Thursday, March 17, 2011
Tuesday, March 08, 2011
B.C. lawsuit challenges solitary confinement rules : MY Reply to the naysayers commenting on my comment of Globe and Mail article of March 7th., 2011
MY Reply to the naysayers commenting on my comment of Globe and Mail article of March 7th., 2011
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/bc-lawsuit-challenges-solitary-confinement-rules/article1931853/
GlynnMhor of Skywall, Northern Princess, and you others who negatively applied to my comments. I heard all your illogical reasoning b4. Redneck, self righteous, arrogant, sarcastic, self-serving, indignant, incredulous, colonial, and reeking of all that euro-centric validation of whose right and whose wrong. I would say It is the system's fault why this woman is the way she is, intergenerational abuse due to residential schools, abusive foster homes, family members whose language and culture were beat out of them, and drugs and alcohol replaces spiritual values, because the government and its system of churches, schools, prisons and justice servers had it in their legislative mind and policies to kill the NDN in the child. Grey nuns who used religion, guilt and physical abuse to destroy the worth and life of our children.
All you say that; we got to get over it, others have been successful, get a job, get educated, while northern princess fool, systemic “Indian” racism is invisible and insidious, and un-seeable by the black, yellow and white race because colonialism has positioned the Indian below all other cultures due to how the historical real, the spectacle real and the erotic real defined the “Indian” in popular culture. You colonial simple minded , limited educated euro-Canadian simpletons, can get an education if you do not understand how semiotics, signs, ideology and cultural propaganda has helped define that little brain you people use to write your simplistic, sarcastic replies to my comment about this G and M articles.
You all may not take the blame for what happened, but your simplicity in reasoning has made you all complicit to the tragedy of Canada’s first people, I still say, you people void of compassion and understanding of all the issues involved with this native women who is in isolation , can go to your Christina hell, because of your lack of empathy and your fullness of pride and illogical hatred of who we are as one of God’s chosen people to help each other in these troubled times.
To the ones who understand my writing , peace be with you all too. Miigweech
BELOW, my first comment on articel and commenters on my words:
DAM_ba
3:47 PM on March 7, 2011
As an aboriginal person, who was as well abused as a child, I empathize with this woman's pain. a system takes a person's language, culture, hertiage, and family away, and gives them abuse, hate and life devoid of any love , you would develvop into similar conditions, assimilation policies are the reason's for this woman's pain, Give the abuse and hate that was given to this person as a child, you tend to give it back to the "other" because that is all a person is taught when you deal with the failed assimilation policeis fo Canada
For all you people void of any understanding or empathy to why this woman is the way she is; can go to hell, because your lack of compassion will take you there
Friendly Anglo
I also was abused by a family member. Doesn't mean I have to become one.
I survived not because of my upbring, but in spite of it.
Ned Chiwalski
So what you're saying is that it's society's fault for creating the animal that she is??
Nice try!
Bendygirl
Dam_ba - abuse can destroy the soul of any person it touches. Truly. It is painful and traumatic. I know this from personal experience myself. My compassion ends where a person believes that their past entitles them to harm other human beings with impugnity - aboriginal or not. There are many aboriginal people in this country who were subject to abuse and assimilation policies who do not behave in this manner - and they may have mental illnesses, and post traumatic stress disorders and they are also haunted by terrible demons. They do not inflict their pain on those who did not cause that pain. That is the salient point here.
Peace to you.
GlynnMhor of Skywall
That's a typical Politically Correct indian response to just about any problem:
Blame Whitey.
The logic goes:
My life is messed up (waaa, waaa).
Somebody Else messed up my life (waaa, waaa).
So Somebody Else has to fix my life for me.
And I don't need to change.
Northern Princess
Oh come off it people. I will not take any blame for what happened in this country 3-400 years ago, sorry! Times were different, thinking was different and reactions were different, get over it. Sick and tired of hearing how the poor aboriginal was treated. Heck they could live better than some of us with all that the government gives them. Some have done extremely well in their lives and don't blame anyone for their lot in lives. Get a job, get educated (which I know that the government can pay for that for you) and do something with your life. We all have to do it, why not you? Get over yourselves.
