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[Citified.ca]

Construction starts on Tsawout First Nation's Bighouse cultural project on the Saanich Peninsula

https://victoria.cit...nich-peninsula/

[Mike K.]

The Pacheedath First Nation in Port Renfrew has written a very, and I do mean very, direct letter to the CRD, asking the government to get out of its way and stop acting like it has authority over the Nation's interests.

 

From Adam Stirling: 

CRD motion: https://twitter.com/...7455710221?s=20

Pacheedaht response: https://twitter.com/...3439817728?s=20

 

"Pacheedaht does not welcome unsolicited interference or involvement from others."

[spanky123]

^ Turn off the financial taps. That will balance things out a little.

 

As I have said many times, I have no ill opinion of anyone that pushes and asks for as much as they can get. The Government is seeing the impact of that accommodation though.

[Mike K.]

Hmmm, if they turn off the taps, won't that establish that government is not interested in reconciliation, just partners in pushing their agenda in exchange for money?

[Mike K.]

The discussion on the Kamloops residential school has been moved here: https://vibrantvicto...we-know-so-far/

[Rob Randall]

https://www.saanichn...iendship-centre

 

In Marion Cumming’s will, she leaves the land on Sunny Lane to the Victoria Native Friendship Centre, where Rice, hereditary name Wush’q, is executive director.

 

 

Wonderful news.

 

Whatever becomes of a century-old home near Walbran Park, Ron Rice is determined the phrase “Cumming and going” will be etched artfully on the threshold.

 

 

say what now

[Victoria Watcher]

how many times have we tried to tell people.  you MUST stick with one identity. 

 

anyway we should probably look back in history say to the 30's and see if there is a purity test idea or formula we can subject these academics to.  if we do not use this purity test you can see what happens by the sub-headline here:

 

Feelings of isolation, grief, betrayal shared by Indigenous people in university community

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Indigenous faculty and students at Queen's University say the administration has left them in the dark as questions grow in response to an anonymous report alleging six instructors, professors and associates falsely claimed Indigenous identity.

 

The anonymous report circulated online earlier this month and shortly after its publication, the university in Kingston, Ont., strongly rejected the report's allegations.

 

That rejection was then met by an open letter signed by nearly 100 Indigenous academics calling on the university to examine the potential harm of misrepresentation among faculty and staff.

 

Wendy Jocko, chief of the Algonquins of Pikwakanagn First Nation and Albert Dumont, an Algonquin poet, storyteller and artist who was recently named the city of Ottawa's English-language poet laureate, have also signed the petition.

 

Celeste Pedri-Spade, one of the academics who also signed the letter, says the recent events have devastated her and none of the university's administration has reached out to answer questions on the issue.

 

None of the six people accused in the report have publicly denied the allegations questioning their identity.

 

https://www.cbc.ca/n...laims-1.6077341

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 26 June 2021 - 03:05 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

it’s almost like it’s a bad idea to have job categories or slots based entirely on race.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 26 June 2021 - 05:20 AM.

[spanky123]

how many times have we tried to tell people.  you MUST stick with one identity. 

 

FN must feel as though they have achieved their goals if they are starting to turn on each other. Sounds like Mr. Lovelace has devoted his professional career to advancing FN issues and yet they want him 'out'.

 

Here is the reality however. You need to be 1/16th FN to be considered FN . That means one of your great grandparents has to be FN. For people who are now in their 50's and 60's who are being challenged, that means that their great grandparents were likely born in the mid to later 1800's. There was no internet or ancestry.com back then, in many cases birth records are long gone. I have an aunt who got her status card in the late 70's based largely on finding a band where she knew members. Who is ever going to prove one way or another that she is or isn't FN (or her kids for that matter). I would bet that 25%+ of FN couldn't prove their status if they had to.

[Victoria Watcher]

plus there is that dodgy FN that takes new members.

[Victoria Watcher]

news 1130:


Two Catholic churches burned down on First Nations land in Similkameen region

Two more Catholic churches on First Nations reserves in the Similkameen region have burned to the ground in early morning fires on Saturday. Chief Keith Crow, of the Lower Similkameen Indian Band, says St. Ann’s Church east of Hedley and the Lower Similkameen Indian Band church near Keremeos are destroyed. This comes after two churches were set on fire in Osoyoos and Penticton earlier in the week.

[spanky123]

Two Catholic churches burned down on First Nations land in Similkameen region

Two more Catholic churches on First Nations reserves in the Similkameen region have burned to the ground in early morning fires on Saturday. Chief Keith Crow, of the Lower Similkameen Indian Band, says St. Ann’s Church east of Hedley and the Lower Similkameen Indian Band church near Keremeos are destroyed. This comes after two churches were set on fire in Osoyoos and Penticton earlier in the week.

