The Land Is Sacred

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Assembly of First Nations

 
Indigenous peoples are caretakers of Mother Earth and realize and respect her gifts of water, air and fire. First Nations peoples’ have a special relationship with the earth and all living things in it. This relationship is based on a profound spiritual connection to Mother Earth that guided indigenous peoples to practice reverence, humility and reciprocity. It is also based on the subsistence needs and values extending back thousands of years. It is also based on the subsistence needs and values extending back thousands of years. Hunting, gathering, and fishing to secure food includes harvesting food for self, family, the elderly, widows, the community, and for ceremonial purposes. Everything is taken and used with the understanding that we take only what we need, and we must use great care and be aware of how we take and how much of it so that future generations will not be put in peril.

56 Replies to “The Land Is Sacred”

  1. If that’s the case, will they abandon all the white man’s culture they appropriated from us? Are they willing to go back to hunting with stone-tipped spears and having dogs pull their travois?

    1. Was working out of Black Lake Saskatchewan a few decades ago. Caribou used to collect in the middle of the lake in winter…so they could see the wolves. Tribe rode out on snow machines, shot all the Caribou and took just the hump. Left the rest. On another occasion came upon a native winter camp out in bush. What a stink! Stack of winter long camp of Pampers piled in the water (on the ice in winter), just left. Rummaging around found a nice .22 cal rifle, with the just a bit of rust. Round still in the chamber.
      Can’t count the times I came across a net strung out and full of rotted fish. Forgot where it was I guess. That’s smell you never forget.
      “Everything is taken and used with the understanding that we take only what we need, and we must use great care and be aware of how we take and how much of it so that future generations will not be put in peril.”

      Bullchips!

    2. And no plywood for their shacks. Back to adze-hewn planks … all the rage among the intelligentsia “back to rustic” types.

      1. They wouldn’t last 2 days out there. I actually had a couple claim stakers out doing work for me in Northern Saskatchewan (early 1980’s). Real bushmen. Their camp was a 10 x 12 canvas tent, squaw pole type, with a tarp. These guys were pros. I went out (about a 30 mile snow ride cross country) to visit in the evening to discuss the work they’d be doing. Nice camp. In N. Sask. the ground is sand, lots of sand with moss coverage. The interior was scraped down to …..sand. Add in a 36″ airtight, stuffed full and that sand “floor” was just warm as toast. Better than a rug. Take your boots off and set a spell. Tuck your bare feet into that sand. These guys “walked” everywhere. No Skidoo. Drop ’em off on a lake from a Beaver and off to work they went for a couple of weeks. Snow shoes only. Temps were -50 odd at night ….mercury buried below the -40 mark and into the bubble. More “native” than real Natives. I brought the whiskey.

  2. Sounds very noble and inspiring, but that was then. Now they’re just as dependent on modern amenities as anyone else, and some of them rape and pillage the land when they go into the wilds because they’re not subject to the restrictions imposed on the rest of us.

  3. A tire fire. That will surely purify the land water and air thereabouts won’t it? It’s a good thing it is the guardians of Mother Earth doin’ it. If it was me I might get criticized for polluting.

    1. DLM, Heather Tokyo Rose Hiscox, on the CBC Morning News show today, reported on the tire fires, with the Ceeb showing oh-so-exciting shots of the night tire fires. But Tokyo Rose did not mention the GHG implications of the fires. Can’t explain why she did not. A real head scratcher that.

      Btw, CBC News is whipping up support for the retaliatory blockades. The corrupt corporation has it in for working and retired Canadians

      1. That’s because they are “good” tire fires, “good” for Mommy Gaia.

  4. And in the background is what looks like a brand new Canadian Army ten man arctic tent. Wonder what truck that fell off of?

  5. ” Indigenous peoples are caretakers of Mother Earth and realize and respect her gifts of water, air and fire. First Nations peoples’ have a special relationship with the earth and all living things in it.”

