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I asked AI about Bill C-53, and here’s what it said:
Bill C-53, officially titled the Recognition of Certain Métis Governments in Alberta, Ontario and Saskatchewan and Métis Self-Government Act, was introduced in Canada to recognize certain Métis governments and provide a framework for self-governance. The goal was to affirm the Métis Nation’s right to self-determination, particularly in areas such as citizenship, elections, and social services.
However, concerns quickly arose regarding individuals falsely claiming Indigenous identity—often referred to as "pretendians"—who might exploit the bill to access resources meant for Indigenous communities. Organizations like the Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians (AIAI) warned that fraudulent claims could undermine Indigenous rights and funding allocations.
Due to these concerns and a court ruling invalidating parts of the bill, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Gary Anandasangaree announced in December 2024 that Bill C-53 would be paused. This decision followed the withdrawal of support from Métis Nation-Saskatchewan, further complicating its progress.
The term "pretendian" has gained traction in discussions about Indigenous identity fraud, highlighting the need for stricter verification measures to protect Indigenous communities from exploitation. But Indigenous identity is incredibly complex, and policies like Bill C-53 raise deeper questions about who has the right to claim that identity and how it should be verified.
Personal Reflection:
The Métis identity debate is super complicated. You shouldn't be profiting from ceremony, but what happens when identity is contested at the government level?
For example, Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) lists me as French because my great-grandparents claimed that on the 1921 census. But if you go back to the 1881 census, my family was listed as Portuguese and Indian. I’ve traced my lineage back over four generations, and my DNA shows 9% Indigenous ancestry—but that doesn’t count for official recognition. If a community doesn’t claim you, then what?
I took a Truth & Reconciliation Carving course—supposedly, I’ve done "the work." But I don’t advertise myself as Métis because it’s SO CONTROVERSIAL. Instead, I say I have Indigenous ancestry mixed with Portuguese, Swedish, Kalapuya, Iroquois, French, Sooke, Songhees, Bohemian—Canadian.
In BC, during the 1800s, people of mixed Indigenous and European ancestry were called "Half Breeds." But in Red River and Saskatchewan, Métis identity is distinct—you have to have Cree heritage, and for many, it's almost like a religion.
I don’t trust anyone to define my identity for me. You have to find yourself, dig deep into your roots—and it’s hard because you will uncover things you might not want to know.
Be careful out there. Trust no one but yourself. 🤔😢
At 28, after working 11 years in farm labour, I finally went to college. I took psychology, and it changed my perspective in so many ways.
We studied disturbing experiments—how people could be convinced to do awful things just because an authority figure told them to. We examined history, from Nazi Germany to war crimes, and I kept asking myself:
Why?
Why do people follow orders, even when they know it's wrong? Why do soldiers commit atrocities? Why do everyday people become complicit?
And then I realized—it happens all the time.
So many of the terrible things we hear about—the injustices, the violence, the corruption—are often justified with:
"I was just following orders."
"It’s the rules."
"I didn’t have a choice."
But the truth is, there’s always a choice. It might be hard, it might cost something, but it exists.
I have regrets—big regrets—for things I’ve seen, things I’ve heard, and the times I didn’t act.
The Changing Face of Vancouver
Vancouver has changed drastically. According to recent estimates, the Metro Vancouver region's population has now surpassed 3 million people. The growth is staggering.
And with it, we face challenges no one wants to talk about.
Newcomers arrive without knowing Canadian values, without speaking the language, and—most importantly—without respect for First Nations people. Many bring their own racial prejudices, their own caste systems. And because these newcomers are from different countries, even they don’t always get along.
We have people coming from war zones, escaping poverty, carrying trauma we can’t even imagine.
And yet, there’s another side to it—one that really scares me.
We see newcomers buying up land, hiring only their own communities in restaurants, grocery stores, and businesses. And in doing so, they often discriminate against the very people who have lived here since time immemorial—the First Nations.
