The settler government has consistently violated indigenous sovereignty and the right to self determination in the interests of white capitalist profit and racist social policy.
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Tag: First Nations
Will Indigenous Languages Survive?
Cultural genocide is an explosive term – but not too strong when applied to the fate of many languages of Indigenous people across North America, Turtle Island. According to 2016 Canadian census data, the mother tongue of over 213,000 people…
Humour – an unlikely weapon for Aboriginal Rights
by Barry Weisleder A review of “The Inconvenient Indian – A Curious Account of Native People in North America” by Thomas King, published by Anchor Canada, a division of Random House, 2013, 314 pages. Thomas King, best known as the…
Solidarity with Idle No More!
A statement by Socialist Action / Ligue pour l'Action socialiste (Canadian state) The 'Idle No More' movement, a campaign for indigenous rights, democracy and environmental justice, spread like wildfire in December in response to Conservative federal government legislation. An unprecedented…