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PDF – Education Logo Contest Poster Grand Council Treaty #3 | Treaty #3 Education Logo Contest Grand Council Treaty #3 is hosting a logo contest for the Education department and the Treaty #3 Education Committee – comprised of education representatives from each Treaty #3 communities and First Nation Organizations. We are asking Treaty #3 member […]

Bradley Kirkrude Jr. (Anishinaabe of Naongashiing) has been missing for 21 days as of today. His family and friends are exhausted from searching daily. Ogichidaa Francis Kavanaugh has spoken this afternoon with Chief Wesley Big George. Chief Big George has expressed the need for volunteers to come to Naongashiing to provide additional support in the […]

Ogichidaa Kavanaugh expressed a deep sense of shock and sadness with the tragedy that has happened at Big Grassy First Nation. On Monday morning the Office of the Ogichidaa and Grand Council Treaty#3 was alerted to a boating tragedy that involved community members from Big Grassy First Nation. “I want to share my heartfelt condolences […]

“Today is a sad day for our Nation with the passing of Steven Fobister Sr.”, stated Ogichidaa Francis Kavanaugh.  Steve Fobister was a former Chief of Grassy Narrows First Nation and Grand Chief of the Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty#3.  He was a tireless advocate for the Anishinaabe people and brought awareness to the need to […]

Wednesday, October 10, 2018 – Today Grand Council Treaty #3 instructed lawyers to file a motion with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Divisional Court) seeking intervenor status in the litigation concerning the Ontario government’s rollback of the province’s Health and Physical Education curriculum – more conventionally known as ‘sex-ed’. “Last week at our Fall […]

Thursday, September 13, 2018 – Today, Ogichidaa Francis Kavanaugh, Grand Chief of Treaty #3, issued the following statement: “Today I speak on a matter of grave importance for all treaty people in the Province of Ontario. Premier Doug Ford’s use of the notwithstanding clause to overrule a decision of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice […]