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HONOUR of Veterans, public support, please join Virtual service: LIVE Streamline on FB page, ZOOM with Veterans on FB page: National Aboriginal Veterans Day, No...vember 8 ( both are 10:30 - 12:00 noon) Thank you, Highest honours, respects, Further information: Kelly White all my relations. PLEASE POST See more

Please Support if you can! These youth are so awesome and have always helped in any way they can, their home lands are being impacted by the Alberta tar sands, ...they have been coming to The Tiny House Warriors Village to help us stop the TMX pipeline and also reclaim our Secwepemc Territories. Together we will STOP the TMX. Please Donate by Etransfer to [email protected] If you can’t donate, please share. Kukstsemc

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NEW ORCA BABY ALERT!!! We are thrilled to announce that yesterday, on 11/1, we saw Emma, CA140 with a new calf - CA140E! This is Emma's 5th confirmed calf. We f...irst spotted Emma in 1995, already with her first offspring, a young juvenile! Unfortunately, that offspring was lost (there is a high mortality rate for killer whale calves/juveniles), but her second oldest, Louise, is about 18 years old! Congrats to Emma on her new baby! Emma is a very successful matriarch that we often see in Monterey Bay, named after the shape of the nicks in her fin (and Nancy Black's cat)! All IDs and information provided by California Killer Whale Project, a team that has been studying Killer Whales on the west coast for more than 30 years. See more

The Reason why the Treaties with the Mik'maq and most Treaties between my People and the Indigenous People of Canada are being Trampled on for so long. The pers...pectives of each new generation are shaped by those of their Ancestors going all the way back to the beginning. It is helpful to have a sense of such perspectives and the history which shaped them as we move into the future. Many seem to think that History is unimportant and that the world is a blank slate that we can write anything we want to on the day we are born into this world. It's more complicated than that ---- even though many people wish that such a fantasy was true. That being said, we can still strive to change the world for the better! I have met hundreds and hundreds of people who don't even know the names of their Great Grandparents ---- let alone, where they came from, what their histories were or what they believed. This saddens me and it also worries me for our future. It's like having to start from scratch all over and over again each generation with no guidance at all! It's like, being thrown in the deep end of the pool as ones very first swimming lesson with no prior instruction. The Swim or Die way of learning. Such harsh ways of learning seem to pervade western society at the moment. See more

VANCOUVER BC My daughter has been missing since Sept 7/20 and we the family would love it if this poster was shared across Canada #chelseacomehome

This is a Cease and Desist Order to TMX Pipeline Corporation issued by the Secwepemc Nation as directed by our Hereditary Chief, Segwses, the National Secwepemc Elder’s Council and the Secwepemc.October 9, 2020Construction at Sqeq’petsin (colonially known as Mission Flats), Tk’emlups, at the landing pad, the core drilling and any proposed construction under the Secwepemcetkwe (colonially known as the Thompson River) must cease immediately as it is trespassing on unceded, unsu...rrendered Secwepemculecw and breaking Secwepemc Law which we are upholding to protect the land, language, culture, People and Water. This is a sacred responsibility given to us by Tqelt Kukpi7 (Creator) and Coyote and we will fulfill this responsibility by any and all means necessary as we have always done.We, the Secwepemc have never ceded, surrendered, sold or signed away our lands and waters, we have not lost them in war, we have always lived on these territories and we will always be here. Secwepemculecw Wel me7 yews, Wel me7 yews!"

The Arctic, 103 years comparison (click to enlarge - info in comments)

Right NOW in Poland, millions of women across the country are striking after the newly elected right-wing government banned abortion. The massive women's protes...ts are the largest in modern Poland history, women are refusing to go to work, drive, cook at home, or do anything until the abortion ban is dropped. Already after a week of protest, Poland's President today indicated they may have to change or reverse the law. This is the power of women. This the power of protest. And as God as my witness, if the right-wing lawmakers in the United States try to ban abortion, we will declare a revolution and shut down the country. Fuck around and find out. See more

