#indigenous Canadian

[reasonsforhope]

"In a historic “first-of-its-kind” agreement the government of British Colombia has acknowledged the aboriginal ownership of 200 islands off the west coast of Canada.

The owners are the Haida nation, and rather than the Canadian government giving something to a First Nation, the agreement admits that the “Xhaaidlagha Gwaayaai” or the “islands at the end of world,” always belonged to them, a subtle yet powerful difference in the wording of First Nations negotiating.

BC Premier David Eby called the treaty “long overdue” and once signed, will clear the way for half a million hectares (1.3 million acres) of land to be managed by the Haida.

Postal service, shipping lanes, school and community services, private property rights, and local government jurisdiction, will all be unaffected by the agreement, which will essentially outline that the Haida decide what to do with the 200 or so islands and islets.

“We could be facing each other in a courtroom, we could have been fighting each other for years and years, but we chose a different path,” said Minister of Indigenous Relations of BC, Murray Rankin at the signing ceremony, who added that it took creativity and courage to “create a better world for our children.”

Indeed, making the agreement outside the courts of the formal treaty process reflects a vastly different way of negotiating than has been the norm for Canada.

“This agreement won’t only raise all boats here on Haida Gwaii – increase opportunity and prosperity for the Haida people and for the whole community and for the whole province – but it will also be an example and another way for nations – not just in British Columbia, but right across Canada – to have their title recognized,” said Eby.

In other words, by deciding this outside court, Eby and the province of BC hope to set a new standard for how such land title agreements are struck."

-via Good News Network, April 18, 2024

#canada #indigenous #first nations #haida #british columbia #canadian politics #land back #indigenous peoples #indigenous rights #indigenous land

[face-claims-central]

Heather Diamond Strongarm - Indigenous Canadian (Saulteaux-Cree), Unknown

#face claims #female face claims #female models #character inspiration #beautiful girls #models #face claims central #fan cast #fancast #wattpad #canadian #indigenous canadian #indigenous #indigenous face claims #indigenous female models #indigenous models #indigenous female face claims #canadian models #poc #poc female face claims #poc female models #poc face claims #poc rp #poc models #rpg #rp oc #oc rp #rp inspo #rp

[givemearmstopraywith]

funds for indigenous communities affected by the canada wildefires *updated*

grassy narrows first nations (ontario) needs funds for an escape route

odawa first nations (quebec-ontario) is raising funds for evacuees

algonquins of barriere (mitchikanibikok inik in alberta) lake mutual aid request 

you can drop donations for the odawa first nations at 815 st laurent blvd in ottawa

you can drop off food donations for mitchikanibikok inik at the ramada plaza in gatineau; you can also email info/@/health.rapidlake.com with mutual aid donations. please note that the maniwaki native friendship center is now closed to donations

if you’re directly affected, the pueblo action alliance has developed a guide for DIY filtration for the smoke

updates (as of 6 june 2023):

donate funds for evacuees from little red river cree nation (via kahkakow)

k'atl'odeeche first nations needs funds to rebuild homes and businesses lost (via aelabee)

i’ll update this as i find more fundraising initiatives and please free to share your own. reblogs with anything than sharing resources/mutual aid requests/fundraising opportunities get blocked. 

#canada wildfires #mutual aid #fundraising #indigenous #signal boost #for the sake of this post i am a white canadian settler and have not see any comprehensive list on this website yet which is why im posting

[truefrostedagony]

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does anyone have any good resources on where to find stuff out about cree (Indigenous Canadian) culture and last names, Trying to write for a thingy and like, while there is some stuff, there's legitimately barely anything (Thanks firefox)

Thank you

#Cree #indigenous canada #Indigenous Canadian #For writing #So I don't fuck it up

[artschoolglasses]

Americans not giving a shit about the wildfires burning down forests and homes in Canada until smoke starts spreading across the border. Meanwhile Indigenous communities across the country are far more likely to be impacted by the fires and I’ve seen all of one link to a charity and about nine million memes. 🙃

