For more information on this event, please see here.

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This Saturday, one day before 120 million viewers will watch the Super Bowl live from Tampa, another live television event will unfold in Pond Inlet in the Canadian arctic that maybe a few thousand people worldwide will be lucky enough to watch.

All day from 9 in the morning until 9 at night, with short breaks for coffee, lunch and dinner, a continuous stream of Inuit men and women,��elders and youth, unilingual and bilingual, will step up to a microphone to say what they think and feel about being bulldozed – by the gigantic multinational Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation, their own Canadian government, their own Nunavut government and their own Inuit Organizations – to surrender their land, wildlife, culture and human rights in order that those bulldozers make an uncountable profit at their personal expense.

I have seen something like this before and can tell you, without hyperbole, that you should not miss it. Unforgettable testimonies at similar hearings in 2012 are among the most astounding scenes in a film we made in 2014 called Ataatama Nunanga (My Father’s Land),��another show only a few thousand people worldwide ever have seen. This film is on iTunes in thirty countries subtitled in six different languages if you want to preview Saturday’s show in a ‘historical context.’ https://itunes.apple.com/ca/movie/my-fathers-land-ataatama-nunanga-subtitled/id1462679494

But this Saturday’s show WILL BE LIVE, happening while and if you watch, from a hamlet in the arctic wilderness to wherever you are; and on Live Television as dramatic and compelling as the Senate Watergate Hearings were live in 1973, as other-worldly and surreal as the Moon Landing live in 1969 and as hypnotically horrifying as the Twin Towers hit, burning and finally collapsing Live on Television the morning of September 11, 2001.

Instead of being hyped like Sunday’s Super Bowl by weeks of advertising before being televised by networks around the globe, this Saturday’s Pond Inlet Testimony will appear on Uvagut TV, the world’s newest, smallest and most obscure TV network, launched just two weeks ago with no outside funding by a small Inuit non-profit, Nunavut Independent Television Network (NITV), and the Inuit media arts collective ISUMA, both operating out of Igloolik, Nunavut for the past thirty years. And no advertising.

The only way people will know they can watch this is if we tell them.

I’m telling you now so you can pass it on.

Uvagut TV is Live on Shaw Direct satellite channel 267 nationally; Co-op cable channel 240 in Nunavut and NWT; FCNQ cable channel 308 in Nunavut, northern Quebec; and online with English or Inuktitut audio feeds.

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RFNG will:

• Develop a transitional inherent rights governance model and tools to guide and inspire First Nations
• Build a deeper understanding of the impact of the Indian Act and the reasons for its persistence
• Create a Nation Re-Building Action Network through which First Nations will document and share knowledge and experience.
• Contribute to the necessary Canada-wide dialogue on implementation of Indigenous jurisdiction and Section 35 of the Constitution Act
• Contribute to a growing body of Indigenous scholarship and help form the basis for new programs and curriculum in academia across the country
• Train and mentor students, particularly Indigenous students, and citizens of First Nation communities to conduct transformative research, gain meaningful experience working amongst the people in the community.

Please see here for the project’s new website and additional information:  Rebuilding First Nations Governance

For more information contact:  Frances Abele  and Catherine MacQuarrie

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As part of its community project Qikiqtani Voices, NITV is broadcasting radio shows live from the QIA engagement tour, airing in Arctic Bay, Clyde River, Hall Beach, Igloolik and Pond Inlet as well as live streaming and archiving on IsumaTV at .

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November 18-20, 2015, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Registration Now Open

The National Association of Friendship Centres (NAFC) is hosting a unique, first-of-its-kind Indigenous Innovation Summit in Winnipeg. This national-level summit will bring together thinkers and doers for two days of interaction, networking and partnership building, working toward unlocking new ideas and approaches to some persistent challenges in our communities.
The summit will consist of two distinct locations over its two days: the Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG) and a special evening panel on the topic of Reconciliation as Innovation, on Thursday November 18, featuring Justice Murray Sinclair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and others. Register today.

For more information about the sessions, speakers and details of the Summit, visit the website:

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Along the conference’s theme, Dr. Abele organized a round table titled ‘Teaching Indigenous Policy and Administration.’ The panel featured key experts in this field, including Jennifer David (Stonecircle Consulting),��Julia Candlish (Education Coordinator Chiefs of Ontario),��Jennifer Dalton (York University),��Hayden King (Ryerson). The panel was well-received by conference-goers and provided key insights about Indigenous policy and administration.