Jul 9, 2015 | Environment, Indigenous Rights, Reconnection
If we are to heal the earth, we must also heal ourselves, individually and as communities. Moreover, the two are inter-connected. It’s all about relations — relations of mutual recognition and respect and mutual support and sustainability. It’s also about the...
Jul 14, 2014 | Environment, Indigenous Rights, Op-Ed
First published in the Ottawa Citizen, July 8, 2014. The Supreme Court’s 8-0 decision recognizing Aboriginal title to land First Nations communities have inhabited since before European contact is huge. It legitimizes understandings of land tenure as habitation and...
Jun 23, 2014 | Environment, Indigenous Rights, Reconnection
In Halifax, the last leg of my book-launch tour, I met a beautiful person: a Mi’kmaw elder, Billy Lewis, who welcomed me to his ancestral land. I offered him a pouch of tobacco as my gesture of thanks. I also told him that I now understood why it was so important to...
Jun 2, 2014 | Indigenous Rights
What bothers me the most about C-33 as currently written —NOT being as the title (First Nations Control of First Nations Education Act) suggests— is this: It’s the lost or postponed opportunity at stake in genuinely returning control of First Nations education to...
Jan 25, 2013 | Environment, Indigenous Rights, Reconnection
I went to Victoria Island first on Dec. 21st as a simple act of solidarity and support for Chief Theresa Spence who had put her body on the line to demonstrate how much it hurts for Canada’s Aboriginal peoples to be treated as though their rights, their vision and...
