Winnipeg Free Press May 10, 2008

Life in the remote community of Shamattawa is so bleak, kids will try to kill themselves because if they’re unsuccessful they’ll get out, even if only briefly, health care workers from the troubled First Nation say. (Keep reading…)

A Socialist Project e-bulletin …. No. 98 …. April 16, 2008 ______________________________________________________________ (Keep reading…)

Globe and Mail April 7, 2008

OTTAWA — Smiling photo ops with aboriginals across the country have been a regular occurrence throughout the first two years of the Harper government. (Keep reading…)

Winnipeg Free Press March 29

In his article A Lost Cause? Metis running out of options in Land Claims case Charles Huband has done his best to show that the appeal by the Manitoba Metis Federation is indeed a lost cause. He rightly points out that the MMF represents 130,000 Metis people in Manitoba. Mr. Huband also says, I think rightly, that the MMF’s case “is one of the most important to be decided by the Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench.” This being so, those 130,000 M ©tis people deserve to know the true footing on which the appeal is going forward. (Keep reading…)

(((( T h e B u l l e t )))) A Socialist Project e-bulletin …. No. 95 …. March 31, 2008

On March 18, 2008, the Ontario Superior Court’s Judge Patrick Smith sentenced Chief Donny Morris and six other council members from the Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (or KI) First Nation, a community of about 1200 people in northern Ontario, Canada, to six months in jail for ‘contempt of court.’ They defied a court order to stay away from a part of their lands, slated for mining by the Platinex Corporation. They were also fined an exorbitant sum, but the judge applied the jail terms because he knew that they could not pay – they were already bankrupt because of the $500,000 in court fees they had paid trying to defend themselves from Platinex before the court, over the past several years. Platinex had sued KI, at first for $10 billion (before reducing it to $10 million). (Keep reading…)

The Dominion March 16, 2008

The blockade was erected in the summer of 2007 to stop Frontenac Ventures from drilling for uranium on unceded First Nations territory. (Keep reading…)

Winnipeg Free Press March 15, 2008

Everybody hates people who say “I told you so!” when they prove to be right about something. And most people who have any sense never ever say “I told you so!” (Keep reading…)

March 5, 2008 Nationhttp://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41469

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Mar 5 (IPS) - Algonquin community leader Robert Lovelace had never been charged with an offence, but when a uranium company began prospecting for radioactive ore on unceded native land without engaging in consultation, he decided to take action, organising a non-violent blockade. (Keep reading…)

Canadian Dimension magazine, March/April 2008

Like the Sound of a Drum: Aboriginal Cultural Politics in Denendeh and Nunavut
by Peter Kulchyski
University of Manitoba Press, 2005. (Keep reading…)

Canadian Dimension magazine, March/April 2008

The application of treaty rights as a legal strategy implemented by the First Nations themselves must be the key focus in efforts to challenge Big Oil in Alberta. Resources and effort must be placed into building the knowledge and capacity amongst First Nations and Métis leadership, including grassroots, elders and youth, to engage in both an indigenous-led corporate-finance campaign and in decision-making processes on environment, energy, climate and economic policies related to halting the tar-sands expansion. Canadian policy makers need to understand that there is an inextricable link between indigenous rights and energy and climate impacts. (Keep reading…)