[Indigsol] Upcoming book launch & workshops

[ipsmo at riseup.net]

Two announcements (details below):


July 2nd book launch with author Peter Kulchyski
"Aboriginal Rights Are Not Human rights: In Defence of Indigenous Struggles"

&

July 10th (followed by July 31 and Aug 14)
Niigaan Treaty Workshop series



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Book Launch – Aboriginal Rights Are Not Human Rights: In Defence of
Indigenous Struggles, with author Peter Kulchyski


Tuesday July 2nd, 7pm
at 251 Bank Street, 2nd Floor (Octopus Books in Centretown)

http://ipsmo.wordpress.com/2013/06/27/july-2-aboriginal-rights-launch/
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/389732467799306


Join us for the Ottawa launch of Aboriginal Rights Are Not Human Rights:
In Defence of Indigenous Struggles, by Peter Kulchyski.

Aboriginal rights do not belong to the broader category of universal human
rights because they are grounded in the particular practices of aboriginal
people. So argues Peter Kulchyski in a provocative book from the front
lines of indigenous people’s struggles to defend their culture from the
ongoing conquest of their traditional lands. Kulchyski shows that some
differences are more different than others, and he draws a border between
bush culture and mall culture, between indigenous people’s mode of
production and the totalizing push of state-led capitalism.

Peter Kulchyski is a leading Canadian Native Studies scholar at the
University of Manitoba. He has published numerous books on Aboriginal
issues, including The Red Indians and Like the Sound of a Drum: Aboriginal
Cultural Politics in Denendeh and Nunavut, which won the 2005 Alexander
Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction. Dr. Kulchyski is a founding member
of the Friends of Grassy Narrows/Winnipeg Indigenous Solidarity Network
and the Defenders of the Land, both Aboriginal rights community activist
groups.

For more:
Interview with author Peter Kulchyski: http://www.lpg.ca/AboriginalRights

Co-sponsors:
Arbeiter Ring Publishing, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA),
Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement (IPSMO) Ottawa, KAIROS Canada,
MiningWatch Canada, Niigaan, Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC)
National Capital Region



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Niigaan Treaty Workshop series
July 10, July 31, August 14


The Niigaan Coalition has received many requests for ways to get more
involved here in Odawa. We really feel your energy and enthusiasm for
recreating relationships here on Turtle Island.

We are very excited to announce the first Niigaan workshop series
examining Treaties. The exercise uses blankets to represent the lands of
what is now Canada, and the distinct cultures and nations which live on
those lands to this day. Participants represent the First Peoples; when
they step onto the blanket, they are taken back in time to the arrival of
Europeans. Two participants are selected to play the roles of the Narrator
and a European while the exercise goes through the history of
treaty-making, colonization and resistance that resulted in the nation we
today call Canada. This workshop will be led by Ed Bianchi of KAIROS.

The workshop will be followed by discussion to ensure deeper
understanding. Invited guests will be present to contribute their
perspectives.


Wednesday July 10, 6pm -8pm
at Gallery 101, 301 Bank St. #1, Ottawa
http://www.eventbrite.ca/event/7251209563/efbbt

(Further workshop dates: July 31, August 14)


Please share widely.

For more information or to register,
please email niigaan at gmail.com, or call 613 868 6983