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Fractured Homeland recounts Algonquin struggle for identity and nationhood

Fractured Homeland: Federal Recognition and Algonquin Identity in Ontario

by Bonita Lawrence

(UBC Press,

2012;

$37.81)

Bonita Lawrence presents to us a labour of devoted love. A book that takes 10 years to write cannot easily be summed up in a few paragraphs, but the lasting impression that it leaves, is a clearer picture of the complicated history of the destruction of Algonquin culture and identity and the current struggle to redefine their communities and reclaim geographic, legal and human rights within a government that once promised, and took, so much and left so little.

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A brief overview of Bill S-2: Family Homes on Reserve Act

Pamela Palmater

| November 15, 2012

Harper's Conservatives have given the signal that they may, once again, refocus their legislative eye on Bill S-2 Family Homes on Reserve and Matrimonial Interests or Rights Act (otherwise known as the MRP bill). To this end, the parties have been preparing to study the bill and hear from witnesses on possible amendments.

March 4 Justice completes 4,400 km trek from Vancouver to Ottawa for Indigenous justice

Ben Powless

| September 6, 2012

For most of us, a kilometre is a decent distance to walk to just buy groceries. For Leo Baskatawang, four thousand and four hundred kilometres was worth it to go to seek justice for Aboriginal Peoples in Canada.

Leo, a 32-year-old Masters student, decided earlier this year that something needed to be done. He had watched the coverage of the Crown-First Nations summit in January, and realized that the government was giving short-shrift to Aboriginal issues. "That was the last straw," he said of the summit.

Marchers set off from Victoria Island to Parliamant Hill after a brief ceremony.

Activist Toolkit weekly roundup: Drop fees, anti-oppressive language, harm reduction, Miss G Project workshops

Steffanie Pinch

| January 26, 2012

As another month wraps up and the excitement of a new year wears off, there's still a lot to look forward to for activists. Some important campaigns for students are starting soon, workshops are getting back on their regular pre-holiday schedules and resolutions are getting off the ground. This week's roundup on the toolkit will keep you motivated with feminist, anti-oppression, action-based tools.

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The Indian Act is a piece of explicitly racist legislation passed in 1876. It added to the institutionalized racism that is still around today. It was an attempt to amalgamate all previous legislation related to indigenous populations.

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Compare and contrast: Those Attawapiskat numbers vs. Toronto numbers

Should Toronto be put under third-party management? That community has been running a deficit for years, and the combined total of all government spending (federal, provincial and municipal) is $24,000 a year for each Torontonian.

Attawapiskat, on the other hand, which is only funded by one level of government -- federal -- received $17.6 million in this fiscal year, for all of the programs and infrastructure for its 1,550 residents. That works out to about $11,355 per capita in Attawapiskat.

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in his own words

Indian Act: Police state, 1876 and 2011

Ever since the deplorable events took place last year at the G20 Summit in Toronto, a notable term has continuously been "in the air" among circles of fellow political activists, orators, journalists, contrarians, and those concerned with the general well-being of our communities.

Before Queen Street had even cooled from the concentration of kettled bodies and crimson-drips from busted lips (compliments of a Blue and Black wall of silence with an inflated budget), the term Police State began circulating more frequently and ferociously... perhaps with more acknowledgement and awareness of its looming existence than years prior.

With good reason and well-deserved concern.

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Day of action to support the Algonquins of Barriere Lake

Date: Monday, December 13, 2010 - 11:00am - 3:00pm

Location

Parliament Hill Ottawa

Canada

45° 24' 41.6592" N, 75° 41' 53.4984" W

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DEMAND THAT CANADA RESPECT BARRIERE LAKE'S TRADITIONAL GOVERNMENT AND TRAILBLAZING ENVIRONMENTAL AGREEMENTS

What if a foreign regime was destroying your system of government, so it could then steal your resources and prevent you from environmentally protecting your homeland? This is what the Harper Government and federal bureaucrats are doing to the First Nation of Barriere Lake.

For more than two decades, the Algonquins of Barriere Lake have been demonstrating environmental leadership to the rest of Canada, campaigning to stop destructive clear-cut logging and to implement a sustainable development plan in their homeland in north-western Quebec.

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Amendment to Indian Act still unfair to women

June 16, 2010

| First Nations women will still suffer discrimination under the government's Gender Equity in Indian Regristration Act, according to lawyer Sharon McIvor.

Length: 18:09 minutes

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Alert! Radio from Canadian Dimension

Canadian Federation of Students focus on ending poverty, not tuition hikes. Behind the Gitxsan proposal to give up their status.

November 12, 2009

| Alert! Radio #134 - Canadian Federation of Students focus on ending poverty, not tuition hikes. Behind the Gitxsan proposal to give up their status.

Length: 57:39 minutes

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