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		<title>Sihkos’ Story, Part II: Sturgeon Landing Residential School</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 23:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[ISSUES+POLITICS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DDT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Residential Schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oblate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saskatchewan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sturgeon Lake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sturgeon Landing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The second in an ongoing series of writings by a survivor of Canada's residential school system.]]></description>
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		<title>Sihkos&#8217; Story: Residential school remembrances of a little brown &#8216;white&#8217; girl</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 01:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[LIVING]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Residential Schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saskatchewan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Southend]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jane Glennon (Woodland Cree), B.A., B.S.W., M.S.W., is a retired social worker, counsellor and teacher who currently lives in Prince Albert, SK. A member of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation, her published work includes “Traditional Parenting,” a chapter in the book, As We See… Aboriginal Pedagogy (University of Saskatchewan Extension Press, 1998). = = = &#8220;The only way to save our dreams is by being generous with ourselves.&#8221;                   —Paulo Coelho = = = It has taken me a long time — literally decades — to try and tell my story, a story that I&#8217;ve never disclosed in its entirety to anyone, not even family. Accompanying me on my first steps down this path are the words of Paulo Coelho, the brilliant Brazilian writer whose works have sold over 100 million copies in sixty-nine languages. Coelho is among the authors I most admire and his writings truly inspire and motivate me, and after reaching out to him for counsel on the writing of my biography, Mr. Coelho shared with me the words you see above. It is in the spirit of his words that I now share mine. * * * I consider myself a product of the residential school era, but I do not consider myself a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asinabka Festival: Creating spaces for Aboriginal arts in Ottawa</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 17:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[ARTS+CULTURE]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Amidst the tulips, tourists, and perfectly landscaped government spaces of Ottawa, lives an understated yet growing independent arts scene. Though sometimes hard to spot for those casually passing through, this scene — rife with small galleries, film collectives, indie music shows, and festivals — has helped to transform the side streets of the nation’s capital into a marketplace of exceptionally interesting artistic diversions. Now a new and promising festival will soon add to this mix. This June, the inaugural Asinabka Film and Media Arts Festival promises seven days of events teeming with Indigenous-focused film screenings, visual and media art, gallery crawls, and music. Taking its inspiration from similar gatherings like Toronto’s imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival and Peterborough’s Ode’min Giizis, Asinabka enjoys support from the local film and Aboriginal communities in Ottawa&#8217;s downtown core. MEDIA INDIGENA&#8217;s Kerry Potts recently sat down with Asinabka Co-Directors Howard Adler and Chris Wong to talk about their aspirations for the festival and how they intend to carve out a unique, Aboriginal art space amongst the tulips. * * * MI: Tell me about your vision for starting this festival. Howard Adler (HA): We were hanging out last summer a lot, and we were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Politics of Skin Colour</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/guest/issues-and-politics/the-politics-of-skin-colour</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 17:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[ISSUES+POLITICS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If only it'd been a colour-blind date, bemoans Dawn Dumont]]></description>
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		<title>REVIEWS: New CDs from Robbie Robertson; Derek Miller</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 03:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[ARTS+CULTURE]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[DEREK MILLER Derek Miller with Double Trouble Juksa Records &#124; 2011 MI Rating: ★★★1/2 (out of 5) —————— ◊ —————— Renowned for his live, blues-inflected, roots rock sound, guitarist and singer/songwriter/producer and actor Derek Miller (Mohawk/Six Nations) first gained national attention when he toured with the iconic Buffy Sainte-Marie in the late &#8217;90s. His raw, emotional style of playing and ability to write songs led to more touring and recording with Keith Secola &#38; the Wild Band of Indians in support of their 2000 album Fingermonkey. Two years later, Miller released his debut album, Music Is the Medicine, which garnered a Juno Award followed by more extensive touring. By 2005, Miller found himself exhausted and struggling with drug and alcohol dependency. He entered rehab and spent the next year working to regain his physical, mental, and spiritual health: “I entered rehab on the rez. It gave me a sense of pride in my identity, it grounded me, and raised me up.” In 2007 he released The Dirty Looks, which reinvigorated his reputation as a must-see live act. Featuring a total of 15 bed tracks recorded over a whirlwind, 12-day session in the musical mecca of Austin, Texas (to be featured [...]]]></description>
