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Post by markr on Sept 12, 2021 2:09:29 GMT
Trudeau's broken promise of clean water for First Nations“A Canadian government led by me will address this as a top priority because it’s not right in a country like Canada. This has gone on for far too long.”
That top priority was abandoned last October when the government admitted that they would not make the mark.
They have given no updated timeline for when this national travesty will end. This is truly a travesty , after Walkerton there was a big campaign in Canada to provide clean water and proper sewage treatment to all communities. Many First Nation communities still do not have that, that was a long time ago!
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Post by george on Sept 12, 2021 2:11:59 GMT
They are all on the game one way or another so I don't watch any of them. Same with television in general - it tries to convey some moral imperative as to how you should live. I play my guitar every night and ignore all that pig fucker culture.
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Post by markr on Sept 12, 2021 2:31:03 GMT
My Daughter in Laws parents were both placed in residential schools and were negatively affected by this. The lifestyle that resulted from this ended their lives early and has continued into some of their children. My DIL has broke that cycle and is a abnormally in her family.
Canada is not alone in the world for doing this to indegenious people, look at Australia , New Zealand, every South American country and the USA.
The world should maybe not focus so much in the past as that can't be undone, we have full blown genocide happening right now all over the world!
All right I am getting off my soap box and going to "Sht up and play guitar"
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Post by Colchar on Sept 12, 2021 4:46:32 GMT
I used to watch CTV National News and their Toronto news at 11:00 and 11:30 respectively every night, but I just cannot do it any more because of the sensationalist spin they put on things. I started watching Global, but they do their national news in the evening and not again at night which is a bit useless if anything has happened since their evening broadcast. CTV used to be a well respected news channel back in the day with Lloyd Robertson, they must have changed ownership as they are now just left wing sensationalism supporting our currant governments agenda. As far as I know, they are owned by Bell Media. I checked the news on their cellphone app earlier today and there were multiple stories about some new poll from Nanos showing the Libs in the lead here in the GTA. But read any other source and the Libs are in trouble.
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Post by laristotle on Oct 23, 2021 23:07:24 GMT
Chris Sankey: Green policies have denied opportunities to First Nations, without any benefit to the planetEveryone’s attention is turning to the energy crisis in Europe and Asia and the increasing cost of petroleum products, with record-high natural gas prices and oil at $80 a barrel and rising. As a Tsimshian from northwest British Columbia, when I look at what’s happening in the markets, I wonder how much better off our communities would be if all the cancelled pipeline projects had gone ahead and B.C. was exporting LNG at these record prices. Article content
Over the past decade, whenever a pipeline or LNG project has been proposed for our territories, our communities were told that oil was dead. Many of those who participated in protests and offered misleading narratives about the energy sector are now in government.
Now, instead of enriching our communities and supplying Canadian energy to the world, Europe is increasing its reliance on Russian gas and the United States is calling on OPEC to produce more oil. Dictators are making tens of billions of dollars from the additional oil and gas production western countries are now crying for, while our communities continue to struggle. Is that the “just transition” activists were talking about?
If you think these were sacrifices worth making, realize that none of this is good for the environment. Given the lack of adequate oil and gas supplies, coal use is once again increasing. It was thought that coal demand had peaked in 2014, but now we are reaching new records of coal use — a terrible emitter of greenhouse gases — to fill the gaps caused by shortages of other fuels.
Sacrificing Indigenous communities’ prosperity so that global emissions can be counted in Russian, Saudi or Chinese columns instead of Canada’s, even though it has no impact on climate change, is deeply unfair.
What I want to ask is: who do you want Canadians and our allies to get oil and gas from — Canadian companies that have equity deals with Indigenous nations and concrete plans to reach net zero by 2050, or Russia and OPEC? That is the choice — not whether we will still need fossil fuels in 30 years.Chris Sankey is an Indigenous business leader, a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and a former elected councillor for the Lax Kw’alaams Band.
