*The #Saugeen #FirstPeoples won their lawsuit 👏 Appeals court dismissed #Ontario government's appeal. Justice was finally served.*

Ontario's top court has upheld a lower court's ruling that a strip of #SaubleBeach, a popular Ontario tourist spot, has always belonged to a local #FirstNation.

In a 121-page decision on Monday, the Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed appeals brought by the Municipality of South #BrucePeninsula, the Ontario government, and several local families to the April 2023 ruling by Superior Court Justice Susan Vella.

"Justice was done today," said Saugeen First Nation Chief Conrad Ritchie in a statement, calling it a "powerful moment" for the Saugeen community.

In her 2023 decision, Vella ruled that "Chi-Cmiinh," a roughly two-kilometre strip of beach at the northern end of Saugeen Reserve No. 29, had always belonged to Chippewas of Saugeen First Nation, and that the federal government breached its treaty rights.

The Crown, Vella wrote, failed to protect and preserve the #treaty it signed in 1854, Treaty 72, in which the First Nation and neighbouring #Chippewas of Nawash surrendered Saugeen Peninsula, excluding five #Indigenous reserve territories. One would become #ReserveNo29.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7405601

#GoodNews #CDNpoli #ONpoli #FirstNationsJustice #JusticeServed #NativeCanada #IndigenousCanada #IndigenousRights #HumanRights #GovernmentOfCanada #HonourTheTreaties #FirstNations #Legal #CanadianLaw #TruthBeforeReconciliation #OntarioLaw #lawsuit #UNDRIP

A Vancouver Island First Nation whose people were the first to greet European explorers in the region almost 250 years ago is taking British Columbia to court, seeking title to their traditional territories and financial compensation.

Chief Mike Maquinna, a descendent of #ChiefMaquinna who met British explorer Capt. James Cook in 1776, says the claim in #BCSupremeCourt seeks to return decision-making, resource and ecological stewardship to the #Mowachaht / #Muchalalaht First Nation.

He says the province has been acting as the sole decision-making authority in the #GoldRiver / #Tahsis areas of northern #VancouverIsland especially with regards to the forest resource, without the consent of his nation.

Hereditary Chief Jerry Jack says the claim filed today seeks title to about 66,000 hectares of land from #FriendlyCove to Tahsis in the north and #ButtleLake in the east, and an undisclosed amount of financial compensation.

https://cheknews.ca/vancouver-island-first-nation-whose-ex-chief-met-capt-cook-files-claim-against-b-c-1228788/

#BCpoli #CDNpoli #IndigenousBC #BCFirstNations #NativeCanada #BCNDP #IndigenousCanada #IndigenousRights #HumanRights #GovernmentOfCanada #NoConsent #Landback #FirstNations #TruthBeforeReconciliation #Reparations #Decolonization #Colonialism #IndigenousJustice #UNDRIP #Legal #BCLaw #CanadianLaw #Lawsuit #Justice

*White men speak with forked tongues*

The federal government is blocking First Nations leaders in British Columbia from participating in consultations to address the badly backlogged Jordan's Principle children's program, CBC Indigenous has learned.

The move came shortly before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appeared at the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) chiefs' meeting in Ottawa last week, where he touted his past pledge to find "a new way of working together" that includes "welcoming you to be part of the conversations."

However, federal lawyers had just withheld consent for the B.C.-based First Nations Leadership Council to take part in the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal-ordered talks, citing what the government called "practical reasons" — prompting some leaders to condemn the disconnect.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7406446

#BCpoli #CDNpoli #IndigenousBC #BCFirstNations #NativeCanada #IndigenousCanada #IndigenousRights #HumanRights #GovernmentOfCanada #NoConsent #IndigenousChildren #NativeKids #JordansPrinciple #FirstNations

Watching an Indigenous friend work on a small carving on piece of cedar scrap wood. He gets free cutoffs from some local mills & carves small artworks with them.

#Indigenous #CoastSalish #BCFirstNations #IndigenousBC #NativeCanada #IndigenousArt #NativeArt #IndigenousCanada #handmade #BritishColumbia #PacificNorthwest #Handcarving #Woodcarving #Woodwork #NativeWoodcarvers #TraditionalArt #CulturalArt #Cedar #photography

#ThrowbackThursday
2020.

