Blogger, Artist, Social Media, Web Designer, Photographer- I blog about nouns-people, places and things, even when it's negative I try to put a positive spin on it. @tinawinterlikfb https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.com
While watching I pick out certain points, see below. Check my twitter feed for the rest but WATCH THE VIDEOS!! VERY VERY IMPORTANT FOR ALL FIRST NATIONS and all INDIGENOUS peoples around the world.
Peace & Friendship Treaty-Rethink whole processhttps://t.co/uftTlZdeSD
Made treaty w/ #crown
No Land Surrender
Women Never touched Treaty
http://thinkindigenous.usask.ca/speakers.php#HostRyanMcMahon Sharon Venne is a member of the Cree Nation - an accomplished First
Nations Lawyer, she has worked on the United Nations Declaration on the
Rights of Indigenous Peoples since the 1970s at the United Nations in
Geneva and New York.
She is a lobbyist and an expert on Indigenous politics at the
United Nations and has won several cases against Canada. She also works
with First Nations communities on implementing their own legal systems
and advocates for First Nations to be recognized as 'Peoples' and not
just 'People', a word that is used to refer to a minority and not what
First Nations in Canada are working toward.
She has served as an advisor
for the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee's international team, played
an active role in the national and international struggles of many
Indigenous Peoples, including the Lubicon Cree and Dene Nation.
Sharon has a Masters of Law degree from the University of Alberta
and is the author of Our Elders Understand Our Rights: Evolving
International Law Regarding Indigenous Peoples (Theytus Books, 1998)
Sharon Venne is an indigenous lawyer from
Saskatchewan and one of the first indigenous women to graduate from law
school in the country. She was instrumental in helping establish the
United Nations (UN) Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
Sharon Venne: In Canada, I think we’re going backwards.
The recognition of our rights is not a positive thing. We have had to
bring what’s going on with our peoples to the UN. In February, we filed
an urgent action with the Committee on the Elimination of Racial
Discrimination (CERD) about all the legislation that’s coming down. The
other part was on the racism that was generated in the media against the
Idle No More movement. There was no one doing anything to prevent that
kind of racism from being spread by the media. So we put a two-part
intervention together to CERD. So the UN work is ongoing; the
declaration is only one aspect…
Sharon Venne, Lawyer, Expert in International Law Linking Inherent Rights to Self-Determination and Treaty
I don't watch much TV. We haven't had satellite for ten years, and rabbit ears don't work in the valley -- I've tried -- but when I do get to watch TV, the commercials are my favorite. Some appeal to the heart. Some appeal to the funny bone. Some appeal to the intellect. (My sister and daughters get tired of explaining these ones to me.)
In what is now the Canadian state, from 1870-1921, eleven numbered agreements took place between Indigenous Peoples and the British Crown. In contemporary times Treaty1 is greatly misunderstood from both Indigenous Peoples and non-Indigenous Peoples alike. What took place at these historical meetings has been a source of contention from the outset. The central issue is the land. Who had authority and jurisdiction over the land? What was agreed to in terms of the Treaty? Another issue is whether Indigenous Peoples signed away their right to govern themselves according to their laws and customs. The source of this contention is based on oral understandings versus the written understandings of Treaty. An explanation as to the reasons why
Treaty is misunderstood is in the following quote:
For an understanding of the relationship between the Treaty Peoples and the Crown of Great Britain and later Canada, one must consider a number of factors beyond the treaty's written text. First, the written text expresses only the government of Canada's view of the treaty relationship: it does not embody the negotiated agreement. Even the written versions of treaties have been subject to considerable interpretation, and they may be scantily supported by reports or other information about the treaty negotiations2
In spite of all government attempts to convince
Indians to accept the white paper, their efforts will fail, because
Indians understand that the path outlined by the Department of Indian
Affairs through its mouthpiece, the Honourable Mr. Chrétien, leads
directly to cultural genocide. We will not walk this path.
—Harold Cardinal, The Unjust Society
In
1969, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and his Minister of Indian Affairs,
Jean Chrétien, unveiled a policy paper that proposed ending the special
legal relationship between Aboriginal peoples and the Canadian state
and dismantling the Indian Act.
This white paper was met with forceful opposition from Aboriginal
leaders across the country and sparked a new era of Indigenous political
organizing in Canada.
The Indian Act is the principal statute through which the federal government administers Indian status, local First Nations governments and the management of reserve land and communal monies.Apr 14, 2016 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Act
restricted First Nations from leaving reserve without permission from Indian Agent - see picture above (update: 18/04/16 - the pass system was
a policy endorsed by the government; it was never an Order In Council
or Regulation but was definitely designed to keep First Nations on the
reserve)
enforced enfranchisement of any First Nation admitted to university [1];
could expropriate portions of
reserves for roads, railways and other public works, as well as to move
an entire reserve away from a municipality if it was deemed expedient;
could lease out uncultivated reserve lands to non-First Nations if the new leaseholder would use it for farming or pasture;
forbade First Nations from forming political organizations;
prohibited anyone, First Nation or
non-First Nation, from soliciting funds for First Nation legal claims
without special license from the Superintendent General. (this 1927
amendment granted the government control over the ability of First
Nations to pursue land claims);[2]
prohibited the sale of alcohol to First Nations;
prohibited sale of ammunition to First Nations;
prohibited pool hall owners from allowing First Nations entrance;
