said I understand one reason is what Chief Smith was talking about and what happened in at the CYFN GA in Pelly. Part of that is persons who don’t have proper identification are going to be turned away at the polls. And the First Nations would make sure those people who have the right to vote, get to vote. This is different issues on the ground right now. We had a historical scan the other day and when I said in 2015, our Delegates didn’t know what was happening. Bill S-6 is the YESAA and impacts the YESAA Acts, and changes it. That Act was a Tri-partite Agreement between Yukon and First Nations. This Government in power now as Yukon Party is, essentially, a Conservative Government who appointed Dan Lang, the Senator for Yukon at this time. But 40 years ago, Dan Lang was not on side with our claims. I was 16 years old when I was in that meeting and was shocked. His intention is still the same. He introduced the change to YESAA and he made sure it went through the entire parliamentary process without First Nations’ consultation. We have to remember we are putting money to legal action to fight changes to Bill S-6. That is money out of your pocket and money out of your children’s’ pocket, and change to their power and their rights. We have an obligation to have our Citizens - when they put that “X” - it is not about the individual; it is about the history of the party. If everybody understands that, that is why I put this resolution out there. When they put an “X” beside a person’s name, that impacts the children and Grandchildren.

PAULINE FROST said a case of history and where we are going forward, so the resolution speaks to how they continue to not work with First Nations. And election this October.

MARIE MCCLAREN said we could put some timelines to the resolution.

PAULINE FROST asked are you prepared to add some timelines to this? It doesn’t really specify. Back to Darlene Jim and Chief Paul Birckel - are you okay with the timelines for the resolution? Given we have an election, and more than we realized

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 117 when we drafted the resolution? “Before the Fall 2105 election.” Does that meet your request?

MARIE MCLAREN said yes. DARLENE JIM said it could read “as soon as possible”.

PAULINE FROST asked Chief Paul Birckel - are you okay with the amendment to the resolution?

CHIEF PAUL BIRCKEL said yes, okay with the amendment.

DEBBIE WORKMAN said before any election, because I live in Whitehorse and stuck notices on my door saying please no politicians. They are all full of hooey - the Federal, YTG, whoever they are, and I have no idea who they are and what they are running for. A good idea to have our people help us along for who we should vote for.

PAULINE FROST said so, talk about the Fall election. And are you okay with the two amendments Chief Paul Birckel?

CHIEF PAUL BIRCKEL said yes.

PAULINE FROST said now we move forward to Resolution 2015-14. Do we have any opposition to Resolution 2015-14 as amended? Do we have any opposition to the Resolution 2015-14? Do we have any opposition to the resolution? Seeing no opposition, the resolution is passed by consensus.

Motion 20 FRAN ASP read Resolution 2015-15 “Self-Reliance Through CAFN Community Development”. Mover: Chief Paul Birckel Seconder: Elaine Chambers Decision: Passed by Consensus

PAULINE FROST said I open the floor for motion to accept the resolution. Mover Chief Paul Birckel and seconder Elaine Chambers. And to the presenter of the resolution to provide any clarification on the resolution.

DAYLE MACDONALD said this goes with the budgeting process and having a more transparent and open Government. I think our Chief and Council and Departments are well established now. When we have our reports on what is happening, it is mainly about what the Departments are doing and what they are spending. We have community reports that go around the table. The communities are asking for and talking about wanting to know what is happening in their communities, and our planning and budgeting should reflect that. I am half way between Champagne and Takhini, but would like to know what is going on in Champagne and in Takhini, and what is happening with our resolution. The Government says the General Assembly provides

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 118 guidance for the Government. I disagree. Sitting here for three or four days is hard work for guidance. We are saying - these are our priorities for our children, our families, our future. We should see the workplans and policies for the Government for the year. Zero based budgeting - this should be the direction for the Government, and what they are going to be doing for the next year. And if they can’t do this year, we need multi-year plan and budgets to be done. A lot of the communities are looking to do some of these things.

PAULINE FROST said I open the floor for discussion.

CHIEF PAUL BIRCKEL said thank you. Part of the preamble - that we want more people to move back in, but a lot of us that have homes off and have homes on settlement lands, someone should negotiate the fact so that we can collect more taxes, if we were included more than excluded.

PAULINE FROST asked are there any further comments?

LINAYA WORKMAN said for clarification, this sounds like another level of Government and I am not sure we can do that without changing something more.

ELAINE CHAMBERS said no, not another level of Government. Asking the Government to work with the communities if we want to form a Champagne Community Association. Once we have a society we can apply for funds, lotteries, and not be using our own funds to do these projects. Just asking the Government to assist to put in application. Maybe wording needs to be a little bit better, so that people understand what this is about.

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said for c) maybe that would be ‘assist with the establishment of advisory boards’, however that would look like, and that then flows with d) working with CAFN communities.

LINAYA WORKMAN asked who is going to pay for the local advisory board?

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH said maybe we are stuck on the community advisory board.

PAULINE FROST said there is the Yukon Community of Associations. Marsh Lake has its own community association. Our local Government has six communities. If you establish yourself as recognized as separate communities, you might be able to access support for your communities.

ELAINE CHAMBERS said and all volunteer, no pay. We are asking for Government that has key staff to assist with the process.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 119 PAULINE FROST said we made a slight amendment adding ‘assist’ and ‘more direction to leadership’. Now to vote on this resolution. To Chief Paul Birckel and seconder - are you okay with the amendment with adding word to ‘assist’.

CHIEF PAUL BIRCKEL said yes. ELAINE CHAMBERS said yes.

PAULINE FROST said I would like to move on to voting on the resolution. Do we have any opposition to the resolution? Do we have any opposition to the resolution? Do we have any opposition to the resolution? Seeing as we have no opposition, this resolution is passed by consensus.

Motion 21 FRAN ASP read Resolution 2015-16 “CAFN Citizen Hire”. Mover: Doris Hume Seconder: Darlene Jim Decision: Removed Preferential hiring policy already in place and implemented

PAULINE FROST said before we move the resolution, I just want to acknowledge that we have Chief Doris Bill at our General Assembly and we welcome Chief Bill.

PAULINE FROST asked can we have a mover for the resolution? Mover Doris Hume and seconder Darlene Jim. Now ask Barb Allen if she would like to speak to the resolution and then open for discussion.

BARB ALLEN said I brought it up before last year to start hiring more of our own. We know each other and I just sort of have problems when we bring in non-First Nations into our community and we have to educate them in our ways. They don’t interact with our communities. They are like outsiders and we are outside of our own self-governing. Let’s start hiring our own people and truly be self-governing.

PAULINE FROST said I open the floor for discussion.

MARY JANE JIM said I appreciate the intent and the fact that we should be hiring as much of our Citizens as possible. We also have a Lands Claim Agreement that clearly says we have to adhere to. I cannot support this. There is no way I can support this. I have a husband who has been with my children for 20 years. He feeds my children and we employ both, and there isn’t a racist bone in his body. And this is racism. I am sorry. I would not support it. Thank you.

PAULINE FROST asked do we have any other discussion for the resolution before you?

PHYLLIS SMITH said I feel basically the same as Mary Jane Jim. I don’t think we should carry on being prejudiced. We should be forgiving. We don’t have to be like everybody else. We are a loving people.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 120 BARB HUME said I agree that we don’t have this so strong, and could be deemed racist, or whatever, but I believe the intent is to get our people working. Many of our people have not been hired, for whatever reason, and we have people in the authority to hire who are not aware of our Citizens, our culture, and so forth. I think we do need to make sure that we have a preferential hire process, and it is not adhered to, along the lines that directs Chief and Council and Management Committee to make sure preferential hire is adhered to, and that there is more. There are lots of discrepancies about who gets hired. There is good intention here, but maybe not so strong.

