First Nations Voice

PAGE 2 • FEBRUARY 2016 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: FEBRUARY 27, 2016 The advertising deadline is February 18, 2016 For your ad placement and contents CONTACT TREVOR GREYEYES (204-282-6341) tgreyeyes@shaw.ca 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 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 For more than 100 years, a concerted effort has been made to assimilate the Indigenous cultures but they've not only survived but are making a comeback. Did you know there's a sweat lodge at the Thunderbird House, for example? Or that there are drum groups always practicing in the city or pow wow demonstrations during the winter. There are language classes for both Ojibway and Cree offered at the Millenium Public Library at various times. A few minutes after entering the teepee at The Forks, I offered Clarence Nepinak some tobacco because it is the Annishnabe way to make an offering when receiving a teaching. For the next six weeks every Sunday starting from the third week in January to the last Sunday in February, Clarence and his wife Barbara will be demonstrating to anyone entering the teepee how to make bannock on stick by a fire. Donna Milliken said, "I was just walking by on my way to the ice sculptures and just dropped by. It's nice and cozy in here and the bannock was good." Barbara had prepared the bannock dough at home while Clarence was cutting branches to be used for cooking the bannock. While he was cutting the branches, Clarence reminisced about being very young and going with his grandfather to get eggs. His grandfather told him to put on his long underwear before going to get the eggs. Clarence wondered why he needed the protection from the cold to go to the store to get some eggs. Well, his grandfather was on his way to collect quail eggs that were no bigger than Clarence's thumb. And that's the way wisdom, culture and community are kept alive in my community. Now, to be perfectly clear I am an atheist. I made the offering of tobacco because I have respect. The same respect I have when entering a church, synagogue or temple. Or someone's house for that matter. Some people are under the false presumption that Indigenous people must either embrace the modern world with its technologies and aesthetics or reject it slipping into some sort of recidivist stone age state. Neither is true. As an Annishnabe person, I have received teachings and been to ceremonies. Pow wows, gatherings and ceremonies are not about reviving an almost dead culture but celebrating and sharing it with anyone who wants to participate. The First Nations, Metis and Inuit peoples have not vanished. By Trevor Greyeyes ThE AwAkENINg: EXpRESSIoNS oF TRAdITIoNAl INdIgENoUS cUlTURE IN ThE cITY Barb Nepinak prepares the bannock while donna Milliken roasts hers over a fire.

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