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Canada: Truth? Reconciliation?

Eduardo Gonzalez, ICTJ:

"Give truth a chance, Canada"

"As The Globe and Mail has reported, bodies of aboriginal children lie in unmarked graves across Canada, on the grounds of residential schools where the federal government sought for more than a century to extinguish aboriginal culture. ... Thanks to the Canadian commission, federal researchers are working to identify the thousands of aboriginal children who vanished from the residential schools; many of the children are thought to be in the anonymous graves at the school sites.
It is their memory that Canada should honour as it presses forward with its historic truth commission, and works to achieve a healthier, more united country."

Eduardo Gonzalez
Deputy Director for the Americas,
International Centre for Transitional Justice
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081103.wcotruth04/BNStory/specialComment/home
http://www.ictj.org/en/where/region2.html

"... mortality rates at the mandatory aboriginal boarding schools were five times those at non-native schools ... "
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19901202&slug=1107227

CBC video: Stolen Children - Unmarked Graves
http://www.cbc.ca/video/popup.html?http://www.cbc.ca/mrl3/8752/news/features/hunt-1st-graveyard080609.wmv

Sewatahonhsi:iost Ken’nikarihwesha Sewakwe:kon
Everyone listen for a short time	Everyone
Ne kati Tenshitewanonhwera:ton Ne Shonkwaia’tison ne wahi
To Him we are grateful to the One who made us
Rohsa’anion Akwe:kon Tsi Naho:ten Teiotawen:ier Ne Tsi Ionhontsa:te
He made everything that whatever is about in all the world
Tanon Ne O:nen
And now
1	Teiethinonhwera:ton Ne Onkwe’shon :a
We offer our greetings to all the people
2	Teiethinonhwera:ton Ne Ietsinihstén:ha Tsi Iohontsa :te
We offer our greetings to our mother the earth
3	Teiethinonhwera:ton Ne Tsi Kahnekaronnion
We offer our greetings to all the waters
4	Teiethinonhwera:ton Ne Kentsonshon:á
We offer our greetings to all the fish life
Tho Kati Neniohtónhake Ne Onkwanikon:ra
And that is the way it will be in our minds
Tanon Ne O:nen Óni
And now also
5	Teiethinonhwera:ton Ne Ohtehra’shon:á
We offer our greetings to all the root life
6	Teiethinonhwera:ton Ne Ohonte’shon:á
We offer our greetings to all the plant life
7	Teiethinonhwera:ton Ne Ononhkwa’shon:á
We offer our greetings to all the medicines
8	Teiethinonhwera:ton Ne Otsinonwa’shon:a
We offer our greetings to all the insect life
9	Teiethinonhwera:ton Ne Tionhehkwen
We offer our greetings to all the different foods
10	Teiethinonhwera:ton Ne Kahihshon:a
We offer our greetings to all the fruits and berries

Tho Kati Neniohtónhake Ne Onkwanikon:ra
And that is the way it will be in out minds

11	Teiethinonhwera:ton Ne Kontirio
We offer our greetings to al the animals
12	Teiethinonhwera:ton Ne Otsi’ten’okon:’a
We offer our greetings to all the bird life
13	Teiethinonhwera:ton Ne Karonta’shon:’a Tanon Okwire’shon:a
We offer our greetings to all the tree life, the big trees and all the saplings
14	Teiethinonhwera:ton Ne Kaie:ri Nikawera:ke
We offer our greetings to the four winds
Tho Kati Neniotónhake Ne Onkwanikon:ra
And that is the way it will be in our minds
Tanon Onen
And now
15	Teiethinonhwera:ton Iethiso’tho:ken Ratiwe:rahs
We offer our thanks to the thunder
16	Teiethinonhwera:ton Ne Ietsi:‘sotha Ashonthenkha Karahkwa
We offer our greetings to our Grandmother the moon
17	Tetsitewanonhwera:ton Ne shonkwantsi’a Tiehkehnekha Karahkwa
We offer our greetings to our elder brother the sun
18	Teiethinonhwera:ton Ne Tsi Iotsistohkwaronnion
We offer our greetings to all the stars
Tanon Ne O:nen
And now
19	Tetsitewanonhwera:ton ne Shonkwaia’tison
We offer our greetings to the creator
O:nen Tho Niio:re Wakateriwatkwe:ni Toka The:nen Sonkenikonhrhen i:se ke ne’e Sewakwata:ko Tanon Aesewatera’swiiohake
Tho Nikawén:nake
That’s it

Random thoughts and quotes

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

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There is nothing that Indigenous Peoples need from Canada except that which is legally owed to them, that is still illegally withheld by our governments.

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There is no business to be done on a dead planet

-David Brower

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Anarchism, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government.

~Emma Goldman

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The fastest way to kick-start the shift away from a centralized economy is to stop financing the big banks—and through them, the activities they are financing—and to switch your bank deposits to a well-managed, community bank or credit union. In fact, it's the single greatest point of leverage you have as a consumer.

http://solari.com/archive/banks/

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Monday, December 20, 2010

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