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So simplistic, you’ll finish your articles in no time! . . . → Read More: No Colonialism Here: An all-too-easy journalists guide to Canada’s aboriginals Every now and then, my digital desktop gets cluttered with junk. Oh, sure, it’s all gold at first, oh so worthy of attention at some point… just not now. Taken from news sites, blogs or emails, I really, really intend to post something about these subjects, either to my own blogs or to this one. I [...] . . . → Read More: My digital de-cluttering diary No, this isn’t a late Valentine’s card. This has got nothing to do with love or relationships. Well, maybe relationships but not the personal kind. More like the international kind. No, it’s not a ‘kiss-and-make-up’ kind of thing either. It’s more a sort of ‘kindly-remove-yer boot-from-my-neck’ kind of thing. A ‘why-blame-me-cuz-it’s yer-boot’ type of thing. Y’know, [...] . . . → Read More: It’s you, always you: the realities of Aboriginal / non-Aboriginal reconciliation Gawd, I love the Internet sometimes. Years ago, when I was working in diversity, I did a quick search of web sites that had content by and for the main target groups: Women, People with Disabilities, Visible Minorities, and Aboriginal peoples. (Yes, I’m that old. And, yes, that’s what they called us way back then. So are [...] . . . → Read More: The new (media) world: reflecting on early Aboriginal adoption of the web A few years ago, someone sent me figures downloaded from a Canadian website. Those figures identified the amount of year-end bonuses paid out to Indian Affairs bureaucrats. If I remember correctly, the data also included the program or branch where these employees were doing such remarkable work to earn millions of dollars in bonuses. You [...] . . . → Read More: Mission Improbable I first met Patricia Monture at the University of Western Ontario in 1979. She was taking anthropology and other courses for a B.A.. I was in the one-year Program in Journalism for Native Peoples (PJNP). She was Mohawk from Grand River Territory near Brantford; I was Kanienkeha:ka (Mohawk) from Kanehsatà:ke Territory near Montreal. We both [...] . . . → Read More: Tribute: Dr. Patricia Monture (1958-2010) Who is Indian and Northern Affairs Canada helping in England? That’s a darned good question. In fact, I’d like to know more after this little tidbit arrived in my email inbox from a helpful gnome, and another version arrived via my newsreader. I’ve contacted Marci, the media contact listed at the bottom of the news release. [...] . . . → Read More: Who is Indian Affairs helping in England? The documentary Last Call Indian begins with a simple premise captured in its very first shot. The narrator’s voice begins as the camera pulls back from an empty bed fitted with railings in a small sunlit bedroom. It’s a sick room. The empty bed speaks volumes. Then a woman’s voice emerges, soft and clear: “I’ve never [...] . . . → Read More: First look at ‘LAST CALL INDIAN’ You might never have heard of Mayor Bloomberg of New York City or care about anything he might have said. In fact, the most you might ever see of NYC would be on a screen or through a window landing at or leaving JFK International. But what if the Governor of NY State sought the Mayor’s [...] . . . → Read More: Would Bloomberg speak of Blacks the way he did about Indians? You’ve probably heard via the news media that “Oka is heating up again.” That there are “rising tensions with Mohawks on the 20th anniversary of the Oka Crisis.” Maybe you’ve heard that “Mohawks are angry with a developer” who wants to build on land he says he bought, fair and square, but that the Mohawks [...] . . . → Read More: Doin’ the Oka Shuffle A new Angus Reid poll has some disturbing opinions from the average Canadian about progress on Aboriginal issues in the 20 years since the “Oka Crisis”. First, the poll found that Joe and Jane Lunch-Bucket from north of the 59th didn’t think either of their country’s two main political parties have done – or would [...] . . . → Read More: Two steps forward… or is it backward? I read Doug George’s anti-warrior diatribe in Tuesday’s Montreal Gazette (“As I Saw It: The Real Oka Story,” July 13, 2010) with a mixture of shock, horror, and sadness — roughly in that order. It’s clear (to me, anyway) that he doesn’t know the real story at all. In fact, the only sentence I could trust in [...] . . . → Read More: “The Real Oka” and Other Conspiracy Theories I probably first heard about the “Doctrine of Discovery” when I came upon my parents during one of their kitchen table sessions. Typically, Dad would make a point by poking a finger at the table. Mom might ponder a moment, maybe leaf through Felix Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law, or reach for a piece [...] . . . → Read More: What’s up, Doctrine? (part 2)  Leave a comment  ISSUES+POLITICS  "Doctrine of Discovery", Age of Discovery, Age of Imperialism, colonialism, Framework of Dominance, Indigenous peoples, Information Age, Inter Caetera, Law of Nations, New World, Papal Bulls, Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, Pope Alexander VI, Romanus Pontifex, slave trade, Sublimus Dei, the Crusades Recently, I became a last-minute replacement for a panel discussion at a Montreal university for the “Anti-Capitalist Teach-in Against the G8/G20”. The person I replaced said he had to back out that day because of work. Later, he said he’d received a call from the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service, or CSIS. Lately, a lot [...] . . . → Read More: What’s up, Doctrine? I remember my very first political protest. The premier of Québec said he was prepared to bulldoze the Cree into the modern age over some massive hydro-electric project that would divert entire rivers and flood areas of land bigger than some American states. The prime minister of Canada said Indians had no special rights and [...] . . . → Read More: Every Now and Then Read about her passing on Indian Country Today. On its Twitter page, ICT also suggests you check out a discussion of her life and legacy on NPR Radio (note: it starts about a third of the way through, so don’t be thrown off at the beginning). And last but not least, you can watch her full-length interview [...] . . . → Read More: Headline says it all: “Wilma Mankiller, women’s rights heroine, walks on” There seem to be a lot more students against naming a new library at Nipissing University for the former premier of Ontario, Mike Harris, than are for it. . . . → Read More: The Mike Harris Learning Library?? Could Quebec’s controversial “niqab” law be used to undermine Indigenous ceremonies? . . . → Read More: Québec’s “Niqab” Bill and YOU Somebody put an ad on an online site called USEDWinnipeg.com offering to pick up Aboriginal people and drop them off in “the hood” or a reserve or just out of town. Now some groups want a criminal investigation calling it a hate crime. . . . → Read More: I want names! Recently, CBC Radio’s The Current interviewed some people about a proposed youth recreation centre in northend Winnipeg aimed at Aboriginal youth. What could be wrong with that, you ask? Well, the Youth for Christ group behind the proposal is a fundamentalist, evangelical Christian group that wants to convert youth over to its particular brand of [...] . . . → Read More: Different song, same old sh*t |
     
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