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Post by markr on Oct 30, 2021 15:23:03 GMT
There does not seem to be much consideration in the press anymore regarding the fires of social division they help to create. It would be nice to see media temper their presentations toward a more accurate representation of factual evidence instead of repeatedly feeding on the malcontent reactionary segment of the population. Unmarked graves are the point of exploitation in this...the rest of the details will be overshadowed by the outrage for sometime, until media revenues indicate that the mob is losing interest. Yes...I am a media cynic. I used to watch CTV National News and their Toronto news at 11:00 and 11:30 respectively every night, but I just cannot do it any more because of the sensationalist spin they put on things. I started watching Global, but they do their national news in the evening and not again at night which is a bit useless if anything has happened since their evening broadcast. I used to watch CTV news when they were cantered better than CBC was, they have made a huge left wing switch. I can not stand watching Trudeau posing and stuttering like a fool, even worse when CTV makes him out to be the saviour ! i have grown up around Indians, Metis, Aborginals, First Nations and now Indigeous people. Many of them my age grew up in residential schools, the schools achieved what they set out to do and destroyed and defeated a culture.
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Post by Colchar on Oct 30, 2021 17:13:41 GMT
I used to watch CTV National News and their Toronto news at 11:00 and 11:30 respectively every night, but I just cannot do it any more because of the sensationalist spin they put on things. I started watching Global, but they do their national news in the evening and not again at night which is a bit useless if anything has happened since their evening broadcast. I used to watch CTV news when they were cantered better than CBC was, they have made a huge left wing switch. I can not stand watching Trudeau posing and stuttering like a fool, even worse when CTV makes him out to be the saviour ! Their local news isn't too bad, but their national news is unwatchable. Only a minority of native kids were ever in those schools, many native leaders wanted the kids to attend, and their culture(s) survive.
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Post by markr on Oct 30, 2021 21:18:15 GMT
@colchar, Most of the indigenous people I knew when I was young went to school with me, some I met after school came from remote communities and went to a residential school away from their Rez . Their life on the Rez was not that great, some Rez's are not that nice. I have spent quite a bit of time working on a Rez with the locals.
Residential Schools along with Reservations destroyed the Indigenous culture 3-4 generations before I went to school in 1970. I would like to see our country move ahead with Reconcilition and Recognize the past. Rez's have a terrible gang, drug and alcohol issues, some have no drinking water or sewage treatment . There is some great Federal and Provincial Indigenous Governing leaders and the government should partner with them to move forward. Giving survivors money is not an effective way to right this wrong, it is the cheapest and not sustainable.
Just my2cents
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Post by zontar on Oct 30, 2021 22:51:50 GMT
@colchar, Most of the indigenous people I knew when I was young went to school with me, some I met after school came from remote communities and went to a residential school away from their Rez . Their life on the Rez was not that great, some Rez's are not that nice. I have spent quite a bit of time working on a Rez with the locals. Residential Schools along with Reservations destroyed the Indigenous culture 3-4 generations before I went to school in 1970. I would like to see our country move ahead with Reconcilition and Recognize the past. Rez's have a terrible gang, drug and alcohol issues, some have no drinking water or sewage treatment . There is some great Federal and Provincial Indigenous Governing leaders and the government should partner with them to move forward. Giving survivors money is not an effective way to right this wrong, it is the cheapest and not sustainable. Just my2cents Certainly some things need to be done, but what things & who to do them are tricky No matter what is decided -someone will protest or worse. And others will drag their feet. It isn't an easy situation to resolve. But I agree we shouldn't do nothing.
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Post by laristotle on Dec 7, 2021 23:47:35 GMT
We are Wet'suwet'en and the Coastal GasLink pipeline protesters do not represent usOur concerns are not about the pipeline itself. Some of us support it, some of us do not and some are neutral. Our issue is that our traditions and way of life are being misrepresented and dishonoured by a small group of protesters, many of whom are neither Gidimt’en nor Wet’suwet’en, but nonetheless claim to be acting in our name to protest natural gas development.
