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		<title>Why is the house of &#8220;sober, second thought&#8221; the first line of attack on Indigenous rights?</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/dan-david/issues-and-politics/why-is-the-house-of-sober-second-thought-the-first-line-of-attack-on-indigenous-rights</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 02:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ISSUES+POLITICS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Idle No More]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patrick Brazeau]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Harper]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A look into the reasons behind the Canadian Senate launching so much legislation undermining the rights of Indigenous peoples]]></description>
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		<title>A day both bitter and sweet for Indigenous women — and those who love them</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 02:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ISSUES+POLITICS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Missing and Murdered]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[One Billion Rising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pickton Inquiry]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[St. Valentine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Why Valentine's Day might not quite inspire Indigenous women (and those who love them) with wholly-manufactured visions of flowers and chocolate]]></description>
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		<title>In the Spirit of Crazy Dance: Why rounddancing is revolutionary</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/dan-david/issues-and-politics/in-the-spirit-of-crazy-dance</link>
		<comments>http://www.mediaindigena.com/dan-david/issues-and-politics/in-the-spirit-of-crazy-dance#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 03:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ISSUES+POLITICS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Idle No More]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mahatma Gandhi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[toyi-toyi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What this new wave of communal resistance among Canada's First Nations have in common with demonstrations during the height of South African apartheid]]></description>
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		<title>What has Idle No More meant to you?</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/dan-david/issues-and-politics/your-turn</link>
		<comments>http://www.mediaindigena.com/dan-david/issues-and-politics/your-turn#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 23:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ISSUES+POLITICS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aboriginal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canadian politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First Nations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Idle No More]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous peoples]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Complete the following sentence: “Idle No More has…”]]></description>
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		<title>Why there ain&#8217;t no such a-thing as &#8220;Aboriginal culture&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/dan-david/issues-and-politics/aint-no-such-a-thing</link>
		<comments>http://www.mediaindigena.com/dan-david/issues-and-politics/aint-no-such-a-thing#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 17:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ARTS+CULTURE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ISSUES+POLITICS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aboriginal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aboriginal Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Algonquin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bureau of Indian Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cree]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First Nations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gathering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maliseet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mi'kmaq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mohawk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ojbiway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pikani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[powwow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Solidarity Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unity Day]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Summertime and the livin&#8217; is powwow, gathering, or festival. It’s over-priced Indian tacos, bison burgers, moose stew and corn soup.  It’s the endless drone of boring chatter and lousy jokes by an MC, stalls of snake oil salesmen hawking surefire cures for diabetes and arthritis, and traditional dancers wearing outfits with faux beadwork made of colorful printed cloth and not a single bead or piece of leather, except perhaps for the mocs on their feet. Don’t get me started on the rows and rows of stalls filled with mass produced dreamcatchers, crystals, fake turquoise and t-shirts with wolves, bears and eagles. Why anyone would shell out $25 or more for a $5 t-shirt with a really lousy animal print is beyond me.  P.T. Barnum, he of Barnum &#38; Bailey’s “Greatest Show on Earth” and promoter extraordinaire, said there was a sucker born every minute. He had it about right. Snob? Not really. Don’t get me wrong. I love to drop by to see old friends or make new ones. To watch or, better yet, jump into a round dance along with everyone else in the audience. Or, to sit and savour every spoonful of a really good bowl of corn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Colonialism Here: An all-too-easy journalists guide to Canada&#8217;s aboriginals</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/dan-david/arts-and-culture/no-colonialism-here</link>
