Letter I sent to Edmonton Sun this morning regarding Ms Ambrose thank you note to Stephen Harper August 28th, 2016

Letter I sent to Edmonton Sun this morning! Ms Ambrose, I want to respond to your recent writing for the Edmonton Sun praising former PM Stephen Harper. When you state that you are writing in joining all Canadians as if behalf of all Canadians to thank Harper for his service I take exception. You are not writing on my behalf and I assume many Canadians who will not agree with your propaganda about the former PM. To continue on with your dribble about all he has done for Canadians smacks of favoritism, vote hunting, and appeasement to the conservative right, rednecks and anyone else who feel that their economic, cultural or class upbringing entitles them to continue to step on the working poor, ignore the issues regarding Canadians aboriginal missing women problem, and all that was wrong with this country under the failed leadership of the Conservative government. A government that muzzled her scientists, uses the residential school apology period and common experience payment initiative as a means to appease Canada's first people by throwing bread crumbs at us, and thinking that the so called "Indian Problem" is resolved. Go back to the drawing board of your conservative party and perhaps learn from the former government's failures and humble yourself to gain the trust of all Canadians instead of using propaganda guest column to spread your web of lies sincerely Donald Morin Indigenous performer, filmmaker and educator http://www.torontosun.com/2016/08/27/thank-you-stephen-harper

Thoughts on an Edmonton Sun Writer's Opinion article

One more letter to the Edmonton Sun and one of its writers: SUBJECT LINE: your editorial of Sunday August 28th, 2016 and my thoughts on politics and journalism at it's worst in relation to current world relations and Canada. The writer's title was Media drinking the Koo-Aid and Buying the swampland I am disappointed with all you conservative writers who feel that your opinion is the correct direction or criticism to impose on the current state of journalism, the current government and cultural climate with global politics and the national body politic. It is arrogant of you in your attempt to sway the thinking and direction of the current population of Canada, her provinces, and territories by imposing your right wing judgemental thinking on what is wrong with the current climate of societal thought, control and action. I must remind you it was the voting selection of the current population who made a decision to get rid of the ill actions and governance of Stephan Harper and his government cronies, not the opinions , critical or un-wrongly thoughts and writings of the media, the journalists, and critics of the performance of society with all her passes, failures and attempts to find meaning in life day after day. It is arrogant of any writer, media pundit, journalist, social media networker, politician, including myself to think that ones attempt to impose their thoughts, actions and ideological meanderings on the general public is enough to change the direction of society for the common good, or alt-right attempt to become part of the majority in a world that is increasingly becoming more darker and void of meaning and change for the common good, the most vulnerable of our societies, and everything that the Creator expects of us in working together to make a better world. you should remember your place in society as nothing more than a simple writer who thinks your words are for the common good, but only a reflection of your conservative thinking, your euro-Canadian background and it all coming from a base of cultural genocide when your ancestors came to this land under the directives of Christendom, the papal papers and all that is not part of our Creator from above, but humankind based on greed, materialism, and thinking that western culture's understanding of manifest destiny is the direction to go in life. Everything that happens in life is in according to the Great Mystery of life and how the Creator uses good and bad aspects of life to direct society into the direction of his prophetic conclusion of life. A time coming when we all stand before him/her scars and all. And that includes Goodwin's thoughts, your thoughts, my thoughts and Prime Minster Trudeau hugging Mr. Downie regardless whether the journalist were allowed into that concert event and photographs were selective , handed out in according to the events of the time. To impose your bias opinion on the current political climate in the US is judgemental, and selfish in with respect to thinking Mass media in the states is wrong in pointing out the demagoguery of the republican candidate, and that Canada's media was "equally hysterical, and committed" in thinking that Harper should bow before them just because of their directive or critical thoughts , actions and writings. Regardless of the right and wrong decisions of Harper's government , everything happens for a reasons beyond our control even with the current Liberal government, silly headlines of a shirtless Trudeau, the human rights violations of China and Dion's demeanor in working with other foreign ministers In closing I can see that journalism is changing in according to the changing demands of a digital society where the popularism of the masses is developing a lower level of literacy in terms of reflection, consumption and direction. We are all part of the increasingly multiplicity of the information age, and the expropriation of knowledge is now beyond the television age into a false notion of digital and cultural authenticity because of new technologies and "ways of seeing. John Berger and George Orwell may have been close in their attempts to defined the semiotics of signs, meaning, thought, control and cultural authoritarianism and I appreciate your attempt to bring critical thinking to the current status of life on this global planet. I am may be way off base in my writing , thinking and direction of aesthetic and critical meandering, but I put my complete faith in the Creator and the trinity. Whether we understand , reject or attempt to manipulate the spiritual aspects of thought, action and direction in life, there is a great Mystery beyond humankinds attempts to create and understand this secular world. Ultimately I will stand before our Creator with shame and regret, but know that I picked myself up after everytime I fell, and did my best to be a better man for all races , not just because of my political and journalist intentions, reflections, or wrongly directions of life. May God be with you in all you do, thank you for your writings on the current aspect of journalism, politics and the life we lead. Take care. I am posting this opinion on my sites Sincerely Donald Morin,Ba Performer, Filmmaker, Educator, and 60s scoop survivor

