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This prime real estate property worth an estimate 5 billion was sold by the Algonquins of Ontario (AOO) for a mere 10 million dollars.
WHO GETS THE MONEY?
Feds to pay $10M for CFB Rockcliffe land claim
   
A special thanks to Ontario out of Doors magazine for allowing us to post this on our website.
Thank you is also extended to Editor-in Chief John Kerr and Assistant Editor Steve Galea for their remarkable articles.
Our Home on Native Land (Ontario Out of Doors Magazine)
Our Home on Native Land: Part 2 (Ontario Out of Doors Magazine)
DRAWING BOUNDARIES (Ontario Out of Doors Magazine)
Please submit any
articles on Algonquin history or current events that you would like to
see
on this page.
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This is a story of
a child who is about to lose their playground, thanks to Urbandale
Development. The destruction of the South March Forest is done in the
name of progress. The irony here is that the government’s keep telling
our children that they are obese, overweight and should be getting
outside more. This area provides snowshoeing, skiing, hiking and an
abundance of outdoor opportunities that a child should have. When it
comes to urban development though, these things are put aside.
Help save the
South March Beaverpond Forest for our future generations!
 
Stop Land Claim until government accountable to all
parties
Bill C-3
and Aboriginal women's human rights
Kwey,
As most know by now that it took Sharon McIvor 25 years to take the matter
of the continued sex discrimination in the Indian Act through the Canadian
court system. Although the Indian Act was amended in 1985 to bring it in
line with the Charter - it failed to do this. Disturbingly, the proposed
Bill C-3 continues to fail to remove the sex discrimination. The women of
Quebec have organized a walk in support of McIvor and to raise attention to
the fact that the current government is prepared to yet again pass through
parliament more failed remedial discrimination. Alternatively, Bill C-3 will
fail to eliminate all the sex discrimination.
These women are walking 500 km from Wendake to Parliament Hill, May 4th to
June 1st. Attached is a short information sheet on the issue and the walk, a
map of the walk, and a petition worthy of signing.
Rumor has it the Sharon will join us for part of the walk and will try to be
there on June 1st.
Please circulate this information and post is on your website. Please ask
you organizational leaders to post this information.
Miigwetch,
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NAAA Lifetime Achievement Award Grandfather William
Commanda
from the Eagle Watch #34
Here at the Eagle Watch, we love and respect animals and deplore the
colonial mentality of "kill it if it bothers you". Our teaching is
to kill only for food. There was a wolf hunt all winter in Lanark
county with a prize offered for the biggest one killed. Needless to
say, we are overwhelmed by deer which the farmers also kill en masse
in illegal culls. Randy Hillier, local MPP was involved in this.
This is another important forward. Hopefully the response will be
overwhelming.
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THE VANCOUVER SUN - MARCH 16, 2010
Conditions Ripe for Major Aboriginal Uprising, Academic Says:
Young first nations people are largely poor, uneducated, prone to crime and
live near vulnerable resource areas, ex-Forces officer argues Canadians and
their political leaders are ignoring all the signs of a looming aboriginal
insurrection in their midst, warns a prominent military analyst.
Douglas Bland, a former lieutenant-colonel in Canada's Armed Forces who
chairs defence management studies at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont.,
says conditions are ripe for a major uprising by first nations people.
He told a luncheon audience of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy in
Winnipeg last week that "the typical federal or provincial politician in
Canada has no idea what to do with this matter. They only see it as a
difficulty for themselves."
In turn, aboriginals are "emboldened by the prevailing political reluctance
to act."
In a speech titled, "Where Are Aboriginal Affairs in Canada Headed?," Bland
answers the question by noting that Canada is particularly "vulnerable to a
national disturbance, given its economic dependence on the export of oil,
gas, natural gas, hydro power and other commodities to the U.S.
"Aboriginal communities are sitting on those supply chains. At any moment
they can turn that system off, which would pose a danger to the economy and
to Canadian sovereignty."
Canada has witnessed several instances of the sort of aboriginal unrest
Bland is talking about.
First nations groups have staged roadblocks on Highway 401 near Kingston and
put up barricades on major railways. A crisis over disputed land occurred in
Oka, Que., in 1990, and in Caledonia, Ont., in 2006. Another standoff took
place in 2009 near Cornwall, Ont., between Mohawks and border services
personnel who had planned to start carrying firearms.