And beyond that, they discriminate against other Canadians. I’ve been told this isn’t technically racism, but discrimination.
Either way—it’s wrong.
The Violence No One Talks About
The incident I saw with the young girls in Prince George wasn’t isolated.
Not long ago, a 91-year-old grandmother was assaulted at No Frills.
These stories are happening more and more, but we’re told to stay quiet, to accept it, to pretend everything is fine.
But it’s not fine.
Things have changed, and not for the better. Vancouver isn’t the same city it was. There’s fear, tension, and unspoken divides growing wider by the day.
And if we don’t talk about it, if we don’t ask why—if we don’t question—then we’re just following orders too.
Let this be the LAST rally to defend and protect our salmon!! Stand Up for the Salmon, your life and every living being on the West Coast depends on them and this is not just a First Nations issue, or a BC issue, it is an INTERNATIONAL issue!!
SAVE OUR WILD SALMON! END FISH FARMS NOW!!
Some people think farming is okay but I have worked in farming and mass production, it is not. They call for the fish farms to be taken from our waters and put on land but I disagree. No more fish farms, we must go back to the way it was...150, 200 years + , either we do it ourselves or Mother Earth will do it for us. May the ancestors watch over us and may we make them proud. Sending love and light to all as we undertake this monumental task.
"Dozens of Indigenous leaders and protestors rallied outside the
Vancouver Convention Centre today urging the province to dismantle
salmon farms along the B.C. coast.
The calls came as environmentalists and members of the Musgamagw
Dzawada'enuxw and the Kwikwasutinuxw Haxwamis First Nations occupy two
Marine Harvest Canada salmon farms in their territorial waters off the
north end of Vancouver Island.
They say the salmon farms pose a threat to wild fish populations.
Today is the day! Shout OUT to all you office workers around the Vancouver CONVENTION CENTER...PLEASE COME OUT! print of some signs and get down there and let's make a show.
The wild salmon need you. OUR CHILDREN NEED YOU!!
This was last year!! Please EVERYONE COME OUT!! WE NEED YOU!!
Listen, please listen...
The village of Snauq - is now known as Kitsilano...
Do it for your Children's Children!!
YOUR ATTENDANCE IS REQUIRED!!
For the wild salmon, for the orcas, for the bears and other wildlife that depend on wild salmon populations, for indigenous rights, for our beautiful coast, for your children and all future generations! This Thursday, we need your voice.
The BC NDP Cabinet is meeting with First Nation leaders September 6&7 at the Vancouver Convention Center WEST. Please join us for a rally on Thursday from 11am - 1pm, to tell the BC government not to renew the salmon farm licenses of occupation in the Broughton Archipelago.
The Wild Salmon Defenders Alliance will rally in solidarity with Musgamagw Dzawada'enuxw, Namgis and Mamalilikulla who are occupying two fish farms to assert their Indigenous rights and and responsibilities to care for their unceded territory and fishing resources. We are calling on the BC Cabinet to exercise provincial jurisdiction to revoke licences of occupation given to fish farms in their territories, thus putting an end to 30 years of fish farm violations of their Indigenous rights, and result in a very meaningful act of reconciliation.
It's time for ALL BC citizens to take a stance. We have seen the footage and the evidence of disease within these fish farms. We have seen the endangered herring and wild salmon trapped in the pens. We have seen the deformations, the open wounds, the sea lice, the emaciated fish, the clouds of waste. We have seen the entanglements of whales and other sea life. Thanks to Alexandra Morton, First Nation leaders, the crew of the R/V Martin Sheen, and so many others, we know what is going on out there. Please show up to show your support for the NDP government to revoke these fish farm licenses of occupation. And if you don't live close enough to attend, please phone and email John Horgan's office every day until we are satisfied with their course of action. 1-250-837-1715; premier@gov.bc.ca
Media Advisory Solidarity Rally – End Fish Farms in the Broughton Archipelago Date: Thursday, September 7, 2017 Time: 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Place: Vancouver Convention Centre, 1055 Canada Place
Do you ever feel really small and think what can I do. Are you tired?