World Of Fools

I had this song up earlier, but had some thumbnail problems, so deleted file and re- uploaded song.

Donald Morin's opinion on Former politicians and aboriginal leaders announce new partnership

While I greatly appreciate this formality of past, present, and future leaders, politicians, and community leaders coming together to pronounce their honorable intentions in reconciliation, new path ways in working together to help each other understand, empathize, and improve the lives of our most unfortunate, dispossessed, haunted, lacking and unhealthy of the people in the community, it seems daunting. Overwhelming, and perhaps as the writer writes, going down the same old path. The evils and misfortunes of many in this world, including myself, has happened, we learned from our mistakes, and we pick ourselves up and move forward. We have to involve our Creator in our lives , if not then we are weaken and targets for the ones who do not share the light only darkness. Not once in this article, do any of these people in the media bring up the Creator's involvement it this cause. Maybe it was spoken, but the media chose not to involve the Creator's name, notion or being. We are living in dangerous times; What do we do to help our people. Capitalism and work locks us away in the useless paper money. What do we do? Do we become autocratic and take all the sick and unhealthy and nurse them back to help? On whose dime? How do we stop this notion o evil intentions against our women, our children, our land, all the less fortunate, and the rest of us all caught I the world system. We need more love and goodness in us, we need les selfish people helping the le fortunate, without calling the media to give us all a populace pat on the back.....life is daunting, but as Jesus said in John 12:8,You will always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me with you.". Outside of the Christianization of Jesus, the human institutions of Jesus, we must go back to who he was , a man, but then revealed to be so much more. He may not be with us, but he is part of the spirit world inside and out. The Vatican, the Kings and Queens, prime ministers, presidents, mercantilist capitalists never say the Great Sprit in us, and seen us as evil, red devils, et le sauvage, and seen as a threat because of all the new resources throughout turtle island, Yes, kill the NDNs and if that does not work, Christianized them to kill the NDN in the child. The child Inside of all of us, whether we are white, black, yellow , red, or green, is part of the Creator, the Great Spirit who resides in all of us, if we stop and listen, then go out and help someone, one spirit helping many more, then maybe we can do what this group intends, but who needs to know about? Social media to get the word out, Dangerous confusing times, thanks for reading. Miigweech, hiy hiy

CBC Story: Super Bowl wager of native mask upsets B.C. First Nation

Avatars, It is a matter of cultural respect, cultural protocol, an understanding of the customs and traditions of the first people of this continent, The many nations, which comprises all that was, is and is to come when ones are the caretakers of Mother Earth. Where there is an understanding of historical conditions, mercantilism, capitalism, and what was lost in the colonial destruction and genocide brought upon the first people by diseased blankets, corrupt business people, governments, and not learning the ways of the people since contact. Instead, kill them, kill their buffalo, turn them into tobacco pooches, lamps, and send the survivors to residential school to christianize and civilize the savage. Savage because they did not listen to them but only judged them. So a people survives and today we share. but as well correct history, so we can all walk the same road. Cultural protocol today involves equal inclusion in sharing cultural ideals, properties, and works of historical art that were appropriated by euro American cultural institutions built out of the historical conditions defined by The Affirmative culture, affirming what is value into day's society, good and bad. To bring in the casinos is a mute case, that is referral to a society which glamorizes gambling, casinos, money, and all that defines success in a capitalist oriented society. As a Super bowel better, I find it in bad taste for the museum curators. If they are anything worth their value as acquistioners of art, and historical works, they should have done their homework. Cultural protocol. All it takes to start a dialogue based on honesty, humility and respect, then some good may come out of what started out as a bad idea based on pride, the ego, and excessive sporting excitability. thank you for reading. God bless.

