Last Resort: Natives Stand Up

Canadian government plays divide and conquer with Algonquin indigenous people over logging

Clayoquot partnership rotting away

Mark Hume covers off many questions several Now Public readers had regarding the position of First Nations, Enviros and the community in general." BARRICADING THE FORESTS Clayoquot partnership...

Exxon $2.5 billion oil spill ruling overturned

"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned the record $2.5 billion in punitive damages that Exxon Mobil Corp had been ordered to pay for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaska. The...

Over A Thousand Marched Toronto Streets Supporting The Aboriginal National Da...

At the end of a four-day rally at Queen's Park yesterday, hundreds of Natives and non-Natives packed up their tents, dismantled their teepees and proceeded to march through the busy downtown Toronto streets...

BC First Nations face salmon shortage

This summer is predicted to be a very poor season for salmon fishing in the West Coast. First Nations fear that low catches will have a dramatic effect on their diet, of which much is based on salmon. ...

Regarding Venezuela's government tv network banning the Simpsons

Following up on the story reported in Fox News: –This is a fascinating story, well worth thinking about, and it is not new. I have a copy of the book "How to Read Donald Duck - Imperialist ideology in the Disney Comic" by Dorfman & Mattleart first published in Chile...

The Bulldozing of Homes not only Happens in Palestine by Israel but on Americ...

I came across This very sad story. A heartbreaking one indeed. It is one of Danielle Shenandoah a Traditional Oneida Woman and Mother who has paid a heavy price for speaking out against having a casino in her territory.She is not Palestinian but like Palestinians she is...

Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants: Origins of Terms

This is from Marc Prensky who wrote about "Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants" in On the Horizon (NCB University Press, Vol. 9 No. 5, October 2001.) I've been using the terms "digital natives" and "digital immigrants" since I read the article several years ago. My own...

Government On Agenda To Exterminate Cherokee Nation…Again

You would think in this day and age that the government would quit trying to exterminate the Native American tribes but it is true. The Government is doing it again.Congresswoman Diane Watson is proposing to exterminate government relations with the Cherokee Nation. The...

The Real Holocaust - The Palestinian One

Will The Palestinian Holocaust ever get the world attention like the Jewish Holocaust? Will Palestinians end up like North American Native People? "The Real Holocaust - The Palestinian One The UN partition of 1947...

Edmonton Racist Cops

"First Edmonton Cops pick up homeless indigenous people off Whyte Avenue and hold them in a van for hours and then drop them off miles away from where they picked them up.Edmonton police investigate forced ride claims Now they are exposed for having used drugged and drunk...

Newspaper Rock: Maya scorn Apocalypto

"With more than half the population of Guatemala descendants of the Mayan people, it is not hard to see why they are up in arms over the movie Apocalypto that promotes the lies that were originally made to mask the wholesale murder of a race of Natives along with the theft of...

Hewers of Wood

" Rights do evolve.... Natives must be allowed to harvest timber on Crown land for personal use, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled Thursday. ""

Skulls

" Rare Roman sarcophagus containing headless skeleton found in London So how did this skull end up in New York? Archaeologists surveying a property earmarked for a Long Island housing development discovered an ancient skull."

1676 Thanksgiving Proclamation

""The Holy God having by a long and Continual Series of his Afflictive dispensations in and by the present Warr with the Heathen Natives of this land, written and brought to pass bitter things against his own Covenant people in this wilderness, yet so that we evidently...

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