Ottawa cuts spending on Indigenous languages in Canada

If you are able to go to the protest please contact: The Chiefs of Ontario, they will best be able to find you a bus in your area.

DECEMBER 12, 2006 - the annual Christmas Bake-off

Yep this is making me so happy...it’s the annual Aboriginal Voices Christmas bake-off,

so the whole deal is that Doug and I have this how shall I say "friendly competition" revolving around the holiday baking that we have all come to love...you know chocolate pinwheels, tarts, coffee cakes, the dreaded fruit cake, and well what ever else comes to mind. a couple years in a row CFRC's own Tuen host of "the sweet hearafter" brought a delicacy around his family's home at the holidays...his Moms Spring rolls that is spring rolls with a capital SPRING, they are tops in my book and will go down in the Voices bake off as being the brightest of stars in the history of the bake-off.

I am sure there will be something requiring the cranberry as the co-host Doug has something of a fanatical, practically monkey on his back over the little red orb known as the Cranberry.

The date has been set for dec 12, 2006 the participants invited. We are hoping to have Jeff from CFRC's "Lonesome whistle", Joanne, Ed from Retrospect, Doug and I will be there as well...

Drop a line if you have little traditions that you like to do around the holidays...stuff you like to bake, make or participate in.

Tell us about the first sip of hot cocoa after coming in from skating out on the pond...

That’s all for now...mark in the calendar

the Voices out...

As promised a list of parties at Toronoto (Rogers centre) pow wow

Might see you at one of the following venues...

Wednesday & Thursday - November 22nd & 23rd
National Aboriginal Leadership & Economic Governance Conference
Presented by: abormedia
Renaissance Toronto Hotel - Rogers Centre
Website: www.leadingfromwithin.org

Wednesday - November 22nd
Leela Gilday CD Release Party
Featuring Rhonda Stakich and Leela Gilday
Where: NOW Lounge - 189 Church Street
Doors: 8pm - Performance at 9pm
Web: www.leelagilday.com, www.myspace.com/leelagilday

Thursday - November 23rd
Absolutely Aboriginal Canadian Performers
Featuring: Tamara Podemski (Toronto) - 11:30pm, Andrea Menard
(Saskatchewan) - 9:30pm and Leela Gilday (Yellowknife)- 10:30pm
Where: Revival - 783 College Street Toronto
Cover Charge: $10
Doors: 9pm - performances start 9:30pm.
Websites: www.tamarapodemski.com , www.andreamenard.com ,
www.leelagilday.com

Friday - Sunday - November 24, 25 & 26
Canadian Aboriginal Festival
Featuring: Marketplace, performance tents, competition pow wow,
cultural presentations, art shows, fashion shows, Aboriginal cuisine
and more things to see and do than you can shake a stick at in one
day!
Where: Roger's Centre Downtown Toronto
Website: www.canab.com

Friday - November 24th
Make Poverty History: The First Nations Plan for Creating Opportunity
Featuring: Presentation by the Assembly Of First Nations National
Chief, Phil Fontaine
Where: Rogers Centre - Canadian Aboriginal Festival - Main Stage and
further information available at the AFN Information Booth
throughout the weekend of November 25 & 26.
Time: 2:30pm - 3:30pm

Friday - November 24th
Overture Show (CAMA Pre-Awards Show)
Featuring performances by: Harvee Settee Jr. (fiddle), Angela Novak-
Johnson (traditional), W.T. Goodspirit (country), ReddNation (hiphop)
Place: Room 106, Metro Toronto Convention Centre - 255 Front St. West
Time: 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Host: Michele Baptiste

Friday - November 24
Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards Show (CAMA)
Time: 8:00 pm
Place: John Bassett Theatre, Metro Toronto Convention Centre - 255
Front St. West
Hosts: Andrea Menard & Lawrence Martin
Performances: Susan Aglukark, Art Napoleon, M'Girl, Intellifunk,
Eagle & Hawk, Randy Wood, Mike Gouchie, Weaselhead, Walking Buffalo
Singers and Kahurangi Maori Dancers of New Zealand
Tickets at www.ticketmaster.ca

Friday - November 24th
Derek Miller "The Mohawk Madman"
Featuring: Derek Miller, Bleeker Ridge & Key Witness.
Where: Jeff Healey's - 178 Bathurst Street
Time: Doors at 8pm, performances start at 9pm
Cover Charge: $10
Websites: www.myspace.com/derekmillermusic, www.bleekerridge.ca,
www.keywitnessband.com