Creaks between laptops, words and paper

If folks have not been following this story, it is of interest to the Indigenous people of all colonized territories. We are dealing with a cultural authoritarian impasse with two major world powers ascertaining the freedom and un-freedom of an individual in a presumed globalized democratic system of trade, travel, and exchange. Where we should have the ability to share information pertaining to all of us as individuals on colonized territories, where everyday people pay taxes. After all it is OUR information as individuals in a duly elected government, where our hard working sweat and labour pays the salaries, ratifies governmental initiatives to royal ascent, and creates the cultural, technical, educational institutions/apparatuses, that created the laws which governs us as a free people under the laws of the Creator. A God, who allowed the ratification of a government for the people, because well, someone has to lead the people, or anarchy prevails. At the same time we allow our taxes to maintain the everyday, we must at the same time keep an eye on governments, as it is people who run political parties, ideologies that define them, and private political agendas grow leaps and bounds. We can see all the new draconian laws being ratified towards our beloved Queen (Not)for ascension like she lives in the third heaven or somewhere else! Snowden as one of the daily taxpayers out there who work day in day out, saw that the government is going behind the back of the people (the taxpayers) and that the information that is being collected , allocated out to parties to investigate potential dealings with terrorists, still our privacy rights as individuals will be compromised and slowly the machinations of totalitarianism settled invisibly around our democratic elected government morphing into something totally different than what we expect to believe or to be real. We are living in the age of information, our information, and Snowden has woken up the world, the beast, and we are all now on the downward slide to the end of the road as we know it, Miigweech, OSiem, Gila Kesla, Hiy Hiy,

Notes about Under Surveillance, the working title of my SFU FIlm Workshop Fourth year student film Crossings

Notes before the CTV link regarding under surveillance: What`s on my mind? Thanking the Creator, The Great Spirit, all that was, is and to be...Fearing the worst of times, during the sign of times, What arising out of the news of four winds, the four races, the four directions, as we awake under surveillance by the capitalist beast. Under surveillance was the first working title of my Final Student Film CROSSINGS at SFU Film workshop 1989. It was a twisted tale from my imagination, my sex life, betrayal, and wondrous moments of abandonment. The lead was a woman who had an affair and tells, the young man, Oh, it was nothing,...then she gets in to a long monologue about her being a woman, getting beat, used, raped, and falling in love all at the same time. It was a true story told to me by an X, and as a young student artist at the time, I was simply being creative, and after five years of academic training, being brain washed into the euro- centric validation of artist that we all wanted to be, Being aboriginal, or native, NDN or Metis, was never really my bag. I was simply a student artist who happened to be an Indian. I as well just finished three upper level women studies courses, I was so determined to success, Even though Spirit Song Theatre and The Chief Dan George Film Video program were great, my history as the white Indian, I always felt under the watchful eye of the system, welfare, justice, dominant society ideology, and the embedded racism that judged us. We all know how history, the spectacle, and the body has defined the Indigenous signatory first people of this continent. Treaties that are void as they were signed under duress, as prisoners of war, we always had to be under the watchful eye of the government. Now it has moved to the masses, as the Prism Echelon machine gazes at all of us now, even you thru the Pyramidic eye. When I wrote Under Surveillance, The first two drafts strongly critiqued by the profs, the feminist students, did not like the fact of the lead being a woman, and was too ambitious. I never liked the final script, the final film, Crossings, which the mixer at the post house created the release print out of sync. I was not happy, but such is life, I felt I was always under the watchful eye of the system, and being a young Indian student artist, this developed in my work during the OKa crisis when I worked for CBC news, started community radio, then under surveillance with my 7 fires 4 U Kitchi Manitou Film, and then asked to be an intelligence officer for The system. Now 2013, we are waking up to the Orwellian world, Mr Orwell created back in the 40s. I performed the role of Winston Smith in Carnegie Theatre's 1984 stage adaptation of Orwell's novel. Again, questions arose; what's he doing the role for, he's not English? He's not white? Anyway, the first people were always under the watchful eye of their "other" because colonialism defined us as the enemy in the way of their brave new world. Watch you back now FBers, and anyone else, The invisible has BEEN REVEALED, now what are you going to do? http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/how-canadian-internet-users-may-be-getting-caught-in-u-s-surveillance-1.1318910

