Ontario Coalition of Indigenous Peoples Zone 9 Area Meeting
Tuesday, May 4th 2021 at 7.30 pm via Zoom

Attended By,

At the Zoom Meeting in Attendance were the Former Governor Tammy Cadue, Governor – OCIP Zone 9,

-And-

two other Zone 9 members, Elder Rolly.

7:00pm to 7:10pm – Brainstorming vision for 8th Fire Alliance

7:10pm to 7:15pm – Creating Items for Fundraising, Application for 8th Fire Alliance

Co Chairman (women) – Tammy & Jess

Treasurer – Jonathan

Still need to speak to Elmer, Mona

7:15pm – 2022 Conference – First Nations must be included, get the Grass Roots involved. Promote unification, Focus on First Nations and support their battles and gain their independence.

Gain support for the Elders and Grandmothers of Grass Roots.

Bring back old teachings

Create a Logo

Create a survey to give out to Grass Roots

Put together ideas of advertising for OCIP

Plan for Incorporating

Start as Non-Profit

Use basic templates

Establish Objectives – unity – bring grass roots together

Remembering and reclaiming our language and lands

Healing

Decolonization – creating the future

When SLACK app is established, collaborate.

Next one will take place for April 6th 2021 @ 7:00pm.

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Former Zone 9 Governor Tammy

Ontario Coalition of Indigenous Peoples Zone 9 Area Meeting
Tuesday, April 13th 2021 at 7.30 pm via Zoom

Attended By,

At the Zoom Meeting in Attendance were Former Governor Tammy Cadue, Governor – OCIP Zone 9,

-And-

two other Zone 9 members, Elder Rolly.

7:00pm to 7:10pm – Talking about artistic designs, native artwork, cornhusk dolls, clothing accessories.

7:10pm Tammy: Letter sent to OCAP/OCIP Leadership in regards to the proposal for a Conference next year, discuss unity with higher ups leadership. Working together while putting away political issues.

7:15pm: Incorporation. Step by step process. Create a board of directors/committee.

Handbook to incorporate; Pick and choose bylaws, Colonial Board of Directors.

7:20pm: Sign up for grant watch Ontario.

Create a name for the Incorporation.

Create concepts, start on initial bylaw, OCAP can help once we are incorporated; funnel funding for development for committee.

7:30pm: Conference – Invite first, select location, type of venue.

If First Nations is involved, send them the invite first.

Other groups: Metis Nation of Canada. Discuss the issues that First Nations are fighting for and provide support.

Encourage First Nations to be proactive and form a parallel government. Show them that by fighting for your beliefs will not affect their treaties.

7:45pm: Create list of all of the Native Reserves in Ontario and the rest of the Provinces and Territories.

Communicate with all of the Elders

Talk about the big issues that affecting us today example: Missing/Murdered Native Women

Conference should take place for 5 days Monday to Friday in the summer of 2022 depending on COVID protocols.

Create an Accord/Directive – provide another voice for the issues we are fighting for

 Set up letter on Google Drive to help work together on it.

Location either is a Camping Site, Hotel with Conference Room. Location should either be in Province of Ontario or Manitoba.

Recap:

Set up Letter of Google Drive

List of Native Groups in Canada

Location of Conference Site for summer of 2022

Determine size of conference, number of invites, and schedule of the event.

@ 8:00pm: Meeting adjourned.

Next one will take place for Tuesday, May 4th 2021 @ 7:00pm.

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Former Zone 9 Governor Tammy

Ontario Coalition of Indigenous Peoples Zone 9 Area Meeting
Thursday, March 30th 2021 at 7.30 pm via Zoom

Attended By,

At the Zoom Meeting in Attendance were Former Governor Tammy Cadue, Governor – OCIP Zone 9,

-And-

two other Zone 9 members, Elder Rolly.

The Zone 9 Governor gave formal Introductions and welcomed all the Guests.

Introductions by all members in attendance were given.

Decolonization: The action or process of a state withdrawing from a former colony – leaving it independent.

It is now used to talk about restorative justice through cultural, psychological, and economic freedom. In most countries, Indigenous people still don’t hold significant positions of power or self-determination.

Decolonization requires non-Indigenous Canadians to recognize and accept the reality of Canada’s colonial history, accept how that history paralyzed Indigenous Peoples, and how it continues to subjugate Indigenous Peoples

7:00pm to 7:05pm: Everybody is talking about the impacts of COVID-19 during the past year and the effects it is having, their experiences with the COVID shot and when they expect their next one, etc.

7:06pm: Tammy informed everybody that the OCIP/OCAP meeting is postponed till March 31st 2021 @ 7pm. The meeting will talk about forming a Non-profit organization, the plans for a conference meeting sometime in 2022.

7:10pm: Jess talked about if funding is approved, we can create groups for decolonization support and help.

7:11pm-7:20pm: Lis talked about the challenges we could face in regards to decolonization, especially those who had hard experiences and suffered from being taken away in the 60’s to boarding schools where they were trained to put their native heritage and history behind them.

