A B.C. First Nation’s 3-year effort to change a city’s name
Powell River’s name currently reflect a man whose main goal was to assimilate Indigenous people
Lauren Collins
Another thing that should be on this list (I did say it was non-comprehensive) is #indigenous rights & title; you can expect a #Poilievre led Conservative government to steamroll over indigenous sovereignty as this has been a long-standing thorn-in-the-side to the #FossilFuel and other resource-extraction industries that bankroll them.
Cinco de Mayo is Indigenous history. The battalion that helped defeat the French in Mexico was composed of Nahuas from Puebla called the Zacapoaxtlas. And the president, Benito Juárez, was a Zapotec who helped protect Mexico from Euro re-invasion, showing heroic examples Native resistance to Еυrope
Today, we worked on more race stops, transitions & on improving team #paddling timing/synchronization.
I led a good warm-up before we started & was put into front near end of practice. Our coach is also training me on doing drumming/calling out paddle beats so I can go on multiple boats for races. Our first race is May 26th!
If you’re interested to see how you’d fare during a confederate nazi administration, then don’t vote. You, your family and/or friends could get put in a camp, become enslaved, have no rights, sell out your friends, lose your livelihood. Who knows?! At least one of these things will happen to you or them.. So, play RUSSIAN roulette with your life and the lives of EVERYONE else.
Rufino Choque, a member of the Urus indigenous community, stands atop a boat in the middle of the extinct Poopo Lake. Once spanning 3,000 square kilometers, this body of water was declared vanished in 2015. (Oruro, Bolivia. December 2021)
In Her Own Words: An Indigenous Farmer’s Inventive Approach
"Michelle Week tells how she brings traditional foods to her community, many at no cost."
"The farm caused a lot of intergenerational healing and more openness with my family. I have all this ancestry and family trees, photographs my grandmother has gotten over the years, a bunch of books about our particular tribe. "
Vancouver Island University, my employer, is now threatening to remove the encampment and have people arrested. I'm absolutely sick.
I had corresponded with our President on May 1. I sent this to our Chancellor, Chair and President today.
Dear Chancellor Sayers, Chair Anderson, and President Saucier,
I am extremely concerned by the escalatory words and actions of VIU today given the encampment’s peaceful and respectful nature and disposition to date. The President has stated to me in her response quoted below on May 1 "that VIU’s approach to the encampment is based on respect and peace for protest and freedom of expression.”
The locking of all campus buildings today and the very clear threat by VIU Security (see attached noticed link) to have peace officers remove tents and equipment under the Trespass Act under threat of arrest is completely contradictory to the President’s statement and is exactly the approach that I flagged to the President as being extremely dangerous and likely to result in harm to the protesters and deep embarrassment to the University itself. There are peaceful ways to do this.
As an institution that is supposed to be fully immersed in the spirit and action of Truth and Reconciliation, I find these statements and actions to be horrendously contradictory, misguided, colonial, and dangerous.
As an individual employee, VIUFA faculty member, and member of this community on Snuneymuxw, Coast Salish and Nuuchanulth lands I am embarrassed, and I beg the University to reconsider and reverse its actions.
My #Indigenous friend, Robert, gave me this beautiful handcrafted necklace, made from one deer #antler, by #Elder Dave Bill. Elder Dave Bill creates all the Indigenous regalia for his First Nation & several surrounding First Nations too 💗
Iron Gate Dam is now under demolition on the Klamath River in Northern #California.
"We make this place all new again in service of all the spirit people that exist on this earth, both human and non-human ancestors and relations," said Karuk elder Leaf Hillman.
Just a reminder that dam removal efforts began two decades ago with #Indigenous people having bake sales and getting laughed at in the face of monumental economic and political forces.