		<comments>http://www.mediaindigena.com/dan-david/arts-and-culture/no-colonialism-here#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:46:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan David</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Binyavanga Wainaina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Act]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mail & Guardian]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So simplistic, you'll finish your articles in no time! ]]></description>
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		<title>My digital de-cluttering diary</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/dan-david/issues-and-politics/my-digital-de-cluttering-diary</link>
		<comments>http://www.mediaindigena.com/dan-david/issues-and-politics/my-digital-de-cluttering-diary#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 03:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ISSUES+POLITICS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Family Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angus Toulouse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asembly of First Nations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bryan Fischer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chiefs of Ontario]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Warrn Throckmorton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Home Depot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parliament of Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senator Patrick Brazeau]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Termium Plus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8230; 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 almost never do. So, the clutter builds and builds until I can&#8217;t see the desktop anymore. Time to purge. I scroll through everything before selecting out the clutter and hitting the delete button. I hardly ever change my mind. Clutter can kill, and I know it. In the past, I might have kept one or two items but not anymore. Until recently, that is, when something changed my mind. What, I wondered, if I did a summary of some of that clutter? Take a peek. Then take a look at your own computer clutter. Run Away! Run Away! First up, a trio of items about Bryan Fischer, who blogs at the anti-gay, anti-choice and now anti-Indian American Family Association (AFA). Fischer writes with some certainty that the “superstition, savagery and sexual immorality” of Native Americans “morally disqualified” them from being the original inhabitants of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s you, always you: the realities of Aboriginal / non-Aboriginal reconciliation</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/dan-david/issues-and-politics/its-you-always-you</link>
		<comments>http://www.mediaindigena.com/dan-david/issues-and-politics/its-you-always-you#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ISSUES+POLITICS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anglican Journal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marlene Brant Castellano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murray Sinclair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Truth and Reconcilation Commission]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No, this isn&#8217;t a late Valentine&#8217;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&#8217;s not a &#8216;kiss-and-make-up&#8217; kind of thing either. It&#8217;s more a sort of &#8216;kindly-remove-yer boot-from-my-neck&#8217; kind of thing. A &#8216;why-blame-me-cuz-it&#8217;s yer-boot&#8217; type of thing. Y&#8217;know, why blame the victim? Why do you always blame the victim? And, no it&#8217;s not a &#8220;here&#8217;s-some-cash-now-shut-up&#8221; thing either. It ain&#8217;t about cash. It&#8217;s about respect, being treated like a human being instead of some problem that can be legislated out of existence.  Besides, we been there and done that already. So why keep trying. What the hell am I writing about? A change in mindset. A change in you.  Becuz I done changed a whole lot already. Why bring it up now? Because of the truth that underlies comments like this, made at a recent conference about Aboriginal / non-Aboriginal reconciliation: Marlene Brant Castellano, a Mohawk of the Bay of Quinte and professor emeritus of Trent University, said [reconciliation between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples] as a concept often comes to the fore in government departments in times of conflict “with the purpose of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The new (media) world: reflecting on early Aboriginal adoption of the web</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/dan-david/arts-and-culture/6114</link>
		<comments>http://www.mediaindigena.com/dan-david/arts-and-culture/6114#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ARTS+CULTURE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assimilation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;m that old. And, yes, that&#8217;s what they called us way back then. So are you gonna listen to the story or what?!) Anyway, I scrounged about and found some interesting things. Back then, long before Facebook or Twitter, in those dark days of early versions of text-based web browsers and dial-up, I discovered that there were more web sites created by Aboriginal peoples than the other three diversity target groups combined. I collected their website addresses and spent a lot of time confirming their existence and viability. Yep, they worked. No one else seemed to think this was cool. I did. Still do. I&#8217;m constantly reminded how neat the whole thing is when I come across pages like Indigenous Peoples: Issues and Resources, which is just an encyclopedia full of stuff about Onkhwehhonhweh (aka &#8216;the people&#8217; in something other than this foreign language you&#8217;re reading). I was amazed even back then about how valuable a tool these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mission Improbable</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/dan-david/issues-and-politics/mission-improbable</link>