    I have personally been on several Indian reservations and “caretakers of Mother Earth” is not how I would describe the wanton garbage and destruction of land and animals I’ve witnessed there.

    “Everything is taken and used with the understanding that we take only what we need”

    What a Crock. There is a place called Smashed in Head Buffalo Jump right here in Alberta where the Blackfoot used to stampede buffalo herds over a cliff to harvest them. Anthropologists have dug up the site and their findings were that an estimated 80% of the buffalo that went over that cliff were wasted. The Indians used to just cut the tongues and the humps off of the buffalo and leave the rest to rot.
    All of the this “cartakers of Mother Erf” and “take only what we need wasting nothing” crap was gleaned by the Indians from the writings of “Grey Owl”.(a Fake Indian)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Owl

    They also got a lot of this modern B.S. lore from Hollywood movies.(Hollywood actually cribbed a lot of it’s Injun movie lore from Grey Owl)

    1. Pierce Brosnan played Grey Owl in a movie made about him 20 or so years ago. Archibald Belaney (his real name) was a bit of a fruitloop himself.

      Maybe he was influenced by the works of Karl May, the German equivalent to Zane Grey. May wrote all sorts of westerns (his favourite characters being Old Shatterhand and his faithful Indian friend Winnetou), and his novels sold well in Europe. May, however, never set foot in the Old West until later in his life.

      If I recall correctly, May wrote many of his books while in debtor prison.

      1. “Archibald Belaney (his real name) was a bit of a fruitloop himself.”

        No kidding. Belaney’s big deal was the conservation of beavers. Beavers! They’re frickin’ rodents that reek destruction on all the land within hundreds of feet of the creeks or ponds they make their lodges in.
        The dream and life purpose of every beaver is to turn the land as far as their little vermin eyes can see into Water World by chewing down saplings and building dams. In north Calgary at Nose Creek Park the little buggers ruined 2 expensive concrete bridges by building dams and undermining the abutments.

        1. I do not know for other provinces, but beavers are ravaging Ontario as we speak.
          Ontario residents no longer allowed to remove the dams, unless they are farmers whose fields or building are being damaged.
          I have seen dozens of properties for sale, and every time that it was below the market value for the acreages, there was always a sprawling beaver dam on the lot, or several.
          Thanks to the beavers, the availability of land in Ontario is shrinking at a frightening rate.
          All while the treehugger types who had never set foot outside of DT TO are sipping their latte.

    2. Oz,yep. I’ve been on many a Rez,and there’s no game anywhere near most of ’em, because they shot them all off.My brother worked for three years on a construction crew located on a Rez, owned by Indians around 2010. One of his fellow workers shot 7 moose one year, none of the meat was wasted as he gave away any he didn’t use,but that’s a hell of a lot of meat shot by just one guy.
      FN Rez’s are to earth conservation what Jeffrey Epstein was to the modelling business.

      1. Many years ago, I spoke with a fellow ham in a certain Alaskan village on the shore of the Bering Sea. Afterward, I decided to search for more information about the place and I came across a Wikipedia entry for it.

        I was irritated by the condescending attitude of whoever wrote the bit about the financial situation of the village. The population was overwhelmingly Yup’ik and the average income was around $10,000 US a year. The writer (maybe an SJW, for all I know) whined about how poor the people were, but failed to mention that the natives have the right to go hunting pretty much any time.

        While they may be poor in terms of money, a large game animal, such as a moose or caribou, could easily feed a family. Compare that with how much a side of beef costs and add that amount to the average income. Suddenly, the people might not be so poor after all.

        1. A side of beef costs $6/lb. That means $2200 or $4400 for the whole young cow, organs included. How do I know? I buy them every Christmas. Yes, I buy all of my family’s meat ration once a year.

    3. Fly over Rankin Inlet, NWT sometime. Memorable in the summer for the garbage strewn in every nook and cranny. Drifts of garbage. Yeah, I’ve been just about everywhere in Kanader.