We want the protesters to cease their blockades and for them to stop misleading people and making false claims about our laws. This letter arises from the voices and concerns of a number of Wet’suwet’en matriarchs, Gidimt’en matriarchs, Gidimt’en clan members and members of other clans. We have the right to share our thoughts and concerns about our territory without backlash from those within our nation, but also from non-Wet’suwet’en people who have little or no understanding of our culture, our history, our internal dynamics or our ancestral ways.
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Post by infant on Dec 8, 2021 1:49:12 GMT
We are Wet'suwet'en and the Coastal GasLink pipeline protesters do not represent usOur concerns are not about the pipeline itself. Some of us support it, some of us do not and some are neutral. Our issue is that our traditions and way of life are being misrepresented and dishonoured by a small group of protesters, many of whom are neither Gidimt’en nor Wet’suwet’en, but nonetheless claim to be acting in our name to protest natural gas development.
We want the protesters to cease their blockades and for them to stop misleading people and making false claims about our laws. This letter arises from the voices and concerns of a number of Wet’suwet’en matriarchs, Gidimt’en matriarchs, Gidimt’en clan members and members of other clans. We have the right to share our thoughts and concerns about our territory without backlash from those within our nation, but also from non-Wet’suwet’en people who have little or no understanding of our culture, our history, our internal dynamics or our ancestral ways. My daughter works at the Jukasa studio on the Six Nations Reserve. Over the last 10 yrs, there have been a few land disputes with some home builders in Caledonia and when they protest there, they block the Caledonia Bypass forcing everyone to drive through the city. Lately, their latest spokesperson, Skylar Williams, has been one of those people protesting the pipeline and misleading people like the article says. A few weeks ago, he and a few other people from Six Nations went to BC to protest and got arrested. Within hours, protesters here in Ontario shut down the Caledonia Bypass for a few days until Skylar and his group were released. Working on the reserve, my daughter has learned to take all the backroads to get to work as she never knows when the protesters will strike again.
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Post by laristotle on Jan 5, 2022 0:30:50 GMT
Government announces $40-billion settlement over Indigenous child-welfare systemHalf of the money will going toward compensating an estimated 200,000 children who were either taken from their homes or denied medical services over the past three decades.
The other half of the settlement will attempt to address the chronic underfunding of the system, with $20 billion over five years earmarked to improve services in Indigenous communities so children will no longer be removed from their homes.
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Post by markr on Jan 5, 2022 12:21:38 GMT
Well there you have it, our Liberal think tank has fixed the problem! At least until that money is gone.
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Post by keto on Jan 17, 2022 15:25:00 GMT
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Post by laristotle on Jan 17, 2022 15:39:33 GMT
The bulk of the article details myth-busting evidence that should act as a cautionary tale against uncritical acceptance of feelings-based narratives over objective academic inquiry. Rouillard concludes, “It is hard to believe that a preliminary search for an alleged cemetery or mass grave in an apple orchard … could have led to such a spiral of claims endorsed by the Canadian government and repeated by mass media all over the world … Imaginary stories and emotion have outweighed the pursuit of truth.”
Rouillard’s essay then terminates in a well-considered question — one all Canadians should ponder — that could be applied with equal relevance to The Walrus’s cancelling of Tomson Highway and MRU’s firing of Frances Widdowson: “On the road to reconciliation, isn’t the best way to seek and tell the whole truth rather than deliberately create sensational myths?”
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Post by edwardbloom on Jan 23, 2022 7:38:46 GMT
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Post by george on Jan 23, 2022 13:51:47 GMT
That sums it up pretty good.
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Post by laristotle on Jan 23, 2022 16:35:34 GMT
Only a hopelessly, deluded, vacuous and overly emotionally driven society, could lose it's collective minds over a thesis, over a potentiality rather than waiting for proof and working on solutions with all facts in hand.
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Post by Colchar on Jan 24, 2022 6:16:33 GMT
We are Wet'suwet'en and the Coastal GasLink pipeline protesters do not represent usOur concerns are not about the pipeline itself. Some of us support it, some of us do not and some are neutral. Our issue is that our traditions and way of life are being misrepresented and dishonoured by a small group of protesters, many of whom are neither Gidimt’en nor Wet’suwet’en, but nonetheless claim to be acting in our name to protest natural gas development.
