National Day for Truth and Reconciliation — LANDBACK Friends

Barbara Crane Navarro

The first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada will be September 30. A schedule of events can be found here. With the attention on the deaths of children in the native residential schools in the land called the United States, we are learning more about these atrocities here. Secretary of the Interior, Deb[…]

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation — LANDBACK Friends

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COLONIALISME du 21e siècle – mis en œuvre par les corporations et les ONG? De qui est en jeu la survie ici, Survival? La survie des forêts tropicales et des peuples autochtones ou de Cartier et d’autres dans l’industrie de la joaillerie en or et diamant? …mis à jour 2021

Barbara Crane Navarro

“l’Or ou la Nature?” – ©Fotolia/ Wikimedia/Collage: Mirela Hadzic pour Rainforest Rescue

“La folie de l’homme a augmenté la valeur de l’or et de l’argent à cause de leur rareté; tandis que la nature, comme un parent aimable, nous a donné librement les meilleures choses, comme l’air, la terre et l’eau, mais nous a caché celles qui sont vaines et inutile.” – Thomas More, “Utopia”, livre II – 1516

photo: publicité Cartier

La conquête et la colonisation européennes systématiques des Amériques ont commencé en 1492 et se poursuivent toujours. La motivation impérieuse était alors, et continue d’être, l’exploitation. L’ascension de la richesse en Europe dépendait de l’or, les diamants et d’autres richesses pillés aux dépens de la dégradation de la nature et de l’assujettissement des peuples autochtones…

photo: site d’extraction d’or – Emiliano Mancuso / National Geographic

L’ONG Survival proclame: “Nous luttons pour la survie des peuples tribaux. Nous…

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Every Child Matters — Curriculum Connections

Barbara Crane Navarro

Classroom Resources and Activities: Every day is Orange Shirt Day: 3 Crows Productions takes you on a visual journey of what Orange Shirt Day means to them. Elders and Residential School Survivors Cyril Pierre and Joseph Ginger return to the grounds of St. Mary’s Indian Residential School located in Mission, BC. Indigenous storytellers Dallas Yellowfly[…]

Every Child Matters — Curriculum Connections

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Wet’suwet’en struggle continues

LANDBACK Friends

It is tragic that at the same time the concepts of #LANDBACK are being embraced, resource extractive companies continue to take land, without free and prior consent. And it is ironic that this conflict is going on at a time when Canada will celebrate the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on September 30.

This is a link to the story of my experiences with the Wet’suwet’en struggles, LANDBACK Case Study: Wet’suwet’en and Quakers.

Now an archeological site has just been destroyed.

Gidimt’en Checkpoint

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PRESS RELEASE
COASTAL GASLINK DESTROYS ARCHEOLOGICAL SITE ON CAS YIKH TERRITORY
September 23, 2021
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SMITHERS, BC: On September 22, 2021, after days of conflict between Gidimt’en/Cas Yikh Chiefs and members, Coastal GasLink and the RCMP, contractors completely cleared an archaeological site which has been destroyed with heavy machinery for the construction of a methane gas pipeline.

Gidimt’en chiefs and…

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