Worldviews and Talking Circles

The biggest blind spot is the AFN.  These college courses appear to be begun by the AFN party loyalsits and fit into NDP teachers unions.

The course doesn't address Aboriginals at all before 'Westerners' appeared.  The course should address this as much as possible before using the 'Westernization' to 'teach.'  If the school is serious, it would look at the AFN over the last thirty years and their affects on Aboriginals. 

I wouldn't open up my 'heart and mind' to an Aboriginal AFN.  That is a mistake.  The course requires the participants to 'tell something about themselves.'  Don't buy into these judges.  Look at their view, leans, they use to study you and what they do with the information.

The course is a stereotype.........

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/camosun-college-s-indigenous-peoples-course-aims-to-dispel-aboriginal-stereotypes-1.3159145 

How About A Job? Better yet a tenured government job?

The ad should list jobs that are seeking Aboriginals so all that education doesn't go to waste.  Like Senior year in high school, and later University you'll find out you won't survive if your not sober(yes, that can mean drugs too).  It's all work all day.


http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-politics/racist-ad-that-congratulated-aboriginal-students-on-sobriety-was-written-by-first-nations-drum-not-liberal-mp

Indians In Hats

Remember those old photos of Aboriginals in suites and hats?  Something off there.  Still is.


Anyone can where anything they want on there heads.  It's the law now.  AFN has no right to claim persons' head dressings.  Aboriginals are knowing for being welcoming.  The AFN is not.


Banning head dressings for only non aboriginals, as defined by AFN racial purity laws, is wrong and should stop immediately before no one can wear them without AFN permission.  I suppose it depends on the function, but that would be more fashion than anything else.....


http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Edmonton+Folk+Fest+bans+First+Nations+headdresses/11214380/story.html

Why No Indigenous North American Environmental Stewardship?

The AFN.  The AFN ties its 'stewardship' to land and sea grants as well as resource use.  We need to unite all Canadian Aboriginals for 'stewardship' and resource use benefits, directly to Aboriginals pockets, bypass the AFN, which only represents a small number of Indigenous Canadians.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/five-first-nations-join-forces-to-assess-impact-of-bc-lng-exports/article25388272/

Apologies

Well, the Pope has apologized after seeing Harper and having demands made.  He also advocates global warming.  He should advocate for Indigenous participation in resource use - directly to Indigenous persons pockets - cutting out the last 30 years of AFN confusions.


http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/pope-francis-asks-pardon-for-church-s-crimes-against-indigenous-peoples-1.3146010


http://ottawacitizen.com/news/politics/harpers-refusal-to-seek-residential-schools-apology-from-pope-deeply-disappointing


http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/manitoba-to-apologize-to-aboriginals-taken-from-parents-and-adopted-into-white-families-in-60s-scoop

Why Aplogize To A Political Party?

same as NDP.


http://www.timescolonist.com/winnipeg-newspaper-column-critical-of-first-nations-leaders-gets-criticized-1.1983922

Why Were The Children Taken?

It's easy to say that the families want them back and your an advocate for that, but what no one can publish and is the most important factor in the welfare of the children is; why were the children seized from the families in the first place?  They usually have a good reason and to say that the children are 'problem children' now is moot.


"Prior to this role I worked in the area of restorative justice and I would see how many children would come through our doors as a result of being in CFS care, and knowing what I've learned over the years and all of these intricacies of residential school effects,''


To put a child back into a perilous home is not the answer.  Ultimately, as adults, most can meet with those families.


http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/first-nations-family-advocate-discouraged-after-1st-week-working-with-cfs-1.3114007