Gerald Taiaiake Alfred is a Full Professor in IGOV and in the Department of Political Science. He specializes in studies of traditional governance, the restoration of land-based cultural practices, and decolonization strategies. He is a prominent Indigenous intellectual and advisor to many First Nation governments and organizations.
Intellectual?, my arse. Given his exchanges on Twitter, Lil Miss Cloud must have been one of his students.
Ever notice First Nations equals ” Second Rate”.
I seem to see it more and more. Maybe it’s NOT just me…
Has this Jerk any ideas how to defeat the rapacious abuse of Indian money by their own so called Chiefs. Thought not. His type wanna be Chief 7 Mercedes,not denounce them for human greed.
Its always the white guy never themselves. Yes they actually think a form of primitive communism, will make the World better. When it never worked for them. Any type of socialism forces people to go against human nature. Best to run things with that in mind ,instead of Utopian fantasies.
Could somebody possibly maybe look into releasing the comment I just made?
No surprise. He was one of Canada’s 10 “nuttiest professors” that we identified for a 2006 cover story in the late Western Standard. Here’s what I wrote about him:
Taiaiake Alfred, Indigenous Peoples Research Chair and professor in the Faculty of Human and Social Development, University of Victoria.
A proponent of radical aboriginal rights, Alfred does not believe in cooperating with the “settler” government of Canada (better known as the federal government) in pursing Indian grievances, and does not even consider himself Canadian (even though he is not on record as rejecting payment from the government-funded university for which he works). He leads the future aboriginal leaders who are students along an educational path designed, he has said, to decolonize them. And he believes most Canadians are prejudiced against aboriginals. “When it comes to attitudes about Indigenous people,” he has written, “this is a country with a pretty thin veneer of toleration hiding an ugly mass of racism.”
Not usually one to engage in stereotypes, but since we’re doing it — challenging a person of Scottish heritage to a fight seems to be ill advised. Specially if she’s a redheaded female. However, the males seem to be all up for a fight too. Except with the redheaded females….
I always check these guys out on “Rate My Professors”.
I can’t deny he scores very well, although an ickily high number of the comments are along the lines of: “DR. Yumm Yumm”, “It’s getting hot in here…”, “yummy yummy indeed!! Too bad he is sh@cked up!” and my favorite: “OMG! Do I need to say more! teehee”. (There’s more where those came from.) Of course, a lot of
retardsPolitical Science Majors go to University, so you do have to take that into account.The students who don’t seem to be in heat say things like “Will flag and delete all negative comments from this space. Is very thin skinned – you are either with him or against him. No one is that right.” (I didn’t know professors had that option. Good to know.)
http://tinyurl.com/d9emc3q
(If this goes through than I am at least a Green Belt of filter voodoo.)
The man’s simply a assh0le empowered with the knowledge that he can’t be fired.
Recommended reading:
The Ecological Indian
by Shepard Krech III
A serious myth buster which will place this pup’s land-based cultural practices schtick at complete odds with the current proggy eco-jargon, a western perspective if ever there was one.
This new branded “anarchic-indiginism” needs to be met with strictly traditional countermeasures.
The First Nations’ biggest problem is that they were socialized before anyone else in the country.
As other commenters have noted, many First Nations off the reserve are decent, hardworking citizens. I can say the same for the two or three that I know. (This is not meant to imply that on-reserve members are not, or cannot be.)
So, professor Alfred: what do you figure is the best way to de-socialize the reserves permanently and thereby solve the First Nations’ biggest problem?
He and I have exchanged words some time ago when I pointed out that the first white man in Ontario (Etienne Brule) was eaten by Indians; he did not take this hatefact well. For a desk bound baby boomer bonerack he sure beaks off a lot, and doesn’t back it up.
He’s only half Mohawk. His father was English. He’s not even the craziest Indian prof at U Vic:
http://vibrantvictoria.ca/local-news/by-any-means-necessary-uvic-prof-advocates-reclaiming-aboriginal-lands/
“In the speech, Waziyatawin says, “But in terms of dismantling industrial civilization, I think that can happen in any variety of ways, and I think that that’s going to be about attacking infrastructure.”
Openly advocating terrorism.
And she’s not even the craziest academic at U Vic; that would be grad student Tobold Rollo.
