Jane Fonda, Taz Bouchier and Our Current Status avec Fossil fuesl and the current Status Quo

The bottom line Taz, is that we need another Standing Rock, Oka crisis in Canada to bring to head the pressing issues that now exist. We are in a day and Age, where prophecies are unfolding every other day, and the few in power are doing their best to sway the populace to accept their vision for the future, one world government, one world religion, and all that is not part of the God we love and pay homage too in our prayers. the language of blood seems to be the only recourse to wake up the moronic governmental leaders, provincial and federal, and moronic mass culture with constant media saturation of anti-propaganda media to dispel the lies, and naysayers who troll the net to disavow the environmentalist, indigenous activist and traditional leaders who have not bought into the capitalist schemes of the present day. We are all complicit in this oil industry trade-offs of cars, trains, automobiles, helicopters, boats and planes we use to travel to and fro. The for the pipeline idiots will surely remind us of that, and Jane Fonda, can very well go back to her silver spoon she uses to expound her uneducated reactionary views which just tends to disservice all the hard workers who day in and day out battles the on slaughter of media, oil industry supporters attempt to continue pushing the agenda of the oil industry and run off industries who make a product and profit from the fossil fuels of the twentieth century. I total understand the need to support families, a life of birth, re-birth and the path to our eventual demise. But how do we change the minds of the masses after over two hundred years on indoctrination expounding the benefits of the industrial revolution, mechanical modes of production and transport, food production and so on with all the convenient of life today. Ultimately our lives and this planet earth is in the hands of God, and his word. As it is written, there will be a new heaven, and a new earth, and all that was will pass away and we will begin our new life with God and al his glory. SO, is all our hard work for nothing Taz, when we see what is being extrapolated on the www through families use to a way of life and unable to change a way if life to something simpler, more less materialistic, and feel they need the fossil fuel industry to get back on their feet? We all have to make sacrifices , and I am afraid that the reality is , that the mass moronic culture is unwilling to de-technologicalize ones self from the fossil fuel and off shoot industries which defines life style and the market place today. we have all been sucked in the unnatural way of lfie and are too use to it to change back to basic modes food growing, living off he land, and all that was before western civilization attempted to change the heathen and infidel. thanks, Taz for your word, I hope I make sense in a increasingly dangerous and consumptous world

CupOf Coffee 1983

A song to listen to with your cup of coffee

I'm Not A Prophet Just A Singer

 I was living at 1750 Davie Street, Vancouver hanging out with Colin MacPherson, Debra Charlie, Barb Gunderson, John Anderson doing the Carnegie Theatre Guild 401 Main Street Vancouver, DTES. 1983

Getting up at 4 AM to RESPOND to my friend and colleague filmmaker Loretta Todd!!!

