Jim Hart- #Reconciliation Pole- UBC- 1pm Today!!

A great opportunity today at #UBC’s campus starting at 1pm - raising of the Reconciliation Pole, carved by Jim Hart & team. #SAA2017 pic.twitter.com/vOSUmSnfL8

— charlesmenzies (@charlesmenzies) April 1, 2017

This marvelous "Reconciliation pole" by Haida carver Jim Hart et al will be raised at UBC at 1 pm this Saturday. pic.twitter.com/saLbrLZ0TD

— Edward John (@AkileChoh) March 29, 2017

"@UBC: Join Us Saturday installation #Reconciliation #TotemPole All welcome @ historic event https://t.co/BGw5zZMYzl pic.twitter.com/DPC2LVlnl8

— Haida Princess (@HaidaPrincess) March 30, 2017

http://www.douglasreynoldsgallery.com/jim-hart
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Hart_(artist)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beaver_Manda_by_Jim_Hart,_Canadian_Museum_of_History.jpg

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

A little teaser in advance of tomorrow's pole raising. Will we be seeing you there?

A post shared by Museum of Anthropology (@moa_ubc) on Mar 31, 2017 at 12:28pm PDT

Reconciliation Pole at UBC to confront harsh reality of residential schools #Reconciliation https://t.co/kj9MOq5XEQ pic.twitter.com/9fiWZfwt8e

— Lyle Viereck (@LyleViereck) April 1, 2017

JOIN IN SOLIDARITY with the HUNGER STRIKERS for Site C- #KeepthePeace

  Solidarity is unity (as of a group or class) which produces or is based on unities of interests, objectives, standards, and sympathies. It refers to the ties in a society that bind people together as one.

  This is what the Peace River valley looks like before Site C dam

 Support Site C Hunger Strike!

https://www.facebook.com/events/449567821909589/

 Support Site C Hunger Strike!

https://www.facebook.com/events/449567821909589/

Supporters of Treaty 8 Stewards of the Land Camp daily hunger strike after the northern camp was dismantled by the RCMP. Please show your support by attending the BC Hydro building. Not everyone is expected to hunger strike!

#StopSiteC

Beginning on Thursday, we invite everyone to gather daily from 8am to 5pm with the intention of shaming BC Hydro, who are violating treaty 8 rights and preparing to decimate vital agricultural lands in the Peace Valley.

"The hunger strike was called immediately following the aggressive RCMP attendance at the Site C/Treaty 8 Stewards of the Land Camp on Tuesday, March 1st, 2016.

Justice Bruce Butler approved B.C. Hydro’s application for an interim injunction and enforcement order to forcibly remove the Treaty 8 Indigenous Land Defenders and supporters, including local farmers and members of the Peace Valley Landowners Association. The court order and the riot act were read out to those at the camp and the RCMP were present until the camp was dismantled.

We believe B.C. Hydro is a failing and highly mismanaged Crown Corporation operating with reckless disregard for the public it is meant to serve. Continued hikes in rates and declining mining and LNG projects have cost us all enough. It is unacceptable that despite this, the British Columbia Supreme Court and the B.C. government have supported B.C. Hydro through its violations of the public trust and rights of the Indigenous Peoples of our province, whose territories they access without appropriate consultation and most certainly without consent. as a result of a flawed and extralegal permitting process the B.C. Provincial government is conducting.

We find it unacceptable that the RCMP have enforced such injustices on members of the Treaty 8 Stewards of the Land Defenders.

The hunger strikes will be held daily outside the BC Hydro Office from 8am to 5pm. Our demands are the same as the Treaty 8 Stewards of the Land; No construction until the court case of Treaty violations is finished and that this project be given a review with the BC Utilities Commission. "

”The government signed Treaty 8 in the early 1900s on our territory. The proceeded to pressure Indigenous people to follow and obey it, but in turn they do not honor our Treaty rights. We were promised to live and thrive continuing our ways of life, our livelihoods. We did not surrender, lease, rent or sell our lands” Yvonne Tupper – Member of Treaty 8

“We’re not eating here today to symbolize how this government is literally flooding the best agricultural lands of the north that could feed approximately a million people. "

"We’re not eating because our government is literally starving us of any form of justice and reconciliation for Treaty 8.” – Tamo Campos

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David Suzuki's letter to BC Hydro's CEO Jessica MacDonald re Site C yesterday
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2016 11:43 AM
To: Jessica MacDonald
Subject: Letter from David Suzuki

Dear Jessica,
I’m deeply disappointed with BC Hydro's heavy-handed tactics in dealing with Treaty 8 community members and their supporters, who had been camped at the historical Rocky Mountain Fort in the Peace Valley for weeks. I'm told efforts had been made to broker a discussion between people at the camp and you before Hydro sought a court injunction to remove them.
Throughout the regulatory process and consultation with affected First Nations, BC Hydro has never been able to make the case that power from the Site C dam is needed or that the project is worth the enormous cost to Indigenous lands and livelihoods, not to mention prime farmland and wildlife habitat.

Peer-reviewed research by the David Suzuki Foundation found that nearly two-thirds of the Peace region has already been devastated by human land use, from fracking to logging to mining, as well as earlier major hydro developments on the Peace River. The Joint Review Panel concluded that the cumulative impacts of this development are massive, and the negative consequences for First Nations and their treaty rights cannot be mitigated.

With Treaty 8 First Nations still in court, these issues remain unresolved. And yet BC Hydro has chosen to steamroll forward, in the absence of proper due diligence and without social license to proceed. Expert after expert has concluded that halting development on the dam to allow these court cases to conclude will not come at a cost to BC Hydro but will in fact save money for Hydro's customers.

