tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13954474347389055042024-02-20T08:28:12.527-05:00Koning's KommentsThis blog contains the comments of Jean Koning on mostly Indigenous people and issues.Jean Koninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272853325592796905noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395447434738905504.post-53697967180631535282022-08-20T15:35:00.000-04:002022-08-20T15:35:50.022-04:00<p> Here are some links that may be of interest:</p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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I began this effort as a continuation of my "work", as I have thought of it, to try to tell my fellow settler/newcomer, fellow Canadian citizens that "The First Peoples have some very important things to say to us, and we must learn to listen to them."<br />
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For about 50 years, I have been trying to put out this message to anyone who would listen, not trying to "speak for" First Peoples, for that is not necessary; there are many First Peoples who are extremely capable of speaking for themselves, but to say to my people that we must learn to listen..<br />
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Over the years, I began to realize that speaking out doesn't have any meaning unless you have hearers who will listen to your words, receive and think about the message so received, and then begin to act on what has been heard - even if "action" means simply trying to comprehend what was said. <br />
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But two years ago, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its final report, containing 94 Calls to Action. Since then I have observed a change in my fellow Canadians, as we begin to become aware of the fact that there seems to be a history of a relationship between First Peoples and The Rest of Us (that's you and me), about which we know nothing - or whatever we thought we knew is not the way the First Peoples viewed our co-habitation in this part of Turtle Island we call "Canada".<br />
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The result of that new, growing, awareness is causing many of us to begin to think about what we seemed not to know, and there are varying degrees of desire on the part of many of us to begin to think that maybe we should try to find out more.<br />
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Thus I see my "work" changing.<br />
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Now, I am beginning to have individual persons approach me to say: Jean, I've never really known anything about "Indians" (or whatever other word they use to describe the people that I call "First Peoples", by which I mean anyone who identifies him/herself to me as "First Peoples" or "Indigenous" or First Nations, Inuit, or Metis, living either on an "Indian Reserve" (as designated by the Indian Act) or "off-reserve", often as our neighbours in towns and cities and in rural areas.<br />
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And what I have just written here can be challenged by the same First Peoples I am trying to identify, so I simply emphasize the point I am making for myself; i.e., any person who identifies him or herself to me as one of the original inhabitants of the land in which I have been living for most of my life, I accept as a First Peoples person.<br />
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But I digress. You are saying to me that you think I may have information to share with you. <br />
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And I hasten to add that I am more than happy to receive such requests for information, especially as some come from people who have been near and dear to me for many years, or have recently become dear friends, so that is both an honour and a privilege for me to be so approached.<br />
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But, as you know, I am getting old, and my energy level is falling - it's not yet gone totally, but I find I do have to conserve energy (which I've never been good at doing, since I love being involved with people), so... but I hope you get the idea.<br />
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Thus I am thinking of a new way forward, and I do not yet know what that will be.<br />
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Perhaps a new blog, with a new theme to reflect this new reality. Or perhaps the decision will be made for me, in ways that I do not yet know.<br />
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Meanwhile, please know that I have enjoyed writing this blogging effort, amateurish as it is - but more importantly, I have appreciated your interest in reading, and sometimes commenting, on this same effort.<br />
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My wish for you is that, if you have now begun to learn about the First Peoples, you will not stop your learning, but that you will benefit, as I have through this past half-century, through the relationships you may be able to enter into with the First Peoples, sharing respect, justice, peace, and friendship, unto the Seventh Generation. And, if it is possible, I am glad to help with that.<br />
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Kaa waab min, farewell, and every blessing,<br />
Jean.<br />
P.S. There is no word for "goodbye" in Anishinabemowin (Ojibway) - only for "till we meet again". Jean Koninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272853325592796905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395447434738905504.post-55314018417500640322017-08-29T10:55:00.000-04:002017-08-29T10:57:45.805-04:00The Cree Nation of Eeyou Istchee - The Journey to Self-Governance<br />
The jubilant sense of accomplishment among the people of the IIyuusche Cree Nation of northern Quebec is shared by many of us who have followed this struggle for self-determination for the past 40 years. <a href="http://koning'skomments/">http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/quebec-cree-governance-funding-agreement-1.4211388</a><br />
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This media story caught my eye for another reason as well.<br />
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I happened to be a delegate to the Anglican Church's Algoma Diocesan Synod of 1973 when then Bishop James Watton, of Moosonee Diocese, <a href="http://koning'skomments/">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James Watton</a>, one of the special guests, spoke to us about the "James Bay Project" as part of the work of the Church in the North. His notes, found in the Algoma Synod Journal, point out that in that diocese, 98% of "Swampy Cree Indians are Anglican; 80% of these people live in the Province of Quebec".<br />
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Watton said the "James Bay Development Company was set up as a Crown company by the Province of Quebec" and eventually Quebec Hydro took over management of the Project. "Four dams will be built and they are on their second one now". But there was an "ecological argument", he said. "The Peoples in the area were never consulted about their feelings toward the project." A temporary injunction resulted in the province challenging "the Indian people to prove their lineage to before Confederation".<br />
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Bishop Watton's notes continue: <br />
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<i>Actually, the land was given to the Crown by the Hudson Bay Company to be part of the new Dominion of Canada at Confederation, 1867. The year 1870 is the key. The reason the Province challenged the Indian People to trace their lineage was because the Indian Affairs records went back only to 1934 and the Roman Catholic Church had no record of them. Quebec didn't realize the Indians were Anglicans.</i><br />
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<i>An urgent call was received from one of the chief men of the Indian settlers telling of this situation. As a result, clergy and records took off by plane for Quebec City along with myself. The Indians could trace their lineage. Over 3,000 Indians were traced back before 1870. As a result, a court case is pending.</i><br />
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Watton also speaks of the impending Quebec election, and Premier Robert Bourassa's involvement, including a book in which Bourassa wrote: "... I have always believed that to develop these resources (hydro power) would require conquering and taming the North".<br />
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My thanks to Algoma's archivist, Krista McCracken for these notes from Bishop Watton, but I have not found any further comments from the Anglican Church on this situation.<br />
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However, I did discover Roy MacGregor's book: "Chief: The Fearless Vision of Billy Diamond", which fills in this 40-year span from the Northern Quebec Cree Nation's point of view, although there is no mention of Bishop Watton's account of the Anglican Church connection. Perhaps, some time in the future, that information will come to light.<br />
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Meanwhile, I heartily recommend reading MacGregor's book, which recounts the life of Chief Billy Diamond, who paved the way to the 1975 James Bay and Northern Quebec Settlement Agreement, from which Chief Matthew Cooncome was able to lead his people onward to the current signing of the self-governance agreement in 2017.<br />
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It seems to me, as a long-time observer of (and participant in) the relationship between the First Peoples of Turtle Island and The Rest of Us, that this history of the Cree Nation of Eeyou Istchee holds a significant place in the renaissance of the First Peoples. It is not my place, however, to tell First Peoples what to do. My people have been trying to do that for hundreds of years, and we have been wrong most of the time. The First Peoples are entirely capable of figuring this out for themselves.<br />
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But I think it is important that we "newcomer/settler/immigrant people" read, learn, study and inwardly digest the knowledge contained in these aforementioned sources so that we can find our proper place within this new relationship with the First Peoples, of respect, justice, peace and friendship we so badly need, if Canada is to become the nation we claim to be.<br />
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<br />Jean Koninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272853325592796905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395447434738905504.post-89840096217372211342016-07-30T16:58:00.000-04:002016-07-30T17:14:03.044-04:00How do we learn to ask the right questions - in 2016?"How do we learn to ask the right questions?" This was the remark that caught my attention as Dr. Ken Howard, renowned hydro geologist, addressed almost 100 people at Via Mede Conference Centre, July 24, 2016.<br />
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Members of the Friends of the Fraser Wetlands, on Stony Lake north of Peterborough, with other cottagers from the Kawartha resort area, and environmental protection supporters, listened carefully as Curve Lake First Nation Elders Doug Williams and Dorothy Taylor, and Archivist Anne Taylor, shared their teachings of the sacredness of the water which sustains all life on earth.<br />
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I have listened to these teachings for many years, but the past seven years, I was able to join the Anishinabe women of this territory as they walked around the lakes and rivers in this area, carrying the water - "the blood of Mother Earth" - blessing the water in the Four Directions, and teaching us the importance of protecting this life source for future generations.<br />
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It has also been my privilege to sit with the Sacred Water Circle, especially as they welcomed Spiritual Knowledge-Carriers and Elders from the Kogi People of South America who shared their knowledge of the power of water that gives life to all creation.<br />
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And I have listened to the teachings of the First Peoples Elders who share with us their knowledge, handed down through many generations of story-tellers who are the Indigenous Peoples "history books", of the need to protect the water so that it may continue to give life to the generations yet to come - "unto the Seventh Generation", as the Elders tell us.<br />
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This is the basis of what I have to come to understand as "Indigenous Knowledge", which is beginning to make its truth felt within the corridors of western academic learning. And this is the connection I make in my mind as western scientist Ken Howard tells us of his study of water, and then tells us to "learn to ask the right questions".<br />
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"Surface water" that we see flowing in lakes, rivers, streams, and oceans, is only a very small part of the earth's water content. By far the greatest part of the water in our planet is what we do not see, and it takes the "slow route" to move underground. It's known as "groundwater", and its movement is measured in thousands of years, unlike the surface water which we can see moving and flowing before our eyes.<br />
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Again, this is where I make a connection to Indigenous Knowledge. It seems to me that these teachings tell us that Indigenous Peoples, living in traditional ways, relying on the earth and the water over millenia of generations to provide their very survival, have endeavoured to pass on to future generations a respect for this knowledge so that they may also survive and thrive on this earth.<br />
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This was the message First Peoples Elder and environmentalist Danny Beaton, of the Mohawk Nation, shared with us through the words of his opening and closing prayers, uplifted by the haunting beauty of his melodious flute-playing.<br />
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And I dare to suggest that, while "western science", as it was uncovering the secrets of the universe over the past several hundred years, was exciting and beneficial, and I freely admit that in many ways I have benefited from that "success" physically, economically, socially, medically, - and in many other ways you can think of that I'm not listing here - nevertheless, I dare to ask whether there is perhaps one dimension of life on earth that we may be missing, and I dare to call that "spiritual". What do I mean by that?<br />
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Well, here's where so many of you, who are so much more learned than I, will begin to use words to complicate what I'm trying to say, and that's okay - I accept that. So much of our lives has now become so "technological" - and again we get caught up in words - and again I must admit that I am as much seduced by current technology as the next person, as witness my sharing my thoughts in this blog.<br />
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But I also ask myself whether we have missed something important, and I hear that in the teachings I receive from Indigenous Peoples. Because First Peoples spiritual leaders speak of the mystical energy and power of the Earth which we inhabit, which contains these secrets of groundwater and other elements which are so closely integrated to our survival, but which we seem to be able to ignore so blithely in our western science calculations.<br />
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In our desire to continue "development", are we planning projects based on the action of the water we can see, without giving adequate consideration to the water we can't see?<br />
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I value the skill of developers who offer the concept of improving our lives through projects that often amaze us with their design and construction from the work of architects, engineers, construction companies, and others, and again, I know I have benefited from much of that effort.<br />
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But how can they know that they have covered all the bases when they are planning projects that are to serve us for a hundred years? I know there are ways of working at that - consideration of various scenarios in the past 100 years and then planning to offer design and construction to reach at least the 75% level of safety within that length of time.<br />
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But does that kind of planning even apply to today's world when world-wide climate patterns seems to be changing so unpredictably? Have we already reached a place of no return in that kind of development?<br />
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Are these just a few of the questions we should be asking of one another, developer and citizen alike? For better, for worse, these are the kinds of questions I have been asking myself, and I will continue to share them with any of you who will listen, for as long as I am able. I do this for the water. I also do this for the welfare of my great-grandchidren, and generations yet unborn.<br />