I wrote this in response to a friends Facebook posting . First paragraph is original posting: Image from old performance art gig I did in 1990: Loretta’s Original Post: "On various occasions I was approached by our people - not artists or filmmakers - who had seen films/plays made by our people that they felt traumatized them, that the stories were constructed without any consideration for the meaning or effect it would have on Indigenous people - especially Indigenous women. In fact, many felt those films/plays were really white man's fantasies or that the women in the work were to blame for their tragedies. Does a filmmaker/playwright have any responsibility to the people who watch their films? Do Indigenous filmmakers/playwright have any responsibility to audiences? We talk about the "power" of words but what does that mean to those who write or make films? Do we give the white audiences what they want but couch it in Indigenousness so it is ok? My answers to those people was to say, well, I respect the work that goes into making films or plays - and as a filmmaker all I can do is make decolonized work myself to counter those colonized imaginations. Can we possibly have a forum for such discussion or will the colonized win?" by Loretta Todd A forum would be of interest. How did we as indigenous people develop in according to the transformation of storytelling from an oral based tradition to the colonial based creations that occurred during contact, or exist today in some form of Eurocentric patterning, construction, sculpturing or pictorial reference. From the time, we are little babies, we are introduced to stories from our parents, relations, and the written word. Learning how to live with our fears as we grew, how to compartmentalize our traumatic experiences as a child How emotions develop or do not develop ((Residential, assimilation control) and what happens to us when we personally have a private or public meltdown, a cathartic release of emotional baggage which gets triggered by watching and listening to an emotional moment in a play, film, song, musical motif, artwork, performance, novels and so on. From my early days as a child remembering the abuse I experienced, work or play accidents, the pain, the blood, (what ever my senses were absorbing at the time) such sad moments would and did come back to my present senses because if what I was doing that day. Listening to a song, (remembering a breakup, or the ecstasy of ones first time falling in love.) Does the Creator have an obligation to inform me of my “upcoming “ experience of traumatic event, experience prior to it happening, so that there is some consideration to how such an future event is going to affect me? In some case, God and the gods did warn the humans to watch out for an upcoming event, to prevent harm or suffering, and well, today, do us little creators have to go around every other day to inform our audience that our creations may offend you, traumatize you, or cause you to feel bad, or confused??? I do not know the answer to your question Loretta. Similar posting to Curtis’s posting on fb a while ago about production practices of Eurocentric filming to indigenous filming, (ceremonies, circles prior to production, versus the hierarchy of the Hollywood Hallucination, its value system, and modes of production. Ultimately, I am not talking about the regimentation of the arts in cases an actor or dancer’s training, a filmmaker’s long endless trail of writing, re-writing, number crunching, photographing, or a writer, or visual artist’s endless array into constructing the perfect form to entice, or embrace the audience member or reader into the world of one’s creation. So, on that note, lets look at the people who inquired about cause and effect of works on the audience member. You open with: “On various occasions I was approached by our people - not artists or filmmakers - who had seen films/plays made by our people that they felt traumatized them, that the stories were constructed without any consideration for the meaning or effect it would have on Indigenous people - especially Indigenous women.” On an elementary level, yes, the artist should post a notice if objectual content may offend or affect people severely. ON that elementary societal level, it exists today, Film labels at beginning of movies, book introductions, public announcement prior to shows. As in an old book I once had Amos Vogel’s Film as a subversive Art, there were many articles and examples of film works which crossed cultural, sexual, and aesthetic taboos, which shocked the audience, happenings which enraged the audience member, and where as of course police came in and did their arresting job. An artist may have or may not have a responsibility towards notifying the audience of objectual material in ones’ work? Depending on the artist’s intention. Entice, massage, entangle, shock the audience member’s sense to get a reaction, a change of thinking, rationalization? So, we come to the difficult notion regarding the re-traumatization of indigenous women through our work as creators? From an indigenous standpoint, yes, we as artist must take inconsideration how our works will affect our people when it comes to re-telling the traumatic personal and public stories of the genocide assimilation policies, institutions, orphanages, foster homes, priests estuaries, and private and public places where our people were abused, sexually assaulted, or murdered because we were “Indians”. More so for our women, because of in my opinion the Missing women tragedies which affected so many families and mothers and fathers. Daughters, sons, and babies. Now on another level, I think about performance art and other cultural aspects if I can coin a phase “Reactionary” art works, Guerilla filmmaking, shock art, Otter Muhols “Happenings “Happenings” of the post Nazi Germanic years. When I first read about this character in