PAULINE FROST said soften language to say Champagne Aishihik - specific to your policy to have preferential hire. We need to be sensitive to those that govern Champagne Aishihik, and also are specific to human rights. You have policies in other First Nations that help look at succession planning. There has to be succession planning as to how do you sustain your Government long term. It is defined for you in Better Government and Connections. There are other policies.

ELAINE CHAMBERS said this is in the Policies and Procedures of the CAFN and another policy if that person isn’t meeting it. We need Chief and Council to direct to follow the policies. Or direct HR to follow the policies.

LINAYA WORKMAN said it is already there.

PAULINE FROST said for the General Assembly, we will ask our Executive Director to clarify if it is in the policy.

GEORGINA GRIFFITH said I am all for hiring CAFN people if they are educated. But that is the thing, is the education. How many of our people have their degrees? I have been to school and trying to get my diploma to get into social work, and now I found out I only have four months and I am done. So, how to say hire our people when you are not going to put us through school?

PAULINE FROST said and we ask the Executive Director to clarify.

RANJ PILLAI said there is already preferential hiring that has been passed and implemented into the HR Policy that has to be looked at any time a hire has been done. The direction I have been given since starting in February by Chief and Council is to make sure that, wherever possible, for CAFN hire. And analysis of all First Nations in Yukon shows CAFN has more individuals with Post-Secondary diplomas, Master degrees, and ensure we have a complete list. We have CAFN Citizens that work in other Governments - municipal, territorial, federal, and recruit those people to come and work with the First Nations itself.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 121 PAULINE FROST said if it is already defined in your Policy, that amendment for preferential hire has already been done.

CHERYLE PATTERSON said I was at the community meeting when the Citizen talked about this desire. And it was not a racist comment. I went to the office and none of our Citizens were in the office. Not about being racist or discriminatory. It wasn’t about any Constitutional infractions. They just made a comment that there were very few Citizens in the office and it could have been just that day. I have looked at the HR Policy and there wasn’t preferential hire or on the job posting. Maybe we can change this to assert preferential hire, if this is against human rights. Only for Citizens, and Federal just for Canadian Citizens, not from other countries.

PAULINE FROST said the first resolution you had before you would have been taken off the floor if it was against human rights. We have an amendment for preferential hire to take place and this Policy already exists, so it has already been done in your Government and a practice of your Government. I would rule that we remove this resolution and request that the Executive Director distribute the Policy, or share the Policy that speaks specifically to preferential hire, and would bring some comfort to Citizens. This resolution is off the table as it is already addressed in your Government structure.

Motion 22 FRAN ASP read Resolution 2015-17 “Whitehorse Office Closure”. Mover: Dustin Hume-Mazer Seconder: Barb Allen Decision: Withdrawn

PAULINE FROST said specific to Resolution 2015-17 can we have a mover for the motion to accept the resolution as presented? We need a mover to accept the resolution as presented. Mover Dustin Hume-Mazer and seconder Barb Allen. Now we move to whoever put this to the floor - if you would like to speak to it for further clarification, and then open the floor for further discussion.

MARGARET WORKMAN said I am opposed to this resolution because if you close the Whitehorse office, you are taking away my right and freedom so that I can keep in contact with the Whitehorse office to see what is happening. I do not get any information out of the Haines Junction office. Sometimes I have to wait, and wait, and wait to get some answer to some information that I needed, so the Whitehorse office phones the person responsible to the information. So I am opposed.

PAULINE FROST said I need the person who put the resolution on the floor to speak to the resolution so we can have discussion.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 122 SHEILA KUSHNIRUK said it was in the minutes from the 2014 General Assembly. And I don’t agree with it.

PAULINE FROST asked you are withdrawing the resolution? As you submitted the resolution, you are withdrawing the motion?

SHEILA KUSHNIRUK said yes.

PAULINE FROST said the request is to remove this off the floor by the presenter. So it has been withdrawn.

Motion 23 FRAN ASP read Resolution 2015-18 “CAFN to Oppose Fracking”. Mover: Debbie Workman Seconder: Darlene Jim Decision: Passed by Consensus

PAULINE FROST asked can I have a mover to Resolution 2015-18? Mover Debbie Workman and seconder Darlene Jim.

MARY JANE JIM said this resolution speaks directly to an activity that is predominately unsafe for our environment. Although there isn’t fracking in Yukon currently, the Government has stated they are open to have companies come in and frack. Previous Council had community visits to talk about what fracking is. It contaminants your environment and your water and takes years to repair. Given that water is a very precious resource, we have an obligation to protect our water, and one way is to oppose fracking.

PAULINE FROST said thank you for the explanation. Any discussion on the resolution? Do we have any discussion? Spelling mistake fixed. No discussion, so move on to vote. Are there any opposition to the resolution as presented? Do we have any opposition to the resolution? Do we have any opposition to the resolution? Seeing no opposition, this resolution is passed by consensus.

Motion 24 FRAN ASP read Resolution 2015-19 “Economic Development”. Mover: Larry Joe Seconder: Chief Ray Jackson Decision: Passed by Consensus

PAULINE FROST asked do we have a mover to Resolution 2015-19? Mover Larry Joe and seconder Chief Ray Jackson, and the presenter of the resolution.

CHIEF RAY JACKSON said when we look at this, because today I looked at it, and how come we never started small business? Because always thinking about big business.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 123 Becoming too big and too cumbersome, and small businesses can hire more people. Even though we have big business hiring people. Could use some riding people and give them jobs. We need small businesses to be encouraged. One of the big things that we have is that a small business can’t bid on big jobs. We have big companies to bid on big jobs, but should have individuals and small businesses with their own trucks, graders. We have these companies. We own them. If we had people that own it, they will make sure that the equipment is run properly. It is really frustrating to see. I started to start a small business and it was very competitive.

PAULINE FROST said the HR Policy information is available. Chief Ray Jackson provided his thoughts, so now we open the floor to discussion. Seeing that we have no community comments we are going to move to voting. Do we have any opposition to the resolution as presented? Do we have opposition to the resolution as presented? Are there any opposition to the resolution? Seeing as we have no opposition to this resolution, the resolution is accepted and passed by consensus.

Motion 25 FRAN ASP read Resolution 2015-20 “School Bus Transportation”. Mover: Andrew Pauls Seconder: Barb Allen Decision: Passed by Consensus

PAULINE FROST said the resolution is pretty clear, and Georgina Griffith is the presenter of the resolution. Mover Andrew Pauls and seconder Barb Allen. Now we open the floor to discussion.

ELAINE CHAMBERS said the Yukon Government has pulled the contract for bussing. This is a Government issue. The wording ‘for the First Nation to work with the Government.’ If we are getting a bus for Takhini, then we need a bus for Champagne and Canyon, and there are negotiation processes.

PAULINE FROST said I am going to ask you, Elaine Chambers, to assist with the wordsmithing, so the Resolution Committee can you work with them. We are having Fran Asp work with Elaine Chambers to wordsmith the resolution.

ELAINE CHAMBERS said the proposed change could be ‘Therefore Be It Resolved to negotiate with the Yukon Government to ensure the safety needs of CAFN children and youth being transported to Yukon schools are met.’

PAULINE FROST asked Andrew Pauls are you okay with the change? And Barb Allen, are you okay with the change?

ANDREW PAULS said yes. BARB ALLEN said yes.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 124 PAULINE FROST said we open for discussion.

FLORENCE GRIFFITH said I can see what the problem is. I am next of kin for Georgina Griffith and sometime I am not home, and here is a kid at school waiting for someone to pick him up, and at school for an hour or so, waiting. I don’t know if everyone understands what is going on.

PAULINE FROST said the concern is about the safety of the children and the dropping off of children. You want to ensure your children are safe as they are transported. I ask Georgina, being as you weren’t here when we opened the resolution - would you like to provide a little more clarification?