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My thanks to the Friends of the Fraser Wetlands for offering us their Emerald Summit 2016. It was a valuable contribution to our communal life in this part of our fragile homeland<br />
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http://groundwater consultant.org/<br />
https://friendsoffraserwetlands.com/ <br />
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Nibi.Emosaawdamajig/<br />
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<br />Jean Koninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272853325592796905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395447434738905504.post-64065235010972946522015-11-07T11:14:00.002-05:002015-11-07T11:21:30.705-05:00IT'S TIME TO MOVE ON: From "Walking in Solidarity" to "We are Treaty People"<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Recently, the Pine Tree speakers at the Peterborough
Library told us of the importance of “Mnoomin”, wild rice growing in the
traditional waters of their homeland, known as the Mississauga Territory of the
Ojibwe Nation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is also the area
that we think of as our home, Peterborough and the Kawarthas.</div>
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When someone asked, “what can we do to help you?” - I
thought I heard Elder Doug Williams say that it was time for us to start
figuring that out for ourselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said
it much more diplomatically, but I think that was his challenge to us.</div>
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The background:</div>
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For generations past, most Canadians have lived
contentedly in the country we call Canada with no thought of the price we have
demanded of the First Peoples, as our governments, in our name, followed
policies that tried to assimilate them into our society, committing horrendous
acts named “genocidal” by the Truth & Reconciliation Commission (TRC), and
pushing them onto small parcels of land to eke out a meagre existence while we
flourished through the resource development on their lands.</div>
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As the work of the TRC comes to an end, we have suddenly
begun to realize that the relationship between the First Peoples and The Rest
of us is badly out of kilter, and we are now beginning to wonder what we can to
do to make changes.</div>
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How to make changes:</div>
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The first thing to understand is that changes have
already been happening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The First
Peoples, in particular, have been making tremendous changes; they have begun to
reclaim their own languages, histories, traditions and spiritual teachings, and
are taking charge of their own lives and their own territories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Locally, that is what the Anishinabe speakers
were telling us about “wild rice”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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And they don’t really need our help to make that happen,
because the mechanisms are already in place – have, in fact, always been in
place from the time of first contact, when we began to come to this land and
were received by the First Peoples who lived here and were prepared to share
their homeland with us.</div>
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But we came with the belief that we were superior, and
had the right to subjugate the First Peoples, which we did over several hundred
years of colonization policies, with tragic results.</div>
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But we have not been able to conquer the First Peoples,
as they are now showing us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In those
intervening years, there were times when, as some of us began to understand the
horror of the past, we tried to help, and friendships were established, and
church teachings were accepted, but now we are entering a new era.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The First Peoples are reclaiming their
sovereign nationhood; however they understand that in their particular
territory and within their own tribal affiliation.</div>
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So it’s time for us to recognize that, and to find new
ways of working together with First Peoples, in a nation-to-nation relationship
in accordance with the Two-Row Wampum teachings <a href="http://www.anishinabek.ca/treaty-research.asp">http://www.anishinabek.ca/treaty-research.asp</a></div>
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Back to the wild rice issue:</div>
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With regard to mnoomin, the chief players are, on one
side of the Two-Row Wampum, the Williams Treaties First Nations:</div>
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Alderville First Nation</div>
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Beausoleil First Nation</div>
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Curve Lake First Nation</div>
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Georgina Island First Nnation</div>
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Hiawatha First Nation</div>
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Rama First Nation</div>
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Scugog First Nation</div>
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with Karry Sandy McKenzie as Process Co-ordinator.</div>
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On the other side is The Crown, which includes:</div>
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For the Federal government:</div>
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Parks Canada and the
Trent-Severn Waterway</div>
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For the Provincial government:</div>
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Ministry of Natural Resources
and Kawartha Conservation</div>
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For the Municipal government (re part of Pigeon Lake)</div>
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Selwyn, and possibly
Peterborough County.</div>
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What is “The <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Crown”?
Check your history:</div>
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The First Peoples know that their treaties were made, and
negotiations took place, between the sovereign nation of whichever First
Peoples were engaged, and the representatives of the British Crown, which in
1763 was King George III.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/royal-proclamation-of-1763/">http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/royal-proclamation-of-1763/</a></div>
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Over the years, the country we call Canada has evolved
into a national entity through subsequent legislation: The British North
America Act 1867, the Indian Act 1876, various amendments to Indian Act
legislation in intervening years, and the Canada Constitution Act 1982, which
includes the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, as well as Part II, 35
(1) and (2).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/constitution-act-1982-document/">http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/constitution-act-1982-document/</a></div>
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More recently, the Canadian government has signed the
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, whereby we
agree to uphold the principle of the “duty to consult” for the “free, prior and
informed consent” of the First Peoples, although Canada, in its agreement to
sign, referred to the “aspirational” nature of the right, (meaning, I presume,
we understand the First Peoples “hopes” but do not yet recognize the First
Peoples “right” in this regard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This did
not impress the First Peoples.)</div>
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As our Canadian governance has evolved, many of the
federal government’s fiduciary and other legal responsibilities under all that
legislation has been devolved to the provincial governments, and then to
municipal governments, so that today, we must see THE CROWN as composed of
federal, provincial and municipal legislative leaders; hence, the listing above.</div>
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And all those government entities together represent us,
the citizens of Canada.</div>
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Thus, we have a
responsibility:</div>
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Our responsibility, as Canadians citizens, is to monitor
the actions of our federal, provincial and municipal elected leaders to ensure
that they, as ministers of The Crown, meet the requirements of negotiating with
the First Peoples, on a nation-to-nation basis.</div>
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Back to the Mnoomin issue:</div>
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During this past summer, an error was made when one
segment of The Crown (Trent-Severn Waterway and Parks Canada) issued a permit
to allow non-First Peoples to destroy the wild rice in Pigeon Lake, without
undertaking the “duty to consult” for “free, prior and informed consent”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words, we acted without consulting
the First Peoples, and that is now a “no-no” in our current relationship with
First Peoples.</div>
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It took some spirited action on the part of First Peoples
to point out this fact, but when The Crown component of Parks Canada realized
what had happened, it agreed with the request of Karry Sandy McKenzie to attend
a meeting with the Williams Treaties First Nations representatives to begin the
correct negotiating process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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So far, one meeting has been held, but I understand a
second meeting is to take place very soon.</div>
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So where does that leave us – the local cottager-owners
and the local First Peoples supporters in this area?</div>
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It leaves us waiting – perhaps praying if one is so
inclined – that those representing us in those negotiations (representatives of
The Crown) will accept the necessity of honouring the “duty to consult” for
“free, prior and informed consent” by listening to the representatives of the
First Nations as they sit together around a table.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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That means careful listening, compassionate comprehension
and respectful dialogue while the two sides try to think of ways to move
forward in partnership to a reasonable conclusion.</div>
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My humble conclusion:</div>
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Perhaps one role we can play in this situation at this
time is to keep trying to educate our fellow Canadian citizens about these
historic facts as listed here.</div>
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And I make no claim to any special knowledge about all
this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am just sharing with you the
sort of understanding I have reached in my own heart and mind as I have
listened to the First Peoples over the past half-century.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I humbly ask that you begin to learn the
true history of our country and of our relationship with the First Peoples as
it has been evolving since the time of first contact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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This is not an easy path to take, but it is the journey I
believe the First Peoples are now asking us to undertake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I would further suggest that the time has
come for us to ask of the First Peoples not “how can we help you?” but “how can
you help us?”</div>
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The First Peoples may reply in different ways: some are
already very busy working at various levels of this part of our journey
together, and won’t have time to talk with us; but others will be willing to
undertake that role.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s what I think
the Pine Tree Lecture of Trent’s Indigenous Studies Dept. was offering us
earlier this week.</div>
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I would dare to think that the Pine Tree lecturers would
feel well supported if we could show them that we are indeed beginning to learn
the truth of our shared history.</div>
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And as we engage one another in that journey, I believe
we will become better human beings, and we all know how badly our world needs
that.</div>
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Jean Koninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272853325592796905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395447434738905504.post-16222690789330509512015-10-15T20:28:00.000-04:002015-10-15T20:30:50.464-04:00APTN interviews Tom MulcairI have just watched APTN (Aboriginal Peoples Television Network) anchor Cheryl McKenzie interview Tom Mulcair, and it's easy to see how First Peoples would be drawn to vote NDP in this election next Monday. http://aptn.ca/news/<br />
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Listening to questions from First Peoples across the country, including First Nations, Metis and Inuit folk, Mulcair replied in ways which told me that he has done his homework. He has spent time visiting with First Peoples communities and organizations, and listening to their concerns, as well as having the benefit of his law experience and education, so that he knows and understands the legal ramification of the relationship between First Peoples and The Rest of Us, and he has been building the NDP platform to show respect for the nation-to-nation relationship that I have never heard from any other Canadian government leader.<br />
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I find that very hopeful.<br />
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At the end of the interview, Cheryl said that, in its 16-year history, no sitting prime minister had ever agreed to appear on APTN, so she asked Mulcair: "If you become prime minister, will you come back to be interviewed?", to which Mulcair replied: "It would be an honour." That brought tears to my eyes.<br />
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Cheryl also pointed out that Stephen Harper had refused the invitation to be interviewed.<br />
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Elizabeth May ad Justin Trudeau were interviewed, also by Cheryl, earlier this week.<br />
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APTN will also be reporting election coverage on Monday, October 19. Jean Koninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272853325592796905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395447434738905504.post-37722488957352045602015-07-04T10:10:00.000-04:002015-07-04T10:10:00.275-04:00Further help with TRC Calls to Action follow-up<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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In Mr. Justice Murray Sinclair’s presentation at the
final Truth and Reconciliation Commission Gathering in Ottawa last month, he
told us:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“We have described
for you a mountain. We have shown you the path to the top.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We call on you to do the climbing.”</i></div>
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Now KAIROS has offered important details for how to begin
that journey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will be especially
helpful for churches, but any and all of us can use it to our benefit towards
finding new ways to understand our role in the Federal government’s
assimilation policies and how we can help to repair the relationship between
the First Peoples and The Rest of Us.</div>
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So take a look at<br />
http://www.kairoscanada.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/KAIROS_StrengthForClimbing.pdf<br />
and <span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">find your entry into beginning the journey.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">As you scroll through the
document, perhaps you could check out some parts in particular:</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><> Be attentive to
Indigenous voices in your midst.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Some
may be living next door.)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><> What does your church denomination say about
the “Doctrine of Discovery”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Anglicans currently have a commission working
on that issue.)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><> Explore your own
family history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Some years ago I was
told by a young Quebec woman that her family had lived on land along the St.