I am. Sometimes I feel like I want to quit this blog but then I read something and I think...this needs a voice. I am small, right now I am poor and at the end of the month homeless, I am single mom of a beautiful 15 year old girl and this fentanyl crisis is freaking me out. I haven't personally lost any friends or family to this crisis but I do know many who have and it's devastating. Any loss of life is devastating. GRIEF! Been there.
I come up with all these cRaZy thoughts and my kids says "what are you on?" Nothing! I just have these ideas that pop into my head. Insights! Right now to me, it feels like this Fentanyl crisis is very similar to the small pox epidemic. Many people don't really know about it, we are just learning more as those enlightened enough delve into the muddy waters of so called "Reconciliation."
We are losing so many lives on the DTES (everywhere) but the stats are showing it's a high percentage of First Nation women. The matriarchs! These poor souls who have suffered so much already from the legacy of the Residential schools, from being in Foster Care, from being pushed aside and forgotten by society..these single moms, these children, homeless, preyed upon by other sick souls and the very government that is supposedly elected to protect used and abused them and just single parents in general. OUR SOCIETY IS REALLY F*KED UP!!
IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE THIS WAY! I could go on a long rant about how we are supposed to be hunters and gatherers and 200 years ago, at this time of year huge amounts of salmon would be arriving and the men would be helping fishing and women would be cleaning, drying the salmon. The women would be harvesting berries, the women would be gathering roots and making cedar clothes. Everyone would be working and getting ready for winter. Everyone had a job, home, and love...NOT LIKE NOW!!
Am I making any sense? Women had women to rely on. They had children but they could find their own food and if you study anthropology- is they provided most of the diet. But in today's women, especially single moms are treated like shit. Either you work yourself to death and have someone else raise your child (i.e. lovely hard working Philipino nanny ) and your kid has her morals, not yours...because you weren't there...or you have to live in precarious oppressive situations or God forbid the government swoops in and steals your child.
Why do you think these women are using drugs. To numb the pain of all that I just mentioned.
Enter Fentanyl. BIG PHARMA!
This is going to be a long rant, you might want to get a coffee and some kind of treat because this is ugly shit and not nice to talk about but I need to vent here and if you want to stick around well, I hope I enlighten you or if you are already maybe you can share.
My arms are already sore from typing...I've got tendonitis, so I can't type to much for to long. It's why I can't take many labour jobs, it's why I should be on disability but disability is as evil and de-humanizing as welfare. It's not enough to live on, proving your poor is humility, proving you can't actually work is even more exhausting and depressing and I refuse to grovel to the government- unknown entities who see you as a number and can dismiss you with a keystroke. So many suffer from this useless system. And Christy Clark, thank god she's gone she help propel this shit to the level it is. And John Horgan, while I love what you have been doing so far, $100 extra month is NOTHING!! NOTHING!! NOTHING!! NOTHING!! NOTHING!! NOTHING!!
WE NEED BASIC INCOME NOW FOR ALL SINGLE PARENTS!!!
(and tiny houses on all the streets, close them, hook the houses up to street facilities, plant gardens everywhere, shut down all the shipping and shit, use local only, clean up the harbour, bring back OUR SALMON, teach our kids how to survive with no F*CKNG electricity, because WHEN THAT SOLAR STORM, earthquake, Tsunami, hurricane, flood, or god forbid MOON misses the U.S. and hits us...help our child have some sort of tools to survive.. even if it's just a few.. DO IT FOR OUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN)
whew! breathe...1, 2, 3... That feels a little better. I needed to vomit that all up! BLAK!
Last night on the news this lady was saying about all these kids in OTTAWA starting back to school and they were afraid for them. One mom said that when she was young if you smoked a joint it wasn't the end of the world..now maybe it is.
I remember when I was little... 12 ...my sister she gave me this book called GO ASK ALICE, it was supposed to warn me about drugs, because people were doing LSD and jumping off roofs and shit..in honesty ...it made me want to do drugs. Go figure!
