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		<title>The utility of debate to Idle No More is beyond dispute</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 22:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hayden King</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why shutting down debate about Idle No More's next steps in favour of some false "unity" might risk the death of the movement]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s next for Idle No More? Why provincial governments should matter to the movement</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hayden King</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The movement's paid scant attention to the part provinces have played in perpetuating the challenges faced by Indigenous communities. That must change.]]></description>
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		<title>Ghosts of Indigenous activism past, present, future: #IdleNoMore&#8217;s transformative potential</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hayden King</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, from Goose Bay to Yellowknife, thousands of Nehiyaw, Dene, Metis peoples (joined by Canadians supportive of them) gathered in front of provincial legislatures, constituency and Aboriginal Affairs offices. They sang honour songs, danced jigs, and waved their flags and homemade protest signs out in the cold and the wind. This hash-tag movement known to some as #IdleNoMore (#NativeWinter to others) is challenging manifold issues in the Indigenous-Canadian relationship. Among the more critical: the move to strip environmental protections from most of this country&#8217;s waterways a lack of consultation on amendments to the Indian Act the chronic failure to maintain and uphold treaties the continued refusal to acknowledge the rights of those still without treaties repeated calls for a national inquiry on missing and murdered Aboriginal women We’ve protested before; in fact, we do it often. At the very earliest origins of Canada as a country, Mississauga leaders (concerned by continued European encroachment) diplomatically expressed their frustration this way: “You came as a wind blown across the Great Lake. We received you, we planted you, we nursed you. We protected you till you became a mighty tree that spread  throughout our Hunting Land. With its branches you now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why it&#8217;s only right to retire relics like the Redskins</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 21:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hayden King</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent debate about the Nepean Redskins is getting tired. Frankly, it’s a debate we’ve had over and over again, both in the U.S. and in Canada. Despite the very real fact that the term Redskin is nearly universally understood as offensive, White sports fans loyal to their high school, college or professional sports mascots insist they are &#8216;honouring&#8217; Us. Prompting Us to write articles and letters, create petitions and polls, and, more recently, use Twitter and Facebook to express our dissatisfaction. And I suspect we’ll continue to do so, so long as football players need savage beasts to emulate on the field. So for our ever-forgetful, sports-loving dogmatists, here&#8217;s a refresher on why “I’m not a mascot,” as Simon Moya-Smith puts it. The last time the mascot issue came up in a serious way was the 2010 Stanley Cup Finals. It was hard to miss the omnipresent headdress-wearing, painted-faced, ancient Indian warrior mascot of the ‘Hawks. I cheered for the Flyers that year (even though as a Leafs fan, I hate the Flyers). And a few years before the Blackhawks yipped and scalped their way to victory, the Cleveland Indians nearly made it to the World Series, inspiring inebriated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shameless scapegoating: A catty critique of how Canadian media cover Indigenous people</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hayden King</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday marked the United Nations’ International Day of Indigenous Peoples. This year&#8217;s theme for the Day: “Empowering Indigenous Voices.” As the UN noted, the aim was “to highlight the importance of challenging stereotypes, forging Indigenous peoples&#8217; identities, communicating with the outside world, and influencing the social and political agenda.” And while we should take this opportunity to celebrate outlets like APTN, Anishinaabek News, Indigenous Waves, and MEDIA INDIGENA, among others, I’m not sure the Canadian media got the memo. In fact, I could hear, read or watch more coverage of this week&#8217;s International Cat Day than of the International Day of Indigenous Peoples. But I guess cats are cuter than Crees. Reflecting on this coverage, or lack thereof, I recalled a 2008 Canadian Journalism Foundation conference entitled, “The Greatest Media Failure in a Century: Reporting on Aboriginal Issues.” The event was a response to a series of news stories that led to the most sustained media coverage on Native issues since 1990. Along with Parliament’s apology for residential schools and the newly-released report of the Ipperwash Inquiry, the conflict in Caledonia was in the papers daily (not to mention the United Nations and its Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new Assembly of First Nations for the people? Second thoughts on a &#8216;One Indian, One Vote&#8217; AFN</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2012 21:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hayden King</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month&#8217;s election for the Assembly of First Nations&#8217; National Chief has once again stirred calls for change. On election eve, for example, fellow MEDIA INDIGENA contributor Waubgeshig