Lawrence River for eight generations, so she was a “native” just as much as
“Indians” were “native”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Really?)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><> In which watershed
do you live?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(I think where I now live
is part of a watershed that flows into Hudson Bay – but at this moment I can’t
find the website where I saw that diagram – but you may have better luck on
your browser.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At any rate, it’s
impressive.)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">And this one:</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><> Introduce yourself
at the Band Office of a nearby First Nation community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(This may come as a bit of a surprise to
First Nations communities who are not usually swamped with non-First Peoples
folks showing up to ask:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“What can<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do to help?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope the First Nations folks are ready
for this.)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">So, lots of very good
suggestions for beginning to change the relationship between the First Peoples
and The Rest of Us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I am most grateful for
KAIROS issuing this very thoughtful and inclusive list of “things to do”, and I
would dare to offer my own note of caution:</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><> Never presume to
know who is a First Peoples person – allow the other person to tell you who he
or she is. If it seems appropriate, I sometimes ask: “Do you have a tribal affiliation?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><> Become at least
somewhat knowledgeable about the protocols of interacting with First Peoples
persons, especially Elders and Knowledge-Carriers, and learn to follow those
protocols.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are not sure, ask an Elder
or Knowledge-Carrier to explain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If
First Peoples find that you sincerely want to learn, they are willing to help.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><> If you plan to
attend a Powwow or other First Peoples Gathering, learn the protocols
associated with such events.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Having
concern for such actions will hopefully show the First Peoples that you are sincere in your efforts. In my long experinece of walking with First Peoples, I have come to believe that showing respect is the first sign they seek from us. In the words of the Treaties, we must honour our renewed relationship in RESPECT, JUSTICE, PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP, which, sadly, we failed to do in earlier times..</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Or so it seems to me.</span></div>
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Jean Koninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272853325592796905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395447434738905504.post-49450018599526377332015-06-13T16:50:00.005-04:002015-10-15T20:44:18.244-04:00Truth and Reconciliation Commission 94 Recommendations<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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As I read through the 94 Recommendations listed in the Truth and Reconciliation’s “Calls to Action” <a href="http://www.trc.ca/websites/trcinstitution/File/2015/Findings/Calls_to_Action_English2.pdf">http://www.trc.ca/websites/trcinstitution/File/2015/Findings/Calls_to_Action_English2.pdf</a></div>
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I saw that it had sub-headings, so I’m wondering if it
may help us to plan further action if either individuals or groups could begin
by working at one “section” at a time.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span> </div>
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At this point, a special note to my dear First Peoples
friends who have allowed me to walk with them for so many years past:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">N’wiijkiwenh</i>:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope you know that I am not including you
in these suggestions – in that I learned long ago that First Peoples do not
need me – Zhaaginaashii-kwe (white woman) – to tell them anything; rather, I
have spent half my life learning how to listen to you as you shared with me
your good teachings and your <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Anishnaabemowin
</i>(Ojibwe language), all of which has greatly enriched my life, and for which
I say a profound <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">gchi miigwech</i>.</div>
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But we – The Rest of Us who have come to live among you –
can sometimes feel simply overwhelmed at the scope of the devastation wrought
upon your People throughout our shared history, and so we must find ways of
coping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For me, this is one way of
trying to cope, because I really do want to make amends, to seek a new
relationship with you, the First Peoples of Turtle Island, based on the equality,
respect, peace and friendship that I think these Recommendations are calling
for.</div>
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Back to my people:</div>
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Thus, under “Legacy”, there are five sections concerning Child
Welfare, Education, Language & Culture, and Health and Justice, with
several actions listed under each, numbered 1 - 42. </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A person, or a
group, could perhaps check out the heading which holds particular interest, and
think about how you could move forward towards putting one of more of those
recommendations into practice.</div>
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The second section is headed “Reconciliation”, and lists
17 more Recommendations:</div>
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Canadian Government and the United Nations Declaration
of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples ONDRIP -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span># 43-44</div>
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Royal Proclamation and Covenant of Reconciliation - #
45 – 47</div>
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Settlement Agreement Parties and the UNDRIP - # 48 – 49</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Equity for Aboriginal People in the Legal System - # 50 –
52</div>
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National Council for Reconciliation - # 53 – 56</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Professional Development and Training for Public
Servants - # 57</div>
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Church Apologies and Reconciliation - # 58 – 61</div>
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Education for Reconciliation - # 62 – 65</div>
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Youth Programs - # 66</div>
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Museumsand& Archives - # 67-70</div>
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Missing Children and Burial Information - # 71 – 76</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation - # 77 –
78</div>
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Commemoration - # 79 – 83</div>
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Media and Reconciliation - # 84 – 86</div>
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Sports and Reconciliation - # 87 – 91</div>
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Business and Reconciliation - # 92</div>
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Newcomers to Canada - # 93 – 94</div>
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As you look through that list, there may be a section
that concerns particular interests you are already involved with, and so you –
or your group – may wish to think of how you could concentrate on those
particular recommendations.</div>
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<br /></div>
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This is simply my own idea, and is certainly not
sanctioned by any sort of official body, so please don’t think this is offered
in any light except as my own personal thoughts.</div>
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<br /></div>
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But if it helps you even to be willing to begin to look
at the “Calls to Action”, which represents so many long hours of dedicated
listening on our behalf, then I would commend this to your attention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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And in the words of one of my early Ojibwe language
teachers:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ni mino masen - mishkooziiwin ge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></i>Walk in a good way - and be strong.</div>
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Jean Koninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272853325592796905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395447434738905504.post-5253119958927734902015-05-26T12:15:00.002-04:002023-06-11T16:14:14.137-04:00GOD AND THE INDIAN - A Play by Drew Hayden Taylor<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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“I don’t know who I am!”</div>
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How often have I heard that desolate cry from the heart
of a First Peoples person struggling through an adulthood ravaged by the
memories of residential schools or of foster care from the Sixties Scoop era?</div>
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I heard it again in the voice of Johnny Indian one recent
Sunday afternoon as she engaged Assistant Bishop George King who Johnny remembered
as the man who had abused her in residential school many years earlier.</div>
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And how often have I said to my First Peoples friends
after listening to their stories of residential schools: “I am sorry – so sorry
- for what my people, and my church, did to you and your families through the
residential schools”.</div>
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All the pathos of both these heartfelt cries were caught
in Drew Hayden Taylor’s play, GOD AND THE INDIAN, though 75 tension-filled
minutes, with no pause, in the intimate setting of the Aki Circle Theatre in
the downtown Toronto neighbourhood where so many of those same lost and lonely
souls exist; where St. James’ Anglican Cathedral raises its lofty spire to the
sky.</div>
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It has been my privilege, my duty, and my agony, as a
life-long Anglican who has walked with the First Peoples for almost 50 years,
to listen to many, many stories of IRS survivors, and the survivors of the
Sixties Scoop, First Peoples children taken from their homes by social workers
and placed in non-First Peoples foster and adoptive homes across Canada and
beyond.</div>
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Watching the talented Lisa Ravensberger share Johnny
Indian’s story with us, I was remembering so many women I had met over the
years who had walked the same path, suffered the same nightmares and pain, but
not all of whom had the chance to confront their abusers in later life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Watching while sitting with a young Anishinabe
Kwe (Ojibwe woman), shedding tears as she experienced once again the tragedy of
intergenerational IRS trauma, remembering her grandmother who raised her but
was unable to give her the love that every child needs to grow into healthy
adulthood. </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So many men and
women came out of the IRS with no understanding of how to nurture children in
love, since they had never experienced love in the institutional setting,
separated from their parents, and siblings, and their language, culture,
ceremonies and the spiritual and traditional teachings of their people.</div>
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I had read the play, just recently published <a href="http://www.drewhaydentaylor.com/books/god-and-the-indian/">http://www.drewhaydentaylor.com/books/god-and-the-indian/</a>,
so I knew what was going to happen, in a way.</div>
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What I was not prepared for was the shock of hearing
Assistant Bishop George King, trying to defend himself as the charges of sexual
and other abuse are raised by Johnny, and he shows her the words of the apology
spoken by Anglican Church Archbishop Michael Peers:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I accept and I confess before God and you,
our failures in the residential schools. … I am sorry, more than I can say, that
in our schools so many were abused physically, sexually, culturally, and
emotionally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On behalf of the Anglican
Church of Canada, I present our apology.”</div>
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How many times have I listened to that apology, spoken on
my behalf, by a friend and a highly respected leader whose lot it was to steer
the Anglican Church though those tumultuous days as we began to hear the truth
of our shared history stretching back over many generations.</div>
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I sat in the darkened theatre with tears in my eyes,
because I had walked with the members of the Anglican Council of Indigenous
Peoples in those dark days – the sense of betrayal as the lawyers took over the
management of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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It’s true, we were not the lone defendants: the Agreement
was signed by the Federal Government of Jean Chretien, the Assembly of First
Nations, the four church entities (Anglican, United Church, Roman Catholic and
Presbyterian), and the Indian Residential School Survivors Society, but as a
life-long Anglican, I carry the responsibility for the legacy of the Anglican
Church’s involvement with the historic relationship between Anglicans and the
First Peoples for the past 400 or more years.</div>
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GOD AND THE INDIAN helps me to understand ever more
deeply the full import of that relationship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>God grant that I and my fellow Anglicans will begin the work of healing
that broken relationship under the leadership of the First Peoples, especially
those now claiming that position of leadership in our midst.</div>
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Thank you, Drew, for offering us one more step along that
path of healing.</div>
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Jean Koninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272853325592796905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395447434738905504.post-74537663812259256602015-04-19T09:12:00.001-04:002015-04-19T09:12:58.898-04:00Making New FriendsIt was busier than usual when I arrived at the salon for my hair appointment, so I shared the seating space with a young man and his two little girls as they waited for Mom to have her hair styled. Dad had his five-month old daughter on his lap, who gazed at me with that steady look that only little folk can fix on one, waiting to see whether I'm worth a smile or not. I cooed at her, as I always do at babies, and she smiled so I knew we were friends. Her two-year old sister sat quietly in the stroller, also checking me out, but after her Dad and I had spoken about the weather, and I had asked about the children's ages, she began to show me her bunny rabbit, which was purple, she told me, and eventually we had conversation. I knew she was telling me a very important story, so I listened with appropriate reponses as I watched the changing expressions on her face, and her purposeful arm gestures - I don't think either of us said any real words of any language, but we were certainly connecting through her story-telling and my story-listening! It was delightful!<br />
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The baby began to fret a bit, so Dad began to sing softly to her, and I recognized one of the songs I often hear my Anishinaabe sisters singing, so my thought that they were a First Nations family was confirmed, and I hummed a bit very quietly along with him. Baby Girl stopped fussing immeditely and sat quietly listening, and Little Girl in the stroller was singing gently along with her Dad, and I thought how restful and comforting that was for all of us. The hairdressers continued their work around us, but I could tell that no one was upset by this - in fact, they probably all found it restful and soothing.<br />
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When the song finished, I said "gchi miigwech" and "nishin" so the Dad shook my hand, and told me his name which, unfortunately in my old, old age, I don't remember (I hate that part of being old!) and I introduced myself in Ojibwe - just a few words - but I sensed that he appreciated that.<br />
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So we talked a bit more - he is from Bearskin Lake First Nation, in Treaty #9 territory, not far from the Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation (Big Trout Lake) and I told him of several people I know in those communiti4es and he knew them too, so it was easy to see that we were really neighbours and also friends.<br />
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Then Mom's hair was done, and she looked lovely, so they were ready to go, and we shook hands and said goodbye. They are living in Peterborough at the present time, so I'll hope to meet them again before too long. Kaa waab min N'wiijkiwenh - Farewell, friends, until we meet again!<br />