DRUGS... WHAT ARE THEY? Let's talk about that for a minute.
My mom had open heart surgery when I was 14, she had all sorts of health issues, she may have had Lupus we don't know, she hurt all the time. She was on meds up the ying yang. She took prenizone, you know that one, it's evil. After she had been on it 10 years we read it caused all sorts of evil things. She died 10 years ago. GRIEF- remember I mentioned it above...hit me really hard. My mom was grieving for years. My dad took his life when I was 11 years old. She had 3 teens to raise, she had 4 kids but the oldest was already married and all that pressure took it's toll on them ...I remember mom saying to me...that she had to get a job or the welfare would take us. When my dad took his life there life insurance was void. My mom was an incredibly strong beautiful loving woman and she survived, she raised us and she got me through school even though I encountered some awful teachers and wanted to quit so bad. She survived another heart attack later on when my child was just 5 months. She hurt all the time and BIG PHARMA was pumping her full of drugs.
I remember near the end. I was so scared. I had had a falling out with my family, I had no money. My kids dad is Mexican, he is lucky he make $20 a day so he can't help...and we are not together, so I get nothing. I am on my own...anyways, I had social assistance when my kid was born up until 3. Then they were kicking me off so I figured out how to get into a Co-op, some really lovely people helped an I managed to move but I didn't want some people to know...I was just scared...scared all the time...just like so many of these single moms/dad, aunties, caring for kids...that the welfare system will come steal our kids and force them into some evil situation where they will be abused, used and preyed upon..(a lovely legacy of the residential school-(sarcasm here...I hope you realize).
Anyways, my mom was in terrible pain, she couldn't take alot of pain killers and she called an asked me could I please get her some medical marijuana...she was ready to try anything...and I was living in Nelson- and green was BC underground ecomony and how we survived the recession if you are clueless to such things. But I told her no. I was scared. I was so scared someone would see me and then I would lose my kid.
Why am I telling you all this? If you are still with me...Hello! Thanks for listening.
Drugs. They are F*KING EVIL. but what kind of drugs. In the sixties parents were afraid of LSD, in the 80's is was cocaine, in the 90's it was crack, in 2000 we were back to heroin (thanks to 9/11) and now it's a FENTANYL CRISIS!
Where's it coming from? I heard it's coming from China, ...the heroin is coming from Iraq, Iran, Afganistan...I don't know...somewhere like that, because of the wars, and it's coming up from Mexico and South America...along with cocaine.. all thanks to the lovely WAR ON DRUGS. War makes wars...just in a different way. NEGATIVE ENERGY FEEDS IT!
So if you looked back in history and at true Indigenous- hunting gathering societies, they all have medicinal herbs that the shamans/medicine man/woman/two-spirits/peoples gave to people who were dealing with GRIEF or some other kind of troubling event.
Did you ever see IN THE HEART OF THE WORLD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRgTtrQOiR0 they warned us back in 1990's to take care, that we were screwing up the world and we better stop. They use the coca leaf to think well, to find answers to their problems, the shaman guides them.
So what's my point about all this. My point is where is the connection and disconnection.
Do you think that someone who has a home, food to eat, children to raise, is surrounded by loving people is going to turn to "drugs". Maybe is someone they love dies, or many and they are in grief the shaman would help them. But what is happening right now if you STEP BACK and LOOK at the big picture is that women are being thrown aside, their children must suffer the consquences and you have EVIL BIG PHARMA spewing forth it's vomit onto poor suffering souls.
The opiate crisis is at it's peak because doctors- (so called healers.. ya right) have been medicating people with DRUGS to stop chronic pain, to medicate (depression), to zombize (ADHD) our children...