Friday - November 24th
Spirit Magazine presents: SWEET REBEL MUSIC
Featuring: Skeena Reece (Vancouver), Taqralik (Nunavik), DJ Abel
(Arizona) and DJ Madeskimo (Montreal/Nunavut)
Where: DNA Lounge - 328 Adelaine Street West Toronto
Cover Charge: $10
Doors:

Friday - November 24th
Rich Hunter & Native Model Studio presents: IRON INDIANS - Music
(Hip Hop & Metal) + Fashion Show
Featuring: Ethnic De Generation (Navajo Nation, Arizona), Dead
Indians (Winnipeg), Native Model Studio (USA & Canada), Redd Nation
(Edmonton, Alberta), DJ RANSUM (New York), Daybi (Vancouver, BC),
and other music & entertainment guests.
Where: The Hacienda - 794 Bathurst Street (@Bloor)
Cover Charge: $10
Doors: 9pm

Saturday - November 25
ANDPVA - Music Fest 06
Featuring: 4 Music Industry Workshops - Music Biz 101, Songwriting
101, The State of Aboriginal Music, Date With A Demo
Where: Holiday Inn on King, Room 206 - 370 King Street West
Registration: $25 or $10 per session
Website: www.andpva.com

Saturday – November 25
TorontoNatives.com presents – Where's The 49? Part 3
Featuring: A Dion, Fenix, DJ Abel, DJ Hooligan and Bid Drezus
Where: Union Nightclub – 240 Richmond Street (@ Duncan) – 19+ event
Doors: 10pm – Cover: $15 advance, $20 at the door.
Website: www.powwowafterparty.com

Saturday – November 25
Rich Hunter & REZFOX presents : HIPHOP Party & Model Search
Featuring: Team Rezofficial, Dead Indians, Redd Nation and DJ Ran$um
on the ones and twos, Model Search by Northern Styles
Where: The Hacienda – 794 Bathurst Street (@Bloor)
Doors: 8pm

Saturday - Novembrer 25
Digging Roots and Guests LIVE
Featuring: Digging Roots, Skeena Reece w/Jason Burnstick, Burnt
Project 1
Where: Jeff Healey's - 178 Bathurst Street
Cover Charge: $10
Doors: 9pm

Saturday - November 25
Cheri Maracle CD Release Party
Featuring: M'Girl (BC), Leela Gilday (Yellowknife), Little Hawk
(Manitoba) and Cheri Maracle & The Showbiz Indians
Where: Silver Dollar Room - 486 Spadina Avenue (and College)
Cover Charge: $6
Websites: www.myspace.com/cherimaracle, www.myspace.com/mgirlmusic,
www.littlehawkmusic.com

Sunday - November 26
Toronto's Pow Wow Weekend Party Finale
Featuring Hip Hop, R&B and Reggae by DJ Abel
Where: Opium Lounge - 222 Richmond Street (@Duncan)
Cover: $5
Doors: 10pm

Canadian Aboriginal Festival

yep that is right...its that time of year once again...

nothing really to say...its the big pow wow that's held in the Toronto, the big smoke, the meeting place, where the stick sits in the water...choose the name you know and proceed.

oh yes thats right its coming up november 24,25,26 its housed in the Rogers Centre aka(skydome)

and of course with the big pow wow comes the after parties...with the likes of Derick Miller, George Leach, and I think the Tamara Podemski...have I got that attention of yours yet? you too can rub the elbows of the Famous with a capital f indians(aboriginals, first nations, natives...choose the term you like and move on) Gary Farmer, that guy from Corner Gas, and if I am not mistaken I think you will also see the Jennifer Podemski, that would be Tamara's sister...

anyways hope to see you there...I will again be working the FNTI booth, Stop by say hey

later

ps
I will get back to you about the parties and concerts...its a great time full of great music did I mention Derick will be there...

THIS POWERFUL PLACE: A CBC DOCUMENTARY BY JODY PORTER ON CBC's IDEAS NOV 16th

just got this in my email, thought I would send out further to the masses, well the masses that read this blog...

This Powerful Place is about a dispute over High Falls near Beardmore
Ontario, back in the early 1990s.

First Nations people in the area (mostly Poplar Point Ojibway Nation)
protested when they learned a hydro dam was going to be built at the
falls.

But the development went ahead.

In the process, the remains of a 400 year old medicine man were
unearthed. The project halted for a brief time so the archeology
could be done. The white people thought if they just re-buried
the bones somewhere else it would solve the 'problem' of the land
being sacred to the Ojibway people.

It didn't.

Trust me, it's better as a radio documentary than an email.

Thanks for your interest.