Treaty Relations

TREATY RELATIONS COMMISION OF MANITOBA URBAN RESERVES IN MANITOBA CONTINUED FROM PG 22 The site houses Yellowquill College in a converted twostorey former Manitoba Hydro office building. On the site, Long Plain is also planning for a gas bar, convenience store and a five-storey office block. Swan Lake First Nation opened the Arboc Smoke Shop and Gas Bar in 2006 on urban reserve land it owns in Headingley, just west of Winnipeg on the Trans-Canada Highway while the Red Sun Smoke Shop and Gas Bar is operated on urban reserve land acquired by Roseau River First Nation just northwest of Winnipeg on Highway 6 in 2007. Opaskwayak Cree Nation has property holdings in the neighbouring town of The Pas, including a convenience store and offices, and also has a memorandum of understanding with the City of Thompson to establish an urban reserve in the northern Manitoba city on surplus federal land ��� LEARNING ABOUT TREATY HISTORY EYE-OPENING EXPERIENCE FOR SJR STUDENTS T. JOHN���S RAVENSCOURT SOCIAL STUDIES TEACHER MATT HENDERSON (LEFT) AND GRADE 11 STUDENTS STEPHANIE FENNELL AND MITCHELL CUNNINGHAM. Photo by Gilbert Gregory for the Winnipeg Free Press By Gilbert Gregory for the Free Press I nvestigating the legal and historical conditions leading to birth of the Idle No More movement was an eye-opening experience for Grade 11 students at St. John���s-Ravenscourt School, often leading to more questions than answers. The students were shocked when they looked into things like conditions on reserves, the plight of missing and murdered women, discrimination, insufficient health care and the lack of opportunities for First Nations people. 28 trcm.ca ���The fact that some people in Canada still live in conditions that are basically Third World is startling,��� said student Stephanie Fennell. ���That���s probably one of the biggest issues we���ve been able to deconstruct. We really have such a wealth of opportunity and wealth in general, does it make sense to deny people the basic right to have clean water? Does it make sense to deny people the ability to (pursue) educational opportunities? Do we have the right to deny people proper searches for people who go missing? We���ve been looking at that kind of thing and things that aboriginal people have been angry about, with good reason. Any person anywhere would want to feel safe in their own community, would want to have their children grow up and be successful and that is what Idle No More has meant to our class. It���s a movement for basic rights and needs that aren���t being met in a society where we clearly have the ability to do so.��� By studying the Indian Act, The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the unfulfilled promises

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