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Missy Knott Becomes First Curve Lake First Nation Resident Appointed to Ontario’s Art Council
/Missy Knott has become the first person from Curve Lake First Nation to be appointed to Ontario’s Art Council (OAC) announced on Monday.
The OAC is the province’s primary funding body for professional artists and art organizations, made up of a 12-member volunteer Board of Directors according to a press release. They are community leaders with a variety of expertise in the arts, all appointed throughout the province. They foster the arts – both in creation and production- to enrich Ontarians' lives, communities and economy. The OAC's grants and services to professional, Ontario-based artists and arts organizations support arts education, Indigenous arts, community arts, crafts, dance, Francophone arts, literature, media arts, multidisciplinary arts, music, theatre, touring, and visual arts.
Knott is a singer/songwriter who gained popularity for her unique style and has released music since 2009. She uses her experience of growing up in Peterborough and her relations to Curve Lake First Nation and infuses the two community experiences into her music. She has returned to Curve Lake First Nation for her latest journey of starting a not-for-profit record label, Wild Rice Records.
The record label began in 2018 and helps with youth outreach, mentorship, recording and community connections. Missy uses her record label to guide Indigenous youth to follow their passions and talents. In providing the support she wished she had when she entered the music scene, she continues to inspire and promote the next generation of local artists. She has been active in Indigenous music, using her songs to speak to the matters close to her and her community. In 2017, she was nominated at the Indigenous Music Awards for EP My Sister’s Heart.
“I had the privilege of first working with Missy in the lead up to the Special Hockey International Tournament in Peterborough back in 2017,” said Dave Smith, Peterborough-Kawartha MPP. “I am so happy that someone who has used her talents to give back to our community as a positive role model is be appointed to the Ontario Arts Council.”
“It is an honour to sit on the Ontario Arts Council Board of Directors,” said Knott. “It is and has always been important to me to foster a creative vision and help artists realize their voice and their passions. Success is not an individual achievement but the result of learning, engaging, collaborating and hard work. The same is true of communities, and I am so happy to be a part of this one.”
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Curve Lake First Nation Athletes Bring Back Five Medals From North American Indigenous Games In Halifax
/Curve Lake First Nation representing Team Ontario is bringing back five medals including one gold, two silver and two bronze from Halifax in the 2023 North American Indigenous Games in softball and soccer.
McKenzie Taylor was the lone gold medalist for U16 Female Softball. Team Ontario split the finals with Team Manitoba for gold due to weather cancellations for the playoffs.
The following are Team Ontario’s results for U16 Female Softball:
Game 1, July 17: 9-0 win vs. Alberta
Game 2, July 17: 9-4 win vs. Nova Scotia
Game 3, July 18: 7-3 loss vs. Manitoba
Game 4, July 19: 8-1 win vs. British Columbia
Game 5, July 20: 12-3 win vs. Saskatchewan
Game 6: July 20: 15-2 win vs. Wisconsin
Gold Medal Game: vs. Manitoba (cancelled)
Danika and Abagail Jacobs were able to take home silver for Team Ontario in U19 Female Soccer. Ontario went undefeated with a 3-0-1 record in their preliminary pools (Pool B) but fell short in the finals to Team Alberta, 5-1.
The following are Team Ontario’s results for U19 Female Soccer:
Game 1, July 17: 9-0 win vs. Nova Scotia
Game 2, July 18: 6-2 win vs. Wisconsin
Game 3, July 19: 0-0 draw vs. Saskatchewan
Game 4, July 20: 2-0 win vs. Saskatchewan
Finals, July 22: 5-1 loss vs. Alberta
Grady Taylor and Quinn Jacobs were the lone boys who brought back medals for Curve Lake, earning bronze in U16 Male Softball representing Team Ontario. They had a 2-2 record in the preliminaries that qualified them for the bronze medal match that they won 12-5 vs. British Columbia.
The following are Team Ontario’s results for U16 Male Softball:
Game 1, July 17: 13-3 loss vs. Saskatchewan
Game 2, July 18: 11-4 win vs. Nova Scotia
Game 3, July 18: 5-4 win vs. British Columbia
Game 4, July 19: 14-7 loss vs. Manitoba
Silver Medal Game, July 12: 12-5 win vs. British Columbia
The U19 Male softball team had finished in fifth place and had nine Curve Lake First Nation members (one coach and eight players).
Curve Lake First Nation Sends 10 Athletes to North American Indigenous Games In Halifax
/Curve Lake is sending ten young athletes to represent Team Ontario in the 2023 North American Indigenous Games (NAIG) in Halifax, N.S. in five days of competition beginning Monday.
Representing Curve Lake for Team Ontario are Louis Jacobs, Carter Jacobs, Rivor Taylor, Tristin Williams and Josh Knott who are all teammates for U19 Male Softball. Abagail Jacobs and Danika Jacobs are entered for U19 Female Soccer. McKenzie Taylor is the lone athlete for U16 Female Softball while Quinn Jacons and Grady Taylor are in U16 Male Softball.
The event started on Saturday and runs until July 24 with opening ceremonies that began on Sunday. There are 756 Indigenous Nations with over 5,000 athletes competing in 15 different events in this year’s games according to the official NAIG website.
