The Southern Chiefs’ Organization (SCO) is organizing protests to slow down traffic and inconvenience thousands of Manitoban heading to cottage country. Friday saw the first disruption on number one highway to Lake of the Woods. Chief Jerry Daniels explained: “We’re …
Re-direct money from Indigenous affairs departments and into the pockets of status Indians: researcher
An average family of five people who have status cards could be more than $25,000 richer each year if treaty annuity payments were based on today’s land values. Currently, treaty people with status cards get $5 a year based on …
A Hard Bargain: Comprehensive history of treaty negotiations reframes many Indigenous issues
Canada is, without question, a land of historic treaties, particularly in the West. There were treaties between the Hudson’s Bay Company and Indigenous communities in Rupert’s Land for building trading posts and using waterways. The Métis of the Red River …
Indigeneity an Asset Never a Barrier to Indigenous Business Success
Without a doubt, Indigenous entrepreneurs and business leaders in all the four Anglosphere countries looked at in this study all face challenges and obstacles. To begin with, they come from the most marginalized and disadvantaged populations in their respective nation-states. …
Indigenous Entrepreneurship in Australia
Like all Indigenous peoples studied in this series, Indigenous Australians have historically been excluded from the wider economy. But also, like all these communities in all four countries studied, they have entered business in a very significant way over the …
Overly Simplistic Report on Thunder Bay Police Treatment of Indigenous People
A damning report alleges Thunder Bay Police treat Indigenous people in a “systemically racist” way. With the police and city politicians blamed, there has been a flood of announcements promising change. No doubt there will be cultural sensitivity courses and …
Cost of Indigenous Affairs
The Indigenous Affairs department which is now Indigenous Services and Crown & Indigenous Relations which is the same department, just divided up a bit, has an annual budget of about $10 billion dollars. It’s complicated to find out exactly how …
Canada’s Indigenous Policy – The Failing Buffalo Jump Policy? Or a New Idea That Could Work Right Now
The Indigenous policy, being advanced by the Canadian government in a suite of legislation in the fall of 2018, is supposed to mark at new turn in the relationship between the Crown and Indigenous people. It appears, however, that the …
Do You Pledge Allegiance to the Indigenous peoples and not the Queen and Crown?
The Province of Ontario has put indigenous municipal councillors into a special category. Because they are Indigenous, they are no longer required to swear or affirm allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II before taking office. This exception arose as …