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Indigenous nationhood : empowering grassroots citizens

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    Fernwood Publishing, 2015

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  • Contributor: Sinclair, Niigaanwewidam James
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    2015
    Summary:

    This book is a collection of the best blogs from Indigenous Nationhood produced by well-known lawyer, activist and academic Pamela Palmater. Her blogs offer critical legal and political commentary and analysis on legislation, Aboriginal rights, Canadian politics, and First Nation politics and social issues like murdered and missing Indigenous women, poverty, economics, and identity and culture. The intent of the blogs and the book is to help rebuild the connections between Indigenous citizens and their home communities, local governments, and Indigenous Nations for the benefit of future generations. Underlying those connections is knowledge and capacity within the Indigenous population to support their self-advocacy efforts and to forge relationships with academics, students, lawyers, politicians, like-minded organizations, volunteers and others to undertake activities supporting the efforts of grass roots Indigenous peoples. For too long and too often, the struggles faced by individual citizens have been forgotten or subsumed under other issues faced by their home communities. Under the current Conservative government, urgent Indigenous issues have been sacrificed for political posturing. Right-wing "academics," news media and others have dominated the public debate such that the information being absorbed by the public at large is skewed against Indigenous peoples. These blogs tackle myths and stereotypes about Indigenous people head-on and provide accessible, critical analysis of government laws and policies being imposed in Indigenous peoples. This book is part of an attempt to develop good old fashioned leadership to work with grass roots people to make the change we owe our children.

    Contents:
    • Foreword / by Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair
    • Introduction: Standing with pride, rebuilding our nations
    • Section 1: Racism
    • "No natives allowed
    • How Canada breeds racism and fear
    • How Canada breeds racism and fear
    • Canadian Taxpayers Federation's chief bashing campaign
    • Eskan racism
    • bottled and soured in Canada for over 500 years
    • Sun media or hate media
    • racism for sale
    • Laurie River Lodge adventures
    • Watch out for animals and Indians ?
    • Human Rights Museum or Harper propaganda show
    • genocide and Canada denied
    • Silent war
    • government control of indigenous identity
    • Genocide? Murder? Criminal negligence? Or Passive indifference-Canada is killing our people
    • Harper's Indigenous manifesto
    • Erasing indigenous peoples from Canada
    • 2. Social Justice
    • Urgent situation report on humanitarian crisis in Canada
    • It's time to stand up and defend our people
    • What is the Idle No More Movement ... Really?
    • Eyes wide shut
    • Chasing Section 35 and ignoring the war
    • Jordan's principle and stnading up for those who can't
    • Justice Minister Vic Toews' willfull blindness to the ongoing "crisis" in justice system
    • Dramatic contradictions
    • 2014 report of the United Nations special Rapporteur on Indigenous Peoples
    • From savages to terorists
    • Jusifying genocide of First Nations
    • Unimaginable but undeniable
    • Genocide in Canada
    • Section 3 : Murdered and missing Indigenuous women and girls
    • Funding for missing and murdered aboriginal women
    • A let down by All parties
    • Neandrathal politics
    • shame on conservatives for trying to disempower indignous women again
    • Murdered, missing and still excluded
    • Indigenous women fight for equality
    • Harper solicits research to blame First Nations for murdered, missing and traded indigenous women
    • Deja vue
    • RCMP Report on Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women
    • RCMP report on murdered and missing Aboriginal is statistically skewed
    • Section 4. Legislation
    • Transcript of my testimony on Bill C-51 Anti-Terrorism Act
    • March 24, 2015
    • Bill C-51
    • The anti First Nations, environmentalist, scientist and Bird Watcher Act - Myth of the crooked Indians-Bill C-27 First Nations Transparency Act
    • First Nations controlled, First Nations Education Act
    • standardizing the "Indian in the child"
    • Defer, deflect, deny, destory
    • Harper's First Nations Education Act
    • Right-wing post
    • the fight for integrity in the media
    • Fact versus rhetoric
    • response to INAC's misinformation about Bill S-2
    • Bill S-4
    • Backdoor assimilation and land grab
    • Flanagan National Petroleum Ownership Act
    • Stop big oil land grab
    • Section 5. Politics
    • Shiny new beads and trinkets
    • Old assimilation policies repackaged
    • War and peace
    • illusions of partnership at Conservative
    • First Nations Gathering
    • Federal Budget 2012
    • The battle lines have been drawn
    • October 7th day of action, the royal proclamation, and idle no more
    • wading through the hype
    • Feathers versus guns
    • The Throne Speech and Canada's War with th M'kmaw Nation at Elsipogtog
    • Willing partner or jail? Budget 2014 and the elimination of First Nations treaty rights, resources and trade
    • Conservative's fear budget not high on Harper's radar
    • To vote or not to vote? A question of sovereignty for Indigenous peoples
    • Conclusion: every day gets warmer.
    Original Publisher: Black Point, Nova Scotia, Fernwood Publishing
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 1552667952, 9781552667958