Coming back to Edmonton, NDNs and violence

Tansi Edmonton
Well it is good to be back in Edmonton, I moved to Vancouver from here 26 years ago due to the extreme attitudes of people here. I was a young First Nations, and I was tired of the negative attitude Edmontonians had towards Native People, and tired of the sucker punches, assaults, and derogatory remarks because of my heritage. I was seen as a drunk, or only in jail. Sadly enough, my twin brother told me last year and this year, that people still see Native people in the same darkness, so the choices and attitudes of people determine our relations in the past, present, and future.

I walked Whyte Avenue last night a day after my son's wedding to reminisce about the times I strolled this famous strip, and much has changed since the days of my youth. The place was not as violent as I read today about former stabbings and fights last year. My brother told me to not hang around that area, but for me I saw no reason to leave, till this morning when I read comments, and former articles about the actions of various people.

Ultimately people will blame many factors for their actions, but it all boils down to ones ability to make either a good or wrong choice when dealing with confrontations, anger, emotions, and self control. Raising children to be responsible children is an arduous task that takes in many factors of life, history, religion, beliefs, and understanding our place in the universe and the wholeness of time. I am proud to say that my son has made wonderful choices due to his own understanding of the factors I mentions, and how his mother and I raised him to believe in his potential instead of settling with life. Sure he gets influenced by others, the media, and the government and gets angry; mad at aspects of life like us all, but it is how we control our action which defines our character. Believing in the Great Mystery of life and how it defines us, speaks to us, will help us in our relations.
Life is a highway of moderation. Earthlings will experiment with the highs and lows of life, and we as humans must live the rest of our life with the consequences of our actions. So no matter how opinionated we are, blamable we are we are not the judges of life on planet earth, only the participants in the wombs of time.

We can watch all the sports we want, it may incite our anger, emotions of madness, boil our blood, but pulling a knife, sucker punching a fellow human is the result of one persons choice and how he/she wants to continue his/her life. Goodness and Evil is real in and around us. Make no mistake, God is real, and so is the Devil. I am not a religious person, but history tells us this grand old story of human conflict, it all depends how we read and live life, remember life and how we want to exist in the hereafter.
So I will continue to walk the streets of this life regardless of how violent and hurtful people can be to each other. If we give love, we get love, if we give hate, we get hate. Violence begets violence, so make your choice in sharing life or condemning life, but we are all in the same canoe floating on the universe's river of energy. How we use that energy defines how we live and die. Today, I still live in Vancouver, while my son and my brother moved back to Edmonton. Will I, God only knows because it saddens me that after 26 years in Vancouver where I realized my potential in life and I still am working on it, nothing has changed in this oil capital when it comes to our relations. So some of you Edmontonians, you can do better than pulling a knife, or calling out a derogatory name! Miigweech! Happy New Year Edmonton worlders from a Vancouver worlder. I am coming back to this neck of the woods again to begin my next film project, so, I look forward to meeting you Edmon-chuks again. 2 learn more about moi, see http://groups.msn.com/TheDonaldMorinWebSite Take care, God bless you all

Email reply sent to CBC regarding October 16th article, but published here due to CBC not often publishes my words

Email reply sent to CBC regarding October 16th article, but published here due to CBC not often publishes my words
link was at: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/10/16/native-prisoners.html#skip300x250My Reply belowThe audacity of Stockwell Day to quote "[that he ]will consider the findings of Sapers' report...[and then says that]...there is no evidence of systemic discrimination against native offenders in the prison system."Well Mr. Day, the evidence is in the report itself, in the federal statistics regarding the federal prison system, and in the systemic nature of the Canadian racial legislative system of the Indian Act, the deploring justice institutions, and the systemic nature of a colonial mindset which has existed for the last two hundred years, and then some.Get your head out of the sand Stockwell Day, and do something good for a change.

Christmas In Edmonton

Merry Christmas World, my son is married, and my twin brother is out of the hospital. I am truly blessed
Ciao

Calgary to Vaccinate their 2000 homeless

1. Living around the outbreak in Vancouver, I understand the trepidation people have regarding this outbreak. But at the same time, I will not take up the offer the local health board is doing to prevent catchng this latest flu.
   