#Laichwiltach Nation’s Hereditary Chief Tsahaukuse's (aka George Quocksister Jr.) traditional, #handwoven Chief's #hat. Made from yellow #cedar bark with beading & an #EagleFeather attached.
Sitting in front of the woven hat is a row of some #handcarved miniature canoe #paddles, carved from red & yellow cedar. Chief Darren Blaney of the #Xwémalhkwu aka #Homalco #FirstNation #carved over 100 of these paddles. They were carved in #honour of the many young Homalco lives lost.

#Indigenous #CoastSalish #BCFirstNations #IndigenousBC #NativeCanada #IndigenousArt #NativeArt #IndigenousCanada #handmade #BritishColumbia #PacificNorthwest #ButeInlet #ImOnABoat #VancouverIsland #CoastalBC #BCCoast #Cascadia #Salishan #PNW #Comox #photography

Recommended decolonial educational resource.

The #TreatyMap.
#IndigenousPerspectives on #Treaties in #Canada

Covering every #Canadian #treaty from 1763 to the present, The Treaty #Map aims to challenge the commonly held view of treaties as land surrenders and offers a #comprehensive, #interactive #learning and #teaching tool, grounded in #Indigenous perspectives of #treaties.

https://treatymap.yellowheadinstitute.org/

#Decolonization #ReadAndLearn #Education #FirstNations #IndigenousCanada #NativeCanada #BrokenTreaties #Colonialism #IndianTrust #IndigenousRights #TruthBeforeReconciliation #NativeRights #FirstPeoples #NativeMastodon #HonourTheTreaties #DecolonizeYourMind #CanadianHistory #KKKanada #Landback #BIPOC

#Free #Decolonial #OpenAccess #Research Paper.

Building the #SettlerColonial Order: #Police (In)Actions in Response to #Violence Against #IndigenousWomen in #Canada

Abstract:

In this article we focus on missing and murdered #Indigenous women, girls, and #2SLGBTQQIA people in Canada. We theorize narratives that police employ to respond to this violence. Using a broad data sample of #testimonies across Canada, this article contributes to understanding how police (in)actions make sense of, justify, and dismiss violence against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people. We draw from 48 in-depth semi-structured interviews with Indigenous peoples in Toronto and other Canadian cities and 219 testimonies from the Canadian National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (NIMMIWG). The #analysis finds that police repeatedly use similar frames (topics), styles (linguistic and behavioral strategies), and storylines (narratives) to respond to violence against Indigenous peoples. While framing Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people as deviants helps police make sense of and explain violence against them, the use of verbal and behavioral strategies (indifference, callousness, and lack of information) and storylines (“they were [insert pathologizing frame]” and “there’s nothing we can do”) allows police to dismiss and justify acts of violence. We argue that the frames, styles, and storylines employed by police perpetuate violence. Police (in)actions are fundamental to achieving settler #colonialism’s ideological and material dimensions.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/08912432231171171

#CDNpoli #IndigenousCanada #NativeMastodon #NativeCanada #SystematicRacism #KKKanada #ColonialViolence #RacistRCMP #ACAB #Injustice #TruthBeforeReconciliation #CanadianCops #MMIGW2S

#RecommendedReading for #Decolonial #Education. #Free #OpenAccess report.

About Murder by Decree

Murder by Decree is an #uncensored #record of the planned #extermination of #IndigenousChildren in #Canada’s murderous Indian #ResidentialSchools. It is issued as a corrective #CounterReport to the miscarriage of #justice by Church and State known as the “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” #TRC. Based on eyewitness #testimonies and #archival #documentation deliberately suppressed or ignored by the TRC, Murder by Decree proves that the #genocide of #IndigenousPeople began as a religion-led campaign and continues to be a deliberate governmental policy in Canada. This Counter Report reveals these startling facts: – Over half of Indian residential school children began dying the very first year these church-run facilities were opened – This huge mortality rate continued unabated for over a half century because of deliberate practices of germ warfare according to a prescribed monthly “death quota” – Evidence of these crimes and their intentional nature has been continually destroyed by the RCMP and the #Catholic, #Anglican and #UnitedChurch since at least 1960 – The same genocide continues today, is aimed at indigenous women and children, and is driven by foreign corporate interests hungry for #NativeLands and resources Murder by Decree is issued by The International Tribunal for the Disappeared of Canada (ITDC), an international #coalition of #jurists and #HumanRights groups. The ITDC was formed in December, 2015 to investigate the disappearance of people in Canada, prosecute those responsible and prevent a further #whitewash by Canada of its #CrimesAgainstHumanity. This report is an answer to these #crimes and an urgent summons to the world and to all #Canadians to live no longer under #genocidal #regimes.

