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		<title>Videos tell women&#8217;s stories of intergenerational impacts of Indian Residential Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 20:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roberta Stout</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a long time since I’ve contributed to MEDIA INDIGENA, but I don’t feel bad because I’ve been busy with another Indigenous, insightful and innovative project: kiskino mâto tapanâsk: Intergenerational Effects on Professional First Nations Women Whose Mothers are Residential School Survivors. This Prairie Women’s Health Centre of Excellence initiative set out to understand how the residential school legacy has been passed down through generations of First Nations women. Through a process of personal and collective exploration, each participant artfully created a 2-to-5 minute digital story. The videos offer profound insights into mother/daughter relationships and the complex intergenerational effects of these schools. They also birth hope, showcase resilience, and speak to the emotional and healing journeys of First Nations women. Pictured above are the filmmakers, including (from left-to-right) Lisa Murdock, Roberta Stout (myself), Lorena Fontaine, Wendy McNab, Claudette Michell and Lisa Forbes (along with researcher Sheryl Peters). Our mothers were interned at Birtle, Blue Quills, Elk Horn, Lebret, Prince Albert, St. Alban’s, St. Henry’s Mission, Sturgeon Landing, Guy Hill and St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic residential schools. All of the videos are available for viewing on the Centre&#8217;s website.]]></description>
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		<title>REVIEW: imagineNATIVE 2010&#8242;s Opening Night Film, &#8216;BOY&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roberta Stout</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOY 87 min &#124; 2010 &#124; New Zealand Directed &#38; Written by Taika Waititi. Starring Te Aho Eketone-Whitu, James Rolleston, T. Waititi Screens at imagineNATIVE Opening Night: Wed. OCT 20 @ 7 pm, Bloor Cinema (506 Bloor St. W.) MI Rating: ★★★★★ ————————— ◊ ————————— Boy, was that worth it. Set in 1984 on New Zealand&#8217;s rural east coast, BOY is a sometimes somber, coming-of-age comedy that draws us into the childhood world of two Maori brothers as they forge a relationship with their estranged father (played by director/writer Taika Waititi). The eldest brother &#8216;Boy&#8217; (James Rolleston) is a sensible kid whose imagination spreads between his love for a girl named Chardonnay, an obsession with Michael Jackson and his mega-hit album Thriller, and a glorified ideation of a father 7 years absent. Meanwhile, 6-year-old  Rocky (Te Aho Eketone-Whitu), Boy&#8217;s silent partner throughout the film, believes he has uncontrollable supernatural powers that can cause harm to others. The story actually gets going when Boy is left in charge of his extended family while their grandmother is off attending a wake. Soon after, a car pulls up to their house unannounced in the middle of the night. Behind the wheel, their dad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canada-wide vigils tonight in honour of missing and murdered Aboriginal women</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roberta Stout</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, over 70 communities across Canada are solemnly holding vigils for hundreds of missing and murdered Aboriginal women. As part of the Sisters in Spirit national campaign spearheaded by the Native Women&#8217;s Association of Canada, the vigils call to national attention and action the continued tragedy of Aboriginal women&#8217;s over-representation in female disappearances and homicides across Canada. MEDIA INDIGENA has reported before about the unacceptable statistics of murdered and missing Aboriginal women, as well as discussed the structural violence and underlying conditions such as homelessness, poverty and racism which position Aboriginal women in unsafe living and working conditions. Like other Canadian cities, the Winnipeg community will be holding a vigil tonight. Leading up to this gathering, a unique series of public actions across the city took place, organized by the Stop Violence Against Aboriginal Women Action Group (SVAAWAG). Community members, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal, male and female, assembled in high-traffic public spaces to form a 19-person human billboard of t-shirts spelling out &#8220;NO MORE STOLEN SISTERS,&#8221; as seen in this video: This line of concerned citizens stood in silence while people passing by read statistics and messages printed on the back of the shirts, messages like &#8220;Aboriginal women and girls are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New stats on Aboriginal youth sport and culture activity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roberta Stout</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, StatsCan released a study entitled &#8220;Participation in sports and cultural activities among Aboriginal children and youth.&#8221; Based on the 2006 Aboriginal Peoples Survey, the report drew on a total of 11,940 respondents, representing nearly 170,000 children. First, the overall picture: over 65% of Aboriginal children participated in sports at least once a week about 40% participated in cultural activities There are three common associations underlying Aboriginal children&#8217;s participation in sports and cultural activities: higher level of parental education weekly contact with Elders involvement in additional extracurricular activities The report points to key identifiers for increased participation in sports: being a boy being between 9-11 years of age being of very good to excellent health living in a household with higher income levels spending less than 4 hours a day in front of the TV or playing on the computer and video games. Strong associations related to participation in cultural activities include: having four or more siblings having knowledge of an Aboriginal language [ Image via adamwedlake.com ]]]></description>