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<br />Jean Koninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272853325592796905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395447434738905504.post-90235230575006883622015-03-10T13:28:00.000-04:002015-03-10T13:28:17.783-04:00Panel Presentation at Pre-Gathering of Elders – Enweying< Trent University, Peterborough – Feb. 27/15<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Boozhoo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aanii.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Jean ndi-zhinikaaz.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Windsor ndoo-njibaa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Peterborough megwaa
ndoo-daa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Zhaaginaashii-kwe ndaaw.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Gchi-gbeying
ngii-wiiji-mosemaag Nishinaabeg.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Ndoo- gjitoon waa-zhi Nishnaabemyaanh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Aapiji
go ngchi-nendam miinwaa waabminaa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I
introduce myself in the Ojibwe language to honour the Anishinaabekwewag who
have been willing to teach me their beautiful language, beginning with Elder
Rose Peltier who gave me my first Odawa lessons in Wikwemikong almost 50 years
ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And now, since coming to P’boro 11
years ago, I have been happy to be able to meet her grand-nephew, Beedahbun, who
lives and works here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that is but a
small part of the story of how the circle of my life continues to bring me
happy memories of the past.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">There
are many things I could tell you about the past half-century during which I
have been walking in solidarity with the First Peoples, and how long it has
taken me to reach my current understanding of the meaning of my relationship
with First Peoples brother and sisters, but I shall speak of only one
experience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Until
I stopped driving about five years ago, I spent a lot of hours in my car, which
I always found was a good time to think.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One day, I was thinking about how much time I have spent with First
Peoples.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought of how sorry I am
about the devastating effects that my church and my governments have had on
their lives; of how I have tried to show that I am sorry by standing with them,
and speaking out for justice on their behalf; of trying to help my people to
understand just how badly damaged is the relationship between us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And
as I thought about all this, I suddenly had an “aha” moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I
thought: But why do I think that I have to be the one to fix things?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why do I think that I have to be the one who
cares for others by taking the lead, and telling other people what to do?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If there is one thing I have learned during
the years I have been in relationship with First Peoples – and more importantly
– the years when they have allowed me to be in relationship with them – it is
that the First Peoples are totally capable of caring for themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have leaders among them who have so much
knowledge, so much experience, and so much wisdom that has been handed down to
them from their Elders – they have everything it takes to give leadership to
their people – and more than that, they have the ability to give leadership to
me and to my people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Now
many of you may think that this is a no-brainer, but I admit that to me, it was
a revelation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe it comes from being
the eldest in a family of four children, used to assuming leadership in that
small community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or maybe I’m just a
slow learner, which I know in many ways I am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’m still trying to learn how to manage my computer – not to mention
learning how to speak in Ojibwe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">But
for me, that moment was a turning point in my life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since then, especially when I am in meetings
where First Peoples are present, I am remembering to say to myself: Okay,
Koning, keep quiet and listen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What are
the First Peoples saying?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How are they
offering to take the leadership role?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And can I put myself in the position of being willing to accept that
leadership?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It
has offered me a whole new way of life!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But – and again I have to ask for mercy here – that role does not come
easy to a privileged white woman like me who has so often assumed a leadership
role whether I was asked to or not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
British ancestry hasn’t helped, either – my Victorian grandmother imparted to
my child’s mind a lot of the “Rule, Britannia” history that she grew up
with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">But
I believe that this is one of the most important insights from my experience I
can share with you today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But for some
of us – like me – it may have to be an intellectual exercise – one that we have
to go through in our minds before it can reach our hearts. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But when you get to that point, you will then
be able to join in the Water Walks or Idle No More events to appreciate the way
in which First Peoples are offering us leadership across Canada – going out
among the people in the streets and shopping malls, and even at blockades and
in protest marches - to sing and dance and to offer the hand of friendship that
will allow us all to join the Circle – to restore health to Mother Earth and to
one another. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I
pray that you will not have to take as long as I have, to reach your place in
that Circle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Thanks
for listening.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jean
Koning. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
Jean Koninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272853325592796905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395447434738905504.post-50884951843269289272014-11-14T13:57:00.000-05:002014-11-14T13:57:40.729-05:00First Peoples Rights in the Hospital Setting<div>
Have a look at this item: <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/news/judge-rejects-application-take-aboriginal-girl-from-family-for-chemo-1.2834674" title="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/news/judge-rejects-application-take-aboriginal-girl-from-family-for-chemo-1.2834674">http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/news/judge-rejects-application-take-aboriginal-girl-from-family-for-chemo-1.2834674</a>
– and then think of what would have happened if McMaster Hospital authorities
had managed this situation differently – which is what the judgment is really
pointing out to them.</div>
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The hospital authorities could have recognized and respected the
constitutional right of the First Peoples to be self-determining about their own
and their children’s lives. Then they could have said to the family and the
girl: “we recognize your constitutional right to be self-determining in the
management of your child’s health. Now, tell us how we can help you to fulfil
that responsibility.”</div>
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I dare to say that the outcome would be quite different – and in fact, if
the hospital authorities are willing to have that conversation now, having
acknowledged that they had previously missed the step of respect and recognition
of First Peoples constitutional rights, then a different outcome for the child
may still be possible.</div>
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As media reporters begin to consult "experts" to try to help their readers/viewers/listeners understand what has happened in this court judgment, we will be subjected to professional people who, though well-educated, have no understanding of the law as it applies to the relationship between the First Peoples and The Rest of Us. Thus, the professionals will bemoan the fact that a child will probably die because her Mohawk family is claiming the right to follow Indigenous Knowledge, instead of placing the child totally in the hands of Scientific Knowledge. Thus, even the professional scientific knowledge carriers do not know their Canadian law, and do not respect the Indigenous Knowledge carriers who minister among their own peoples.</div>
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What the judge's finding indicates is not whether the child will live or die according to the kind of treatment she receives, but that the First Peoples have the consitutional right to manage their own lives, and it is that right that must be respected. </div>
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None of us wants to see a child die unnecessarily, but that is not the issue this Canadian judge is facing. Rather, he faces the issue of whether Canada is going to live up to and respect its own constitutional law, or whether it is going to continue to ignore the terms of the historic treaties under which our settler ancestors came to this country.</div>
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My heartiest congratulations to the Mohawk families, and the Brant CAS, for
recognizing, respecting, and upholding this very important right of the First Peoples in whose homelands The Rest of Us "live and move and have our being", </div>
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May it lead to a deeper understanding of how we are to live together in
harmony. </div>
Jean Koninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272853325592796905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395447434738905504.post-77893836342063056912014-01-06T12:57:00.000-05:002014-01-06T12:57:33.000-05:00THE BROCK STREET BURIAL in Peterborough, Ontario<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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2007</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">THE BROCK STREET BURIAL</span></i></b></div>
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man who lived in this area about 2,000 years ago were discovered by Douglas
Yaxley of Peterborough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Buried with the
man were 29 artifacts attributed to the Point Peninsula culture which occupied
the Trent River system before the Christian era.</span></i></b></div>
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Indian Bones ‘Important Find’</b>”,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> “Indian Grave Uncovered</b>” – “Royal Ontario
Museum archaeologist Walter Kenyon examines an excavation where bones believed
to be 2,000 years old were found under the Brock Street parking lot
Monday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mr. Kenyon describes the find as
“a most exciting discovery”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another
picture and story on front page, second section.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Cutline with photo of Kenyon]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Recorded by Jean Koning, Peterborough, ON, in my
computer files, September 2007</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Further comment, January 6, 2014</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">While this refers to the presence of First Peoples in
the territory we call Peterborough some 2,000 years ago, it may not cause
Canadians to realize that the ancestors of those same First Peoples are still
living among us today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neither does it
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">This is why it is important - nay, imperative - to observe the protocols concerning the relationship
between <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">two sovereign nations</b>: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The First Peoples</b> by whatever name they
call themselves in their own language<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(in Peterborough territory it is probably the Mississauga Nation of the Anishinabek
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- or Ojibwe) and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Canada</b>, as we settler/immigrants call our nation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">To learn about the protocols in your territory, please consult the nearest Indian Friendship Centre or First Nation. There are people who would be most willing to help you learn about these protocols, such as presenting tobacco to an Elder, or how to listen effectively within the Talking Circle. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">I always ask, in the same way that I now share this blog, by saying that I am speaking and writing in the spirit of peace, respect and friendship.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Thanks for listening.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Jean Koning.</span></div>
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Jean Koninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272853325592796905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395447434738905504.post-63937916042870890952013-12-30T16:54:00.000-05:002013-12-30T16:54:37.818-05:00“The Orenda” by Joseph Boyden, Hamish Hamilton Canada, 2013,490 pp., $32.00<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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There are a number of excellent reviews of this book
available; this is not a review but are just some of my reflections after reading it during
Christmas week.</div>
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Forty or so years ago when my husband and I lived in
Manitowaning on Manitoulin Island, we became friendly with the Jesuit fathers
who ministered to the Anishinabek (Odawa) of Wikwemikong First Nation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember them telling us that it took 17
years for a man to become an ordained member of the Society of Jesus, and part
of that time – perhaps about one year – would be spent in a place like
Wikwemikong so the “scholastics”, as they were called, could learn how to
engage in their Roman Catholic ministry in places that were culturally
different from what they would have experienced when growing up.</div>
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So I was fascinated to read about Joseph Boyden’s
description of those early years of the Jesuit missionary work among the Huron,
recognizing the kind of faith position that motivated young men like Christophe
to leave comfortable homes in France in the 17th century to come to the New
World to Christianize the “sauvages”, Christophe’s word.</div>
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I have said, in recent years, that if we, as Christian
missionaries, had been able to listen to the “Indians” we met here when we
first came to this territory, we would not have found ourselves setting up
residential schools, but “The Orenda” points to my naiveté, for there is no
way, with the vast differences in our cultural understanding of who we were at
that time, whether First Peoples or settler/immigrant/missionaries, we could
ever have been able to listen to one another – not with a view to living
peaceably together, anyway, until we had spent a long time learning how to listen
effectively.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I suspect that the zeal
of those days simply would not have allowed for the kind of listening that
today, we know is crucial to our learning to live together.</div>
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For me, Joseph Boyden has written in masterful prose the
story of two separate cultures which were always going to struggle to find
common ground, as we still do today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of
interest to me also is the way in which, as the two peoples begin to interact,
there is some willingness on the part of each to learn the language.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have studied the Ojibwe language for over
40 years, because out of that same naiveté, I suppose, I sensed that if I
wanted to know how to understand the First Peoples, I should learn the
language.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And for me, that has been
true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over the years I have gained
immeasurable knowledge about the humanity and the spirituality of Anishinabe
brothers and sisters, since in many ways, to me the language is the
people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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That does not seem to be the reason the Jesuits learned
the language.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They had only one purpose
in mind, and that was to bring the “sauvages” souls to Christ, and they were
happy to die in the attempt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I find it
interesting to think of how I view my understanding of my Christian faith as I
live out my life into its ninth decade, compared to the purposeful way in which
Christophe and his fellow “crows” lived their lives in the 1700’s, according to
Boyden’s meticulous research, which incidentally, undergirds the whole book.</div>