Rice published an op-ed on CBC.ca entitled, “How to make the AFN more relevant.” Then, in the midst of the election, author Richard Wagamese wrote an opinion piece in the Globe and Mail entitled “We want an AFN of the people.” Both articles captured a broad sentiment among Ojibwe, Cree and Lakota peoples: a desire to participate in First Nations politics beyond the Band. Indeed, this AFN election garnered considerably more attention than any in the past, a clear testament to that desire for engagement. In both cases, Rice and Wagamese eloquently identify the problem — the Assembly&#8217;s issues with political representation (or lack thereof) — and a potential solution — in effect, a new &#8220;one Indian, one vote&#8221; AFN. But in considering this idea over the past few post-election weeks, I’m not so sure it’s the answer. In the first place, such a new &#8216;AFN of the people&#8217; could lead to an even more unhelpful pan-Indianism than the current AFN perpetuates. Despite working hard to keep Metis and Inuit peoples out (and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The National Media and the AFN&#8217;s &#8220;Angry Indians&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 19:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hayden King</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s an auspicious week for the Assembly of First Nations. The AFN’s Annual General Assembly will either re-elect Shawn Atleo as National Chief or select one of seven challengers to lead the organization through the next three years. Today&#8217;s vote is the culmination of a relatively short and mostly unexciting campaign, yet it is one that has nonetheless caught the attention of some in the national media, in particular, the two Johns: John Ibbiston of the Globe and Mail and John Ivison of the National Post. Each have filed a number of stories. Interestingly, both writers share a remarkable and disappointing similarity: a very apparent tendency to cast the field of candidates as angry, ungrateful militants. Rather than mask some kind of agenda, Ibbiston’s inaugural AFN-related piece (&#8220;Shawn Atleo appears unchallenged in push for native-education reform&#8221;) on June 18 perhaps demonstrates the writer&#8217;s lack of qualifications to report on First Nations politics. The Globe veteran illustrated this sophomoric understanding when he confidently asserted that, “barring an unexpected last-minute challenger, Shawn Atleo will be acclaimed for a second three-year stint as National Chief to the Assembly of First Nations.” Not only was Ibbitson very poorly informed at the time of his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christie Blatchford&#8217;s &#8220;Helpless&#8221; is hapless and historyless account of Caledonia conflict</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 21:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hayden King</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About six months ago, the Globe and Mail&#8216;s Christie Blatchford filed a series of courthouse dispatches from Hamilton, ON regarding the case of a Caledonia, ON family and their $7 million lawsuit against the Ontario government for failing to protect them from &#8220;the natives&#8221; (of Six Nations) as a result of the Caledonia land conflict. With column titles like &#8220;A reign of terror, a trail of OPP inaction,&#8221; &#8220;In Caledonia the weak finally have a voice against the strong,&#8221; and &#8220;A couple terrorized in a &#8216;war zone&#8217; while police stood by,&#8221; Blatchford bludgeoned readers with hyperbole and sensationalism. Her pieces pitted faceless native thugs against a decent, law-abiding, salt-of-the-earth Canadian couple. This fall, Blatchford turned those articles into a book with the correspondingly obnoxious title, Helpless: Caledonia&#8217;s Nightmare of Fear and Anarchy and How the Law Failed All of Us. I haven&#8217;t read Helpless, but if it’s anything like her Globe articles, I already know the story: savages circle the wagons while innocent homesteaders valiantly fight against overwhelming odds when, at the last minute, the cavalry arrives to vanquish the heathen warriors. But in this case, they don&#8217;t show up (or so Blatchford claims) and the noble frontiersmen and women [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The likely consequences of &#8216;Truth in Sentencing Act&#8217; for Indigenous people</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 22:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hayden King</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are apx. 20,000 First Nations, Métis and Inuit inmates housed within provincial jails at any given time in this country. And according to StatsCan, while Indigenous people represent 4% of the population, they make up 24% of the general prison population. Incredibly, Aboriginal women are 28 times more likely to go to jail than non-Indigenous women. One of the most significant statistics amid this disastrous data revolves around remand custody. That&#8217;s where people who can&#8217;t receive or afford bail are held in jail from the time of their initial arrest right up until their trial. Data from the Correctional Investigator of Canada Howard Sapers shows that from 2001 to 2007, the number of remanded Indigenous people increased by 23%. In fact, that research suggested that First Nations, Métis and Inuit people “in pre-sentence custody are more likely to be denied bail, more likely to be held in higher security conditions and serve longer periods of time in remand custody.” All of this would be exacerbated by the Conservative government’s new law and order legislation, the Truth in Sentencing Act. At least, that&#8217;s the implication of an internal Justice Canada report made public by the Canadian Press and the Globe [...]]]></description>
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