Canada has no history of colonialism? WTF?

Really Harper, Canada has no history of colonialism? By Harsha Walia 28 Sep 2009 "We also have no history of colonialism..." - Prime Minister Stephen Harper. On the heels of a massive exercise of U.S. police repression against G20protestors, including use of a wartime sonic acoustic weapon also beingutilized in Iraq, Stephen Harper made the above declaration during a pressconference in Pittsburgh where it was announced that Canada would be hostingthe next G20 meeting in 2010. Perhaps Harper and I are not on the same page - is colonialism not definedas the practice and processes of domination, control, and forced subjugationof one people to another? As most bluntly stated by Duncan Campbell Scott,Head of the Department of Indian Affairs in the 1920's: "Our objective is tocontinue until there is not a single Indian in Canada that has not beenabsorbed into the body politic and there is no Indian question." I expect Harper has read the federal government's own report on the RoyalCommission on Aboriginal Peoples, which explicitly lays out Canada'simposition of a colonial relationship (indeed, that is the heading of one ofthe chapters) on Indigenous people. Measures employed include the IndianAct, residential schools, forcible relocation including to reservations, theimposed Band Council system, institution of a pass system (which wassubsequently borrowed by apartheid South Africa), germ warfare, outlawing ofceremonies such as the potlatch and traditional activities such as fishing,failed treaty processes, and other forced assimilation polices including theAct for the Gradual Assimilation of Indian Peoples. Considering that his government has so ardently voted against it, it wouldbe safe to presume that Harper is aware of the 2007 United NationsDeclaration on the Rights of Indigenous People. If Canada has no history ofcolonialism, then what else could possibly explain that Canada - along withother settler states such as Australia - have yet to sign on to theDeclaration? Other than the glaringly obvious and painful reality ofcolonization, what would make the Declaration "unworkable for Canada", asstated by the Harper government? This Declaration, endorsed by an overwhelming majority of the 144 memberstates, recognizes that "Indigenous peoples have suffered from historicinjustices as a result of, inter alia, their colonization and dispossession"and therefore affirms that "Indigenous peoples have the right ofself-determination". According to the Declaration, thisincludes: the right to autonomy and self government, right to maintain andstrengthen political, legal, economic, social and cultural institutions,collective right to live in freedom without being subjected to acts ofgenocide, and right to redress and compensation for the lands, territoriesand resources confiscated, taken, occupied, used or damaged without free,prior and informed consent. And was it not Harper's government that finally issued an official apologyfor residential schools which separated children from their families,communities, and culture in order to 'take kill the Indian in the child'. Ithas been extensively documented that children suffered unimaginableabuses- including sexual violence, physical beatings, emotional andpsychological torture, and death - in residential schools. The traumas ofthis colonial legacy continues today with Indigenous peopledisproportionately experiencing poverty, poor health, incarceration, youthsuicides, unprecedented levels of violence against Indigenous women, childapprehension, and substandard levels of access to basic needs includingwater and homes. Indigenous people from Akwasasne, Tyendinaga, Six Nations, AthabascaChipewyan, Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug, Secwepemc, and many more are forced to throw up blockades to halt environmentally devastating mineralexploration, clearcut and logging practices, and resource extractionactivities that continue to infringe on their lands. Clearly, Harper hasnot been blind to these very public struggles that his government iscomplicit in criminalizing as Canada becomes notorious for a growing groupof Indigenous political prisoners, prisoners of Canada's colonial democracy. So obviously what Harper meant to say was the more factually accurate:"Canada has no history of colonialism, except for the ongoing internalcolonization of Indigenous people and the external colonization andoccupation of, amongst others, the people of Afghanistan. Not one to breakwith history, my government too has been making strides in asserting greaterdominance over Indigenous peoples lives, lands, and governance. " At least we can take some comfort in the fact that Harper is just anotherhypocritical and self-serving politician and not a history teacher.

