What should be a pretty interesting meeting takes place tomorrow in Ottawa, where the Senate Standing Committee on Aboriginal Peoples is going to examine “the progress made on commitments endorsed by Parliamentarians of both Chambers since the Government’s [2008] apology to former students of Indian Residential Schools.” In other words, how far has Canada come […]
Photos from yesterday’s rally for First Nations education in Ottawa. [album: https://mediaindigena.com/wp-content/plugins/dm-albums/dm-albums.php?currdir=/wp-content/uploads/dm-albums/Rally for Education/] Photography by Tim Fontaine & Martha Troian
(OTTAWA) — Hundreds of First Nations people from across the country rallied on Parliament Hill yesterday in support of increased education funding. Among the messages displayed on demonstrators’ signs: ‘Our children, Our future, Our way!’, ‘Respect our Treaties’, and ‘Education Means Graduation.’ The rally was the culmination of a ‘National Week of Action on Education,’ […]
Quick hit to let you know that MI’s Rick Harp (yours truly) will be part of an informal 4-person roundtable airing today on CBC Radio One about Aboriginal issues and Winnipeg’s Oct. 27 city-wide election for mayor and council. Hosted by Larry Updike of CBC Manitoba’s ‘Up to Speed‘ drive-home program, the show begins at […]
The author of 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, Charles C. Mann, has just responded to Frances Widdowson’s lengthy refutation of his historiography concerning the ancient Indigenous site of Cahokia, part of what’s become a larger debate over competing notions of ‘cultural evolution’ in our new AGENDA INDIGENA section: [I]t is Dr. Widdowson, […]
