First Nations: The media misses the point — again
In the game of cowboys and Indians that’s been played by Stephen Harper and a fasting aboriginal woman, the cowboys, as usual, are winning — in the short term.
In the game of cowboys and Indians that’s been played by Stephen Harper and a fasting aboriginal woman, the cowboys, as usual, are winning — in the short term.
(Dec. 21, 2012, Mi’kmaq Idle No More blockade of Highway 11 by Rexton, NB. )
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Mass blockades are expected to hit at least three provinces this coming Wednesday.
OTTAWA - A sudden medical leave announced Monday by the head of Canada's largest aboriginal organization will delay — but not derail — pivotal talks between First Nations and Stephen Harper, says
“Canada is a test case for a grand notion – the notion that dissimilar peoples can share lands, resources, power and dreams while respecting and sustaining their differences. The story of Canada is the story of many such peoples, trying and failing and trying again, to live together in peace and harmony.
Much has been said recently in the media about the relationship between the inspiring expression of Indigenous resurgent activity at the core of the #IdleNoMore movement and the heightened decade of Native activism that led Canada to establish the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) in 1991. I offer this short analysis of the historical context that led to RCAP in an effort to get a better sense of the transformative political possibilities in our present moment of struggle.
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