Members of Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) and Sandy Lake First Nation celebrate the grand opening of Sandy Lake's band representative office in Thunder Bay, Ont. From left: NAN Deputy Grand Chief Bobby Narcisse, Jackie Rae, Sandy Lake Chief Delores Kakegamic, Elder Lillian Harper, and Rachael Anishinabie.
First Nations in northwestern Ontario taking ownership of child-family services on road to federal reform
"We're trying to build something where a person who is struggling, especially young people with young families, to give them opportunities, to give them training, to know how to go about trying to improve their way of living," Kakegamic said. The First Nation now has band rep offices in Winnipeg and Thunder Bay, which has made services more accessible and helped the community keep track of how many children are in care, she said.
This would allow them "to build a program that is reflective of our language, of our culture, that is respectful to our traditional ways of bringing up our children," Narcisse said. Narcisse applauds Sandy Lake's work and said Kingfisher Lake First Nation is in the early stages of developing its own band rep program.Falconers LLP, which specializes in Indigenous law, has worked with NAN on the band rep file for years and served as counsel for the organization at the CHRT proceedings, during which NAN held intervener status.
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