Apparently dealers put a little bit of fentanyl in one packet so someone purposely od's leading users to thing that it's super high quality and they risk getting it because they want the best high. Doctors/BIG PHARMA created this issue by prescribing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxycodone
for pain. https://www.drugs.com/oxycontin.html
Is any of this making sense...it's what they did and our doing to our First Nations, especially our BEAUTIFUL STRONG MATRIARCHS, the women who fought so hard to raise strong young men and women to carry on. It's colonialism, yes, and the legacy of the residential schools and corporate greed, it's today's government and society using and abusing the most vulnerable..the women and children. They are wiping out the women, women who love the earth and wan to protect their mother. They are wiping out the mothers. https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2017/06/do-it-for-every-child-taken-june-is.html
HOW DO WE RISE? HOW DO WE CHANGE THIS? With art right? We resist, we share?
What else can I do at the moment. So this morning I came across the first article shared and thought what can I do, to give this man a voice, to give a voice to everyone who has lost someone they loved to this evilness. And that's why I made this post. So I am sharing. It's all I can do because I am having a hard time keeping my head above the water...I am trying not to drown...just as the mother, our beautiful mothers, and mother earth is drowning.
Use ART LIKE A DRUG!! Heal yourself, save your friends, RISE UP and let's take back the control. Let's save the mothers, grandmothers, children and let's SAVE MOTHER EARTH. She doesn't need us but I think she still loves us just like all your inhabitants, but if we keep hurting her, hurting each other, hurting ourselves..well she will hurt us..she won't mean to but she will just be protecting herself. Does that makes sense? Are you still here!! THANK YOU!
Thank you! If you have read even some of this page, thank you. I hope that teachers, parents, professors, doctors, everyone will read my page and share it and discuss what I am saying. We need to calm down, but we need to rise in a peace way. We need to reach out support and love one another.
In the video above Deepak Chopra says something about "we think we are outside of nature, we are not, we are part of nature, maybe if we calm down, nature will calm down" (not a direct quote, to tired to go get it)
BUT ISN'T IS OBVIOUS!
With all the awful energy, with the hate being spewed in the world, especially of late, no wonder the storms are getting bigger...yes our ignorance and disrespect of mother earth is causing climate change but you must get to a much higher level and step back and see it for what it is. Energy. We are all energy.. positive and negative energy...it has to go somewhere... how will we use that energy, our energy. One day our energy will go back into the earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust...let's call upon our ancestors, the positive energies of the universe to help us in this hour of need. Let's reach out and love one another, let's help each other. Do it for our children's children.
Sending love and light. I love you all. I love the water, the ocean, the dirt, the birds, the sacred cedar trees, the moon, the sun, I love everything and I ask you to think, eat and pray love like that book says. Be love today. Let's turn things around.
UBCIC Open Letter: S-3 - Sex based discrimination in the Indian Act
Posted by Ubcic 9sc on June 01, 2017
Dear Minister Bennett:
On May 17, 2017, Bill S-3 was amended in the Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples in order to remove the long-standing discriminatory treatment of Indian women and their descendants in the status provisions of the Indian Act, and more particularly, to remove the sex-based distinction between 6(1)(a) and 6(1)(c) status. We write to you today to ask you to support the Senate Committee's amendment, which will assist Indian women and their descendants, and all Indigenous peoples, to move forward.
The Union of BC Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) mandate is to work towards the implementation, exercise and recognition of our inherent Title, Rights and Treaty Rights and to protect our Lands and Waters, through the exercise and implementation of our own laws and jurisdiction. The UBCIC strengthens Indigenous Nations to assert and implement their Aboriginal Title, Rights, Treaty Rights and Right of Self Determination as Peoples. The UBCIC works collectively amongst Indigenous Nations in BC and to act as an advocacy body to provide a cohesive voice (regionally, nationally and internally) in support of Indigenous Nations and communities, and to promote and protect each Nation’s exercise of Sovereignty within their traditional territories.