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Message from Leonard Peltier - September 2009
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The United States Department of Justice has once again made a mockery of its lofty and pretentious title.

After releasing an original and continuing disciple of death cult leader Charles Manson who attempted to shoot President Gerald Ford, an admitted Croatian terrorist, and another attempted assassin of President Ford under the mandatory 30-year parole law, the U.S. Parole Commission deemed that my release would "promote disrespect for the law."

If only the federal government would have respected its own laws, not to mention the treaties that are, under the U.S. Constitution, the supreme law of the land, I would never have been convicted nor forced to spend more than half my life in captivity. Not to mention the fact that every law in this country was created without the consent of Native peoples and is applied unequally at our expense. If nothing else, my experience should raise serious questions about the FBI's supposed jurisdiction in Indian Country.

The parole commission's phrase was lifted from soon-to-be former U.S. Attorney Drew Wrigley, who apparently hopes to ride with the FBI cavalry into the office of North Dakota governor. In this Wrigley is following in the footsteps of William Janklow, who built his political career on his reputation as an Indian fighter, moving on up from tribal attorney (and alleged rapist of a Native minor) to state attorney general, South Dakota governor, and U.S. Congressman. Some might recall that Janklow claimed responsibility for dissuading President Clinton from pardoning me before he was convicted of manslaughter. Janklow's historical predecessor, George Armstrong Custer, similarly hoped that a glorious massacre of the Sioux would propel him to the White House, and we all know what happened to him.

Unlike the barbarians that bay for my blood in the corridors of power, however, Native people are true humanitarians who pray for our enemies. Yet we must be realistic enough to organize for our own freedom and equality as nations. We constitute 5% of the population of North Dakota and 10% of South Dakota and we could utilize that influence to promote our own power on the reservations, where our focus should be. If we organized as a voting bloc, we could defeat the entire premise of the competition between the Dakotas as to which is the most racist. In the 1970s we were forced to take up arms to affirm our right to survival and self-defense, but today the war is one of ideas. We must now stand up to armed oppression and colonization with our bodies and our minds. International law is on our side.

Given the complexion of the three recent federal parolees, it might seem that my greatest crime was being Indian. But the truth is that my gravest offense is my innocence. In Iran, political prisoners are occasionally released if they confess to the ridiculous charges on which they are dragged into court, in order to discredit and intimidate them and other like-minded citizens. The FBI and its mouthpieces have suggested the same, as did the parole commission in 1993, when it ruled that my refusal to confess was grounds for denial of parole.

To claim innocence is to suggest that the government is wrong, if not guilty itself. The American judicial system is set up so that the defendant is not punished for the crime itself, but for refusing to accept whatever plea arrangement is offered and for daring to compel the judicial system to grant the accused the right to right to rebut the charges leveled by the state in an actual trial. Such insolence is punished invariably with prosecution requests for the steepest possible sentence, if not an upward departure from sentencing guidelines that are being gradually discarded, along with the possibility of parole.

As much as non-Natives might hate Indians, we are all in the same boat. To attempt to emulate this system in tribal government is pitiful, to say the least.

It was only this year, in the Troy Davis, case, that the U.S. Supreme Court recognized innocence as a legitimate legal defense. Like the witnesses that were coerced into testifying against me, those that testified against Davis renounced their statements, yet Davis was very nearly put to death. I might have been executed myself by now, had not the government of Canada required a waiver of the death penalty as a condition of extradition.

The old order is aptly represented by Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, who stated in his dissenting opinion in the Davis case, "This Court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is 'actually' innocent. Quite to the contrary, we have repeatedly left that question unresolved, while expressing considerable doubt that any claim based on alleged 'actual innocence' is constitutionally cognizable."

The esteemed Senator from North Dakota, Byron Dorgan, who is now the chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, used much the same reasoning in writing that "our legal system has found Leonard Peltier guilty of the crime for which he was charged. I have reviewed the material from the trial, and I believe the verdict was fair and just."

