First Nations Voice

PAGE 2 • SEPTEMBER 2015 aDVERTiSinG MaTERial SPECiFiCaTionS 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. 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, 204-697-7020, for more information about file types accepted. The Free Press can also build your ad. Please contact your First Nations Voice ad sales rep for details. NEXT ISSUE: September 30 , 2015 The advertising deadline is September 21, 2015 For your ad placement and contents CONTACT TREVOR GREYEYES (204-282-6341) tgreyeyes@shaw.ca firstnationsvoice@winnipegfreepress.com Toll free 1-800-542-8900 Alan Isfeld (204-256-0645) / e-mail: rdeagle@mymts.net HoW To ConTaCT US PUBliSHER Al Isfeld (204.256.0645) EDiToR Trevor Greyeyes (204.282-6341) tgreyeyes@shaw.ca firstnationsvoice@winnipegfreepress.com All Rights Reserved. Brokenhead Ojibway Nation, Scanterbury, MB R0E 1W0 Phone 204.256.0645 E-mail rdeagle@mymts.net 100-per-cent First nations owned — Distribution: 100,000 copies No material in First Nations Voice may be reproduced without permission of the copyright owner. First Nations Voice is published monthly by the First Nations Voice. All payments for advertisements in the First Nations Voice should be directed through the Winnipeg Free Press office. No out of office sales rep will collect cash outside of this office. Please direct questions to Trevor Greyeyes 204.282-6341. 1355 Mountain Avenue, Winnipeg, MB Canada, R2X 3B6 advertising Sales Laurie Finley, VP Sales and Marketing / laurie.finley@freepress.mb.ca Barb Borden, Manager Niche Publishing/ barb.borden@freepress.mb.ca Subscriptions $26.25 annually, payable to First Nations Voice c/o Winnipeg Free Press 1355 Mountain Avenue, Winnipeg, MB Canada, R2X 3B6 Hard for me to imagine but I was back at Red River College, at the Notre Dame campus, to interview Dr. Mark Aquash, the new Dean of Indigenous Education. It was 21 years ago that I first prowled the halls in and around Building F as a Creative Communications student. Not to be name dropper, that's what I am doing though, but some names you might recognize from my first Cre Comm class include people like Marcy Markusa and Cameron Macintosh. And that moment made me flash back to all kinds of first school days. Ah, I can almost taste the crisp fall air and cooler temperatures. I am standing with a bunch of kids I knew from Radisson Elementary with some I don't know in front of John W Gunn Jr High School. I think it's called a middle school now. It's not too hard for me to imagine but in the early days of September that's a scene that is going to be playing out all across the province from post secondary institutions right down to kindergarten and Head Start programs. Aquash, getting back to the RRC dean if I can, struck me as an earnest and caring traditional man in the Annishnabe sense of approaching life. He's a pow wow dancer. I guessed Traditional since, like me, he is getting older because being a Fancy or grass dancer is definitely a younger man's dance. Aquash wore a beaded necklace with his name and title on it that his daughter had made so I can tell you he is a family man. As a child, Aquash shared that he wasn't the best student but as I listened to his story I understood the challenges he faced were like the same that many First Nations people have living in this province. His grandmother took him in after his mother encountered difficulties that he attributed to her experiences in residential school. And he moved around quite a bit and worked various manual labour intensive jobs before going back to school. It's these experiences that have helped to shape the educator he's become today. "Well, I hope to connect to the communities and bring that part to the college," said Aquash. "Focusing on the needs of the communities. Having the students become successful because once they understand that connection to the communities it will have an impact on their communities." Though he's only been on the job a short time, Aquash is looking forward to the challenge of the job. And he's an Annishnabe speaker looking forward to being back in Annishnabe territory and just talking. By Trevor Greyeyes Back to school and meet the new Red RiveR dean Dr. Mark Aquash

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