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Look who’s featured in the @cbcradiocanada app? @TashaSpillet who shares her story on #CBCNewFire on looking for love while staying true to her ceremonial life. Check CBC.ca/newfire to listen! http://ift.tt/1LvIMEh
Truly a MUST LISTEN for indigenous youth/young adults and anyone else that seeks to learn, understand and appreciate culture, tradition, progress and last but not least, what is happening NOW. New Fire is hugely relevant, refreshing and fun listen. Don’t miss it!
There is a push to get indigenous Canadians to vote in the fall election.
Click HERE for CBC News: The National video report. USE YOUR VOTE.
Per Indigenous Environmental Network
The Tar Sands Resistance March on Saturday, June 6th, 2015 drew more than 5,000 people to St. Paul, MN for the largest anti-tar sands march ever in the region. The march sent a clear message: keep toxic tar sands out of America’s Heartland to protect our water, climate and communities.
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Indian status: 5 things you need to know
Filmmaker dispels myths and misconceptions about Indian status in new film
The Indian Act defines who is and who is not recognized as an "Indian," but that doesn't mean all aboriginal people in Canada have Indian status or get free education.
Filmmaker Howard Adler explores what it means to have Indian status in a new film called Status, airing tonight on CBC Television in Ottawa.
Here are five things he thinks Canadians should know about Indian status:
1. Not all indigenous people have status
Created in 1876, the Indian Act is wide-ranging, covering governance, land use, health care and education, as well as defining eligibility for Indian status.
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The Indian Act applies only to status Indians, and despite Métis and Inuit peoples being indigenous to Canada, it has not historically recognized them. There are also many non-status Indians who are, for a multitude of reasons, not entitled to be registered as Indians under the act.
2. Rooted in assimilation
When the legal category of "Indian status" was created, it was under federal policies of "assimilation" and "civilization" — the same policies that created and implemented residential schools.
In a practical sense, it determined which individuals were entitled to rights, guaranteed through treaties, but from the very start, it also had, as an underlying goal, the eventual erasure of the classification "Indian."
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The idea was that as individual First Nations people became "civilized," they would lose their status and become "enfranchised" into Canadian society. In the past, a woman with status who married a non-status man would lose her status, and if someone with Indian status served in the Armed Forces, obtained a university degree or became a professional, such as a doctor or lawyer, they would automatically lose their status.
3. Status is a race- and gender-based classification system
Basically, prior to 1985, the way that an individual's status was passed on to the next generation was dependent on their gender and the status of their partner. If a woman with Indian status married a non-status person, she would lose her status. However, if a man with status married a woman without status, she would gain status.
Charlie Meness says he uses his Indian status card to cross the border into the United States. (Howard Adler)
In 1985, the Indian Act was amended with Bill C-31 because the legislation was in breach of the gender equality provisions of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Even under the amended Indian Act, the status system can be thought of as inter-generational surveillance that tracks racial purity. Although the legislation doesn't specifically refer to blood quantum, this is essentially what it amounts to.
For example, there are two types of "status Indians" that determine whether the children of a status Indian will have status or not. A 6 (1) Indian can pass their status on to their children, but a 6(2) Indian cannot unless the other parent also has status. This is often refereed to as the "second generation" cut-off.
4. Having status doesn't automatically mean 'free' university, no taxes
These are both pervasive and annoying myths that perpetuate misconceptions about indigenous people.
Education is a stipulation in post-Confederation treaties, and these treaty rights to education are constitutionally recognized in Canada, under Section 35 (1). However, post-secondary funding is limited to status Indians and does not include non-Status, Inuit or Métis peoples.
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Federally provided education funds are distributed through First Nations bands, which often don't receive amounts that actually match up with the numbers of applicants requesting funding, resulting in long wait lists and restricted access.
As for taxes, if you're a status Indian and you live and work off your reserve (which is more than half of all status Indians), then you are certainly paying both federal and provincial taxes.
Tax exemptions only apply in very specific, limited situations, and for the most part, this means goods and services and income are only tax-free on the reserve.
5. The status system is problematic, but it doesn't have to be
Bill C-31 included revisions that separated Indian status from band membership, granting bands responsibility for developing and managing their own membership, meaning someone without status can now be a member of a First Nation.
But there's a catch: despite the fact that bands can determine their own membership, Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development (formerly known as Indian and Northern Affairs Canada) provides funding to bands only for status Indians, not for band members.
Status will air on Saturday, Aug. 23 at 7 p.m. ET on CBC-TV in Ottawa as a part of an Absolutely Ottawa series called Ottawa Docs.