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At least one book reviewer has admitted she could not
read in full the descriptions of torture, which was why I almost didn’t attempt
to read “The Orenda” at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had tried
to read Boyden’s earlier books: “Three Day Road” and “The Black Spruce” and I
could not read past the first two or three pages because I could not take the
descriptions of violence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I haven’t met
Boyden in person, but on TV he looks and sounds so gentle and kindly, I could
not imagine him as a violent person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
yet, the images of torture are so exquisitely written as an integral part of
the whole story, so why can his mind write those descriptive passages and my
mind can’t let me read them?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I
remember that doctors and soldiers and emergency workers on battlefields and
accident and terrorist sites also see the same kinds of damage done to the
human body, so I have to believe that the difficulty lies with me, the reader;
not with the author.</div>
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So while I find myself relating to the Jesuit characters
through my understanding of my Christian faith; my sense of relationship to the
First Peoples characters happens simply as human being to human being.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I know myself to be woman, daughter, wife,
mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, niece and aunt, and as I recognize
all the feelings of joy and pain, serenity and anxiety, satisfaction and hunger,
and of being once young and now old; so I relate directly to the women,
especially, but to the men as well, simply as fellow-human beings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the lives of Snow Falls and Gosling, Bird
and Fox, and their families unfold, I feel the same kind of love, anger, trust,
hope and longing in my heart and mind as I feel it is in theirs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is simply part of the human condition.</div>
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This is far too long, and does not do justice to this
elegantly crafted book, but I offer these thoughts just from my own reflections,
with my gratitude for the creative genius of writers like Joseph Boyden.</div>
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Jean Koning,</div>
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Jean Koninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272853325592796905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395447434738905504.post-54258697603524456912013-09-24T19:58:00.002-04:002013-09-24T20:00:26.492-04:00Walking and Talking Together - We're not there yetDuring the past week, I viewed the live stream version of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Gathering in Vancouver, B.C. This is the second-last national gathering in the TRC's five-year mandate, to listen to and record the statements of residential school survivors and others who wish to contribute to the true history of Canada.<br />
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Once again I listened with sinking heart and terrible sadness as First Peoples brothers and sisters told of their experiences in being taken away from their families and the familiarity of their First Nations communities to spend years in institutional schools, returning to their homes bereft of their languages and culture, unable to communicate effectively with their families on reserves and unaccepted by employers and neighbours in mainline society. As a life-long member of the Anglican Church that operated many of these schools, I am once more filled with a sense of horror and guilt, eroding the feelings of hope I try to nurture within myself that one day, First Peoples brothers and sisters will find the strength to lift themselves beyond the trauma to reclaim, for all of us, the uniquely beautiful people they are created to be.<br />
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So I am somewhat relieved to report that I saw a number of burgeoning signs of hope in this latest TRC Gathering - some of them quite remarkable to my mind and heart.<br />
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* Archbishop Michael Miller, of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver, offering an apology on behalf of himself and his people <b>http://tinyurl.com/oqupurm.</b><br />
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* The Vancouver Giants hockey team, wearing the jerseys of the Alkali Lake Braves at their regular game during the time of the TRC Gathering to honour the contribution of First Peoples to the game of hockey <b> </b> <b>http://tinyurl.com/lmf5fph</b><br />
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* The number of influential people who continue to accept the role of honourary witness, pledging to do all in their power to make sure that Canadians know about the Indian residential schools legacy and the work of the TRC, including, at this Gathering, Stephen Lewis, Vancouver City Councillor Andrea Reimer, Hon. Chuck Strahl, and others whom I can't remember at this moment - but all impressive..<br />
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* Hundreds of students from schools across B.C. who came to take part in educational endeavours around Indian residential schools, and to meet and listen to survivors, and to share in the Gathering in a good way.<br />
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* Robert Waisman, a survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp, who shared with IRS survivors the horrors experienced during World War II, and to encourage them to be strong as they seek to overcome the trauma of residential school experiences. <br />
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* The thousands of people who walked on Sunday in support of Reconciliation Canada http://reconciliationcanada.ca/,<b> </b> listened to Dr. Bernice King, <b>http://tinyurl.com/khgpp4d, </b> and bore witness to the concerted efforts of Chief Bobby Joseph to encourage both the First Peoples and the people of British Columbia to seek ways to build a new relationship of truth, healing and reconciliation. And see http://www.vancouversun.com/opinion/op-ed/Opinion+Another+step+road+reconciliation/8939584/story.html.<br />
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Meanwhile, on Sunday, September 22 here in Peterborough, the Purple Onion Festival http://thepurpleonion.org/ was in full swing in downtown Millennium Park, so I skipped church and joined a couple of hundred people who were gathering to celebrate the "local food revolution" and "food security", hosted by Transition Town Peterborough http://transitiontownpeterborough.ca/.<br />
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A group called For Our Grandchildren http://forourgrandchildren.ca/?p=4134 also shared concern about climate change, as discussed at http://350.org/en/about/science. And there were a number of high school students with posters and placards, indicating interest and knowledge about this subject.<br />
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But the concert part was a lot of fun, with lively music and singing and dancing and speeches interacting with the people, and I quite enjoyed myself, although eventually the cold got to me, and I had to leave before I turned to ice.<br />
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As I looked around, I realized that there probably was not one First Peoples person present in the crowd, which somehow reminded me of how much time I spend with First Peoples in this area. From the Idle No More events last winter to the number of articles I read every day about First Peoples communities across the country who are constantly fighting to preserve clean water, and prevent the ever-present damage to Mother Earth caused by settler/immigrant governments pushing resource development; to the number of gatherings I am continually attending where the First Peoples are talking about the very same things that I was hearing in the songs and speeches in that park yesterday.<br />
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Are we two solitudes in this area, each concerned with the same issue, but not able to listen to each other? If so, is it possible to begin a process to change that?<br />
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Last winter, the local Council of Canadians chapter made an effort, bringing together Idle No More folk with other groups concerned with the environment and ecology. There are some learning curves to navigate - we settler/immigrant types are not very good at listening, but I sense some goodwill to try to make this happen.<br />
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The next test will be on Tuesday, October 15th, when author Maude Barlow comes to Peterborough's Market Hall Theatre, to introduce her latest book: "Blue Future". http://www.canadianprogressiveworld.com/2013/09/10/blue-future-protecting-water-people-planet-forever/.<br />
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Hosted by Council of Canadians and several of the same local organizations that took part in the Purple Onion Festival , along with Idle No More Peterborough, and the Sacred Water Circle; this gathering will have First Peoples' participation with Anishinaabekwewag Water Walkers Shirley Williams, Liz Osawamick, Dorothy Taylor, Georgie Horton-Baptiste and the Nitaawe Language Class sharing Ojibwe words and songs of welcome.<br />
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And so we move forward, one slow, small step at a time. But perhaps, at least, we are moving.<br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This book: </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">PEOPLE
TO PEOPLE, NATION TO NATION – HIGHLIGHTS from the REPORT OF THE ROYAL
COMMISSION ON ABORIGINAL PEOPLES, (Volume V of the Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples; Canada Communication Group; Ottawa 1996 </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">http://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1100100014597/1100100014637</span></u></b>) has been in my possession for close to 17 years. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">During th at time, I'm sorry to say, I have heard many First Peoples leaders and others refer to the RCAP Report, but it has only now occurred to me that we who call ourselves Canadian citizens also have a responsibility to refer to the Report and to demand action, as Treaty People.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thus, I have boldly taken the liberty of recapping this Report into a very simple form that I can begin to get my head around, towards beginning to call for the implementation of the RCAP Report. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This led to discovery of a Globe and Mail article by</span> Anishinabek News<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> editor Maurice Switzer: "<b>Reserve judgment</b>: If you want to understand the harsh realities that led to the Kashechewan crisis, <b>MAURICE SWITZER</b> says, look at the works that are being ignored", Nov. 5/06.<i> </i> He writes: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"Vol. 5, <b>Renewal: A Twenty-Year Commitment</b>,
demonstrates the RCAP report's real strength. It is more than a
recitation of past grievances: It offers a concrete action plan to
implement many of its 440 recommendations. ... Seven years later," he continues, "I
rarely encounter university students who have ever heard of the RCAP
report, let alone the Statement of Reconciliation that was part of
Ottawa's official response. It was titled <i>Gathering Strength</i>. Most Indians call it<i> Gathering Dust</i>."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Fast forward from 2006 to 2013. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Now we have experienced passage of the omnibus legislation Bill C-45 by the current Stephen Harper government, which means that you and I are beginning to understand the frustration stated so firmly in the RCAP Report that "there must be an acknowledgement that great wrongs have been done to Aboriginal people". For we see wrongs are being done to The Rest of Us as well, by this omnibus bill, especially as it pertains to "environmental protection and planned environmental degradation that is coming", according to Prof. Pamela Palmater. <u>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okLmloA70z</u> This is the fourth part of four YouTube videos that speak directly to us as Canadian citizens. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">There is a way in which we are now all in the same boat when we look at what the Stephen Harper government is doing to the country we call Canada.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">So I invite you to have a look at this manifesto that follows, and to think about whether it would be worth the time and effort of at least some of us to come together to see where the RCAP Report could help all of us to find a new way of relating in peace, respect, friendship and harmony.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Commissioners:
Paul L.A.H. Chartrand, J. Peter Meekison, Viola Robinson, Mary Sillett, Bertha
Wilson.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“…to
help restore justice to the relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal
people in Canada, and to propose practical solutions to stubborn problems …”</span></div>
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Government of Canada must commit to renewing the relationship … guided by the
principles of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">recognition, respect,
sharing and responsibility</b>.</span></div>
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We need a new Royal Proclamation, issued by the Queen and presented to the
Canadian people in a special assembly called for the purpose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Legislation:</span></div>
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An Aboriginal Nations Recognition and Government Act;</span></div>
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An Aboriginal Treaties Implementation Act;</span></div>
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An Aboriginal Lands and Treaties Tribunal Act;</span></div>
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An Aboriginal Parliament Act;</span></div>
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An Aboriginal Relations Department Act and an Indian and Inuit Services
Department Act</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“The
proclamation and companion legislation can be initiated by the federal
government acting on its own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">But it would be better</b> for the future
of the relationship and for the negotiations that lie ahead <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">if the governments of Canada, the
provinces, the territories and the Aboriginal nations were to work together
from the very beginning</b>.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Page 132)</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">GATHERING
STRENGTH AND BUILDING CAPACITY:</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“To
this point we have discussed structural measures …But structures don’t make
change; people do.” …This requires early action in four areas:”</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Healing
of individuals, families, communities and nations (p. 135)</span></div>
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THE STATUS QUO:</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">RENEWAL AS A
GOOD INVESTMENT:</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Canada
stands to gain by acting on our proposals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Aboriginal people will gain by achieving greater productivity and higher
incomes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other Canadians will gain
through reduced government spending and increased government revenues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Political, economic and social renewal can
help Canada balance its books.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(p. 140)</span></div>
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UNDERSTANDING:</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“The
tasks we have laid out for renewing the relationship …are huge – but they pale
in comparison <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">to the task of changing
Canadian hearts and minds so that the majority understand the aspirations of
Aboriginal people and accept their historical rights</b>…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">We
urge Canadians to become involved in a broad and creative campaign of public
education.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our report can be a starting
point – a basis for study groups, lectures, meetings and exchanges, organized
by churches and unions, schools and hospitals, local businesses and national
corporations, about what they can do to understand and accommodate Aboriginal
people and their concerns.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Remaining passive and silent is not
neutrality – it is support for the status quo</b>.” (p. 144)</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">CHARTING
PROGRESS:</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“We
propose that the federal government set up an Aboriginal Peoples Review
Commission to assess the actions of governments in accomplishing the tasks on
the agenda for change.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“The
importance of an Aboriginal Peoples Review Commission will lie in its
independence and its ability to focus the attention of legislators and
governments on the continuing process of renewal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">It
should be independent of governments and report direct to Parliament</b>.” (p.
