Lost Budgie expands on a Toronto Star item titled “Mixed-Race Son Can’t Fish With Dad – Licences for Band Members Only”;
Unmentioned in the article is the reason why the band’s “mixed-race” children do not have Official Native Status.
For the Ontario Government, this is a no-win situation that won’t get any better. Canada’s Indian Act racial purity laws are colliding head-on with changing demographics as the number of Official Status Native Canadians dwindles due to mixed marriages and falling birth rates.
Meanwhile, the Canadian Bar Association recently put forward a politely watered-down motion supporting race-based appointments of Native Canadians to various benches, including to the Supreme Court of Canada. The motion didn’t define how racially pure Native Canadians should be to meet the criteria for any of these juicy appointments.
Perhaps the Canadian Bar Association can issue some clarification. Will 50% native bloodline do? How about 75%? How racially pure is pure enough?
Indeed. I can’t find an independant online source, but a few years ago I recall an interview (maybe on CBC?) that mentioned that virtually all North American Indians descend from European males when one traces up the father’s side of the “family tree”. If true, not entirely surprising, given our history.
That said, these “am so, are not” methods of Indian Act identification are so 1990’s. There’s no longer any need to drag out the geneological charts and family albums to prove “racial purity”. We have the technology!
Now, I await the inevitable head explosions from those staunch defenders of Canada’s Racial Segregation Industry as they condemn the existance of a test that would quite neatly sort the “real” Indians from the watered down pretenders.
I saw a news report a while back on some land-fishing/hunting-type ancestral rights dispute in the Maritimes (not Newfoundland, obviously) and the band leader, whose name was “Bob Smith” or something, looked about as native as I look Nigerian. He was all worked up about his “people”, but it would have been hard for anyone to watch his vocalized trauma-remembrance without having lingering, um, considerations about what, exactly, consistutes a people.
If land claims and demands for compensation were purely about race, half of the people on reserves would be given the proverbial apple-and-a-roadmap.
I think the day is fast approaching when the science of genetics is going to blow the whole race-based compensation industry to shreds. It had better, or my haplogroup, R1B (M343) will be looking for a little payback…er, backpay.
Hey I was hoping to get my papers so I could finally have a shot at all those government jobs that say white males need not apply.
Blast!
In Liberano land of the fools, Kate, Indian people are singled out as the ONLY people to have ‘inheritance rights’ eg. treaty rights from ONLY male ancestors. If your Mom is white and your Dad is a native Indian you are ‘in’, other way around -you are ‘out’. This was written in the treaty that established the Niska final agreement in B.C. – it is a temp plate for all Native Indian people in Canada I think…correct me if I am wrong.
Women were not very important to most Native Indian tribes in North America. My great grandfather was hired by the government to move the Icelanders that came to Canada in the late 1800’s to Grimly, Man. My grandfather wanted to hire a few Native Indians for guides so he asked an Indian friend of his to help him find some men. His friend told him he would not go unless he could take some Native Indian women; my great grandad said he (my grandad) would not advise they come along because it would be a rough trip and that taking care of the Icelandic women would be enough trouble. His native Indian friend, thinking (probably) that my great grandad was stupid or not well informed, informed the latter that Native Indian women could pack half as much as a horse, didn’t eat as much as a horse, would cook for the men, set up camp etc. AND didn’t cost as much as a horse if she (the Native woman) died!! Let’s be very, very clear – ‘it is about the money, stupid’. My great grandfather hired some Scothmen who were willing to cook for themselves.
Women weren’t important? I’ll go do some digging if I have time, but that was not my understanding. As for “watered down pretenders” Kate, WHY, when being Aboriginal is generally a negative in terms of employment (in the real world, where hiring quotas don’t exist), would someone want to pretend? That doesn’t make much sense.
Wheee! This is just like Apartheid South Africa.
Talk about multiculturalism.
Candace, I think some people would falsely claim Aboriginal ancestry to avail themselves of all the benefits Aboriginals receive exclusively on the basis of race. I’m not well-versed on all the benefits, but it’s common knowledge that Aboriginals get preferential treatment in, for example, civil service hiring. But that’s only one thing. In short, the motivation is money. The means is fraud. Nothing new about that, I guess.
I knew a guy who doesn’t look Aboriginal at all- he’s got red hair and freckles. One day he showed me his Native ID card. Apparently he’s a resident of a Nova Scotia reservation. But he lives here in New Brunswick. I think something’s fishy… perhaps he’s participating fully in Canadian economic and social life AND benefiting somehow from being an Aboriginal on a reservation? This goes over my head. What’s going on in this country? Something’s amiss.
BTW, WRT MWW, that woman is definitely insane and urgently needs professional psychiatric help. I recognize this kind of obsessive, delusional behavior in the stalker of someone I know who earlier this year ended up getting arrested and spending time in the nuthouse. That after many years of stalking. She had previously broken into the guy’s house. It just gets worse. Kate, I hope you have some kind of security system in your house, including video surveillance, perhaps of the wireless web-based variety now available. This woman, MWW, could be dangerous.
Stephen – I have no dog in the Kate / MWW conflict, but I think it is tenuous (at best) to diagnose obsessive, delusional behaviour on the basis of reading some posts on a blog or a webpage. Even lots of posts.