		<comments>http://www.mediaindigena.com/dan-david/issues-and-politics/mission-improbable#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ISSUES+POLITICS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bonus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Affairs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 know, work they did in “land claims” or &#8220;education”. Your mission &#8211; if you choose to accept it &#8211; is to find out who compiles such figures?  Tell us where we might find these figures for ourselves (via the Internet). It’s not a mission impossible; just a Mission Improbable. What do you get in return? The bottomless thanks of a grateful nation (Mohawk, of course) and a ride on my personal jet (as soon as I get a job at Indian Affairs and can afford one). Good luck. This message will self-destruct in&#8230;. (Mission Impossible Theme)]]></description>
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		<title>Tribute: Dr. Patricia Monture (1958-2010)</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/dan-david/arts-and-culture/so-long-patricia</link>
		<comments>http://www.mediaindigena.com/dan-david/arts-and-culture/so-long-patricia#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ARTS+CULTURE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patricia Monture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Desbarats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Program in Journalism for Native Peoples]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[University of Western Ontario]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 preferred to call ourselves Haudenosaunee and hated generic terms like &#8220;Aboriginal.&#8221; She passed away about three weeks ago. I only just found out thanks to a Globe and Mail obituary. The writer captures Patricia&#8217;s stubborn determination. When she&#8217;d made up her mind that she was right — step back or get hurt. She was right a lot of times. My fondest memory, one that I mangled for her son when he came to Kanehsatà:ke this summer (a clumsy attempt on my part to let him know how much I respected his mother), was about the time we stomped out of class in protest. It was anthropology to her; Canadian history to me. No matter. The point was that we sat there for a few classes with steam slowly building within. We began asking questions about the course content. We began to challenge the prof because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who is Indian Affairs helping in England?</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/dan-david/issues-and-politics/who-is-indian-affairs-helping-in-england</link>
		<comments>http://www.mediaindigena.com/dan-david/issues-and-politics/who-is-indian-affairs-helping-in-england#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ISSUES+POLITICS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[England]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[INAC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Who is Indian and Northern Affairs Canada helping in England? That&#8217;s a darned good question. In fact, I&#8217;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&#8217;ve contacted Marci, the media contact listed at the bottom of the news release. I&#8217;d like to get copies of those &#8220;published reports&#8221; it refers to, but also find out whether her organization has identified any Indian Affairs bureaucrats by name, branch or program, and other details. Stay tuned&#8230; same bat time, same bat channel!]]></description>
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		<title>First look at &#8216;LAST CALL INDIAN&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/dan-david/arts-and-culture/first-look-at-last-call-indian</link>
		<comments>http://www.mediaindigena.com/dan-david/arts-and-culture/first-look-at-last-call-indian#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 17:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ARTS+CULTURE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assimilation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Indian Act]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[NISH]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sonia Bonspille Boileau]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 asked myself what binds me to my community, to my culture. I’ve never had to. It seemed obvious.” In that one shot, and in those few words, the story begins as all good stories do — with a question, an inference, because we know that nothing is obvious when it comes to culture or identity. For Sonia Bonspille Boileau, our host and storyteller, the “obvious” question becomes a tangled ball of string complicated by her own family’s history which has been warped by the Shingwauk Indian Residential School, by stereotypes and racism neatly bundled into Canada’s Indian Act, along with constant pressure to assimilate — sometimes even from her own kind. I’m not going to give away the journey taken with this young Mohawk woman, except to say that it’s worth the price of admission. If you ever wanted a glimpse into the havoc [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Would Bloomberg speak of Blacks the way he did about Indians?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 counsel about some pesky Indians selling tobacco products just beyond reach of his taxmen? What if Bloomberg’s reply included these words: “get yourself a cowboy hat and a shotgun…”? Some background: Indians (mostly Seneca, Oneida and Mohawks) living in western and upstate New York have built growing local economies in so-called depressed areas of the state by exploiting reservation-based gambling and tobacco. These tribes say these businesses are within tribal jurisdictions and not yet choked by webs of federal, state and municipal laws and bureaucracies. NY State has long coveted the potential tax revenues of these businesses but has been wary of challenging these tribes on constitutional and treaty issues. Courts have sided with tribes on gambling and casinos. The State is trying to avoid similar decisions on the tobacco trade. So Governor Patterson of New York State wanted to know what Mayor Bloomberg, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doin’ the Oka Shuffle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 say is “part of their ancestral lands” or even “sacred lands.” Newspeople put this plot “across the road from land the Mohawk claim is an ancient, sacred burial ground.” Reporters also describe it as the place where “the Mohawk barricades went up 20 years ago” and where the “armed standoff with Mohawks began,” etc., etc. The language is interesting. The area that the Mohawk “claim” to be an “ancient, sacred burial ground” is a fenced-in cemetery, complete with great big signs saying it’s a cemetery, and lots of headstones. But the word “cemetery” is boring. So reporters or their producers and editors insert words and phrases that connote some mysterious tribal significance, an almost religious or spiritual import to the events unfolding at Kanehsatake. They use this type of language despite charges by the Mohawk that the story is much more mundane: that it’s about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two steps forward&#8230; or is it backward?