    4. Thank-you Oz for your initial comments, you can be poor and live in the worst house in town but all it takes is a little pride and a little manual labour to keep your yard clean, a paint job on the house, replaced broken windows etc. Their respect for ‘Mother Earth’ is merely a talking point…….used when necessary. There was a recent court case of an Aboriginal chief accused of stealing well over 200k from his tribe, his defence, “well all the other chiefs are doing the same thing”. Wasn’t Harpers bill for the publishing of chiefs salaries meant to shine a light on this sort of nonsense…….oh ya ‘sock puppet’ removed that law.

  7. “Indigenous peoples are caretakers of Mother Earth”
    “This relationship is based on a profound spiritual connection to Mother Earth”
    How do they learn this relationship and how to take care of Mother Earth? If that is by oral tradition, it can be recorded and translated. More likely it’s by osmosis. Or else it must be genetic.
    So let’s do an experiment. Give them ten, a hundred thousand acres of land, whereon they can do everything they please. Other people are not allowed there. There will be no contact. There will also be nothing modern. No vehicles. No brick houses. No running water. Let them live on the “subsistence needs extending back thousands of years.” Give them, say, ten years and see what they can come up with.
    Sounds like something they should go for.

    1. “So let’s do an experiment. Give them ten, a hundred thousand acres of land, whereon they can do everything they please.”

      You’re an American aren’t you? It would blow you away to actually know how much land the 600 or so Indian tribes in Canada have.
      You say acres? No, the term is hectares. They already do as they please with the land they have.
      Here in Alberta we have the best grass fed beef in the world. Much of it grazes on Indian reservations. The Indians are paid for the grazing rights and they take a few beeves here an there. Do the Indians ranch beef cattle? No. Instead they have Indian ponies of dubious value.
      Do the Indians farm the huge tracts of land they have? No. I’ve seen rusting, brand new, never used farming equipment surrounding the Chief’s house on the Gleichen Siksika(Lakota Blackfoot) Reservation east of Calgary. I’ve stayed there and eaten with them after they’ve spent the monthly Reservation cheques and no money was left except what the older women had salted away. Each meal I’d pray I didn’t catch something that would kill me the places were that filthy. The stories I could tell you, man. Sad really.
      Yet there was always some family on each reserve that the rest of them looked down on and mistreated.
      After the Residential Schools fiasco, nothing can be done for these people.

      1. As we build (unfortunately) large solar panel projects several thoughts occur:

        – who cleans snow off the panels in winter?
        – where do they put the snow?
        – will these things act as snow fences and get buried in big snow drifts?

        – how much for hail insurance?

    3. That was tried already when the treaties were first signed. It was a failure, as those folks can’t farm.

  8. The gullible nature of progressives allows them to see native people in that old “noble savage” tradition.

    Most of us have had some dealings with natives that produce a rather different impression.

    This stuff about “indigenous elders” is about the equivalent of saying, when we deal with a town (any town), we will simultaneously consult the elected town council and the guys sitting around at the Legion, or maybe the local golf club, and if they have two totally different sets of opinions, then we will formulate policy based on some blend of the two.

    All of this pandering to an extremist native agenda is fuelling fires of resentments on both sides, and inducing the vain hope among some native activists and their leftist collaborators that we can totally re-write history.

    I have this vision that Horgan for example would be happy enough if he were the only European left in British Columbia after the rest of us were forcibly repatriated to the four corners of the earth. Then he could be at peace with his native brothers (and no doubt meddle in their politics getting himself banished to the Place Where No Salmon Swim.

    The native leadership (some of them at least) have figured out they can twist the screw by playing this custodian of the earth card and affecting to believe in climate change. I am guessing that they just laugh about that behind closed doors. Surely they can’t be as stupid as leftists themselves, after all, that is a special kind of stupid that you can only acquire after many years of higher education.

    Anyway, I think it’s all a farce, and I wish more “rank and file” native Canadians would speak out because they have many horror stories to tell about these entrenched reservation elites who manage this post-colonial system for their white masters. Oddly, the one good idea the elder Trudeau ever had was to abolish all distinctions (in law) between whites and natives. If we had only gone down that road instead of this byzantine and eventually catastrophic set of errors known as reconciliation.

