Keesic Health Strategies

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Having fun in Moose Factory with Roma

Funding proposal for more mental health and addictions prevention services was successful! Will mean more First Nations community-based capacity building and training for mental health in 14 First Nations.

Save the dates!!!

Just signed a contract with COACH, Canada's National eHealth Association (www.coachorg.com) to write Guidelines for the Protection of Personal Health Information for First Nations eHealth projects!

Website is up and running. Check it out at www.keesichealthstrategies.ca

Had great time at NIshnawbe Aski Nation Health Summit. Big changes on horizon with Health Transfer. Ovide Mercredi leading process. Great news for our people and exciting times ahead!

Keesic Health Strategies Associates Doug Williams Elder and Advisor Doug is the Director of Studies for the PhD program at Trent University, overseeing the cultural component of this program. He is a member of the Pike Clan of the Mississaugas of Curve Lake First Nation. Doug was one of the first graduates of Indigenous Studies at Trent in 1972. He is a Pipe carrier, a Sweat Lodge keeper and a ceremony leader. He speaks Anishnabewenin; the Ojibway language and considers himself a trapper, a hunter, and a fisherman. Beyond his academic work, he is active at the community level and works to ensure that Indigenous Knowledge is maintained within the Anishnabe community.

The (o-maa-kaa-kee frog was chosen as a logo as a representation of healthy strategy (and healthy being). A healthy frog requires a strong ecology just as a healthy community requires a strong strategy. Frogs are also special to Donna in that, in 1974 her father was charged for practising his Treaty right to harvest. Donna’s father was hunting bull frogs out of season and without a provincial licence. The charges were brought to the supreme court of Ontario and were ...instrumental for the establishment of Treaty rights, recognizing the ability to hunt and fish on crown land for First Nations in Canada. The medicine wheel is presents balance and harmony and is a representation of a symbol that her mother incorporates into all of the quilts and art. Keesic is Donna’s grandmother’s maiden name and also her brother’s first name and is roughly translated as Clear Sky. See more