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-John Locke
If this website has inspired you in any way, join in the conversation by finding the resources to gain insight and inspire you. Here are a few that we have been introduced to...
The 8th fire.
8TH FIRE is a provocative, high-energy journey through Aboriginal country showing you why we need to fix Canada's 500 year-old relationship with Indigenous peoples; a relationship mired in colonialism, conflict and denial.
Wab Kinew on Strombo.
George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight to talk about First Nations stereotypes and why people need to stop using them. Wab Kinew is a Canadian musician, broadcaster and educator, best known as a host of programming on CBC Radio and CBC Television.
Dr. Pam Palmater
Dr. Palmater is an Aboriginal Lawyer. This video showcases her fact based discussion advocating to the Idle No More Movement. Palmater deconstructs many common sense economic ideologies surrounding First Nations funding. Her consesnsus finds that Canadians and Aboriginal have the same interests.
Making Native Space
This elegantly written and insightful book provides a geographical history of the Indian reserve in British Columbia. Cole Harris analyzes the impact of reserves on Native lives and livelihoods and considers how, in light of this, the Native land question might begin to be resolved. The account begins in the early nineteenth-century British Empire and then follows Native land policy - and Native resistance to it - in British Columbia from the Douglas treaties in the early 1850s to the formal transfer of reserves to the Dominion in 1938.
Burden of History
This book is an ethnography of the cultural politics ofNative/non-Native relations in a small interior BC city -- WilliamsLake -- at the height of land claims conflicts and tensions. Furnissanalyses contemporary colonial relations in settler societies, arguingthat 'ordinary' rural Euro- Canadians exercise power inmaintaining the subordination of aboriginal people through 'commonsense' assumptions and assertions about history, society, andidentity, and that these cultural activities are forces in an ongoing,contemporary system of colonial domination. She traces the mainfeatures of the regional Euro-Canadian culture and shows how thiscultural complex is thematically integrated through the idea of thefrontier. Key facets of this frontier complex are expressed in diversesettings: casual conversations among Euro-Canadians; popular histories;museum displays; political discourse; public debates about aboriginal land claims; and ritual.
Treaty Promises, Indian Reality
The transformation of Indian society after treaty from self-sufficiency to one highly regulated by a federal bureaucracy is central to this book. This is the story of early Indian farming experiences in the Qu?Appelle Valley, the power of the Indian agents, the pass system required to leave the reserve, permissions required to sell produce, and the manipulations undertaken by federal authorities to get the people of Cowessess to surrender part of their land. In many ways, this is the story of life on a reserve after treaty anywhere on the Prairies.This book does not pass judgment on the actions of the federal government, its agents, or anyone else. Rather, in an ever-respectful voice, it relates things as they were, and points to the successes achieved by Indian peoples in spite of the many challenges they faced. This is a personal, triumphant, and affirming account of Indian life after treaty.
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