GEORGINA GRIFFITH said they are not having difficulty with the transportation. They are having trouble with the driver and the children on the bus. They get on the bus at 7:15 am for an hour and a half each day - just one way. With these other children, they pick up in other areas, they are being bullied and bugged and with that, they are going to get bugged. Then they get a warning and they get kicked off the bus for five days. When Damien was in kindergarten - he was five years old, and he got kicked off the bus. And we were just getting our life back together and I just pulled him out of school for five days. And other parents pull their children. I just keep them home.

PAULINE FROST said the comment was the transportation for the school buses is up for negotiations and this is an ideal time for the First Nation to engage themselves to have effective policies in place to provide the needs of the children, and the resolution was reworded to try to capture that.

GEORGINA GRIFFITH said they can’t be on the bus for 3 hours a day. They should just get on the bus and go to school.

PAULINE FROST said so you don’t feel that you have the support.

GEORGINA GRIFFITH said maybe their own smaller bus - just for that highway.

DEBBIE WORKMAN said I had the same problem. My kids were on there for hours. I tried to deal with issue of bullying. The older kids were taking the lunches out of them. They don’t know any different - they just hand their lunch over. The drivers say they are just drivers and ‘we can’t have eyes in the back of our head’.

MARIE MARTIN said if you are talking about Takhini or Hidden Valley, you may have to put it forward for other schools like Porter Creek.

GEORGINA GRIFFITH said that was why I said for the children on the highway, so they are not sitting on the bus for 1 ½ hours each way.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 125 BARB HUME said I think ‘negotiate’ is the wrong word. Direct the staff or Department of Education to meet with the Government of Yukon to see how they can address the issue. I don’t see what you are negotiating? The responsibility is with Yukon Government. Need to have a meeting or something.

PAULINE FROST said the suggestion is to look at the First Nation meeting with the Department of Education to address the concerns you raised and then direct the staff to discuss with Government of Yukon the specific concerns you have raised.

PAULINE FROST said this is documented in the minutes and they can follow up with what you are addressing. They can follow up with policy to better address the needs of the communities that affect CAFN. Does that capture what you said, Barb?

BARB ALLEN said we are not drawing down a program. Still leaving the responsibility with the Yukon Government. Just say we have a problem and how are we going to address this?

PAULINE FROST said we have amended the resolution to reflect the discussion we just had. I ask Andrew Pauls if he is okay with it.

ANDREW PAULS said yes.

PAULINE FROST said Andrew has stated he is okay with the amendment. Barb Allen, are you okay with the amended resolution? Barb Allen is okay. Move to voting on Resolution 2015-20. Do we have any opposition to Resolution 2015-20? Do we have any opposition to Resolution 2015-20? Do we have any opposition to the Resolution? Seeing as we have no opposition, we have the resolution passed by consensus.

Motion 26 FRAN ASP read Resolution 2015-21 “Smoking in Champagne Hall”. Mover: Elaine Chambers Seconder: Barb Allen Decision: Withdrawn

PAULINE FROST asked is there a mover to the resolution? Mover Elaine Chambers and seconder Barb Allen. We now open for discussion.

BARB ALLEN asked can we also add ‘as well as the Government vehicles’ to this? We don’t smoke in the buildings and we don’t smoke in the Government vehicles either.

DARLENE JIM said it is in policy that there is no smoking in the old Community Hall. No smoking to be allowed in there and whoever is doing it, shame on them. And there is policy for no smoking in vehicles either.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 126 PAULINE FROST said we would ask that the staff share the policy with the General Assembly so that you have this. We are going to strike this resolution since it is already covered and already in policy. Florence Griffith is alright with withdrawing the policy.

Motion 27 FRAN ASP read Resolution 2015-22 “Management Committee Restructuring”. Mover: Sally Jim Seconder: Larry Joe Decision: Not Passed In favor – 1, opposed – 55, abstain – 5 69 Citizens present

PAULINE FROST asked is there a mover to Resolution 2015-22? Mover Sally Jim and seconder Larry Joe. Now to Barb Allen to provide clarification.

BARB ALLEN said it speaks to itself.

ELAINE CHAMBERS said I do not support this resolution moving forward. We elected Chief and Council. We cannot have others in the Management Committee. I am not sure if this falls back to a Constitutional change? And this goes back to the resolution where they want First Nations’ Managers, so we have to be careful about it as well.

PAULINE FROST said we have opposition. Are there any further comments, and then come back to Elaine’s opposition, and then vote. If you have discussions or comments? No further comments. We have the opposition to the resolution. We have mover Sally Jim and seconder Larry Joe, and we are now going to move to Barb Hume as sergeant- in-arms for a count. Please put your hand up if you are a CAFN Citizen eligible to vote. We have 69 Citizens present. We are going to go to a vote. I ask all those in favor of this resolution, please raise your hand and you will be counted by our sergeant-in-arms. Those in favor - all raise your hands. We have 1 in favor. Those opposed to the resolution, please raise your hand to be counted. We have 55 opposed to the resolution. All those that are abstaining - please raise your hand to be counted. We have 5 abstentions. 69 Citizens present. In favor - 1, opposed - 55, abstentions - 5. So we rule that this resolution is not passed.

Motion 28 FRAN ASP read Resolution 2015-23 “Health and Medical Care”. Mover: Georgina Griffith Seconder: Sally Jim Decision: Passed by Consensus

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 127 PAULINE FROST asked can we have a mover to accept the resolution? Mover Georgina Griffith and seconder Sally Jim. Now ask Wilmonica Van Bibber to provide more clarification on her resolution. As she is not here, we open the floor for discussion.

SALLY JIM asked can we change the word ‘people’ to ‘Citizens’?

PAULINE FROST said to change the word to ‘Citizens’ to better reflect your Constitution and guiding principles.

ELAINE CHAMBERS said a lot of people in the First Nation don’t have a doctor. So First Nations working with CYFN, so that we have a First Nation doctor in place that we can go to. So, we know the issues of nobody having a family doctor and place our Citizens can go to.

PAULINE FROST asked do we have any further discussion to this resolution? If no further discussion, we are going to go to vote to the resolution. Do we have any opposition to Resolution 2015-23 as presented? Are there any opposition to the resolution? Any opposition to the resolution? Seeing as we have no opposition the resolution is passed by consensus.

Motion 29 FRAN ASP read Resolution 2015-24 “Trails and Historical Villages on CA Traditional Territory”. Mover: Larry Joe Seconder: Kathy Darbyshire Decision: Passed by Consensus

PAULINE FROST asked do we have a mover to the resolution? Mover Larry Joe and seconder Kathy Darbyshire. Now I ask Harold Johnson if he has any further clarification? Harold is not here, so we open the floor to general discussion. Question has been called so we go to vote. Do we have any opposition to the resolution as presented? Do we have any opposition to the resolution as presented? Do we have any opposition to the resolution as presented? Seeing as we have no opposition, the resolution is passed by consensus.

Motion 30 FRAN ASP read Resolution 2015-25 “CAFN Youth Van”. Mover: Darlene Jim Seconder: Georgina Griffith Decision: Passed by Consensus

PAULINE FROST asked do we have a mover to Resolution 2015-25? Mover Darlene Jim and seconder Georgina Griffith. Now we go to Janet Van Bibber - would you like to provide more clarity on the resolution?

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 128 JANET VAN BIBBER said currently, when the Education Department wants to take kids to camp, they rent vans for $250 a day, plus mileage. The cost of taking kids on those camps - those resources could be allocated to purchase a van. And it was mentioned earlier in a resolution put forward with a van that was tied up with a position. This is just to ask for a vehicle for the kids to have access to all CAFN activities. Currently, there are some Youth that cannot access these activities. When the CAFN workers are picking up kids to take them to the dance group, vehicles are full and there are kids that don’t get to go. If we are looking at alcohol and drug prevention, the prevention comes from having our Youth attend these activities.

PAULINE FROST said we are open for discussion.

BARB ALLEN asked can we put in where the vehicle is located? Do you want two vehicles sitting in Haines Junction? Specify where for Takhini, Whitehorse, or Champagne.