This person has obviously been shaped by marinating in a grievance and entitlement culture nurtured by white guilt, white pimps (AA Bureaucrats, Lawyers and Consultants), and the unfortunate reality of a system of governmental racial ghettos that has persisted for almost two Centuries. He thinks the “unconquered” FNs can use the legal system to make all Canadians the tenants (servants) of the FNs. Unfortunately, the multi-culti nihilism of the SOC has helped him with his mission. Left liberals tend to become instant Stockholm Syndrome victims in the presence of people in his tent. He is no friend of Capitalism nor liberty but a statist with a racial twist more akin to fascism. That there are university programs that pay for this is testament to why liberal arts programs should be replaced with library cards or Online private providers.
Nice to hear from Terry O’Neill again! Where are the boys and girls from the B.C. and Alberta Report these days? See Ezra daily, but the original gang seem to have gone missing.
Ah, the complete package. Only half aboriginal, hired for his skin colour, and being well paid by a government funded university.
Here’s what puzzles me. You can look around various countries and see millions of people of ethnic/racial backgrounds who worked through discrimination to make their mark and achieve success. Not just now, but through years of history. In many cases, they likely don’t care if you’re dumb enough to judge them. (although I think sharpton and jackson long for the good old days.)
Aboriginals have conspicuously lagged behind. This is the reserve system and years of government indulgence, finished up with grievance industry professionals like this guy.
He seems to be the best piece of evidence in support of cutting the UVic budget by 75%. Will bring that up with my MLA next time I run into him. The “indigenous” people should be grateful that the conquerors of Canada didn’t handle them the same way that the Spanish conquistadors dealt with the problem of “indigenous people” in the areas that they took over.
Bet that this “intellectual” probably never talks about the “indigenous peoples” practice of taking slaves from the tribes that they conquered. Also, back in the pre-white man days, why is it that Indians defeating other Indians resulted in the victorious tribe taking over the territory of the losers?
“Intellectuals” are people who live only in the realm of ideas and never have to deal with the interface of their ideas and reality. Reading Thomas Sowell’s Intellectuals and Society now and found out that I’m not an intellectual since I have to reshape my ideas if they conflict with reality. A true “intellectual” is under no such obligation. I think it’s time to have strict limits on the number of intellectuals present in a population and that no government money should go to pay intellectuals. That would make universities far more pleasant places as it would limit the faculties to science and engineering (law would be out since legal intellectuals have absolutely no check on their ideas by reality).
“Prominent indigenous intellectual” pretty much describes most Canadian intellectuals born here. There is no such thing as an indigenous people in North America. Our ancestors are ALL settlers from somewhere – ALL of them. It’s just that some of us actually know who our ancestors are and where they came from.
Didn’t click the link. “prominent Indigenous intellectual”
Said it all. Contradiction of terms, used to be an “intellectual” didn’t have an agenda.
Or did it?
I used the “piltdown man” in an argument on another site earlier; (yes I am a web creature, I stray)
Also used “Wiemar Republic” (irrelevant but true)
My point? More smoke and mirrors from people who defiantly have “skin in the game”, namely their own.
Trot out another bought and paid for Ph. D. (Piled Higher. and Deeper.
Call me if they come up with something original. (from aboriginals? fat chance)
Apparently racist, always,
dwright
Kate, I can’t be exclusive 😉
Nice comments from John Chittick and Loki.
His basic assumptions are flawed. I suspect he’s a postmodernist postcolonial deconstructionist intellectual, focused on ‘ressentiment’..whew..using Loki’s definition of an intellectual.
His assumption that if you were on a territory before another people, then, you have eternal right to that territory is a flawed assumption.
Then, he ignores that basic set of social causality: population size and economy. A small population can live as a distributionist economy where everyone participates in the results of the hunt. A large population cannot sustain itself within a socialist or redistribution economy.
So, living within an emotional angst of ‘ressentiment’ is easy; you don’t have to breathe a whiff of reality.
Alfred’s self-descriptor?: “Kahnawake Mohawk author and educator”
I guess he has to mention his Kahnawake Mohawk ancestry lest anyone say anything negative about him. Then, he can pull the “racist” card and throw all sorts of verbal missiles, seeing as he’s a Kahnawake Mohawk.
Well, yippy sh**. It’s pretty obvious that this guy got his PhD … definitely Piled Higher and Deeper … in some kind of affirmative action program.