Mandated by Resolution 2011-13, “Principles for UBCIC Exploratory Process on First Nations Citizenship”, UBCIC cannot accept any legislative amendments to the Indian Act that continue to perpetuate sexual discrimination against descendants of Indigenous women. First Nations must have the ability to maintain and protect the legal/legislative status and existence of its present and future citizens. Please find attached our December 6, 2010, position paper which advocates for the removal of the 1951 cut-off, and other effects of the sex-based hierarchy.
In 2008 UBCIC intervened in the constitutional case of McIvor v. Canada in the British Columbia Court of Appeal. In 2010 UBCIC participated in the Parliamentary review process for Bill C-3. Additionally, UBCIC has submitted materials to the United Nations Human Rights Committee in both December of 2011 and June of 2016 in support of the petition of Sharon McIvor and Jacob Grismer. Ms. McIvor's petition asserts that Canada stands in violation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights because the Indian Act continues to treat Indian women and their descendants differently and less advantageously than Indian men and their descendants. Further, in March of 2016 the UBCIC supported Mr. Jeremy Matson’s Petition to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) calling for a CEDAW General Recommendation to Canada to call for a comprehensive national strategy to promote the equality of Indigenous women and their descendants in regards to “Indian Status” under Bill C-3 of the Indian Act.
In light of Canada’s long history of piecemeal reform and the damage of this ongoing discrimination, Canada must now move to eliminate the sex-based hierarchy between 6(1)(a) and 6(1)(c) in the status registration regime. The UBCIC’s position has been, and remains, that the only effective remedy to the ongoing sex discrimination is to place Indian women and their descendants born prior to April 17, 1985 on the same footing as Indian men and their descendants born prior to April 17, 1985, so that they are all entitled to registration under s.6(1)(a) of the Indian Act.
Therefore the UBCIC supports the following amendment made in the Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples, and commends the members of that Committee for reaching this stage. We understand that this amendment has come to be called "6(1)(a) all the way".
That Bill S-3, in Clause 1, be amended by adding: (a.1) that person was born prior to April 17, 1985 and is a direct descendant of the person referred to in paragraph (a) or of a person referred to in paragraph 11(1) (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) or
(f) as they read immediately prior to April 17, 1985. (a.2) The purpose of this provision is to entitle to registration under s. 6(1)(a) those persons who were previously not entitled to registration under s. 6(1)(a) as a result of the preferential treatment accorded to Indian men over Indian women born prior to April 17, 1985, and to patrilineal descendants over matrilineal descendants, born prior to April 17, 1985.
It is our position that there is no impediment to Canada immediately and finally eliminating the sex discrimination in the status provisions; this amendment provides the means to remove the central inequity in the regime. The time for talk and consultation about whether to continue Indian Act sex discrimination is long past.
The sex discrimination in the Indian Act has been, and continues to be, a tool of forced assimilation. The continued top down approach for deciding and approving status under the Indian Act has no direct involvement of Indigenous peoples. Contrary to the right of self-determination affirmed throughout the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, especially Article 3 of the latter, Indigenous Affairs cannot determine who citizens of Indigenous Nations are. Under Article 8 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which Canada has endorsed without qualification and has committed to fully implement, Indigenous peoples have the right not to be subjected to forced assimilation. To respect that right, Indian women and their descendants born prior to April 17, 1985 must have the same entitlement to 6(1)(a) status as Indian men and their descendants. We also note that under Article 22(2), States are obligated to take measures to ensure that Indigenous women and children are protected from discrimination. We believe that this requires States, including Canada, to eliminate their own legislated sex discrimination against Indigenous women.
Consultation is required with First Nations about many practical issues regarding resources and about how to move to a new nation-to-nation relationship. But the sex discrimination maintained by the Government of Canada for more than 100 years must be removed in order that these talks can take place with Nations that have been made whole, and in which women are equal partners and participants.
We urge you to support the "6(1)(a) all the way" amendment to Bill S-3.
