The majority of First Nations along the pipeline route have not consented to this pipeline:
Tag: anti native racism
as an indigenous person i’ve noticed a consistently colonialist analysis of indigenous people by post-left anti-civ anarchists who keep positing us and our societies as being somehow “outside of civilisation” even though our societies were and are structured by social relations explicable in terms of relations of production and a corresponding ideological superstructure. this is precisely how colonial accounts of our societies have always set us aside as somehow primally “other” and primitivists perform the exact same racist, reductionist maneuver, simply adding ‘and I think that’s a good thing’ to the end of it.
these people cite racist european anthropologists who say shit like our societies are “passionately committed to violence” and then act all outraged when we point out this is the exact same colonial, racist nonsense that imperialists have always been saying about indigenous people, and their own ideological relation to the racist lies they’re telling about us don’t make those things no longer racist or no longer lies.
Tribe Called Red dancer says she ‘just felt disposable’ after being chased, refused taxi ride
An Edmonton woman says she’s still in shock after being refused a cab ride when she asked a Duffy’s Taxi driver for help Monday night.
Angela Gladue, who was in Manitoba to perform at the Winnipeg Folk Festival last weekend, said she was being chased down Portage Avenue by a strange man when she hopped in a cab for refuge.
Gladue said she was taken aback when the driver asked for cash upfront.
“I said ‘Yes, I do have money, but you have to go now. I will pay you, just start driving — there is a man coming and I am really scared,’” said Gladue, a powwow dancer who dances with the Ottawa electronic music group A Tribe Called Red.
“He was, like, ‘Give me $10.’”
Gladue said she was in fear for her safety and couldn’t think of anything else but getting away.
She said she has been asked to pay upfront by Edmonton taxi drivers in the past and has done so, reluctantly.
The driver wouldn’t go, even when the man who was chasing her caught up and began pacing back and forth beside the cab, she said.
“I was, like, ‘Are you refusing me service right now? My life is in danger,’” she said.
“Then I brought up missing and murdered Indigenous women and what he was doing felt like racism toward me, and I told him that.”
Tribe Called Red dancer says she ‘just felt disposable’ after being chased, refused taxi ride
Three legendary bird Pokemon done in a Pacific Northwest style
If you’re interested in buying these t-shirts, don’t. Yanni Davros is not Native, and should not be selling these t-shirts. There are actual PNW Native artists who you could support instead of supporting a non-Native misrepresentation of Native PNW art.
Some artists to support can be found here: @salishstyle
http://salishstyle.tumblr.com/post/174151888337/bear-by-phil-joe-cowichan-shop-the-collection
http://salishstyle.tumblr.com/post/169558915972/sweatshirt-season-thunderbird-by-ovila-mailhot
http://salishstyle.tumblr.com/post/173041134232/thunder-by-phil-joe-cowichan-shop-unisex
Three legendary bird Pokemon done in a Pacific Northwest style
If you’re interested in buying these t-shirts, don’t. Yanni Davros is not Native, and should not be selling these t-shirts. There are actual PNW Native artists who you could support instead of supporting a non-Native misrepresentation of Native PNW art.
Honestly one of the biggest things that annoyed me about westworld was their portrayal of ghost nation as savages and i just love how this episode turned that on it’s head and showed them as multidimensional people (well robots) with the goals of freedom and the ENTIRE FUCKING MAZE was made for them to find freedom not some bullshit journey for william and it was just so good
I have been dying all season for them to give Zahn McClarnon his due. “Kiksuya,” Episode 8, offered that up better than I could have dreamed of. This was Akecheta’s episode. It’s a bit late in the season. He should have been featured more prominently earlier on. But I’m so glad he is in for the end of the ride. Kiksuya is a season best, perhaps one of the best episodes of the series so far, proving that McClarnon was an amazing addition to the show and that pursuing the stories of the Native Americans in the park is well worth the show’s time, despite the fraught history of Native American portrayals in the Western genre and in American media in general. The show needs to accept that it is commenting on the cliches of Western media (double entendre) and move forward without fear because the show needs more Akecheta.
Academic hills I will die on:
-Land-use history didn’t begin with European colonization and if, like me, your research focuses on post-settlement land use it’s important to acknowledge that fact.
-The great American wilderness is a grossly inaccurate colonialist fantasy.
-Human influence, specifically that of indigenous people, is all over the ecology of what is currently called America.
-Human interaction with other organisms is not inherently negative
because it’s “unnatural.” We’re all family whether we want to admit it
or not.-Human/Nature dualism is awful and wrong.
-Environmentalism that focuses on “humans are bad” and verges on some Catholic-style “fallen man” ideology is also awful.
-Environmentalism that uses this mentality to reproduce colonialism by supposedly protecting nature from indigenous land management needs to stop.
‘We are sorry:’ Alberta premier formally apologizes to ’60s Scoop survivors
Premier Rachel Notley has formally apologized on behalf of Alberta to the survivors of the so-called ’60s Scoop for the province’s part in seizing Indigenous children from their families and alienating them from their culture.
“We are sorry,” Notley said in the legislature Monday as survivors sat in the gallery, some wiping away tears. “For the loss of families, stability, of love, we are sorry.
“For the loss of identity, language and culture, we are sorry. For the loneliness, the anger, the confusion and the frustration, we are sorry.
“For the government practice that left you, Indigenous people, estranged from your families and your communities and your history, we are sorry. For this trauma, this pain, this suffering, alienation and sadness, we are sorry.
“To all of you, I am sorry.”
‘We are sorry:’ Alberta premier formally apologizes to ’60s Scoop survivors
Separating sick Inuit kids and parents is medical colonialism all over again
It was a relatively quiet summertime shift in the emergency room at Montreal children’s hospital when the child – an Inuk preschooler – was rushed in on a stretcher. He had been airlifted in from a remote community after a motor vehicle accident, and he was entirely alone. Suddenly he began to cry. We couldn’t speak his language, and couldn’t find a hospital interpreter. Had he developed a sudden headache? Should we rush him to the CT scanner?
While trying to figure out how to proceed, we found someone who spoke Inuktitut, and learned the heartbreaking reason the child was crying: he missed his mother, who had to stay behind, more than 1,500km away.
Hundreds of critically ill children in remote northern communities are flown by ambulance planes to pediatric emergency centres in Montreal or Quebec City every year. And yet the Quebec Aeromedical Evacuations (Évaq, in its French acronym) – the provincial entity responsible for medical air transport – won’t let caregivers join them. Instead, parents must take a commercial flight, often several days later depending on flight schedules, seat availability and weather.
This is heartbreaking and incredibly dangerous to do. Catching symptoms early often leads to a better recovery, and nobody knows the child better than their own family. It is absolutely senseless that Quebec allows this to be done to these families.
It also places a financial burden on a family who are already faced with the possibility of paying for medical supplies for their child. But they also have to fork out money for a flight? Most people don’t just have that cash lying around. Especially when prices of food and necessities in Canada’s north can be obscenely high as well.
Separating sick Inuit kids and parents is medical colonialism all over again
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