Aboriginal day marred for Que. community after white supremacist vandalism.
"...Aside from the youth incidents, she said a recent land claim was a source of contention. Last fall, the Kitigan Zibi First Nation was successful in a land claim for a piece of property in the heart of Maniwaki, Tenasco said."
Kitigan Zibi homepage
Arsonists in Quebec targetting Jewish cottages.
(Mon., June 18)"A Jewish orthodox camp in the Lower Laurentians was the target of another suspicious fire -- the third in almost a month -- on Sunday, leaving members of Montreal's Jewish community fearing for their safety.
A private summer cottage at the Val-David, Que., camp was found burned to the ground early Sunday morning and five other properties were vandalized. No one was injured in the fire. Police say it appears there was an attempt to set at least one other home ablaze."
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Treaties are just the starting point; by Kate Harries.
Check out the article, at Straight Goods
"Trapper, teacher, activist, Kaaren's a force of nature herself. You might not give her a second look if you met her in the grocery store, a middle-aged Anishinaape woman wearing glasses, long black hair shot with grey cascading down her back. In fact, she says, it's a not uncommon experience for a cashier to look right through her at the check-up counter and prepare to ring in the next customer's purchases. "It's not on purpose," she says. "They apologize when they realize — but they just don't see us." That's how racism works, she says. The other — in this case, the aboriginal — is invisible. "It's as if we aren't there."
But she was a powerful presence in the Red Lake courtroom. She and her husband Phil are charged with building a cabin on public lands without a permit, and ignoring a verbal stop-work order. His case has been deferred. Robert Ponton, a justice of the peace from London, Ontario, heard Kaaren's case and he gave her considerable leeway in presenting the aboriginal perspective on the charges. Like the aboriginal worldview in which all elements of creation are interconnected, and community is a concept that includes people, trees, birds, rocks and visitors, her perspective was all-encompassing.
She quoted Judge Sidney Linden's report of his inquiry into the police shooting of Dudley George, at which the MNR acknowledged that "the historic policies and practices of provincial and federal governments have resulted in ongoing disenfranchisement and displacement of aboriginal people from their land and traditional practices in Canada..."
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Pics click to enlarge.
The "Bingorage Scallop-Shell Paint Storage System" (BSSPSS):
A fencing mock-up that I am building with Google sketch-up:
A new canvas that I'm toying with. No particular end-image in sight, yet:
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Eskasoni First Nation (Nova Scotia) opens a call centre.
What happened to the Eulachon, of Bella Coola? (Globe and Mail article)
"BELLA COOLA, B.C. — When the Nuxalk band gathers on the banks of the Bella Coola River, it is usually to celebrate the blessings of nature. But this spring, instead of singing to welcome back the salmon or casting eagle feathers on the water in thanks, tribes from the central coast of British Columbia gathered to hold a Feast of Shame and discuss a growing crisis.
At the gathering, elders from 10 B.C. bands, including the Nuxalk (pronounced new-hawk), Kitasoo, Oweekeno and Haisla, spoke with anger and sadness about the loss of a small, herring-like fish, known as eulachon, that until recently returned in such numbers they turned the river black.
In 1995, when the last big run came in, there were millions of eulachon, so many they spilled out onto the gravel bars in writhing waves. Since then, the river has been nearly empty of fish.
“Every year we wait. Every year the seals, the sea gulls, the ducks, the swans, the geese, they sit along the river waiting,” said Oweekeno Chief Frank Johnson."
Feds, Saskatchewan and the Sturgeon Lake First Nation signed a
"ceremonial document acknowledging a Treaty Land Entitlement (TLE) Settlement Agreement".
Inca Skull Rewrites History of Conquest"The 500-year-old skull, found in a long-forgotten Inca cemetery outside Lima, Peru, had two round holes just across from each other. Nearby was a plug of bone, recovered intact, that carried the distinct markings of an old musket ball.
Archaeologists sensed they had unearthed an important find, but it wasn't until months later that a powerful electron microscope scan confirmed it by finding traces of lead in the skull. The victim, who was between 18 and 22 years old when he died, had been shot by a Spanish conquistador."
Winnipeg art resources and galleryCanada Plains Online.
National Geographic article, "Stinky Whale" Mystery Stymies Scientists, Aboriginal Hunters.
"Chemical contamination or disease may be causing the increasing phenomenon of so-called stinky whales, experts say.
A similar stink is also being noticed in the meat of ringed and bearded seals, walruses, and cod, the report by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) adds.
Aboriginal whalers in Russia's northeastern province of Chukotka first began sensing there was something wrong with the whales in the 1990s."
Moving Slowly in the Fast Lane. A good article about the "net neutrality" that should be.
Adam Beach Golf Classic, at the Black Bear Golf Course, near Cloquet, MN. August 19-20, 2007.
Wanna make 4-in-1 chainmail?
University of New Mexico practicing censorship, citing changes made, from proposal.
"The University of New Mexico has rejected a sculpture it had commissioned from a Native-American artist because his final product includes barbed wire...
The sculpture depicts a migration scene from an old Aztec picture book. Three Indians are shown migrating toward Albuquerque in the United States. According to Haozous, the work depicts a border crossing.
"Everything in the work is a symbol," says Haozous, explaining that the full title of the work is called "Cultural Crossroads of the Americas." The barbed wire, which appears both in his work and along the U.S.-Mexico border, "is a dehumanizing part of our lives.... It's tremendous symbolism." As to why it was not part of the original model, he says: "The work matured in the studio."
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