 

I am sure that Mayor Helps will issue a statement condemning violence and hate against the Catholic Church.

[Rob Randall]

Seconded. I’ll also suggest reading/hearing Harold R. Johnson, especially his take on Columbus’ motivation for crossing the ocean.

 

 

Here's a thought exercise: Say the HBC and British traders in 1840 said screw this--we're abandoning the west coast because it's too distant to manage.

 

What happens then?

 

1. The US pushes north and claims all territory along the coast to what is now Alaska
2. Another power (Spain? Russia?) colonizes the coast
3. Indigenous people are able to resist all colonization until they are able to bring forth a claim for self-determination at Versailles in 1919.
4. ?

[spanky123]

^ Likely 1.

 

Doesn't really matter however as in 100 years people living in Canada will be lamenting how the Chinese stole all of our land!

[JimV]

….Who is ever going to prove one way or another that she is or isn't FN (or her kids for that matter). I would bet that 25%+ of FN couldn't prove their status if they had to.

Simple, DNA.  Elizabeth Warren proved that she was .001% Cherokee in this manner and not, as we previously supposed, all white.

[Victoria Watcher]

https://www.cheknews...-in-b-c-842386/

ya ok. They were the real experts.

[Rob Randall]

Until recently, gift shops in some of B.C.'s most famous museums and art galleries have sold wood carvings by an artist identified as "Harvey John" for hundreds of dollars a piece.

 

According to the standard biography used by these shops, Harvey John is Nuu-Chah-Nulth from Vancouver Island, and learned traditional Northwest Coast formline carving from an uncle.

 

But none of that is true. There is no Harvey John, and the person responsible for these carvings is not Indigenous at all.

Thanks to some pointed questions from Indigenous artists, an art dealer from the Fraser Valley has admitted that Harvey John is a pseudonym and that he's been knowingly deceiving buyers across the country and around the world for years.

 

 

https://www.cbc.ca/n...-john-1.6114608

[amor de cosmos]

Raymond Théberge, Canada’s official languages commissioner, says his office has received more than 400 complaints about the appointment of Inuk leader Mary Simon as governor general.
 
The “problem” is her lack of French-English bilingualism, although she is bilingual, speaking both Inuktitut and English.
 
Canada has had an official bilingualism policy for 50 years, established to deal with a 1960s constitutional crisis regarding francophone Canadians.
 
Today a very different crisis presents itself: the reckoning of Canada’s colonial practices towards Indigenous people. The uncomfortable clash between different minority languages is coming to a head with the appointment of Simon.
 
But which languages “count” in Canada? And who gets to be the “right” kind of bilingual?
 
*snip*
 
The Official Languages Act has always been at odds with Canada’s claims of multiculturalism. The Canadian ideal was to promote multiple cultures while promoting only two languages, or as linguist Eve Haque has called it, “Multiculturalism within a Bilingual Framework.”
 
However, given that language is usually believed to be an essential component of culture (indeed, Québecers argued this), this is already a tenuous policy.
 
When we establish “official” languages, we demote all other languages to “unofficial.” Equality is only for French and English, not for Cree, or Mohawk, or Inuktitut, or even German — whose speakers have always greatly outnumbered French speakers on the Prairies. In fact, the 2016 census reports more than 66,000 German mother-tongue speakers in Manitoba, compared to 46,000 French mother-tongue speakers.
 
Current language policy in Canada establishes a hierarchy of French and English above all other languages that underpins how we talk about everything in this country. The census reports on French and English separately, but groups all other languages together. Being bilingual only “counts” if it is French-English.
 
This is why more than 400 complainants to the official languages commissioner consider Simon’s bilingualism inadequate, despite Inuktitut being one of three official languages of Nunavut.
 
Although most may agree that it is always desirable to speak an Indigenous language, it is in addition to French and English, not as a replacement.
 
*snip*
 
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Calls to Action include the revitalization and re-establishment of these languages. The federal government response to these recommendations led to the Indigenous Languages Act of 2019.
 
Canada’s Official Languages Act states that it will “advance the equality of status and use of the English and French languages within Canadian society.” And the Indigenous Languages Act states that the “recognition and implementation of rights related to Indigenous languages are at the core of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, and are fundamental to shaping the country.”
 