I was told I was going to be the only white Caucasian in the whole of the prison

I write this in reference to the published reference made to an recently incarcerated airline passenger in Baffin Correctional Centre: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2013/04/06/north-darren-cosby-interview.html The passenger was told: (quote:....I was told I was going to be the only white Caucasian in the whole of the prison....Unquote) Here we have a foreign individual who apparently blacked out after some alcohol and caused a dangerous ruckus on the plane leading to his arrest. We have a non-Canadian convicted in the Canadian courts, but at some point along the way is told this rather systemic statement. The signification of the statement is that the prison systemic is built for native and inuit prisoners, it is dangerous, and be prepared to die, get injured by the non-white prisoners, What is not signified? That our prison systems are built for The First people of Canada, that all native and Inuit people are dangerous, criminals, that we as a people can not be trusted, that the institutional officers, workers within the judicial, policing, correction services are racists and hate non-white people. Does this one published statement define the literacy reality of Canadian society? Who told him this statement? I can only assume an white correction, judicial, policing individual, who has a racist view of the people he or she rules over and enjoys his or her sense of power and place in control these non-white prisoners. Assumptions, opinions? Perhaps, but the semiotics of this loaded statement demands a responses of this nature, please continue the argument and discussion, Miigweech, all my relations!

A Web Request to all Idle No More Participants

A request to all documentarist who are have participlated in Idle No more Movement: Wound A Knee, Break A Leg, Merde! As some may know, I was sidelined by a work accident Dec 7th. Considered a life threaten situation due to Concussion, broken rib, collapsed lung, and air and fluid leakage in body; I was released mid Dec and have been slowly healing. Off work, I secured a new laptop, digital keyboard, and a good friend bought me a new guitar. So two days ago, I was strong enough to start some creative muses. Emotional the Idle No-more Movement was deep within me and a new song was created based on what is happening today. I would like to ask all Idle No more documentarists who videoed or photographed aspects of this global movement, if I can utlize such Internet postings of your uploads for this new song based on the Idle No More Movement? This is purely a community video and not intended for commercial development. People can let me know here on FB or email me at dammedia@icloud.com or donaldmorin@gmail.com. Leave me your name for end credits please. Miigweech, O'Sien, Gila Kesla, Hiy Hiy, all my relations Newspaper story published Sept 1990 about Vigilant Performances in support of Oka Crisis 1990. Produced by Donald Morin and Gunargie O'Sullivan in support of the people at Oka, Quebec

legislative racism, which defined new and old forms of genicide!

This comment is based on the CBC article at: Ex-chief calls reserves 'concentration camps' on Iran TV Terry Nelson accuses Canada of mistreating aboriginal people In my research with my paper NDNs In The Age of Terror, I came across statements that the Concentration camps of WWII were based on the ideas regarding the reservation system in North America. Where a people can be contained and marginalized through legislative racism. All the new critics and commentiers of this new age can disagree avec our Indigenous Chief from the Land surrounding Lake Winnipeg, and touching our Northern and Southern Brothers and Sisters. Your People have been fighting the NDNs wars since Geronimo, Wounded Knee, Richard Oakes/Alcatraz, Leonard Peltier, Anna Mae, Oka, 70,000 rounds at Gustaferson, Our Missing Women , your failed residential schools, and our daily attempt to success in a systemic system based on the historicity of Western Capitalized thought and control. Now the millions of our ancestors and sisters and brothers, children, kookums and moshums, who reside with The Great Spirit watching us twist the world to our liking, forgetting about "what is truth? The Truth lies with Our Great Spirit as she/he loves us good and bad. Either way both systems of containment worked in how the governments and societies of the time creative institutions to kill these human beings of God; legislative racism, which defined new and old forms of genicide!

In response to comments about Drew Taylor's globe and mail July 14th apology story

