Category: We Are All Treaty People

Decolonizing The Friendly Skies

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Some days I’m floored at how many nonsensical concepts can be packed into one article, but someone seems to have outdone themselves once again. These folks might want to take a step back from the race baiting mill and acknowledge the benefits of a technology that exists thanks to a culture of entrepreneurship and individual rights that they routinely conflate with colonial oppression.

“It’s really a decolonial effort where it returns the power into our hands so that we can again assert our own self-determination, determine how it unfolds within our region,” said Jacob Taylor.

“There have been no treaties signed for the sky, so Indigenous people have an inherent right to participate in the aerospace industry.”

Unlimited Demands

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Sorry, but having to work within the confines of a budget is not part of a plot set up by evil colonialists to destroy you. Whoever came up with this number probably assessed the progress so far and decided that it was time to get back to reality. Proper investigation would entail forensic excavation and the affected parties seem to be doing everything to avoid exactly that.

David Monias, chief of Pimicikamak Cree Nation in Manitoba, was on the Zoom call.

“I am profoundly dismayed by the Canadian government’s decision to impose a cap of $500,000 per year on funds allocated for unmarked residential school burials,” he said.

“This reduction is not only inadequate but reflects a troubling denialism regarding the true scale and significance of this issue. It is essential to recognize that these burial sites are crime scenes, and as such, they must be protected, preserved, and properly investigated.”

Rewriting History

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It’s anyone’s guess as to what this latest apology entails, but I’m sure it includes large monetary payments. What’s more bizarre is that the recipients didn’t originate in Canada, but in the United States.

As detailed in this more balanced article, the Sioux and Lakota were properly considered refugees, not original inhabitants.

The government appears to have granted these refugee-American-Indians full rights under Section 35, meaning that multi-billion-dollar land claims and reparation demands are imminent. Many Indigenous speakers at the press conference stated that the Dakota/Lakota and other tribes were already on their traditional lands when they escaped into Canada, a fact disputed by the foregoing evidence from the official North West Mounted Police history.

Anomaly Abuse

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The only real anomaly in this narrative is the fact that certain political leaders do not understand the concept of evidence.

A search of the grounds of a former residential school in northern Manitoba has uncovered 187 anomalies, according to First Nation leaders.

To know for sure what the anomalies are, Monias said the sites would have to be excavated and DNA testing would be required.

To do that, he said the First Nation would need funding from the federal government.

In what universe would the discovery of a potential crime scene require federal funding prior to investigation?

 

Evidence Is Just A Tool Of Colonial Oppression

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When it comes to abuses suffered by indigenous school kids boarded in private homes, it’s apparently not the job of the mainstream media to actually investigate such claims, but rather to accept them uncritically. Anything beyond that would just delay the writing of cheques by the federal government, or so it would seem.

Now, the suffering of boarding home survivors is being recognized and compensated under a Federal Court-approved $1.9-billion settlement agreement with Ottawa.

Survivors are also allowed to submit more than one claim — the first to get $10,000 for attending a boarding home, and a second for additional compensation based on the abuse suffered.

But like the day school settlement, and unlike the residential school claims process, the claims process for boarding home survivors is entirely paper-based and won’t involve hearings with lawyers.

No Fish For You

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National Post- The Liberal war on fish farming threatens Indigenous livelihoods

According to Kitasoo Xai’Xais Deputy Chief Councillor Isaiah Robinson, his community has enjoyed 99 per cent employment because of the salmon farming industry, which generates 51 percent of their income.

“Because of the work and dignity that comes with the salmon farming industry, we have had no suicides in my community of Klemtu for the past 18 years,” wrote Robinson in an open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last month. “It makes no sense to shut it down. There is no industry that can fill that space.”

No Payments, No Interest, Forever

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You don’t have to dig far into the details to find out that this “loan” is really just a giveaway, or, in modern parlance, a “special-purpose vehicle”.

The government sent a letter to First Nations groups last year proposing a special-purpose vehicle that would hold a stake in the pipeline, and individual groups would be able to choose whether to opt in. For those that want a piece of the action, the government intends to provide risk-free access to capital, the letter said, without providing details such as how big of a stake it would sell.

 

A Nation of Rent Seekers

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If someone’s going to question whether a $510 million legal fee is excessive or not, why not ask the same question about the $10 billion settlement that triggered the fees in the first place?

 Two First Nations have launched a court application against the lawyers who helped bring forward a $10-billion settlement with Canada and Ontario, saying the $510 million they’re set to be paid is too much.

“The legal fee is extremely over-the-top,” said Garden River First Nation Chief Karen Bell.

She said she has an “obligation to seek accountability and transparency,” and the application should not disrupt payments to beneficiaries. Those payments are scheduled to start flowing in August.

 

Disconnected Justice

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If this doesn’t signify an out-of-control legal system, I don’t know what would.

