Selected Contemporary Native Issues in Canada

Observations Made in the Field

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escendancy:

Great grandfather is Northern Plains Cree, Misih John

Large who, according to my father Joseph Louis Large, was a cousin (either

biological or adoptive) of Oneetahminahos (Chief Little Hunter) who signed Treaty

No. 6 in 1876 at Fort Pitt, North West Territories. Maternal great, great grand

father is Wood Cree, Tustukswes who signed Treaty No. 6 in 1876 at Fort Pitt.

Past volunteering: St. Paul Junior Chamber of Commerce; Boy Scouts of Canada,

Mannawanis Native Friendship Centre; Saddle Lake Red Wings Junior Hockey

Club; Saddle Lake Rodeo Club; Custody and processing of wills and estates for

Saddle Lake Cree Nation members; Confederacy of Treaty Six Skills Development

Sub-Committee; McIvor vs. The Registrar, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada

Treaty Six West Technical Committee; Senior Licence Holder 3 Registered Fur

Management Areas; political elder for Saddle Lake with Confederacy of Treaty

Six First Nations (Alberta); Elder/Advisor with the Health Careers Initiative of

the Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations; Commissioner for Oaths; judge at

Saddle Lake Cree Nation Pow-wow; preparing and delivering of Christmas food

hampers in Saddle Lake.

I

am interested in serving people where my experience in Native politics,

engaged in responding to federal and provincial policies, federal legislation,

and helping to provide a range of public services (education, social services, child

welfare, policing, public works, health services, housing, employment procurement,

and tribal enterprises) can be useful. I am specifically interested in the health

and well-being of people. I am interested in advances made by medicine, social

science, mental health, and writing. My values are: do no harm; respect all people

regardless of their origin, heritage, and belief; I value history, tradition, and culture

but also in the future and in the possibility of engaging confirmed knowledge

with new findings that can be explored, defined, processed, and validated for the

benefit of people. I am especially interested in voicing health careers for Native

people, in particular the youth. I would like to be associated with processes and

persons, who operate with a minimum of specific governmental direction, are

independent, forwarding looking, ethical, and responsible to society.