See: The reality in Canada, that the colour of one’s skin does make a difference when it comes to judging character, disposition, and position in life. Behind the veneer of civilization, everyone is concerned and supposingly educated about co-habitation, living and working together for the common good, but once the door is closed, the perpetuation of racial stereotyping continues in its communal and familial patterning and judgement of the "other' no matter whether he/she is aboriginal multicultural, or eurocentric. As we all are descendants of the formation of different "tribes" which roamed the earth, we all as different tribes developed a lexiconical relation to language on how we described the other, distance nations, trading patterns of goods and currencies, and how we relate, fight and die to protect our lineage, our way of life!. Equality equals colonial meandering, about trade, tribal conquests, and spreading ones tribe over the earth to change the heathen, the infidel, and all other tribes not held bound by the laws of Christendom, the Vatican, and all that comes from the old and new testaments. Read Pagans of a promised land and maybe all will understand why so many morons come out day and night when aboriginal people assert their rights to the land that we live and die on. White, black, yellow and red , the four races, we are all walking in four directions within the four elements during the four seasons all within the sacred circle of Mother Earth. What perpetuated racism is not this article, but the fundamental building blocks of Western Christian society; the education, cultural, social, and political apparatuses of dominant society and families, which in all governs the child, who in turns grows up to make choices about relations and how we get along or not. Mr Taylor writes of many truisms, and his tongue in cheek humor rubbed a few people the wrong way. Some may ask, would this author get published if his skin was more defined towards the aboriginal tint as opposed to his euro-centric background as a mixed aboriginal person of aboriginal and European lineage? And even then some aboriginals will dispute his aboriginalism purely based on the colour of his skin. We are all doomed for failure if we do not live, write and speak from the hear of our Creator, not the heart of our pride, which humanly is bound for failure. White , black, red, and yellow pride is all bound form discord and conflict, if we do not go beyond the colour of our skins and live with the ideals and laws of The Great Creator

One of My Reasons to NOT celebrate Canada Day

See CBC Article http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/story/2012/07/01/edmonton-canada-day-events.html I am reposting this early post on Fb in relation to Canada Day Events in Redneck Edmonton, AB: Do not celebrate Canada day and never will till Canada resolve their tarred and racist position against Canada’s 1st people, and stop their conservative, liberal , and other euro-centric judges and their condemnation of our people standing b4 them in the courts. I hear these stories all the time form lawyer friends, who see the judges condemning our people regardless of the systemic racism that Native people endure in life resulting in survival tactics that get them in trouble because the politics of dysfuntionality and survival takes over their thinking. With these judges admonishing our people before them regardless of the failed assimilation policies of racist Canada, and that colour of skin does matter when it comes to racism, colonialism, and what defines the success and failure of individuals in dominant capitalist society. Remember Chief Dan George's centennial speech on Canada Day Salish Territory last century. Miigweech

Getting Involved with Issues of the day

Tansi? Good Day, I hung out a bit with John Graham on Salish Territory here and there, and he was a good man, kind and gracious. I met a nephew of Annie Mae Acquash early nineties research my 7 fires Films 4 U..., he told me the FBI killed his aunt. Years later I met a Nova Scotia Filmmaker part Micmac in Atlanta, Georgia, (Film/media conferenc,2004_ who produced a film, the Spirit of Annie Mae. There are many sides to this sordid story of sadness and conspiracy. Hearts out to both sides of all relations, who are missing their loved ones this Fathers Day, 2012. I remember meeting the daughters of John Graham East Van prior to his last apprehension, and I heard stories about who turned John in, pointed him out, etc, etc. Terrible for all. As with the filmmaker's film, the daughters of Annie Mae were still looking for justice for the death of their mother. And today, 2012, yes, as one commenter on FB mentioned, that misinformation is out there and if you really believe in something, you got to fight for it, get up, stand up. Perhaps what the writer writes is valid. Is creating a FB page for some issue, injustice, idea, creative stimulation, sales, global connection a sincere means of being involved with the posted images of texts of the FB page? Now with all the liker, dislike buttons, etc, etc, village , invites of all kinds from FB friends, associates, are we really that more connected in the world, to creating change and meaning in a increasingly fragmented physical world, but connected metaphysically in the digital realm. Once something is posted, we supposingly cannot get rid of it. there forever cyberspace. I regret posting pictures on line, and I cannot change how it affected my relations after such postings. Lately news stories online and print about the latest tragedies in Montreal and Edmonton have involved images and texts posted by the perpetrators of alleged crimes prior to the tragedies and police allegations. both involved international manhunts, the images and texts of the perpetrators, and of course stories about the victims and the families after the death and murder of relations. Very sad for all. my heart is forlorn. Back in the days prior to the Net, a colleague and friend of mine did get involved with all kinds of community issues of the day. The marches, the occupations, the freedom and peace camps, and whatever issue affected who we were as aboriginal individuals in a dominant racist society. Vigilance performances twice to support the 1990 Oka crisis was a memorable event her and I produced. Nevertheless, we created press releases, radio carts for community radio, and many other early media programming to get the message out. Today, yes, there is too much information, more often hearsay, hand me down information, all unratified information out there side by side with the ratified information of the Bible, the State, and the family? A complex world, but never the less, creating a page is a good start to supporting the issue, flash mob events, but outside of being a flash in the pan, we still have to get up and get involved with social and community issues outside of the chair we are sitting in. So get up , go meet your neighbour, and help change the world , one handshake and one click at a time. Miigweech, Happy Father's Day Great Creator, we love you on the Net and off it.