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		<title>REVIEW: Kinnie Starr, &#8220;A Different Day&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 19:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A multidisciplinary artist who&#8217;s immersed her energy across several fields, Kinnie Starr&#8216;s interests range from music, visual arts and women’s issues (she possesses a Women’s Studies degree from Queen’s University) to leading youth workshops and being a yoga expert. However Starr is most recognized for her musical output which began to raise much notoriety within North America’s hip-hop community in the late nineties. Over the last ten years the media has focused their attention on her brilliant hip-hop/rap skills that express her various philosophies and insights. Her last two albums, “Anything” (2006) and “Sun Again” (2003) spoke volumes about her ability to spin beats, poetry, rhymes and to collaborate with other skilled musicians. Starr’s music has gained mainstream attention and has appeared on television programs such as The L-Word, Thirteen, Fashion Television Canada and in even in Zellers advertisements (contrary to her earlier stance against corporate culture). Her latest offering, &#8220;A Different Day&#8221; (produced by Chin Injeti on Last Gang Records), focuses on the theme of love and the many directions it can take. The album delivers less signature hip-hop/trip-hop sounds and instead offers a stripped down, sometimes poppy sound with much guitar (acoustic and electric). If you’re a fan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How the show goes on: imagineNATIVE festival realizes international return on investment</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/guest/business-and-economy/how-the-show-goes-on-imaginenative-festival-realizes-international-return-on-investment-in-indigenous-artistry</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 18:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Report filed by Samantha Butler (TORONTO) — At 8 p.m., Wed. Oct. 20, a Maori boy set off with one thousand Torontonians on a guided tour of his life. Known simply as &#8216;Boy,&#8217; the 11-year-old shows off a rickety farm house in rural New Zealand, where he lives with his Gran, younger brother, and five baby cousins. He introduces the school bully, his pet goat, and expounds limitless admiration for his icon, Michael Jackson. Endearing, funny and honest, BOY is the fictional creation of Kiwi filmmaker Taika Waititi, and the acclaimed film&#8217;s Canadian debut kicked off this year&#8217;s imagineNATIVE festival. Arriving in Toronto from L.A., on the heels of a prestigious Sundance Film Festival workshop, Waititi’s arrival marks his fourth year at imagineNATIVE. “I love this festival,” he said. “There are so many points of view. What makes humans, and what makes earth, so interesting is that there are different cultures. We get that here; it appeals to anyone.” It cost imagineNATIVE $5000 to bring Waititi and fellow New Zealand director Kararaina Rangihau to Toronto for Wednesday’s opening, with more money in the budget for accommodation. Meanwhile, 76 other filmmakers from twelve nations — including Taiwan, Bolivia and Australia — made the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>REVIEW: &#8220;Rober de Jesús Guachetá: The Work Goes On&#8221; at imagineNATIVE 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 07:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Contributor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ARTS+CULTURE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cauca]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cosomovision]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Honduras reservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nasa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Indigenous Organization in Colombia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ONIC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rober de Jésus Guachetá]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rodolfo Aricate Amaya]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rober de Jesús Guachetá: The Work Goes On 19 min. &#124; 2009 &#124; Colombia Directed by the Cineminga Collective Screening at imagineNATIVE Friday Oct 22 @ 3 pm, Al Green Theatre (Bloor at Spadina) Spanish with English subtitles MI Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5) —————— ◊ —————— This movie opens with a young Indigenous boy explaining how he found his father murdered. His father, Rober de Jésus Guachetá, a Nasa leader in Cauca, southwest Colombia, was dedicated to education. He had helped found the Intercultural Knowledge School on his reservation of Honduras, which educates adults on topics such as Indigenous cosmovision, self-determination and human rights. Education is viewed as a form of cultural resistance. Cauca is a historical and contemporary hotspot of Indigenous resistance and organizing. An influx of multinational companies (timber, hydro-electric and mining) has paralleled the increase of paramilitary activity and threats against Indigenous leaders in the region, especially since 2007. The situation documented by this short film is one replayed out continuously in Colombia.  In fact, just one week ago on Oct. 15, another Indigenous leader, Rodolfo Aricate Amaya, was murdered in the same department (or state) of Cauca. According to the National Indigenous Organization in Colombia (ONIC), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Nations education rally heads for the Hill</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/guest/issues-and-politics/first-nations-education-rally-heads-for-the-hill</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 18:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Contributor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ISSUES+POLITICS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aboriginal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AFN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Atleo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Demonstration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ottawa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(OTTAWA) — Hundreds of First Nations people from across the country rallied on Parliament Hill yesterday in support of increased education funding. Among the messages displayed on demonstrators&#8217; signs: &#8216;Our children, Our future, Our way!