Vogel’s book, I was shocked and appalled at the artist’s previous history. I was taking Experimental and Avant Guarde filmmaker Al Razutis’s video production course and reading that book affected the development and creation of my performance video theatre performance By Leisure/By Penance, (1986) which look at the Native Artist in Contemporary society. I utilized some of those shocking images briefly in my video trying to understand my history as a native man in a white racist society. I also captured a video image of apiece of liver falling in front of the camera onto a piece of glass, and shot a scene of hands tearing apart the liver. Shock value, what was I trying to say back then? I know at that time of my life, all my physical and sexual abuse as a child was repressed and forgotten, until such traumatic memories came out through my academic training as a young artist! Playmaking class (theatre) we were working with the colour punk: that was when suddenly my rape experience came up and I went into a rage in my working space area, with the teacher eventually coming up to me to ask me to tone it down! Another time in an acting directing semester, the teacher Olive Crawford came up to me and whispers in my ear, “to come back to earth, you are scaring the other students” Again, rage and anger from my abusive years came out through the exploratory work of the time. Which brings me back to your other statement: “In fact, many felt those films/plays were really white man's fantasies or that the women in the work were to blame for their tragedies." What was I projecting through these experiences, performance art? Were they uncontrolled cathartic releases in the sacred theatre space where we can explore such emotions if we are in control as actors or artists? An actor must be 110 % committed to his/her performance but at the same time remember that 10% of his/her brain that it is only acting! So, at the time as a young native art student I was learning the euro centric forms of art/culture, filmmaking void of my cultural history but learning all aspects of art culture, when to break the rules, and so on. It was not till Spirit Song Native Indian theatre Company (1884) and the Chief Dan George Memorial Foundation Nine-month video training program (1986), that I was being re-introduced to the oral tradition, and “True” history of what happened to us as a people. Previously I was the white Indian Artist performing the “white man’s fantasies” the Hollywood Indian, or attempting to find white man’s success on their playing terms, which was a take it or leave it scenario, an unworkable scenario unless we worked a subservient level, and that if I did not get the part, it was my fault because I was an Indian. So, when these -good indigenous audience members say “those films/plays were really white man’s fantasies …or that the women …were to be blam[ed] for their tragedies” What does that say for the indigenous creator/author of the story? That our creation abilities are thwarted by euro-centric forms of story-telling, western semiotics, colonial upbringing? Looking at the well-made play, a one act play, a standard three act play or two act play, episodic play, or film, we are in one level governed by the traditional euro-centric forms of storytelling, traditional dramaturgical devices to introduce characters, rising conflict, climax, and the denouement. But as you point out Loretta, we are now attempting to de-colonized out stories through our own practices, training, and cultural upbringing. In closing, you finish off your inquiry: “We talk about the "power" of words but what does that mean to those who write or make films? Do we give the white audiences what they want but couch it in Indigenousness so it is ok? My answers to those people was to say, well, I respect the work that goes into making films or plays - and as a filmmaker all I can do is make decolonized work myself to counter those colonized imaginations. Can we possibly have a forum for such discussion or will the colonized win?" The power of the word, and what does that mean to us as artists? Well, the power of the word, the spirit of the word in endless, much can happen in life in how we chose our words. Spiritually, we can only look at the Creator, and how the power of the word brought creation in to being. How our words as artist bring into fruition the genesis of our own creations. How to respect the tools and gifts our creator has given us through our genes, upbringing, cultural training education and academic reasoning. Yes, respect is so important these days, Wars have been started over the wrong usage of words, we must consider how our work will affect audience members and have initiatives to counter act negative reactions, and attitudes. For Headline theatre’s tour of Out of The Silence, we had counsellors on our tour because of how forum theatre affected the audience members and even ourselves as actors. As a filmmaker, I had to change one of my films to take in consideration another artists’ objections to usage of a poem of the artist because as a university student I did not ask the artist permission and used the poem in a filmic scene to get an reaction for the audience members of the time. And as I stated earlier, the liver scene was created for purely audience reaction. So, the life of an artist is a learning curve. Respect for the audience is important and awareness of culture history is important and artists should create accordingly and respectfully, unless we live in a fascist society and we need shock art/culture to shock the society out of complacency! Decolonizing oneself as an indigenous artist is important and decolonizing the audience member is justified as well to change the colonial mindset of the last century and the next generations. God, bless you Loretta, hopefully I haven gone off on a tangent and my words make sense today in this complex world. Donald Morin, BA