JANET VAN BIBBER said the Education Department, Social, and the Management Committee could probably figure that out. They are the experts. I have been hearing there are Youth that do not have access to some of the events and activities. And there is money being spent currently to rent these vehicles.

PAULINE FROST asked do we have any further discussion? Request now dedicated to transportation for Youth. We had one earlier today, but you are asking for vehicle for taking Youth out for events.

GEORGINA GRIFFITH said parents should be involved too. Youth and parents and or families.

PAULINE FROST asked are you requesting an amendment to the resolution to speak to more family involvement? And this is just services with Youth and you want an expansion. Can you work with the Resolutions Committee for the wording?

GEORGINA GRIFFITH said if picking up kids from one house and then another house, that is a lot on your plate.

PAULINE FROST asked Darlene Jim - are you okay with the Resolution? What they have asked is, rather than be restricted to parents, they want it to say family. Can we change that? Their request was to be more broad for family involvement. Do we have any discussion on the amendment and the resolution?

CHERYLE PATTERSON asked as far as big picture goes, do we need to have a larger van available in the Whitehorse office? Working in the winter? Watching Management Committee in small cars. Does not need to be specifically for Youth. We need a bigger vehicle in the Whitehorse office, not just for Youth, but prioritize for them.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 129 PAULINE FROST said the resolution is to Youth. We would not put for Management Committee and Directors to be responsible, and go back to the resolution. Do we have any discussion related to the resolution?

BARB ALLEN said we have a vehicle specified for Youth, and one for Elders. That is why I ask - where do you want it? The way it reads right now, I would vote no because we have that vehicle already. For vehicle to be available for Whitehorse taking it is different.

PAULINE FROST said we have opposition to the resolution, so no further discussion. We are going to have our sergeant-in-arms to help with the vote. What I am hearing from Barb Allen - she is suggesting she would like to propose an amendment. Help us understand what you want to amend to be specific to the resolution. Provide us with some wordsmithing language.

BARB ALLEN said if we are going to purchase a vehicle, want it in the Whitehorse office for use. Oppose it because we already have a Youth vehicle.

PAULINE FROST said we have new language and back to where we didn’t have opposition. We had a question for amendment requested by Barb Allen and that was for transportation services for the Whitehorse area. Georgina - are you okay with the proposed amendment?

GEORGINA GRIFFITH said yes, I am okay with it.

PAULINE FROST said now we can go back to the floor for questions. If you have anything different to add to what we have already discussed. We have no further discussion on the resolution. We are going to put to a vote. Do we have any opposition to the resolution as presented? Do we have any opposition to the resolution as presented? Is there any opposition to the resolution as presented? Seeing no opposition, the resolution is passed by consensus.

PAULINE FROST said there is one resolution left over before lunch we took away for wordsmithing and read back.

Motion 31 FRAN ASP read Resolution 2015-04 “Constitution Review Committee”. Mover: Elaine Chambers Seconder: Cheryle Patterson Decision: Passed by Consensus

FRAN ASP asked can we ask Legal Counsel, Brian MacDonald to assist with the resolution?

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 130 PAULINE FROST said this morning the discussion was about what constitutes a Citizen and the review. There was clarification from those that sat on the previous Constitution Review Committee, and the review cycle as defined in the Constitution. Now that we have amended the resolution to better reflect the request, I am going to ask Elaine Chambers, who moved the resolution and seconder Cheryle Patterson - are you okay with the proposed changes? Cheryle Patterson wants to propose another change to the resolution.

CHERYLE PATTERSON said ‘may initiate’ because the Constitution says ‘may review’.

PAULINE FROST said back to the floor. Is there any further discussion from this morning that was carried forward now? Question has been called so we are going to go to a vote. Do we have any opposition to the resolution as presented? Do we have any opposition to the resolution as presented? Do we have any opposition to the resolution as presented? Seeing no opposition, I declare this resolution passed by consensus.

Closing Remarks

PAULINE FROST said that brings us to the end of our 2015 Resolutions. It has been a very enlightening experience for me. Amazing job. Really democratic process with good input, and good dialogue. We will move on to provide our Chief to move on with closing our General Assembly. We would take a few comments and allow the General Assembly to have some closing comments also. Can we have our leadership back at the table, so we can properly close off our General Assembly?

CHIEF PAUL BIRCKEL said I wanted to thank the people who set up the tents, and thank the crew that did this nice tent and power plant running, and water. Thank the crew that put it all together. Thank you very much.

PAULINE FROST said thanks for the kind words. We are not adjourning our General Assembly just yet. We have a speaker and then move to Lorraine Allen.

SALLY JIM said I have a question for Fran Asp – I did put a resolution in for a log house, and the resolution did not come up. What happened to it?

PAULINE FROST said the question that Sally had on the floor was specific to the log house and that was implemented into the resolution for community planning and involvement. Perhaps it was tied in there. Open the floor to any other comments.

LORRAINE ALLEN said thank you, Tyrell Green, for being the Co-Chair Youth and Ashley John who participated in the Constitution Committee. Thank you.

CHIEF RAY JACKSON said I would like to congratulate everyone for a good meeting. And also that the facility was a lot better over the years, so we see improvements. And

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 131 another improvement I would like to see is the resolutions on the screen. I think we could improve on that too, so that we have Power Point do this to try to view the whole thing on one page. Big picture of it. Darken the letters and enlarge the letters.

CHUCK HUME said I want to thank everybody for the opportunity to say a few words here. As an Elder, I know we have a lot of problems. I can see in the amount of people that have approached me over the last month or so. Chief and Council did release a lot of our traditional members in a very hard setting. We had quite a loss of people, suicides, and then the let down that took place. It is my honest belief that we need to get the Chief and Council and a lot of the constituents into some kind of healing. We cannot keep this burden and continue the way we are. We are looking at healing. It would be good though. Maybe Chief and Council could look forward to some kind of healing ceremony that allows our prior workers, our prior Citizens with peace of mind. I can see that we are progressing with the General Assembly. A very excellent Assembly. Thank you everyone for being here, and thank those who attended our anniversary. Thank you. Kwänaschis.

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH the Chair has turned the mike to me. Wondering if we should have the Delegation to give their closing. We would ask one Delegate from each Delegation, and then open the floor to the Councillors, and then I will do closing remarks, before we ask our Elder to give a closing prayer.

CHIEF RAY JACKSON said it was good to be here. Like to talk about the problem with the FASD motion. Last year only got training for the staff. There was no program or services added, so will probably write the Chief regarding this. And I really wanted to put forward for a full service Elders home - something we have to look forward to have. I know that the Territorial Government was pushing for our own building in Whitehorse, but that does not address our problem. It doesn’t take in our cultural aspects of our life. I was in the hospital and asked the First Nations for lunch and gave up lunch. Soup I couldn’t take - there was no flavour to it. And stew - no flavour. And bannock soggy. Everything they try to do for us didn’t work. I am sure if we have our own cooks doing this. A fear that we have is that we cannot do this because of accreditation. Every facility like this has to be accredited to have nurses. I don’t think this should be a problem for us. We can hire all these experts and run it ourselves. I think we live in cycles. Right now we come to gopher season and I know in Whitehorse General Hospital you will never see a gopher in the place. And berry time. I received berries picked in the season and can enjoy in the winter. Something I really want to see is a full service Elders home built in Haines Junction and, possibly, negotiate with Kluane and White River to make sure we have a large enough facility to ensure we can include their people, because they probably have the same problem. One member said to me ‘Ray, I got to get out of here.’ I know what it is like. It is lonely and especially no visitation. It is not that we don’t love them, but it is out of the way. And also have cultural activities with

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 132 bus out to Kluane and have a picnic, or visit the neighboring communities. We can facilitate this. Don’t be afraid of accreditation.

PAULINE FROST asked can we have the Delegates for this 2015 General Assembly give their closing remarks?

