A Voice from the Eastern Door
A Voice from the Eastern Door
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This column was previously called ‘Elders Highlight’. We found many of our elders were too shy to contribute or maybe they didn’t like the title, so we changed it to ‘Words from the Wise’. This column is for them to share their life stores and experiences with the community, who they are, where they came from, where they went and stories of their life. If you are interested in sharing, please contact Indian Time at 518-358-9531 or 613-575-2063. We have staff to listen and help write it down f...
Harvey Arquette, of Snye eagerly waits to begin his trek to Yellowknife, NWT. This will be his first time trucking on the ice roads of the Arctic. He isn’t worried much about the competition but is concerned about delivering loads to Diavik mines from Yellowknife on time. Diavik mines are diamond mines in the North Slave Region of Northwest Territories of Canada. 3 to 4 of the mines he must deliver to are located in the Arctic Circle. Yellowknife itself sits on Great Slave Lake, which is the 5...
This Saturday, Jan. 28 Standing Rock Boxing Club and Three Feathers Casino will be hosting Bully Beat Down, an amateur event featuring male and female boxers from several gyms statewide and from Ontario. Rorohronhakies, aka “Lolo”, age 14, will be one of the three fighters Standing Rock has who will be fighting in this event. He has been fighting since the age of 10, but only began training in 2009 when Atsiaktonkie, Lolo’s father, opened Standing Rock Boxing Club. Lolo has competed in sever...
Pam Lazore and Sweets Jacobs are the women that founded the Green Food Box program in March 2010 with the goal of getting much needed fruits and vegetables into the homes of Akwesasne. With the growing number of chronic illness in the community, chief among them being diabetes, the community was in dire need of a program and assistance. Partnering with the Cornwall Green Food Box Program gave Jacobs and Lazore a good foundation on the logistics of programs like this and allowed them to start...
