Rights worth respecting
KAHNAWA:KE – The Iroquois Caucus announced today that they have signed a Declaration unanimously rejecting the Harper government’s proposed First Nations Education Act.
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Concerns growing over Thorold Blackhawks logo
Over the last several years a number of different sports teams using stereotypical imagery of Indigenous people as their logos and mascots have been generating a lot of negative media attention.
There is No Victory for Us in U.S. or Canadian Courts
The embarrassing failure of the U.S. prosecutor in the Three Feathers Casino trial is not a win. It’s not even a draw! Surviving the persecution and prosecution of their law enforcement agents, lawyers, judges and juries is a good thing, but it is not justice.
Two Row Times on Talking Radical Radio
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On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, publisher Jonathan Garlow talks about a new newspaper and website inspired by a new moment of indigenous resurgence in Canada and around the globe.
Indigenous Names and Places on Map gives true perspective on North America
A new indigenous map has been introduced to the public domain which depicts the original territories and correct names of the the Indigenous people of North America. It is the work of Aaron Carapella, a Cherokee of Oklahoma who created the map from humble beginnings.
2013 Rock your mocs
The moccasin has walked many trails in the footsteps of the Original People. From the Navajo and Sioux, to the nations of the Haudenosaunee, it has been crafted into many likenesses to sooth the soles of the people.
The Two Row Wampum and the Rules of Law
An agreement between the Mohawk Workers and Guswenta Holdings Incorporated (a Canadian Holdings Company) has the Kanienke:haka and the Haudenosaunee community-at-large conflicted with the recent signing of that agreement.
The two row wampum can be used as a mechanism that will break down the logic, the positions and identities of our “subject” in the paramount question, “who is who?”, and “where they are coming from?” Once we know who is who, and where each stand, the law of each and the conflicts that exist may become clear.
Before the who, lets define the where, lets “discover” the foundations of the two possibilities, this and that, here and there, our rule of law and their rule of law.
Onkwehon:we war veteran arrested at Toronto
TORONTO, ON – Social media lit up with outrage this week as video of an Onkwehon:we War Veteran, Davyn Calfchild, being arrested at a public Toronto Remembrance Day Ceremony went viral. The video showed Davyn refusing to put away two traditional flags – the Hiawatha and the Unity Flag – and refusing to leave the public ceremony at the request of Toronto Police.
Effecting Change from Within
If you have lived on Six Nations long enough, when attending community meetings, you will eventually hear someone voice this sentiment: “Our people don’t vote, it is not our way”. Take note.
Our ancient path involves consensus, and there seems to be consensus that we used to operate by consensus, thus explaining why voting can be a very emotional and controversial issue on Six Nations and on all other Haudenosaunee Territories within the corporation of Canada.
The Honour of the Crown in decline
History is funny sometimes, how things that go around come around. Like many people attending Remembrance Day ceremonies across the country I turned my back on the federal politician to support Canadian soldiers as Canada closes Veterans Affairs centres across the country. It reminded me of how the Crown turned its back on our People.
Federal legislation robs tens of thousands of their rights
SIMCOE – A twenty-five-year-old Ojibwa mother of two, Heather Harnois, finds herself neither an Indian or a Canadian after being denied a social insurance number, health-care coverage and child tax benefits.
MNR tries to stop grassroots home building in “unorganized Indian settlement land”
On October 29th, 2013, Darlene Necan, an elected spokesperson of the off-reserve members of the Ojibway Nation of Saugeen no. 258, was issued a stop work order by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources for building a house on land where her family grew up, on Saugeen territory.
Scientific evidence and native oral history tells us the same story
Hundreds of years ago when Onkwe:honwe (Indigenous) people had complete domain over this continent they commonly did one thing from the Atlantic to the Pacific…
Change the Name or End the Genocide?
To suggest there are many and far more pressing issues facing Native people than being exploited and insulted by sports teams is an obvious understatement.…
UN Special Rapporteur welcomed to Winnipeg with Jingle Dress Dance
WINNIPEG – Portage and Main, the busiest intersection in downtown Winnipeg was closed to traffic and instead rang out with jingles, drumming, whoops, and singing…