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10-31-2018, 10:15 PM
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Ahahahahahahahaha
It's close to midnight
Something evil's lurking from the dark
Under the moonlight
You see a sight that almost stops your heart
You try to scream
But terror takes the sound before you make it
You start to freeze
As horror looks you right between your eyes
You're paralyzed
It's close to midnight
Something evil's lurking from the dark
Under the moonlight
You see a sight that almost stops your heart
You try to scream
But terror takes the sound before you make it
You start to freeze
As horror looks you right between your eyes
You're paralyzed
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11-21-2018, 01:05 PM
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The ground on which we stand is sacred ground. It is the blood of our ancestors. – Chief Plenty Coups, Crow
We know our lands have now become more valuable. The white people think we do not know their value; but we know that the land is everlasting, and the few goods we receive for it are soon worn out and gone. – Canassatego
Don’t be afraid to cry. It will free your mind of sorrowful thoughts. – Hopi
We know our lands have now become more valuable. The white people think we do not know their value; but we know that the land is everlasting, and the few goods we receive for it are soon worn out and gone. – Canassatego
Don’t be afraid to cry. It will free your mind of sorrowful thoughts. – Hopi
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11-21-2018, 02:16 PM
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GREED: Goods and services being shared equally, it didn't exist. This situation frustrated European explorers and traders who couldn't bribe a Mi'kmaq. A French officer observed: "Honours and goods being all in common amongst them, all the numerous vices which are founded upon those two motives are not to be found in them."
"The idyllic lifestyle that the pre-Columbian Mi'kmaq enjoyed lasted for only about a century after Europeans began arriving in large numbers. The poison alcohol, introduced by early European fishermen and traders, was the first calamity that befell the Nation, thousands died from it.
Then came wars with the English, followed by starvation, malnutrition, alien diseases, racial persecution and the imposition of an alien culture. Ideas of racial superiority were the key factor that spurred the British to attack the Mi'kmaq. Sadly, that racial oppression still troubles Canadian society today.
Let's hope that such fates as those that befell the Mi'kmaq and other persecuted peoples around the world during the past 1,000 years will become a thing of the past.
Perhaps, early in the new millennium, the Great Spirit will - if we prove worthy - give us the wisdom to set ethical standards that will mean equality, justice, peace and prosperity for all the Creator's peoples. Imagine living peacefully side by side, respecting one another's cultural and personal differences!"
-Daniel N. Paul
Daniel N. Paul, CM ONS, is a Mi'kmaq Elder, author, columnist, and human rights activist. Paul is perhaps best known as the author of the book We Were Not the Savages. Paul asserts that this book is the first such history ever written by a First Nation citizen.
"The idyllic lifestyle that the pre-Columbian Mi'kmaq enjoyed lasted for only about a century after Europeans began arriving in large numbers. The poison alcohol, introduced by early European fishermen and traders, was the first calamity that befell the Nation, thousands died from it.
Then came wars with the English, followed by starvation, malnutrition, alien diseases, racial persecution and the imposition of an alien culture. Ideas of racial superiority were the key factor that spurred the British to attack the Mi'kmaq. Sadly, that racial oppression still troubles Canadian society today.
Let's hope that such fates as those that befell the Mi'kmaq and other persecuted peoples around the world during the past 1,000 years will become a thing of the past.
Perhaps, early in the new millennium, the Great Spirit will - if we prove worthy - give us the wisdom to set ethical standards that will mean equality, justice, peace and prosperity for all the Creator's peoples. Imagine living peacefully side by side, respecting one another's cultural and personal differences!"
-Daniel N. Paul
Daniel N. Paul, CM ONS, is a Mi'kmaq Elder, author, columnist, and human rights activist. Paul is perhaps best known as the author of the book We Were Not the Savages. Paul asserts that this book is the first such history ever written by a First Nation citizen.
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11-21-2018, 04:59 PM
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Song written, recorded and filmed with Ojibwe students of Zhingwako Zaiganing School in Lac La Croix First Nation in Ontario.
Situated smack on the Canada-US border, and surrounded by wilderness parks on all sides, the Lac La Croix First Nation must cope with an 85 per cent unemployment rate that decades of government programs have failed to reverse. Their biggest curse is that the lands their ancestors surrendered to the Crown in 1873 are so beautiful and so pristine, no government will let them develop them economically. Their best hope for sustainable wealth creation lies in a medium size hydroelectric project that lies outside of the wilderness area, and that’s been in the works for the past 26 years.
For most of Canada's indigenous people, colonialism remains a zero sum game. Any community that signed a historical treaty with the Crown usually ended up paying dearly for it in the end. It’s called the human cost of colonization, and we encounter it every day among indigenous communities — both on and off reserve — that are plagued by unacceptably high unemployment rates, prescription narcotic abuse, dysfunctional family structures, child welfare apprehension, domestic violence, suicide and decreased life expectancy. Ironically, many of these same communities consider the historical treaties that their ancestors signed with Queen Victoria to be sacrosanct documents — living embodiments of a nation-to-nation relationship between two peoples who once were supposed to treat each other as equals.
The unfair plight of the Lac La Croix First Nation | The Star
Situated smack on the Canada-US border, and surrounded by wilderness parks on all sides, the Lac La Croix First Nation must cope with an 85 per cent unemployment rate that decades of government programs have failed to reverse. Their biggest curse is that the lands their ancestors surrendered to the Crown in 1873 are so beautiful and so pristine, no government will let them develop them economically. Their best hope for sustainable wealth creation lies in a medium size hydroelectric project that lies outside of the wilderness area, and that’s been in the works for the past 26 years.
For most of Canada's indigenous people, colonialism remains a zero sum game. Any community that signed a historical treaty with the Crown usually ended up paying dearly for it in the end. It’s called the human cost of colonization, and we encounter it every day among indigenous communities — both on and off reserve — that are plagued by unacceptably high unemployment rates, prescription narcotic abuse, dysfunctional family structures, child welfare apprehension, domestic violence, suicide and decreased life expectancy. Ironically, many of these same communities consider the historical treaties that their ancestors signed with Queen Victoria to be sacrosanct documents — living embodiments of a nation-to-nation relationship between two peoples who once were supposed to treat each other as equals.
The unfair plight of the Lac La Croix First Nation | The Star