On behalf of the UNION OF BC INDIAN CHIEFS
[Original signed]
Grand Chief Stewart Phillip
President
Chief Robert Chamberlin
Vice-President
Kukpi7 Judy Wilson
Secretary-Treasurer
CC:
Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde
Assembly of First Nations Women’s Council Chair Grand Chief Denise Stonefish
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As someone who has lived in Kitsilano off and on the last 20 years I have seen this mural at the Vancouver Maritime Museum countless time and I mostly ignored it. I never found it interesting...it always bothered me but I didn't do anything.
But now it really bothers me. Look at it.
The First Nations are on the outside and look at how they are depicted in comparison to the the Military dudes. Pleasee help I might vomit...
There's not a single woman represented.
This mural was created in 1986, probably for Expo 86 and it HAS GOT TO GO!!
So I have sent an email and I hope I get a response. This was part of it...
Please for Canada150+ and for Reconciliation change it to reflect the truth.
We know so much more now. Please...that whole area ..has a history no
one acknowledges..and yet we occupy it. I challenge you to do something
about it for Reconciliation. I hope you will consider my suggestion.
Thanks
and I suggested on the Facebook page a new mural instead.
Here is part of the letter I wrote to them, let's see if the respond.
I was wondering if you are planning on a new mural.
I mentioned on Instagram a while back but heard nothing. The mural
should represent Indigenous people bigger or as big as the colonialists
and should feature women too!. That mural is 1986 and it is a very
visual and I think (negative )influence on all who pass.
Please for Canada150+ and for Reconciliation change it to reflect the truth.
We know so much more now. Please...that whole area ..has a history no
one acknowledges..and yet we occupy it. I challenge you to do something
about it for Reconciliation. I hope you will consider my suggestion.
Thanks
I
know some people who do murals, create beautiful Coast Salish designs
and I have reached out to a few. I did a lot of research on Coast Salish
designs as well.
Update May 18 2017: So Vancouver Maritime Museum Responded.
Here is what they said.
So I am going to put a proposal together...I imagine anyone can. So if you have great idea go for it or maybe we can all work together. Let's see what happens.
When I joined the live feed it was already in progress. I am just re-watching from the beginning and I started crying...it's hard to write with blurry eyes but I must share.
"We Need You to Save Our Lives!"
"We need you to Vote because our children are dying!"
We can have a better place to live. There are so many people who ARE loving and care and want to change things. We have to be strong and brave and know the truth and VOTE!!! PLEASE VOTE http://anyonebutclark.ca/
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A great opportunity today at #UBC’s campus starting at 1pm - raising of the Reconciliation Pole, carved by Jim Hart & team. #SAA2017pic.twitter.com/vOSUmSnfL8
From Wikipedia
Photo Description
English: Beaver "Manda", by Jim Hart, 1995, Canadian Museum of History
Date 21 February 2016
Source Own work
Author D. Gordon E. Robertson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Hart_(artist)
Hart was born in Massett, Haida Gwaii, British Columbia. His mother, Joan Hart, is the grand-daughter of Charles Edenshaw. His father was European, allowing Hart to escape the Canadian Indian residential school system that many Haida of his time were sent to. Instead, he grew up with his grandparents and became a fisherman.[2]
Hart discovered his passion for Haida art in high school. He began carving seriously in 1979. Hart first apprenticed with Robert Davidson in 1978 to help construct a set of totem poles. From 1980 to 1984 he became an assistant to Bill Reid in Vancouver, who by then was too seriously afflicted with Parkinson's disease to do much of his own carving. He began his work with Reid by putting the finishing details on The Raven and the First Man, a centerpiece of the Museum of Anthropology at UBC, and he also assisted on Reid's Spirit of Haida Gwaii / The Jade Canoe.[2][4]
Hart lives in both Vancouver and Haida Gwaii.[2] In Haida Gwaii, he is known as ˀIdansuu, a hereditary chief name that he received in 1999 after it had earlier been held by Charles Edenshaw.[2][3] As chief he belongs to the Hereditary Chiefs Council of the Haida Nation.[5] He was awarded the Order of British Columbia in 2003.[6] Read more
