Ovide mercredi biography of barack obama
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It’s an ordinary Tuesday morning in April, and the Fairmont Winnipeg is crawling with zombie road warriors. Arms outstretched, balancing Starbucks and BlackBerrys, they click their wing tips to a dirge beat. A flock of WestJet stewardesses attracts little attention; Don Cherry, instantly recognizable in goatee and high collar, leans against a stairwell, waiting for someone to recognize him. But then a pair of elevator doors dings open to reveal a handsome man sporting a Merlin mane and a bright turquoise ring, and everyone stops. The undead look up from their screens, the flight attendants whisper behind cupped palms, even Grapes stares. One bold porter bounds across the carpet for a hug. Merlin embraces him before striding past a swooning maître d’ and into the Velvet Glove restaurant. “The Grand Chief,”she announces dreamily. “He comes often.”
After nearly forty years in Canadian politics, Larry Phillip Fontaine still commands respect, ev
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Mercredi focuses on slackers
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This article was published 28/05/2009 (5748 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
OVIDE Mercredi’s challenge Tuesday to native men to get a job is something of a reprise of the famous “Father’s Day speech” then-senator Barack Obama delivered in a Chicago church last year. But it joins the sentiments from a growing list of leaders who want native people to take personal responsibility for turning their lives around, pulling themselves out of poverty.
Statistically speaking, the employment rate among First Nations men and women are roughly equal, with men somewhat more likely to hold a job — and the rates on the Misipawistik reserve, where Mr. Mercredi is chief, reflect that reality.
The broader discussion, the call to action, goes beyond the rebuke of unemployment. It goes further than Mr. Obama’s renowned lecture for
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Rallying cry issued to native men
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Ovide Mercredi echoed Barack Obama Tuesday morning as he joined a multi-pronged attack on poverty in Manitoba.
The chief of Misipawistik Cree Nation and former national chief of the Assembly of First Nations and said systemic poverty for aboriginal people has to be overcome and he challenged aboriginal men to step up and assume the role of provider for women and children.
"They have to wake up to the reality that they are contributing to the poverty of our people by not taking measures to improve their households," he said following a press conference at the Indian and Métis Friendship Centre.
"They need to improve their education and go out and find jobs so they can earn income for their families."
On the other side, Mercredi called on both the federal a