As Loki has pointed out, the Natives in Canada are very fortunate they weren’t treated the way the Spanish conquistadors dealt with the native population: Their solution to the “Native problem” was simply to wipe them out — as North American Native tribes did to one another before the Europeans arrived. Natives also scalped and/or enslaved their enemies, ate their hearts, and took over their land: so much for the much vaunted “noble savage.” Natives also depleted the flora and fauna wherever they pitched their tents and teepees, they did not sustain the environment, and therefore, lived a nomadic existence, which did not, apparently, include moving their goods by cart as they had not invented the wheel.
For some reason, Canadians have been handed a completely unsustainable myth about Native culture: that it always honoured/honours the environment, that the sweat lodges, healing circles, and sweet grass ceremonies meant that Natives were/are more peaceful and lived/live a more harmonious existence than the white man. One just has to enter a stretch of highway with a reservation on either side to see how “honoured” the environment is, given that the landscape is strewn with tumble-down shacks and rusted-out car wrecks.
The idea that the “First Nations” can lead the way to a kinder, gentler, more environmentally friendly, less “racist,” Canada is a myth which turns into an extremely ugly lie when “prominent indigenous intellectuals” like Gerald Taiaiake enter the fray.
It is only in the corrupt culture of the contemporary university that men like Prof. Alfred and women like the egregious Prof. Waziyatawin – it trips so lightly off the tongue – could flourish in comfort and security. Many comments often blame this situation on tenure, but, in so doing, they miss the point. In the contemporary Canadian university, tenure protects those who question the nonsense spouted by these academic fraudsters. University administrators fall over themselves trying to find ever more loopy aboriginal faculty members and will not hear a discouraging word about their woeful performance.
Here on the left coast (Loki and Robert can testify)
They live in a hippie trippy pot smoke dream land where the animals die
after staggering, wounded through the forest with an arrow or spear wound into and ambush of club wielding savagesare happy to feed their masters and join the great turtle in the circle of life.(Sing the Lion King song now.)
WTF why do we listen to this crap?
I met a hippie chick that actually gave it a go, living in a wigwam and eating vegan. (few years back, Powell River, nothing but wilderness to the east)
She lasted a month, moved back into Moms’ basement, wet, starving, and cold.
I wish they would all do that, she is happily and gainfully employed now.
dwright
Yawn – more radicalized Marxist punks posing as “intellectuals, and more Marxist cultural destabilization treachery posing as accredited academic studies.
Yjere is nothing new on the left fringe.
Yep, we should all take a page from the Indians book on how to live in peace with each other and harmony with nature. Oh right, I forgot, no written language.
Is anybody else reminded of the scene in Monty Python’s Life of Brian, where
the freedom fighters are bemoaning the Roman occupation.
“But apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health what have the Romans ever done for us?”
Have a quick laugh.
youtube.com/watch?v=ExWfh6sGyso
Political “Science”. I generally enjoy a good chuckle when I read that. Reminds me of “Professional” “Journalist”, or “Sacred” Tobacco.
Some of the trust fund statements are online.
An astute political “scientist” would have recognized already that political leadership cannot succumb to leverage via threatened suicide. The hunger strike (as an aside, it does appear that it could last a long, long time) will of course fail. I have a supply of beer and popcorn laid in so I can enjoy the creativity of the escape from the hunger strike. Somehow, the Left will figure out how to blame Conservatives for the premature end of the strike. No doubt the dolts at the CBC and Red Star will run with the meme.
While I wait for this drama to play out, I will continue to wait for the LPC to pony up the money it stole from Canadians, for Hillary to testify on what really happened in Benghazi…
So what ever became of Kenniwick man? Oh yeah, the Democrats saw that it was buried under tons of rubble so that research could not continue.
This “intellectual” professor is a BIG part of the problem in getting Indians to assimilate and prosper,and as long as his type are advising “Aboriginal strategists”, the situation isn’t going to improve.
Early in the “First Nations” propaganda war, 1980’s, one Chief spoke the truth. He stated that ALL of Canada was “Indian Land”,and that all Canadians should pay rent to the Indians,in a return to feudal times.
The Indians would be the landlords, we would be the renters. That is the basis of the Indian activism,and no less. They want to OWN it all,while we rent it back from them.
The Indian activists,such as the featured professor, will never be satisfied with anything less. To believe otherwise is to ignore the Indians own words.
Had the good professor bothered to look he would have found out that Ivison is supportive of native causes and was concerned with the health of the hunger-striking chief.
