OTTAWA ALGONQUIN
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Welcome! Update – May 2008 I recently received correspondence from a woman named Lynn Clouthier, and I’m sure you also have received this letter. Ms. Clouthier claims to represent the Ottawa Algonquin Community as an ANR at the negotiation table. In her letter, she asks you to send in your address, to request a new identification card and to send her some new members. Ms. Clouthier is one of the 27 individuals who was parachuted to Ottawa by Joan Holmes and Bob Potts when our community left the negotiation table (April/June of 2007). She is not a member of the Ottawa Algonquin First Nation, nor are the other 27 individuals who arrived with Mr. Gerry Belisle. This request is a ploy to justify her sitting at the table fraudulently claiming to represent the Algonquins of Ottawa. As per your direction last spring, the Ottawa Algonquin First Nation left the negotiation table due to the current negotiation process and circumstances. We asked that a number of issues be addressed to clean up the current situation. None of these issues have been addressed. We still remain outside of the negotiation process. Your Ottawa Algonquin First Nation identification card is valid; you are still enrolled as a beneficiary and no one can take that away from you. If you choose to respond to Ms. Clouthier, I suggest that you reiterate our position. Ms. Clouthier DOES NOT REPRESENT THE OTTAWA ALGONQUIN FIRST NATION, and is not even a member of our community. In closing, what they’ve done to the Ottawa Algonquin First Nation is similar to what they did to the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation. They create communities to continue the process and pretend that all Algonquins are represented. This is false and we must continue to oppose it. Continue to lobby the governments to seek out the truth and to clean up this mess! Update – March 2008 Recently I have received correspondence from a member of the Clouthier family. It seems he was lead to believe that he had joined the Ottawa Algonquin First Nation when Joan Holmes and the negotiation process transferred him, along with ANR Gerry Belisle, from Greater Golden Lake to Ottawa on their lists. Following is the text that I sent to this individual as a reply to his requests: Thank you for following up. Yes, we did receive your e-mail with scans of your card. The card you have been issued is not issued by the Ottawa Algonquin First Nation, nor is Gerry Belisle a member of our community. If you review our website, you will note that the Ottawa Algonquin First Nation, with me as their Chief and elected ANR, left the negotiation process on April 16, 2007. This was well documented. In order to maintain funding and continue negotiations, the remaining ANRs, under the guidance of Robert Potts, deemed it necessary to hold a by-election for an ANR to represent Ottawa. To do this they transferred the members of both your family and the Turcotte family as well as Gerry Belisle. The votes registered for Gerry Belisle totaled the number of members transferred. Neither you, your family members nor Gerry Belisle are members of the Ottawa Algonquin First Nation. Gerry Belisle does not represent the Algonquins of the Ottawa area and our community maintains that we will not return to negotiations until such time as issues of inclusion, fairness and transparency are documented. Unfortunately, you have been misled. And, unfortunately, you are not eligible for programs of the Ottawa Algonquin First Nation. When someone joins our community, there is a protocol to be followed and this was not followed by Joan Holmes, nor the ANR of your originating community. The Ottawa Algonquin First Nation continues to refuse to be involved in the negotiation process until such times as the issues addressed in our letter to Mr. Crane (Ontario), Mr. Aitken (Canada) and Mr. Potts (Representative of the ANRs) are addressed. For your easy access, here’s a copy of that letter again: Ottawa Algonquin Update April 23, 2007 As a first nation traditional community, we will continue to oppose the land claim until all of the issues have been dealt with, meaning that the current process needs to be shut down. - Chief Paul Lamothe - This is what this Algonquin land claim is all about
NEW! Algonquins and Atoms Short NEW!
NEW! Governments Invite AAFNA to the Table NEW!
Upon contacting AAFNA, they have stated
that they have no intention of Ottawa Algonquin First Nation Vision
What Your ANR Doesn't Want You To Know
Call for Action-Algonquins are being sold out by their own ANRs!!!
This is the original map of the
Algonquin nation, contrary to what is
Ceci est la carte originale de la nation des Algonquin, contrairement à ce qui est favorisé par l'équipe de négociation. La carte indique clairement les noms des communautés traditionnelles des Algonquin par opposition à ceux créés par le gouvernement. Ceci inclut toutes les communautés traditionnelles des Algonquin.
LES AMÉRINDIENS DE LA VALLÉE DE L’OUTAOUAIS
* * * * I received this e-mail on November 16th and have made no changes – it is posted in its entirety as received. It calls it like it is and is worth a read.
In 2005, the ANTC constitution had already passed this motion. Now, two years later they are trying to cover their tracks by bringing it back and misleading their people again. So much for the end of ANTC. These are the same individuals who changed the wording in the last election to accommodate their misleading ways. They will be deciding the results of the motion.
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