   As long as I take care of myself, eat well, drink lots of water, and take my own medicine, I will not allow these people to vaccinate me with "God Knows what they have" in their little kits. For all we know, it could be some subverted scheme to create a new killing virus and the homeless, the dispossed, and the poor are the lab rats to begin this New World Order eradication of less fortunate people. R we to trust everything we see in the media, the government reports, and other venues of dis-information? We are in a New age of cladinstine initiatives, global conspiracies, and the eventual releasing of data and material technology and hyper aesthetics, which are designed to control the masses and elevate the few in power. Watch your back, reality is being twisted Regarding this outbreak, I saw one of Globe and Mail's headines which is;
   
   Six foreign health workers condemned to death in Libya(Comment16)
   
   Five Bulgarian nurses, Palestinian doctor convicted of deliberately infecting children with AIDS virus; ruling sparks outrage..."
   ... We live in dangerous times!
   

Guns can protect women: Advocate: From Vancouver Metronews front page Dec 19th. 06

"Guns can protect women: Advocate"
While I agree with the notion that women would be able to protect themself if they have the right tools/weapons to defend themselves, modelling ourselves after the United States is not the answer. While guns do not kill people, only people who abuse the use of guns; arming ourselves like a Canadian Rambo or slick hotshot will only create more anger, strife, and petty arguments over egos, territory, or material assets, which could escalate into someone losing their cool and simply pulling out a gun and pulling the trigger.

I think it is pretty arrogant of Sharon Gregson to position herself as some sort of femme gunslinger, which is signified on the Canadian Firearms journal. Self-Defense comes in alternative forms, so perhaps a debate will bring out other options, but Sharon, guns are not the answer. To be a microcosm of the arms conflict only exacerbates the global problems we as humans have with weapons that kill, just because someone can pull out a gun and pull a trigger or point it at a criminal. Criminals will always threaten our personal safety if we give then the opportunity to fight back like arat once we corner them. Gun or no gun, criminals are opportunists and will find away to evade the bullet if they use trickery to disarm their opponent

Chubby Harper Correcting History, by allowing Farmers to buy back expropriated Mirabel land!!!!

Old Chubby Harper and his "correcting a mistake of history" is a falsidity of expropriated proportions. I only see this latest media ploy as a vote grabbing initiative to continually appease the Eastern Conservatives hoping to keep thier dying government in power. While Canadian Time Magazine is totally wrong in naming him man of the year, Harper is totally out of control in his appetite for consuming more power in a season of cultural correctness, and consumer richness. Meanwhile, the poorer folks of this land continually eat cake while those in power eat steak, pronounce their grandiose schemes to appease agricultural fields of broken dreams. Now if King/Queen Steve Harper would only honour the first people of this continent and give back what was stolen from the first people, he may lose his grip on power, upset his Mirabel farmers near Montreal, upset his Delta resident's constituents near Tsawwassen, but he would gain respect from the majority of Canadians who wants Canada to resolve the land claim shuffle/problem. He would gain more votes by having a more honest relationship between the first people of this continent and the euro-Canadian descendants who are the results of two nations coming together and immigrants travelling to new lands to find their dreams. If only their dreams did not trample on my ancestors, then maybe Canada would be a more respected country today. And what about the Mohawks near ? The Monks in the area sent the Mohawk away, to only steal the Mohawks land from them and sell it to the farmers in the area. If anything Chubby Harper can correct that History there and correct the history in BC. So Chubby Harper, get your appeasing brain out of your ass, and correct the true history of Canada, you arrogant Basterd!

Comments from Globe & Mail article of Dec. 7th, 2006 on New Brunswick Court ruling

Dan Van Gageldonk and all the other dissatisfied Canadians, Well; sorry to disappoint you all, but out here in and around Vancouver, the early governments of BC did steal the land from the First People of this territory. Unceded territory, do you and your prejudiced minds know what that means? Fiduciary responsibility. Do you know what that means? IN fact all you Canadians who disagree with the new ruling, Why not climb on your big ship and head back to your ancestor’s homeland and fight for your former territory, since, then you will know the land claim shuffle. We, as native people have every right to re-claim what was stolen, tricked and cajoled from our ancestors, our relations, and realign our soil, wood, animals, marine life, self-esteem and self factualization as the first people of this territory, who helped your ancestors to survive in the first winter during contact. IN return, your ancestors became turncoats, liars, and schemers. Not much different from today’s' capitalist expansionists. Otherwise, does your research, get your heads out of your stereotypical ass, and do what is right for our future generations. Miigweech, All my relations!