Nearly 200 First Nations could lose funding for failing to report finances

Bring - it - on!!!

More Stuff...

...certain people aren't gonna like:

"Great Surprise"—Native Americans Have West Eurasian Origins

Migration Mysteries

"At a site in Virginia called Cactus Hill, archaeologists have found an assemblage of artifacts that challenges scientific ideas about the first Americans. The conventional wisdom was that Native Americans are descended from a small band of people from northeast Asia who crossed over a now-vanished land bridge that extended between Siberia and Alaska between 12,000 to 15,000 years ago.

But the artifacts at Cactus Hill dated back to 16,000 B.C. What’s more, stone spear points found at the site are reminiscent of those made by a Stone Age culture in southwest France, called the Solutreans, that ended 18,000 years ago."

The 60's Scoop...

...reconsidered:

https://soundcloud.com/thecharlesadlershow/misguided-apologies-for-60s?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=facebook

Brace Yourselves

Federal budget could mark end of duty to consult with First Nations

I tells ya, the Harper Cons have their fingers on the Canadian pulse.

Some Parties Ain't Gonna Like This

Ancient Migration Patterns to North America Are Hidden in Languages Spoken Today

"Languages spoken in North America and Siberia are distantly related. What does that tell us about the first Americans?

A few weeks ago, scientists announced an intriguing finding about the ancestors of today's Native Americans. Previously, genetic analysis had indicated that they'd left Siberia to migrate across ancient Beringia (the strip of land that once connected Asia and what's now Alaska) about 25,000 years ago, but the earliest evidence of human habitation on North America dates to 15,000 years ago.

Now, more evidence for the idea comes from a seemingly unlikely source: languages still spoken in Asia and North America today. A pair of linguistics researchers, Mark Sicoli and Gary Holton, recently analyzed languages from North American Na-Dene family (traditionally spoken in Alaska, Canada and parts of the present-day U.S.) and the Asian Yeneseian family (spoken thousands of miles away, in central Siberia), using similarities and differences between the languages to construct a language family tree.

As they note in an article published today in PLOS ONE, they found that the two language families are indeed related—and both appear to descend from an ancestral language that can be traced to the Beringia region. Both Siberia and North America, it seems, were settled by the descendants of a community that lived in Beringia for some time. In other words, Sicoli says, "this makes it look like Beringia wasn't simply a bridge, but actually a homeland—a refuge, where people could build a life."

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"The researchers collected data on two Yeniseian languages, 37 Na-Dene languages and Haida (a language spoken on Canada's Pacific coast but not believed to be related to Na-Dene, used as a control) from the Alaska Native Language Archive and several other published sources. Then, they used phylogenetic algorithms to create a family tree of the forty languages, determining which were most closely related based on the number of similarities (such as phonemes that serve particular roles in the language's grammar, for instance)."

Related: Gene study adds weight to theory that native people of the Americas arrived in a single main migration across the Bering Strait

Native Americans Hailed From Siberian Highlands, DNA Reveals

Yup

Clifton & Rubenstein: Debunking the half-truths and exaggerations in the Truth and Reconciliation report

"As expected from the pre-release sound bites, the Final Report of the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission reinforces the many half-truths, exaggerations, and selective reporting about the schools and their mission.

The most incendiary and least credible of these is the assertion by the Commission’s chair, Judge Murray Sinclair, that the 150,000 children who attended these mainly Church-run schools between 1849 and 1996 were considered “sub-human,” a claim belied by their very raison-d’être: to give aboriginal children the chance to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to fully benefit from membership in the new country of Canada."

RTWT

Uh huh

Yawn.

Six Alberta First Nations chiefs call on RCMP for clarification of aboriginal offender statistic

As the saying goes, if your not part of the solution, then you are part of the problem.

Surprise! Surprise!

RCMP says 7 of 10 female aboriginal homicides committed by aboriginals

And the rest of them would be shady characters involved in the drug trade and prostitution.

Honestly, if you don't want to face reality, you ain't gonna solve anything.

"It's a Myth"

Watch for it at 38.00 minutes, or thereabouts:

'fraid Not, Derick...

We have this thing called Free Speech...

Nepinak wants Kelvin teacher fired

Great points in the comments, too.

From the CBC...

