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There's a small, weathered had drum that graces my living room wall. It's made from the skin of a moose and its frame is made from the trunk of a tree. Circular in shape to reflect the circle of life, it was given to me by the old man who helped connect me to my inner reality and who helped me relate it to everything around me.
The drum represents the heartbeat of the…
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They came, they saw, the conquered.
Boy, did they conquer!
And we're still trying to clean up the mess.
But until Dances With Wolves Native people were most often treated by Hollywood as hostiles standing in the way of progress of peace-loving settlers.
Two thumbs up to Kevin Costner, Graham Greene, Tantoo Cardinal, Doris Leader Charge and the Lakoda…
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They came, they saw, the conquered.
Boy, did they conquer!
And we're still trying to clean up the mess.
But until Dances With Wolves Native people were most often treated by Hollywood as hostiles standing in the way of progress of peace-loving settlers.
Two thumbs up to Kevin Costner, Graham Greene, Tantoo Cardinal, Doris Leader Charge and the Lakoda…
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They came, they saw, the conquered.
Boy, did they conquer!
And we're still trying to clean up the mess.
But until Dances With Wolves Native people were most often treated by Hollywood as hostiles standing in the way of progress of peace-loving settlers.
Two thumbs up to Kevin Costner, Graham Greene, Tantoo Cardinal, Doris Leader Charge and the Lakoda…
Page 4
They came, they saw, the conquered.
Boy, did they conquer!
And we're still trying to clean up the mess.
But until Dances With Wolves Native people were most often treated by Hollywood as hostiles standing in the way of progress of peace-loving settlers.
Two thumbs up to Kevin Costner, Graham Greene, Tantoo Cardinal, Doris Leader Charge and the Lakoda…
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Canada's treatment of Native people is still No. 1 on the list of human rights violations, says Canada's human rights watchdog.
In his annual report to the House of Commons Max Yalden pointed to last summer's violent standoff at Oka as "an extreme manifestation of a relationship between governments and aboriginal peoples that had been turning increasingly sour but that, at…
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Canada's treatment of Native people is still No. 1 on the list of human rights violations, says Canada's human rights watchdog.
In his annual report to the House of Commons Max Yalden pointed to last summer's violent standoff at Oka as "an extreme manifestation of a relationship between governments and aboriginal peoples that had been turning increasingly sour but that, at…
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Canada's treatment of Native people is still No. 1 on the list of human rights violations, says Canada's human rights watchdog.
In his annual report to the House of Commons Max Yalden pointed to last summer's violent standoff at Oka as "an extreme manifestation of a relationship between governments and aboriginal peoples that had been turning increasingly sour but that, at…
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Canada's treatment of Native people is still No. 1 on the list of human rights violations, says Canada's human rights watchdog.
In his annual report to the House of Commons Max Yalden pointed to last summer's violent standoff at Oka as "an extreme manifestation of a relationship between governments and aboriginal peoples that had been turning increasingly sour but that, at…
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Aboriginal people are victims of racism and discrimination in the criminal justice system, says a report on Native justice.
Aboriginals are plagued by "cultural insensitivity by people working in the criminal justice system," said the report of the task force chaired by Alberta Court of Queen's Bench Justice Allan Cawsey.
The task force found "many accounts of…
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Aboriginal people are victims of racism and discrimination in the criminal justice system, says a report on Native justice.
Aboriginals are plagued by "cultural insensitivity by people working in the criminal justice system," said the report of the task force chaired by Alberta Court of Queen's Bench Justice Allan Cawsey.
The task force found "many accounts of…
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If the Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en land-claim decision is allowed to stand it will have a disastrous effect on Native across the country, says a vice-chief of the Assembly of First Nations.
Ovide Mercredi said the decision will make other land claims difficult to resolve because "it's based on the idea Indians have no land rights unless given to them by the Crown."
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If the Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en land-claim decision is allowed to stand it will have a disastrous effect on Native across the country, says a vice-chief of the Assembly of First Nations.
Ovide Mercredi said the decision will make other land claims difficult to resolve because "it's based on the idea Indians have no land rights unless given to them by the Crown."
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If the Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en land-claim decision is allowed to stand it will have a disastrous effect on Native across the country, says a vice-chief of the Assembly of First Nations.
Ovide Mercredi said the decision will make other land claims difficult to resolve because "it's based on the idea Indians have no land rights unless given to them by the Crown."
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If the Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en land-claim decision is allowed to stand it will have a disastrous effect on Native across the country, says a vice-chief of the Assembly of First Nations.
Ovide Mercredi said the decision will make other land claims difficult to resolve because "it's based on the idea Indians have no land rights unless given to them by the Crown."
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