From Jon’s thoughts: **we will need to create a group that the people can believe in, not just the people running it. A lot of times, groups and beliefs die quickly as a result of the group drifting away from its original purpose** 

7:20pm: Elder Rolly: spoke online in a conference at Lake Head University. Inspire interest in bringing people together. Help create renewal of our Heritage. Mentioned a man named Isaac, good storyteller.

7:25pm: Jonathan – Spoke to my father, Ron Swain. He is interested in the Conference and thinks that will be a great opportunity to bring Indigenous people together. He can provide insight and help organize the event as we get closer to a date and location.

7:30pm: Tammy – Talked about starting fundraising projects with Lisa in regards to her skills in hand crafting, and other artistic wears.

7:35pm: Elder Rolly – Made the suggestion that down the road, everybody who lives in Canada should pay a royalty to First Nations to help establish their decolonization.

Then he brought up the history of living on his land, his learning experiences about Native Americans in the U.S. and Canada.

7:45pm: Meeting adjourned.

Next one will take place for April 6th 2021 @ 7:00pm.

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Former Zone 9 Governor Tammy

Ontario Coalition of Indigenous Peoples Zone 9 Area Meeting
Thursday, March 25, 2021 at 7.30 pm via Zoom

Attended By,

At the Zoom Meeting in Attendance were Former Governor Tammy Cadue, Governor – OCIP Zone 9, four other Zone 9 members. Also Elder Rolly.

The Zone 9 Governor gave formal Introductions and welcomed all the Guests.
Introductions by all members in attendance were given.

There was an Announcement that the OCIP CO-VID Funding will be renewed for 12 months. Members will need to re-apply with a CO-VID Application Sheet so their info is Updated.

Applications covers,

• 25 % Rent to those eligible
• Providing financial assistance if you lose phone
• Providing financial assistance if you lose internet, etc.
• You will also be receiving monthly grocery gift cards
• Also funding for medication costs

Great discussion was had about the creation of a OCIP Region 9 Committee Board of Directors.

The Plan is to have at least 5 other members for the region. The goal is to become a non-profit organization, to have it have no boundaries, no differences in race, either if you are Metis, First Nations, off-reserve indigenous.
We will need to be sponsored to help get incorporated.

There was a in-depth discussion by all in in Attendance about what they want from this Group.

The following was proposed:

Create a Vision Statement about our group, establish step by step goals for what our group is to become.

Focus on ways to promote the group: fundraisings, Facebook advertising, emails, twitter, etc. Reach out to family and friends to get the word out.

By Summer 2022, help establish a Weekend Conference for OCIP, OCAP, MNO, First Nations to all get together. Have it take place at a Hotel with Conference Rooms. The location doesn’t have to be in a major city.

Establish Language Classes to be widely available for everybody.

Two great Youth and Children related Suggestions were made:

Young Groups: Create a program to help young metis, off reserve ingenious, or First Nation kids to join young league teams in Baseball, Basketball, Soccer, Hockey, Lacrosse. Help pay for registration, equipment, and other costs associated with joining and playing for a team.

Create events were kids can get together for a friendly tournament, BBQ, for families to get together with non-political activities.

These Discussions lasted for the majority of the meeting and it was felt that much was accomplished.

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Former Zone 9 Governor Tammy

Ontario Coalition of Indigenous Peoples Zone 9 Area Meeting
Thursday, January 21, 2021 at 7pm via Zoom

Attended By,

At the Zoom Meeting it must be noted that the attendance was greater than the previous meetings, there was in attendance Former Vice Chief Laurie Maggrah, OCIP Vice Chief, and Former Governor Tammy Cadue, Governor – OCIP Zone 9, and five other Zone 9 members.

The Zone 9 Governor gave formal Introductions and welcomed all the Guests.
A Land acknowledgement and blessing was given.
Introductions by all members in attendance were given.

There was an update followed by discussion about the Covid 19 funding for Zone 9.

Some general highlights were: That Covid-19 funding was delivered slowly to approximately 2/3 of Zone 9 Members who received funding due to slow mail service and the hold on the funding cheques. Our amount of funding that is now being given out will be close to $30 000.00 for the next month. We have had 10 new applications in the past week and the list is growing.

There was an update followed by discussion for ISET funding.

The ISET program has funded 5 applications before Christmas and one more that was recently awarded a couple of days ago.

There was a discussion about what kind of activities and services the members would like to see in Zone 9?

The Following was suggested:

• Youth outreach and services.
• Cultural teachings and activities – language instruction.
• Providing medicines to those in need in the community.
• Job search assistance.
• Assistance with finding housing rentals for younger couples with 2+ bedrooms for children. It was brought up by a member about a resource for housing called Radical Housing, in Guelph.   This was going to be checked this out.
• There was interest and a Zone 9 member who would like to provide mentorship in Trade skills for youth.
• Life Skills Training
• Social services for AIDS education, drug education and perhaps mental health needs.
• A Reference list of online cultural events for our community.

A lively discussion was had about Volunteering opportunities for the formation of a planning committee for Zone 9.

It must be noted that everyone on the call volunteered to be part of our committee and to start working on one of the projects listed above.

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