Indigenous Peoples

25/09/16
Author: 
Charlie Smith

Royal tours to Canada are almost never seen as exercises in political damage control.

Sept. 25, 2016

If you listen to news anchors drone on about these visits, you would think that public relations was the last thing on anyone's agenda.

But anyone would have to be naive not to think that the prime minister's office helped shape the itinerary for this week's visit by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

25/09/16
Author: 
Andrew Kurjata
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau answers a question during Question Period in the House of Commons in Ottawa on Wednesday, September 21, 2016. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)

Assembly of First Nations, Union of BC Indian Chiefs, NDP among opponents to B.C. dam project

The federal NDP is questioning Justin Trudeau's commitment to having a 'nation-to-nation' relationship with Indigenous people, claiming the Liberal party continues to dodge questions about the construction of the Site C dam near Fort St John.

The controversial hydroelectric project came up in Question Period numerous times this week, including an exchange between NDP leader Thomas Mulcair and the prime minister. 

25/09/16
Author: 
Josh Wingrove and Natalie Obiko Pearson
The remote indigenous village of Port Simpson (Lax Kw'alaams) in British Columbia, Canada.

Imminent decisions on giant energy projects are sure to anger some parts of the electorate that swept him to power.

September 25, 2016
Photographs by Ben Nelms/Bloomberg [See original article for photos]

Along Canada’s evergreen-draped west coast, the fate of a multi-billion-dollar energy project and a nation’s reconciliation with its dark, colonial past hang in the balance.

25/09/16
Author: 
Bruce Cheadle

UN eyes Site C impact on world heritage site

OTTAWA - A United Nations monitoring mission to a world heritage site in northern Alberta appears likely to focus more attention on the contested Site C hydroelectric project next door in British Columbia.

Wood Buffalo National Park, a UNESCO world heritage site since 1983, is under review this week at the request of the Mikisew Cree First Nation, which petitioned the world body in 2014 to list the park as being under threat from various developments.

25/09/16
Author: 
Ethan Cox

Historic Indigenous alliance aims to shut down tar sands expansion

“Kinder Morgan is now my fight,” explained Kanesatake Grand Chief Serge Simon, adding that his fight with Energy East “is now also the fight of my treaty allies to the west. That’s what this is all about.”

24/09/16
Author: 
Richard Fidler

To overcome the systemic crisis of humanity and Mother Earth we must turn to indigenous ecological concepts, says Pablo Solón in his new book

Introduction

by Richard Fidler

23/09/16
Author: 
Elizabeth McSheffrey
Tsleil-Waututh leaders (left to right) Gabriel George, Charlene Aleck and Rueben George sign the Treat Alliance Against the Tar Sands in Vancouver on Thurs. Sept. 22, 2016. Photo by Elizabeth McSheffrey.

The thunderous pounding of Indigenous drums echoed in the air on Thursday as more than 50 Indigenous nations across North America rallied together to sign a historic, pan-continental treaty alliance against oilsands expansion in their traditional territory.

22/09/16

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

First Nations and Tribes Sign New Treaty Joining Forces To Stop All Tar Sands Pipelines

Signatories commit to also pushing for a sustainable economy based on renewable energy

22/09/16
Author: 
Ben Davis
Anne Pasternak attends The 2016 Brooklyn Museum Artists Ball, Honoring Stephanie and Tim Ingrassia on April 20, 2016 in New York City. Courtesy of Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images for Brooklyn Museum.

The heads of the Field Museum, Brooklyn Museum, and Queens Museum speak out.

September 21, 2016

21/09/16
Author: 
Jorge Barrera

[see video in original article]

Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould should resign her post over the federal approval of permits for British Columbia’s Site C mega dam, says the chief of West Moberly First Nation, one of the Treaty 8 communities facing territorial destruction as a result of the project.

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