How about moving to Lybia where the government treats his people so much better than you have been treated in Canada? Now that might be a great experience. No houses given, no ski-doos or 4-wheelers, no net fishing, no unrestricted hunting there either, but you can protest all you want and maybe you'll get away with your life and freedom. Life is so hard for you in Canada isn't it? Give me a break.
Allan Ross
6:49 AM on March 8, 2011
It wasn't hundreds of years ago NP - it was within the lives of the survivors of residential schools. I'm not exonerating the natives from some personal responsibility but you can't ignore the systematic destruction of their society and culture by the predominantly white government. If we actually want to improve our country then we need to take responsibility for what has happened within our lifetimes and work to improve the future for First Nations peoples.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/bc-lawsuit-challenges-solitary-confinement-rules/article1931853/
GlynnMhor of Skywall, Northern Princess, and you others who negatively applied to my comments. I heard all your illogical reasoning b4. Redneck, self righteous, arrogant, sarcastic, self-serving, indignant, incredulous, colonial, and reeking of all that euro-centric validation of whose right and whose wrong. I would say It is the system's fault why this woman is the way she is, intergenerational abuse due to residential schools, abusive foster homes, family members whose language and culture were beat out of them, and drugs and alcohol replaces spiritual values, because the government and its system of churches, schools, prisons and justice servers had it in their legislative mind and policies to kill the NDN in the child. Grey nuns who used religion, guilt and physical abuse to destroy the worth and life of our children.
All you say that; we got to get over it, others have been successful, get a job, get educated, while northern princess fool, systemic “Indian” racism is invisible and insidious, and un-seeable by the black, yellow and white race because colonialism has positioned the Indian below all other cultures due to how the historical real, the spectacle real and the erotic real defined the “Indian” in popular culture. You colonial simple minded , limited educated euro-Canadian simpletons, can get an education if you do not understand how semiotics, signs, ideology and cultural propaganda has helped define that little brain you people use to write your simplistic, sarcastic replies to my comment about this G and M articles.
You all may not take the blame for what happened, but your simplicity in reasoning has made you all complicit to the tragedy of Canada’s first people, I still say, you people void of compassion and understanding of all the issues involved with this native women who is in isolation , can go to your Christina hell, because of your lack of empathy and your fullness of pride and illogical hatred of who we are as one of God’s chosen people to help each other in these troubled times.
To the ones who understand my writing , peace be with you all too. Miigweech
BELOW, my first comment on articel and commenters on my words:
DAM_ba
3:47 PM on March 7, 2011
As an aboriginal person, who was as well abused as a child, I empathize with this woman's pain. a system takes a person's language, culture, hertiage, and family away, and gives them abuse, hate and life devoid of any love , you would develvop into similar conditions, assimilation policies are the reason's for this woman's pain, Give the abuse and hate that was given to this person as a child, you tend to give it back to the "other" because that is all a person is taught when you deal with the failed assimilation policeis fo Canada
For all you people void of any understanding or empathy to why this woman is the way she is; can go to hell, because your lack of compassion will take you there
Friendly Anglo
I also was abused by a family member. Doesn't mean I have to become one.
I survived not because of my upbring, but in spite of it.
Ned Chiwalski
So what you're saying is that it's society's fault for creating the animal that she is??
Nice try!
Bendygirl
Dam_ba - abuse can destroy the soul of any person it touches. Truly. It is painful and traumatic. I know this from personal experience myself. My compassion ends where a person believes that their past entitles them to harm other human beings with impugnity - aboriginal or not. There are many aboriginal people in this country who were subject to abuse and assimilation policies who do not behave in this manner - and they may have mental illnesses, and post traumatic stress disorders and they are also haunted by terrible demons. They do not inflict their pain on those who did not cause that pain. That is the salient point here.
Peace to you.
GlynnMhor of Skywall
That's a typical Politically Correct indian response to just about any problem:
Blame Whitey.
The logic goes:
My life is messed up (waaa, waaa).
Somebody Else messed up my life (waaa, waaa).
So Somebody Else has to fix my life for me.
And I don't need to change.
Northern Princess
Oh come off it people. I will not take any blame for what happened in this country 3-400 years ago, sorry! Times were different, thinking was different and reactions were different, get over it. Sick and tired of hearing how the poor aboriginal was treated. Heck they could live better than some of us with all that the government gives them. Some have done extremely well in their lives and don't blame anyone for their lot in lives. Get a job, get educated (which I know that the government can pay for that for you) and do something with your life. We all have to do it, why not you? Get over yourselves.