#yeah yeah hashtag notallamericans or whatever the fuck #I’m just irritated watching people whine or centre themselves #like sorry your clothes smell like smoke gladys but people have lost their fucking homes #and the government does fuck all for indigenous communities #so you know who’s gonna end up getting more aid #but sure brad can’t go out for his usual morning jog because of the canadians #also all these fucking news articles making ir about america as if canada has somehow done this on purpose out of spite #someone buy me a punching bag for my birthday thanks #artschoolrambles

[kiaqtexistuku]

Sometimes I feel upset I grew up in canada but then I remember all of the lovely history here that’s rarely talked out. I live on shushwap land and I’m white but I grew up around a lot of the culture because of the mentors I had in my life growing up and because my two younger sisters are Métis. It’s really the true Canadian culture here and I’m so glad I got to be a part of it even in a small way. My boyfriend is also Métis and I’ve been getting to see more of the culture again and it’s just so lovely. It’s so important to stand with the indigenous people of your area especially in these trying times. I owe so much to the local Shuswap people I knew as a kid and not that I’m older I know I never want to be come like some of my ancestor’s.

So, fuck the racists y’all and don’t forget that just because it isn’t often talked about. Just because something is common (like being a racist to native people in a lot of places) doesn’t mean it’s right and you should always discover what you believe in yourself. Racism is never the answer and if you think it is I hope you get help man.

Anyway support to the local shushwap band near me I try my best q.q damn ancestors.

#indiginous #native #Canada #Canadian native #indigineous people #indigenous Canadian #anti racism

[poetryfoundation-potd]

Sylvia Plath’s Elegy for Sylvia Plath

By Sina Queyras

If you can’t feel love in life you won’t feel it in death, nor

Will you feel the tulip’s skin, nor the soft gravel

Of childhood under cheek. You will have writhed

Across the page for a hard couplet, a firm rhyme, ass

High as any downward dog, and cutlass arms

Lashing any mother who tries to pass: Let’s be frank

About the cost of spurs, mothers like peonies

Whirling in storm drains, families sunk before

Reaching open water. The empty boudoir

Will haunt, but not how you imagine it will.

Nothing, not even death frees mothers

From the cutting board, the balloons, their

Lack of resistance, thoughts, he said, quick

As tulips staggering across the quad.

She heard, I like my women splayed

Out, red. Read swollen, domesticated,

Wanting out. The tulips were never warm

My loves, they never smelled of spring,

They never marked the path out of loneliness,

Never led me home, nor to me, nor away

From what spring, or red, or tulips

Could never be.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/56703/sylvia-plaths-elegy-for-sylvia-plath

No Audio Included

#poetry #poetry foundation #english #Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation #indigenous canadian #lesbian poet #nonbinary poet

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Long considered extinct, pentl'ach has now been declared a living language and added to British Columbia's official list of First Nations languages.  The reclassification of pentl'ach (pronounced "PUNT-lutch") was the result of both linguistic and administrative work by the Qualicum First Nation on Vancouver Island's east coast, with support from the First Peoples' Cultural Council.  The Coast Salish language had been considered extinct because the last well known fluent speaker died in the 1940s.  But Mathew Andreatta, a Qualicum member and researcher with the pentl'ach revitalization project, said the language was never truly gone.  Andreatta called the reclassification "an affirmation of something that we've always known and that we've always felt." He said the move is important because it is healing for his people, but also because it opens more doors to continue revitalizing the language. 

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

#Indigenous #First Nations #pentl'ach #indigenous languages #cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #Qualicum First Nation #Vancouver Island #british columbia

[golden-haired-native]

I know I don’t have a large following. I know this post will get lost in the sea of other posts. I know I don’t come on here often, and when I do I try to keep my page free from death and other serious topics. Yet, I think this is imperative to say, especially since I myself am of indigenous descent. I ask all of you to join me in solidarity.

Cole Brings Plenty, actor, model, and most importantly activist was found dead. He was assaulted in a club in Lawrence, Kansas. He was killed and his braids; a symbol of his heritage, of his Lakota decent, and a sacred symbol across many an indigenous nation, were forcibly cut.