SHEILA KUSHNIRUK said thank you for attending the General Assembly. It was good to see the children playing. I really enjoyed the GA. It is a lot different from the past General Assemblies. A lot of the speakers were really strong. With shivers going down my body and very strong and clear about what they want for our people. And I apologize for the one resolution that went in. Just a bit of a mix up that went in. Everybody, have a safe trip home, drive carefully, don’t drive very fast. Have a safe journey home and take care. Love you all.

CHIEF PAUL BIRCKEL said thank everyone for coming. It was a great place. Even though we were here for eight days, we enjoyed ourselves. Great how it came together and I couldn’t believe how many people that did come here. We must have filled all three campgrounds. So, there were a lot of people here and I think everyone enjoyed themselves. Thank you very much and good bye.

DEBBIE WORKMAN said we had a good time too. Thank you to the Chair and Co- Chair. Really love this country and, hopefully, out on the land.

ELAINE CHAMBERS said thanks to the workers. Thanks to Chief and Council. You have done a good job so far. Don’t lose track of what has to be done. Special thanks to Chief Smith. You are doing a good year in Champagne. And I still want my budget, so please don’t lose track of that. Kwänaschis.

DARLENE JIM said I had fun here in Kusawa. Barb and Chuck Hume got remarried and renewed their vows. That all turned out well. Thank you everybody. Sorry for the noise last night, but good to see the surprise. Everything was indian-unized. Thank you to everybody that came to our Territory. I had a lot of fun and had a lot of visitors. Tried to do stick handling; it was fun. Thank the General Assembly for the Youth and family van. Thank you to the cooks and thanks Chief and Council, our Co-Chairs, and the people in the back there for sound. And would like you to again visit our country here. Thank you very much.

COUNCILLOR KATHLEEN VAN BIBBER said thank you to the Elders for sitting here and being patient. Long day waiting for meals and waiting for us. Thank you very much leaders. It is a new Council and going to take us time to get organized, and to get ourselves to be a team. Just be patient. Personally, I am happy that Better Government is a priority and a Finance Standing Committee. You are going to see changes for the betterment of the Government. I have lobbied for good financial base and that is what

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 133 you are going to see. And the Standing Committee - we can have Citizens interested too. Lots of people and huge turnout here. All the kids playing, having a good time. My Grandson took candy to all the Delegates. Like to thank you. And Pauline, thank you for doing such a good job.

DEPUTY CHIEF ROSE KUSHNIRUK said I am honored to be here. Very busy last eight months working together very hard. And I assure you we are doing really awesome working on team work. Thank you for bringing all your families. We cannot put a price on a General Assembly. It does so much to have young people who come to our General Assembly and continue, and that is awesome. Thank you, Elders and Youth, and our caregivers that are not Elders yet, but no longer Youth. Thank you for taking the time to be here. And I look forward to the next three years and think we are going to make amazing changes, and everybody is involved in those changes.

COUNCILLOR SHADELLE CHAMBERS said thank you. For one of our Connections, I agree with everything my fellow Councillors have said before me. Learning, thinking of things, identifying gaps. All of our Councillors have been involved in our communities. We hear there are issues. We are young. Many of us are considered young, but we do have a lot of experience altogether. My first General Assembly I was 16. Really important tough changes and challenges continuing to be moved forward, but I believe in our heart. Please be patient and I am really proud to be CAFN, and I know everyone else here is too. Kwänaschis.

YOUTH COUNCILLOR NICOLE NICHOLAS-WORKMAN said thank you everybody. As my first General Assembly on Chief and Council, I wasn’t too sure what to expect. As the days went on, I figured - this is exactly where I want to be. I am so proud of our First Nations people. And no one’s neck was on the line and my Mom still talks to me. Thank you all for coming out and your kind words of support to get us here. Thank you.

ELDER COUNCILLOR CAROL BUZZELL said now my young and energetic Chief and Council tell me I can speak. I would like to thank you Elders and our Youth for being here and for all the talks we had this last three days. I sometimes had a challenge because, for the last General Assembly I would sit with you. But I am honored to sit with this young Chief and Council and I agree with everything they have said with the challenges and the tough decisions we have to make. We have been through some of them and we are going to go through more. At this time, I would like to acknowledge it has been a pleaser to have Chief Ray Jackson, Chief Paul Birckel, Chief Diane Strand and Chief James Allen to sit here amongst this. They can see we are trying to carry on some of their visions as well. Kwänaschis. Thank you.

Dän Nätthe Äda CHIEF STEVE SMITH Kwänaschis to everyone, in particular our Delegates, our Youth. They are the ones we have to teach. Our Elders are the ones

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 134 who talk to us, show us the way, and it is important to take the time to engage them in our process because the way is to understand. Every problem we face today - our old people figured out long before we were thought of. Big thank you to Fredrick Jackson. He was so busy. And many times we don’t take the time for those people who work for us. And Fredrick never gets mad or says anything. He has the attitude we want to embrace and encourage our people to have – ‘I didn’t know how to do this, but I will do my best.’ He is always in a rush, but always well-meaning when he does things. Certainly our cooks, bull cooks Curtis and Dion, Sandy, Jamie Allen, Marianne Joe and, of course, Val Chambers, and the barbeque guys – Derek Abel an another person who just stepped in. We needed a few more burgers burnt and he was there. And our Gopher buddies. They are so diligent asking ‘can I get you something else’? Makes a big difference for us. The job they do is really important. The staff that set up the activities - it is heartening to see so many of our Citizens. It is tough work to sew and make those hides. Good to see our Youth to see and get a really good understanding of the tough work. Good to see that. And thankful for the Language, Culture and Heritage staff, specifically Sean Sheardown and Richard Smith, especially, who is always looking for an opportunity to always put on a program. And Merrilee, who stepped in at the last minute. Our two technicians who get yelled at almost every day in the office. I think they did an admirable job. Of course, our Directors and our Executive Director, Ranj Pillai. Again, it is a process for me. Sometimes I am remiss to mention or introduce someone formally. Ranj is our Executive Director and his Grandpa-in-law is John Anderson. Ranj married into our family, our people, and it’s my fault that I didn’t mention that to you and I take that responsibility. Next time I will know better. Ranj has married into our people, so we have to acknowledge that. Our Directors who worked the whole weekend. We challenged them to look at the process of the General Assembly and how to assist our Delegates to do a good job and be better Delegates because, as a group, we need to advance if we go too far ahead off the trail. I would like to acknowledge Jim Mustard who spoke where he was so engaged. Jim chose to camp and sit and learn more about us. He made some good comments throughout the days about how we are putting the Nation on a good footing so Kwänaschis to him. Mary Jane Jim and Tim Cant - it starts small - it is a little seed. We spent hours on something that I think is going to be absolutely monumental. And in years, we will look back and actually have spent only one hour, and thank them for coming out and guiding us. We hear what everybody said and it is my personal philosophy that we do have the answers in us. It is us who has the answers. The bus goes to the right place. Pay special thank you to our Chair and our two Youth Co-Chairs, and for our Youth Councillor who got put into the position. And, Tyrell, you know you did a good job. And of course, to Pauline Frost. The success of the meeting is really dependent on the Chair and I really felt that over this weekend you had a very, very good handle on the feeling. Many times, that is how we need to guide ourselves – in the feeling, and you really showed you are really good to gauge how our

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 135 people were. That only comes from a gift of someone who has a big heart and, on behalf of CAFN, we are indebted to you because of the work you do. We really thank you for helping to guide us. Last but not least, the EOP crew - they are so important. The work that they do - it makes our life here easy. I wanted to make a couple of statements. The success of the overall thing. Usually a good feeling falls to the one person. And that happens. Special thank you to Charlene Hume for putting up with the sometimes micro-management of Council and sometimes micro-management of our GA Delegates. She worked really hard and was committed to this, and she is the one who did this, so a special thank you to Charlene Hume. Kwänaschis.