On one final closing note, I remember my friend and colleague late Metis Artist Donald Ghostkeeper's performance work with this piece. Former SFU Modern Dance Student Maggi Guzzi, one of the dancers with us who played a residential school nun, did a scene where she straddled one of us residential school student characters (Ms O'Sullivan) on the stage and then poured milk over the performer. from under her black nun's outfit, while she lifted  her front area.  People were shocked and offended at the time. Genocide, how offensive was that? smile emoticon:-) & frown emoticon:-( The things we do as artists to change the world. Have a nice day Loretta, thanks for allowing me to express my ideas and experience

Pondering Words for a New Age, A time of Technological Freedom or Containment?

Re-posting

NOTED Testimonial [On the online paper NDNs In The Age of Terror]: “Donald Morin, Métis performer, filmmaker, and [former] teacher at Vancouver's Native Education Centre, raised extremely important political and cultural questions about the indigenous media in today's "age of terror" and the use of film technology as a tool of resistance to capitalism. Donald theorized what he sees as a move from the age of mechanical reproduction towards an “age of technological authenticity.” Quotation from: Pam Wilson of wilsonpam@mindspring.com and Michelle Stewart producers of the Global Indigenous Media panels and screenings at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference [March 2004]...in Atlanta. [Georgia, USA.] Artist Note: Addendum 2016. As we move towards the [Winter] Solstice, we are coming to… [a new world order in relationship to the soon to be appointed president of the USA; Donald Trump] …. The Black Snake Prophecy is being fulfilled in Lakota territory, Hunkpapa territory, People starving the world over, indigenous people the world over are being encroached on, decimated, wrongfully imprisoned, have their children being taken away, while drugs usage continues, and alcohol and sex crimes continue to plague our territories, our homes, and our communities. As always, crass commercialism, crass consumerism, social media propaganda and desires, pornography, gangs, crack cocaine, all of it used to suppress a people, the masses, and the dispossessed. …[so we must] ” live life to the fullest, walk gently on this earth, if I can quote an International Indigenous Friend of mine Laila Hansen …. [From previous postings from] AFN Chief, DIA Valcourt, and other traditionalist comments about the current conditions of our people [(Spring, 2015)]. Now over a year later, [o]ur street people here are [still] struggling and dying, others in the new super jail, our women are being abused, and our children taken away, as another indigenous artist friend of mine mentions during Red Jam Slam "...how do we keep the government's greedy hands off our children..." [Peaceful] Resolution [ of the current conflict at Standing Rock is paramount and of extreme importance to the well-being of all sides, and the global community watching, as well as the ones watching from the heavens. As well watching you, me, them, 24/7, all of us even in our sleep, where the Angels of God and the wicked one come visit us in our sleep. We are truly energy beings living in the body of the flesh, our souls directing us down that road of options, choices, desires, and demands. And with my rotting flesh, I have failed so many times, I hope I do not forget to get back up on my feet and keep love in my heart. Write on My Heart Today, is a song http://www.isuma.tv/dammedia/write-on-our-hearts-today-at-the-trc-edmonton I wrote during the Kosovo Wars and when my friend Lyle Thomson had a stroke and I visited him at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver. IT truly is what life is about, Life is based on everything that comes from the heart, not what we eat and consume! We truly must remain humble, graceful, be read to take action against injustice and hate. This is continually] …important, as the language of blood permeates in the air these days, as anger turns to hate, hate turns to violence, and bodies into dirt. If I can quote an artist [Sandra Semchuk’s] … recording of my ideas in 1995, "...Canada is not immuned to this chaos of discontent (At the time I was referring to the Kosovo War, and other terrorist situations abroad). IF recent news reports propagate opinions and possible scenarios pertaining to the potential actions of Canada's First People, as another Oka, Gusterferson, etc., then…reconciliation is of paramount importance and with dire urgency to initiate a just place to resolve conflict (Gawa Gyani: 91 -94 KJDC) and to finding balance between all of us in these final days of terror.

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.

An Open Letter to my one of my former media students from IMAG, now a great visual artist, See on FB

To me Judy, I relate to your story, more in fact that I was called the shitbox, the etc, etc, Tired of the negative aspects of our existence, Your car was a shitbox, but you are a good person, we create negative images within and around ourselves because of the forms of the dime novels of the modernist period, which ironically re-gurgitated back to its early filmic adaptations avec comic movies of this day, la de da! Mine was a "pile of crap", "jezuz Donald u #%#%$# uo again" and we push ourselves into what "they" have painted us for 500 years! Great to see the art today of our contemporaries, emerging and established artists, what does this have to do with my car, naming it, blah blah blah? I attended a workshop Monday with the Rubaboo Festival, and a wonderful lady Joanne Daniels share a wonderful perspective on who we are as people and why culture is so important avec the spiritual and the Cosmological nature of our breathe, our place in the world, and how our breathe is left on our path, intertwining avec ancestors, ancient ones, aho, let it be. So naming our "pony" was essential in our travels to bless our pony, name it because as we are the ones who are able to shape matter, matter exists as a breathe even in the things we create. Thunderbirds, thunder, so deep within the earth's soul and beyond, we as a first people were taught these words long B4 the Old World arrived. As Jesus walked among us, he said I may not come back, because they might kill me, and so it was so. While away Jesus comes back and shows that "they "did kill him, but he will be back soon. Jesus was of many great aspects of the Cosmological beings here and today, and I feel that a great weigh has been lifted off my being, and the car is a gift from the universe for work I have done, and more work that I must do, Spirit Pony I like. Green is a natural colour, don't you thing? Part of the Woodlands, the little people, and deep and around Mother Earth. Deathtrap, well, that's more like the trap door in my opinion, It will happen when it happens, so let’s forget about that till we are dead, then we can stay asking questions , creating spiritual art in the dead zone between life and beyond. Keep up the Great work, Hy hy Miigweech! ;-)

