Open letter to the students of Nipissing University Class of 2010
May 28, 2010
Please take a moment to reflect on the upcoming convocation sessions this June.
Particularly, since on this the occasion of your educational successes, the powers that be will also be using the occasion,again of your success, to confer an honorary doctor of letters on Mike Harris, June 11.
We’re talking Mike Harris “I want the fucking Indians out of the park”.
Doctor of Letters…wtf ?
Ask yourself does this not send out all the wrong messages, indeed does it not make a mockery of education and or Indigenous-Settler relationships ? In fact ask yourselves exactly how is Mike Harris qualified to speak on leadership or as the University administrators states…
their role is to show students how leadership develops, and how actions shape the world around us...@
Excuse me , ‘Mike -I-want-the-fucking-Indians-out-of-the-park -Harris’, are you fucking serious.
What possible wisdom could Harris pass on in regards to leadership ? This is the guy who’s lack of leadership not ‘only’ cost an innocent man his life but inflamed anti-native sentiments.
Indeed the Harris government was described by one senior OPP officer as a bunch off…
gun-loving rednecks who couldn’t care less about aboriginals.The comments surfaced on recordings played Wednesday at the public inquiry into the death of Dudley George. The activist was shot during an occupation of Ipperwash Provincial Park…@
Honor the memory of Dudley George,R.I.P.
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UPDATE; It would seem the students of Nipissing U are way way ahead of me,indeed I am a johnny-come-lately . To add insult to insult Harris will not only be getting an honorary doctorate , there are rumors that the University is also planning to name the new library after him.
And if all that were not enough,the library in question is funded in part by First Nations, yikes talk about getting no respect .
Damn…some white people just don’t get it and I fear they never will ! There’s no “Indian problem” but there’s definitly a white problem.
In addition to the honorary degree, Chief Madahbee said Mr. Harris is not worthy of another honour: naming the university’s new $25-million library after the former premier, who grew up in North Bay.Nipissing First Nation Chief Marianne Couchie threatened to pull financial support from the new library if it is named after Mr. Harris.
“The leaders and I are quite disappointed,” Chief Madahbee continued. “We think it’s more appropriate to name a shooting range after him rather than a library. He hasn’t contributed anything to this province.” A Facebook group called “Nipissing Students (and Friends) Against the Mike Harris Library” has garnered support from more than 3,000 people, nearly half the population of Nipissing University.
Nipissing University president Lesley Lovett-Doust said the university sticks by its selected honorees…@
Nipissing Students (and friends) Against the Mike Harris Library
Open Letter Protesting the Presence of Anti-Native “Militia” Leaders at the May 5th Aboriginal Policy Forum at Mount Royal University
May 3, 2010
Seems Frances-the-talking-mule-Widdowson is set on stirring the anti-native pot, yet again.
We’re talking bottom of the barrel scraping here …
[...] Widdowson personally invited Mark Vandermaas and Gary McHale to be discussants on a panel entitled “Aboriginal Sovereignty and the Rule of Law.” McHale and Vandermaas are leading figures in grassroots anti-Native organizing against the Six Nations people of the Grand River Territory in south-western Ontario; they have played key roles in the formation of a non-native “militia” aimed at repressing Indigenous land protests and they have also organized a variety of anti-Native protests, a number of which have attracted the support of neo-Nazis and far right racists. While Vandermaas and McHale claim to speak for Caledonians, their activities have consistently increased tensions in this community facing a well documented land claims dispute.
That should be a hoot, Mark Vandermaas and Gary McHale discussing Native issues ? These two clowns don’t do discussions they rant ,in fact both…
…continuously cast Six Nations people protesting the continued theft of their land as “terrorists”, “militants”, “thugs,” “criminals”, “sociopaths” and as a part of a “Native Supremacy Movement.”
Widdowson want’s to legitimize these two by including them in a discussion on Indigenous issues ,in an acdemic setting no less, yikes ? What’s up with that, Mount Royal University ?
Even supposed allies, want nothing to do with McHale or his ilk…
“I want nothing to do with McHale. All he’s trying to do is continue his natives-against-non-natives thing. Nobody needs this. I don’t want to fight anyone. Fighting’s too easy.”…@
Please add your signature and help get the word out.
Read letter & more @ Solidarity with Six Nations
The Saving is in the doing
May 17, 2009
As in speak it and write it…
This June, York University student Fred Metallic hopes to make a bit of Canadian university history. That’s when he plans to complete the first draft of his PhD dissertation, tentatively titled “Mi’gmawei Mawio’mi: Goqwei Wejguaqamultigw?” (The English working title is “Reclaiming Mi’kmaq History and Politics: Living our Responsibilities.”) Written entirely in Mi’kmaq, it will be the first PhD dissertation in Canada completed in an aboriginal language without translation. Read @
To lose a language is to loss a hundred or more generations of accumulated knowledge, meaning, and ways of being.To lose the language of ones forefathers must be a terrible thing.
Good on you Fred Metallic in fact mawiglu’sit
Another white guy has it all figured out…
May 8, 2009
And according too Professor Jared Diamond,of Guns Germs & Steel fame, it ain’t pretty.
Even when modern state societies wage war, they are not nearly as bloodthirsty as indigenous peoples such as the ones that feuded in Papua New Guinea. Diamond states “the actual percentage of the population that died violently was on the average higher in traditional pre-state societies than it was even in Poland during the Second World War or Cambodia under Pol Pot.”
That settles it then, indigenous people are/were brutes,beasts of the jungle.
No wonder the “swarthy others” are so uncivilized ,unlike Europeans,they spent all their time killing each other.
My,my makes a body wonder,what would have become of the “swarthy other” ,had they never seen a white man,what of the Age of Enlightenment ?
Horror of horrors the alternatives are just to dreadful to contemplate.
Read more ; Jared Diamond,the NewYorker Magazine,and blood feuds in PNG; Part II
