[IPSM] *Unrepentant* - Kevin Annett Screens Film on Canada's Genocide

[Macdonald Stainsby]

Harriet Nahanee, years before she was murdered 2 weeks ago, had this to 
say about Kevin Annett while he was abusing this process to advance his 
current path. The following letter from Harriet Nahanee and the abuses 
compounded by "Reverend" Annett are both included, and it is not an easy 
read.

Please be warned, Annett is not in this for anyone but himself. He has 
also gone after warriors here (Vancouver), calling them "victims of mind 
control experiments" for opposing him.

The cause of residential school survivors being able to hold to account 
their tormentors couldn't be more important. Let the great white knight 
go deal with his own problems and not "do the same thing all over 
again". He *is* a residential school legacy.

Mr Annett: Return the sacred testimonies.

"...but this letter being unofficial and private, I may with safety give
you a more extensive view of our policy respecting the Indians, that you
may better comprehend the parts dealt to to you in detail through the
official channel, and observing the system of which they make a part,
conduct yourself in unison with it in cases where you are obliged to act
without instruction...When they withdraw themselves to the culture of a
small piece of land, they will perceive how useless to them are their
extensive forests, and will be willing to pare them off from time to time
in exchange for necessaries for their farms and families. To promote this
disposition to exchange lands, which they have to spare and we want, for
necessaries which we have to spare and they want,we shall push our trading
houses, and be glad to see the good and influencial individuals among them
run in debt, because we observe that when these debts get beyond what the
individuals can pay, they become willing to lop them off by cession of
lands...In this way our settlements will gradually circumscribe and
approach the Indians, and they will in time either incorporate with us as
citizens of the United States , or remove beyond the Mississippi.The former
is certainly the termination of their history most happy for themselves;
but, in the whole course of this, it is essential to cultivate their love.
As to their fear, we presume that our strength and their weakness is now so
visible that they must see we have only to shut our hand to crush them..."
Classified Letter of President Thomas Jefferson ("libertarian"--for
propertied white people) to William Henry Harrison, Feb. 27, 1803)


I was Convener of the Tribunal on Residential Schools which took place in
Vancouver B.C. in June of this year. I worked together with Kevin Annett
whom I have been associated with for several years. As a Residential School
survivor this Tribunal was very important to me. It was my hope that some
justice could be won for our people. There is a federal government Healing
Fund of $350 million for healing of survivors but none of it has gone to
the survivors themselves. I put a lot of effort into the preparation of the
Tribunal and it was through my relationship with Jack Bell, a wealthy
Benefactor, that the Tribunal was able to secure special terms for the
rental of the hall at the Maritime Labor Centre.

During the Tribunal a number of things went seriously wrong. Decisions and
procedures which had been decided together were suddenly changed without my
participation, funds were misappropriated, the privacy of witnesses giving
closed testimony was compromised, and some of the judges appointed by Kevin
Annett and Rudy James turned out to be without credentials. Many people
were upset and angry. Jim Craven saw what was going on and has attempted to
set things right. I have serious grievances with Kevin Annett because of
his actions during and after the Tribunal which showed that he had an
agenda other than that which had been presented at first. I feel used by
him and information about my experiences at residential school have been
given for publication by him without my consent.

I am President of the Western Canada Leonard Peltier Defence Fund and
District Vice-President of the Indian Homemakers Association in North
Vancouver . I belong to the Pacheeda Nation and carry the name of Tsibeot
who was the Grand chief of Pacheeda. I also run the Sacred Duty Institute
and I teach hereditary chiefs their traditional roles. I feel very strongly
that nobody has the right to speak for others but white people always speak
for us and think they know better than us. They consider us as helpless
children to work on behalf of.

Most of us who survived the Residential Schools and have been involved in
court cases in Port Alberni suing the United Church and the government of
Canada , we are not on the internet. Jim Craven has taken a lot of trouble
to inform us about these discussions on internet, to listen to us carefuly
and speak our thoughts the way we would like. We would like him to
continue. If you need further information on any of these matters please
contact me by phone at (***) ***-****.

Rosetta Stone (Harriet Nahanee)

