Category: We Are All Treaty People

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).

 

Revolutionary Justice

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If I had a dime for every time I found something “hard to listen to” I’d be a billionaire. That said, Mao’s Little Red Guards were out in full force in Dauphin when, God forbid, a school trustee expressed his opinions on the residential school system. I’m sure the anti-racism struggle session that followed his remarks must have been a real treat.

A school trustee in western Manitoba is facing calls to resign, and the province says it’s launching a review, after a presentation in which he made comments decried as hateful, including questioning the findings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on residential schools.

The trustee also said reference to white privilege is a “racist comment” because groups shouldn’t be labelled based on the colour of their skin, and argued acronyms such as BIPOC and LGBTQ are “degrading.”

 

Photographic Memories

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If these kind of bizarre claims had been made on nearly any other subject, or by a less favored racial group, one would expect them to be dismissed until at least a shred of evidence turned up. But any demand for evidence, it seems, is merely evidence of a colonialist mindset.

A Haida elder and residential school survivor is leading a proposed class action lawsuit against the Catholic Church and one of its priests over what she alleges are “false and deeply hurtful” denialist comments.

Jones said she recalls being placed in a boxcar to look after Indigenous babies, who were all “crying really hard.” While at the school, Jones says she remembers witnessing the deaths or disappearances of other children, something that continues to haunt her.

Jones said she was given the task of looking after babies who were tied up in iron cribs, who she remembers were “all of the sudden” gone one day.

Paleolithic Math

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Who would have thought that smoke signals were evidence of indigenous mathematics. To conclude otherwise is apparently an example of prejudice engendered by enlightenment thinking.

“One interesting example that we are currently investigating is the use of chiral symmetry to engineer a long-distance smoke signalling technology in real time,” Professor Ball says.

To create and understand these signals, you have to be a skilled practical mathematician, Professor Ball says.

“Theory and mathematics in Mithaka society were systematised and taught intergenerationally. You don’t just somehow pop up and suddenly start a chiral signalling technology.

Herply Werply Flerply!

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What’s up with renaming an airport to something that sounds like Yosemite Sam swearing or the ramblings of the Swedish Chef? Are the linguists that come up with these names dyslexic?

“The renaming of Sandspit Airport to K’il Kun Xidgwangs Daanaay is a significant step in the collaboration between Canada and the Haida Nation,” said President of the Council of the Haida Nation Gaagwiis (Jason Alsop) in a news release for the announcement.

“Engaging in initiatives like this fosters trust and respect, critical elements in renewing the collective vision of Canada as a nation that includes all of us.”

 

Are All Vancouver NIMBYs now also Racists?

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Something very interesting is happening in Vancouver:

Much like in the US, Canada is experiencing a severe housing affordability crisis, and the country’s indigenous communities, known as First Nations, have long suffered disproportionately from inadequate housing.

But Canada’s indigenous communities are fighting to address the issue. In Vancouver alone, several First Nations are leading a major push to build housing on indigenous-owned land, in some cases partnering with the federal government to build entirely new communities that will house tens of thousands of people, while generating wealth for generations of First Nations members to come.

Ground has already been broken on one of these projects, 11 towers with 6,000 homes being built by the Squamish Nation on a 12-acre piece of land near downtown Vancouver, Canada’s most expensive real-estate market. The Squamish people were forced off of this land in the early 20th century and finally won back their ancestral territory about 20 years ago.

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