by Timothy Schafer Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on Monday Jul 19 2021
Conversation or collaboration has been “discontinued” between Marilyn James and the Autonomous Sinixt and Touchstones Nelson Museum on current or future reconciliation conversations Screenshot, Touchstones’ website.
Conversation or collaboration has been “discontinued” between Marilyn James and the Autonomous Sinixt and Touchstones Nelson Museum on current or future reconciliation conversations.
The motivation for the move arises from a decision to not display a map recently created by the Autonomous Sinixt for the museum.
The Sinixt counter-map, an Autonomous Sinixt project developed as part of the T’kikstn Language Revitalization project, was researched from anthropological sources and verified by academics at both the University of B.C. and UBC Okanagan and funded by the First Peoples’ Cultural Council and Heritage Canada.
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It may come as a shock to many that a people can be declared extinct in Canada. But this is precisely what happened to the Arrow Lakes people who, rejecting this colonial name, refer to themselves as the Sinixt. In 1956, an order-in-council was passed by the government of Canada declaring the Arrow Lakes Band to be extinct under the Indian Act.
The international border between Canada and the United States partitions the traditional territory of the Sinixt, most of which lies in the southeast interior of British Columbia with only a small percentage of their land in Washington state on the American side. After first contact with European settlers in 1811, the Sinixt were gradually dispossessed of their land, pushed south of the international border and forced to seek refuge in the U.S. They were amalgamated by the U.S. government with 10 other tribes and settled on the Colville Confederated Tribes reservation. Today, the majority of the Sinixt live in the United States, where they a
by Contributor on Monday May 17 2021
To celebrate the April 23rd Supreme Court decision recognizing the Sinixt Nation has constitutionally protected Indigenous rights to hunt in ancestral territory in Canada, we are featuring a collection of First Peoples literature.
Books of My Life
What is your favourite childhood book?
My favourite childhood book is the collection of Dr. Dolittle stories by Hugh Lofting. My grandparents sent me the whole collection. My mum couldn’t read them fast enough for me, so I had to learn to read. I remember that by book six I was reading on my own and so very proud.
The Equality Equation: Is Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby the “Black Messiah”?
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The Equality Equation believes ending the War on Drugs in Baltimore begins a full assault on systemic racism
When the privileged are faced with Equality, it feels like oppression BALTIMORE (PRWEB) May 11, 2021 The goals of the COINTELPRO program were to prevent the growth of Black organizations (especially among youth organizations), to prevent Black organizations from gaining respectability, to prevent Black organizations’ ability to arm themselves, to prevent a coalition of Black organizations, and to prevent the rise of a “MESSIAH who could unify and electrify” Black organizations. From 1956 to 1971 the Counterintelligence Program used covert and illegal projects to surveil, infiltrate, and discredit Black organizations.
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