    2. I read an interesting book about Champlain dealing with the First Nations in the 1600s. He warned that it wasn’t worth much coming to an agreement with the chief because if anyone in the band didn’t agree they would just go their own way and the chief would never go against his own people. Just like today.

  9. At least you could respect them a little bit when they were burning wagons.

    The educational swamp, the MSM and the elite have helped to cultivate and grow and empower the Activist Indian. They are the most ideologically strident mofos you will find. Liars and provocateurs.
    They incite this shit and are no different than Imams in Wahabi madrassas teaching jihad.

  10. Yes because nothing beats environmental protests than burning old tires. Or how about the rusted out old cars on reservations, or feral dogs, or garbage all over the place. Meanwhile here in lawless Canada, another blockade has been set up on railway tracks between Hamilton and Toronto. Nice interview with what appears to be young white women with drums and feathers. And a blockade of Highway 6 at Caledonia. I’m sure the police will get right on it. They should be arriving soon with gifts of maple syrup like the OPP did before.

  12. No tire fires on The Sacred Casino Grounds with the Bingo Traditions.

    Indigenous Canadians, meaning anyone born on Canadian soil, should blockade these “First” racists. Stop their electricity, food, and fuel from reaching them wherever they are. The blockades would come down lightning fast if that happened. But this is Canada, the government in the form of the police would have to lead the blockade.

  13. A friend of mine buys his propane from Tyendinaga First Nation and claims the store is owned by the chief. In other words the man who wants to stop natural gas pipelines in Western Canada owns a propane store in eastern Canada. This is not about being a caretaker for Mother Earth.

  14. I don’t see natives as one homogeneous group. What I see is there are folks that do good and folks that do bad.
    Not all Indians are #hit disturbers.
    The ones that are, are no better than any variety of thug.
    Think of it this way. Those that are in the shake down business, be they the street gang, the biker gang, native warrior society, mafia, triads, or government, all share one common trait of treating anyone outside of their group with either disparagement or violence.
    I’ve no doubt that all the examples cited are factual, I can throw in another for good measure, Camp Ipperwash. During the time the property was under the management of the government of Canada, the entire land was maintained immaculately. Then once control was ceeded to the familial tribe it turned into a dump. I don’t blame the natives collectively, just the bad actors in the community that terrorize the rest. These are the thugs that like the enforcers that imply “bad tings kin appen if youse know what I mean” that make life hell for the ones that just want to live normal lives, or wouldn’t mind living off the fat of the land if these tormentors would just stop causing trouble for the rest.
    So why does this persist?
    Why does it persist in the subsidized housing at Jane and Finch?
    Why does it persist in downtown East Vancouver?
    Why was a farmer in Saskatchewan persecuted for protecting his family and property when a group of young thugs trespassed with intent to do harm?
    Why? Because those tormentors know nobody will raise a hand against them.
    Not even those that live within their community.

    Want to know a fun fact?
    The tribe at Kettle Point supported the land claim at Ipperwash to get the troublemakers to move out of Kettle Point.

    Want to help the natives?
    Get rid of the criminal element co-opting them for financial gain.

  16. Cut off all funding to any tribe that opposes the Canadian Nation. Very simple.

    If they want to go to war instead of peace and payments, that’s their call.