Joe Broadhurst wrote:
> *Unrepentant* - Kevin Annett Screens Film on Canada's Genocide
> 7:00 p. m. - Friday, March 16th
> 1455 de Maisonneuve West, room H-535
> 
> This film screening is with the co-writer and producer.
> 
> "UNREPENTANT: Kevin Annett and Canada's Genocide" (December 2006)
> Winner of Best Director Award, New York Independent Film and Video Festival
> 
> According to Kevin Annett, the time has come for Canadians to learn the
> truth about what really happened to the aboriginal people from the start
> of colonialism until today.  It's not a pretty story. "Unrepentant:
> Kevin Annett and Canada's Genocide" documents the "deliberate and
> systematic extermination" of non-Christian indigenous people within the
> Indian residential school system by the Catholic, United, Presbyterian
> and Anglican churches, in collusion with the federal government.
> 
> Kevin Annett is co-presented by CKUT Radio McGill in collaboration with
> Concordia's University Center for Native Education.
> 
> This event is free and open to the general public. Everyone is welcome.
> 
> --------------------------
> 
> For Immediate Release
> 
>   New Award Winning Documentary of Canada's Hidden Holocaust
>   Premieres in Ontario and Quebec, March 6 to 18, 2007
> 
>   UNREPENTANT: Kevin Annett and Canada's Genocide
>   (Awarded Best Director of an International Documentary Film at the New
> York  Independent Film and Video Festival, November 2006)
> 
>   "...a powerful tool to expose the genocidal racism that lies behind
> the liberal smiley-face facade of Canadian society ... a veritable kick
> in the groin." Larry Gambone, review of UNREPENTANT, Any Time Now,
> February 2007
> 
>   UNREPENTANT chronicles Canada's "dirty secret" - the planned
> extermination of aboriginal people in church-run Indian Residential
> Schools � and a clergyman's struggle to document and make public these
> crimes. For the first time since its release in New York last November,
> this ground-breaking film will be screened before audiences in central
> Canada.
> 
>   UNREPENTANT is an intensely human story based on the first-hand
> testimonies of aboriginal survivors of Canada's �residential
> schools�, where more than 50,000 children died between 1890 and 1984.
> Their passionate accounts are interwoven with former United Church
> minister Kevin Annett's own story of how he faced firing,
> "defrocking", and the loss of his family, livelihood and reputation
> because of his efforts to help residential school survivors and bring
> out the full truth of the murder and torture that occurred in these
> schools.
> 
>   UNREPENTANT is not only about a terrible past, but how the legacy of
> legal genocide in Canada continues to destroy aboriginal people and the
> land all Canadians occupy. Despite the continual efforts by Canadian
> church and state to impede this film through a campaign of harrassment,
> misinformation, blacklisting and death threats, Kevin Annett will be
> bringing UNREPENTANT for public showing in Ontario and Quebec between
> March 6 and 18, 2007.
> 
>   Kevin will be speaking publicly and showing UNREPENTANT on these dates:
> 
>   Sudbury: Tuesday, March 6
>   Ottawa: Thursday and Friday, March 8 and 9
>   Toronto-London area: Saturday and Sunday, March 10 and 11
>   Peterborough: Monday and Tuesday, March 12 and 13
>   Montreal: Thursday March 15 through to Sunday March 18
> 
>   For more information on these showings, contact Kevin Annett at:
> hiddenfromhistory at yahoo.ca
>   ph: 250-753-3345 or 1-888-265-1007 (messages)
>   and see this website: www.hiddenfromhistory.org
>   UNREPENTANT Running Time: 105 minutes (colour)
> 
>   .....................................................
> 
>   Background Profile of UNREPENTANT
>   and its Producers
> 
>   UNREPENTANT took nineteen months to film, primarily in British Columbia
> and Alberta, and is based on Rev. Kevin Annett's books Hidden from
> History: The Canadian Holocaust (2005) and Love and Death in the Valley
> (2002). This film was an entirely self-funded, grassroots effort, which
> is reflected in its earthy authenticity. It was filmed on the sites of
> many of the former Indian residential schools and other places where the
> crimes described in the film took place.
> 
>   UNREPENTANT was written by Kevin Annett and veteran Hollywood film maker
> Louie Lawless, who was part of the Production team that produced the
> feature length documentary film �Manson�, which was nominated for an
> Academy Award. Since then, Louie has been a member of the Producers'
> Guild of America and the Directors' Guild of America. Kevin Annett is a
> former minister of the United Church of Canada who was expelled without
> cause or due process from that church and publicly blacklisted in 1995,
> after he unearthed evidence of murder and land theft by his church's
> officials.
> 
>   "When I first read Kevin Annett's book, Love and Death in the Valley,
> I knew this was a story that begged to be told. It has all the
> ingredients of powerful drama: greed, corruption, and murder, all
> involving the government and churches, and told through the eyes of a
> whistle blowing minister." Louie Lawless
> 
>   For more background information, see these websites:
> 
>   www.hiddenfromhistory.org
>   http://canadiangenocide.nativeweb.org
> 
>   Contact information:
> 
>   Louie Lawless:
>   ph: 250-733-2414
>   email: louie0 at telus.net
> 
>   Kevin Annett:
>   ph: 250-753-3345 / 1-888-265-1007
>   email: hiddenfromhistory at yahoo.ca or kevin_annett at hotmail.com
> 
>   UNREPENTANT is released in DVD (colour) format and has a running time of
> 105 minutes. In November, 2006, it won the award of Best Director of an
> International Documentary Film at the New York Independent Film and
> Video Festival.
> 
>   Copies may be ordered through Kevin Annett or Louie Lawless.
>   Copyright c 2007 Annett-Lawless Films. All rights reserved.
> 
> 
> Read and Hear the truth of Genocide in Canada, past and present, at this
> website:  www.hiddenfromhistory.org ... ... and on this radio program:
> "Hidden from History", every Monday from 1-2 pm (PST) on CFRO 102.7 FM
> (www.coopradio.org) (Vancouver)
> 
> "When the desire for Truth and Virtue becomes the only bias in our mind,
> only then can we know in ourselves what is right."  Peter Annett, Humanist
> and dissident, 1769 (jailed and persecuted by the Church of England for
> his questioning of the Bible and the church)
> 
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Macdonald Stainsby
http://independentmedia.ca/survivingcanada
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/rad-green
In the contradiction lies the hope
    --Bertholt Brecht.