Ozhiski Lake

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Sent: Monday, January 20, 2020 7:04:34 AM (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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to whom it may concern.

good morning.

i am from fort hope ontario and my name is weiben slipperjack and i reside in eabametoong fn since 1961.
we are from ozhiski lake which located northwest of fort hope..the winter road come through our ancestral traditional territory since it was constructed in the 70's.
it was brought to my attention that there was a meeting in regards to this area here in fort hope which we not informed.
we're also planning on moving back to our ancestralterritory of ozhiski lake in the future.
furthermore we hold a BCR from eabamettong fn in there support of our plan of moving back to our ancestral traditional territory of ozhiski lake.
the chief and council here never inform us of meetings in regards of our traditional territory of ozhiski lake.
we ask if there is future meetings in regards to ozhiski we want to be notified so we can participate as ozhiski lake our ancestral traditional territory group.
even tho we we reside in fort hope it doesn't mean that we don't about our ancestral traditional territory of ozhiski lake(our homeland) we still hunt there and have camps there we also have a toutist camp there as well.

we ask that you inform me directly on our ancestral triaditional territory of ozhiski lake matters.

miigwetch(thank you)

your truly.

weiben slipperjack.
ancestral taditional territory of ozhiski lake