We want the protesters to cease their blockades and for them to stop misleading people and making false claims about our laws. This letter arises from the voices and concerns of a number of Wet’suwet’en matriarchs, Gidimt’en matriarchs, Gidimt’en clan members and members of other clans. We have the right to share our thoughts and concerns about our territory without backlash from those within our nation, but also from non-Wet’suwet’en people who have little or no understanding of our culture, our history, our internal dynamics or our ancestral ways. My daughter works at the Jukasa studio on the Six Nations Reserve. Over the last 10 yrs, there have been a few land disputes with some home builders in Caledonia and when they protest there, they block the Caledonia Bypass forcing everyone to drive through the city. Lately, their latest spokesperson, Skylar Williams, has been one of those people protesting the pipeline and misleading people like the article says. A few weeks ago, he and a few other people from Six Nations went to BC to protest and got arrested. Within hours, protesters here in Ontario shut down the Caledonia Bypass for a few days until Skylar and his group were released. Working on the reserve, my daughter has learned to take all the backroads to get to work as she never knows when the protesters will strike again. My former roommates are from small town Ontario down that way. They know some of the protestors and say they do it at Caledonia because Yuppies and city folk live there, but that they would never dare try that stuff down where my roommates are from because they know the locals would fight back - and hard. They say the natives are good about picking their spots.
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Post by Colchar on Jan 24, 2022 6:33:04 GMT
The bulk of the article details myth-busting evidence that should act as a cautionary tale against uncritical acceptance of feelings-based narratives over objective academic inquiry. Rouillard concludes, “It is hard to believe that a preliminary search for an alleged cemetery or mass grave in an apple orchard … could have led to such a spiral of claims endorsed by the Canadian government and repeated by mass media all over the world … Imaginary stories and emotion have outweighed the pursuit of truth.”
Rouillard’s essay then terminates in a well-considered question — one all Canadians should ponder — that could be applied with equal relevance to The Walrus’s cancelling of Tomson Highway and MRU’s firing of Frances Widdowson: “On the road to reconciliation, isn’t the best way to seek and tell the whole truth rather than deliberately create sensational myths?” But even before that, her fate was likely sealed in 2016 when she protested the plan to “indigenize” learning, an ideology-based plan to “embrace Indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing, to integrate Indigenous teachings and practices.”
Widdowson is happy to see Indigenous beliefs studied, objectively, as we do other belief systems like Christianity, but indigenized learning forces students to actively valorize these “ways of knowing” as equal to science-based knowledge. Such coerced genuflection to other people’s idols is just not on for her.This is happening where I work. And if our union, currently in contract negotiations and work to rule (we've been without a contract since October 1st), doesn't drop its demands around Indigenous ways of knowing and decolonization I will be resigning my post as a union steward.
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Post by Colchar on Jan 24, 2022 6:50:56 GMT
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Post by laristotle on Feb 3, 2022 0:19:48 GMT
Land acknowledgements have become empty gestures. But there is a path to reconciliationBefore practically any public gathering nowadays, there is an acknowledgement that the event is taking place on the traditional territories of First Nations. It’s a nice sentiment, a recognition of past injustices. But over time, as the status quo has remained the same, it has becoming hollow and without any real value.
It is as though First Nations people are being told, “We acknowledge that we stole your land, but we are not giving it back. So as long as we acknowledge our misdeeds, we are all good, right?” Actually, far from it. What Canada’s First Nations want is action, not acknowledgement. We need reconciliation that has real value, not empty gestures.
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Post by laristotle on Feb 15, 2022 11:33:31 GMT
Marchers topple 'pedophile' Gassy Jack's statue in Vancouver's GastownA statue of controversial early Vancouver figure Gassy Jack Deighton was pulled down and splashed with red paint on Monday by people participating in a Valentine’s Day march to memorialize missing and murdered women.
The march in the Downtown Eastside has been held annually for three decades to highlight the women, many of whom were Indigenous and vulnerable.
