If this is true, it’s a stunning statement in and of itself: according to the Edmonton Journal, Alberta’s new 12-member Oil Sands review panel, set up to conduct make recommendations regarding “environmental monitoring, evaluation and reporting,” has no Aboriginal representation whatsoever. The Journal reports that “last September, [Alberta Environment Minister Rob Renner] announced he would […]
Came across this piece by Photo District News detailing the backstory behind a series of still and moving images by New York City-based photographer Evan Abramson about Indigenous water conflicts near the Kenya/Ethiopia border. Entitled “When the Water Ends: Africa’s Climate Conflicts,” Abramson’s work was transformed by the production studio MediaStorm into a compelling multimedia […]
YLE News reports that Finland and Sweden steadfastly refuse to ratify the nearly 22-year-old ILO Convention on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples, aka Convention 169, “the only [European Union] countries yet to do so.” The Scandinavian holdouts are embroiled in land disputes with their respective Sámi populations. If you’d like to learn more, Minority Rights Group […]
Not long after complaints to UBC’s Museum of Anthropology compelled it to cancel a series of portraits of missing and murdered women from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, a family member of one of the victims has spoken out in defense of the exhibition. In a recent article in the Georgia Straight, Ernie Crey — brother of […]
This week, developments in the disparate fields of arts and law had something in common according to critics: the undue appropriation of Aboriginal voices by non-Aboriginal people. In the first case, we find Tony Merchant, a controversial lawyer attempting to sue Canada on behalf of thousands of people who feel they’ve been unfairly denied the […]
