Briarpatch articles from June 2008

Briarpatch archives from June 2008

Forging a new relationship.(Letter from the Editor)(Editorial)
June 1, 2008... "We bury our children in this country every day. We have to force them to drink polluted water. We're sick and tired of it. It's going to end--June 29 is going to mark the time when First Nations people are going to be in a different...

Magazine lost in the line of duty.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the editor)
June 1, 2008... I LOST MY COPY OF THE "MONEY AND debt" issue of Briarpatch. I particularly needed to read it because I have defaulted on student loans in the past, and have had a heckuva rime getting my finances on track. I can finally say I do, sort of. ...

Supporting the McIvor fund.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the editor)
June 1, 2008... THANK YOU FOR YOUR INSIGHTFUL article on Sharon McIvor's struggle for equality for Aboriginal women. This case is key in not only advancing the rights of Aboriginal women and their descendants but in pushing forward the equality promises laid...

Home-schooling.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the editor)
June 1, 2008... I TEASE MY PARTNER ABOUT HOW HE must have picked me up in the 1950s display at the local museum. At least that's how it looks from the outside. He has a straight, full-time job and I'm a part-time graduate student. I study public policy as a...

Learning from the land: towards a pedagogy of the colonized.
June 1, 2008... IF YOU GRADUATED FROM a Canadian high school within the last couple of decades, there's a good chance you can still remember the names of central characters in Macbeth, describe the conflict in Lord of the Flies, and dissect a pig fetus without...

"We can no longer be sacrificed": First Nations resistance to tar sands development is growing.
June 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] FORT CHIVEWYAN, A TINY northern Alberta hamlet perched on the shores of Lake Athabasca, is historically notable as the location of the province's oldest European settlement, a trading post opened by the Hudson's Bay...

Stone by stone, rail by rail: what does the Mohawk cultural resurgence at Tyendinaga have to teach us about aboriginal youth suicide prevention?
June 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When it's truly alive, memory doesn't contemplate history, it invites us to make it. --EDUARDO GALEANO. ON JUNE 29, 2007, MOHAWKS from Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory near Belleville, Ontario, erected blockades...

Healing begins when the wounding stops: Indian Residential Schools and the prospects for "truth and reconciliation" in Canada.
June 1, 2008... Responding to the Canadian government's establishment of an Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Churchill argues for the need to situate the formation of this commission within the broader history of...

"Listen, take direction and stick around": a roundtable on relationship-building in indigenous solidarity work.(Discussion)
June 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Recent upsurges of indigenous activism in Kanesatake, Grassy Narrows, Six Nations, Tyendinaga, Ardoch, Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug, Barrier Lake, Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto and elsewhere have been met with...

Wasase: Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Wasase Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom By Taiaiake Alfred Broadview Press, 2005 "Wasase is a spiritual revolution and contention. It is not a path of violence. And yet it is not pacifism either." TAIAIAKE ALFRED...

Petrol prophet.(LUZ: Girl of The Knowing)(Cartoon)
June 1, 2008... Gord, can I ask you something? Shoot! [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Well... what do you think will happen to us? To people, to our neighbourhood, when there's no more oil. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Whew! That's the question, isn't...

Atoning for the sins of the parents: thoughts on living with colonial legacies.(PARTING SHOTS)
June 1, 2008... YOU'VE SURELY HEARD some variation of the saying: the children should not be punished for the sins of the parents. This maxim often surfaces when discussing Canada's colonial legacy or whenever people raise the issue of outstanding indigenous...