Interesting that our Elders said that ‘I am on this side of the table’. Although we are at this side of the table, we are still in a circle. And we are in where we are today for a reason. We may not know that reason today, but we have to acknowledge one another that, even though our situation change, we chose people to take care of use a little bit more sometimes, but it is a good thing for us. What we had to do was not something that was easy. It was distasteful. So, we made those tough choices. It feels like we are starting to heal now and so we will continue that. We don’t do these things to hurt people. Those people who left our organization, they were hurt by us, but we didn’t choose them because they were bad people or bad workers. If there is an opportunity, we hope that they will look upon the opportunity we present to us to help us. We chose things and we debated long about it, and want to leave that out there. If and when we can get some real action going and taking care of our Citizens, then we hope that they will come back and they will lead us, they will help us. It is really tough. It’s tough. The work we do and the life our old people lived, it was tough. It wasn’t easy before the new people came to our country. It was a tough life. It’s going to be that way. It is not about trying to make their life easier. It is about trying to make their life better. We are a special people because of the life we lived. We are a tough people. We are also a very unique people. We can disagree and yet we still have a smile on our face when we see each other. And to see what each of you have brought and continue to bring to help us. And, ultimately, our goal to have these little ones here. I thank you from the bottom of my heart. We are going to miss some people. I hope that we can see all of you next year. Kwänaschis.

PAULINE FROST said to close the official business, now that the Chief has given the closing comments. We will officially close the General Assembly. I want to thank you. I took the job very seriously. I have Elders I look up to. I have family in Champagne Aishihik and I feel quite honored and will extend my appreciation for you and the respect you gave to me, and extending the great opportunity. It was a privilege. So I am going to close the official business. Congratulations a job well done to all of you. As part of the official closing, we will have closing prayer.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 136 Closing prayer given by Elder Chuck Hume, in Southern Tutchone. A moment of silence for the family of Stewart Henry, Son of Annie Kuonswa.

The General Assembly adjourned at 6:00 p.m.

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY

KUSAWA LAKE 2015

Resolution 2015-01

BILL S-6 AMENDMENTS TO YESAA

WHEREAS The Government of Canada has undertaken to amend the Yukon Environmental and Socio- Economic Act (YESAA) through Bill S-6 in a manner that is inconsistent with the rights established in the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Final Agreement.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED That this Assembly hereby endorses the continued efforts of the Government to protect the integrity of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Final Agreement to ensure the rights established by and the spirit and intent of the Agreements are upheld;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED That this Assembly acknowledges and supports the reasonable allocation of necessary funds to support these efforts;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED That this Assembly requests that the Government continue to keep the Citizens updated on the efforts of the Government and to provide an update to the 2016 General Assembly.

Moved by: Larry Joe

Seconded by: Debbie Workman

Decision: PASSED BY CONSENSUS

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Resolution 2015-02

TRADITIONAL LANGUAGE STRATEGY

WHEREAS A. This Assembly supports the promotion of the languages of the Champagne and Aishihik People; B. CAFN has enacted the Dákwänje Nàts’ùal Act (the Language Act); and C. Citizens request the use of signage to promote traditional place names in the Traditional Territory, the development of computer applications to promote the use of the traditional languages of the CAFN, and the registration of traditional First Nation names as part of the CAFN enrollment process.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED That this Assembly requests that the Government undertake the development of the multi- generational Language Strategy to support the preservation, promotion and revitalization of the traditional languages of the Champagne and Aishihik People.

Moved by: Cheryle Patterson

Seconded by: Lorraine Allen

Decision: PASSED BY CONSENSUS

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Resolution 2015-03

EDUCATION SUPPORT

WHEREAS A. This Assembly passed Resolution 2014-13 Education Support which directed the Government to compensate those Citizens who had the Post-Secondary Support Funding improperly deducted; B. The Government has reported to this Assembly that it has determined the total amount of funds to be compensated to the students; and C. The Government has reported that it will identify funds during the 2015 Fall Supplemental budgeting process.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED That this Assembly directs that the Government take the necessary steps to identify and allot the necessary funds to ensure that all students are fully compensated; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED That this Assembly directs that the compensation payments be budgeted for in the 2015-16 fall supplemental budget and paid out.

Moved by: Jessica Mazur

Seconded by: Breanna Smith

Decision: PASSED BY CONSENSUS

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Resolution 2015-04

CONSTITUTION REVIEW COMMITTEE WHEREAS A. Citizens have expressed a desire to review the Constitution; and B. The General Assembly is responsible for reviewing and amending the Constitution; C. In accordance with section 74(1) of the Constitution, the General Assembly may review the Constitution in 2017; D. This Assembly would like to undertake a preliminary review of the Constitution prior to the formal review established by Section 74(1); and E. The draft Enrollment Act has passed First Reading and consultations are scheduled to begin this fall.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED That this Assembly hereby establishes a Review Committee consisting of one representative of each community to undertake community consultation and identify initial concerns Citizens may have with respect to the Constitution, its structures, and interpretation and to report their findings to the 2016 General Assembly;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED That this Assembly request that the Government work with the Committee to identify the necessary resources required to complete this work.

Moved by: Elaine Chambers

Seconded by: Cheryle Patterson

Decision: PASSED BY CONSENSUS

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Resolution 2015-05

STATUS CARDS

WHEREAS A. The Government of Canada has changed the status card documentation to limit the use of the Indian Status Cards outside of the Yukon by Status Indians; and B. These restrictions are inconsistent with the CAFN Land Claim Agreement.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that this Assembly requests that the Government undertake to seek clarification and protect the rights of CAFN Citizens who are recognized as Status Indians under the Indian Act.

Moved by: Elaine Chambers

Seconded by: Larry Joe

Decision: PASSED BY CONSENSUS

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Resolution 2015-06

AISHIHIK VILLAGE INFRASTRUCTURE AND MAINTENANCE

WHEREAS A. Aishihik is a traditional village which requires upgrade of local infrastructure at the Ku, airport and road; B. Aishihik delegates have raised the need for community infrastructure and maintenance improvementsShäkāt at the 2015 General Assembly and at prior Assemblies; C. A list of requested improvements has been submitted to this Assembly.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED That this Assembly directs the First Nation council to work with the Aishihik community to develop a mutually agreeable list of upgrades and maintenance needs and complete upgrades and maintenance that are within existing budgets in this fiscal year;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED That this Assembly directs the First Nations Council to assess all remaining needs, as mutually agreed with the Aishihik community, and develop an appropriate workplan and budget to meet those needs.

Moved by: Margaret Workman

Seconded by: Lorraine Allen

Decision: PASSED BY CONSENSUS

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Resolution 2015-07

LOCATION OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY

WHEREAS A. General Assembly meetings usually consist of annual reports and setting direction for the following year; B. It is often colder in tent meetings; C. There is a greater attendance at meetings in halls; D. There is no arrangements for emergencies; and E. Meetings in wilderness setting cost more.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED That future General Assembly meetings be held at Champagne, Haines Junction or Klukshu.

Moved by: Barb Allen

Seconded by: Chief Ray Jackson

Decision: NOT PASSED, In favor – 1 61 Citizens present

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Resolution 2015-08

PROTECTION OF CAFN TRADITIONAL TERRITORY

WHEREAS A. The Citizens of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nation are concerned about the protection of CAFN Traditional Territory; and B. The Citizens of Champagne and Aishihik First Nation have observed numerous examples of recreational users leaving garbage, fires unattended and treating our Traditional Territory in a disrespectful manner.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED That this Assembly request that the Government undertake to engage both the Territorial and Federal Governments to develop a public awareness campaign to build understanding about reducing impacts to the environment and to prevent conflicts with the traditional uses by Citizens.

