Windspeaker.com https://windspeaker.com/news/rss.xml Windspeaker.com is Canada's source for Indigenous news, issues and culture. en https://windspeaker.com/node/11212 First Nations’ economic advancements pushed down by overt and systemic racism Wed, 24 Feb 2021 13:55:32 -0500 https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/first-nations-economic-advancements-pushed-down-overt-and-systemic-racism “We should start by addressing that there is systemic racism across the province and the public sector, across the nation’s banking industry, in the insurance industry and these are all pivotal or necessary pieces for economic development.” — Mi’gmaq entrepreneur Victoria Labillois Deb Steel https://windspeaker.com/node/11211 Author’s truth in book expressed with unique ‘two-eyed seeing and storytelling’ Tue, 23 Feb 2021 12:53:13 -0500 https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/authors-truth-book-expressed-unique-two-eyed-seeing-and-storytelling Author Raymond Mason worked with Jackson Pind (right) and Theodore Michael Christou on the book Spirit of the Grassroots People Deb Steel https://windspeaker.com/node/11210 Bond to fund Indigenous-led diabetes prevention pilot project in Canada Mon, 22 Feb 2021 13:58:19 -0500 https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/bond-fund-indigenous-led-diabetes-prevention-pilot-project-canada “Indigenous peoples are experiencing an epidemiologic transition with above-average prevalence rates of diabetes and its risk factors. In Canada the rates of diabetes in First Nations are up to three times the national average.” — Kirza Buch Kristensen, senior advisor for the World Diabetes Foundation Deb Steel https://windspeaker.com/node/11209 Thank a toque, in part, for Dallas Hunt’s debut poetry collection CREELAND Mon, 22 Feb 2021 11:37:37 -0500 https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/thank-toque-part-dallas-hunts-debut-poetry-collection-creeland “I had most of the manuscript. I was just struggling with the title. I couldn’t figure out what to call it. What was the unifying theme to the text? I just saw the toque and I was like, ‘yeah, that’s it…” — Dallas Hunt Deb Steel https://windspeaker.com/node/11208 Federal crime bill ‘completely disappointing’, says expert, and many agree it isn’t enough Fri, 19 Feb 2021 18:54:52 -0500 https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/federal-crime-bill-completely-disappointing-says-expert-and-many-agree-it “When you send lots of Indigenous people to jail, they’re not better for it. They’re worse; it keeps communities in a state of massive trauma.” — David Milward, associate law professor, University of Victoria Deb Steel https://windspeaker.com/node/11207 Consultations with First Nations lacking on mines proposed in northwestern Ontario Thu, 18 Feb 2021 14:42:26 -0500 https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/consultations-first-nations-lacking-mines-proposed-northwestern-ontario “It must be acknowledged that the 15 proposed mining projects that are planned for the next decade are on the ancestral, inherent, customary, traditional lands of many First Nations in Northwestern Ontario and that their free, prior, informed consent will be required before any development proceeds.” — Jason Rasevych, president of the Anishnawbe Business Professional Association Deb Steel https://windspeaker.com/node/11206 Chiefs call out Ford government for using pandemic restrictions as cover to push through legislation Thu, 18 Feb 2021 13:28:26 -0500 https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/chiefs-call-out-ford-government-using-pandemic-restrictions-cover-push “All our bilateral meetings we’ve had with different departments in the ministries, no matter how much we talk either on water, lands, nuclear issues, we’re always behind the eighth ball.” — Regional Deputy Grand Council Chief‒Southeast James Marsden Deb Steel https://windspeaker.com/node/11204 Collaboration of First Nations key to jump hurdles of accessing broadband in communities Wed, 17 Feb 2021 15:28:18 -0500 https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/collaboration-first-nations-key-jump-hurdles-accessing-broadband-communities “… anything you’re doing on another infrastructure project is an opportunity today to lay fibre because building these fibre optic networks, most of it is the physical labour to actually open up the ground.” — Rob McCann of Clear Cable Network Deb Steel https://windspeaker.com/node/11201 Indigenous women playwrights changing the narrative for those once considered ‘vanquishable’ Wed, 17 Feb 2021 09:57:49 -0500 https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/indigenous-women-playwrights-changing-narrative-those-once-considered “Indigenous women playwrights not only address colonial trauma but envision new ways of performing possible worlds into being.” — Sarah MacKenzie, author of Indigenous Women’s Theatre in Canada: A Mechanism of Decolonization. Deb Steel https://windspeaker.com/node/11199 Defining what the clauses of UNDRIP mean shouldn’t be left to government Tue, 16 Feb 2021 16:37:17 -0500 https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/defining-what-clauses-undrip-mean-shouldnt-be-left-government “The further that we get away from the treaties … the less value it has over time. I think we need to get back to that and force the hand of that original agreement before we go any further down the road.” — Regional Chief‒Lake Huron Scott McLeod Deb Steel