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Merritt Herald - Value in Aboriginal program for non-Aboriginals as well. First Contact - Lost Tribe of The Amazon - Sunday Night - Channel Seven. The do’s, don’ts, maybes, and I-don’t-knows of cultural appropriation. Aboriginal spirit proves unbreakable - News. Tyler Clarke Daily Herald.

Aboriginal spirit proves unbreakable - News

Sooke News Mirror - T'Sou-ke Nation will lead the way in food security and sustainability with new project. Published: January 31, 2012 10:00 AM Updated: January 31, 2012 10:29 AM.

Sooke News Mirror - T'Sou-ke Nation will lead the way in food security and sustainability with new project

Freedom Rider: Aboriginal Righteous Anger. Aaron Huey: Life on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. In April 2005, Aaron Huey drove into Manderson, South Dakota, the roughest town on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, and started knocking on doors.

Aaron Huey: Life on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation

"Hey wasichu (white boy), what are you doing with that camera? " yelled a young Lakota man covered in tattoos. "Just looking for stories," Huey answered. "You got any to tell? " Give us full rights to our home and native land. “Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself – and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.” - Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, Jan. 14, 1879 Contrary to popular belief, Chief Joseph was not a war chief.

Give us full rights to our home and native land

He was a community chief. This statement reminds us that he understood that a community is a combination of innovative individuals and their willing commitment to community responsibilities. Aboriginal protest highlights Australia inequality. Authentic (Only) Official Site - Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee. The New Canoe - The Authentic Cultural Journey. Art imitates strife as designer documents indigenous struggle. Bronwyn Bancroft … ''The older I get, the younger I act.'' Photo: Dallas Kilponen IT SHOULD come as no surprise that a new exhibition of Bronwyn Bancroft's work is titled Passion, Power, Politics.

Art imitates strife as designer documents indigenous struggle

The NSW artist's passion for life and art - whether it be her vibrant textile designs, colourful paintings or highly praised children's books - is evident from the moment she starts talking about the exhibition. The power and politics of indigenous Australian art, and in particular how indigenous artists are represented, also permeate Bancroft's career. All those issues came together for Bancroft in a PhD she is undertaking at the University of Western Sydney, from which the Carriageworks exhibition takes its name. Occupy Talks: Indigenous Perspectives on the Occupy Movement - Tom B.K. Goldtooth. The Harper 'apology': Residential schools and Bill C-10 - Woodstock Sentinel Review - Ontario, CA. We learn fairly early in life that when you apologize for something that you have done wrong, it is expected your apology will be followed by a change in behaviour.

The Harper 'apology': Residential schools and Bill C-10 - Woodstock Sentinel Review - Ontario, CA

The result of Prime Minister Harper's meetings with First Nation Chiefs will tell us whether or not he has learnt this lesson. In 2008, Prime Minister Stephen Harper publicly apologized for Canada's role in the "aggressive assimilation" of Aboriginal children through the government-supported, church-run residential schools. A spirituality nourished by nature. Mollie Bono finds the beauty in a walk on a winter morning.

A spirituality nourished by nature

First Nations spirituality looks to nature as a way to live and thrive. — image credit: Cara Brady/Morning Star. Struggles worth it, female chiefs say - Saskatchewan. Art ‘lifts people’s spirits’ Property rights could unlock native reform. Prime Minister Stephen Harper met with indigenous leaders in Ottawa last week to discuss how they might “reset the relationship” between aboriginal and non-aboriginal peoples.

Property rights could unlock native reform

Unfortunately, Canada’s experience with major policy reforms affecting aboriginal peoples does little to inspire confidence. In 1969, for instance, the federal government proposed solving the “aboriginal problem” forever by terminating “Indian” status and dismantling the Department of Indian Affairs. And in 2005, Ottawa and native leaders negotiated the Kelowna Accord, which promised to inject billions of dollars into chronically underfunded aboriginal policy areas, such as housing, education, economic development, and health, among others.

Healing the hearts of the 'Quinte Mohawks' - Belleville Intelligencer - Ontario, CA. So, we come into school and part of the roof in our room fell in and there's water everywhere.. what a way to start the week... the roof fell in...

Healing the hearts of the 'Quinte Mohawks' - Belleville Intelligencer - Ontario, CA

Lmao no need for anyone to ask what school you go to, thats not obvious... bahahaha Gotta love that school! I know I always enjoyed the stupid s*** that has happened there The above Facebook conversation is just one example of many happening between First Nations students about going to school on their home territory. North American Indian Beadwork Patterns (9780486288352): Pamela Stanley-Millner.

Two cultures, six 'killer apps,' one divide. At this week's summit meeting between First Nations chiefs and the prime minister of the rest of Canada, the two solitudes talked past one another.

Two cultures, six 'killer apps,' one divide

Grand Chief Shawn Atleo spoke of another kind of relationship, one informed by an aboriginal understanding of things. He even brought the wampum belt agreements of the 1700s, made long before the Indian Act and residential schools would corrupt the future. The prime minister spoke respectfully and hopefully of "shared goals and principles" and giving aboriginal people "the tools they need . . . and allow them to move forward. " But those words are rooted in a Western understanding of how things ought to be done. They mean different things to people who are different. AMERICAN INDIAN Holocaust Video by HOZWE - Myspace Video. Coming soon in Minneapolis: American Indian Movement Interpretive Center. January 22, 2012 In a touch of irony, wood stolen from White Earth Reservation land was used to build the Henry B.

Frey House, which is now becoming the American Indian Movement Interpretive Center (AIMIC). The old Minneapolis mansion at 1206 5th Street SE became a University of Minnesota fraternity house for many years and then housed Heart of the Earth Survival School. Now it will become a center for collecting, organizing and preserving American Indian history for students, scholars, and especially American Indians interested in their history.

Brain Development & Addiction with Gabor Mate. The American Indian Movement, part 1. What is AIM? I cannot speak with established authority about the American Indian Movement, but I will describe my studied perception of it and leave others to consider their own interpretation. AIM began as a protest movement, a channeling of anger seeking a voice and a response. The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven - Sherman Alexie. Why American Indian history needs to be taught in schools - by Caryna St. John. Helium01's image for: "Why American Indian History needs to be Taught in Schools" Caption: Location: Image by: American Indian history has long been ignored, yet it is rich and colorful. Before Columbus, before white settlers came to America, there were American Indians living peacefully on the land.

As white settlers came war broke out and many American Indians lost their lives. Unfortunately, in many American schools few descendants are taught about their own history. American Indian warriors fought on both sides of the American Revolution, of the Civil War, and many of them still honor America through voluntarily entering into the armed forces.

Unfortunately the effect on the Native American Indians runs deep. What is the answer for the Native American Indians? Native American Language Project Takes Another Step Forward. The Indestructible Nebraska Ponca and Their Great Leaders. Poet laureate brings First Nations' voice to city.

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Pamphlet is a new tool in sensitivity toward aboriginal cultures - Midland Free Press - Ontario, CA. Teaching critical thinking in Arizona: NOT ALLOWED. Ereviews: Native American History. The following resources provide a solid foundation for students and researchers working in the area of Native American studies and supplement that base with a rich, deep supply of primary-source documents.

A Restorative Circle in the Wake of a Police Shooting. On August 30, 2010, a Seattle police officer shot and killed John T. How Enbridge Sawed Off Good Relations with BC First Nations. Killing Haisla's sacred trees just one way firm has undercut dealings with aboriginals on Pacific Gateway route.