&#8217;, &#8216;Respect our Treaties&#8217;, and &#8216;Education Means Graduation.&#8217; The rally was the culmination of a &#8216;National Week of Action on Education,&#8217; which kicked off when dozens of community members from Quebec&#8217;s Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation marched over 130 kilometres to the nation&#8217;s capital. Both the march and the Week of Action were organized in part by the Assembly of First Nations, who are hoping to draw attention to what they say is a serious decline in the number of First Nations people attending and graduating from college and university. The Assembly says Canada must honour treaties which guarantee First Nations the right to education.  They&#8217;re calling on the federal government to develop a comprehensive plan, including a significant increase in funding for post-secondary students. A spokeswoman for Indian and Northern Affairs says that, since 2008, the federal government has invested $395 million into First Nations education.  But Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn Atleo says they should be getting billions more. Since 1996, federal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sewing a shirt on a button: The pseudoarchaeology of 1491 (Pt. 2)</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/guest/issues-and-politics/sewing-a-shirt-on-a-button-the-pseudoarchaeology-of-1491-pt-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[archaeology textbook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian M. Fagan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cahokia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles C. Mann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cultural evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[J. R. Swanton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M. L. Fowler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monks Mound]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pseudoarchaeology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Timothy R. Pauketat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warren K. Moorehead]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In part one of my critique of the book 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann, I noted how Mann&#8217;s writing was influenced by a political agenda common in Native Studies — one that denies the developmental gap that existed between aboriginal and European societies before contact. More advocate than scientist, Mann is a purveyor of what&#8217;s known as “pseudoarchaeology,” a practice where evidence is selected to support a preconceived conclusion. Having generally described pseudoarchaeology&#8217;s main characteristics and rhetorical strategies in part one, I will now turn to Mann’s specific claims about the &#8220;civilization&#8221; of Cahokia, and how they reveal indicators of pseudoarchaeology, both in 1491 and in a number of its sources. I will do so by examining the available archaeological evidence with respect to the following four questions: 1) Was Cahokia a “city” of 15,000 people? 2) Were the mounds in Cahokia constructed by human beings? 3) What were the dwellings in Cahokia like? 4) Was Cahokia a “busy port”? These questions cannot just be answered by an appeal to authority, as is largely Mann’s approach in his rebuttal, since this is an indicator of pseudoarchaeology. 1.    Was Cahokia a “city” of 15,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disrobing the Politics of Cultural Difference</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/guest/issues-and-politics/science-and-the-politics-of-cultural-difference</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 22:17:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Contributor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Friedrich Engels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karl Marx]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Max Weber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Samir Amin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[V. Gordon Childe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A new voice has entered the fray in the mediaINDIGENA-hosted debate over theoretical understandings and practical implications of culture — in particular, the contentious idea that cultures can and ought to be compared and evaluated against one another. Here, the intellectual and political dispute centers around federal policy regarding First Nations in Canada, a debate that&#8217;s been controversially re-ignited by the book Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry: The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation. Among the book&#8217;s core arguments: the assertion that on-going &#8220;native problems&#8221; have a &#8220;cultural basis.&#8221; That was too much for mediaINDIGENA&#8216;s Niigonwedom Sinclair, who penned a review highly critical of Disrobing. That prompted a rebuttal by one of Disrobing‘s co-authors, Dr. Frances Widdowson. In it, she criticized Sinclair’s citation of Charles C. Mann’s 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. Mann subsequently responded. Last week, Widdowson counter-responded. Now, University of Manitoba sociology professor Dr. Christopher Powell shares his extended critique of Widdowson&#8217;s most recent post and related comments. * * * After reading Dr. Widdowson&#8217;s interpretation of my comment about her most recent piece, I asked mediaINDIGENA whether I might be permitted space for a longer response, and I am grateful to have this opportunity to more fully [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sewing a shirt on a button: The pseudoarchaeology of 1491 (Pt. 1)</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/guest/issues-and-politics/sewing-a-shirt-on-a-button-the-pseudoarchaeology-of-1491-pt-1</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Contributor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ISSUES+POLITICS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Albert Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Bottom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[archaeology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cahokia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles