Who Killed Anna Mae Aquash? Anna Mae Pictou Aquash On Feb. 24, 1976, a rancher in South Dakota was installing a fence on land situated along the edge of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation when he spotted a body at the bottom of a 30-foot embankment.
The badly decomposed corpse, in jeans and a maroon ski jacket, lay with knees pushed up toward chest. A coroner later determined that the woman had been dead for more than two months. The back of her head was matted with blood, and there was a single bullet wound at the base of her skull. She had been shot at close range. It would take investigators a week to identify the body as that of 30-year-old Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, a principal in the American Indian Movement. AIM was founded in Minneapolis in 1968, the same year the Black Panthers — the movement’s model — ambushed Oakland police officers and Cesar Chavez fasted to promote nonviolence.
Revolution 101: How to be a settler ally. Idle no more opened an exciting new chapter in Indigenous organizing, but as Krystalline Kraus said in her piece on indigenous protest: "Indigenous communities across Turtle Island have not been idle -- they have been resisting colonialism since the first European boats washed up all desperate and hungry on North and South American shores.
" This perception of Idle No More is all too often a result of "allies" failing to educate themselves. Understanding the long and important history of indigenous resistance is a good place to start unlearning for settlers. The legacy of Turtle Island’s colonial history is inescapable, from generational violence that started at first contact to centuries old legislation that still holds power over indigenous peoples’ daily lives. But knowledge alone isn’t enough. Settlers need to be active without piggybacking on direct actions, looking for token indigenous involvement or laying claim to struggles that aren't their own.
History. How They Lynched Tom Flanagan. By Jonathan Kay A Review of Persona Non Grata: The Death of Free Speech in the Internet Age.
Tom Flanagan. Signal, 2014. From the Spring-Summer 2014 issue of THE DORCHESTER REVIEW. Fault Lines: Elsipogtog, The Fire Over Water. Globalization; theft of Canadian and Indigenous Sovereignty PPT Presentation. Idle No More: About That FN Trust. Thank you to the following who re-posted or re-published this article to their websites and/or blog sites: Censored News Chippewas Of Rama Community Mohawk Nation News Native Economies Scoop It West Coast Native News Before writing about how some of those continuing payment annual sums are spent for the benefit of First Nations peoples, I have to write about the First Nations Trust Fund.
Over the past few days, a document by Robofraud has been circulating online that states that the First Nations Trust Fund is over $2 TRILLION and earns an annual interest of over $35 BILLION. A trust is a way to hold property that lets Trustees manage the money so it benefits a defined beneficiary. The Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC) provided this information with regards to the monies being held in the First Nations Trust Fund as of March 31, 2009. An Inconvenient Truth behind Blazing Police Vehicles.
Dana Hartt There are at least two interrelated stories in the events of October 17th in Rexton, New Brunswick: First Nations land rights and widespread opposition to hydraulic fracturing.
Neither is getting the press it deserves. This article will not give the issue of hydraulic fracturing in New Brunswick the press it deserves, because, in the authors opinion, the issue was settled on October 1st, 2013, if not before. This article will, however, attempt to place the events of October 17th in Rexton in a rarely considered historical context in order to address the issue of First Nations land rights as this relates to the struggle against the shale gas industry in New Brunswick.
Three of Canada's Genocidal Policies - Home Page. Thomas King Statement to Niigaan: The Importance of Status Lands. Tobold Rollo: Saying Goodbye to Tom Flanagan: What Took So Long? Every field has its embarrassing cousin who lives in the proverbial attic.
In virology there are scientists who deny the existence of AIDS. There are biologists who deny evolution. There are architects who say 9/11 was a controlled demolition. There are climate scientists who deny climate change. And yes, in the field of political science, there are those who deny Indigenous rights. When it comes to political science approaches to Indigenous rights, Tom Flanagan and Barry Cooper qualify as perhaps our biggest embarrassments. For his part, Flanagan published a book in 2000 titled First Nations? Political strategist Flanagan says he was trapped into child porn comments.
Idle No More blockade positive. ALDERVILLE - As blockades go, the one mounted by Alderville First Nation Wednesday in support of the Idle No More day of action was a positive one.
Supporters gathered on County Road 45 at the Alderville cenotaph, starting at 8 a.m. By mid-morning, about 30 community members were out to man the blockade, participate in the drumming circle, hold up their signs or just lend moral support. Every car stopped received information pamphlets and the gift of a coffee. "We want do to everything in a positive way," grassroots community member Keith Montreuil said.
By mid-morning, they had had to arrange for more copies of their pamphlets, when the 200 they started the day with ran low. Indians. First Nations taxation. I’ve been struggling with what to write next, given the unreal amount of attention my last blog post got.
I felt some pressure to use the attention to get a message out…but what do I say, where do I start? How can I top a ‘big picture’ article like one by Wayne Spear, which address so much of what I’ve been trying to say in my responses to comments? Well I can’t, and that isn’t my goal anyway. This isn’t a competition for Most Important All-Encompassing Message, and I don’t suddenly have all the answers just because one blog post went viral. Aaron Huey: America's native prisoners of war. (7) Duane Good Striker.
(7) Duane Good Striker. (7) Duane Good Striker. (7) Duane Good Striker. (7) Duane Good Striker. The Idle No More Movement for Dummies (or, 'What The Heck Are All These Indians Acting All Indian-Ey About?')