The son of former BC Liberal MLA Judi Tyabji will not go to jail for sexual interference of a person under 16.

Edelmann said he took into account pre-sentencing reports that claimed Tyabji-Sandana had suffered intergenerational trauma, poverty and disconnection from his Indigenous roots. The report said that his maternal grandfather was Metis-Cree and his paternal grandmother a Metis woman who became an alcoholic after suffering physical and sexual abuse in an Indian residential school. Tyabji-Sandana’s biological father was not involved in his childhood.

 

You’re Fired!

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When Jim McMurtry signed on as a public school teacher, the last thing he ever considered was that one day he might find himself the target of a witch hunt.

My crime was in saying that most students who died while enrolled in these schools from 1883-1996 did so from disease, especially tuberculosis. Though factually true, the Abbotsford School District wrote to me in June 2021 that it was a time to hear from students “and not debate or challenge their emotional response to the news…. [Students] were struggling to make sense of the news and process the discovery.”

The problem was there was no discovery in Kamloops, and there still is no evidence whatsoever.

At the end of the partial and superficial investigation, I was fired.

 

Let’s Review

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Grab a beverage.

Vancouver Sun- Terry Glavin: Canada slowly acknowledging there never was a ‘mass grave’

Within the T’Kemlups community, however, almost from the beginning there were serious misgivings about the way their story was being told. The 14 major families within the community made it known to Casimir early on that an excavation of the orchard site should begin as soon as possible. Three years and nearly $8 million in federal funding later, no excavation has occurred.

Burn The Capitalists!

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At this rate, will any businesses be left in the Winnipeg core within 5 years?

A rash of violent incidents targeting a Winnipeg grocery store came to a head Friday with a brazen daytime arson attack caught on camera.

Security footage from the incident shows the moment two women approached a couple of cars belonging to co-owner Tarik Zeid and his cousin. They smash a window, douse the car with a flammable liquid, and set it on fire.

He believes the suspects are the same women involved in a shoplifting incident inside the store the day before.

Just over two weeks after the first incident, three staff members were assaulted when five masked attackers stormed the store.

Poof

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Sunday Times- Where did the Black Lives Matter millions go?

McClellan told me he can’t understand why reporters keep coming to town and quoting representatives from what he sees as fake nonprofits. He can’t understand why no one wants to cover the corruption. “We think over $600 million flowed into the big organisations doing justice work in Minneapolis,” McClellan said. “It’s theft. It’s theft. What happened here is theft.”

Made Up Identities

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Who’d have thunk it? An Indigenous Identity Fraud Summit opens with everyone accusing each other of being frauds. But that’s inevitable with organizations focused on accidents of birth instead of ideas.

Chartrand and the MMF broke from MNC in 2021 over the 2017 recognition of six new historic Métis communities in Ontario, stretching the Métis homeland all the way to the Quebec border.

One of Louis Riel’s greatest fears, said Chartrand, was that the Métis would be swamped not just by settlers from the east, but from within.

Ontario chiefs also reject the communities and accuse MNO of usurping First Nations’ heritage by co-opting their ancestors as Métis.

They’ve mounted a massive pressure campaign against federal Bill C-53, which would recognize the MNO, Métis Nation-Saskatchewan and Otipemisiwak Métis Government (OMG) — formerly the Métis Nation of Alberta — as Indigenous governments.

We Are All Treaty People

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And some people are more treaty than others: Did you know about the British Columbia’s quiet plan to co-manage all public lands with provincial First Nations? Robin Junger talks to Mike about the B.C. NDP’s new economy-destroying legislation.

Canfor has announced the permanent closure of its Polar sawmill in Bear Lake, BC, the suspension of its planned reinvestment in Houston. This follows the announcement that one line of production will be indefinitely curtailed at the Northwood Pulp Mill.

h/t Trace

Drink Up

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Blacklocks- Dozens Still Boil Tap Water

“Currently there are 28 long term drinking water advisories remaining in 26 First Nations communities,” Paula Hadden-Jokiel, assistant deputy minister at the Department of Indigenous Services, testified at the Senate national finance committee. “Of the remaining long term drinking water advisories, all of them have action plans in place,” she added.

Cabinet had promised to ensure all First Nations had safe tap water by March 31, 2021. “The government did not meet is March 31 deadline,” the Budget Office wrote in a 2021 report Clean Water For First Nations.

Aboriginal Crimes

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I can’t help think what the reaction might be if someone published a study on Auschwitz and termed the facility “terrifyingly humongous” and otherwise never mentioned that it was a venue for mass murder.

Archaeologists have discovered a new section of the historic site, which was first uncovered in 2015. The new find adds 119 skulls to the previously known 484, for a hair-raising total of 603 skulls, stacked atop one another and mortared together.

The tower is believed to be one of seven similar structure that once stood in the Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlán (now Mexico City).

 

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