145)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[Emphases
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Prepared
by:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jean
Koning</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Peterborough,
ON</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">September
2, 2013</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thanks for listening. </span></div>
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What a pleasure to return to the powwow circuit, thanks
to the kindness of an Anishinabekwe sister!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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The weather was kind this Sunday, May 19, 2013, and I
discovered I was sitting beside the MC for the day, Bob Goulais, <a href="http://www.anishinaabe.ca/bgc/">http://www.anishinaabe.ca/bgc/</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">, </span>whom I remembered as a journalist with the
Anishinabek News, so it was good to renew his acquaintance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we arrived, Bob was offering a tribute
to Elijah Harper <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://tinyurl.com/nmekdme"><b>http://tinyurl.com/nmekdme</b></a><b> </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">whose memory will remain forever within the
true history of this part of Turtle Island we call Canada.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Powwows are marvellous
opportunities to meet old friends and make new ones, and to meet in person
people I have only spoken to on the phone or through e-mail, and so I was very
happy to meet Becky Big Canoe, from Beausoleil (Christian Island) First Nation </span><a href="http://chimnissing.ca/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">http://chimnissing.ca/</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Becky was promoting
<b>Tears4Justice, </b>founded by Gladys Radek, “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">a peaceful raising awareness campaign … in honour of all our lost loved
ones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>… we want Justice, Closure,
Equality and Accountability for each and every one of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We want proper public and safety measures to
be completely implemented through all levels of governance to start protecting
all women and children in the hope of eliminating all forms of Violence against
women and children across Turtle Island.”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And this is an effort which I wholeheartedly endorse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Tears4Justice"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">https://www.facebook.com/Tears4Justice</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">At another table
was the “<b>Hiawatha Frist Nation Market Housing Program”.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After the recent<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>number of negative stories from northern
Ontario First Nations communities, it was good to see the positive approach to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“A Housing Program that provides competitive
and affordable loans that work…., developed in conjunction with the First
Nations Market Housing Fund”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>I
accepted the brochure from the charming and enthusiastic young woman at the
table, though the program was obviously for Hiawatha Band members.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More
about this in another blog.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I can still
remember the first time I attended a Powwow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was in the mid-sixties at Wikwemikong First Nation on Manitoulin
Island.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can remember feeling
overwhelmed with the colour, sound and movement of the dancers, drummers and
participants as they moved around the circle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was only a year or two after I had first met First Peoples, having
heard only the slightest mention of “Indians” in my elementary school
years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The contrast between the people I
knew in the First Nations at that time with the spectacle unfolding at the
Powwow was not lost to me, and over the years I have watched the growth of what
I see as the resurgence of pride and dignity in the First Peoples as they
reclaim their heritage, almost obliterated by colonisation and the residential
schools experience. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t know what is in the hearts and minds
of today’s Powwow participants, but I believe it helps the First Peoples, in
some way that I don’t have to understand, become once again, at least for that
moment, the people I believe the Creator intends them to be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And so I rejoice in the beat of the drum,
“the heartbeat of Mother Earth”, and pray that my Anishinabek brothers and
sisters will grow ever stronger in that knowledge.</span></div>
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Jean Koninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272853325592796905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395447434738905504.post-40195587177166834542013-01-02T13:18:00.000-05:002013-05-25T16:11:14.294-04:00A Very Incomplete List of Resources<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>RESOURCES for
LEARNING about FIRST PEOPLES OF TURTLE ISLAND:</u></b></div>
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ASSEMBLY OF FIRST NATIONS:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.afn.ca/index.php/en">http://www.afn.ca/index.php/en</a></div>
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TRUTH & RECONCILIATION OF CANADA:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.trc.ca/websites/trcinstitution/index.php?p=3">http://www.trc.ca/websites/trcinstitution/index.php?p=3</a></div>
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THE INDIAN ACT:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/I-5/">http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/I-5/</a></div>
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ROYAL COMMISSION ON ABORIGINAL PEOPLES:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1307458586498/1307458751962">http://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1307458586498/1307458751962</a></div>
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ANISHINABEK NATION – UNION OF ONTARIO INDIEANS:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.anishinabek.ca/">http://www.anishinabek.ca/</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">and check out
the ANISHINABEK NEWS link from that website.</span></span><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span></div>
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NISHNAWBE ASKI NATION:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><a href="http://www.nan.on.ca/">http://www.nan.on.ca/</a></div>
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CHIEFS OF ONTARIO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><a href="http://www.chiefs-of-ontario.org/">http://www.chiefs-of-ontario.org/</a></div>
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ASSOCIATION OF IROQUOIS AND ALLIED INDIANS:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.aiai.on.ca/">http://www.aiai.on.ca/</a></div>
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CANADA’S FIRST NATIONS: A History of Founding Peoples
from Earliest Times, by Olive Patricia Dickason.</div>
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A NATIONAL CRIME: The Canadian Government and the
Residential School System, by John S. Milloy.</div>
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DISTANT RELATIONS: How My Ancestors Colonized North
America, by Victoria Freeman.</div>
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SEEING RED: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers,
by Mark Anderson & Carmen Robertson.</div>
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I think the above-listed books are probably available in
the P’boro Public Library, plus many more, including a number of books by Drew
Hayden Taylor – all a good read.</div>
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Also, you may find this of interest as “local
history”:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www2.brandonu.ca/library/cjns/16.2/mcnab.pdf">http://www2.brandonu.ca/library/cjns/16.2/mcnab.pdf</a></div>
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This will get you started, though it is only the tip of
the iceberg of what’s out there to inform and educate you as you search out
Canadian history from the First Peoples point of view.</div>
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Also, I would suggest talking to your children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some teachers are beginning to try to include
some of this kind of history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And talk
to your children’s teachers: are they aware of First Peoples history, both past
and current?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And ask at your local School
Board:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>do they have First Peoples
history in their curriculum?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And to
study the Ojibwe language, free of charge, phone Niijkiwendidaa
Anishinabekwewog Services Circle (NASC) at 705-741-0900 for more information.</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">[Submitted by Jean
Koning 705-743-2270, Peterborough, ON<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-
January 2, 2013.]</i></div>
Jean Koninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272853325592796905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395447434738905504.post-64430008970014631902013-01-01T17:14:00.000-05:002013-01-01T17:15:14.691-05:00IDLE NO MORE - Burleigh Falls, ONToday I attended the IDLE NO MORE Gathering in the middle of Burleigh Falls bridge, to listen to the history of that particular part of the Mississauga Territory, and to witness the symbolic burning of Bill C-45 in the sacred fire. It was a bright, cold, New Year's Day 2013, led by the Whetung Family of Curve Lake, whose ancestors burned the White Paper of the Trudeau Government of 1969, and so the flame of sovereignty is handed down from parents to children and the Anishinabek People remain alive, strong and vibrant.<br />
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There were close to 100 people, both First Peoples and Settler Allies, most capably led by Kim Whetung, Lorenzo Whetung, and other Curve Lake First Nation members. There soon appeared a line-up of cars from both sides of the Sacred Fire, some of whom were somewhat irate at being held up for an hour; so much so that one young man called the police. The OPP responded, and made sure that everyone was safe, but did not interfere with the Gathering, interacting with everyone in a peaceful and respectful manner. <br />
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We can be proud of our police in these cases (I have not yet observed one act of police confrontation). We are especially proud of the leadership of the First Peoples who remain peaceful but determined; willing to educate The Rest of Us and encouraging us to join in with the singing, drumming and dancing.<br />
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In everyone's mind is the courageous stand of Chief Theresa Spence, now being joined in Ottawa by Elder Raymond Robinson of Cross Lake First Nation, Manitoba, who has also been fasting for three weeks. We meet, sing, drum, dance and pray for the well-being of both these First Peoples leaders who are waiting for a sign from Prime Minister Stephen Harper that he is willing to enter into a new relationship with the First Peoples.<br />
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And so we wait.<br />
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-30-Jean Koninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272853325592796905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395447434738905504.post-57164092659081645602011-12-22T11:37:00.000-05:002011-12-22T11:37:50.495-05:00My letter to Attawapiskat's Chief Theresa Spence<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I was going to write about the unusual series of events which have propelled the Attiwapiskat First Nation's situation into the public spotlight, when I received this post:</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>http://indigenousnationhood.blogspot.com/2011/12/brave-leadership-spreads-hope.html </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">and if that won't work for you, go to: </span><b>http://tinyurl.com/cs3tyo7. </b> </div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Either link will take you to the well-written and well-researched blog of Prof. Pam Palmater who has recently come forward as a powerful voice for the First Peoples. Prof. Palmeter offers the history with well-researched background, plus current reviews of the struggle this small First Peoples community has engaged in over the past several weeks.</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">So I am going to write a public letter to Attawapiskat's Chief Theresa Spence, instead.</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Dear Chief Spence and my dear Sister, Neighbour and Fellow-Inhabitant of this part of Turtle Island, your homeland:</div><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Thank you for your courage and fortitude as you stand firm in support of your people and your home territory.</div><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> I am following events carefully, as you exert the sovereign power shared by you and your people under the Royal Proclamation of 1763.</div><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Prof. Palmeter has spoken very clearly of the historic stand you are taking, and as a woman born in this territory in 1922 who only came into contact with your people about 40 years ago, I can't tell you how pleased I am to see this happening.</div><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> I came upon your people for the first time in 1966 when I went to live in Manitowaning on Manitoulin Island, Ontario. In 1985, I wrote: </div><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-CA"><i>He sat silently in my car, his shoulders hunched against the hopelessness which seemed to pervade his fourteen years of life. In a few minutes he would go back into the house to face his alcoholic father, listless mother and six younger brothers and sisters. What sort of future lay ahead for this Odawa teenager? I was certain there could be something better but it had to start with his knowing that he was worth</i></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-CA"><span style="font-style: normal;">y.</span></span></span></div><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-CA" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br />
