[Commonsnetwork] Idle? Know more! A public panel on Indigenous issues

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Idle? Know more! A public panel on Indigenous issues


Event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/151302958355184/

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Tuesday Jan 22 at 5:30 pm
Alice MacKay Room
Vancouver Public Library (Georgia and Hamilton)
Unceded Coast Salish Territories
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LIVESTREAM: www.livestream.com/occupyvan

This panel is open to the public. All are welcome to attend, especially 
non-Natives to understand the long history of racism and colonialism in 
Canada against Indigenous people that has given rise to the current Idle 
No More movement, to highlight and lift the voices of Indigenous peoples 
resisting across these lands, and to think through how to be more informed

and responsible allies.

Please spread the word - encourage your friends, your family, your 
co-workers, your faith group, your community/student group to attend.

Accessibility info:
http://www.vpl.ca/branches/generic/accessibility_at_the_central_library


* Territorial opening by Cease Wyss: T’Uy’Tanat-Cease Wyss is 
Skwxw’u7mesh ethnobotanist, media artist, educator, and food security 
activist. She has stood up with other Indigenous Peoples to fight for 
native peoples’ rights to hunt, gather, and fish in their traditional 
territories.

* Arthur Manuel: Art is a spokesperson for the Indigenous Network on 
Economies and Trade and Defenders of the Land network. Former
chairperson of the Interior Alliance of BC First Nations, Manuel has been 
a leading voice of opposition to the Canadian government’s agenda to 
“extinguish” Aboriginal and Treaty rights and assimilate Indigenous 
peoples into the Canadian body politic. Active locally in Secwepemc land 
struggles, and at the national level, he has also taken the
struggle international at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, 
following in the path of his father, the late George Manuel, President of 
the National Indian Brotherhood and founder of the World Council of 
Indigenous Peoples.

* Darla Goodwin: Singing Thunderbird Child-Twice Standing Woman is a  Cree
Ojibwa from Peepeekisis First Nation in Saskatchewan. She is a  knowledge
keeper, carrier of the Sacred Correction Pipe for the
Desecration of the female side of life, starting with our mother the 
Earth. She is a ceremonial First Nations woman and an organizer for Idle 
No More.

* Glen Coulthard: Dr. Glen Coulthard is a member of the Yellowknives  Dene
and a scholar of contemporary Indigenous politics. He is an
Assistant Professor in First Nations Studies and the Department of 
Political Science at UBC. He is a founding member of the Camas Books & 
Infoshop in Victoria and the Dechinta Center for Research and Learning in 
Yellowknives Dene territory.

* Jerilynn Webster: Jerrilyn is a Vancouver based female hip hop
artist, beat-boxer, performing artist, aboriginal youth educator,  single
mother, award-winning actor, and member of the Nuxalk and
Cayauga Nations who is "using [her] words to go upwards/not
backwards." She is an Idle No More organizer.

* Khelsilem Rivers: Khelsilem is a community organizer and language 
revitalization activist. Influenced heavily by his grandmother, he  always
believed in the importance of being Indigenous, despite
encroachment of a foreign culture, society, and civilization. In this 
regard, Khelsilem has pursued avenues where he can strengthen all  aspects
of Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw ways. He is an Idle No More 
organizer.

* Lisa Yellow-Quill: Lisa Yellow-Quill is Nehiyaw, Nekaway, Dakota  from
Treaty 1: Long Plains, Manitoba. She has many years of experience 
providing advocacy, support and counseling to women and families
living with multiple-barriers, oppressions, and experiences of
violence both in crisis situations and in complex long-term processes. 
This foundation has supported her ability to be a noted spokesperson on 
behalf of Turtle Island’s Murdered and Missing Girls and Women. Lisa is a 
Pipe Carrier, Sundancer, and Keeper of several Ceremonies.


* RESOURCES:

http://decolonization.wordpress.com/tag/idlenomore/

http://intercontinentalcry.org/breaking-down-the-indian-act-with-russell-diabo/


http://indigenousnationhood.blogspot.ca/2013/01/what-is-idle-no-more-movement-really.html


http://www.mediacoop.ca/blog/dru/15493

http://rabble.ca/category/tags/idle-no-more