Imagine. Its 30 years ago. You're sitting at the table with your family, about to eat some fresh moose meat stew with bannock. You're watching your 5 year old ...son across the table - innocent. Playing with his moose meat. And you start to feel the knots of anxiety in your stomach... Hes going to be 6 soon. Then they will be here to take him away. Should you take him into the bush and disappear? ...no.. they'd find you. They ALWAYS found you, and when they did.. the threat became a much bigger one. They might rape, torture you, murder you in front of him.. no.. you cant run. You would never get away. What about begging? Maybe if you beg and plead and cry... they wont take him away. But they always did. They'd tear your hair out while ripping you away from your child. Pointing their guns in your face while your baby cries in fear. They were ruthless. They didnt give a shit about your baby or you. You made the decision not to teach him the language, to ONLY speak English around him so that's the only world he will ever know. If he never breathes a word of Anishnaabemowin, he won't feel the needles piercing through his tongue. The taste of blood fills your mouth with memories of torture - of whips, and molestation, of the Sanitorium. You cant finish eating. You are glad you braided his long, jet black hair one last time - the braid that connected him to Mother Earth - and cut it off. You will at least have one, small part of him during those 10 years. The days pass by and the need to vomit almost never leaves your body. You wish you could hug him - you wish you could kiss him and tell him how much you love him, and lie through your teeth saying "Everything is going to be okay". But you dont know how to love. The priest took that away from you. You cant hug - because the moment your skin touches another's, and you feel that warmth; your heart starts racing, your body shaking. You want to puke and scream and run and hide forever, where they can never touch you again. The scars on your body from being burned by a branding iron; the choke marks and the lack of feeling in your tongue are all reminders of the schools and the evil they carried. So you choke on your tears watching the sun rise and set day by day, swallowing all of the words you wish you were strong enough to say. Then comes the day. The day that was burned into your memory at 6. The day that every mother feared more than death itself - the day they would come to take your children away. You knew this day was coming. And yet, you feel your heart sink into your gut as that engine pulls up. Your adrenaline begins to pump. The tears begin to fall uncontrollably, and the pounding on your door echoes in your frenzied brain. It's like death is waiting at your door. Because the moment you open it, a part of you will die inside forever. You may never see him again. And if you do, he will be a different person forever too. You have no choice. They will arrest you if you try to fight, they might even kill you. So you do what every native parent across Canada has been forced to do for the last 100 years. You open the door. **Between 1881 and 1997, it was mandatory by Canadian law and the Catholic church that all Indigenous children were taken into the residential schools to live (sometimes out of the province). There, the children were experimented on like animals, abused in every way, starved, kept away from their families, and many murdered. ***Children were more likely to be killed in residential schools than soldiers were to be killed during the second world war. Our generation -- the children of survivors or the childrens children of survivors - has a plague of difficulties to face. Many of us dont know our language, family, or culture. Many of our youth are growing up in foster care because of the inter-generational impact of residential school trauma, being demonized when they want to learn their culture. I have many friends who cannot hug their parents or who have never once been told "I love you". But our parents & grandparents are the ones who paid the ultimate price. I cannot imagine having my children taken away, or growing up in an institution, being called a number instead of a name for my whole life. They didnt have a choice. They were FORCED into following the ways of the Catholic church and giving up their way of life. The difference is - we have a CHOICE in who we are going to become. That is more than our parents and grandparents EVER had. We have the choice to drown our sorrow in the safety of the bottle, or to stand up and do what we have to do to break those cycles forever. We have the choice to LEARN our languages. To sit in ceremony and pray. To smudge, to drum, to heal. The power of CHOICE is a gift that wasnt given to our people for over a hundred years. In honour of our grandparents, great grandparents, great great grandparents, and every generation beforehand - the ones who gave their lives for our freedom - the ones who fought to keep our languages alive - the ones whose names will never be spoken or remembered - and in honour of the countless Indigenous children who never made it home.. CHOOSE to love. CHOOSE to forgive. Choose to walk a path of harmony. Choose to take the time to learn your roots, your language, your identity, your history. Most importantly, CHOOSE LOVE. I am not the author of this...Please share I have worked with survivors of highly abusive residential schools. To the credit of our Indigenous relatives, it takes tremendous courage to heal and they are doing that, and more! Love, respect and gratitude All my relations -Author, the amazing Mary Black Miigwich for letting me share your words