Pardon Me, I just want to Move Ahead

Chris Conrad's dilemma is the result of the on-going agenda of the current government to criminalize the individual through a draconian form of legislation that will define the freedom and unfreedom of the individual through ultra conservative restrictions. Restrictions which are a direct opposition to the fundamental core values of a Christian western society which has based its laws on the fundamental values of the Old and New testament. Harper’s attempt to control the criminalization of particular segments of society through super jails, pardon restrictions and throw away the key mentality is not in part to the fundamental value of forgiveness, of which the Creator teaches us to do and resolve if we want to stand before our Creator without shame. Harper and Toews stance against crime is counter production and will be an enormous strain on the taxpayer, and future generations. Conrad, a young man of euro-Canadian genealogy is experiencing what many of us first nation people experienced in our lives, when we attempt to integrate with dominant society. Perhaps not with the racial factor, but with the criminal record factor, of which many of our people have experienced due to the failed assimilation policies of Canadian society. With systemic racism,, no-one want to hire us, give us a chance, or saw our record and showed us the door. Pardons are an integral part of forgiveness and to extend the waiting period for pre-pardoner is not of good form and will only create more misery and despair instead of allowing a pardon to forgive and forget, move forward in a new light. Hy Hy, all my relations COMMENT in response to CBC story below: New pardon rules thwart student's rehabilitation. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2012/05/09/ns-pardon-change-troubles-man.html

Canada’s 2012 March 23 Supreme Court Ruling, Colonial Racism and Canada’s First People

All you naysayers who disagree with this Supreme Court Ruling,you may rant all you want about negatively disagreeing with the ruling and calling it racist. But this country was built by racists, ruled by racists, and developed by racist settlers alike. Systemic racism on all levels of societal construction from birth, infancy, childhood, adolescent, and adulthood, purely due to the racist colonial history we all share. To vehemently deny societal status and place for this ruling shows that Canada will always remain a racist country. Ideas and thoughts perpetuated through capitalist and economic differentiation of communities, choice and style of clothing, timing of mosaic cultural celebrations, and the educational positioning of class relations and economically defined demographics. Would the rich build their homes by the refinieries and industrail areas?

Take a first nations community's, language, culture and land away, give them nothing but small parcels of land removed from dominant society and expect them to live there and not bother us, started this racist existence consciously and subconsciously for all of us living under the North American dome of societal upbringing, popular culture history, modernist story creations and the syndication of these low art and high art signifiers through dime novels, newspapers, the newly invented film camera. Soon the new settlers of this new land wanted to remove the “Indians” from the land allocated to them through the treaties, and the people are moved again. All the new comers who came from Ireland (The potato famine and death ships), England and others of the old world wanted to start a new life; Developers again removed the “Indians from their allocated smaller parcels of land further away from development. And so on and so on, the relocation continues till we are where we are today, where as one commenter put its “...our society rejects and demotes aboriginals...”