How can Canada reconcile the two?

https://theconversat...ry-simon-164836

[Victoria Watcher]

University of Victoria biochemist Caren Helbing is co-leading a Canada-wide research project called iTrackDNA that partners with Indigenous groups across the country to track biodiversity changes.

Using what’s known as environmental DNA (eDNA) technology, the research will analyze genetic material shed from organisms into their surrounding environment.

Indigenous ecological knowledge will now go hand-in-hand with the research-driven knowledge system to closely study food security, human and animal health, education and other economic and social activities.


https://www.vicnews....-eco-knowledge/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 27 July 2021 - 02:23 AM.

[amor de cosmos]

ᐏᑕᒪᑫᐏᐣ ᐊᐍ ᑲᓂᑲᓇᑭᓯᐨ ᑭᒋᐅᑯᒪ ᐁᐱᑎᑫᐏᓇᒋᐣ ᑲᓇᑕ ᓂᐦᓱᒥᑕᓇ ᑲᐃᓇᑭᓯᐨ ᐊᐍ ᐅᑯᒪᐏᓇᐠ ᑭᒋᐅᑯᒪ, ᒪᐘᐨ ᑲᑭᒋᓀᐣᑕᑯᓯᐨ ᑌᐻ ᑲᓇᒋ ᒣᕑᐃ ᓴᔨᒪᐣ
https://pm.gc.ca/en/...iwinagin-kanata

Wîhtamâkêwin ohci Kihci Okimaw ta-âtamiskawât Kânata ohci 30th Opaminikêw General, Wiya Kihci Okimâwêyihtâkosiw Mary Simon
https://pm.gc.ca/en/...anata-ohci-30th

Klusuwaqn wejiaq Prime Minister wjit Piskwa’toq Kanata 30th Kaplno’lowey General, E’pit Mawimtawa’qa’toq Ula Tepaqi Muyuwalut Mali Simon
https://pm.gc.ca/en/...0th-kaplnolowey

Ɂedırı yatı holı̨ k’ı T’ą K’oldhere nedhe Prime Minister bets’ı̨ɂąne sı Canada hots’ı̨ 30th Governor General hulye benereltł’ıs ha, T’ąt’u hudzı hade Her Excellency T’a besudı hoɂą Right Honourable Mary Simon hulyé
https://pm.gc.ca/en/...siane-si-canada

Weestamakaywin ouschi Kischee Li Ministr chi kischi baen rseu Kenadaw soon 30th Li Gouvarneur General, Soo Pleu Miyoer Kischi Awnoerab Mary Simon
https://pm.gc.ca/en/...en-rseu-kenadaw

ᐅᖃᐅᓯᐅᓯᒪᔪᖅ ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᐊᖓᔪᖅᑳᔾᔪᐊᖓᓄᑦ ᑐᙵᓱᒃᑎᑦᑎᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᑲᓇᐅᑉ 30-ᒋᔭᖓᓂᒃ ᑯᐃᓐ ᑭᒡᒐᖅᑐᖅᑎᖓᑕ, ᐱᐅᔪᒻᒪᕆᒃ ᒪᓕᒐᓕᐅᖅᑎ ᒥᐊᔨ ᒪᐃ ᓴᐃᒪᓐ
https://pm.gc.ca/en/...tinirmut-kanaup

Statement by the Prime Minister to welcome Canada’s 30th Governor General, Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon
https://pm.gc.ca/en/...nor-general-her

Aen itwayhk awa Li Pramyii Miniss ka miyoonakishkatowaat Canada 30th Li Goovarner Giniraal, Aen Mamiyoohk Adret Aanoraabl Mary Simon
https://pm.gc.ca/en/...-canada-30th-li

Tshishe-Utshimau e pitshitinak utaiamun tshetshi pushukatakan tshishe-utshimashkueu tshishe-utshimau, e nishtinue-tshishe-utshimashkueuat Mary Simon
https://pm.gc.ca/en/...katakan-tshishe

Uqausiusimajuq Kanataup Angajuqqaajjuanganut Tunngasuktittinirmut Kanaup 30-Gijanganik Kuin Kiggaqtuqtingata, Piujummarik Maligaliuqti Miaji Mai Saiman
https://pm.gc.ca/en/...tinirmut-kanaup

Gaa-ikidod Gaanada Ogimaa ji-biindiganaad Gaanada Aki Mary Simon 30 aazha Gichi-ogimaakwen Gaa-giigidootamawaad
https://pm.gc.ca/en/...i-mary-simon-30

i get the idea but i think they probably should have had a french version too if they had an english one (i couldn't find one)

Edited by amor de cosmos, 27 July 2021 - 08:07 AM.