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Ms. Que Banh<p>My personal <a href="https://beige.party/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ReadingGoal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReadingGoal</span></a> this year is to find &amp; read every book that Richard Wagamese wrote. I have read 3 of his books so far &amp; loved them. He's one of my fave <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> authors in <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a>.</p><p>Richard Wagamese was one of Canada’s foremost <a href="https://beige.party/tags/IndigenousAuthors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousAuthors</span></a> &amp; esteemed public speaker &amp; <a href="https://beige.party/tags/storyteller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>storyteller</span></a>. A professional writer since 1979, he was a newspaper columnist &amp; reporter, radio &amp; television broadcaster &amp; producer, documentary producer &amp; author of 14 titles from various <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Canadian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canadian</span></a> publishers.</p><p>He was a success in every genre of writing he tried. An <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Ojibway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ojibway</span></a> from the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Wabaseemoong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wabaseemoong</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FirstNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNation</span></a> in Northwestern <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Ontario" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ontario</span></a>, he became the first <a href="https://beige.party/tags/NativeCanadian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NativeCanadian</span></a> to win a National Newspaper Award for Column Writing in 1991. He won the Alberta Writers Guild Best Novel Award for his debut novel,&nbsp;Keeper’n Me&nbsp;in 1994 &amp; the Canadian&nbsp;Authors Association Award for Fiction for his third novel&nbsp;Dream Wheels, in 2007. One Native Life&nbsp;was one of&nbsp;The Globe &amp; Mail’s 100 Best Books of 2008 &amp;&nbsp;One Story, One Song&nbsp;was awarded the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature in 2011.</p><p>Indian Horse, the feature film, is based on his book of the same title.</p><p>If you haven't read any of his books yet, I highly recommend finding them at your local library 👍📚</p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EagleLakeFirstNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EagleLakeFirstNation</span></a> challenges <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NWMO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NWMO</span></a> in court</p><p>By Mike Stimpson, 2 January 2025</p><p>EAGLE LAKE – "<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EagleLake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EagleLake</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNation</span></a> is challenging the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWasteManagementOrganization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWasteManagementOrganization</span></a>’s site selection in court, and that’s more than welcome news to Neecha Dupuis.</p><p>"'I love it,' Dupuis, a member of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ojibway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ojibway</span></a> Nation of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Saugeen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Saugeen</span></a> (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SavantLake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SavantLake</span></a>), said from Ottawa. 'Just pure love.'</p><p>"Eagle Lake’s chief 'came and walked with us' in this year’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WalkAgainstNuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WalkAgainstNuclearWaste</span></a>, she noted.</p><p>"'It’s all coming together, like one giant dream catcher,' Dupuis said.</p><p>"Dupuis said she doesn’t understand <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WabigoonLakeOjibway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WabigoonLakeOjibway</span></a> Nation’s decision to move forward with the NWMO on possibly constructing a deep geological repository, or DGR, for high-level nuclear waste.</p><p>"'For them to choose nuclear waste over the land, that doesn’t make sense. It doesn’t make sense at all.'"</p><p><a href="https://fftimes.com/news/district-news/eagle-lake-first-nation-challenges-nwmo-in-court/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fftimes.com/news/district-news</span><span class="invisible">/eagle-lake-first-nation-challenges-nwmo-in-court/</span></a></p>