...Destiny Nahanni-Hope, 20, found dead in Wrigley, N.W.T.

"Her body was found frozen behind a house in the small community.

RCMP say an autopsy will be performed to determine the cause of death. Police say there is no evidence so far of foul play.

Police and the N.WT. coroner's office are investigating."

Drugs? Alcohol? But will the CBC report it if it's found to be so?

An Aboriginal Woman...

...tells it like it is:

Aboriginal women fear their own kind the most

"In the fall of 1988, I was in first-year law school at the University of British Columbia. Our criminal law teacher recommended we all go downtown and watch a trial where alcohol was being considered the murder weapon for the first time. There were over 200 of us in first year criminal law. Only my mom and I attended the trial.

Although Gilbert Paul Jordan, a.k.a. "the Boozing Barber," was linked to the deaths of at least 10 women, he was convicted of manslaughter in relation to the death of only one. Evidence at his trial showed all the women he had targeted, hundreds of women, were aboriginal. Fact is, aboriginal women who were alcoholic or down on their luck ended up dead.

That was 1988. I was 28, and had just finished undergrad work, escaped a violent marriage in my early 20s and had survived a teenage rape. In 2011, some 23 years later, I ran for national chief of the Assembly of First Nations as one of eight candidates, one of four indigenous women.

I'm writing this to share my views on sexism in our community and any linkage I see to violence against women in our community and our conspicuous absence as leaders within our communities. Some 90 per cent or so of the chiefs eligible to vote for national chief are men.

In my opinion, there is a link. Aboriginal men kill aboriginal women and girls, rape aboriginal women and girls, beat aboriginal women and girls, and no one is really talking about the moose in our living room."

As if we didn't know. But thanks for confirming it. Godspeed.

"We've Got Two Problems. Rats and the Government"

Africa's cheetahs versus hippos

This needs to happen with the aboriginal people in Canada. I'm not holding my breath, though.

After WWII, when African nations became independent of Great Britain and other colonial powers, First Nations people in Canada looked longingly at events in that continent and to a large extent to that process (decolonization), which gave rise to the modern Indian movement. Just as in Africa, things went horribly wrong. Brutal dictatorships prevailed. Governments changed hands at the barrel of a tank. In a sense, the same thing happened in Canada, sans the tanks. Brutality and politically correct rhetoric took over in both places.

As this video shows, Africans are rejecting the rhetoric and brutality of the post-colonial era and the dictators who embodied it. No longer are they blaming all their problems on the boogie-man - European colonialism - and are taking responsibility for their circumstances and for their failures and are charting a new future. Some day, hopefully, a version of that will happen here.

Do These Reserves...

...realize how stupid it is to call themselves "nations"?

Chiefs call for aboriginal community to defend against transparency law

Most reserves have populations of only a few hundred. A handful might have a few thousand. Even the smallest nations of the world have much, much more than that, with the only notable exception being Vatican City, and it has 839 people, which is larger than many so-called First Nations, and it can hardly be considered a typical "nation" being simply a religious institution with no families among its population.

This list shows the smallest country to be Pitcairn Islands, but it's shown as a "dependent" of the United Kingdom. This is another list that shows Kiribati as the smallest nation on the planet, with a population of 100,835.

Another list showing area (sq. miles) as well as population and another showing area in terms of sq. kilometres.

If a group of reserves sharing an identical culture, language and history were to collectively call themselves a nation, it would make much more sense. The territory of Plains Cree, for example, who were signatories to Treaty Six stretches all to way from the Manitoba/Saskatchewan border to the Rocky mountains could be called a "nation" with the individual reserves being communities within that "nation".

Oh well. Who am I to complain if they want to make fools of themselves?

And Another Myth Bites the Dust

More good stuff from the same guy:

This Theory Has Been Around...

...for a while, but the evidence in support of it keeps piling up:

Do tools belonging to Stone Age hunters found on U.S. east coast prove the first Americans came from Europe NOT Asia?

"Finding the tools is being heralded as one of the most important archaeological breakthroughs for several decades.

Archaeologists are hopeful that they will add another dimension to understanding the spread of humans across the world.

Three of the sites were discovered by archaeologist Dr Darrin Lowery of the University of Delaware, while another one is in Pennsylvania and a fifth site is in Virginia.

