Awesome to hear about Shelley and her work. Will you guys have Duke Peltier on at some point? I've been on the internet forever and Vodcast??? Why not just community videos? And the off res. community definitely needs updates. Those who don't call and communicate regularly. I recently moved and updates my address haven't gotten any band mail or election mail yet. Stoked on the roads being addressed!!!
Imagine investing the drone and youtube video money into the roads and infrastructure though. lol 😅😅😅. Stoked on language and Elders projects. The island is small you need 1 good drone pilot and getting airspace registration and approval is just a phone call. Manitoulin island needs some better infrastructure and another bridge. Crazy we don't have community water.
What about an average time for when we should get our RHT payment. I submitted like a week or two ago i dont think I included the band # in the subject line but all my info was correct and my form was fill out to a T
Bro Aani my Nishnabes!!! Good ol' wiki. Eh i'm an off res member and my whole family lives on the res. I hear from both sides of the story. I've been on and off res for visits since I was a kid. Before the last few years yeah it was a bit tough to get info off the island but seems to be better now. Great youtube series. You're not gonna sit outside the res and tell me they aren't doing enough. With the resources they have, if you cared about Wiki you would go contribute and assist. They have amazing tech resources all I see lately are upgrades and attempts to reach out to all band members. Let's just keep up good spirits and try our best to communicate as a whole. And the band is really doing a lot of good work. Sometimes I think people expect eagles to just follow them around and drop news letters in downtown Toronto.
Say Wiki... Weekwemkong. I've always said "Wick-wemi-kong". lol I guess rly it's be (Wik-wem-koong). I mean we did respell the name of the res. after the Gchi Naaknigewin. Anywho my two cents as a band member.
From what I researched last time I checked, we had around 5-6000 members with over half living off res. Now we have like 8600+ band members? so idk interesting.
Also personally would love to hear about less shooting on the res. 😢 I live closer now and visit often I heard about issues like this last year alone. What's a custom election?
Thanks for the informative video. I’m interested in learning more about the community. My mom was born there, but I was only there as a very young child. Anxious to learn more about my heritage.
Band members can get a copy of all our library archives at 50% off i've been meaning on doing this. Our museum is great. Lots of teachings and language preserved.
So many members are scattered and there's always been a divide amongst the Rez band members and Urban. Off Rez members always find out about events and gathering with no time to spare. It would be nice if we had a newsletter page posted even in the Wiikwemikong Portal where upcoming events are in the planning so if we want to attend as part of the Community, we can. There always has to be a heads up well in advance, so we can prepare our accommodations and time there in advance. Our Ancestors lived together, -spent time together, so there's no reason we shouldn't either. Chii Miigwech
We have an app, dude. lol I mean now. But you could always call them before if you were really interested. Off band member been attending pow wow since I was 2.
Aanii. As mentioned in an earlier comment, we do have the WUT App where you can find events, job postings, and notices that are posted as received. This app is found on the Play Store and in the Apple App store. We also have our social media platforms, mainly the Facebook Page, where our monthly calendar is posted in JPEG form. This calendar is mailed out to our local residents, but is shared online for our community members who are not residing in the area. Another place you can look to keep up to date is the Wiikwemkoong Community News & Events Facebook group. Hope this helps. Miigwech.
