The Discourse of Aboriginality (Pt III): The Historical Discourse of Aboriginality
This chapter sets down two major themes of the dominant Canadian discourse on Indigenous peoples: The Noble Savage and The Vanishing Indian Race (Part 3 of 4)
The Discourse of Aboriginality (Pt II): Imperialism and Edward Said’s “Orientalism”
“Orientalism [is] the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient… making statements about it, authorizing views of it, describing it, by teaching it, settling it, ruling over it” (Part 2 of 4)
The Discourse of Aboriginality: Part I
The forms and practices of knowledge falling under the name of scientific discourse (including social science) are as complicit today in the ongoing effects of genocide against Indigenous peoples as the original colonialists’ overt use of force at and around the time of contact. Part one of four.
SCREENINGS: ‘The Power Was With Us: Idle No More’
Free screening in Winnipeg (Jan 21) of “The Power Was With Us: Idle No More,” the feature-length APTN News documentary chronicle of the movement’s dramatic emergence back in Dec. 2012
Water as a Fundamental Right: Ep. 121
A compendium of our discussions about water, be it as a fundamental right or the more nitty-gritty matters of funding, infrastructure, and accountability.