While I sympathize for the victims of all abusers and initiators of violence, far too often alcohol is the demonizing factor, and as one of my later foster mother said, It takes two to tangle..” and far too often the victim is just as much the transgressor which helped initiate the aggression between the two parties. If not my apologies for any offence. I do not promote violence, but when these societal conditions help creat ones sense of worth and knowledge, communcation tools became dangerous. Through the abuse of alcohol and drugs, it was devastating, one case involved Uncles screwing niece after a drunked and anger filled gathering. One situation, brothers beating their own for their mistakes and screw ups during drinking parties; another case grandparents smoking crack with grandkids? Hearing and experiencing this self abuse I had been forelorn and suicidal, but the Great Spirit is with me. Some judges and jurers don't symthpatize for their own reasons; (All affected by the ruling ideology) But nevertheless, for the first people the systemic racism was devastating and genocidal. Worthlessness became the predominant value of the self. From birth, infancy, childhood, and adulthood. Where the after effects of this unnecessary evil killed the Indian in the child and instead of giving them the tools to survive in a Christian oriented educational and class defined workforce, the caregivers of this racist system give them physcial and sexual abuse, children were told that they were worthless, and unworthy of being. When you feel unworthy of being, the only options was rebellion, anger, hate, self abuse, denial and suicide. People say it's all about choices. yes I agree, I choose to live and trust the Great Spirit completely after all, I am a survivor of that genocidal anger, hate, self abuse and worthlessness after my experience with this racist country. A survivor because of my experience with physical and sexual abuse. From the foster homes to being on the street or in the building of Canadian socicety, I have been sucker punched more than once for being an Indian; from behind more than often than in front. Hearing the words fucken Indian behind your back before the fall, you know it is a matter of survival. As I got older, I was able to utilize my sixth sense in some sense of self defense. Even targeted because of my sense of worth today, more vocal, more social activism, stand up for injustice and the dispossessed. After work one day and more work searchs, I left the Vancouver Aboriginal Employment centre and woke up in the hospital two days later, a large swelling on my left side fo the head, and no memory of what happened. Money was still in my wallet, so it was not a robbery. I thank my brother for coming out and help me recover after that assault. In Edmonton, I was chased by people in vehicles to go back to the reserve, drink your lysol; I was on my way to Vancouver wearing a business suit. In all this one native man had the choice to take programs, improve on ones self before sentencing, he assaulted a person, and at sentencing , he talk for a half an hour, cried, sobbed and shared his personal story of all that I write about regarding the the failed assimilation of Canada's First People. One person in court room was not sympathetic and yes, the victim has a right to see justice served. The guy should have taken steps in self improvement, anger management to improve his chances in the sentencing factor. Why didn't he? He even admitted that he should have taken these course. Instead he choosed to give his reasons for his actions in court, and well in a conservation hard nosed province like Alberta, the judges expects the native person to act like the rich white girl, the successful white man or cultural diversed person, not like the Indian that is defined in North American culture! Am I a successful assimilated "white" Indian who survived this failed assimilation period of Canadian History? Failed because the the government admitted complicity by the residential buyoff, with strings attached, and now the building of super jails for the incarcarated, no physical contact, everything communicative is digital? No human contact? Sterile genocidal practice?

In closing, after this Supreme court ruling, the provinces have to take in consideration the racist colonial history of Canada and how that embedded racism is still in society, its education, political, and cultural apparatuses, its leaders, judges, prosecutors, police, and teachers; all who have abused their public responsibilities and societal trust by positioning the native child, man and woman in lower social and economic definitions of class and political statute. Unworthiness of “being” purely because of the colour of their skin, because of the inter-generation pattering of ideology between euro-centric grandparents, parents and children, and how the position of native people are defined around the dinner table and on TV. Catch phrase from popular culture has been the definitive signifier that signified the lower status (caste) principles that shaped the conscious and subconscious of today’s societal relationship with North America’s first people. Until we remove the notion of us versus them mentality between the indigenous people of this continent and the descendants of our colonial history we share, nothing will ever change when it comes to how the pre-dominant mass consciousness sees the first people of this continent as a people of being unequal in educational, political and cultural status. So all you naysayer, I would sooner drop a wagon of dung in your back yard than listen to your vehemently racist rejects of this national court ruling. Here in redneck racist Alberta, we need this reading so that all those redneck racists running the justice system and jail system understand their racial historical upbringing, get their head out of their ass and paint a truer picture of justice and restitution. Instead of regurgitating the lecturing Canada’s first people to be like all the other euro Canadians because we all make choices and have to live together responsible. If you have not walked in the moccasins of Canada’s first people, then keep your racist close minded mouth shut. Hy hy, Miigweech, all my relations

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Redford's irrational choice based in old colonial thinking

See link below regarding Alberta's conservative party's infractions: My wonderment about Redford’s her choice of backing Horner instead of Mar is concerning. As we read in the media we know that Mar commands a promising lead. I can only interpret such irrational positioning as thinking old school in her Canadian colonial background. After all the Asian immigrants were not treated as bad as the Natives, but were looked down upon as well by the colonial mindset of the colonial years, the modernist years, the contemporary period, and now this new millennium. Her white imperialistic positioning is showing through her smiling racist teeth. And Horner, well he looks too much like settler mentality rationality, which we do not need. Even though I am not a conservative, as least Mar's ethnicity will be a lot warmer than the old cold stone of Alberta's conservative racist past.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/story/2011/09/23/calgary-redford-horner-second-ballot.html

Those dirty days of Colonialism, a backwards time

A blog on the August 17th CBC web story
Backwards, I agree. I can only quote from my friend d colleague Gitxsan Writer, playwright and poet Neil Benson who I worked with in British Columbia after our film and video training program was completed at the Chief Dan George Film Video training program in 1986. Life took us down a different path till 1989, when the late Ahasiw Kitocigan Maskegon-iskwew (Donald Ghostkeeper) asked me to do a performance piece for the International Pitt Gallery. Having finished my degree at SFU, life was not a bed of roses in the employment department.

