Bree! » NDN http://www.breerex.net/blog long legs, big butt, short little arms.... Rar! Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:10:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Canada is a Huron word for village http://www.breerex.net/blog/2010/02/16/canada-is-a-huron-word-for-village/ http://www.breerex.net/blog/2010/02/16/canada-is-a-huron-word-for-village/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:43:05 +0000 admin http://www.breerex.net/blog/?p=325 Canada is a Huron word. It means Village. Cultrual appropriation from Native reight from the start. Yes I have problems with the Olympics trotting out Native peoples trying to show the world how “great canada is to its first nations” No marketing imagery ever could erase these ongoing legacies of a history of colonial …genocide in Canada (and elsewhere). As this article points out, there are significant political issuse in Indigenous Canada that the games are glassing over and the games are marketing Native culture as homogenous and interchangeable. Why else would they be using an artic cultures symbol for a logo, totem poles ( Pac NW) and grass dancers (Plains). Fuck you Canada, and Fuck you olympic committee for being the same old colonizers in a glossy new package.

http://contexts.org/socimages/2010/02/15/guest-post-an-indigenous-olympics/

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Adoption of an American Indian Child is regulated differently than all other adoptions. It has to meet the Indian Child Welfare Act, where in most cases a American Indian child must be adopted by an American Indian.
Why?

The removal of Indian children from their families

A 1976 study by the Association on American Indian Affairs found that 25 to 35% of all Indian children were being placed in out-of-home care. Eighty-five percent of those children were being placed in non-Indian homes or institutions.

Unger, Steven, ed., The Destruction of American Indian Families, New York: Association on American Indian Affairs, 1977, p.1.

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