Amnesty International is presenting four simple yet engaging slideshows created by the Yakye Axa and Sawhoyamaxa communities in Paraguay, both of whom are “fighting to regain the right to live on their ancestral lands.” Other project partners include Photovoice and Tierra Viva. Below is one of the photographic slideshows, “Through Our Own Eyes: Water, Food […]
I first met Patricia Monture at the University of Western Ontario in 1979. She was taking anthropology and other courses for a B.A.. I was in the one-year Program in Journalism for Native Peoples (PJNP). She was Mohawk from Grand River Territory near Brantford; I was Kanienkeha:ka (Mohawk) from Kanehsatà:ke Territory near Montreal. We both […]
Who is Indian and Northern Affairs Canada helping in England? That’s a darned good question. In fact, I’d like to know more after this little tidbit arrived in my email inbox from a helpful gnome, and another version arrived via my newsreader. I’ve contacted Marci, the media contact listed at the bottom of the news […]
Aboriginal people in two western Canadian cities have demanded their needs be met by some of their own when it comes to safety and security. In Winnipeg, hundreds of residents in the city’s North End have signed a petition calling for an all-Aboriginal urban policing unit for their neighborhood, writes the Winnipeg Free Press. Read […]
The recent court-ordered release of a 50-second, silent video showing an Ottawa Police officer kicking Terry Delay, a homeless Aboriginal man, while in custody has me recalling other contentious clips. There’s enough of them out there that I thought I would make a compilation; I was struck by the number of them I could recall […]