Working from Ahasiw request, I decided to track Neil down and visit. He received a Canada Council Exploration grant for his new works & as I read his work I noticed how his writing style was considerably different than my writings. He read his poems out to me, very visceral, cutting images of colonialism affecting the language & culture of the north west people who lived off the salmon for thousands of years. I asked him about his work & style. It was a matter of translations, his mind, & tongue is Gitxsan, so he had to translate his mother tongue to English, & then work the foreign language to suit his culture his voice. Instead of allowing the colonial trappings of British Royal imperialism to destroy the mother tongue in Canada's First People through assimilation policies & residential schools, he kept his mothers tongue. Whereas the words that formed the poems & plays I wrote were very westernized, colonially correct in its narrative structure and development. Indians & Dogs (90, 92, & 94, & now on the net) was the result of juxtaposing his & my words together into a scripted, multi-media and oral traditional performance piece. Neil wrote, "colonialism is the dirtiest word in the English Language"

Re CBC story: First Nations children still taken from parents

Story at: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/08/02/pol-first-nations-kids.html

As a survivor of the 60s Scoop, and a Métis aboriginal, I am still stereotyped as an NDN due to the historical conditions that form the structure and mindset of dominant society. As an indigenous performer who toured aboriginal communities in BC as a modern dancer and actor with different companies, I have seen the problems of some of these communities and talked to the inhabitants there. All around good people, with strengths and failures like the rest of us, we are no different from the urban people living in and around the cities in this country. Family is important to us. We are breaking the cycle of dysfunctionalism that took over our communities, when the European Settlers came to live on this land and push the original inhabitants further and further away from mainstream society. After all this was a couple hundred years since Squanto and Pocahontas were commercialized, and after paintings of some of the original inhabitants drinking rum off the ground, the image of who we were stuck in the minds of the high and low brow new immigrants who arrived off rat infested ships reading dime novels and Ferdinand Cooper Novels about "wild savages" running off with the white man's daughter. So it carries on in history as you people came coming over here in droves and droves of opportunists looking for your pot of gold in the new world. You guys killed most of the buffalo, what else can you destroy? hum? That's a good idea, kill the Indian in the child, and the Indian problem will be resolved! As long as the historical conditions continue to signify the Indians as worthless and unworthy of being, we will still have individuals within families struggling with their self-esteem, raising children. We need healing programs and support programs, not welfare police. Hy hy

Regardng Globe and Mail article: Dismantled sweat lodge exposes rift in Christian, traditional teaching

Original article at: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/quebec/dismantled-sweat-lodge-exposes-rift-in-christian-traditional-teaching/article2066299/

It is sad that this community is so divided. After a century of failed assimilation policies, one community has recovered relatively from the draconian laws of the 19th and 20th centuries. While I accept the Great Creator as the ultimate Spirit encompassing all that is good, Jesus, and angelic spirits, humankind has twisted the words and teachings of Jesus and created a century of fear and distrust between native and non-native people. The Elders and authorities of this community have been duped into thinking that now their religious beliefs are part of the tradition of the community, while at the same time the social ills of the community arise out of behind the veil of civility and Christianization of a people who were always connected to the holy trinity through our own relationship to Jesus when he visited us here on Turtle Island. He told the people that he may not come back because he was going to be killed in the old world and when he was killed, he came back briefly to tell the first people of what happened. This teaching passed down to me by a medicine woman, tells me that what is being taught in the schools, dormitories and previous institutions of the assimilations years, has purposely changed the world and historic view of many first people, and demonized their own history and culture which was part of the Great Spirit/Creator long before the European culture of ships sailed to Turtle Island. Yes, take the community to the human rights courts, because the Elders actions are unacceptable but understandable due to the brainwashing actions of residential schools, reform schools, boarding schools and mainstream society which painted the aboriginal person as heathenistic and void of spirit and worth. Shame on Canada for creating this form of division and mistrust through your failed assimilation policies of Canadian Society.