The statue of Gassy Jack at Maple Tree Square in Gastown depicts the saloon keeper — the namesake for the Gastown neighbourhood — who, at age 40, married a 12-year-old Indigenous girl. She ran away at 15 after giving birth to a son.
The crowd was chanting “No more colonists. No more pedophiles.”
“The City of Vancouver has been in consultations with Squamish Nation on the right way to remove the Gassy Jack statue and recognize the truth of John Deighton’s harmful legacy,” said Stewart on Twitter.
“Today’s actions were dangerous and undermines ongoing work with Squamish to guide steps to reconciliation.”
“The city, the people of Gastown, Indigenous people, they should discuss what to do about it now and come to some kind of consensus,” said Haliburton.
She thought a more appropriate approach would have been more plaques at the site to explain the context and to reflect the “different values” of that time in history.
“History, even bad history, has to be preserved,” she said. “Why can’t we (discuss a solution) in a peaceful manner?”
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Post by laristotle on Feb 20, 2022 11:56:26 GMT
The obsession to replace Egerton RyersonA few months ago, when thugs with a Mohawk flag toppled the statue of Ryerson near the institute’s southern gate, and then lopped off its head, no one in the administration worked up a sweat.
The desecration fit its underlying narrative: Ryerson was quite likely the architect of the residential school system that indeed brought hell on Canada’s Indigenous.
But that would be a lie. Why would an academic institute knowingly use a lie to sell its objective?
“Although the task force conceded that Ryerson was not “the architect” of the residential school system, it repeated other accusations against him as if they were true,” wrote McDonald. “Yet — something that should be of crucial interest in a university — a long record of scholarly publications about Ryerson by serious researchers, extending from 1937 to 2021, yields no evidence to implicate him.”
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which reported in 2015, did not blame Ryerson for the residential schools; nor did its chair, Murray Sinclair, when he gave the Faculty Lecture at Ryerson a year later,” wrote MacDonald.
“But the accusations against Ryerson are now both widespread in social media and uncritically repeated in television and newspaper accounts.”
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Post by laristotle on Mar 22, 2022 23:36:31 GMT
When there is foreign interference, especially from high-profile celebrities like Ruffalo, it sets Indigenous communities backOnce again, Indigenous people are being stereotyped as anti-resource, when in fact only a minority hold this position, as evidenced by the fact that all 20 First Nations along the line have approved the project.
Six Alberta First Nations invested $93 million in a natural gas power plant near Edson. In the coming decades, the plant will provide hundreds of millions of dollars to First Nations and reduce carbon emissions. We are stewards of the land who are looking at technology to fight climate change.
When there is foreign interference, especially from high-profile celebrities like Ruffalo, it sets us back. He does not think beyond the pipeline. He does not think beyond the cause of the day.
Over the long term, such actions serve to drive away investment and keep Indigenous communities in poverty. We are dealing with so many social issues, including high rates of suicide, incarceration and homelessness. Speaking on our behalf is not the answer if you fail to acknowledge the entire story.
Indigenous people have a right to prosper. We are inclusive of all industries because we need to work on a clear, concise transition plan. To fight climate change, we need to be open to more environmentally friendly technologies, without ruling out cleaner-burning fossil fuels, and ensure that a variety of people and industries, including First Nations and the energy sector, can come together to address our shared challenges. Ruffalo’s actions will only serve to hinder this process and keep First Nations impoverished.
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Post by laristotle on Apr 10, 2022 0:08:53 GMT
Removal of Alexander Wood statue from Toronto's gay village ignores Indigenous historyIndigenous activists often argue that it is important to recognize Indigenous resiliency, which includes acknowledging historical instances where Indigenous people found ways to further their interests — such as when Chief Shingwaukonse and his successors tried to leverage European knowledge to further Ojibway economic power. These kinds of stories imbue Indigenous history with dignity and strength and show that Indigenous people were more than passive receptacles of European violence.
And yet the BIA, despite being so preoccupied with history, appears to have ignored impacted community members and experts.