</div><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-CA" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><i>I spoke quietly but with all the conviction I could muster.</i></span></div><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-CA" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br />
</div><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">“<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-CA"><i>You are Indian, and that’s a beautiful, wonderful thing to be,” I told him. “You have so much to offer the world as an Indian person and your people need you to help them to know how important and vital it is to be Indian. Wherever you go, whatever you do, always hold your head high and be proud of your Indian heritage. It’s what makes you a very special person – to your people, to me, to the Creator.”</i></span></span></div><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-CA" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br />
</div><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-CA" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><i>He got out of the car and went into the house, still without speaking a word. I didn’t know if he had listened or understood. I didn’t see him again and I don’t know where he is now. But I think I see his face in many of the young Indian leaders who have begun to assert their right to take control of their own lives, so dearly lost over the centuries since the immigrant settlers came to their aboriginal homeland. </i><span style="font-style: normal;">[From: The Anglican Church of Canada "LIVING MESSAGE", April 1985]</span></span></div><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-CA" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br />
</div><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-CA" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="font-size: small;">At that time, I was just beginning to learn something of the true history of this place I call "my country - my native land" - Canada. Since then, I have learned so much more as I have been privileged to sit among the First Peoples to listen to the Elders (who are the "history books" of your thousands of years of life in this territory). </span> </div><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-CA" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br />
</div><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-CA" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="font-size: small;">In the intervening years, nothing has happened to change my growing awareness of our shared history, much of which is contained in Prof. Palmeter's blog. I have learned so much about the true history of the country I know as Canada - the place of my birth and life for almost 90 years - as I have been allowed to walk in solidarity with your people through many good teachings and sacred circles, in a number of encounters on burial sites and protest marches, and finally to attempt to work in support of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission in my region of southern Ontario. Your people have tried to teach me the Ojibwe language, and have nurtured me through talking circles, sharing deep friendships, and supporting me in many ways throughout my life, and I am eternally grateful.</span></div><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-CA" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br />
</div><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-CA"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Now you are asserting your sovereignty, and I want you to know that once again, I stand beside you, so happy that you are giving your people that kind of leadership. And I rejoice that you have the support of so many of your people across the country, from the Assembly of First Nations, and your regional Nishnabe Aski Nation, and your local Mushkegowuk Council, and now I see the United Nations has come in on your side with the attention of James Anaya, UN special rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples telling the Federal government that he will be watching what happens in your territory. </span></span></span></span><b>http://tinyurl.com/7mszwq3</b></div><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> I see also that you have filed for an injunction against the third-party manager, another sign of your acknowledgement of your people's sovereign rights, so good for you on that score too! </div><div class="western"><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/attawapiskat-band-files-injunction-to-end-control-of-third-party-manager/article2272787/"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/attawapiskat-band-files-injunction-to-end-control-of-third-party-manager/article2272787/</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> or </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>http://tinyurl.com/6pdcg6q</b></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="western"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span> </div><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I regret that my leaders have to be called to account in this way, but it is time for us to begin to understand and accept that we must find a way to negotiate a new relationship with the First Peoples of this part of Turtle Island, and so I thank you for leading the way.</span></div><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br />
</div><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> As we approach this sacred time of year, may you and your people know something of the warmth and love that comes from contact with people who care about you, and may the coming year guide us into new ways of achieving a relationship of harmony, equality and justice.</div><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br />
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</div>Jean Koninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272853325592796905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395447434738905504.post-71716870970620903162011-12-04T15:00:00.004-05:002011-12-04T15:01:52.673-05:00My call to revolution<div><img align="absBottom" src="http://images.clickability.com/partners/349394/etIcon.gif" /> <a href="http://www.emailthis.clickability.com/et/emailThis?clickMap=viewThis&etMailToID=967511754" style="color: #cc0000;" target="_blank">How to prevent native uprising - Winnipeg Free Press</a></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000;"></span></div><div></div><div></div><div>This article by Douglas Bland speaks to me of a militaristic view of the relationship between the First Peoples and the Rest of Us, following the theme of his book, “Uprising”. <a href="http://koningskomments.blogspot.com/2010/07/uprising-by-douglas-bland.html" title="http://koningskomments.blogspot.com/2010/07/uprising-by-douglas-bland.html">http://koningskomments.blogspot.com/2010/07/uprising-by-douglas-bland.html</a></div><div></div><div>As I am sure I have said elsewhere, I believe it is only because of the restraining voices of First Peoples Elders, plus the damage we have inflicted over the years on the self-confidence and self-respect of First Peoples brothers and sisters, that the young people have not become more militant during recent years.<br />
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Meanwhile, the past week’s media revelations re the Attawapiskat situation brings before us the appalling conditions faced by First Peoples youth in their homelands, so I ask how you could blame them if they begin to lash out at us. To date, their “lashing out” is lateral – they hit upon themselves with suicide and drug use, and upon one another with the violence we see reported regularly within First Nations communities. These are the actions of people who have no hope. We are the criminals for allowing those situations to continue, year after year, unabated because we think we don’t know what to do, so we simply pretend it isn’t there.</div><div></div><div>But there are things we can do. We can become aware of fellow human beings whose ancestors have lived in these lands we know as Canada since time immemorial (and please don’t come back with the old saw about “they came across the Bering Sea”. That’s a cop-out and you know it.)</div><div></div><div>Canada has a history that reaches back into the centuries, and we need to know that history. Canadian history did not start with the arrival of the Vikings, or Columbus, or Champlain. At least by the time we reach Champlain, we can see that he recognized he was in the homeland of people who were resident here before his time.</div><div></div><div>But I have been saying these things ad nauseum for many years, and I’m still having to say it – so I don’t know why I bother if no one is listening.<br />
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But I keep holding onto hope – hope that one day, enough people are going to hear about this reality that they will begin to study, ask questions and find out about the history we share with the First Peoples in whose homeland we now dwell. I have hope that enough of us will begin to sit down with First Peoples and begin to listen to them – their stories, their history, their lives, and I pray they have the guts to ask First Peoples to help us to find a way to bring our relationship back into balance, so that each of us sees the other as fully equal<br />
.</div><div></div><div>That won’t happen, however, unless we can admit that we don’t know everything, we are not superior to First Peoples, and that we really need to ask them, with respect and true regret for past mistakes, to let us be their friends. That calls for a massive change in our thinking, in our thought processes – such a huge change that it is in effect revolutionary.<br />
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We are the ones that have to engage in revolution - a revolutionary change in our thinking about our relationship with the First Peoples of Turtle Island.. I invite you to think about it.</div><div></div>Jean Koninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272853325592796905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395447434738905504.post-14971373571312226962011-11-27T18:49:00.000-05:002011-11-27T18:49:12.422-05:00PROS AND CONS OF THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">An article in the University of Western Ontario's WESTERN NEWS by professor Bernie Hammond in praise of the “eloquence of the Occupy movement” <b><a href="http://tinyurl.com/7tsuqqu">http://tinyurl.com/7tsuqqu</a> </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">prompted psychology emeritus professor Heinz Klatt to compose a response: </span><b><a href="http://tinyurl.com/86qkw3h">http://tinyurl.com/86qkw3h</a>.</b></div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Professor Klatt, who has taught the study of political correctness at UWO in recent years, but not without controversy, it would seem (</span><a href="http://tinyurl.com/6pv85mf"><b>http://tinyurl.com/6pv85mf</b></a><span style="font-weight: normal;">) writes, with a somewhat jaundiced eye, that he does not remember “encountering a political movement as inarticulate and vapid as the one that now stains and soils our central city parks.” He was speaking of OCCUPY London (ON), which lasted until Mayor Joe Fontana ordered them out. </span><a href="http://tinyurl.com/7fnypfq"><b>http://tinyurl.com/7fnypfq</b></a></div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Klatt admits he is not an economist (neither am I), so he has only a “vague understanding” of what the numbers quoted by Hammond mean, but he offers some numbers of his own. “...the vilified 1 per cent pays 38 per cent of all income taxes and the bottom 50 per cent pay no more than 3 percent of taxes collected, (so the omission of these numbers makes reprehensible propaganda of the analysis of my colleague. I am afraid,” he adds, “this form of political, leftist activism is representative of the thinking in the social justice and peace studies that professor Hammond co-ordinates.”</div><div class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Personally, I don't want to get caught up in quoting numerical statistics, because I really don't understand any of them. </div><div class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">However, what I do understand is that there have been a number of people over the past two months or so who have come together to say, loud and clear, “we're mad as hell and and we're not going to take it any more”.</div><div class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">That's not very sophisticated language, I'll admit, nor does it seem like the sort of thought-provoking idea that would create reverberations within the ivy walls of academia, but I think it is authentic language in use at this moment by people who have begun to realize that they are being sold a bill of goods by others, and they are determined to find a better way. (Also not clear academic language, but it's a beginning of something worthy of recognition.)</div><div class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">I'm willing to accept that not everyone, including professor Klatt, wants to enter into dialogue with me or others on this somewhat nebulous subject, and perhaps that will change as some of us become more articulate, providing people like the professor are willing to listen with open minds.</div><div class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">However, I must call Klatt on his statement concerning “aboriginals in Caledonia”. “Nobody should be allowed to violate our laws, neither the Tamils in Toronto, nor the aboriginal in Caledonia and elsewhere ... , for whatever cause.” </div><div class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">If we are going to talk about violating laws, then we must consider the Canadian government's neglect of Indigenous treaty rights over the many years of our relationship with the First Peoples of Turtle Island. It is this ignorance of the reality of that relationship which the Truth & Reconciliation Commission was mandated – under Canadian law - to investigate through listening to and recording the truth-telling in which we are currently engaged. I would recommend that Professor Klatt take some time to inform himself of this reality.</div><div class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">I can appreciate that there are many frustrations among many Canadians who do not seem to be able to hear what OCCUPY participants are trying to say at this moment. But I would suggest that it is time for us to take the time to try to listen. </div><div class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">If we are now living in warm houses, able to eat nutritious and delicious food, wear fashionable clothes, pay all our bills at the end of the month, and reflect on our retirement plans with pleasure, then I suggest it wouldn't be too much to ask to try to listen to our neighbours who are not in the same position. </div><div class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Politically correct or not, it is the neighbourly thing to do.