SPIRIT WALK 2018 – Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal

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Saturday June 16, 2018, I’ll be walking the Spirit Walk with other volunteers to raise money to keep the women and children of the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal safe and connected to their traditional healing practices.
I am seeking donations. Any amount helps!! The money we raise will pay for the summer Healing Retreat for the women and children of the Shelter. Help us help Indigenous women in our community: DONATE HERE! https://t.co/WrMILLDp6Y
THANK YOU/MAARSI/HIY HIY for all your love and support.

Mel

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ᐊᐧᐦᑯᐦᑐᐃᐧᐣ ~ Wahkohtowin ~ Kinship

credits:
Dayna Danger, Métis/Saulteaux/Polish Visual Artist, song Calling of the Ancestors
Sources:
Heather Davis, The Queer Futurity of Plastic
Zoe Todd. Fish, Kin and Hope: Tending to Water Violations in AmiskwaciwâSkahikan and Treaty Six Territory
Moanaroa Te Whata, Ambassador of Aotearoa, 2017
Connor Pion, Dish with One Spoon Treaty Territory, 2017
Nicole Neidhardt, Remembering Futures from the Past, 2017
Heather Campbell, 7th Generation Inuit Community, 2015

 

 

ReconciliACTION – How Settlers Can Support Indigenous Peoples Daily

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The act of reconciling means the restoration of friendly relations; at least two sides are needed to do this action. Much of this labor is taken on by Indigenous peoples and it is exhausting. We are asking settlers to do their share.

Things YOU can do TODAY:

  1. Visit or call a Native Friendship Centre in your area and ask what you can do to support.
  2. Call a shelter with Indigenous clients and ask how you can help/what they need.
  3. Visit/log on to your university’s Indigenous Studies program for a calendar of events to attend.
  4. Read books BY Indigenous writers.
  5. Watch lectures and talks BY Indigenous scholars, artists, Elders, leaders, youth…
  6. Watch or listen to Indigenous-led content – MediaIndigena, Indian&Cowboy, CBC’s Unreserved, APTN.
  7. Buy Indigenous products made by Indigenous people.
  8. If an Indigenous person is experiencing racism, call out the racism, stand beside the Indigenous person as an ally, be a witness.
  9. Take this FREE online course provided by the Native Studies program at the University of Alberta.
  10. Donate to Indigenous-led initiatives.
  11. Write to your government leaders in support of Indigenous peoples.
  12. Demand better from your government by voting for those who are allies of Indigenous peoples and hold them accountable for their action or inaction.
  13. Check yourself: stereotypes of Indigenous people are rampant in settler culture. Change your thinking and call out stereotypes when you hear them.
  14. READ the Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action (TRC), the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), and the Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP).
  15. Read Erica Violet Lee’s Reconciling in the Apocalypse
  16. Read Who’s Land is it Anyway? A Manual for Decolonization

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In Conversation with Freddy Stoneypoint – Anishinaabe Badass Land Defender/Protector

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Freddy Stoneypoint, Ojibwe land protector and student-activist from Sagamok Anishnawbek, currently at Carleton University, has been arrested twice on stolen native land for direct actions supporting the rights and existence of Indigenous peoples:  and 
We hung out in Kahnesatake, Kanien’kehá:ka territory, where the town of Oka and the government of Canada continues to steal native land; a fitting place for our discussion.
Here is our conversation (it was a windy day!)

It’s Not My Job to Teach You About Indigenous People – The Walrus Magazine

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It’s Not My Job to Teach You About Indigenous People

Ask questions about Indigenous issues & realities? Yes. Questions are good and welcome. Also, read and explore recommended resources so that we can have a discourse and engage EACH OTHER. In other words: Do your homework.