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Sarnia and Lambton County This Week
April 17, 2018
Six students from Aamjiwnaang, Kettle & Stony Point and Walpole Island First Nations received the opportunity of a lifetime on March 25, joining thousands of others from across Canada in Winnipeg, Manitoba to celebrate the 2018 recipients of the Indspire Awards. The students, along with threeÃâà...
CBC.ca
April 17, 2018
Students from Hetherington Public School learned about drums, dancing and First Nations history from the Great Lakes Woodland dance troupe. Matthew Isaac and Lightning Strikes Clark are from Aamjiwnaang First Nation in Sarnia, Ont. Their dance troupe has been around for about a year. They travel toÃâà...
National Observer
April 3, 2018
But that doesn't seem to be the experience for residents of Aamjiwnaang First Nation and other communities near Sarnia's Chemical Valley. Since the February 2017 flaring at Imperial Oil, for instance, there have been more than 40 flaring occurrences at Chemical Valley facilities – some planned as part ofÃâà...
Varsity
March 25, 2018
One team in particular caught the attention of the Indigenous Studies Students' Union (ISSU) at the University of Toronto: Sarnia's Aamjiwnaang Jr. Hitmen. The Hitmen are a hockey team based out of Aamjiwnaang First Nation in Sarnia, Ontario. As a youth hockey team, they don't receive a lot of funding.
APTN News
March 20, 2018
And she wouldn't suspect Gail's longtime partner, Gino Langevin, would be in the prisoner's box after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the brutal killing of the mother from Aamjiwnaang First Nation in Sarnia, Ont. But that's where Langevin was on Tuesday morning, with his head down and dabbing hisÃâà...
Sarnia Observer
March 16, 2018
Aamjiwnaang Chief Joanne Rogers' recent provincial government appointment to the Sarnia Police Services Board marks a historic first. “We're building a better tomorrow together,” said Rogers who learned of her appointment in recent days. Rogers became chief after retiring from years of service as aÃâà...
Sarnia and Lambton County This Week
March 5, 2018
Chief Joanne Rogers, Aamjiwnaang's first-ever female chief, long-standing councillor Errnol Gray and Aamjiwnaang elder Geraldine Robertson, a residential school survivor and a recent Order of Ontario recipient, were recognized for their service to the First Nation during an event marking the fourthÃâà...
CBC.ca
February 28, 2018
An Aamjiwnaang elder who is an advocate for residential school survivors received the province's highest order on Tuesday. Elder Geraldine Robertson was invested into the Order of Ontario by Lt.-Gov. Elizabeth Dowdeswell at a ceremony at Queen's Park. Residential school survivor from Sarnia toÃâà...
BlackburnNews.com
November 10, 2017
Bitter cold north winds and snow didn't deter about 100 people from attending the annual Remembrance Day service at Aamjiwnaang First Nation during the 11th hour Friday morning. The ceremony, at the Aamjiwnaang Cenotaph on Tashmoo Ave., is always held in advance of November 11, so residentsÃâà...
Huffington Post Canada
July 30, 2017
A resident of a southern Ontario First Nation surrounded by industrial facilities is taking the provincial government to court to demand it complete an air quality review promised eight years ago. Ada Lockridge of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation, in an area known as "Chemical Valley" near Sarnia, Ont., firstÃâà...
