Last week, Simon travelled to Hopedale to address the Nunatsiavut Assembly.

She spoke about the great leaders and role models Inuit have to look to today and the promise for the future.

Simon talked about land claims in general, and specifically Nunatsiavut's land claims and the challenges that must be faced on the road ahead.

She spoke about how each generation must decide what it wants and the importance of creating a new narrative for Inuit in Canada.

OK's television department attended the Assembly meeting, and soon you will be able to watch the speech on youtube as well.

This marks three years since the Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement was signed by the Federal, Provincial and Nunatsiavut government's.

This resulted in in the creation of Nunatsiavut.

The Nunatsiavut Government offices are all closed today.

However, when we tried to find out what is happening to celebrate Nunatsiavut Day, we couldn't get anywhere.

We tried to talk to the President, or any NG politician, but none of them called us back in time for the news.

Hopefully someone will get back to us by tomorrow.

So, Happy Nunatsiavut Day, however you celebrate this day!

Gary Baikie is with Parks Canada in Nain.

He says they're having an open house today from their offices located at the green building next to the Big Land Grocery Store.

They're having a photo display and door prices are being given out throughout the day along with snacks for people who come in.

Their hours for this afternoon are from 1:15 PM to 4:00 PM.

Everyone is welcome to come and have look, so, “Come on Down”.

Dennis White is with the Woodward's Group of Companies in

Goose Bay.

He says the Northern Ranger is done for this year, and is on her way back to Lewisporte.

But, the Astron has to make one more trip up the coast.

She's currently on her way back to Cartwright to load for ports to Nain.

That will be the Astron's last trip for this year.

Once the Astron has come and gone from the north coast, OKalaKatigetradio will be checking with businesses on the north coast to see if they received all their winter supplies.

On Friday, we spoke with Mina Campbell-Hibbs, the Curator at the Centre.

She says she wants to do something for the public that is very powerful spiritually and educationally when it comes to Christmas.

Hibbs says the theme of this event is “The Spirit of REAL giving” and it is the best way of explaining what will happen that night.

There will be special guests come in and present on certain topics related to what Christmas is really about.

The known guests presenting are: Judge John Joy and Nunatsiavut Government's Department of Health and Social Developments after school program children.

As well as special guest Chief Misel, a spiritual leader from Con River.

Judge John Joy will present on “What are gifts?”.

The after school program will present some poems on the topic “Getting or giving”, while Chief Misel Joe will have a “Give away ceremony”.

Hibbs says the “Give away ceremony” is a very powerful ceremony where people bring what is very valuable to them, and give it away to someone at the ceremony.

She says Christmas is becoming too commercial and not about real giving anymore.

Because of this, she decided to try and help revive the true nature of Christmas.

After this interesting event is over, we will speak with Campbell-Hibbs so she can explain in her own words the reasons behind this event, and the results.

Wilton is a Professor of Earth Science at Memorial University of Newfoundland and we spoke with him this morning.

He says he was asked by the Labrador Institute to talk about geology exploration over the past 150 – 200 years in northern Labrador.

Wilton and other geologists who study northern Labrador believe that chert, a type of stone that Aboriginal people used to make arrow heads and other tools was mined by people approximately 10,000 years ago in this area.

However, it is unknown if these people were Native Americans, Inuit or European settlers.

Wilton says he talked to the school children about the Maritime Archaic Indians who mined for chert thousands of years ago, and traded with other Indians in what is now England 4000 years ago.

He then mentioned if it wasn't for the Inuit, the settlers who came afterwards would have been lost.

Wilton says there were only about half a dozen people who attended the meeting and it was held from 7:00pm – 8:00pm.

The OKalaKatiget is pleased to announce that we now have a receptionist in the likes of Arlene Ikkusek.

She started work today December 1^st, and will finish in March of 2009.

Her duties are to screen calls, forward them onto the right personnel and over various duties a receptionist would do.

Ikkuseks hours of work is from 9am to 11:30am, then 12:30pm to 5pm.

OKalaKatiget welcomes Ikkusek to the team.