This week on Bamoseda: Friday, June 4
Bamoseda, hosted by Jennifer Ashawasegai, is an Aboriginal news magazine radio program, which features national Aboriginal news, current affairs, features on community and culture, spotlights on entertainment and a cross section of musical genres from very talented artists in the Aboriginal community.
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The first of a series of national events for the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission (TRC) is just around the bend. It's hoped to bring together
survivors and their families, former school staff as well as others affected by
the Indian Residential School experience.
The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal will be deciding on whether or not to
continue hearings into the federal government's underfunding of First Nations
children's services. In 2007, The First Nations Child and Family Caring
Society and Assembly of First Nations asked the Human Rights Tribunal to
determine whether the underfunding of First Nations Child Services constitutes
discrimination under the Canadian Human Rights Act.
First Nations Technical
Institute based on Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory in Ontario is celebrating its
25th anniversary as a an Indigenous post secondary institution. FNTI also
hosted an Indigenous Learning Conference with participants from Chile and
Africa.
The Edmonton Garrison participated in an Aboriginal Awareness Week.
The week included cultural awareness on Metis, Inuit and First Nations, and the
week also capped off with the construction of a sweatlodge to be used by
soldiers and RCMP officers.
The worst environmental disaster in U.S history
is taking its toll and continuing to spread. BP's oil slick in the Gulf of
Mexico is about 2500 square miles and has reached the Louisiana coastline,
affecting more than 120 miles of shoreline and has gotten into the marshlands -
where the Pointe Aux Chenes Indian Tribe calls home. With their livelihood of
fishing now gone, Chuckie Verdin, Chairman of the Tribe says most of the
community is out of work and don't have much hope.
MUSIC:
Susan Aglukark - Citizens of the World (CANCON)
Mike Gouchie - Didn't get a
damn thing done (CANCON)
Buffy Sainte-Marie - No No Kashegesh (CANCON)