As to the native issues: IMO it is a problem without any solutions. The combination of the reserve system, alcohol/drug/solvent abuse, FASD and failure to integrate into society has gone on so long that the problems are too entrenched. Help as many as possible through education but, in reality, permanent welfare is the only humanitarian option for those who choose to remain on remote reserves.
A jaded and generally angry acquaintance once told me that the reason I was not a racist was because I didn’t live around natives. I did grow up in rural, predominantly white communities and was supportive of natives. Many years later I ended up living in N.Sask for four years in a town with a significant native population and a couple of nearby reserves. No, I didn’t become a racist but I also refuse to give native leaders and activists the benefit of the doubt. The biggest victims of this severely dysfunctional system is the kids and the plight of those kids is more often that not used to gain more financial benefits for the native leaders.
I used to travel up the James Bay coast a couple times a year to do school pictures. I marveled at the fact that in their perfect socialist paradise, everydamnthing in Kashetchewan belonged to the Spence family. The fact that there is no real scrutiny of elections may account for the fact that no matter who runs for band council, a Spence family member ALWAYS ends up being the chief. This hunger strike is redolent of a mafia don demanding public sympathy.
Not even a real hunger strike (don’t know about the reply function)so:
Posted by: shaken on December 30, 2012 11:55 AM | Reply
Moose broth, vitamin tea (pharmaceutical multi-vitamins dissolved in whatever he drugs of choice are? They expect us to believe this crap, natives are pure and honest, and earthy, they would NEVER CHEAT.
Give your heads a shake and snap out of the brainwashing.
Red pill out and realize what a sham, what a production this is. The plight of the poor natives, Chief Cadillac Escalade and his (or her) sycophants can’t open their books it will upset the balance of nature and the great turtle and their employees (servants) might demand minimum wage.
This cannot pass, lesser members of the tribe are NOT equal !!!!!
Whoops, socialist logic fail, should the whole tribe NOT share in the bounty of energy money and Gov. grants and Enviro-nazi lobby funds (earlier thread I said they gangster 3 ways)
But But But they are pure, they are earthy they are the true custodians of the continent. They are one with nature they are noble savages theycannot lie
Take another hoot off the bong, if you believe that, go back to your dreams.
Reality will not call you, you have to call it,
dwright
(Gibsons 12 yr and beer chasers) still smarter than these retards.
Just don’t bitch about my “potential” my parents have that market cornered. 🙁
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Chris,if you get to know the people of any Reservation, you’ll come to realise that one family controls all the positions of power and politics on the Rez.
I grew up in a town surrounded by five Rez’s,went to school with the kids,and got to know the politics of a Rez. That was in Manitoba,but when I worked with Indians on and off Rez here in B.C., found the situation was the same. The elections are often bought or the vote count is crooked, yet Elections Canada can’t scrutinize the results,by law.
The Indian Chiefs would be crazy to change the status quo,they live as real dictators with the keys to the Bank. This is why Chief Spence is the poster girl for all the corrupt Chiefs in Canada.
Notice she hasn’t gotten any support from any of the modernized and prosperous Bands?
Cross-posted at BCF:
What really kills me is that this Lard-ass thie … er, I mean Chief is willing to call attention to all of her misdeeds and her gross fleecing not only of the members of her band but of Canadian taxpayers as well.
She’s airing all of this dirty laundry as though she’s the aggrieved one, she’s the victim, as though it’s the Canadian government that’s dirtied her knickers and not she herself.
What unmitigated gall. She’s either dumber than a bag of hammers or so entitled that when she looks in the mirror she sees only someone as white as the driven snow — or both. ‘Blind as a bat.
Great to see you here, Terry: that would be the kind of segue we all need.
I have all my copies of Western Standard from way back, admittedly due to Steyn, but, way we go!
Brilliant comment, babt, as usual: but, with all due respect, I believe the expression is, “dumb as a bag of hammers”, actually.
Kyrie Eleison to you, too!
I feel worse about the misuse of html than I do about what I typed. So be it.
Extra +10 internets to who can name the movie I stole the line “so be it” from.
Hint, in case it is obscure, Christian Slater.
good luck
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Pump Up The Bold Face?
Well, you know, David Southam: dumb, dumber, dumbest. I chose the middle one!
Cheers! Happy New Year and Kyrie Eleison to you, too!
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