I propose the creation of a national Secwepemc state, and the abolishment of the bands and the reserve system.We Secwepmc shall form one national government to take direction from all the peoples of our nation. Within our nation, communities should be …
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Crazy Bitches R Us: Whose Chief is it anyways
I often find myself at odds with folks like PacificGatePost who recently posted online at an APTN forum. Pacific argues that all chiefs and councils are corrupt, and thinks Canada and Canadians are responsible for fixing governance issues in First Nations communities. I’d argue that relatively few communities have governance
Continue readingCrazy Bitches R Us: Whose Chief is it anyways
I often find myself at odds with folks like PacificGatePost who recently posted online at an APTN forum. Pacific argues that all chiefs and councils are corrupt, and thinks Canada and Canadians are responsible for fixing governance issues in First Nati…
Continue readingCrazy Bitches R Us: Whose Chief is it anyways
I often find myself at odds with folks like PacificGatePost who recently posted online at an APTN forum. Pacific argues that all chiefs and councils are corrupt, and thinks Canada and Canadians are responsible for fixing governance issues in First Nations communities. I’d argue that relatively few communities have governance
Continue readingPample the Moose: In Memoriam: Olive Dickason (1920-2011)
This blog isn’t going to become a chronicle of the passing of people who have played roles in my career as a historian, (political blogging will likely resume when the writ is dropped, if not sooner) but it nevertheless came as a bit of a shock for me …
Continue readingCrazy Bitches R Us: Chiefs, Salaries. Moving beyond double standards.
The Toronto Star recently ran an expose on chiefs salaries. The article focused on 9 chiefs who earned more than federal cabinet ministers and 30 chiefs who earned more than provincial premiers. (The article also admits that on average chiefs earned a reasonable $60,000 a year, 5 chiefs do their
Continue readingCrazy Bitches R Us: Chiefs, Salaries. Moving beyond double standards.
The Toronto Star recently ran an expose on chiefs salaries. The article focused on 9 chiefs who earned more than federal cabinet ministers and 30 chiefs who earned more than provincial premiers. (The article also admits that on average chiefs earned a reasonable $60,000 a year, 5 chiefs do their work pro-bono and 77 chiefs earned less than $30,000. However "Majority of Chiefs earn reasonable
Continue readingCrazy Bitches R Us: Chiefs, Salaries. Moving beyond double standards.
The Toronto Star recently ran an expose on chiefs salaries. The article focused on 9 chiefs who earned more than federal cabinet ministers and 30 chiefs who earned more than provincial premiers. (The article also admits that on average chiefs earned a reasonable $60,000 a year, 5 chiefs do their
Continue readingMore Nuke News
Not a lot of people liking President O’s greenwashing of nukes. This most excellent article in the Guardian dispels the myth that nukes are green. The argument that nuclear is “carbon-free” conveniently omits the entire process of m…
Continue readingSeeing Red in the Southwest: Video Tells All!
Thanks to Cam Holmstrom for staying on top of the Attawapiskat school story.This video says all that needs to be said.The last lines by a young male student, “We want a new school now, not next year or years from now. We want a new school now.”What are we able
Continue readingSeeing Red in the Southwest: Video Tells All!
Thanks to Cam Holmstrom for staying on top of the Attawapiskat school story.This video says all that needs to be said.The last lines by a young male student, "We want a new school now, not next year or years from now. We want a new school now."What are we able to do to assist this community? This problem has been going on since a diesel fuel spill of 100,000 litres in 1979. That’s thirty years,
Continue readingSeeing Red in the Southwest: Video Tells All!
Thanks to Cam Holmstrom for staying on top of the Attawapiskat school story.This video says all that needs to be said.The last lines by a young male student, “We want a new school now, not next year or years from now. We want a new school now.”What are we able
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