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Wednesday December 9 2015 5 COLUMNS 15 Years Ago... Taltson potential highlighted in report on power The Taltson dam has the potential to produce 220 megawatts of power instead of the current 20 mega- watts says a report released Monday by the GNWT. The Report on the Review of Electrical Power Gen- eration Distribution Regulation and Subsidization released by Finance Minister Joe Handley suggests that the dam could produce excess power to be sold to places like Alberta. Issue December 5 2000 20 Years Ago... Treaty 8 begins talks for power transfer in region Treaty 8 delegates met with representatives from the NWT and federal governments in Yellowknife last week to discuss the impending transfer of programs and ser- vices from the GNWT to local bands in the North. One member from each Treaty 8 band attended the meeting forming a joint working group for the transfer. Issue December 5 1995 30 Years Ago... No more jails for NWT McLaughlin MinisterofHealthandSocialServicesBruceMcLaugh- lin said last Wednesday he is opposed to building more prisons in the Northwest Territories and would like ne- options and community work used more frequently in sentencings. Most inmates in territorial jails have been convicted of minor offences and arent big threats to society he added. Issue December 5 1985 ARCHIVES Northern Journal 2015 Join us online Like Northern Journal on Facebook and get the weekly news delivered to your feed FACEBOOK FEEDBACK De Beers Canada conrmed Friday it will suspend mining operations at Snap Lake north of Yellowknife putting 434 people out of work. De Beers halts mining at Snap Lake Brenda Lewis Dasti More job cuts not good. Buffalo Airways grounding a huge issue in Hay River 23 people shared this. By DAWN KOSTELNIK Doors to the hall burst open with a cloud of fro- zen condensation everyone turns in anticipation Holy can you believe what we are having for Christmas Din- ner We are having Ken- tucky Fired Chicken No no it is Kentucky FRIED Chicken with eleven herbs and spices it is made in Yel- lowknife Red and white co- loured buckets of chicken and boxes of mandarin oranges make their way onto the long White Girl The Night Before Christmas tables. There is enough KFC for everyone to have three pieces.Thereare1200people in the community hall this means we have 3600 pieces of chicken to distribute. Girl Guides quickly begin to hand out the chicken. The oranges are wrapped in thin green tissue paper most everyone has never seen these orange orbs before. Amah Amah I can take the skin off by my- self look how easy Oh my how good it is Try it try it Should we eat this orange skin too Yuck We get two oranges each and a small bag of hard Christmas candy swirls of colours melt away in mouths that smile with red and green teeth. Mrs. Priest hands out small packages for the kids. She is a Pentecostal mission- ary people from her church in the south send up care packages for her missionary work. Sometimes they send up strange things like shiny black shoes with little straps. Your feet would freeze off Most everyone has a full belly and sits back with a smile as they watch the slow- pokeseatingthischickenwith eleven herbs and spices. Old James has no teeth he needs someone to chew it for him. Mothers chew food for babies and pass it from mouth to baby bird mouth. Babies get tucked back into Itigies for a nap with full tummies too. Old Annie wants to dance. Her face has deep groves around her mouth and eyes. Black tattoos outline her eyes and dene her high cheek- bones. Silver and black hair stands wild up above the fur ruff of her Itigi. Her eyes ash a challenge as she picks up a drum.Thesedrumsareabout three feet in circumference shehandlesiteasily.Herstick raps a rhythm on the edges of the wood rather than on the surface of the taut dried skin that covers this circular instrument. With graceful twists of her wrists she be- gins to tap out a rhythm that follows the beat of her heart. To be continued www.thewhitegirl.ca Patricia Sepp They better lay off Southern works rst or they are breaking agreements with First Nations. Time to re-tool our relationship with the living world By JACKIE MILNE How can humanity create stability for planetary life and global civilization The world is meeting in Paris for the COP21 climate talkswhileonadailybasiswe hear of crises bearing down on the planet and civilization because of the gargantuan loss of planetary soils. We know that humanitys connection to soil goes back to beautiful old stories that speak of man being born from the soil and then com- ing together making bricks to build cities through hard work and cooperation. Now weve discovered its possible that the complexity of civili- zation could be compromised and lost if we do not act to protect living soil. Naturally our rst instinctive response is to nd a new tool or tech- nology to help us address this unexpected challenge and danger. Using tools is our single greatest talent. Our ability to master tools enabled us to become the dominant species very quickly. Un- fortunately we have sparked an unanticipated environ- mental crisis which now requires us to bring eco- logical balance to living on this planet if we wish to maintain the complexity of civilization. How can we apply our highest natural talent of tool- use to quickly bring solutions to this generation and save civilization We must nd a new tool or do something really new and evolve our understand- ing of tools Its time to recognize the pattern and principles of tool use and expand it to include working with biology and the natural world. A new chapter is before us one that is calling humanity to advance and expand our tool pouch to realize we can haveaproductiveinterchange with natural systems in pur- poseful ways so we can inu- ence weakened ecosystems to boost their revival. We can replicate the historical pat- tern of human productivity with tools by understanding that with the same delibera- tionwecanworkwithecosys- tem processes and leverage them to amplify the efcacy and boost various regener- ative plant and animal life processes. Its time for us to understand that our relation- ship with the natural world can be a living tool that we can consciously apply to fos- ter regeneration. As we learn to use this new living tool the rst bricks needed are ones made of living soil so that a healthy vibrant global civilization can thrive. This is the most urgent and vital of work now tasked to humanitytobeginregenerat- ing the layer of living soil on our beautiful garden planet and forever be part of the miracle of life on it. Its time for everyone to learn about soil Add your voice to spread the under- standing about the amazing valueofsoilbysigningourSoil Manifesto being presented at the Paris COP21 httpsa- vory.globalsoilforclimate. Jackie Milne is the execu- tive director of the Northern Farm Training Institute in Hay River.