</div><div class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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</div>Jean Koninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272853325592796905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395447434738905504.post-89609675787258748002011-11-20T20:43:00.000-05:002011-11-20T20:43:07.049-05:00OCCUPY and MY PARISH CHURCH<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">It was my intention to go to Toronto today to visit OCCUPY in St. James Park and the Cathedral, but my plans changed and I attended the regular worship service here at All Saints' Anglican Church, Peterborough, instead.</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">And I'm glad I did, for a couple of reasons. There was no heat in the church, so we worshipped in the parish hall next door (which was the original church building,) so it was easily converted, but also provided a different feel to the regular Sunday morning worship time – cosier, somehow, and people seemed friendlier. In fact, there was an air of “messy church”, which was fun, but everything went off without a hitch, including a newborn being baptized.</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The other reason was Fr. Bill Gray's homily, based on the scripture readings for the day from Ephesians and Matthew, with a strong link made between the words of Matthew 25:31-46 and the OCCUPY Toronto movement. </div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Nodding of heads around me indicated I have not been alone in following news reports of Dean Douglas Stoute's words quoted last week when asked about the OCCUPY folk camped outside in the Cathedral park. “While some church neighbours are unhappy with the occupation, members of the general public have been 'overwhelmingly' supportive of the Occupy Toronto message, Stoute said. This is not about a tidy park: It's about social and economic dysfunction and injustice."<br />
</div><div class="western">There are many issues, Fr. Bill said, and the message may be unfocussed, “but someone, somewhere, needs to make a statement that forces (causing the issues) need to be reined in.” We need to understand that we are vulnerable in the face of those forces”.<br />
</div><div class="western">Today's Gospel tells of Jesus' parable about those who will inherit the kingdom. “I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.” And when did we do those things? “And the king will answer them, “Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.”<br />
</div><div class="western">Today we celebrate the Reign of Christ, so we are reminded that this charge is not only to us as individuals, but also to us as community, and not only the church but all nations, for this is “a universal problem”. Fr. Bill added: “I don't know what to wish for tomorrow. I know that we here at All Saints' want to support all efforts to support other people. We want to assure that Chloe, as she is baptized here today,” will grow up in a world where love and justice are possible for all people.<br />
</div><div class="western">Fr. Bill also told the congregation that Archbishop Colin Johnson has now given permission for All Saints', Peterborough, to bless same-sex unions. This will be the only Anglican church in the Trent-Durham region authorized to offer such blessing, so we will reach out to all people in our area.<br />
</div><div class="western">Now we await the judge's announcement tomorrow to know what will happen with OCCUPY Toronto. It is somewhat reassuring to know that some of the Toronto City councillors also support the OCCUPY movement.<br />
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And as I write, I have received the following message:</div><div class="western"><br />
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</div><div align="LEFT" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.2in;">---------- Forwarded message ----------</div><div align="LEFT" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.2in;"></div><div align="LEFT" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.2in;">From: <b>MICHAEL POLANYI</b> <<span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="mailto:michaelpolanyi@rogers.com" target="_blank">michaelpolanyi@rogers.com</a></u></span></span>><br />
Date: Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 7:10 AM<br />
Subject: Upcoming Faith-related Occupy Toronto Actions - please SHARE<br />
To: "<span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="mailto:michaelpolanyi@rogers.com" target="_blank">michaelpolanyi@rogers.com</a></u></span></span>" <<span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="mailto:michaelpolanyi@rogers.com" target="_blank">michaelpolanyi@rogers.com</a></u></span></span>><br />
[<i>Please note the date so # 1 and 2 are already out of date</i>.]</div><div dir="LTR" id="Section1"><div class="western" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dear Friends:</span></span></span></div><div class="western" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thirty people from various faith communities met last night at the Church of Holy Trinity with members of Occupy Toronto.</span></span></span></div><div class="western" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york;"><span style="font-size: small;">We discussed ways to support Occupy Toronto and its call for justice on the eve of a possible forceful eviction.</span></span></span></div><div class="western" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here are five ways we are calling on people of faith to show solidarity in the coming days:</span></span></span><br />
</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">1. </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Prepare</b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> to provide a peaceful witness should the eviction occur by signing up for a 2-hour training in faith-based </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>non-violent action training</b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> TOMORROW (Friday) at 4-6 pm at St. James Park</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=1395447434738905504" name="yui-ie-cursor"></a> <span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">2. </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Publicly demonstrate</b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> our solidarity with Occupy Toronto and opposition to a forced eviction by joining the mass </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>rally and march to City Hall</b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> on Saturday at 2 pm. Meet at St. James Park. If you can't make it in person call or email Mayor Rob Ford and your City Councillor urging them not to forcibly evict the protestors but to work towards a peaceful, mutually agreeable way forward.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">3. </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Monitor</b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> the news and social media and </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>join our urgent-response phone tree</b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> in order to be ready to go to St. James Park should an eviction begin (most like to happen during the night). Send your cell-phone number to Alexa at </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="mailto:minister@windermerechurch.ca" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">minister@windermerechurch.ca</span></span></span></span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> to receive a call/text should eviction begin.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">4. </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Show solidarity</b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> by attending the </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Faith Outreach Day</b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> at St. James Park on Sunday, November 27. Email Bob at </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="mailto:bobmce2002@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">bobmce2002@yahoo.com</span></span></span></span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> for more information. </span></span></span></span></span></span> </div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">5. </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Donate or volunteer</b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> time or money to Occupy Toronto. They now accept donations through Alterna Savings (Danforth Branch, Account # 5025569). They also need donations on-site of hot or non-perishable food, sleeping bags, warm clothing and more (see </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.occuptyto.org/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">www.occuptyto.org</span></span></span></span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">). They always need volunteers to help cook and serve meals and help in other ways. They appreciate the presence and listening ear of clergy and members of faith communities.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york;"><span style="font-size: small;">Finally, please join us at the next Faith and Occupy Toronto meeting on Wednesday, December 7 at 7 pm (location TBA).</span></span></span></div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york;"><span style="font-size: small;">Peace, and hope to see you soon,</span></span></span></div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york;"><span style="font-size: small;">Michael Polanyi</span></span></span></div><div class="western" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lyn Adamson</span></span></span></div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">[end]</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div></div><div class="western">So I'm thinking that my parish church is not going to be standing alone in the call for support for OCCUPY Toronto. And I'm very happy about that.</div><div align="CENTER" class="western">(end)</div><div align="CENTER" class="western">[Please feel free to share this message as you wish.]</div><div align="LEFT" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.2in;"><br />
</div>Jean Koninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272853325592796905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395447434738905504.post-56845066900503437452011-02-01T20:25:00.000-05:002011-02-01T20:25:51.918-05:00THIRD WORLD CANADA, an Andree Cazabon film<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">THIRD WORLD CANADA, a film by Gemini nominee and inspirational speaker Andree Cazabon, was viewed by a capacity audience at last week's Reframe Film Festival in Peterborough.</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> The hour-long film is not easy viewing. It tells the story of eight children, orphaned when their parents and step-father all committed suicide, and how their lives continue while the community learns to cope with the tragedy. The Chief and people of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) First Nations (Big Trout Lake) in north-western Ontario, struggle to survive in their homeland against the inroads of mining companies, and the oppressive Indian Act legislation which prevents them from achieving a stable, sustainable life for their children.</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">This film premiered in both Ottawa and Toronto at the end of last year, with reports that as the lights came up, the large audiences sat in stunned silence, as if unable to comprehend what they had just seen. By contrast, when Andree took the microphone for a question and answer session immediately following the viewing in Peterborough, people were ready to talk. What made the difference?</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The Peterborough audience, in fact, had been viewing films during the previous 24 hours that showed children living in poverty and oppressive conditions all around the world. Now they were confronted with children living in the same kind of poverty and devastation in our own country, our own province, so they were ready to ask: “What can we do to help?”</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Andree did not offer them easy answers, but challenged them to explore for themselves how they were going to help. “This film was not made for the government,” Andree said,” but for all of us. I'll put it back to you: are you willing to let this continue to happen? Our government is an extension of our values,” she told us. “When we demand changes, our government will respond.”</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Although a young woman and single mom, Andree has already achieved notable success with her films seen by over one million viewers on CBC-Newsworld, Radio-Canada, and CBC Television. Now she has committed herself to helping the KI Youth to tell their story across the country, convinced that when people sit face to face to listen to the stories, we will find ways to work together towards healing and reconciliation. </div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">“The voice of the Drum has been re-awakened,” Andree told her listeners. “We would love to see the Youth and the Drum travel across the country to bring awareness to the needs of the northern First Nations communities.” Quoting Mike Hardy, executive director of Tikinagan Child & Family Services, she said they don't need the “great white hope to come in and fix things” for them. We need to let people know what they need, and how they can help, and how we can work together. This will be the purpose of the first leg of a train tour which Andree hopes to launch this spring.</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Time was up in the theatre, so people followed Andree into the lobby to offer help. Names and e-mails were exchanged, and as the Train Tour Task Force begins to take shape, there will be further announcements about where you can come to meet with and listen to the Youth of the North – to share their dream for a future of respect, peace and friendship. </div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Check the web site: <span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.andreecazabon.ca/">http://www.andreecazabon.ca</a></u></span></span> and thanks for listening,</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Jean.</div>Jean Koninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272853325592796905noreply@blogger.com0