The following is the schedule for Team Ontario with Curve Lake athletes:
U19 Male Softball
Monday, vs. Manitoba at 10:15 a.m.
Tuesday, vs. Nova Scotia at 8 a.m.
Tuesday, vs. Alberta at noon
Wednesday vs. Eastern Door and the North at 8:15 a.m.
Thursday vs. British Columbia at 1 p.m.
Thursday vs. Saskatchewan at 5 p.m.
U19 Female Soccer
Monday, vs. Nova Scotia at 8 a.m.
Tuesday, vs. Wisconsin at 8 a.m.
Wednesday vs. Saskatchewan at 8 a.m.
U16 Male Softball
Monday, vs. Saskatchewan at 4:15 p.m.
Tuesday, vs. Nova Scotia at 10:15 a.m.
Wednesday vs. Manitoba at 10:15 a.m.
Wednesday vs. British Columbia at 5 p.m.
U16 Female Softball
Monday, vs. Alberta at 7:30 a.m.
Monday, vs Nova Scotia at 3:30 p.m.
Tuesday, vs. Manitoba at 11:30 a.m.
Wednesday, vs. British Columbia at 9:30 a.m.
Thursday, vs. Saskatchewan at 8:15 a.m.
Thursday, vs. Wisconsin at 12:30 p.m.
All games can be streamed via Youtube on NAIG’s official channel.
Curve Lake First Nation Educational Department and Otonabee Conservation Celebrate World Turtle Day with Mikinaak Trail Signs
/The Curve Lake First Nation Cultural Centre and Otonabee Conservation are raising awareness about local turtles with the installation of Mikinaak trail crossing signs along the Jackson Creek Trail and at Curve Lake First Nation.
May 23rd is World Turtle Day, a day to increase respect for and knowledge about one of the world’s oldest creatures – turtles or in Anishinaabemowin (Ojibway), Mikinaak.
According to experts, turtles are the most threatened of the major groups of vertebrates, more so than birds, mammals, and fish with about 75 per cent of turtles worldwide being threatened or already extinct. All of Ontario’s eight species of turtles are at risk of disappearing.
Mikinaak crossing signs will be mounted on kilometre marker posts along the Jackson Creek Trail, providing trail visitors with a QR code that connects to the Turtle Guardians Sighting Report Form; when turtles are spotted along the trail, visitors can report their sighting to help advance turtle conservation efforts.
Turtle education signs will also be installed at Curve Lake First Nation and along the Jackson Creek Trail. Text and species names of Ontario Turtles have been translated into Anishinaabemowin, the local dialect of the Ojibway language.
“As a result of colonization, Anishinaabemowin has lost many words, sounds, and phrases that will never be regained,” explained Anne Taylor from the Curve Lake First Nation Education Department. “That includes some of the turtle species included on these educational signs. Where possible, the traditional turtle species names have been used but new names have been created for some species, based on what makes these turtles special to the Curve Lake First Nation community.”
Anishinaabemowin is predominantly a spoken language. Efforts are underway to include QR codes that link to audio clips of Curve Lake First Nation Elders speaking Anishinaabemowin species names so that visitors can hear the pronunciation of the local dialect.
For more information or to report a turtle sighting visit turtleguardians.com/report-sightings which will help advance turtle conservation efforts.
Three Curve Lake Players Selected to Represent Team Ontario In 2023 National Aboriginal Hockey Championships
/Mikayla Williams, Emerson Taylor and Sidney Wakely of Curve Lake are headed to Winnipeg to represent Team Ontario in the 2023 National Aboriginal Hockey Championships held from Sunday to May 13.
Williams is the lone Curve Lake representative for the Ontario female roster as a defenseman. She played 30 games and three playoff games with the U18 Okanagan Hockey Academy Female Prep of the U18 Canadian Sport School Hockey League. She logged one assist and two penalty minutes for the season.
Taylor played left wing for the Mississauga Reps U16 AAA in 26 games this season in the U16 AAA Greater Toronto Hockey League. He had one assist and four penalty minutes during that span. He makes the team as an alternate.
Wakely played 43 games for the Port Hope Panthers of the Provincial Junior Hockey League this season. He had six goals and 13 assists, tying the team for fourth in the latter category. He had two goals and six assists in 19 playoff games. He also played for the U15 AAA Peterborough Petes in the 2019-20 season.
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Curve Lake's Sierra Jacobs Selected to 2022 Wickenheiser Female World Hockey Festival
/Curve Lake’s Sierra Jacobs is headed to Calgary for the 2022 Wickenheiser Female World Hockey Festival, representing team ‘Little NHL’ in the U15 platinum division.
Jacobs’s team is comprised of all First Nation female hockey players in a four-day tournament.
She is also a member of the PGHA GP Wealth Management U15 Peterborough IceKats. Her teammate Cece-Lyn Beaulne of the Wiikwemkoong First Nation is also joining her as part of the Little NHL team.
The team’s schedule is as follows:
Friday vs Surrey Falcons at 11:45 a.m.
Friday vs San Jose Jr. Sharks at 7 p.m.
Saturday vs. Winnipeg Titans at 5:30 p.m.
Sunday vs. North Central Impact at 10 a.m.