Published by the #ITDC Central Offices in #Brussels and #Toronto. For more information write to angelfire101@protonmail.com .

http://murderbydecree.com/

#CDNpoli #IndigenousRights #ColonialViolence #CoverUp #KKKanada #FirstNations #NativeCanada #IndigenousCanada #Decolonization #DecolonizeYourMind #NativeRights #UNDRIP #Injustices #ColonialCrimes #TruthBeforeReconciliation

*In case you missed reading this when it was first published last year.*

#Canada’s #NationalParks Are #Colonial #CrimeScenes.

Many see wilderness as a right of citizenship. But the concept of Canada as untouched #nature is unrecognizable to #Indigenous people

In 2017, it felt like the whole country was swept up in the rah-rah celebrations around Canada 150. It was a collective anniversary, a chance to celebrate our history. Well, some of it, anyway. Tied to the many calls to explore the country and take stock of its many wonders, #ParksCanada released its Discovery Pass, which granted free entry to all national parks that year. These natural spaces “represent the very best that Canada has to offer,” it announced in a press release. “They are the essence of our country because they tell stories of who we are, including the history, cultures and contributions of Indigenous peoples.” But, as Robert Jago explored in his timely essay, Canada’s parks program was built on the displacement of Indigenous peoples and the capture of their territories—a form of “green colonialism.” Parks are wonderful spaces, but they have also acted as #political cover for the control of land, a tactic we still see used today.—Daniel Viola, senior editor, November 2023 issue.

https://thewalrus.ca/canadas-national-parks-are-colonial-crime-scenes/

#IndigenousLand #ColonialCrimes #CDNpoli #Landback #NativeLand #IndigenousCanada #NativeMastodon #NativeCanada #TRC #KKKanada #ColonialInjustice #TruthBeforeReconciliation #ColonialResistance #ColonialViolence #CanadianHistory #HistoryOfCanada #History #Decolonization

Lisa Jackson and The National #Film Board - #NFB of #Canada have created a #documentary that redefines #Indigenous #knowledge and #teachings using the life and times of #Elder, #cosmology and #astronomy expert, Wilfred Buck.

“We are in the process of remaking an age-old song . . . signing, dreaming, praying, talking into existence once again the knowledge of our people,” said Wilfred Buck.

Moving between the earth and stars, past and present, this hybrid feature documentary follows the extraordinary life of Wilfred Buck, a charismatic and impertinent #Cree Elder who overcame a harrowing – yet all too familiar — history of displacement, racism and addiction by reclaiming ancestral star knowledge and ceremony.

Buck is humble, profound, funny, always real and a master #storyteller. Narration taken from his #autobiography, I Have Lived Four Lives, condenses the loss and desperate pain of his youth into powerful, Beat-like poetry.

https://rabble.ca/indigenous/wilfred-buck-and-the-revival-of-indigenous-knowledge/

#NativeCanada #IndigenousCanada #NativeMastodon #IndigenousWisdom #NativeKnowledge #DocFilm #educational #Decolonization

Officials with the federal government told organizations and community leaders responsible for searches for #MissingChildren and #UnmarkedBurials at #ResidentialSchool sites Thursday their funding is being capped at $500,000 per year.

That cap is substantially less than previous operating budgets and much less than what organizations estimate is required to continue the work.

Special Interlocutor Kimberly Murray said this is the third time the funding structure for searches has changed and that her interim report released last summer pointed at a lack of sufficient long-term funding. She said this recommendation will be echoed in her final report and that it was "absolutely ridiculous" for the government to say they were waiting on these recommendations when they are clearly not applying them.

"But it's also part of, like, settler amnesty, right, and a culture of #impunity … we stop funding communities to do the work, then less truths are going to come out, and, you know, there'll be less calls for #justice and #accountability, and they won't have to comply with their international legal obligations," she said.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7268694

#CDNpoli #SettlerColonialism #KKKanada #GovernmentOfCanada #HumanRights #EveryChildMatters #Indigenous #Injustice #NativeCanada #FirstNations #IndigenousLivesMatter

#MontrealCanadiens goalie Carey Price is doing what he can to help save a young girl’s life.

Teaming up with #HockeyGivesBlood on social media, Price posted a video on Thursday that urged young people with #FirstNations ancestry to #DonateBlood.