Moved by: Mary Frances Isaac

Seconded by: Michelle Dawson-Beattie

Decision: PASSED BY CONSENSUS

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Resolution 2015-09

WHEREAS A. The youth of Takhini are seeking opportunities to support youth activities in the Takhini Subdivision; B. That the Youth of Takhini are seeking the support of Government to help with logistical, coordination and transportation support for youth activities.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED That this Assembly request that the Government allocate the necessary funds to support a full time youth coordinator and the purchase of a van to transport youth to and from activities.

Moved by: Darlene Jim

Seconded by: Sally Jim

Decision: NOT PASSED, in favor – 24, abstain – 6, opposed – 24 +1 (Chief Smith broke tie) 54 Citizens present

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Resolution 2015-10

WATER PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION

WHEREAS A. Water is a precious and sacred resource and we have an obligation to protect and preserve this resource for future generations; and B. The Government has developed a Water Resources Strategy;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED That this Assembly requests that the Government engage Citizens in the awareness of water as a resource; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED That this Assembly requests the Government to undertake the development of legislation to protect and preserve the waters in our Traditional Territory.

Moved by: Larry Joe

Seconded by: Chase Smith-Tutin

Decision: PASSED BY CONSENSUS

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Resolution 2015-11

NO ALCOHOL AT DA KŲ CULTURAL CENTRE

WHEREAS A. proposed, but did not pass at the 2014 General Assembly, Resolution 2014-03; B. CitizensA resolution would to likeprohibit this Athessembly consumption to reconsider of alcohol the decisionat Da Kų toCultural have the Center General was Assembly reconsider the policy of allowing the consumption of alcohol at the Da K Cultural Centre. ų THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED

Cultural Centre as an alcohol-free facility. That this Assembly directs the First Nations Council to adopt a policy that designates the Da Kų Moved by: Mary Frances Isaac

Seconded by: Margaret Workman

Decision: PASSED, in favor – 30, opposed – 20, abstain - 6. 56 Citizens present

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KUSAWA LAKE 2015

Resolution 2015-12

INCREASE CAFN HOUSING STOCK

WHEREAS A. Resolution 2014-16 directed prioritizing housing in the capital allocation of the Annual Budget to ensure that new housing is provided every year; B. The Government, to date, has not allocated sufficient financial resources in accordance with the mandate established by Resolution 2014-16; C. The Government should look at alternative sources of funds to ensure there is an ongoing resources for housing.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED That this Assembly requests that the First Nations Council prioritize the allocation of appropriate funds.

Moved by: Marie McLaren

Seconded by: Sally Jim

Decision: PASSED BY CONSENSUS

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Resolution 2015-13

SUPPORT FOR DIABETES

WHEREAS A. The Champagne and Aishihik First Nations’ vision statement states that CAFN promotes a healthy, unified and self-reliant people; B. A number of Citizens have diabetes and require support with education programs, personal care and foot care clinics; and C. The closest foot care clinic is in Whitehorse and a challenge to access for most members.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED That this Assembly requests Government to research and offer a pilot foot care clinic project in Haines Junction, Canyon, Takhini and Champagne;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED That this project offer informational sessions on diabetes and how to care for yourself when living with diabetes;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED That there also be health promotion around nutrition, active living and healthy lifestyles.

Moved by: Kathy Darbyshire

Seconded by: Barb Allen

Decision: PASSED BY CONSENSUS

Submitted by Barb Allen for a CAFN Citizen from Haines Junction

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY

KUSAWA LAKE 2015

Resolution 2015-14

EDUCATING CAFN CITIZENS ON THE IMPLICATIONS OF THEIR VOTE

WHEREAS A. CAFN Citizens have been involved in Territorial and Federal elections for over 50 years; B. CAFN Citizens have the power to change the face of those Governments; C. Those voted into power often have the power to influence the lives of our Citizens and Government.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED That CAFN Government provide education to Citizens before the 2015 fall election and future elections on the power and impact of their votes, what each official party’s history and platform means, and their record for working or not working with First Nations.

Moved by: Darlene Jim

Seconded by: Chief Paul Birckel

Decision: PASSED BY CONSENSUS

Submitted by Mary Jane Jim

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Resolution 2015-15

SELF-RELIANCE THROUGH CAFN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

WHEREAS A. The number of our Citizens choosing to live, work and raise their families off of Settlement Land is increasing; B. CAFN land claims agreements are based on traditional use of this land and may become obsolete if we do not make a concerted effort to use and work on our lands; C. There are several costs to CAFN when Citizens choose to live and work off Settlement Lands, namely: • loss of tax revenue, • loss of human resource capacity, • loss of culture, value for traditional knowledge, • loss of connection to the land, particularly for young people - our future leaders - who will not have a reference (personal memories, social/family connections, and sense of cultural identity); D. Non-profit societies have long proven to encourage volunteerism, individual responsibility and sense of community ownership/pride; and E. Societies can apply to funding agencies for community initiatives such as community gardens, recreational, cultural and youth activities, thereby encouraging community self-reliance.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED That the General Assembly requests that the First Nation Council work with communities to develop community-initiated short-term and long-term strategies that encourage and provide the means for our members to live, work and become involved in our culture and Traditional Territory.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED That the First Nation Council prioritize community development that includes: a) Leadership training, b) Comprehensive long and short-term community plans, c) Assistance with establishing community associations that meet regularly with Chief and Council to discuss and monitor progress of community plans and budgets;

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d) Working with CAFN communities to develop CAFN traditional land use and community plans which include incentives for living and working on Settlement Land; and improving employment, education and training opportunities on Settlement Land e) Incentives for communities to establish non-profit societies that support projects to promote leadership, community and cultural development.

Moved by: Chief Paul Birckel

Seconded by: Elaine Chambers

Decision: PASSED BY CONSENSUS

Submitted by Dayle MacDonald

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Resolution 2015-16

CAFN CITIZEN HIRE

WHEREAS A. The CAFN was a signatory to Together Today for our Children Tomorrow; B. Page 16 section E of the document Together Today for our Children Tomorrow states, “Solutions to Indian problems must be found within the framework of our culture, you cannot know someone else’s culture you can only know your own”; C. CAFN negotiated a Self-Government agreement in order to look after our members and culture; and D. The CAFN agreements say that we shall govern ourselves.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED That this General Assembly direct the CAFN Chief and Council to have a preferential CAFN hire clause put in their new job postings;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED That this General Assembly direct the members of the CAFN Chief and Council to establish and implement this new policy this fall.

Moved by: Doris Hume

Seconded by: Darlene Jim

REMOVED Preferential hiring policy already in place and implemented.

Submitted by Barb Allen

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Resolution 2015-17 WHITEHORSE OFFICE CLOSURE

WHEREAS A. The CAFN is a self-governing First Nations; B. The CAFNs Self-Government and Final Agreements recognize our authority to govern ourselves on our lands; C. A significant amount of the operations of the Government are currently happening off CAFN Settlement Lands; D. The Government has an office in Whitehorse located at 304 Jarvis Street.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED That this General Assembly request the First Nation Council to close the Whitehorse Office and transition the staff positions and operations from the Whitehorse Office back to the main office on our lands.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED That this transition take effect as soon as possible.

Moved by: Dustin Hume-Mazur

Seconded by: Barb Allen

WITHDRAWN

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Resolution 2015-18

CAFN TO OPPOSE FRACKING

WHEREAS A. Water, land, air and the sun are sacred resources gifted to us and it is our ultimate responsibility to protect these resources for the next seven generations; B. The current Government in Yukon publicly announced that they are open to fracking in the Yukon Territory; and C. This is a direct threat to our resources, our children, our environment.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED That this Assembly does not support the fracking in Yukon;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED That this Assembly requests that the Government establish a public position to oppose and engage to actively stop any proposed fracking in Yukon and CAFN Traditional Territory.

