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		<title>Manitowapow: A Preview</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My family holds reunions at the St. Peter&#8217;s church virtually every summer, just north of Selkirk and on the banks of the Red River in southern Manitoba. Growing up, I never knew why we did, nor cared really; the homemade pie was far more of a concern. Last summer, we held races, a candy scramble, and ended in a water fight around the underground well pump &#8211; which happily gushes as it has for generations. Just a few metres from our reunion site is Chief Peguis&#8216; grave. Just a few more there are headstones, with dozens of names of my relatives. On the other side remains the foundation of the old St. Peter&#8217;s Store. Not to be forgotten is the church, a powerful spiritual place that has held up well over the years. In all this beauty, you would never know what happened here in 1907. After bribing leaders and waiting until much of the community was absent, government agents visited and held a vote for removal. You see, unscrupulous Manitoban citizens and farmers desperately wanted the fertile and rich land the Cree and Anishinaabe residents of St. Peter&#8217;s had negotiated through treaty and lived on. The vote &#8211; in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>REVIEWS: &#8216;Windigo,&#8217; &#8216;A Flesh Offering&#8217; &amp; &#8216;A Windigo Tale&#8217; at imagineNATIVE 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 21:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FILMS REVIEWED: Windigo 11 min &#124; 2009 &#124; Canada Directed by Kris Happyjack-McKenzie Screens at imagineNATIVE Friday Oct. 22 @ 9 pm, Al Green Theatre (Bloor at Spadina) MI Rating: ★★★ (out of 5) —————— ◊ —————— A Flesh Offering 95 min &#124; 2010 &#124; Canada Directed by Jeremy Torrie. Starring Kaniehtho Horn &#38; Eric Schweig. Screens at imagineNATIVE Friday Oct. 22 @ 9 pm, Al Green Theatre (Bloor at Spadina) MI Rating: ★★ (out of 5) —————— ◊ —————— A Windigo Tale 91 min &#124; 2009 &#124; Canada Directed by Armand Garnet Ruffo. Starring Gary Farmer, Jani Lauzon &#38; Andrea Menard. Screens at imagineNATIVE Sunday Oct. 24 @ 7 pm, Bloor Cinema, 506 Bloor St. W. MI Rating: ★★★★½  (out of 5) Night of the Living Wiindigo, or, The (Ab)Original Zombie If someone described this character to you, what would you think? [G]aunt to the point of emaciation, its desiccated skin pulled tautly over its bones. With its bones pushing out against its skin, its complexion the ash gray of death, and its eyes pushed back deep into their sockets … like a gaunt skeleton recently disinterred from the grave. What lips it had were tattered and bloody from its constant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Ink-stained Response to &#8216;Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry&#8217; (Pt. 2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 18:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Picking up where Part One left off, this piece is the second in a two-part response to Frances Widdowson and Albert Howard’s Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry: The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation. It originally appeared in somewhat different forms in guest editorial/commentaries for Kanata (Vol. 1) and the Winter 2009 (#203) issue of Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review. With pencil and eraser firmly in hand, and backed by a mainstream university press, Widdowson and Howard have composed an all-too familiar song of assimilation in the name of “progress.” Their one-dimensional politics, historicism and century-old arguments are known well by First Nations peoples, communities and nations, who continue to endure ongoing attacks on their personal, communal and national sovereignties. The notion that this type of myopia is precisely why the current climate exists and perpetuates itself — not to mention that the authors’ “dream” of more of the same — is found nowhere in their pencil marks. The truth that, like their western counterparts, expansive Indigenous intellectual systems, languages, governments and cultures change, grow and adjust, and just might have made valuable contributions to “human survival,” “development” and the “interconnected and complex global system” [5] is lost on them. And if these ideas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Ink-stained Response to &#8216;Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry&#8217; (Pt. 1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 22:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following piece originally appeared in somewhat different forms in guest editorials/commentaries for Kanata (Vol. 1) and Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review in its Winter 2009 (#203) issue. I’ve always hated pencils and erasers. I was first forced in grade two to use them, in handwriting class. My teacher said, &#8220;We use pencils and erasers because we’re just learning, and practice makes perfect. This way, we can get rid of mistakes and keep the page clean.&#8221; I loved pens, in all their ink-filled permanency.  Black.  Blue.  Red.  Even though I was told not to, every chance I got I filled my scribbler with blots, strokes and smudges.  Let the page be messy, I thought.  Full of my beautiful, consistent, every-few-seconds mistakes. My errors made my occasional successes that much sweeter. Even if I did get a D. Now that I’m grown up, I continue to see pencils and erasers everywhere. And though people are still learning — and hopefully all of this practice is leading somewhere (I’ve given up on perfection) — erasing and keeping the page clean has resulted in some dangerous consequences. For one example, take Frances Widdowson and Albert Howard’s recently-published Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fertility Sovereignty</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair</dc:creator>
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		<title>A Beginning and an Ending, FNUC and mediaINDIGENA</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1976, two major events happened. The first, my birth, went largely unnoticed — except of course by my parents and family.  Now, thirty-four years later, I join with the other members of mediaINDIGENA in another &#8220;birth&#8221; of sorts — one that we hope won&#8217;t go unnoticed. Here&#8217;s to a fair and balanced conversation beginning among us and with all of you.  I hope it is one that is meaningful, spirited, and wide-ranging — reflective of the divergent and complex opinions existent in Indian Country. But, as they say, with beginnings come endings. The other event &#8211; much more significant &#8211; was the apex of a movement called &#8216;Indian Control of Indian Education,&#8217; signified by the passage of the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College Act by the Legislative Assembly of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations (and soon after by the Province of Saskatchewan Non-Profit Corporations Act). Envisioned by elders in First Nations communities throughout Saskatchewan, SIFC began that first year with nine students, offering a Bachelor of Arts Program in Indian Studies within the Faculty of Arts at the University of Regina. The original stated intent of SIFC was to serve &#8220;the academic, cultural and spiritual needs of First Nations&#8217; students.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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