Category: Reprint

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Article / Latest News / Racism / Reprint / Settlers / Truth and Reconcilation

Time for Truth and Reconsideration in Prince Edward County

Canada Day 2020 marks the fifth anniversary of the unveiling of a bronze statue of John A. Macdonald Holding Court (MHC) on Picton Main Street. Supporters and critics of MHC disagree strongly about Macdonald’s legacy and what honouring him with public memorials says about us. After learning that there’s no evidence for the truth of the main event depicted in MHC, I hope that some of its supporters will share in a reconsideration of the statue’s place in our community.

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Anishinaabe / Article / Covid-19 Pandemic / Emergency Crisis / Kaikaikons Atik Doodem (Johnny Hawk) / Latest News / Reprint

Indigenous resistance movements in distress

We do need to protect our communities, but there is a difference between being cautious and being careful. Being cautious is reactionary, and based on the emotion of fear which makes us unable to think clearly and makes us easy to be controlled. Being careful is an action where we use our intelligence intelligently.

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Band Council injustice / Governance / Haudenosaunee Confederacy / Latest News / Longhouse Statement / Onkwehon:we / Reprint / Six Nations / Treaty Relationships / Warriors

August 17th – Kanonhstaton Call For Support

The following is a communique received by Real People’s Media from those at Kanonhstaton.  August 17th, 2017 Kanonhstaton Call For Support Preamble: In 2006, as a result of the encroachment on our lands and...

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Band Council injustice / Burtch Lands / Governance / Kanonhstaton / Latest News / Legal Battles / Longhouse Statement / Onkwehon:we / Reprint / Return to the land / Six Nations

Our Haudenosaunee Declaration

OUR HAUDENOSAUNEE DECLARATION – statement of the Haudenosaunee people currently blockading Highway 6 in Caledonia August 10, 2017 In May 2006, the Province of Ontario stated in writing, that the title of Burtch Lands would...

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Archaeological / Article / Latest News / Mohawks / Montreal / Onkwehon:we / Onkwehonwe History / Reprint

Hochelaga: the mystery village of the Iroquois

Darren Bonaparte examines the hidden history of Hochelaga, a village of over a thousand people on the present island of Montreal, where Jacques Cartier first met the Iroquois people.  By Darren Bonaparte | Canada’s...

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Article / Eagle and Condor / Governance / Latest News / Mexico / Reprint / Zapatistas

The Most Important Day in the Last 10,000 Years

The Zapatistas have organized a National Indigenous Congress. That congress is now proposing an Indigenous women for president in the Mexican election of 2018, as part of an ongoing “campaign for life and the...

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#NoDAPL / Article / Counter Insurgency / Emergency Crisis / FBI / Latest News / Longform / Pipelines / Reprint / Sioux / Standing Rock / State Repression

Leaked documents reveal counterterrorism tactics used at Standing Rock to “Defeat pipeline insurgencies”

A shadowy international mercenary and security firm known as TigerSwan targeted the movement opposed to the Dakota Access Pipeline with military-style counterterrorism measures, collaborating closely with police in at least five states, according to...

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Article / Counter Insurgency / CSIS / Latest News / RCMP / Reprint / State Repression / Warriors

Spies in our midst: RCMP and CSIS snoop on green activists

  By Bruce Livesey | National Observer | May 5 2017 This is the first installment in a two-part investigative series on governments, spies, and the oil and gas industry to be published by the...

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Article / Canada / Canadian Government / Governance / Latest News / Onkwehonwe History / Reprint / Treaty of Niagra / Treaty Relationships / Wampum

How Canada set up Aboriginal treaties to keep First Nations down

The following is excerpted from “Canada’s Colonial Constitution,” an essay by John Borrows, published in The Right Relationship: Reimagining the Implementation of Historical Treaties. The book, from University of Toronto press, comprises scholarly essays on...

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Genocide / Governance / Haudenosaunee Confederacy / Latest News / Mohawks / Racism / Reprint / resist150 / Treaty Relationships / Truth and Reconcilation / Video

Sharing the Laws of the Land presentation Teyotsihstokwáthe Dakota Brant

From the Walrus Talks National Tour: We Desire a Better Country. Recorded April 22nd, 2017 in the Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown. The Walrus Talks National Tour is a Canada 150 Signature...