It is a bizarre and incomprehensible statement to Natives, as well it should be, that innocence and guilt is a mere legal status, not necessarily rooted in material fact. It is a truism that all political prisoners were convicted of the crimes for which they were charged.

The truth is the government wants me to falsely confess in order to validate a rather sloppy frame-up operation, one whose exposure would open the door to an investigation of the United States' role in training and equipping goon squads to suppress a grassroots movement on Pine Ridge against a puppet dictatorship.

In America, there can by definition be no political prisoners, only those duly judged guilty in a court of law. It is deemed too controversial to even publicly contemplate that the federal government might fabricate and suppress evidence to defeat those deemed political enemies. But it is a demonstrable fact at every stage of my case.

I am Barack Obama's political prisoner now, and I hope and pray that he will adhere to the ideals that impelled him to run for president. But as Obama himself would acknowledge, if we are expecting him to solve our problems, we missed the point of his campaign. Only by organizing in our own communities and pressuring our supposed leaders can we bring about the changes that we all so desperately need. Please support the Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee in our effort to hold the United States government to its own words.

I thank you all who have stood by me all these years, but to name anyone would be to exclude many more. We must never lose hope in our struggle for freedom.

In the Spirit of Crazy Horse,

Leonard Peltier

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YAY someone in BC is STANDING UP!!!

Penticton Indian Band Chief Jonathan Kruger is wondering why a letter sent to the four host nations expressing concern over the Olympics is generating national attention.

At the heart of the matter is a letter sent to the Four Host Nations Society, representing the Lil’wat, Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, in whose traditional territories the 2010 Olympics are being held.

“We wrote a letter to the four host nations, not to Canada,” said Kruger. “It was a respectful letter saying we don’t support the Olympics.”

Response to the letter was immediate, with the Penticton Indian Band’s name being removed from the list of communities on the official torch relay route.

Kruger said he doesn’t know why they did that, adding that while the PIB wasn’t supporting the Olympics, the torch relay was supported by the Okanagan Nation overall, confirmed by a vote of Okanagan chiefs.

“We respectfully accept that, so I don’t know what the big deal is. Then the Globe and Mail labels us like we’re part of the militants,” referring to an article in the national paper listing the PIB along with other, more aggressive groups opposing the Olympics.

“I don’t know anyone in our community that’s planning to block any roads,” he said. “I really didn’t like the fact they tried to smear our community’s name as a militant band towards the Olympics.”

Kruger thinks the band is getting national attention because they are the only First Nations band to have written such a letter. The letter expressed concern over Canada not supporting the UN declaration on indigenous peoples, B.C failing to follow through on the new relationship and the fact that while the four host nations shared in 2010 legacy funding, other communities in B.C. didn’t.

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Enough with drinking water

Healthy people don't have to drink nearly as much as they think

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When it comes to water, there’s nothing clear about how much we need to drink or even what good it does us. Still guzzling eight 8-oz. glasses a day? There’s no scientific proof everyone requires so much. Urine should be colourless? That’s a sign you’ve chugged too much. Thirst means you’re already dehydrated? Not even close.

“I want to squash that notion. It’s baloney,” says Heinz Valtin, professor emeritus of physiology at the Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, N.H., in a recent podcast produced by the American Physiological Society. He should know. His seminal 2002 study, “ ‘Drink at least eight glasses of water a day.’ Really? Is there scientific evidence for the ‘8 x 8’?” is often cited by other researchers investigating how much water we should consume daily. Now, many physiologists are debunking the most common assumptions about water intake. Valtin’s conclusion: healthy people who live sedentary lifestyles in temperate climates don’t have to drink so much.

So how did this belief get so widespread? One theory suggests it was a misinterpretation of the 1989 “recommended dietary allowance” (RDA) data produced by the Institute of Medicine, says Samuel Cheuvront, principal investigator at the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine. Those stated that for every calorie expended, one millilitre of fluid was to be consumed. Assuming everybody kept a 2,000 calorie diet, which is the reference often used to calculate RDAs, says Cheuvront, that equals two litres, which is 64 fluid ounces—or eight 8-oz. glasses.

