From the people I know in Native Canada, there is a lot of hostility against most of Canada and there will be for the foreseeable future .... because we have a lifetime of grievances against everything the government does to make us not trust anyone. Then there is the whole criminal Indigenous fraud and forgery that has been growing over the past few years (it isn't Pretendians, it isn't pretending ... it's outright forgery and criminal behaviour when what you are doing is basically creating an identity for financial or political gain by taking advantage of others). There is also the growing fraudulent Metis movement, especially in Ontario where people with a small percentage of Native blood are claiming left and right that they have rights to everything just like First Nation people when they have no basis for any claim. There is a real identified and historically documented Metis community in the prairie provinces .... but none in Ontario, especially in northern Ontario.
This is all on top of what the government constantly holds back from our communities and then blames us for not having anything and not doing anything.
The best way to ally with First Nations ... is to first identify us as 'First Nation' ... it's become political because the word 'Indigenous' has been co-opted by so many groups to encompass everyone and anyone (especially the Metis community) who wants to identify as First Nation.
Another way to support First Nations is to support and campaign for political parties that actually support First Nations and minority groups ... like the NDP ... less so the Liberals ... but definitely not the Conservatives.
The time to support First Nations is at the election booth .... it almost doesn't matter how you support First Nations after events like Bill 5 happen ... you can support them, join protests and share their grievances but that is almost too little too late ... we all have to stop these things from developing in the first place by not electing conservative right wing nut jobs into power.
Expect first nation protests everywhere and often in the next few years.
Like one chief in the north here said ... Chief Jennifer Constant in Mattagami FN near Timmins .... the government has put all resource development at risk because FNs won't stand for this. There has been years of negotiation and relationship building with FNs and industry, now all that good will is drying up. Now any company that wants to go anywhere near FN lands will have entire communities protesting, blocking and fighting them at every turn. Their projects all just got more expensive because they pissed off the people who live on the land.
You'd think they'd get the message .... when push comes to shove, and if they ever get into real authoritarian power again, the majority of the world will take up arms to fight them ... and there are more of us than there are of them and judging from the track record over the past few wars, they've seldom won (they have won in a few places but not many)
So these right wing nut jobs had families and ancestors that fought a global war to fight against fascists and nazis ...... so that their children and grandchildren can become fascists and nazis
Reminds me of a terrible factoid I read a long time ago .... they feed young calves they raise for veal a steady diet of cow's milk mixed with liquefied rendered cow blood and other bio fluids.
We might not have the matrix or dystopian futures yet ... but we sure are on our way to building one.
You should purposely misspell it from time to time to ..... homo
And when people point it out, just apologize and say it was a typo .... be very apologetic and sincere and even offer to send cupcakes to them for the inconvenience (include some mild laxative in the cupcake .... and alternate to cannabis the next time it happens)
This is like hearing the school saying the two biggest bullies are going to fight in the yard after school
Everyone knows that one of them can't hit any thing harder than a pillow and the other always chickens out against any opponent unless the person they'll punch is held down by four guys.
The entire school knows that this shit show is a circus that will just be full of drama and no fighting .... but we're all going to head out onto the yard anyway to laugh at how stupid these idiots are going perform.
I'll see you all on the yard after the last bell at 3pm
From the people I know in Native Canada, there is a lot of hostility against most of Canada and there will be for the foreseeable future .... because we have a lifetime of grievances against everything the government does to make us not trust anyone. Then there is the whole criminal Indigenous fraud and forgery that has been growing over the past few years (it isn't Pretendians, it isn't pretending ... it's outright forgery and criminal behaviour when what you are doing is basically creating an identity for financial or political gain by taking advantage of others). There is also the growing fraudulent Metis movement, especially in Ontario where people with a small percentage of Native blood are claiming left and right that they have rights to everything just like First Nation people when they have no basis for any claim. There is a real identified and historically documented Metis community in the prairie provinces .... but none in Ontario, especially in northern Ontario.
This is all on top of what the government constantly holds back from our communities and then blames us for not having anything and not doing anything.
The best way to ally with First Nations ... is to first identify us as 'First Nation' ... it's become political because the word 'Indigenous' has been co-opted by so many groups to encompass everyone and anyone (especially the Metis community) who wants to identify as First Nation.
Another way to support First Nations is to support and campaign for political parties that actually support First Nations and minority groups ... like the NDP ... less so the Liberals ... but definitely not the Conservatives.
The time to support First Nations is at the election booth .... it almost doesn't matter how you support First Nations after events like Bill 5 happen ... you can support them, join protests and share their grievances but that is almost too little too late ... we all have to stop these things from developing in the first place by not electing conservative right wing nut jobs into power.