Wednesday, April 30, 2008
The videos of aboriginal reconciliation lectures at Douglas College this past winter are now available online. The purpose of the series of speakers was to shed light upon the topic of reconciliation between the Aboriginal people of British Columbia and the province’s other citizens. An opening panel included remarks by The Honourable Steven L. Point, [...]
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Terry Glavin cautions that we must not forget the truth component of the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He elaborates at theTyee.ca.
This story fascinates me — both for reasons of human interest and aboriginal rights. DNA testing has identified seventeen living relatives of an aboriginal hunter who died perhaps three hundred years ago. His remains were frozen in glacial ice in northern BC in the territory of the Champagne-Aishihik First Nations (Athapaskan). The seventeen people connected [...]
The directors of Metro Vancouver are taking the province of British Columbia to court over the recent transfer of land to the Musqueam Nation (Coast Salish; Vancouver). Rationale: “Metro Vancouver fully supports provincial efforts to achieve reconciliation with the Musqueam people and other First Nations communities,” said Board Chair Lois Jackson. “This legislation, however, sets [...]
I’ve taken some shots for making public my personal evolution on the use of the internet (and laptops) during lectures. Now, Inside Higher Ed has an article on the University of Chicago Law School’s banning of the internet in its classes. Reactions are mixed, to say the least. Sphere: Related Content
The Minister of State for Mining in BC Kevin Krueger at the Minerals North Conference in Smithers: “I can see the day when highway 37 north will be like a pearl necklace of mines up and down the road.” Sphere: Related Content
The BC Supreme Court ruled today that the Lax Kw’alaams (Coast Tsimshian; Prince Rupert area) do not have a right to fish for commercial purposes. Ian Mulgrew, of the Vancouver Sun, quotes the judge’s ruling: But their claim that an “ancient trade in eulachon grease has transmogrified to a modern-day right to commercial fishing of [...]
Part Two of Vaughn Palmer’s conversation with Mike Harcourt is in today’s Vancouver Sun (or here). The slow pace of treaties has more to do with “wilful native ignorance” of the full meaning of recent court decisions than it does with resistance by the government. Gist: Apart from the failure to grasp what the courts [...]
My question about the pronunciation of labels for years in this decade continues to produce discussion. Now, I have audio grist for the mill. The following audio clip is from CKNW Radio (980am) in Vancouver. This morning, financial analyst Michael Levy was discussing the collapse of asset-backed commercial paper investments in Canada. During the conversation [...]
Cross-posted at SACCommentary (Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges) As a cultural anthropologist who teaches courses in the First Nations of British Columbia and the First Nations of Canada at Douglas College, I rely heavily on my RSS Feed Reader to collect for me current news items for my classes. I use both Bloglines and [...]
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