Moved by: Debbie Workman

Seconded by: Darlene Jim

Decision: PASSED BY CONSENSUS

Proposed by Mary Jane Jim

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Resolution 2015-19

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

WHEREAS A. The original land claims presentation of Together Today for Our Children Tomorrow included economic development as part of the solution; B. CAFN listed many businesses that could be started in the community; and C. The Champagne Aishihik Community Corporation was established and is solely owned by the Government to support and initiate local economic opportunities.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED That the General Assembly request the First Nation Council to encourage and support Citizens in establishing small businesses;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED That this Assembly request that the Champagne Aishihik Community Corporation assess the economic needs of the communities and encourage Citizens to start small businesses to meet local community needs.

Moved by: Larry Joe

Seconded by: Chief Ray Jackson

Decision: PASSED BY CONSENSUS

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Resolution 2015-20

SCHOOL BUS TRANSPORTATION

WHEREAS A. Takhini youth have difficulties with transport to Hidden Valley School; B. Takhini children and youth spend many hours per week on the school bus and behavior issues arise due to the long periods on the bus each day; and C. It is costly for families to take their children to school and pick them up every day.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED That the General Assembly request the CAFN Government meet with the Yukon Department of Education to ensure bus transportation better meets the needs of CAFN children and youth being transported to Yukon schools.

Moved by: Andrew Pauls

Seconded by: Barb Allen

Decision: PASSED BY CONSENSUS

Submitted by Georgina Griffith

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Resolution 2015-21

NO SMOKING AT OLD CHAMPAGNE HALL

WHEREAS A. People sometimes smoke in the old Champagne Hall during potlatches; and B. Government buildings are non-smoking by law.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the old community hall in Champagne be designated a non-smoking facility at all times.

Moved by: Elaine Chambers

Seconded by: Barb Allen

WITHDRAWN

Submitted by Florence Griffith

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Resolution 2015-22

MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE RESTRUCTURING

WHEREAS A. The CAFN Management Committee has been established under section 5 of the Financial Administration Act: “5.(1) There shall be a committee to be called the management committee which may consist of the Chief and the senior official of each department as appointed by the First Nation.” B. The Management Committee is responsible for the administration of the financial affairs of the First Nation including matters related to: • Establishing accounting policies and practices for the First Nations, including the form and content of public accounts; • The management practices of the First Nation; • The management of public money, public property and investments; • The management and control of revenue, disbursements and assets of the First Nation; • The evaluation of programs of the First Nations; • The management, control and direction of the public sector service of the First Nations, including classification of positions, establishment of a job evaluation system, review of rates of pay and benefits and discipline of employees of the First Nations; and • The internal audit of the First Nations. C. Citizens are interested in having Citizens-at-large appointed to Management Committee who know what the priorities of the community are; D. GA delegates are knowledgeable about community priorities and should be utilized on the Committee whenever possible; E. Management Committee meetings and responsibilities take significant time from Directors ability to meet their department workload; and F. Management Committee as currently structured is unable to evaluate programs and services provided to communities without bias.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED That the General Assembly requests that the First Nations Council review the structure and appointments to the Management Committee under the Financial Administration Act and consider amending the Act to allow for the appointment of community members to Management Committee;

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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED That the First Nations Council report their findings to the 2016 General Assembly.

Moved by: Sally Jim

Seconded by: Larry Joe

Decision: NOT PASSED, in favor-1, opposed–55, abstain-5 69 Citizens present

Submitted by Barb Allen

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Resolution 2015-23

HEALTH AND MEDICAL CARE

WHEREAS First Nations Citizens desire improved, specialized health and medical care to meet their needs.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED That the General Assembly requests that the First Nations Council investigate the establishment of a Yukon First Nation medical board or authority that can create a support network of medical specialists for First Nations people;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED That the First Nations Council investigate the development of a medical clinic with resources supporting all the medical needs of local First Nation Citizens and report back to the General Assembly on their findings.

Moved by: Georgina Griffith

Seconded by: Sally Jim

Decision: PASSED BY CONSENSUS

Submitted by Wilmonica Van Bibber

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Resolution 2015-24

TRAILS AND HISTORIC VILLAGES IN CAFN TRADITIONAL TERRITORY

WHEREAS A. Trails and historic villages in the Champagne and Aishihik Traditional Territory are central to the traditions and culture of the First Nation; B. Development practices within the Traditional Territory such as fracking may cause damage to these trails and villages.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED That the General Assembly requests the First Nation Council to provide trails and historic villages with special status that will protect them from adverse impact from development.

Moved by: Larry Joe

Seconded by: Kathy Darbyshire

Decision: PASSED BY CONSENSUS

Submitted by Harold Johnson

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Resolution 2015-25

CAFN YOUTH VAN

WHEREAS A. There are CAFN Youth that wish to participate in the educational and traditional programs and services provided by the Government; B. This Assembly desires to see support provided by the Government that promotes the healthy wellbeing of the CAFN Youth; C. Citizens are concerned about the liabilities created on the Government and staff when using personal vehicles to transport youth to and from CAFN events;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED That this Assembly request the Government purchase a van to provide dedicated transportation services for Whitehorse and Takhini area Youth and families who want to participate in cultural, educational or recreational events.

Moved by: Darlene Jim

Seconded by: Georgina Griffith

Decision: PASSED BY CONSENSUS

Submitted by Janet Van Bibber

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Nłäshējel (We Come Together) 2015 Annual General Assembly, NàKhū (Kusawa Lake), Yukon July 17, 18 and 19, 2015 Page 164 LIST OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY ATTENDEES

Doris Allen Kim Hudson Frances Oles James Allen Jessie Hudson Jaylene Owlchild Jimmy Allen Jamie Hudson-Joe Grayson Peters Percy Allen Barb Hume Dale Peterson Willie Asp May Hume Fran Peterson Gail Barnaby Rose Irvine Anthony Primozic Mickey Beattie Alex Isaac Monica Primozic Chief Doris Bill MLA Wade Istchenko Glen Rear Mabel Bill Jack Jackson Jr. Lena Riggs Darrel Billy Jack Jackson Sr. Dwayne K. Smith Frank Billy Jeanette Jackson Eddie Smith Rose Billy Anne Marie Jim Francine Smith Kathy Birckel Brad Jim Freda Smith Darrel Birckel Elizabeth Jim Freddie Smith Lance Bratt Heather Jim Jackie Smith Irene Breithaupt Jason Jim Kara Smith Audrey Brown Nora Jim Kala Smith Fred Brown Sr. Oliver Jim Kristen Smith Sadie Brown Paddy Jim Martha Smith Curt Campbell Alex Joe Rick Smith Rachelle Campbell Dave Joe Sheila Smith Donna Chambers Babe John Vivian Smith Frances Chambers Douglas John Lena Smith-Tutin Kyra Chambers Carol Johnson Glenna Southwick Lindsay Chambers Harold Johnson Fred Stick Steve Chambers Wes Kinney Jan Stick Angie Charlebois Susan Knight Lorraine Stick Jennilee Cook Alan MacDonald Diane Strand Sis Dugan Brian MacDonald Janus Sturko Greg Eikland Dayle MacDonald Grace Sui Jason Epp Rick Martin Karen Svec Odessa Epp Dustin Mazur Marion Telep John Fingland Nathan McCowan Mike Telep Judy George Richard McGregor Len Thibodeau Chris Gleason Alanah McLaren Donna Thibodeau Field Graham Ken McKinnon Peter Upton Ryan Gleason Bertha Moose Janet Van Bibber Tina Grant Kate Moylan Wilmonica Van Bibber Sophie Green Candace O’Brien Kaylea Wabisca Carmel Griffith Cherie O’Brien Sherry Wabisca Easton Hagwood Daisy O’Brien Roy Wabisca Ray Hassard Martina O’Brien Libby Walker Eric Hoenisch Erin Jim Shannon Walker Rosalie Washington Navada Joe Amanda Workman Alex Williams Troy Johns Jr. Ed Workman Brandon Williams Justin Johnson Luke Williams Jennika Jones

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