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• Schooling the World

  

  August 14, 2010  72 views 0 Comments Share

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  Schooling the World: The White Man's Last Burden takes a vital look at the often-harmful effects of Western education on indigenous cultures. "For centuries, missionaries have penetrated every corner of the globe with Bibles in their hands. Today’s missionaries carry algebra, chemistry, English, and computers. But what really happens when we replace a traditional culture’s [...]

  Filed Under assimilation • India • Indigenous Peoples • language • Tibet • Traditions • video

• A Thousand Suns

  

  October 10, 2009  1,272 views 0 Comments Share

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  This is the trailer for the film A Thousand Suns by the Global Oneness Project. You can watch the full film at www.imdb.com A Thousand Suns tells the story of the Gamo Highlands of the African Rift Valley and the unique worldview held by the people of the region. This isolated area has remained remarkably [...]

  Filed Under Africa • agriculture • assimilation • documentaries • Ethiopia • GMO • Indigenous Peoples • pesticides • toxins • video

• 16 Months and counting: Australia’s racist intervention continues

  

  May 21, 2009  2,425 views 1 comment Share

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  Indigenous People in the Northern Territory of Australia have struggled for the past 16 months to "roll back" the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) legislation, more commonly known as the "intervention," which the government introduced in 2007. None of the 73 communities it impacted were consulted before NTER was enacted, but more to the point, [...]

  Filed Under assimilation • Australia • genocide • Indigenous Peoples • land • NT Intervention • racism • United Nations

• The AFN Wants to Save North America

  

  February 7, 2009  1,398 views 2 comments Share

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  In just a few short weeks, an impressive group of well-dressed politicians, members of the business community, and so-called First Nation leaders will gather in Toronto for "the largest-ever" Indigenous economic development conference, the Inter-Nation Trade & Economic Summit (INTES). Proclaiming it a win-win "for all Canadian citizens", AFN Executive Phil Fontaine tells us the [...]

  Filed Under AFN • assimilation • business • Canada • environment • Indigenous Peoples

• Immoral Leadership and Self-Determination

  

  January 22, 2009  1,997 views 4 comments Share

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  Julia Good Fox, a faculty member in the Indigenous Nations and American Indian Studies department at Haskell Indian Nations University, is currently writing a six-part series of essays on understanding, confronting, and replacing Immoral Leadership, one of the main obstacles preventing us (Onkwehonwe, Indigenous People) from achieving authentic self-determination. In her FOREWARD for the series, [...]

  Filed Under assimilation • colonization • Indigenous Peoples • Reading • sovereignty

• First Nations Strategic Bulletin August 2008

  

  August 18, 2008  2,973 views 0 Comments Share

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  After a bit of a break, the First Nations Strategic Policy Counsel has resumed its monthly publication, the First Nations Strategic Bulletin. Issues in this month's bulletin include: an analysis of "Canada's War to terminate First Nations" (Harper's apology in context), the OPP & Mohawks (w/ a transcript of the phone conversation between Shawn Brant [...]

  Filed Under Algonquins • assimilation • Canada • colonialism • Indigenous Peoples • Mohawks • reports