Idle No More presentationby Michael Frew

INDIGENOUS LIBERATION STUDIES 2015 – WAIKATO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

"Idle No More calls on all people to join in a peaceful revolution, to honour Indigenous sovereignty, and to protect the land and water"

• Idle No More has and will continue to help build sovereignty & resurgence of nationhood.

• Idle No More will continue to pressure government and industry to protect the environment.

• Idle No More will continue to build allies in order to reframe the nation to nation relationship, this will be done by including grassroots perspectives, issues, and concern

Bull Romanus Pontifex - declaring war against all non-Christians, any land that was not inhabited by Christians was available to be ‘discovered’ and thus claimed.

Inter cetera - Propagation of the Christian faith through division of the globe to be ‘discovered’

Doctrine of discovery – the way in which colonial powers laid claim to ‘newly discovered lands’

Bill C-45• There’s also an amendment to the Indian

Act in the bill that allows for surrender of reserve land without proper consent of all Indian people affected

• An omnibus...It lumps a slew of bills under one name…One removes much of the protection under the Navigable Waters Protection Act and, in some cases, totally removes that protection. “It gives major corporations direct and easy access to our waters and to our land”

Acquiescence - agreement or consent by silence or without objection

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Harper government- Says no to inquiry into missing and

murdered aboriginal girls

- The most secretive government in Canada’s history

- Sneaks through and Ratifies trade deal with China against majority wishes - Silences publically funded scientists

- belligerent, divisive and dismissive of the United Nations and other international institutions

- He glorified active combat and “pushed Canada’s peacekeeping tradition virtually out of sight.”

- Harper government closes down world renowned libraries and destroys centuries old books

Terra Nullius - In International Law 'terra nullius' describes territory that nobody owns so that the first nation to discover it is entitled to take it over, as "finders keepers".

Trail of tears – 1830s ‘Indian removal Act’ over 100,000 first nation people were forcible ‘relocated’ from homelands

Bio warfare - the British gave the Aboriginal Tribes gifts such as blankets contaminated with small pox.

The Gradual Civilization Act - the legal definition of an Indian as, an uncivilized person, destitute of the knowledge of God and of any fixed and clear belief in religion“

Chemical warfare - Present day Chemical Experiments on Aboriginal Peoples. Xyolhemeylh Health and Family services program is engaging in GENOCIDE through the administration of highly dangerous vaccine

Imperialism – the policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries

De-humanisation – to deprive of human qualities or attributes

Assimilation - In the nineteenth century, the goal of government was to make Canada's native cultures disappear.

Oppression - unjust or cruel exercise of authority or power

Colonialism - the disconnection of Native people from the land, their history, their identity and their rights so that others can benefit.

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