Fishermen discovered a sixth on a seabed 60 miles from the Virginian coast, which in prehistoric times would have been dry land."

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"Buoyed by the recent discovery, archaeologists are now turning to new locations in Tennessee, Maryland and even Texas, all sites which are they believe will produce more Stone Age evidence.

But most of the areas where the newcomers stepped off the ice on to dry land are now up to 100 miles out to sea - along with any possible evidence."

Ever heard of underwater archeology?

The World Just Keeps Getting Murkier And Murkier...

Native American Woman May Have Made It to Europe 500 Years Before Columbus Was Born


American Indian Sailed to Europe With Vikings?

"Five hundred years before Columbus sailed the ocean blue, a Native American woman may have voyaged to Europe with Vikings, according to a provocative new DNA study.

Analyzing a type of DNA passed only from mother to child, scientists found more than 80 living Icelanders with a genetic variation similar to one found mostly in Native Americans.

This signature probably entered Icelandic bloodlines around A.D. 1000, when the first Viking-American Indian child was born, the study authors theorize."

Oops. (Makes sense to me. It's perfectly possible.)

Missing And Murdered White Folks...

...Human remains identified as Ontario man missing for two years

Amber McFarland disappearance ‘still very much under investigation’

"On the eve of the sixth anniversary of her disappearance, police are reminding people that they continue to search for Amber Lynn McFarland."

Not so much fuss about them, tho.

Related.

Teresa Spence

Where arrrree you?

Your community needs you or needs to replace you.

Attawapiskat resident reveals history of abuse

"While Attawapiskat has been thrust into the national spotlight because of a long-running housing problem, the attention is also exposing another major crisis in the impoverished community.

Jocelyn Iahtail, a former resident of Attawapiskat, is now coming forward with personal recollections of abuse.

Iahtail says the sexual abuse and incest is an epidemic that spans generations; a scourge that plagues the community in a way that is impossible to ignore any longer.

"The most frightening part is people know," Iahtail told CTV's Daniele Hamamdjian.

Iahtail says the abuse began when she was only four, and continued until she was 13. She says the abusers were people that she trusted, including relatives of some council members.

Iahtail says the abuse in communities like hers is cyclical and systemic.

Iahtail's mother, Mary Lou, says she was abused while attending residential schools and on the reserve, victimized by family and the clergy.

"My relatives, the priest, the nun's (sic) and the brothers," Mary Lou recalls.

Recalling her childhood, Iahtail also says the abuse affected every portion of her young life.

"I would become so overcome with nausea and vomiting. Just the simple act of brushing my teeth, because of the oral sex that I was forced to perform."

Iahtail and her mother decided to speak out this week because the pain continues to be pervasive in their community.

They say they also want to break the cycle of abuse that has scarred her and many others.

The scars on the community are obvious, Iahtail says: suicide, alcohol and drug abuse, gas sniffing and violence are mere symptoms. Indeed, while abuse may be less visible than squalid shacks and poor housing, it also insidious and destructive."

Yup. That's What This Is...

...all about:

Tom Mulcair vows aboriginal women inquiry within 100 days if NDP elected

Politicians at the trough wanting to be re-elected.

He has CBC in side, and the Native Women's Association of Canada.

"What would we learn that we don't already know?

"We need to see where we dropped the ball with these cases up until now," says Harvard.

In order to do that, as many as possible of the more than 1,000 documented cases of murdered and missing aboriginal women from the last 30 years should be explored, said Dawn Harvard, vice-president for the NWAC.

"In an ideal world I would say we should talk to all of the families, we should look at all of those women, because every one of those women was important and it was a tragic loss," she said. Families of the missing, police, child welfare authorities and others could all be called as potential witnesses, she said. Topics like sexism, racism and poverty would all be relevant to the discussion."

(Emphasis added.)
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"She hopes an inquiry would identify instances in which indigenous women were treated differently by the authorities."

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""It's that kind of thing that needs to come out and it's that kind of thing that will not come out if we don't have that legal clout to gain access to files, to essentially force people to come forward if they are subpoenaed and testify and discuss what happened in a number of these cases where it was obvious that our women were being treated differently.""

Nothing but a bitch fest for the left and the Indian Industry.