Anti-Harper rally draws hundreds to Ottawa core

All you conservative Harperites can go to bed each night knowing that you are all complicit in the many lies perpetuated by this fallacy of a government. When the system collapse and the economy is in ruins, you can thank the ultra right wing fascist and fools who lied their way into power stepping on the disadvantage, the dispossessed, and others less fortunate than yourselves. Brigette DePape did more for us as a people with her actions than anything you conservative idiots think you can do sucking up to their lies. To see Stockwell's wife hold the ridiculous We love Harper Stop sign , shows they do not have a creative or original thought in their minds or their body politic, and are desperate to show that they are on the right track as a people supporting a corrupt government. To see that fat cat cow smiling like the fascist pig dog she married shows how scary these euro centric systemic racist fools are. Get rid of these people immediately and send them back to their ancestors land

Brigette Depape, upsetting the politics of ratified complacency

The politics of complacency. We on both sides of this argument are swimming neck deep in it. What exactly is the issue here? That she is a young woman who upset a patriarchal bastion of colonial thinking, affirmative culture governing, has upset conservative thinking women, who feel that this woman was wrong for standing up and voicing her concerns with two words for 20 seconds in a political and monarcharistic domain? She was interrupting a speech pronounced by the Governor General. Stop Harper. Period, a stop sign symbol she posted those words on, hid the subversive "propaganda" under her skirt, and stopped the ideologues for a fraction of a second as the colonial guard took her arm and escorted her off the political stage. A media and political stage in a colonial building that reeks of the imperialistic and colonialistic history of a British Empire. A empire that utilized the Letter of Patent, Vatican doctrines, and mercantile greed to define and build the society we called now Kanata, Canada. A place where land was stolen from the first people, women and men subverted to colonial rule, and the women settlers stayed in the kitchen, made babies and let the "men" govern the country. It took women to upset the status quo in a male history, and herstory is being written now, as this performance artist, playwright, and ex- parliamentarian employee utilized her intelligence, aesthetics of will and action to create 20 seconds of change. Twenty seconds is a life time in the media and Worldwide Net, She has got people thinking, writing, arguing, grandstanding, empathizing, ridiculing, and others wondering, what the big fuss is about?
Is it a question of semantics, semiotics, basic signifiers who many of us identify with? Stop. (A stop sign) and then the word Harper. Next it’s the throne speech by the GG, not too far from the page, an array of judges, and then all the men and women and servants of parliament? Her Father disagrees with her actions, her mother and sisters support her. Others say it was the wrong place, shows her disloyalty, and that she was wrong. Under all those basic signifiers of that twenty second protest, we have the rule of law. The notion of “Stop” in a family , state, church, school or other societal apparatuses is drilled into us from the time of infancy. An affirmation of what is right or wrong to do. A stop sign, is that an extension of the word stop or is it a traffic signifier? Hers, it was a stop sign for the political highway, the governing and construction of law, language, and society under the affirmation of the affirmative culture which stood shocked for 20 seconds. How dare this girl do that in this building. Then we come to the word Harper, Stop Harper. Conservative party, of course they are going to demand her head, such public shaming in such an important institution like the house of parliament! Her sign over-powered the majority signifier of this media moment, the conservative governing party, awaiting the queen’s representative’s ratification of their mission statement and intentions as the governing party of Canada. With the Governor General as the royal signifier, her timing was impeccable and rightly timed, as she no doubt knows we are still part of the British Monarchy, the Queen’s subjects. Brigette Depape upset this bastion of British royal ratification, by simply walking a few steps and holds her stop sign. It was good that the GG barely flinched during his read, as it will only have been more fuel for the fire, if he stopped, stuttered or was taken back the former page's actions.