I urge you to use common sense and halt work on the Site C dam and sit down with First Nations. The days of running roughshod over First Nations and local communities must end.
Yours sincerely,
David Suzuki

If you live anywhere between Prince Rupert to Fort St.John, there will be a solidarity bus leaving from Rupert to Site C tomorrow. Picking up folks also in Prince George! Lets fill the bus! See details below! Contact Goot Ges for more details!

Help the legal fund for the Treaty 8 First Nations in their battle against the Site C dam at raventrust.com

 

raventrust.com

http://linkis.com/www.vancouversun.com/3zMlT

No Dam Way -https://youtu.be/gsl6YB10DNY

No Dam Way -https://youtu.be/gsl6YB10DNY

No Dam Way -https://youtu.be/gsl6YB10DNY

No Dam Way -https://youtu.be/gsl6YB10DNY

David Suzuki, third from the right, and Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, centre, joined protesters at the Site C protest camp at Rocky Mountain Fort on Monday. (Yvonne Tupper/Facebook)

Treaty 8 Elder-Jack A and I at front end waiting to give notice. Ken took picture.
I am in a skirt in minus 20 something weather.
#rockymountainfortcamp
#SavethePeace #savemoberlyriver
#saveourfish
#cowboys-and-indians-united-to-save-the-Peace
(Yvonne Tupper/Facebook)

Related Links :
http://www.peacevalley.ca/
https://twitter.com/SavePeaceValley
http://www.stopsitec.org/

We have Elders...saying NO to this project....and we need to honour them. We need to honour the generations that are coming. This is going to belong to them when we are gone. And we need to ensure that it happens. This is our home."

"This is a big fight. I think we are going to win it! I feel it in my bones that we are in the right spot. We are on the side of right here. They are on the wrong side. As long as we stand together on this matter, we are going to prevail."

- Chief Roland Willson, West Moberly First Nation 

 
http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/02/save-peace-river-poem.html
http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/01/keepthepeace-make-poster-save-peace.html
http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/01/no-dam-way-to-site-c.html
http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/01/stop-site-c-david-suzuki-grand-chief.html

The Truth about Canada- TEACH YOUR CHILDREN WELL!!

It's really sad and unnerving for many to know that the land we were raised on and the stories we were told in school, were not as we believed. There was a lot missing. Now the truth is out how will it change us, the people of Canada, how will it change Canada! Because we need BIG changes.

It sounds to me that so much work was done and is being done to help the survivors of the Residential schools and their families and children, but only time can heal many of these wounds.

Unfortunately, I am afraid that the people not directly affected will turn away. Everyone is so occupied with their own lives, work and climate issues ....so many issues....WILL CANADIANS LISTEN AND LEARN?  I pray they will. I have fears that the info will be stored and forgotten.

Like many of my dear things that are in storage, I want to get them and have them and enjoy them but I don't have the space or the money. With all this delicate personally deeply emotional and touching, gut wrenching material I pray it's well taken care of, and what is needed it taken and used and practiced so that atrocities like this never happen again.

I send love and light to everyone that worked on the project, all the survivors and their families. I am so sorry this happened to you. I am so angry that people could do such sick horrible things to children and families.

All those poor mothers and father who lost their children. I would die!! What would you do?

How would you feel if this happened to you?


This is the best question...because what would you do, knowing your child is imprisoned somewhere, learning things that you see as no value...and truthfully they weren't because as we all see, the invaders basically brought and developed skills to wipe out all the humans on the earth if we are not careful and make changes.

For what ever dark ignorant reasons that it happened, WE AS CANADIANS must teach our children about this very dark time in history, teach our children this is the real Canada and teach our children empathy, so that this never ever happens again and also so that they can continue to help other and themselves as it will be many many generations before healing can happen in any significant way.

And thus it is so very very important that this info is protected and organized and cared for in the manner it deserves. I pray that in the future some crazy maniac, like we just had as a PM, doesn't decide it's taking up to much space and delete....like the libraries he was destroying.

Terabytes of testimony: Digital database of residential school stories opens to the public

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/unreserved/opportunities-for-reconciliation-pop-up-in-unexpected-places-1.3294030/terabytes-of-testimony-digital-database-of-residential-school-stories-opens-to-the-public-1.3296657?cmp=abfb

 From the article linked here:
"You can't help but be moved when you hear elders cry. You can't help but be moved when you see parents and children try to fight their way through healing and reconciliation and coming to terms with some of the stuff that happened right inside their family."

Residential School survivor Lorna Standingready (L) is comforted during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada closing ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa. (Blair Gable/Reuters)

(Ry Moran )He says doing this work has shaken him to the core and and made him reflect on his country's true history.

"I do believe that the country that we think we have or that we've been told we have — at least via the text books and the general Canadian narrative — really isn't the country that has actually existed," he said, calling the collection 'sobering.'

Ry Moran is the director of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation at the University of Manitoba. (Ry Moran)

 Read more about this on this link below.
Related Links:

Residential Schools- Cultural Genocide and Assimilation

http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2015/06/residential-schools-cultural-genocide.html 


I am sharing this song because I think the message is so powerful.  

"Teach Your Children"

You, who are on the road must have a code that you can live by.
And so become yourself because the past is just a good bye.
Teach your children well, their father's hell did slowly go by,
And feed them on your dreams, the one they fix, the one you'll know by.
Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would cry,
So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

And you, of the tender years can't know the fears that your elders grew by,
And so please help them with your youth, they seek the truth before they can die.
Teach your parents well, their children's hell will slowly go by,
And feed them on your dreams, the one they fix,the one you'll know by.
Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would cry,
So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.