<font><font face="georgia,serif">LU honours 'keeper of the language'<br><br>Jun 28, 2012- 1:30 PM<br>By: Sudbury Northern Life Staff<br>CANADA<br><br>Laurentian University presented Leona Nahwegahbow with the Native Education Person of Distinction Award on June 21, which is National Aboriginal Day.<br>
<br>Nahwegahbow is an advocate for indigenous language training and a former chair of the Laurentian University Native Education Council.<br><br>She is also the former Chief of Whitefish River First Nation, and currently serves on the band council with responsibility for Language and Elders. <br>
<br>She is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, has been elder-in-residence at Kenjgewin Teg Educational Institute at M’Chigeeng on Manitoulin Island, and has also worked with the Shawanosowe School, an Aboriginal elementary school at Whitefish River First Nation. <br>
<br>She currently participates in the Ojibwe Cultural Foundation’s “Story-telling in the Language” Program, and teaches a class as a “keeper of the language.”<br><br>Access full article below:<br><a href="http://www.northernlife.ca/news/localNews/2012/06/28-laurentian-native-award-sudbury.aspx">http://www.northernlife.ca/news/localNews/2012/06/28-laurentian-native-award-sudbury.aspx</a><br>
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