In closing, where do we turn to find new people to govern and who agreed with her actions? People say it was disrespectful of parliament. Is it a sign of respect or lack of respect? It’s a respect for life, mother earth and all of us as individuals who voted all the parliamentary people into power, and a lack of respect to us as a people from Ottawa, when we hear about and find out about hidden agendas, political wrangling, manipulation, swaying, and how people in power get complacent because the money’s good and other perks; and then some young woman comes in and holds up a stop sign that read Stop Harper. Our votes did not stop him, but can our conscience, our activism, our uprising, our Arab spring? Well, that’s where the ridiculing came in and I write, don’t be too smug out there in Kanata Land (Canada) because the “Indians are restless” The Natives are restless! We are leaving the reservation, and more than willing to take up arms to upset the status quo of all the complacent societal beings of democracy, and scream , enough of the consumer materialistic culture people strive on, we are taking back mother earth to heal her and protect her for her children, young people , adults and elders who care for mother earth under the arms of our Creator, not some granite building called the house of parliament, Politics in stone, Good work . Brigette Depape, we can change the diapers of the ruling class, and you started the first wipe!

The killing of Kinling Robin Fire carrying a pipe

It's funny, when I sent a letter to the Edmonton Journal regarding the killing of Kinling Robin Fire March 30th in Edmonton. I mentioned racial profiling, and nothing published. The Mainstream media only prints what the masses want to hear with respect to justice and policing, and if we point out the motion of racial profiling, it is dismissed immediately. It is how the Affirmative Culture reifies the notion of what is normal, the everyday, and how meaning and control is learned through family, church and state. Where all the apparatuses of institutional signification are utilized to create classes relations, economic and ethnic, and racial definitions, historical place and contained thru the perpetuation of conquering definitions, and cultural conflict bantering, i.e.: 'Once he gets off the reservation, " Don't go NDN on me!", "Red N#$er!", Savages, etc, etc! The authorities rookies, chiefs, administrators and working police grow up on this "Indian" positioning, the media grows on this historical positioning, and it stays ingrained in the masses heads, minds and hearts, because, well they are the conquerors, all because of the Papal Creeds from the Vatican, Letters of Patents from Kings, and all those dammed Mercantilists who saw the $$$$$ in New World,
So through the high art forms, and the low art media, the New world savage was slowly being torn down bottle by bottle, barrel by barrel, and debased lower and lower as our people drank rum from the grounds of their ancestors. Devious men, traders, voyageurs, and everyone else in history learned of the noble savage, and how alcohol and infected blankets were the weapons of choice. As our people were politicised onto reserves through broken treaties and stolen land, the new world order thought they had it made.
Who was going to hire a NDN if they left the reserve? It was hard for our ancestors who paved the road through colonial Ville, and the New Euro-cities throughout Turtle Island. Once the early Chromographiques and early camera apparatuses captured our bodies on the land and in their cities, our place in society was sealed forever into the mass sub consciousness of popular culture, education forms, and political legislation. Genocide in a bottle, a skid row hotel, and through domestic violence development because once these societal leaders took our land, family, voice and mother tongue away, How did we communicate in this new world of capitalism, and democracy? Through the self-destruction of ourselves because of how worthless the systems apparatuses leaders and teachers felt about us and positioned us, Worthless, , For my brother and I, a Grade one Teacher told our foster parents once “Oh, those Morin brothers will never amount to anything” Fostering and reservations systems worked their hardest to kill the Indian in the child. Sadly many of us did not survive, and sadly many of us have lived and grown up with this worthlessness positioning. With Kinling Robin Fire, I never met the man, but his family is close to families from my extended family relations even though, the system separated us, we were still connected.
Even though all the victims were in an altered state of mind and body, the police have a duty to serve and protect us, not to blatantly kill us. They can disarm us in others ways than certain death kills. Just as the Native eleven year old boy, they tasered in Prince George. These policing methods of containment are part of a whole system failure to us as Canada’s First People.

