Greetings readers. On March 17 I attended the annual Desmond Pacey Lecture at UNB. This year’s lecture was titled “The Future of First Nations in Atlantic Canada” and it was given by Chief Noah Augustine of the Metepenagiag (Mi’kmaq) First Nation. The attendance of the lecture was impressive, and in a small yet interesting bit [...]
Greetings readers. I’d like to start off by saying that the Native Student Council is currently in the planning stages for Native Awareness Week, which is set to be in late February. We met to do some brainstorming and are eager to finalize ideas and make this upcoming Native Awareness Week the best yet. This [...]
Greetings readers. I rarely watch CBC, partly because I watch APTN National News, but on Dec. 10, 2009 I decided to see what they had in the news. For the first time I think I was happy to have tuned into CBC because an interesting story caught my attention. In Vancouver, The Squamish First Nation [...]
This is the first blog since Hillary Bonnell’s body was found. She was just one of hundreds of missing Native women in Canada today. Most are never found, and some appear to have vanished out of sight. Sadly, the growing reality of the situation is that Canada does not care. Being a Native woman in [...]
Greetings readers. It seems that in the last few years there has been a lot of talk about Residential Schools. In June of 2008, Stephen Harper apologized to the First Nations on behalf of Canada. The audience included Aboriginal leaders and politicians, and the rest of Parliament. Now, a couple of years later you may [...]
For this blog I would like to take a look at the American Indian Movement, or AIM for short. Before I did my research on the organization, I felt that they had been branded as an extremist Indian movement. I consulted my good friend the World Wide Web for information. To those of you of [...]
Greetings readers. I purposely spaced out part 1 and 2 so I could make sure I had said everything I wanted to say. I wanted to convey the message that bilingualism is exclusive. It allows only some to be recognized as important, at least important enough to regard something so personally linked to culture as [...]
Greetings readers. Today I would like to draw a link from bilingualism in Canada to racial discrimination against First Nations. But before I do this, I would first like to express that this is just from my perspective and my experiences. Canada is a vast country. In fact, we’re the second largest country (land-wise) on [...]
It has been a while since I’ve had the time to sit down and write, but I’m back for more blogs! Let’s jump in before I lose my train of thought. Does anyone remember when Harper apologized for Canada’s involvement in the residential school system that assimilated and abused Natives? Remember how disappointed some Natives [...]
Before I begin I just have to do some house cleaning with a reply to the no2010.com blog. Over the weekend a reader named Jordan sent me an essay by the group Strax. Strax is a UNB/STU social justice and student power organization. His article was further pushing the point that the 2010 Olympic Games [...]
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