Blackfoot petroglyph from the Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park / Áísínai’pi National Historic Site.
(Source: uleth.ca)
maybe edmonton
An attempt to fall in love with Edmonton, Alberta (plus added diversions)
Posts tagged native
May15
May7
Letitia Bird (Metis), Red River, Manitoba, 1858
(Source: collectionscanada.gc.ca)
May5
Residential School mural? #yeg #edmonton #trains (at Grandin/Government Centre LRT Station)
You can read all about the controversy surrounding this hideous and deeply troubling mural here (and yes, that’s Bishop Grandin, a nun holding an aboriginal child, a residential school in the background, and an aboriginal family being led away from their child and towards a train station).
Apr30
The Beaver Lake Cree Nation is taking the Alberta government to court over treaty violations caused by the tar sands →
(Source: resistkxl)
Apr26
Children at Sandy Lake, Alberta, 1965.
(Source: Flickr / mennonitechurchusa-archives)
Apr17
(Source: sikssaapo-p)
Apr16
Bigstone Cree Nation March on Edmonton, 1981
(Source: contentdm.ucalgary.ca)
‘OH-TOH-KIN - Publication For/Of Native Peoples Resistance’, Vancouver, British Columbia, first issue, 1992.
Apr14
From Peanut Butter and Drymeat Sandwiches: An Exploration of Indigenous Student Perspectives exhibit at the University of Alberta’s Rutherford Library in Edmonton.
Apr8
Is Stephen Harper trying to provoke a confrontation with First Nations?→
(via newsreelz)
Apr7
Charles Camsell Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta, 1946.
Read more about the deeply problematic history of the Charles Camsell as an “experimental hospital for aboriginal patients” here, here, and here.
(Source: peel.library.ualberta.ca)
Apr5
This is not okay.
This stereotypes ancient and beautiful cultures.
This exploits cultural identity as a capitalist tool.
This indoctrinates racism in the minds of our children.This is not okay.
The Native Delights food truck opened yesterday (Thurs, April 4) in Churchill Square and will be on Whyte on the weekends - more info here!
Mar30
David Faber and Lewis Cardinal at Pecha Kucha 13 (June 2012) speaking on their “Spirit of Edmonton” proposal to the City of Edmonton, which envisions the development of an Indigenous Centre for Art and Knowledge, an aboriginal cultural venue at Fort Edmonton Park, an urban aboriginal youth arts centre, an Edmonton indigenous cultures walking trail in the river valley, the reclamation of areas of significance to native peoples of Edmonton, including Rossdale Flats, among other initiatives.
The Spirit of Edmonton proposal is available here. (I’m curious to know whether the horror that was the 2013 provincial budget affected the proposal, although it appears that the Fort Edmonton addition and walking trail may be going ahead).
Mar24
We Were Children - Trailer (APTN and TRC)
The film is available to rent, download or buy the dvd here.
(Source: holiday-sunrise, via sikssaapo-p)
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