Convicted killer won't play on Canadian stage

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2011/04/08/bertrand-cantat.html

I am just a man, at times a foolish man, wise man, or a fun kind of guy. I have made mistakes in the past which I regret when it comes to male female relationships, and how emotionality and physicality overcome the senses and pushing and shoving turns to a swing. ON bother sides of the party too. Unacceptable and undeniably part of the human existence since we learned about possessions, pride, power, etc etc, that makes us human. Laws created, prisons created, time served is time released, and then the human attempts to get back on his feet. IN any society, we are taught to forgive through our Creator. I see here nothing but bitterness, resentment, restitution, and deniability in this affair which has nothing to do with our Creator, forgiveness, giving people a second chance, and allowing life to move forward even though our memories and mistakes never leave us. As Cain has done, this man has done, sadly a victim dies, and time was served. By allowing all this fear mongering, pointing fingers, and transferring ones own anger and retribution to others shows that evil is winning in today’s life and we are no longer living our life in according to our Creator. We must start each day with honesty, humility, and respect for life and all that can be good, or should be. If Jesus, Buddha, or Allah can forgive, why can't we. Must we continue to live by the irrational senses defined through our flesh and lack of it through death, so we strive to embrace life as tight as possible? I have had family members who were killed. Yes I am angry, sad and lost without them. But to wake up each day with potential for goodness and helping others, then we should do that here and globally. Miigweech, O'Siem Gala Kensal, all my relations

Edmonton Journal story about Police association says man shot dead by officer was carrying a pipe

What I find disappointing in this story regarding this indigenous man is the decision to kill a man, who needs help. I would ask; is this a case of racial profiling against aboriginal people in Edmonton? After two days of speculation about the details of the shooting and aggravating circumstances, we now read that the victim was carrying a pipe. And we are expected to take the word of a police association member, who rationalizes the actions of the young limited experienced police officers? Far too often, Canada's first people are in a position of seeking help through inappropriate actions, that are detrimental to themselves and people around them, but does that give the police permission to shoot and kill a man who needs help? Why did the police officers aim at a body extremity that would not cause a fatal wound, which would have disarmed the victims handling of a "pipe" but no, the officers shoot and kill the man and ask questions. In my opinion, this is a case of racial profiling and an independent investigation should be initiated by professionals who are arms length from the police or any police association who is there to protect their officers with no regard for helping this man and his family. Shame on the police and their trigger happy officers who see Canada's first people through the colonial racist beliefs of the 19th and 20th century, which has no place today in the 21st century. Miigweech, all my relations

Condemming Mr Jones burning of hte Koran

Terry Jones' church, Dove Outreach Center
http://www.doveworld.org/


Well, Mr Jones, you really messed up this time. To utilize the actions of using fire to burn the holy words of our Creator is not part of God's plan and is actually just part of the Devil's work I would say that you are actually a wolf in sheep’s clothing to decide to use the auspice of your unholy church to disrespect the holy words of our Creator. Your narrow minded world view just caused the death of innocent people of the UN, and you do not realize what your stupid callous acts have started.

As you I assume know, the word is the word, and the spirit of the word is part of God's tools and that we humans here on earth may call our creator different names, but God, Allah and Buddha are one and the same but painted through different aspects of history and cultures. God is very angry with your actions and I would suggest that you apologize to the people overseas that your stupid callous acts angered. I cannot believe that you and your associates would do such a stupid, hateful act because of your narrow self righteous point of view. You will be held accountable by God, and brought swift and condemning justice

Adapted Greek tragedy banned on Sask. reserve - Saskatchewan - CBC News

Adapted Greek tragedy banned on Sask. reserve - Saskatchewan - CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/story/2011/03/31/sk-play-banned-first-nation-110331.html?sms_ss=facebook&at_xt=4d9548b16d1de468%2C0