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new Angus Reid poll has some disturbing opinions from the average Canadian about progress on Aboriginal issues in the 20 years since the &#8220;Oka Crisis&#8221;. First, the poll found that Joe and Jane Lunch-Bucket from north of the 59th didn&#8217;t think either of their country&#8217;s two main political parties have done &#8211; or would do &#8211; a good job working on Aboriginal issues. Canadians are disappointed with the way the country’s two main political parties have approached Aboriginal issues—only 15 per cent say the governing Conservative Party is capable of implementing legislation and policies that would help Aboriginal Canadians, and 18 per cent think the Liberal Party would do a better job. In reality, over a third of Canadians (36%) think neither party is capable of dealing with this matter. As someone sitting here in beautiful downtown Montreal, I&#8217;m particularly shocked &#8211; and appalled for the Globe and Mail&#8217;s benefit &#8211; that attitudes in Québec really haven&#8217;t changed that much during those 20 years. Which, of course, sets up another of the poll&#8217;s findings: Canadians Foresee a Similar Crisis Happening Again Yikes! I believe I&#8217;m booked that summer. ]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Real Oka&#8221; and Other Conspiracy Theories</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read Doug George’s anti-warrior diatribe in Tuesday’s Montreal Gazette (“As I Saw It: The Real Oka Story,&#8221; July 13, 2010) with a mixture of shock, horror, and sadness — roughly in that order. It&#8217;s clear (to me, anyway) that he doesn’t know the real story at all. In fact, the only sentence I could trust in the entire piece was the first one because it applied perfectly to himself and his own writing: To understand the Oka crisis of 1990, we need to see beyond the hype, distortions and lies that have become the great Oka myth. First, Doug assumes to speak for the Mohawks at Kanehsatake. Then — although he likely hasn’t spoken to anyone who was there on July 11 for his piece, and has never been to Kanehsatake — he implies that people there didn’t have the presence of mind to act, make decisions, or stand up for themselves. That’s not the Kanehsatake I know. Doug can neither get his facts right, nor spell Kanehsatake (“Kanehastake,” “Kahnesatake“). Most of all, his piece about myth-busting begins and ends with one of his own: “To understand what happened at Oka-Kanehastake [sic] and Kahnawake, it is essential to know what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s up, Doctrine? (part 2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 of paper in a large stack of clippings and hand-written notes. Then she might present a counter-point or maybe an entirely new argument. This could go back-and-forth for hours with occasional bathroom breaks or a temporary truce declared for the duration of The Carol Burnett Show. Often, the discussion would centre on familiar questions that usually began with: “By what right… ?” You could fill in the blanks. By what right… did the Government of Canada refuse to acknowledge our (Mohawk) right to exist as a nation? By what right did Canada think it could ignore parts of a treaty but take advantage of the rest? By what right did the Minister of Indian Affairs control every aspect of lives but was not the least bit accountable to us? By what right did Canada say it owned the very land beneath our Mohawk feet? Who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s up, Doctrine?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 of activists say they’ve had CSIS knocking on their doors. The Quebec Public Interest Research Group organized the event. QPIRG is a resource centre for student research, and a vehicle for student social and political activism. I looked at QPIRG’s Facebook page on the event to learn more about my panel: “Indigenous Sovereignty, Displacement and Migration”. Then I went to look for about the G8/G20. The G8 is an exclusive club, I find. It’s a routine gathering of the richest and most powerful nations in the industrial world. It began with France in the mid-1970s pulling in other European nations along with Japan and the United States. They waited a couple of years before asking Canada to join. The G8’s membership has expanded and is now the “G8-plus-5”. Together, this club controls a lot of global trade and commerce and much of the developed world’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Every Now and Then</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 16:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 were simply historical might-have-beens. I joined a few hundred people marching down what was then Dorchester Boulevard (Blvd. Réné Levésque today) because I considered both men to be a pair of historical boobs. Both men were concerned more with their own settler populations than with the Indigenous peoples who were here long before their ancestors ever dreamed of getting lost on the high seas. Nothing they did during the rest of their lives changed my opinion of them either, despite what their own judges forced them to do in the years after. Our demonstrations failed to stop the bulldozers. Nor did they prevent huge areas of traditional Cree territory from being blasted or flooded. But those demonstrations helped awaken people across the country of all colours and backgrounds to begin to understand that some things done in the name of Canada were just plain wrong. [...]]]></description>
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