Petition to Stephen Harper – Inquiry for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

Petition to Stephen Harper – Inquiry for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

“To Kill the Indian in the Child”

Founier, Suzanne, and Ernie Crey. “‘Killing the Indian in the Child’: Four Centuries of Church Run Schools.” Racism, Colonialism, and Indigeneity in Canada: A Reader. Don Mills, Ont.: OUP, 2011. 173-77. Print.

This was taken from page 175

I highly recommend this book ‘Racism, Colonialism, and Indigeneity in Canada’ Edited by Martin J. Cannon & Lina Sunseri

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General Lawrence’s Proclamation May 14th, 1756 – Rewarding British Subjects for Murdering and Scalping Mi’kmaq People

Canadian history.

Paul, Daniel N. We Were Not the Savages: Collision between European and Native American Civilizations. Halifax, NS: Fernwood, 2006. Print. Page 155

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Canada – Event (Toronto)

Pregnant Inuit student studying cases of murdered and missing Aboriginal women disappears in Halifax

Pregnant Inuit student studying cases of murdered and missing Aboriginal women disappears in Halifax

Brian Sinclair’s family loses confidence, pulls out of inquest

Brian Sinclair’s family loses confidence, pulls out of inquest

The family of a man who died in his wheelchair after waiting 34 hours for help in a Winnipeg hospital’s emergency room is pulling out of an inquest looking into his death.

Brian Sinclair’s family members say they have lost confidence the inquest will result in meaningful changes to prevent future tragedies to people vulnerable to systemic racism.

First Nations group takes Conservatives’ education plan to court

First Nations group takes Conservatives’ education plan to court

Committee on violence against Indigenous women concludes

Committee on violence against Indigenous women concludes

I like that I was hearing INDEPENDENT national inquiry.  It absolutely MUST be an INDEPENDENT inquiry.

Read WHY I feel it is so important that an INDEPENDENT inquiry be done into missing and murdered Indigenous women.

https://aakdewin.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/why-canada-will-never-have-a-truthful-inquiry-into-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women/

Artwork by Aaron Paquette

A great reminder to live life.
I highly recommend taking a look at First Nations/Metis Aaron Paquette’s work.

Idle No More Protestors Take to the Streets in Global Day of Action – video

This was October 7th, 2013 – The 250th Anniversary of the Royal Proclamation

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10840

I was there that day. There was a rally where we stood in the cold rain but witnessed a beautiful rainbow as organizers spoke, then we marched to Ryerson University to hear Pam Palmater speak about Idle No More