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• Apples and Indians

  

  August 28, 2010  1,612 views 4 comments Share

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  Apples and Indians is a whimsical and profound 5-minute ride that sees Lorne Olson speeding through decades in search of his true identity. When Lorne Olson was a young boy, growing up on the Broken Head Reserve in Manitoba, a teacher told him that "Indians are like apples. They may be red on the outside [...]

  Filed Under Canada • Indigenous Peoples • reclamation • video

• Indian Affairs imposes new Chief and Council on Barriere Lake

  

  August 18, 2010  370 views 5 comments Share

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  Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) went ahead this week with its draconian drive to impose a new Chief and Council in the Algonquin community of Barriere Lake. According to Barriere Lake Solidarity, the government received somewhere between six and ten nomination mail-in ballots from a community of more than 450 people. In effect, less [...]

  Filed Under Algonquins • Barriere Lake • Canada • INAC • Indigenous Peoples

• Appeal to Investigate Hudbay Minerals Role in Human Rights Violations

  

  July 19, 2010  295 views 1 comment Share

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  This is an appeal from Rights Action, concerning Hudbay Minerals' alleged role in serious Human Rights Violations of an Indigenous Mayan-Qeqchi community in Guatemala. According to community testimony collected by Rights Action and students from the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) in May 2010, the Canadian company is directly involved in violent, illegal forced [...]

  Filed Under Canada • evictions • Guatemala • Indigenous Peoples • Maya • mining • nickel • petition • Qeqchi • testimony

• Shoshone lose court bid to protect Mount Tenabo

  

  June 27, 2010  300 views 8 comments Share

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  The Te-Moak Tribe of the Western Shoshone have lost another court bid to stop the expansion of the Cortez Hills mine project on their traditional territory. On June 18, 2010, the U.S. Federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decided to rule against the Shoshone, reversing its previous ruling in December 2009 that ordered a temporarily [...]

  Filed Under America • Canada • court rulings • gold • Indigenous Peoples • Sacred Sites • Shoshone

• Barriere Lake Algonquins have the right to govern themselves

  

  June 20, 2010  378 views 4 comments Share

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  The Canadian government is getting ready to dispose of the Barriere Lake Algonquin's traditional governance system, using a rarely invoked piece of the Indian Act known as Section 74. As if jumping back to 1876, the Canadian government has invoked Section 74 of the Indian Act, a draconian measure that grants the minister of Indian [...]

  Filed Under ALERT • Algonquins • Barriere Lake • Canada • forestry • Indigenous Peoples

• The Invisible History of Slavery in Canada

  

  June 19, 2010  486 views 2 comments Share

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  A Past, Denied: The Invisible History of Slavery in Canada is a feature-length documentary by independent filmmaker Mike Barber. The film, which is currently in production, examines the legacy of slavery in Canada and how this historical narrative has been kept out of Canadian classrooms, textbooks and social consciousness. So much of Canada's history has [...]

  Filed Under Canada • racism • slavery • video

• Innu block access to mining projects on their territory

  

  June 14, 2010  1,014 views 15 comments Share

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  Innu communities are blocking access to two mining projects in northeastern Quebec and western Labrador in an attempt to protect their Indigenous rights and ensure no mining can proceed on their territory without their prior consent. At the moment, roughly 100 Innu from the communities of Matimekush-Lac John and Uashat mak Mani-Utenam are attending the [...]

  Filed Under blockades • Canada • Indigenous Peoples • Innu • mining