Winnipeg raised, Hamilton living. Cowessess First Nation member. Chair, Indigenous Studies Department, McMaster U. U of T, U of S, U of AZ alum (he/him)
McMaster University @McMasterU will lower its flags in remembrance of Dr. Juliet Daniel at a future date, to be determined in consultation with her estate. #HamOnt@McMasterScience
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I would offer that Alex Pretti putting his body—with his hands up—between a woman and the BP agent who had just violently shoved her into the snow, offer stark competing visions of manhood. Pretti, a nurse caring for veterans, who took a face full of pepper spray to shield that woman, is a much better masculine ideal that the masked coward shoving the woman and executing a man on his knees. MAGA may venerate the latter, but most people in a healthy society want the former.
I am saddened to hear of the passing of a civil rights leader and former constituent, Claudette Colvin.
At just 15, she refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus, serving as a catalyst for the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the end of segregation.
Rest in power, Claudette🕊️
A weekend academic conference is the latest battle between First Nations and the Metis Nation of Ontario, who call it an attack on their history because it questions the legitimacy of their connection to Métis heritage and territorial claims.
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As an artist who is always trying to build and move forward, Santee Smith says it’s been overwhelming to look back on her career.
The Mohawk, multidisciplinary artist has been doing a lot of reflecting as the company she founded celebrates 20 years.
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Wow! Epstein survivor Haley Robson just offered to hold Marjorie Taylor Greene’s hand if she decides to read the names on the floor.
And her powerful message to Donald Trump: “I am traumatized. I am not stupid.”
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Dearest #RubyBridges: Thank you. >>> 65 years ago today, 4 federal marshals escorted 6-year-old Ruby Bridges to her 1st day of school (1st grade), as the 1st Black student to attend previously all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana. And today, there are legislators and school districts seeking to ban teaching on Ruby Bridges under the guise of banning “wokeness.” We have to stand so that they don’t whitewash U.S. and world history.
Special to APTN News: Over the last few years, more than 60% of roughly $1Bin contracts annually intended to boost Indigenous entrepreneurs and their communities have stayed in Ottawa, according to an investigation by @IJFMedia
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