First Nations Voice

September 2013

Building bridges between all communities

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PAGE 2 • SEPTEMBER 2013 HOW TO CONTACT US ADVERTISING MATERIAL SPECIFICATIONS PUBLISHER Al Isfeld (204.256.0645) EDITOR Steve Wintemute (204.995.2314) First Nations Voice creates an opportunity for advertisers, businesses and all levels of government to reach First Nations audiences in Saskatchewan, Manitoba andt Ontario. With a focus on training, education and employment opportunities, this publication serves to showcase opportunities available to First Nations and all Aboriginal people. firstnationsvoice@winnipegfreepress.com All Rights Reserved. Brokenhead Ojibway Nation, Scanterbury, MB R0E 1W0 Phone 204.256.0645 E-mail rdeagle@mymts.net All digital advertising files, whether on disk or delivered electronically, should be Mac compatible. Please include all files necessary for output. Call the Winnipeg Free Press pre-press department, 697-7020, for more information about file types accepted. The Free Press can also build your ad. 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NEXT ISSUE: October 2, 2013 The advertising deadline is September 16, 2013 1355 Mountain Avenue, Winnipeg, MB Canada, R2X 3B6 For your ad placement and contents CONTACT STEVE WINTEMUTE (204-995-2314) steve.wcs@freepress.mb.ca firstnationsvoice@winnipegfreepress.com Steve Wintemute 204.995.2314 / steve.wcs@freepress.mb.ca Advertising Sales Sales and Marketing Steve Wintemute 204.995.2314 e: firstnationsvoice@winnipegfreepress.com Toll free 1-800-542-8900 Alan Isfeld (204-256-0645) / e-mail: rdeagle@mymts.net Subscriptions $26.25 annually, payable to First Nations Voice c/o Winnipeg Free Press AMC WORKING WITH SOVEREIGN NATIONS TO SECURE RESOURCE EQUITY POSITIONS AND IMPLEMENT THE TREATY RELATIONSHIP The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs stand in solidarity with leadership and Communities who are choosing to assert and implement their sovereignty over their lands and resources, demonstrated by resolutions passed at the 25th AMC Annual General Assembly. AMC certified resolutions support Red Sucker Lake First Nation's "No Free Entry" Declaration, a moratorium on Resource Development in the Island Lake Region and the rejection of the newly formed Provincial 'advisory committee on mining'. "The land rights accruing to provincial and federal governments in the province of Manitoba are granted under Treaty and flow from principles of the spirit and intent of treaty. Neither the province, nor the federal government hold sovereignty in a vacuum over the ancestral lands of the Indigenous peoples of these territories, yet we see them continually granting licences, permits and rights of access to industrialists and developers who then generate great wealth under colonial laws that fail to respect and recognize the sovereign lands and self-determining efforts of Indigenous peoples under the treaty relationship," stated Grand Chief Nepinak. "The legal presumptions granting proprietary rights to exploit the ancestral lands of Indigenous people are built on a historical foundation of racism and doctrines of law that are morally indefensible in contemporary times. If we hope to repair and rebuild a new relationship, we must be willing to deconstruct some of the great misunderstandings of our ancestors in shaping today's realities. To do this, the parties to treaty must be willing to take brave new steps towards resource equity and treaty implementation", Grand Chief Nepinak further stated. Over the past number of years, the province of Manitoba has granted exploration licences and permits to proprietary interests throughout Manitoba without following Canadian legal standards of consultation and/ or accommodation measures to the Indigenous peoples living on the lands under exploration. The failure to inform indigenous communities of the plans to open for exploration or development of their homelands has created an environment of mistrust and prompted many Chiefs to call for outright moratoriums on mining until resource equity arrangements can be established. A key underlying principle to establishing resource equity is in the acknowledgement of the pre-existing sovereignty of Indigenous peoples and their equity in the vast wealth of resources that remains in their lands. "The solutions being brought by the province, including advisory committees and working groups fail to challenge the false presumption of crown sovereignty over Indigenous title to resources. It is incumbent on the province and other leaders to remember that the vast wealth in the ancestral lands of Indigenous people did not pass to the provinces or the federal government at the conclusion of treaty signing. Treaties were agreed to so that we would share in wealth creation, thereby creating a co-dependency that assured mutual prosperity. This did not happen. What happened was residential school and policies of subjugation under the Indian Act. Despite the historical wrongs perpetrated against our people, we're now positioned to set the record straight" concluded Nepinak. Sheila North Wilson Do you know someone who has made a significant impact in your life or the lives of others? Tell us about YOUR hero and maybe they will be one of the five extraordinary people chosen to be honoured at the Manitoba Heroes Gala October 26, 2013. For more details and to NOMINATE YOUR HERO visit: manitobaheroes.ca The deadline for nominations is August 15, 2013. JOIN US five ion of our in celebrat s for a oba Heroe Manit ing at the e gala even ion Centr g Convent . 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