“I’m on here asking everyone with an #Indigenous background between the ages of 17 and 35 to join the #CanadianBloodService #StemCellRegistry,” he said.

https://dailyhive.com/montreal/canadiens-carey-price-blood-donation

#DonateToSaveLives #Canadians #NativeCanada #PleaseBoost #Health #Medical

#WestMoberly #FirstNations (WMFN) will receive $299,404 toward a new #geothermal project.

The funds come from the #BCIndigenous #CleanEnergyInitiative #BCICEI, a partnership between the federal & provincial governments & #Vancouver based #nonprofit #NewRelationshipTrust.

West Moberly is among 35 First Nations provincewide to receive $9.8 billion in #funding toward various #RenewableEnergy projects.

https://energeticcity.ca/2024/05/24/west-moberly-first-nations-to-receive-funding-for-geothermal-project/

#NativeCanada #BCpoli #CDNpoli #BritishColumbia #Canada

#SixtiesScoop #activist Katherine Strongwind called the move from #RCMP an “insult.”

She said there is “nothing #Indigenous about the RCMP.”

“They can hire Indigenous people but it doesn’t change their many #HumanRights violations and their continued role in #MMIWG. #RibbonSkirts are #sacred & not to be associated with #genocide,” she said, adding whoever thought of the idea should be fired.

https://globalnews.ca/news/10522368/rcmp-ribbon-skirt-insulting-indigenous-activists/amp/

#CDNpoli #FirstNations #Colonialism #Assimilation #NativeCanada #Canada

An #Indigenous #employee with the #Canadian #Broadcasting Corp. #CBC is taking up the fight against what he describes as #SystemicRacism by his #employer.

Richard Agecoutay, 61, has been granted a #HumanRights hearing over claims of #discrimination at the #PublicBroadcaster, where he’s worked since 2001

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-indigenous-cbc-employees-discrimination-claims-to-be-heard-by-human/

#CDNpoli #GovernmentFunded #NativeNews #NativeCanada #equity #CorporateEthics #Justice #Legal #CanadianLaw

All still in progress.
#landback #Indigenous #FirstNations #BritishColumbia #Canada 👊
#RoughDrafts #Art #handdrawn #freehand #NativeCanada

6 complainants from #LakeBabine #FirstNation took their concerns on #RCMP #investigation to #Canadian #HumanRights Commission in 2016 & commission referred complaint for #inquiry in 2020. In years since, awaiting their hearing, 3 complainants & 1 witness have died.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/05/23/RCMP-Planted-Memories-Burns-Lake

#Indigenous #NativeCanada #DefundRCMP #DefundRCMP #SystematicRacism #BurnsLake #PrinceGeorge #BritishColumbia #Canada #NativeJustice #SocialJustice #ResidentialSchools #BelieveSurvivors #EveryChildMatters

#NewDetails about the #HaudenosauneeDevelopmentInstitute multi-million dollar operation — including #undisclosed success fees, limited #PublicParticipation & #ConflictOfInterest emerged after new court documents were filed Monday in the #MensFire effort to stop #HDIs application to intervene in #SixNations #LandClaim .

https://tworowtimes.com/news/local/new-court-documents-outline-multi-million-dollar-corporate-empire-built-by-haudenosaunee-development-institute

#Indigenous #Mohawk #FirstNations #NativeCanada #Canada #Lawsuit #Haudenosaunee

A remote northern #Manitoba #FirstNation that declared a #StateOfEmergency last month following the deaths of three people is now facing another challenge.

The roof of the #ThunderbirdSchool in #OPiponNaPiwin #Cree Nation collapsed over the Easter weekend.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/school-roof-collapses-o-pipon-na-piwin-cree-nation-manitoba-1.6806468

#KeewatinowiOkimakanak #Indigenous #IndianAct #HelpNeeded #Canada #IndianReservation #NativeReservation #NativeCanada

One of two #BandCouncillors representing #Witat - also known as Fort Babine, in #BritishColumbia say #amalgamation is making a bad #housing situation worse.

#FortBabine #Elder Fred William says a federal #IndianAgent amalgamated the communities in 1957.

https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/a-small-first-nation-with-a-big-housing-problem-is-being-ignored-two-band-councillors-say/

#IndianAct #BCFirstNations #NativeCanada #NativeBC #Indigenous #ReserveHousing #HumanRights #Health #DangerousHousing #NativeBandCouncil