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• Indigenous students meet challenges of journalism school

  
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  Aboriginals report racism and discomfort but also support
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• New report looks at Idle No More’s first six months

  
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  Full Duplex released a new report on the Idle No More movement . The report aims to provide a balanced and comprehensive (rather than exhaustive) analysis of the first six months of the online components of the movement. Idle No More at Six Months includes a breakdown of online participation and sentiment in three ...
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• Mitch Adams: “Dancer”

  
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  Mitch Adam’s “Dancer” is an example of how art keeps surprising me. I first picked up the piece (which fits comfortably in the palm of my hand), while having a late breakfast at the Northern Motor Inn in Terrace, and it immediately changed my mind about what an argillite piece could be. Before seeing ...
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• Of Scalps and Savages: How Colonial Language Enforces Discrimination against Indigenous Peoples

  
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  By Guest Contributor Ruth Hopkins, cross-posted from Last Real Indians “The Death of Jane McCrea” by John Vanderlyn (1804) Before I head out the door, I watch Morning Joe on MSNBC.  It’s part of my workday routine.  This morning  they were talking about the latest issue of the New Republic and its ...
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• Triple Letter – Canada

  
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  Recently I posted an article that described all of the places in the United States where the county seat, the county, and the state all began with the same letter. I considered seven instances where each of the three levels of government had completely different names to be particularly "outstanding." For example, ...
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• Canada: Energy, environment & pipelines in 2013

  
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  At Issue: The politics of carbon emissions and the environment (4 April 2013) 2012: A bleak year for environmental policy (Toronto Star) … Take, for instance, Bill C-38, Canada’s longest-ever federal budget. Setting out $5-billion in spending cuts, the budget was the most austere in over a decade. And yet, ...
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• The Racialicious Entertainment Roundup: Welcoming in June

  
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  Child’s Tonto costume, via. the Disney Store By Kendra James Halloween’s gonna be a doozy this year. Instead of just selling the usual generic “Sexy Native Princess” or “Indian Brave” costumes , Disney  gets to go a step further! We have the upcoming film  The Lone Ranger  and Johnny Depp ‘s ...
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• New research partnerships

  
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  The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) has announced $2.7 million in funding for two partnership projects at the University of Manitoba. Professor Peter Kulchyski (Native Studies) will lead a team of researchers from Manitoba, across Canada, and New York on a seven-year journey to build a Canadian ...
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• What not to say to a residential school survivor, and what to do.

  
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  For something like 100 years, generation after generation of indigenous children in Canada were rounded up at age five and taken away from their families and communities and placed in residential schools, where they were taught English, taught western values and Christianized.  This was commonly a brutal experience, ...
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• Case Study on Environmental Impact Assessment Made in the North

  
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  Study on Environmental Impact Assessment Made in the North Abstract :~ The adaptation of EIA process to suit regional interests and cultures has led to a variety of approaches to EIA worldwide. A particularly interesting example of this is the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act (MVRMA), which provides a ...
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• Canada: Energy, environment & pipelines in 2013

  
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  At Issue: The politics of carbon emissions and the environment (4 April 2013) 2012: A bleak year for environmental policy (Toronto Star) … Take, for instance, Bill C-38, Canada’s longest-ever federal budget. Setting out $5-billion in spending cuts, the budget was the most austere in over a decade. And yet, ...
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• 10 Interesting facts about visiting Canada

  
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  For people interested in visiting or curious to learn more about Canada, here’s a brief overview for help getting started with appropriate links for more information.
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• Hanging out in Nova Scotia

  
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  I am hanging out in Bedford, Nova Scotia, dancing to the Time Warp on a daily basis. It is just a jump to the left, then a step to the […]
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• Rob McMahon, PhD Defence

  
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  Date : Friday, May 31, 2013 Time : 10:00am Digital Self-Determination: Aboriginal peoples and the network society in Canada Committee Chair: Kathi Cross Senior Supervisor: Peter Chow-White Supervisor: Richard Smith Supervisor: Robert Hackett Internal Examiner: Eldon Yellowhorn (SFU – Archaeology) ...
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• Meanwhile, On TumblR: Red-Carpet Bossness, Accurate Maps, And Memorial Day’s Origins

  
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  By Andrea Plaid Let’s start off this post with appreciating the bossness captured in this photo: According to People Of Color With Killer Fashion : Focus on the two ladies:  Michelle Thrush, from the  Cree Nation in  Canada in the black dress, and  Misty Upham from the Blackfeet Nation in the USA ...
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• Life in the Beat Nation

  
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    Over the past 15 years First Nations artists in Canada have taken to hip hop as a powerful storytelling method.  First Nations hip hop is an incredible blend of traditional art forms, evocative imagery and raw and real exerpience relayed with a beat.  It’s as if hip hop was built for indigenous expression – ...
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• Silver Lining: Mennonite Group Awards Canadian First Nations Activist With Peace Prize

  
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  Grassy Narrows resident Judy Da Silva traveled to Germany this week to accept an international peace award from the German Mennonite Peace Committee for her work against an aggressive Canadian logging industry threatening to preserve native land. (Photo/screen grab via YouTube) As Canada’s First Nations people ...
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• Vancouver - Museum of Anthropology

  
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  About 23 years after I worked there as a research scholar, and almost 27 years after I visited it for the first time (thanks to engineer Sondhi, who drove me there in 1986!), UBC’s MOA has considerably changed. Bill McLennan, Curator for Pacific Northwest artefacts and cultures, whom I first met back in 1990, when ...
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• VIDEO: Learn about powwow

  
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  In this video Theodore (Crazy Horse) Bison along with dancers and the Charging Bear singers share aspects of Aboriginal culture with the participants of the Lloyd Barber Summit on Aboriginal Post-Secondary Education at the University of Regina on May 23, 2013.
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• Cree in court battle over environmental assessment and waterpower

  
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  The Divisional Court is grappling with a complex battle between two possibly overlapping First Nations over whether a Northern Ontario hydropower project is being lawfully evaluated under the Environmental Assessment Act and an agreement with three First Nations:  Cree Nation (MoCreebec Council) v. Ontario . ...
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