The Songhees Nation is now located in Esquimalt on Vancouver Island, 5 kilometers from Victoria, the capital of British Columbia. Historically, the original site of the Songhees Indian Reservation was located in Victoria's Inner Harbour. The main village. The Songhees Wellness Centre will be a focal point for Community activities and an opportunity to connect with the region. The facility will be the realization of a long held dream for a Community gathering place with space for sports and recreation programs. A full size gym, with change rooms and a fitness centre will encourage active lifestyles, offering a full range of recreational activities from fun leagues to serious training for current and future athletes. Hosting sports events with up to 300 people in attendance will be a source of Community pride. Read more. The facility will create a venue for Songhees Nation to participate in the regional economy.
The City lacks an opportunity to experience local First Nations culture in a direct and meaningful way. The Conference Centre facilities in the gymnasium, plus multiple meetings rooms and an industrial sized kitchen will be complimented with traditional dancing and foods, a gift shop/gallery and cultural interpretation centre. Resources for non-native folks looking to relate, get involved and act in solidarity & alliance w/ Indigenous rights movement. e2809clisten-take-direction-and-stick-around1.pdf (application/pdf Object)
I benefit from colonialism « uncomfortably canadian. About a month ago a pair of white South Africans ignited an international discussion about race and responsibility when they printed 10 t-shirts with the words “I benefited from apartheid” written boldly across the chest. Those 10 were distributed at an art installation and were spoken for so quickly that another 30 were quickly produced. The gesture, a response to reactionary criticism of a supermarket’s hiring policy, elicited all manner of responses. Some suggested the t-shirt designers were motivated by a misplaced guilt; others felt they were unnecessarily digging up old history better forgotten; still others felt they were appropriating a struggle that whites had little place in. One thing was undeniable: those 40 t-shirts prompted a debate about race and apartheid, guilt and responsibility.
He benefited from apartheid. It will be tempting for some to write the movement off, to see this as a First Nations issue to which settlers have little to contribute and less to gain. Like this: Un-Settling Settler Desires | Unsettling America. By Scott Morgensen, Unsettling Ourselves My presentation to the Dakota Decolonization class echoed my broader teaching and writing by centering the principles of Indigenous feminist thought and its ties to women of color and Third World feminism. Andrea Smith in her book Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide (2005) writes that colonization and heteropatriarchy inherently interlink, so that opposition to one requires opposition to the other.
Her Indigenous feminist argument links to the principle of intersectionality in women of color and Third World feminisms, which appears in the Combahee River Collective’s “A Black Feminist Statement” (1977) in the claim that “all the major systems of oppression are interlocking.” I learned to commit to these principles by investigating and challenging the power and privilege that structure my life as a white, educationally-privileged, US American male, non-transgender and (temporarily) able-bodied. Like this: Like Loading... Kanehsatake 270 Years of Resistance by Alanis Obomsawin. From the playlist : Manifesto for Interventionist Media - because Art is a Hammer Manifesto Point # 1: The original project idea and goals come from the community partner.
Kanehsatake 270 Years of Resistance is arguably Alanis Obomsawin's most important film, documenting the military 1990 siege of a Mohawk reserve near Oka, Quebec, and its causes. I chose this film here because the celebrated Abenaki filmmaker told me recently: "For me a real documentary is when you are really listening to somebody. They are the ones that tell you what the story is. Not you. " Alanis said these words in the short the film I made about her, called Dream Magic (2008)
. — Katerina Cizek. I'm a settler. Canada, it’s time. We need to fix this in our generation. Chief Spence on Victoria Island. Today is December 16, 2012 and Chief Theresa Spence has been on a hunger strike for six days. Contrary to what some media outlets are reporting, she is not doing this only to protest Bill C-45 or even the deplorable treatment her community has received since declaring an emergency last year. She has vowed to continue her hunger strike until the prime minister, the Queen or a representative, agrees to sit down in good faith with First Nations leaders to rebuild what has become a fractured and abusive relationship.
She is staying in a tipi on Victoria Island, which sits below Parliament and the Supreme Court of Canada. Many native people across the country have been fasting to show their solidarity with Chief Spence, including Dene National Chief Bill Erasmus. Just search the twitter hashtag #TheresaSpence to get a sense of how much support this woman has from our peoples. Protesters in Halifax on December 16th, photo by Bryson Syliboy. We are not going away. Decolonizing together. Canada’s state and corporate wealth is largely based on subsidies gained from the theft of Indigenous lands and resources. Conquest in Canada was designed to ensure forced displacement of Indigenous peoples from their territories, the destruction of autonomy and self-determination in Indigenous self-governance and the assimilation of Indigenous peoples’ cultures and traditions. Given the devastating cultural, spiritual, economic, linguistic and political impacts of colonialism on Indigenous people in Canada, any serious attempt by non-natives at allying with Indigenous struggles must entail solidarity in the fight against colonization.
Non-natives must be able to position ourselves as active and integral participants in a decolonization movement for political liberation, social transformation, renewed cultural kinships and the development of an economic system that serves rather than threatens our collective life on this planet. Decolonization is as much a process as a goal. Implementing Adaptive Capacity : T'Sou-ke Nation. Inclusive Leadership. The Problem With Men Explaining Things.
This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. I still don't know why Sallie and I bothered to go to that party in the forest slope above Aspen. The people were all older than us and dull in a distinguished way, old enough that we, at 40ish, passed as the occasion's young ladies. The house was great—if you like Ralph Lauren-style chalets—a rugged luxury cabin at 9,000 feet complete with elk antlers, lots of kilims, and a wood-burning stove. We were preparing to leave, when our host said, "No, stay a little longer so I can talk to you. " He was an imposing man who'd made a lot of money. He kept us waiting while the other guests drifted out into the summer night, and then sat us down at his authentically grainy wood table and said to me, "So? I hear you've written a couple of books. " I replied, "Several, actually. " He said, in the way you encourage your friend's seven-year-old to describe flute practice, "And what are they about?
" He cut me off soon after I mentioned Muybridge. Beyond Whiteness — A Resource for Dismantling White Privilege and Racism.