This banning of a contemporary interpretation of Shakespeare's play is akin the burning of books in the 20th century in Germany, where a people's voice was denied. The actions of these community leaders is completely unacceptable and the Canadian theatre community should hold these Chiefs and Band leaders accountable and demand immediate resignation of their community position as respectable community leaders
One would ask a simple question; why was the play banned? Reading the news story, it is because of the theatre company’s interpretative direction, of which these people in power did not like what the artists painted. And that is what we do as artists, we paint a picture of the world we share, scars and all, and people do not like the picture of themselves due to negative perceptions, then, the people in power must change and admit failure due to their past indiscretions, and learn again to regain the trust of the community they govern.
If the mirror artists’ paint is to close for comfort, then there is a ring of truth on the contemporary version of Shakespeare’s words.
And that is what we are dealing with here colleagues, friends and enemies, the power of the written word, the freedom to express ourselves in a democratic society. With this closure and banning of the play before it opens, these leaders’ actions are parallel to the actions of leaders in another time, where voicing one’s opinion against the people in power can have you imprisoned, shot, or just simply disappear. And of course throughout history we have many incidents where people in power abused their authority against artists, writers or others who spoke up against the social, political and economic injustices carried out due to abuse of power, greed and the corrupt actions of people in power.
And what do these actions by these so called leaders create in the minds of our children who live in our communities and have the potential in life to do great things for society? They will see that if they expression themselves in a view that is not favourable by those in positions of trust and leadership, that they will be punished. They may then settle with life instead of realizing their potential in life.
Perhaps we can look at these people who banned the play as insecure, subconsciously dysfunction due to the century of intergeneration colonial conditioning of Canada’s first people due to the residential schools abuses and assimilation policies of the 19th and 20th century, but I would basically say, that these people’s actions are due to not wanting to see the truth versions of themselves due to their abuse of power and control. Rather fascist in today’s society and void of any sense of dignity, honesty, humility, respect or grace. Let’s hold these people accountable

One NIght Only, this MArch 20th Empire Ball room, Indigenous Singer/Songwriter Donald Morin

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.

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

Live 3 Song Medley by Donald Morin

Lecturing and Teaching with Skype; A First at The University of the Fraser Valley

Hats off to Sophie Isbister for her seamless writing and editing at the cascade student paper about my online lecture and presentation of my media work. Here is the link: http://ufvcascade.ca/2011/02/15/teaching-with-skype-a-first-at-ufv/comment-page-1/#comment-3170

Christine Elsey's work is important at the academic level of deconstruction, evaluation, and applying direct action and ideas to how we manufacture literacy.

Manufacturing Literacy as in The Literacy Manufacturing Company, of which was part of and is part of my ideas as an artist today and since the 1990s. Beyond the systemic conventional terms of a dying colonial world, we manufacture our literacy through our connection to the Great Spirit, the Creator, and to his/her angels and how we teach our children Yes the Affirmative Culture Literacy has always existed and its system with all its apparatuseses of definition and control. great and small are being exposed in the new WikiLeaks literacy and that is good.

Chaos happens today now in the Middle East because it is the time of the end, the slow march towards the end of time. A New Literacy is being created, so stop, stay alert and be prepared to do great work in all you do. Hy Hy The cyber surveillance tools of all the terrologues in the free world may watch us and look out for the agitators, anarchists, militants, sabatours, provocateurs and terrorists, but hell, they have been calling us those signifiers every since they got lost in these woods during contact. So stand up, show your power, and that you are not afraid to fight the terror machine. Feed the poor, heal the sick and get ready for the war! Hy Hy, O'SIem, Gila Kesla, All my relations.

CBC News - Saskatchewan - Sask. First Nations call cigarette seizures 'unconstitutional'#socialcomments

Finally More of our People are taking a stand againest the colonial monopoly Canada has on our sacred tobacco. The time is right for revolution, stand up against the system of decay around us that they call Canada. Take back what is ours now!

CBC
News - Saskatchewan - Sask. First Nations call cigarette seizures 'unconstitutional'#socialcomments

lecture video excerpt from U of FV presentation.wmv

Online Interview of Christine Elsey published in UFV student rag and online at Interview pertains to Online lecture and media presentation I did for Native Studies Class at University of Fraser Valley

http://ufvcascade.ca/2011/02/15/teaching-with-skype-a-first-at-ufv/

1999 Metis Sauvage European Tour Digital Magazine Revisited | IsumaTV

1999 Metis Sauvage European Tour Digital Magazine Revisited | IsumaTV