These makeshift shelters were supposed to be temporary in Eabametoong First Nation.
The community set up isolation tents to help with quarantine and overcrowding.
But now several families have moved in permanently due to a critical housing shortage made worse by the pandemic.
h/t Dan
Jonathan Kay @jonkay — An Ontario school board is creating a database of forbidden books for removal from school libraries. No word yet on how they will be disposed of/incinerated
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Behold: cancelled for the crime of “non-indigenous author telling indigenous stories”.
Michelle Latimer’s documentary “Inconvenient Indian” is being pulled from distribution and its upcoming screening at the Sundance Film Festival by the National Film Board.
The decision comes after the accuracy of the filmmaker’s Indigenous identity was called into question last week.
I don’t see what the big deal is.
Indigenous Services Canada says that, as of Tuesday, there were 4,069 COVID-19 cases on reserves in Canada. Of those, 1,564 were active.
In Manitoba, infections of Indigenous people living on and off reserve have surged in recent weeks. First Nations people are also experiencing more severe outcomes, the response team’s data shows.
As of Wednesday, there were more than 1,713 active cases among First Nations people on and off reserves in Manitoba. First Nations patients made up 26 per cent of hospitalizations and 45 per cent of people in intensive care.
So far, 45 First Nations members in the province have died from COVID-19 — the vast majority in the last couple of weeks. The average age of death was 66, while it was 83 for Manitoba’s overall population. An Indigenous boy under the age of 10 died last weekend.
Kelly Geraldine Malone* (writing for Canadian Press) explains how this is due to things that happened 80 years ago.
This encapsulates the current self-induced national moral weakness: nativist advocates think that removing an effigy of the founder of our country and someone who was regarded by his peers in the time of Lincoln, Palmerston, Disraeli, Gladstone and Bismarck as a great statesman is required because of largely unspecified offences in one policy area of his 28 years as head of Canada’s government (the so-called United Province of Canada, and then the Dominion of Canada), and even that would be a mere “gesture.” “Reconciliation” evidently consists of abject self-humiliation by the 95 per cent of Canadians who are not descended from the Indigenous peoples, and we have become so quaveringly enfeebled, we are expected to submit to this.
h/t Buddy
Protestors falsely blamed #OPP for escalation in #Caledonia. Extremely proud of my officers for their professional and measured response to keep the peace & preserve life while under attack. Arrests continue as members take responsible and sustained enforcement approach @WR_OPP pic.twitter.com/nhXTSRQKHs
— Thomas Carrique (@OPPCommissioner) October 25, 2020
An argument for electing judges;
Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Graeme Mitchell appeared Sunday at a closing ceremony for a young Metis man whom he ruled was allowed to stay on the provincial legislature’s lawn to finish a hunger strike over suicide rates.
Mitchell dismissed the government’s bid to remove Tristen Durocher’s teepee and found the bylaws that prohibit overnight camping on the grounds infringed on his charter rights as an Indigenous man.
During his stop at Durocher’s camp, Mitchell spoke to him and accepted a Metis sash presented by a supporter.
Full-length Colten Boushie documentary airing on TV for the first time
Resistance is racism; BigEagle-Kequahtooway understands there is some resistance to the name change, but she said that mentally leads to systemic racism.
h/t Derek
I agree with this decision by @cbcsports because many indigenous tribes owned slaves. #CancelIndigenousPeople https://t.co/sZR3po2it7
— Katewerk (@katewerk) July 24, 2020
The Federal Liberals and the BC NDP government are still ignoring the elected Wet’suwet’en leaders and siding with the radical hereditory “chiefs” in their quest to derail gas pipelines.
They are NOT, however, ignoring their own friends, in the process…
“(Former NDP MP Nathan) Cullen is being paid $250 an hour by the province up to a maximum of $2,000 per day, (BC NDP Minister of Indigenous Relations Scott) Fraser told the house, adding: “His rates are at a reasonable average.”
To date, Cullen has been paid $87,805 in fees and $2,593 in expenses, the ministry told Rob Shaw of The Vancouver Sun.
The New Democrats also recruited another federal New Democrat, former MP Murray Rankin, to lend a helping hand with the Wet’suwet’en. Since he resigned his federal seat in June of last year, he has been paid $122,278.87 in fees and $6,696.73 in expenses.
So to recap: a $220,000 payout to two former federal New Democrats and the elected chiefs still remain opposed to the process.”
And that’s why Reader Tips was created — so that others can do my work for me.
Supreme Court dismisses Indigenous appeal of Trans Mountain approval
Mount Rushmore was built on land that belonged to the Lakota tribe and sculpted by a man who had strong bonds with the Ku Klux Klan. It features the faces of 2 U.S. presidents who were slaveholders.https://t.co/pHmJScnYbb
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 1, 2020
The sound of Trump’s second term: … second South Dakota tribal leader called for the removal of the four sculptures on Mount Rushmore, which is carved into land sacred to the Lakota Sioux.
Hanging by a chain wrapped around Macdonald’s feet, the sign has a message acknowledging the “harmful legacy” of Canada’s first prime minister and says the City of Regina will seek advice from Indigenous elders, artists, community members and other cultural groups.
h/t Ed, Lev
“Biting political satire” becomes “that which must not be seen” in 4… 3… 2…
“These are First Nations lands. This is Indian land. Stay off our lands unless you are invited,” said Chief Bobby Cameron of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations.
Public-health orders do not supersede First Nations law and treaties, Mr. Cameron says, adding that maintaining tradition and ceremony is even more important during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Our ceremonies, our sun dances, our sweat lodges, our pipe ceremonies will continue and no matter what any government or what the RCMP may try to say or do, those ways are going to continue.” […]
Indigenous Services Canada did not respond to a request for comment.
Related: The Liberal government has created entirely new divisions within the Wet’suwet’en Nation in its effort to sign an agreement with the community, according to elected leaders of the First Nation and one hereditary chief who sees the deal as a power grab by a select few Indigenous leaders.
h/t Chris, PaulHarveyPage2
Related: There was so much effort into the list of banned firearms that they managed to include what appears to be two websites and a Facebook group. Along with a locksmith in New Brunswick.