How about moving to Lybia where the government treats his people so much better than you have been treated in Canada? Now that might be a great experience. No houses given, no ski-doos or 4-wheelers, no net fishing, no unrestricted hunting there either, but you can protest all you want and maybe you'll get away with your life and freedom. Life is so hard for you in Canada isn't it? Give me a break.
Allan Ross
6:49 AM on March 8, 2011
It wasn't hundreds of years ago NP - it was within the lives of the survivors of residential schools. I'm not exonerating the natives from some personal responsibility but you can't ignore the systematic destruction of their society and culture by the predominantly white government. If we actually want to improve our country then we need to take responsibility for what has happened within our lifetimes and work to improve the future for First Nations peoples.
Thursday, March 03, 2011
NDNs & DOGS, A MOMENT DEDICATED TO FRIEND
Dedicated to the late Lisa Sazama
I was shocked to hear about Lisa's passing Sandy Scofield informed me, and I am sadden by this news. I met Lisa around 1991 - 92 through my former artistic partner. Jimy Sidlar. Jimy is a great singer songer writer performer and actor. I first saw Jimy as an actor in Peter Barnes Noon Day Demon and hired him for the role of Danny Dog in the Experimental multi-media work NDNs and DOGs. NDNs and DOGs was a chaotic and intense performance script adapted from the poems and writings of Neil Benson and Donald Morin after Donald Ghostkeeper asked me to do a performance event based on the indigenous issues of the day (1989-onward) After dialogue with Neil and studying all my writings and plays, the script was re-written numerous times till the first 1990 performance event at the International Pitt Gallery in Vancouver, then at the Earth Voice Festival 1992, and then at the 1994 National Native Youth and Multicultural conference at The Hotel Vancouver. As an inter-disciplinary artist, I directed the first two events of which both were learning experiences in accordance to the Aesthetics of Performance, It was with the 1994 event that Lisa was the theatrical director of the Hotel Vancouver Show, while I constructed the multimedia around the direction of her two actors, Jimy and Donald.
She was an extraordinary artist who had a strong and clear methodology regarding her directing and her involvement in the rehearsals and her direction created in my humble opinion, the best performance of the three produced shows of my work as a writer/producer/director.
You can see and hear her briefly at my NDNs and DOGS web-documentary of this unique period of my life. My condolensces to her loved ones at this sad time of all of us, who were touched by her grace, her artistic geniosity, and her kind and caring nature.
NDNs and DOGs Hi-Res Digital Release-May09
Donald_Morin | Myspace Video
I was shocked to hear about Lisa's passing Sandy Scofield informed me, and I am sadden by this news. I met Lisa around 1991 - 92 through my former artistic partner. Jimy Sidlar. Jimy is a great singer songer writer performer and actor. I first saw Jimy as an actor in Peter Barnes Noon Day Demon and hired him for the role of Danny Dog in the Experimental multi-media work NDNs and DOGs. NDNs and DOGs was a chaotic and intense performance script adapted from the poems and writings of Neil Benson and Donald Morin after Donald Ghostkeeper asked me to do a performance event based on the indigenous issues of the day (1989-onward) After dialogue with Neil and studying all my writings and plays, the script was re-written numerous times till the first 1990 performance event at the International Pitt Gallery in Vancouver, then at the Earth Voice Festival 1992, and then at the 1994 National Native Youth and Multicultural conference at The Hotel Vancouver. As an inter-disciplinary artist, I directed the first two events of which both were learning experiences in accordance to the Aesthetics of Performance, It was with the 1994 event that Lisa was the theatrical director of the Hotel Vancouver Show, while I constructed the multimedia around the direction of her two actors, Jimy and Donald.
She was an extraordinary artist who had a strong and clear methodology regarding her directing and her involvement in the rehearsals and her direction created in my humble opinion, the best performance of the three produced shows of my work as a writer/producer/director.
You can see and hear her briefly at my NDNs and DOGS web-documentary of this unique period of my life. My condolensces to her loved ones at this sad time of all of us, who were touched by her grace, her artistic geniosity, and her kind and caring nature.
NDNs and DOGs Hi-Res Digital Release-May09
Donald_Morin | Myspace Video
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