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Canada’s child poverty rate is tragic.
Canada’s child poverty rate for Indigenous children is criminal.
Truth & Reconciliation: "This should be not an election issue, but the election issue," says Rex Murphy on CBC News: The National.
Watch the video HERE.
What am I
I am Canadian. I am female. I am a wife, a mother, a sister, an aunt, a cousin, a friend….
That’s where my knowledge ends. I was raised on a Metis Settlement, it is truly my home. However, I am not Native enough for even the “half-breeds” as our Multicultural Society refers to us. The people are kind to me, but I am always on the outside looking in. I can see the separation in their stance and the limitations to my membership. Did I do that to myself? Did I somehow set myself apart?
My mother was Irish, er, mostly. However, I never fit in to that world either, non-natives. They are kind, but again, do I set myself apart? Did I do this to myself?? Sometimes, I can see it on there faces, “This is an Indian that I can handle.”
My sister told me once that a huge fear of hers was if they tried to classify the school during an assembly. Natives to the left and Non-Natives to the right. We would have nowhere to go. Did we do this to ourselves?? Do we set ourselves apart??
Then I went to university and studied Canadian History. This feeling of disconnect I have, was the goal of our government. And I have allowed it to fester and grow. No more.
Researcher talks about Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women Listen/direct link
Episode 89-Geraldine King
This week Musky chats with Anishinaabekwe extraordinaire Geraldine King, AKA Jibby. If there’s any one episode you need to listen to, this is it. Plus, we talk about jiit.. Follow Jibby on instagram@gerking
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“AMHERST, Mass. – UMass hockey freshman defenseman Brandon Montour (Six Nations) has been named to the 2014-15 Hockey East All-Rookie Team, the League office announced on Wednesday. Montour, who recently signed an NHL contract with the Anaheim Ducks, is the first Minuteman to earn an All-Rookie nod since Michael Pereira was honored in 2010-11.” CLICK THE LINK FOR FULL STORY.
Rhymes for Young Ghouls, featuring Mohawk actress Kawennahere Devery Jacobs, is now streaming on Netflix!
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Red Crow Mi’g Maq reservation, 1976: By government decree, every Indian child under the age of 16 must attend residential school. In the kingdom of the Crow, that meansimprisonment at St. Dymphna’s. That means being at the mercy of “Popper”, the sadistic Indian agent who runs the school.
Holiday reading list: 5 great books by indigenous authors
The Next Chapter's Shelagh Rogers picks her favourites
By Shelagh Rogers, for CBC News Posted: Dec 19, 2014 1:58 PM ET Last Updated: Dec 22, 2014 2:39 PM ET
"Even though I now live in a rain forest, when I hear “holidays,” I think of snow, frost and darkness. There’s a reason it’s called the ‘bleak’ mid-winter.
But what I treasure about the holidays is that there is time to hunker down with some good books and let the stories draw me into other worlds. I don’t need to feel guilty about not being outside moving around aerobically in the lovely weather. There isn’t any. Or at least, not too much.
There are so many good indigenous books right now. My friends at CBC Aboriginal asked for five “great books” for the holidays, so this is an act of discipline. Putting on my literary spanx, here we go." LINK.
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From A Tribe Called Red: "We're playing the Basement Revue show next week in Toronto on Thursday Dec 18th. It's fantastic show organized each year by Jason Collett
that bridges music, poetry and literature. Breaking with the tradition of not announcing the line-up, Basement Revue will now be a fundraiser and will be giving all the night profits to No More Silence (see below). It will be a fantastic night with Joseph Boyden, Jennifer Castle, Lee Maracle, Naomi Klein, Leanne Simpson, Tara Williamson, Shary Boyle, Emily Vey Duke, Cris Derkson, and special guests. Tickets are going fast so we suggest to buy them in advance. http://www.itstartswithus-mmiw.com"
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The intention of this page is a space for family members to honour the lives of their loved ones through personal stories, photos or other important aspects of someone's life. We hope this will balance the death related details the media tends to over focus on.
Per IPSMO "TruRez crew is a hip hop group from the Six Nations of the Grand River Indian Reservation in Ontario, Canada. They have been producing their brand of music since 1999. TruRez has performed on APTN talk show Buffalo Tracks, Bingo & A Movie, First Nations Music & Arts, OnStage and has had many other appearances at native festivals and venues. Tru Rez Crew has also received a MuchMusic VideoFact grant for $15,000 and has produced one music video. TruRez Crew gets regular airplay on Six Nation's radio station CKRZ 100.3FM and Toronto's Aboriginal Voices FM."
