Barely two days after MEDIA INDIGENA wrote about possible efforts by Indian & Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) to oversee the process of verifying Métis identity, leaders from the affected groups have come out swinging. CBC News writes that Manitoba Métis Federation president David Chartrand is “furious” and “determined to fight,” and quotes his description of […]
A few days ago, we discussed how the government of Alberta overlooked affected Aboriginal communities when deciding on the composition of an advisory panel charged with reviewing conflicting water-monitoring data from the province’s Oil Sands. I called it a stunning oversight at the time and it now appears I am not alone in thinking so. […]
UPDATE: In my original headline for this post, I wrote “71% of all recent infant deaths in BC were Aboriginal: Report.” This was unintentionally misleading on my part. In fact, as Neil Edmondson rightly points out via Twitter, “It wasn’t all recent infant deaths, just 71% of [the] 21 [infants] selected for study.” In my […]
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 […]
