My Canada includes rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Love it or leave it! Peace.

Monday, January 26, 2009

UNREPENTANT - unspoken canada, eh. Who in canada speaks of this? Who in canada speaks of over 50,000 Indigenous children who went to canada's Indian Residential Schools, and did not return home? Who in canada speaks of the thousands of unnamed Indigenous children of Kanata, (Gana-da ... "our village") are buried in unmarked graves at former residential schools? unnamed! Who in canada speaks of the families who still wait for notification of the fate of these children, the 'lost ones', their siblings, aunts ...? Who speaks of these families ... today? They are still here. Still waiting for respects from the Canadian people, for the lost children. UNREPENTANT!! Canada's governments - every one since 1867 - unrepentant of failure to uphold the Constitution(s) of the land now known as Canada (1763, 1867, 1982), and related peace treaties. UNREPENTANT!! Canada's large churches, Anglican, Catholic, United - since well before Confederation - unrepentant of 'conversion of heathens', that which we now know as genocide. Genocide - killing a culture - for 'moral' reasons among the ordinary faithful servants of the church machine, converting Indigenous Peoples of Kanata to their 'true' faith. Delusions of superiority, the cause of all human genocides, under the auspices of 'the Crown'. But less philosophy than sheer greed ... genocide for land by the church machine, for the Crown. Land 'in trust' for the Indigenous communities and for their children who were also taken 'in trust', since well before Confederation of Canada, and many didn't come back. The ugly pattern was set before Canada began. Canada joined in, took over responsibility, kept very few records they say, and none of individual children ... they say. (Who is accountable for the individual children?) They say they only have the total enrollment per year, used to distribute per diem funding to the church residential schools, to look after the Indigenous children apprehended under threat or coercion of mandatory attendance, into the care of church havens for zealous pedophiles, sadists and well intentioned dupes, into their care and guardianship. These are the children we mourn. The children who did not survive the Indian Residential Schools, in Canada and before Canada, and always in physical care of the Anglican, Catholic and United church machines. And we note Canada's governments' ongoing complicity with the church triumvirate in trying to cover up their intentions, past and present, with respect to Indigenous lands. And we note the 2008 Supreme Court end of legal violence from Canada against Indigenous Peoples asserting their rights on the land. [48] Where a requested injunction is intended to create “a protest-free zone” for contentious private activity that affects asserted aboriginal or treaty rights, the court must be very careful to ensure that, in the context of the dispute before it, the Crown has fully and faithfully discharged its duty to consult with the affected First Nations: see Julia E. Lawn, “The John Doe Injunction in Mass Protest Cases” (1998) 56 U.T. Fac. L. Rev. 101. The court must further be satisfied that every effort has been exhausted to obtain a negotiated or legislated solution to the dispute before it. Good faith on both sides is required in this process: Haida Nation, p. 532. http://www.ontariocourts.on.ca/decisions/2008/july/2008ONCA0534.pdf Governments ... all three levels ... and private companies ... all must consult, and must accommodate Aboriginal land rights before the project is approved. No more 'legal' violence. The 'land in trust' is not ours to develop. The children in our trust are in their graves. Unrepentant: Canada's Genocide

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My Canada includes rights of Indigenous Peoples.
LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT!
Peace.

Two Row Wampum Treaty

Two Row Wampum Treaty
"It is said that, each nation shall stay in their own vessels, and travel the river side by side. Further, it is said, that neither nation will try to steer the vessel of the other." This is a treaty among Indigenous Nations, and with Canada. This is the true nature of our relationships with Indigenous Nations of 'Kanata'.