An Ojibway man who works on a reserve in Northern Ontario reached out to me when he saw news of the statue’s removal and complained of white virtue signalling. “There is an addiction of white people wanting to use Indigenous culture for their agenda. It’s so gross,” he said.
Indeed it is. How else can you describe an organization that claims to be acting on behalf of a victimized group, but then fails to consult that group, while contradicting victims’ interpretation of their own history?
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Post by laristotle on Apr 28, 2022 0:33:09 GMT
Erasing Ryerson, and the Henry Dundas hoaxToronto should abandon the idea of renaming Dundas Street. Otherwise, the city would simply be falling for a very costly hoax, the second in as many years
Across Ontario, cities, towns and counties are quietly shelving the idea that their Dundas Street should be renamed. That idea was sparked in Toronto in 2020 when Mayor John Tory asked city staff to dig up dirt on Henry Dundas (1742-1811), a Scot who had served as home secretary and then secretary of war in the British government at the time of the French Revolution. The mayor needed to justify the change of a street name that has been a fixture in Toronto for over 200 years.
The report was submitted last year and, of course, recommended that the city rename the street. The cost was estimated at over $6 million. It was accepted by city council, including the mayor, but the vote was far from unanimous. It’s now time for John Tory to state his position, especially since he has announced that he will run for a third term.
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Post by laristotle on May 27, 2022 0:46:13 GMT
The year of the graves: How the world’s media got it wrong on residential school gravesThe coverage triggered protests, church arsons and condemnation from Canada’s bad-faith rivals, but last summer’s reporting on the country's long-acknowledged historic shame had little to do with what happened.
This is how it all began, a year ago this week: ‘Horrible History’: Mass Grave of Indigenous Children Reported in Canada. On May 28, 2021, that’s how the New York Times headlined the first of a summer-long series of gruesome “discoveries” that precipitated a descent into paroxysms of shame, guilt and rage that swept across the country.
That first story was ostensibly about 215 children whose remains were discovered in a mass grave at the site of the long-shuttered Kamloops Indian Residential School, on the grounds of the main Tk’emlúps te Secwe̓pemc reserve in British Columbia’s southern interior. The New York Times headline illustrates the way the story was almost universally reported.
Except that’s not what happened in Kamloops.
In the following weeks, while the term “mass graves” generally gave way to “unmarked graves,” a cascade of breaking news events purported to reveal several discoveries of what eventually added up to more than 1,300 child burials at other residential school sites across Canada. Except that’s not what happened in those places, either.
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Post by laristotle on May 28, 2022 0:14:31 GMT
Geoff Russ is a Haida journalist and writer based in British Columbia. Radical activist is as unhelpful an Indigenous stereotype as the noble warrior For all last year’s regurgitated rhetoric of listening, learning, and understanding Indigenous people, there is remarkably little of that actually happening. It is nearly a cliche at this point, but the anti-pipeline blockades on Wet’suwet’en land perfectly symbolize the divide between what non-Indigenous people think Indigenous people want, and what the latter actually wants. If many of our alleged “allies” really listened to Indigenous people, they wouldn’t like what they had to hear.
If expanded pipeline and forestry operations weren’t what activists had in mind when they called for incorporating Indigenous ways of knowing into public discourse, they should have done more research. The elected councils of the First Nations located on the pipeline’s route approved the project, despite the university-brewed stereotype of Indigenous people as being anti-development. Although created by the Indian Act, elected councils aren’t illegitimate as representative of a people’s will, no less than in any other democratic system. The pipeline’s steel is in the ground, and it isn’t coming out. Indigenous people are in a better place than ever to determine their own futures. Yet, after the unmarked burial sites captured the Canadian public’s hearts and minds, the method of creating the portrayal of Indigenous people has not changed. Will we still be largely misunderstood and typecast this time next year? Probably. Decolonization Inc. has too many textbooks to sell, television slots to fill, and Patreon donations to harvest, to stop treating First Nations as plot devices for made-up narratives.
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Post by stratosphere on May 30, 2022 13:04:00 GMT
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