On the pretext of protecting caribou, wolves are threatened with a cull. But the real 'conservation' is of oil industry profits
Paul Paquet - guardian.co.uk, Saturday 17 September 2011 16.00…
November 2011 Blog Posts (17)
Archbishop Tutu challenges Canada to stop protecting big oil
BY MIKE DE SOUZA, POSTMEDIA NEWS NOVEMBER 29, 2011
OTTAWA — Archbishop and Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu is challenging the Canadian government's support for the oil and gas industry, while urging it to start leading the world in addressing climate change as it did in opposing the "whites-only" rule that plagued South Africa in the 1980s.
"Canada, you were once considered a leader on global issues like human rights and environmental protection," says a new statement signed by Tutu… Continue
OTTAWA — Archbishop and Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu is challenging the Canadian government's support for the oil and gas industry, while urging it to start leading the world in addressing climate change as it did in opposing the "whites-only" rule that plagued South Africa in the 1980s.
"Canada, you were once considered a leader on global issues like human rights and environmental protection," says a new statement signed by Tutu… Continue
Added by Ben West on November 30, 2011 at 7:40am — 1 Comment
THE TAR SANDS STOP HERE! A PUBLIC FORUM FEATURING CHIEF JACKIE THOMAS, REX WEYLER, MELINA LABOUCAN-MASSIMO & NAOMI KLEIN
Please join us on Thursday, December 1st at 7pm. (Doors at 6:30 with the Dakota Oceanside Drum) at the Rio Theatre, Broadway and Commercial or via Global Internet for a Public Forum about the Tar Sand's pipelines and tankers in British…
Added by Ben West on November 29, 2011 at 1:00pm — 3 Comments
Union Choco Trip
Early morning my wife sits up in bed, and a voice speaks to her in her native Embera to go to a sacred place on the reservation to gather a particular plant.
Lately Irma has been preoccupied about some of her patients with cancer.
Some come to mind like her relative, the first head chief of the rez, who came to us late in his illness.
Much of his face has been eaten away from the cancer, and he was experiencing much pain.
His pain is greatly reduced… Continue
Lately Irma has been preoccupied about some of her patients with cancer.
Some come to mind like her relative, the first head chief of the rez, who came to us late in his illness.
Much of his face has been eaten away from the cancer, and he was experiencing much pain.
His pain is greatly reduced… Continue
Added by Raymond Hermenet on November 25, 2011 at 7:07pm — No Comments
UNDERSTANDING THE CONCEPT OF SELF - It's All About Me!
Traditional teachings - "It's all about me!!!"
ContinueAdded by Robert Kakakaway on November 24, 2011 at 2:09am — No Comments
Indigenous Visions, Prophecies and Realities of The Future
Presented by Phil Lane Jr., Chairman of the Four Worlds International Institute to Former UN Secretary General, Mr. Javier Perez de Cuellar and the World Commission On…
ContinueAdded by Phil Lane Jr. on November 23, 2011 at 11:00pm — 3 Comments
sit with trees and know
sit with trees and know
trees are so patient
hundreds of years
in one spot
they know who they are
the bitter cold
the loss
the long vigil
faith in spring
steadfastness
in their purpose
years come and go
the circle of life
the fiber of their being
their roots in the now
their limbs
reaching…
ContinueAdded by Billy Howell-Sinnard on November 22, 2011 at 5:58pm — No Comments
Protesters won't be evicted - A teepee is expected to be taken down Wednesday
Voicing concerns | A teepee is expected to be taken down Wednesday
The head of security at New Brunswick's legislature says there will be no move to evict demonstrators who illegally erected a large teepee on the…
ContinueAdded by Ben West on November 22, 2011 at 12:50pm — No Comments
Mt. Pleasant Indian School-Mt. Pleasant, Michigan
It is a new video documentary made available through American Indian Services in Lincoln Park, Michigan. I was one of the commentators in the video and was told by two Choctaw women who sit on the Indigenous Panel at the United Nations that the video is worthy of anyone's time. I pray this finds everyone well. warren
Added by Warren Petoskey on November 22, 2011 at 8:10am — No Comments
ROBERT REDFORD - "Stand together against the tar-sands scourge"
Actor, filmmaker and environmental advocate Robert Redford
AFP/Getty Images
ROBERT REDFORD
Vancouver— …
Added by Ben West on November 22, 2011 at 1:40am — 1 Comment
Rape and Forgiveness in Bolivia, 1970-Walking the Red Road is Not Easy!
Rape and Forgiveness in Bolivia, 1970
December 25th, 1970
Dear Mom and Dad,
I pray that you are all in the very best of health and spirits and that you had a wonderful Christmas…
ContinueAdded by Phil Lane Jr. on November 22, 2011 at 12:30am — 4 Comments
The Role of a Helper
Helpers are defined as the ones who work with the Knowledge Keepers; they also employ a variety of roles and positions in ceremony. Helpers can be at various stages of development and are often a communicator and protocol setter for the Knowledge Keepers. They do a lot of the preparation for the Knowledge Keepers and they have a hierarchy system similar to that of the Knowledge Keepers.
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ContinueAdded by Robert Kakakaway on November 20, 2011 at 11:17pm — No Comments
Wade Davis: The worldwide web of belief and ritual
Anthropologist Wade Davis muses on the worldwide web of belief and ritual that makes us human. He shares breathtaking photos and stories of the Elder Brothers, a group of Sierra Nevada indians whose spiritual practice holds the world in balance.
Anthropologist Wade Davis is perhaps the most articulate and influential western advocate for the world's indigenous cultures. His stunning photographs and evocative stories capture the viewer's…
ContinueAdded by Ben West on November 20, 2011 at 10:41pm — No Comments
Premier Clark's Colonial Attitude Clashes With First Nation's View of Sustainable Development
November 18, 2011 18:55 ET
MOBERLY LAKE, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Nov. 18, 2011) - Premier Christy Clark's announcement that the Gething Coal Mine Project has her political support regardless of the fact that it is within the spiritual heartland of West Moberly's Traditional Territory is viewed as an attack on the community.
In 2006 approximately, Canadian Dehua informed the First Nation that it would not…
Added by Ben West on November 20, 2011 at 9:45pm — No Comments
Wolves fall prey to Canada's rapacious tar sands business
Added by Ben West on November 20, 2011 at 7:30pm — No Comments
Modern Soldiers, Ancient Medicines
(Nov. 11) -- It's late afternoon on the Colorado plains, and the sun is disappearing behind the ridge of mountains to the west of us, but all I can see is darkness.
I'm in a traditional Lakota sweat lodge, a 15-foot-wide dome of willow branches covered in thick moving blankets and canvas.
Inside the tiny lodge, 20 of us are…
Battle brewing over pipeline plans in B.C.
Battle brewing over pipeline plans in B.C.
ContinueAdded by Ben West on November 2, 2011 at 8:38pm — 3 Comments
Parks Canada weighs whether to let pipeline run through historic burial site
Parks Canada is weighing whether to allow an energy company to expand natural gas operations at a national historic site and burial ground in western Alberta, where fur trading once thrived and explorers gathered to seek passage to the Pacific Ocean.The Rocky Mountain House National…
ContinueAdded by Ben West on November 1, 2011 at 10:00am — No Comments
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