I beg of thee and I plead with thee, spread the word. Do your part, however big or little, to bring light to this situation. Whether it be by reblogging this post or others alike, or by going out and making a stand. Do it.

Shed light on the situation. This goes beyond the death of one man. It is about the abuse and the destruction of natives and their communities. Of the killing of many an innocent soul. Of the brutalization of many First Nations.

We have seen time and time again, many indigenous people die by similar means. We need to bring light on the deaths of any and all indigenous individuals dead, missing or at risk. It is an epidemic, an assault, and a silent cleansing of many a nation.

Whether it be the estimated 6,000 dead at the hands of Canadian residential schools, the murdered and missing indigenous women and children, or the killing of an actor and activist, you cannot deny the sheer abhorrence of this problem. The problem of many Native American people dying, going missing and being abused, at an alarming rate. At a level unprecedented and unparalleled, at a level of which should not be kept silent.

Cole Brings Plenty, actor, model, activist.

Look at him and spread awareness for him and for many others befallen by the same fate.

Remember him. Remember all of the others. Let nobody else befall the same fate again.

#cole brings plenty #first nations #indigenous #indigenous americans #native american #Canadian residential schools #residential schools #tw death #mmiw #mmiwg2s #please join me in solidarity and spread this word as much as possible #i beg of you #colored text #long post

[jstor]

Oh wow, these Inuit prints!!! Kenojuak Ashevak, Observant Owl; Kenojuak Ashevak, Throat Singers Gathering; Ningiukulu Teevee, Seasonal Migration; Sheelaky (artist) and Iyola Kingwatsiak (printer), Sea Spirit.

More than 100 of these beauties are available in St. Lawrence University's Canadian Inuit Prints, Drawings, and Carvings collection on JSTOR, which is free and open to all!

#inuit #native peoples #indigenous art #canadian art #printmaking #art #just wow #wow wow wow #research #jstor

[reasonsforhope]

For years, the people of the Kitasoo/Xai’xais First Nation watched over their waters and waited. They had spent nearly two decades working with Canada’s federal government to negotiate protections for Kitasu Bay, an area off the coast of British Columbia that was vulnerable to overfishing.

But the discussions never seemed to go anywhere. First, they broke down over pushback from the fishing industry, then over a planned oil tanker route directly through Kitasoo/Xai’xais waters.

“We were getting really frustrated with the federal government. They kept jumping onboard and then pulling out,” says Douglas Neasloss, the chief councillor and resource stewardship director of the Kitasoo/Xai’xais First Nation. “Meanwhile, we’d been involved in marine planning for 20 years – and we still had no protected areas.”

Instead, the nation watched as commercial overfishing decimated the fish populations its people had relied on for thousands of years.

Nestled on the west coast of Swindle Island, approximately 500km north of Vancouver, Kitasu Bay is home to a rich array of marine life: urchins and abalone populate the intertidal pools, salmon swim in the streams and halibut take shelter in the deep waters. In March, herring return to spawn in the eelgrass meadows and kelp forests, nourishing humpback whales, eagles, wolves and bears.

“Kitasu Bay is the most important area for the community – that’s where we get all of our food,” Neasloss says. “It’s one of the last areas where you still get a decent spawn of herring.”

So in December 2021, when the Department of Fisheries and Oceans withdrew from discussions once again, the nation decided to act. “My community basically said, ‘We’re tired of waiting. Let’s take it upon ourselves to do something about it,’” Neasloss says.

What they did was unilaterally declare the creation of a new marine protected area (MPA). In June 2022, the nation set aside 33.5 sq km near Laredo Sound as the new Gitdisdzu Lugyeks (Kitasu Bay) MPA – closing the waters of the bay to commercial and sport fishing.

It is a largely unprecedented move. While other marine protected areas in Canada fall under the protection of the federal government through the Oceans Act, Kitasu Bay is the first to be declared under Indigenous law, under the jurisdiction and authority of the Kitasoo/Xai’xais First Nation.