Dean
A very good friend of mine is a treaty Indian from Manitoba. She has been with her white boyfriend for decades who is the father of their 3 daughters. She refuses to get married and lose her “status”, free education for her kids, cash from the reserve, etc. She’s is also quite sure she’d lose her well paying job at Indian Oil and Gas.
You might check her latest attempt at anonymity, then;
http://smalldeadanimals.blogspot.com
And then, there are private email campaigns over past weeks, trying to smear Monte Solberg (of all people) for not “denouncing” me, claims to cost the conservative party donations, the posts to forums under assumed names, and the replies to herself under different assumed names, quoting her own various personalities in her former blankouttimes.blogspot.com and the current behavior at no-treason.com (she’s already set up a notreason.blogspot.com site and is non-stop posting there as well) …
there is so much evidence of mental instability out there under the various names that Meaghan Walker Williams (admits to) using, that it can’t be ignored.
Let me tell you, it doesn’t take much to find some native ancestry if your family line has been here for say 200 years. I have a friend in Nova Scotia going to University right now on the government’s dime – God knows where they dug up the native ancestry. The guy is damn near aryan nations blond for crying out loud. Yeah, the watered down variety do it for the benefits – though I doubt he’s putting that on his resume when he’s done.
I did view the SDA 2.0 site of MWW. I was astonished at how far one woman could go to viciously defame you, Kate. I cannot imagine why in the world she’s doing this. I can only guess she’s perhaps a brainwashed left-wing extremist with an obsessive-compulsive disorder running totally out of control.
It’s a warning sign of a potentially dangerous mind. A cry for help, at least. Too bad the current state regime will not provide for her to receive the help she obviously needs. No way are the authorities going to care about a raging leftist defaming a good, innocent, law-abiding citizen. They always wait ’till someone actually gets hurt. I say, someone who exhibits illegal behavior (defamation) to such a bizarre extreme should be at least picked up for questioning and warning by police. At least.
BTW, the stalker nut I described earlier is out of the loonie bin. That after just a few months. And you know what? The victim was warned by police to put stronger security measures in place at his house. Looks like they let the nut out too early to make room for another nut or something. They also apparently believe she’s still dangerous, but let her go scot free. Reminds me of Karla Homolka, who’s back in the news and it sounds like she’s as dangerous as ever, if her employer is right.
Dcardno, I have to disagree with you on the diagnostics in this particular case. Obsessiveness, at the extreme end, is easy to spot. I mean, it’s one thing to post insults that are directed to just one other person, even to do so serially, but to make it your life’s work is indisputably a form of mental illness. I doubt that any psychiatrist would disagree.
MWW, with her stable of imaginary characters, is unwell. She is clearly infatuated with her own hatred, which is more than unhealthy. She examines different facets of that hatred in an almost loving way, and with an intensity of motivation that one would normally associate with romantic love, or childrearing.
Let’s hope that someone close to her, someone strong and able-bodied, will steer her into the mental health system before she harms herself or others. She has a child to look after; and when you combine such a level of obvious agitation with a massive weight problem, she is obviously at an elevated risk for having a heart event.
The mental health profession has come a long way in the last twenty years or so, and there are many effective treaments available these days. I hope that she gets well, and feels better soon. I’m sure there are brighter days ahead.
Apartvis.
Mark
Ottawa
Hey the mental health industry has a vested interest in increading the numbers of the mentally unhealthy.
Kill all the physcologists and we have have a lot more sanity in this country.
Regarding Indians … I keep wanting to slap them all upside the head and tell them to get a life, but then I realize it’s the f–king politicians that are responsible for giving us all these trough sucking Indians. In fact they give us too many trough sucking everyones.
Soooo Kill all the politicians and we have have much better self-reliant Indians … and other people too.
I’m just really pissed off today. I have read too much insanity, political correctness, multicult shit, and general political horse shit for one day.
I need a drink.
Wow, MWW’s blog that trashes Kate is pretty extensive. Don’t know where she finds the time for bingo.
By the way Kate, you’re the breed expert. How pure does a pure-bred dog have to be to qualify? Just curious.
Depends on the registry, but most demand 100%, meaning both parents have to be registered by an accredited breed registry that maintains a studbook, such as the AKC, CKC, FCI, etc.
Gene pools have been closed in many breeds for close to a century, though there are rare instances where new stock is allowed in under controlled programs designed to broaden a breed’s gene pool.
(There’s no such thing as registering a dog as a “poodle” that’s 1/8th cocker spaniel, however.)
Apartvis? What’s that, other than the fabled one-hit google search?
MWW has a child? Good Lord! Whatever happened to the state protecting children from obviously unfit, obviously not-there parents?
No wonder so many more people each subsequent generation are so messed up. That’s another of liberalism’s legacy of terrible errors.
The state has failed again.
Oh, the humanity!
Skelly: “Apartvis” is my neologism in Afrikaans, translatable as “separate fish” (cf. “apartheid”).
Mark
Ottawa
Trudeau and his marvelous Constitution added the Metis to the list of “specials of the day”. Only in his hurry to ram it thru he forgot to define what exactly a Metis is, so naturally the courts are only to happy to do so! So in Ontario a man with 1/128th native ancestry, and his son with 1/256th ancestry was exonerated in the courts for hunting out of season ( with a jack light no less). They (Metis) are now demanding resourse rights logging fishing etc. At this point it is unclear (the courts will decide)what % native still qualifies for all native rights!
They Metis) also have land claims advancing in courts in several Provinces