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		<title>New Session of United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Begins</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roberta Stout</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the next 10 days, participants at the Ninth Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) will engage in important discussions related to this years special theme, &#8216;Indigenous peoples: development with culture and identity,&#8217; areas associated with Articles 3 and 32 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Every year, the UNPFII brings together apx. 1200 people — indigenous leaders and community representatives, along with members of civil society, governmental, UN and intergovernmental organizations — from around the world. The Permanent Forum was established in 2000 by the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Its objective: to “discuss indigenous issues within the mandate of the Council relating to economic and social development, culture, the environment, education, health and human rights.” Taking place at UN Headquarters in New York City, the official documents for this session, and all previous sessions (along with a wealth of other resources related to international Indigenous issues), can be found on the UNPFII site. As many wonder whether and/or how Canada might end its hold-out status as a non-endorser (so far: it&#8217;s recently hinted otherwise) of the Declaration, I would be happy to hear firsthand accounts of any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First in 4-part Aboriginal Graphic Novel Series to Hit Shelves: &#8220;Stone&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roberta Stout</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stone, the first in a four-part series of graphic novels called 7 Generations, is set to be released Apr. 15. The series follows Edwin, a present-day Aboriginal teenager, on his journey to understand and reconcile with his family’s history. The striking colour cover accompanies black-and-white illustrations inside. 7 Generations will span the history of “the proud Plains Cree in the early 19th century .. [from] disease and famine, to the residential school system in the 20th century.” Written by Winnipeg-based, Swampy Cree author David Robertson and illustrated by Scott Henderson, the remaining three graphic novels are to be completed over the next 18 months. One of the Winnipeg Free Press&#8217; community offshoots did a nice profile on the author. Here&#8217;s a promo video to give you a flavour: The series is published by Highwater Press, a trade imprint of Portage &#38; Main Press. Can&#8217;t wait to read it? Buy the book directly from the P&#38;M site.]]></description>
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		<title>Aboriginal, Non-Aboriginal Wage Parity in Canada Will Take 63 Years: Study</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roberta Stout</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) just released its latest paper, The Income Gap Between Aboriginal Peoples and the Rest of Canada. Authored by Daniel Wilson and David Macdonald, the study looks at data collected in the 1996, 2001 and 2006 Canadian Censuses, to identify trends and raise questions about the persistent income gaps between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in Canada. It is well-known that income earnings for First Nations, Métis and Inuit continue to lag behind non-Aboriginal Canadians, but this paper takes a unique approach to the data, including its look at where Aboriginal people live, educational attainment and gender. The report is easy to read, includes excellent graphs and table, and is a great resource. Here are some of the highlights for me: At the 1996–2006 &#8220;rate of diminishment,&#8221; it will take 63 years for the Aboriginal population to close the income gap with the rest of Canada For reasons yet unknown, Canada’s Métis population experiences median incomes closer to the Canadian average than to other Aboriginal groups On urban reserves, non-Aboriginal people make up 44% of those working and earn 34% more than First Nation workers. Meanwhile, on rural reserves, non-Aboriginal Canadians, despite making up just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Residential School Money: Has It Helped Survivors Heal?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roberta Stout</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Aboriginal Healing Foundation (AHF) has just released The Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement’s Common Experience Payment and Healing: A Qualitative Study Exploring Impacts on Recipients. (PDF of study available here.) The Common Experience Payment (CEP) is a component of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement and is intended to monetarily recognize and compensate the experiences of former Residential School students. The study — a follow-up to the 2007 AHF report, Lump Sum Compensation Payments Research Project — builds upon 281 interviews with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Residential School Survivors. (Full disclosure: my mother and my friend Rick Harp co-authored the Lump Sum report.) Its aims were two-fold: to understand the impact of CEP on individual healing, and, to find out the roles of support services for CEP applicants. I&#8217;d like to highlight one of the findings about the CEP related to healing: [M]ost participants saw no connection between money and healing. No amount of compensation could repay the language and cultural losses incurred from a residential school system that lasted for 150 years and involved generations of Aboriginal children. Hence, for about half of the Survivors in the study, compensation made no difference to their well-being. As well, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Language Goes to Camp</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roberta Stout</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s with great interest that I came across the release of Culture Camps for Language Learning: An Immersion Handbook, produced by the BC-based First Peoples’ Heritage, Language and Culture Council. In my experience, culture camps like these present great opportunities for language learning. In July 2004, I participated in a week-long Cree immersion camp in Sturgeon Lake First Nation, Saskatchewan. Under the creative co-ordination of Belinda Daniels Fiss, the goal of the camp was to fully immerse us within the Cree language. In essence, it gave us a safe space to sing, dance, cook and eat nêhiyawêwin — word by word. Albeit brief, I was struck by the ease of being removed from the ever-present dominance of English. Leaving the camp, I was filled by the possibility of one day understanding and speaking my language. At the same time, I was overwhelmed by a profound anxiety that, within a generation or two, Cree could become one of the world&#8217;s dying Indigenous languages. I know that we will need collective and concerted efforts at protecting our languages.]]></description>
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