Bland says he began studying the feasibility of an aboriginal uprising after
the 9/11 debacle in the U.S. He recently wrote a fictional account of an
aboriginal insurrection, titled Uprising.
Aboriginals make up the largest and fastest growing group of young people in
the country.
Their median age -- 25, compared to 40 for nonaboriginals.
Incredibly, more than half of on-reserve aboriginals are 24 and younger. Too
many of them are not being educated. Fewer than 24 percent finish high
school, even as 80 percent of non-aboriginals graduate.
Another problem, says Bland, is that the aboriginals who graduate from
universities most often don't return to reserves where they could improve
governance and economic prospects.
And so, on-reserve unemployment stands at 28 percent. Youth unemployment is
more than 40 percent.
A disproportionate number of young first nations men are being incarcerated
in jails which tend to serve as "community colleges for the gangs."
For example, 71 percent of those who are held in custody in Manitoba are
aboriginals, despite the fact they make up only 15 percent of the
population.
Of course, aboriginals often experience deplorable living conditions
characterized by rural isolation and housing that's dilapidated and
overcrowded.
A community with a sense of grievance needs only a particular economic or
political condition to aggravate it, along with a unifying leader able to
mobilize the group to trigger an insurrection.
Because aboriginals reside in areas adjacent to Canada's resource bounty and
these sometimes remote and expansive tracts of land are largely undefendable,
the feasibility of a major conflict is that much greater.
Bland is a student of war and his soundings are worrisome. While past
Liberal governments in Ottawa have deployed a strategy of big spending to
alleviate unacceptable on-reserve living conditions, the Harper government
has taken a different approach.
Conservatives have focused more on urban-dwelling aboriginals and, of
course, given a formal apology and financial redress for historic injustices
at first nations schools.
In any event, no political action will be as helpful as getting young
on-reserve aboriginals educated.
With only five of 308 sitting MPs (and six senators) reflecting Metis, Inuit
or first nations ethnicity, Parliament would be better equipped to respond
to aboriginal challenges if more first nations people were to become engaged
in national political processes.
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Does McGuinty care whether land claims are legal?
by Gary McHale - The Regional
Final Notice Dec 11 2007 (uranium)
Fresh Amended Statement of Defence and Counterclaim
Statement Delivered at Queens Park
(The Ottawa Citizen - Sunday, August 26, 2007)
Native
advocate says government is still allowed to judge itself
(Juliet O'Neill, The Ottawa Citizen Thursday, August 16, 2007)
URGENT
NOTICE!
A Daniel Bernard Story
Statement
of Defence and Counter claim
Clearing Up Land Claims - Part 1
(CFRA audio file Tuesday, July 31, 2007)
Clearing Up Land Claims - Part 2
(CFRA audio file Tuesday, July 31, 2007)
Judge urges truce in mining dispute
Uranium drilling fight gets hot
OPP Letter re:
Criminal Investigation Update
Ardoch & Sharbot Lake Protest Uranium Mine Site
Look to native leaders for answers
Is this Double Fleecing the Members?
Never Surrendered
The Algonquin Claim
Turning Guilt into Billions of Dollars
Ramifications of Ipperwash Inquiry
(from the
Pembroke Daily Observer)
Put an end to land-claim industry
(from the
Ottawa Citizen)
Native leaders must step up to help reserves
(Response to
the above article from the
Ottawa Citizen)
Metis Victory
(from the North Bay Nugget)
Settling
Land Claims
(Audio file from CFRA.com -
interviews)
Open
letter to Honourable Jim Prentice
TREATY
PROCESS
Posted on
05/04/07 in the Globe and Mail
Algonquin
History and the Ontario Land Claims
By:
Sarah-Beth Knowles
What
Every Non Status Should know
Land-O-Lakes
The city that rules a
nation
The
Anishinabe Creation Story
By: Basil Johnston in Ojibway Heritage
Bancroft
Times - Algonquins Hold Information Meeting
by Barry
Hendry
Kichespippi
Current
Citizenship in Aboriginal Nations
Rockcliffe Landing
by Maria Cook
Ottawa: A
Historic Highway Becomes a Modern Destination
by Cherie
Dimaline
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