The recommendations “never said that was what everyone required,” says Cheuvront, but people just “latched on.” Over the last two decades, there has been “a major cultural change” in our obsession with good hydration, adds Mark Knepper, chief of the kidney and electrolyte metabolism lab at the National Institutes of Health in Bethseda, Md. “Somehow we all survived without carrying around water and chugging every 10 minutes,” he says. Toting water, wrote Valtin in his study, has become akin to a “security blanket.”

That’s misguided, experts say, and they’re worried we’ve developed tunnel vision when it comes to how we replenish our bodies. “It’s a myth that in order to hydrate ourselves we need [only] plain water as opposed to water found in any other food or beverage,” says Susan Barr, a professor of nutrition at the University of British Columbia, who was part of an Institute of Medicine panel that established 2005 water intake recommendations. She is a proponent of plain water because it contains no calories, but Barr says that all kinds of fluid count, including juice, pop, beer and even mild diuretics such as coffee and tea. There’s even water in foods such as chicken and bread, Barr adds.

Rather than slavishly choking down eight glasses of water, these experts say we should take a more enlightened, individualized approach to hydration. How much we each need depends on factors such as our diet, level of daily physical activity, how hot it is, where we live, our size and even our personal health issues. Fortunately, when we need to drink, our bodies send us a signal far more clear and accurate than any formula: thirst. “When the salt level goes up in your blood, so does your thirst,” says Knepper. The most useful way to know the state of your water balance, he explains, is by taking a sip. “Everyone has had that experience [where] you get some cold water and boy, does that taste good. So you can tell if you need that water by how it tastes when you try it.”

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Canada is planning to offer our Aboriginal Post Secondary Funding as a new loans based program, there is a treaty, the JAY TREATY research it

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KITCHENUHMAYKOOSIB INNINUWUG GOES INTERNATIONAL

(Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug – August 24, 2009) The Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) appeals to the United Nations for help. Mr. James Trusler, President and CEO of Platinex mines sent a letter to Chief Donny Morris of KI advising them that Platinex will be going back into Nemeigusabins Lake (mining site) near Big Trout Lake on Tuesday, August 25, 2009.

Chief Donny Morris responded by sending a letter to Premier Dalton McGuinty pressing him for a meeting to talk about the Platinex situation. Chief Morris said, “The province has not called one meeting on this controversy since last year.” He said, “This is a bad sign.”

Chief Donny Morris and his people will be out at Nemeigusabins Lake on August 25, 2009. Chief Morris said, “We will engage in peaceful demonstration out at the proposed mining site.”

Chief Donny Morris said, “I sent a letter to the Ontario Provincial Police on this matter.”

In September 2008, KI made a submission to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), Early Warning and Urgent Action regarding the fact that Ontario is not recognizing the Aboriginal and Treaty Rights of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug and that the Chief and Council were sentenced to 6 months in jail for standing up for their rights and stopping mining exploration in their area.

The Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug situation was under consideration by the United Nations CERD, Working Group on Early Warning and Urgent Action in February 2009. CERD sent a letter to Canada in March 2009 asking questions about Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug and requesting these questions be answered by July 31, 2009. Canada did officially respond to the United Nations.

Chief Donny Morris has reviewed Canada’s response and has issued his own letter to CERD and requesting that mining activities in his territory be stopped until the whole issue of Aboriginal and Title is dealt with. Chief Morris said, “If you cannot get justice at home, you need to go international.”

Contact: Chief Donny Morris

Councillor Samuel Mckay

Office of the Chief and Council

Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug

P.O. Box 329

Big Trout Lake, Ontario P0V 1G0

Phone: 807-537-2263

Fax: 807-537-2574