  17. Who wrote that horses/./’t about stewards of the land and only taking what they need???? First..We have to stop referring to them as First Nations they are not and never have been. They are Indian bands or tribes who were nomads who roamed the land fought and killed other bands of Indians, killed the men raped the women and enslaved the children. First Nations is a Liberal BS line. The Indian of old would fleece the area they were camped in of ALL food and game and then move on to the next area to do it all over again. You wonder why the reservations are such a S.hole look no farther than the chief. All the money given to the tribe goes through him, ever wonder how he has the new Caddy or 4X4 and the rest have junk now you know. He does not care one whit about His People only how much he can get from the Government (our money) by whining about how terrible we are. I am sick of hearing and having the Victim card played. If the Liberals and the natives themselves really wanted to improve their lot in life they would go to someone who really has their best interest at heart. It just burns my ass when I see the Native members of the Indiginous department of the government spout off about needing more money to help “their People”. They do not care about ” their People” they care about how long and how deeply they can keep their head in the pig trough of free handouts , corruption that they keep foisting on Canadians. If they really cared about” Their People” they would be looking at ways to help their fellow natives out of poverty. The first place they should go is to a Chief by the name of Clarence Lee, he is the chief of the Osyous indian band in BC. He is also a business man who has helped many bands on the west coast start successful businesses and lift themselves out of poverty. His goal as he has said is to get the band off of the reliance of hand outs from the government and give them pride in being and Indian and having self worth and feel that they are contributing to their own well being. If you ever get the chance Google Clarence Lee and read his story it is quite inspiring… Sorry for the long rant…just needed to add my 2 cents worth…Steve O

  18. I get a kick out of “First Nations” having the gall to call the “white man” occupiers and settlers when all they need to do is look in the mirror to see a people who came across the Bering Sea to North America.
    They were not placed here by God.
    And on top of that, they don’t have the courtesy to thank the “white man” for dragging them out of the stone age.
    Shut down Indian Affairs or whatever PC nonsense it’s called now, give them a one time pay out with land ownership and tell them to have a nice life. i.e Pi$$ off!

  20. I recommend “Empire of the Summer Moon”, a history of the Comanche tribe. They originated in pre-colonial times as Athabascans in the north-central continent, the standard aboriginal perpetual genocidal warfare drove them down to the southwest, when they got the horse it was payback time and they built the biggest empire of any tribe, without any religious or spiritual beliefs whatsoever and no political structure whatsoever, fascinating reading.

  21. So call me a racist all you want, but here on Vancouver Island you can immediately tell when you have entered native territory. The trash in the yards, rusted out vehicles, crappy roads, and they are given how many billions every year from the taxpayers wallet? Of course the chiefs house is always well taken care of, with a new motorhome and BMW parked out front. Accountability was one of Stephen Harpers achievements immediately cancelled by Justine turdeau. Long overdue for the native population of this country to come to terms with the fact that they can be productive members of Canadian society or continue to live in the past.

  23. Have any of you read the truth and reconciliation report. It reads like an NDP primer. Of course, Trudeau, with no outrage from anyone in parliament who pretends to be a conservative, just adopted all of the recommendations. That was the worst mistake ever, except for allowing that kangaroo court in the first place.

  24. Anyone remember that run down reserve in Northern Ontario, that had major problems so bad, their Chief a larger female, went on hunger strike, in a Teepee on an island, just over the water from the Ottawa parliament buildings. I don’t remember dates or names anymore cuz I’m old, but this was about ten years ago. For weeks the press or MSM spent press time agonizing over the reserve housing conditions, and interviewed everyone and their dog on the reserve, and sent out nightly news videos of the disgusting living conditions on the reserve, and indignantly asking, how can we as a nation treat these people so badly! Anyway, a couple or few weeks into the hunger strike, someone found out this Chief and her husband had salted away and invested most of the band money for years. They had something like 92 million bucks stashed away. The hunger strike quickly faded away, and she, her husband, and the hanger on supporters, all scurried away like roaches back to the reserve in the north, and haven’t been heard from since. Yep they really are stewards of the land.

  25. The quoted in the OP text for some reason completely omits the genocidal wars, fought routinely by some of the tribes against the others.
    The wars where not only fighters have been slaughtered, but the elderly, women, children, and domestic animals. They have been routinely slaughtered by torturing to death in a blood-curdling, grotesque manner.
    Why is the natives’ memory so short? Well, this is fine! We have long memories for everything that the whiny types prefer to be forgotten.

    This is why the “native american” or “first nations” governance sounds so ludicrously terrifying to me.

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