The book's main characters are Kaylani Simon, a young Innu-French woman from Québec, bullied over her Eastern #Métis identity, her small daughter Rosie & their encounter with Cayden Sheppard & his country-rock band called the Rocking Spurs. The band learns that this woman has been severely bullied on social media & faces racism on a regular basis, so the band members use their fame/wealth to expose persecutors that have been bullying this woman & other Indigenous people.
Richard Beauvais and Eddy Ambrose lived out each other’s lives, the third known such mistake in Manitoba. Now the premier is reversing a decision to deny responsibility.
For 30-plus years, Marjorie Beaucage has been making films to tackle the injustices she has seen around her. Medicine for transformative change.
She ran away to film school at the age of 40 and her camera has been a witness since. At age 77, she’s been recognized with a Governor General’s award in visual arts.
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The Wapiscanis Waseskwan Nipiy Limited Partnership, comprised of nine First Nations and three Métis settlements, has been provided a $150 million loan guarantee by the Alberta Indigenous Opportunities Corporation for an 85 per cent interest in oil and gas infrastructure assets in the north of the province
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Two class actions against the #RCMP have been certified and can go forward now that the Supreme Court said it would not hear an appeal of a lower court decision in the case of representative plaintiff Joe David Nasogaluak, in which legal council estimates $600 million in damages.
Now there’s a class action in the north that alleges RCMP abuse, and there’s one in the south that covers abuse across the rest of Canada.
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Voyageur traditions -- the Canadien and #Métis voyageurs who worked for the North West Company and the HBC had many traditions that had been handed down many times over, and which came from their French ancestors who arrived in Canada in the 1600s. Here are some of them. #HBCHistory#HistoricJourney#Bookshttp://nancymargueriteanderson.com/voyageur-traditions/
“Recently, Chief Dylan Whiteduck of the #Kitigan#Zibi#Anishinabeg community (in #Quebec) communicated with #Ottawa Airport Authority, expressing profound concerns about the advertising, deeming it both political and offensive.”
President of the #ManitobaMetisFederation David Chartrand said he is outraged that the signage–which sported the #MMF logo, website address and phrase, “National Government of the #RedRiver#Metis” in English and French–was removed.
The Indigenous economy is continuing to make progress, with corporations and governments working to partner with Indigenous Nations to include them in business and industry successes.
Reconciliation may be driving the inclusion, said a panel at the Indigenomics Bay Street conference in Toronto, but it’s up to everyone to ensure that progress is built on what is best for future generations.
“'It fills me with a great sense of humility to be able to announce today that our government’s first piece of legislation will honour Louis Riel for what he has always been, the first premier of Manitoba,' said Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew at the Manitoba Legislature to a crowd full of Métis.”
“This is how we feed our families and pay our mortgages.”
Windspeaker is sharing an article from Living Here, a journalism project that tells stories about people finding solutions that build healthy, safe, and strong communities.
In this story a Métis business owner is worried the Alberta government’s temporary ban on renewable energy projects could harm his #solar company, stopping it dead in its tracks.
RCMP Superintendent, David Hall, provided an #investigational update regarding the 47-year-old homicide.
16-year-old Pauline Brazeau was a #Métis , single mother from #Saskatchewan who relocated to Calgary & was the victim of a #murder that took place on January 9, 1976.
Tk’emlúps will also be hosting a #RemembranceDay ceremony starting at 10:30 a.m on November 11, in the Pen Pen cemetery across from St. Joseph’s Church on #Chilcotin Road.
Métis actor opens festival with play about gathering wisdom from the stars
There are so many satellites in the night sky that the wisdom we get from the stars is being obscured.
That’s the premise of a new play that will open the Weesageechak Begins to Dance Festival in Toronto. It’s the 36th year for the Native Earth Performing Arts’ annual W Festival.
First Nations say they haven’t been consulted on #BillC53 and, because it impacts their existing rights, it is necessary to #consult before the Bill is passed into #law.
Bill C-38 is being debated in the House of Commons. It’s the latest amendment to the Indian Act that attempts to remove discrimination baked into that legislation.
Bill C-38 deals with Indian status; who had it, who lost it, and who gets to have it back, and how that status will be transmitted to descendants.
Some members of Parliament say this new remedy again falls short.
An Ontario Superior Court judge has ordered a position from the #Métis National Council (MNC) on whether six historic Métis communities claimed by the Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO) “fall within or don’t fall within” the Métis Nation homeland boundaries.
Despite an expert panel having been appointed by the MNC in 2021 to examine the MNO claims, it only met for the first time in 2023 and doesn’t have an answer yet.
Canada: Two men swapped at birth – one Indigenous, one white – finally get apology from government (www.theguardian.com)
Richard Beauvais and Eddy Ambrose lived out each other’s lives, the third known such mistake in Manitoba. Now the premier is reversing a decision to deny responsibility.