Rick Garrick — Wawatay News

The family of Chapleau Cree’s Glen Wesley has been searching for him since he went missing Sept. 15, 2010 in North Bay.
“We are very concerned for his well-being and his safety. He needs to be on his medications,” said his mother, Cecille Wesley.
Wesley said her son has been off his medications since he went missing. The six-foot-three, 220-230-pound, 28-year-old man with black hair and brown eyes requires regular medications for his mental illness. He was last seen wearing a black hoodie jacket and black pants and is friendly and polite.

Marten Falls First Nation is planning another blockade in the Ring of Fire over concerns of a work camp set up near the community.
Chief Eli Moonias said protestors from his community will likely have the blockade set up within a week. The Ring of Fire is a chromite deposit in the James Bay lowlands.
“This is our territory,” Moonias said. “If you want to set up a camp there you have to come and see us.”

Aboriginal graduate students at Lakehead University now have a $100,000 scholarship to aim for.
Barrick Gold Corporation, operators of the Hemlo mine near Marathon, donated $50,000 towards the Barrick Gold Graduate Scholarship. The Ontario Trust for Student Support matched the donation.
The scholarship will be awarded to a Lakehead University graduate student with financial need who is focused on mining issues with preference given to persons of Aboriginal heritage.

The Ecole Gron Morgan cultural powwow was a bit ‘corn’y.
Presenters offered tasty corn bread and corn teachings to students at this year’s cultural powwow Jan. 20 in Thunder Bay.
“Corn originated here in North America,” said Teresa Magiskan, traditional healing coordinator at Anishnawbe Mushkiki in Thunder Bay. “First Nations people were great agriculturalists. Corn had been cultivated here for 4,000 years and it is what we used to make our bread.”