C. Mann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frances Widdowson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Garrett G. Fagan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[megalithic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Melvin L. Fowler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[N.C. Flemming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pseudoarchaeology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rinita Dalan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skara Brae]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Timothy R. Pauketat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William I. Woods]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The following guest contribution is but the latest in a series of back-and-forth posts first inspired by mediaINDIGENA&#8216;s Niigonwedom Sinclair and his review of Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry: The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation. The review prompted a rebuttal by one of Disrobing&#8216;s co-authors, Dr. Frances Widdowson. In her piece, Widdowson criticized Sinclair&#8217;s citation of Charles C. Mann&#8217;s 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. Mann subsequently responded. What follows here constitutes the first of Widdowson&#8217;s two-part counter-response to Mann. (Note: footnotes may be found at the conclusion of this post.) In my response to Niigonwedom Sinclair’s review of Disrobing, I questioned Sinclair’s use of Charles C. Mann’s 1491 as a source. My discussion of Mann, unfortunately, was not based on an in-depth examination of his work, or the evidence that Mann used to support his assertions. There is also an error in my statement that “Mann’s speculations with respect to Cahokia are exclusively based on the existence of large mounds of earth.” The word “exclusively” is too categorical a term, and “largely” would have been a better description.  Finally, my poetic reference to Mann’s “flights of imagination” was not meant to imply that Mann “made this stuff up.”  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rebutting the Rebuttal: &#8216;Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry&#8217; Digs Up Debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[1491]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[B. W. Young]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cahokia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles C. Mann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frances Widdowson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[M. L. Fowler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[R. B. Lewis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[T. E. Emerson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Timothy R. Pauketat]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In this guest post, author Charles C. Mann responds to Frances Widdowson&#8217;s criticism of his book, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. Widdowson delivered her critique as part of a rebuttal to Niigonwedom Sinclair&#8217;s negative review of her book, Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry: The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation. As part of her rebuttal, Widdowson hotly disputed Mann&#8217;s account of the ancient Cahokia mounds site (located in what is now the US state of Illinois). Mann has reviewed Widdowson&#8217;s comments, and he submitted this response. *      *      * In her rebuttal, Dr. Widdowson wrote: Take, for example, one of Mann’s flights of imagination about life on the Mississippi in 1100 A.D.  In this account, we marvel at the &#8220;city&#8221; of Cahokia with its population of fifteen thousand people and [writes Mann] &#8220;carefully located fields of maize; and hundreds of red-and-white plastered wood homes with high-peaked deeply thatched roofs like those on traditional Japanese farms.&#8221; What was the technology that allowed for such accommodation? We are informed that the maize was weeded with stone hoes, but how were the homes built without saws or nails? What about the red and white paint? His claims of these fantastic developments include [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Co-Author of &#8216;Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry&#8217; Pens Her Rebuttal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Albert Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles C. Mann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frances Widdowson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Borrows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leanne Simpson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Kulchyski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Augustine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taiaiake Alfred]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a response to Niigonwedom Sinclair&#8217;s critical review of Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry: The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation by one of its co-authors, Frances Widdowson. I appreciate Niigonwedom Sinclair’s efforts in reviewing the book I co-wrote with Albert Howard.  Although I find most of Sinclair’s opposition to our work to be rooted in wishful thinking, and almost all the claims that he makes remain unsubstantiated, the opportunity to have this civil exchange is important: no one has a monopoly on the truth, and by honestly stating what we believe is true, and striving to objectively evaluate the evidence available, everyone can develop a more complete understanding of reality, including the nature of aboriginal/non-aboriginal relations. Particularly refreshing is the fact that Sinclair does not engage in any personal attacks, or deploy the usual accusations of “racism,” “colonialism,” etc., to try to stifle debate on these issues.  The only label that he uses is “Eurocentric” — an orientation that could be defended, depending upon one’s view of the economic, political and intellectual advancements that have occurred in this region historically.  Sinclair’s major concern, as it should be, is about the accuracy of our work.  In his opinion, the theory [...]]]></description>
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