Pictured: "In some ways, I hope someone challenges us" … the Kitasoo/Xai’xais stewardship authority.

Although they did not wait for government approval, the Kitasoo did consult extensively: the declaration was accompanied by a draft management plan, finalised in October after three months of consultation with industry and community stakeholders. But the government did not provide feedback during that period, according to Neasloss, beyond an acknowledgment that it had received the plan...

Approximately 95% of British Columbia is unceded: most First Nations in the province of British Columbia never signed treaties giving up ownership of their lands and waters to the crown. This puts them in a unique position to assert their rights and title, according to Neasloss, who hopes other First Nations will be inspired to take a similarly proactive approach to conservation...

Collaboration remains the goal, and Neasloss points to a landmark agreement between the Haida nation and the government in 1988 to partner in conserving the Gwaii Haanas archipelago, despite both parties asserting their sovereignty over it. A similar deal was made in 2010 for the region’s 3,400 sq km Gwaii Haanas national marine conservation area.

“They found a way to work together, which is pretty exciting,” says Neasloss. “And I think there may be more Indigenous protected areas that are overlaid with something else.”

-via The Guardian, 5/3/23

#indigenous #indigenous issues #indigenous sovereignty #canada #british columbia #land back #first nations #tribal sovereignty #pacific northwest #marine protected area #conservation #sustainability #overfishing #marine science #canadian government #kitasoo-xai'xais #direct action #good news #hope

[jareckiworld]

Beau Dick (1955-2017) — Transformation Mask [red cedar, horsehair, acrylic, cedar bark, 1980]

#Beau Dick #canadian art #kwakwaka'wakw #indigenous art #native american art

[givemearmstopraywith]

every time i learn about another legislative attempt by isr*el to eradicate palestine, palestinians, and palestinian culture it just sounds more ghoulishly evil- like that in 1977 israel made foraging for wild za'atar a punishable offence. not only za'atar but akkoub and wild sage as well (please watch foragers by jumana manna!). or making it illegal for palestinians to collect rainwater. the 800,000 olive trees that have been destroyed by israel since 1967. the colonizer's playbook, as if you can legislate a people out of existence by cutting them off from the earth, the dirt, the soil, the water, the fundamental parts of humanity. genocide and this type of ecological terrorism walk hand in hand, as if the earth doesn't yearn like a heart.

#i won't comment on how despairingly similar this is to attempts by us/canadian governments to cut off indigenous people from their #traditional foraging and hunting grounds but know im thinking it. lol #free palestine #p

[countriesgame]

Please reblog for a bigger sample size!

If you have curiosities or facts about Canada you'd like to share, tell us and we'll reblog it!

#canada #country polls #polls #i debated myself on whether to add genocide here #so if you are native canadian and thinks this triviliazes it/shouldn't be in the poll #please contact me and i will delete it #if you're canadian but not indigenous i dont think you have a say here #north america

[dogandcatcomics]

Credit: Kenojuak Ashevak aka ᕿᓐᓄᐊᔪᐊᖅ ᐋᓯᕙᒃ aka Qinnuajuaq Aasivak (Nunavut, Canada, 1927-2013). Proud Wolf Pack lithograph (1990).  Thanks to @molly.fairhurst for the tip.

#wolf #wolf pack #lithograph #lithography #canine art #arte canino #wolves in art #animals in art #lobo #loup #kenojuak ashevak #inuit art #indigenous artist #Canadian artist

[thefugitivesaint]

Jonathan Labillois, 'Still Dancing', 2014 "Mr. Labillois' Artist Statement: I donated this to the Montreal Native Women's Shelter to raise awareness of missing and murdered Native women in Canada. I hoped sharing it with others would bring this issue to the minds of many people, and hope that many of our sisters, mothers, aunts or daughters will never be forgotten. The idea for the title came from my little sister who said, "Dancers dance for those who cannot, the sick, the elders, and those who are gone. It's like all those women are still dancing thru her." (Source) Artist's page here.

#Jonathan Labillois #canadian artists #indigenous artists #The Native Women's Association of Canada