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The Friends of Ganondagan are offering two Corn & Community workshops that explain the importance of white corn, the Haudenosaunee’s staple food, in its culture, history and diet. Both workshops also highlight the Iroquois White Corn products now being produced at Ganondagan.On June 15, Kevin White, founder of the Pinewoods Iroquois White Corn Project, will present Corn and Haudenosaunee Creation. The lunch-and-learn event includes a tour of the White Corn Project’s production area and a lunch using the traditional white corn, now being produced.

via 2 classes at Ganondagan to highlight Iroquois White Corn | Democrat and Chronicle | democratandchronicle.com.

A number of First Nations protestors crashed an information session held by HudBay Minerals in Winnipeg Thursday night.

HudBay held the information session at the Holiday Inn on Pembina Highway to address concerns over their proposed Reed Lake Mine.

The mine would be built in northwest Manitoba near Flin Flon.

The Mathias Colomb Cree Nation and representatives from the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs as well as the province’s Wilderness Committee held a press conference at the same time and in the same hotel as the information session.

via First Nations groups protest HudBay mine project – Manitoba – CBC News.

The Nishnawbe Aski Nation is warning that Canada’s largest First Nations police service may have to shut down.

NAN says there’s not enough funding to keep the Nishnawbe Aski Police operating safely in northern Ontario.

“Because of the limited resource[s] that we have, we cannot guarantee public safety for our communities and even for our officers,” said NAN Deputy Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler.

The Nishnawbe Aski Police Service — or NAPS — works in 35 communities and Fiddler said joint federal and provincial funding falls far short of what’s needed to hire enough police officers.

via First Nations police service may have to shut down – Thunder Bay – CBC News.

You have to wonder if Stephen Harper isn’t actively trying to provoke serious conflict with First Nations.

There has been over 4 months of ongoing protest, hunger strikes, long distance marches by Indigenous youth, heated negotiations with First Nation leadership, vociferous opposition party criticism in Parliament, and widespread calls for action from non-Indigenous people across Canada.

via Is Stephen Harper trying to provoke a confrontation with First Nations? | rabble.ca.