tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56031577120866140502024-02-20T19:23:32.366-08:00Kevin LittlelightAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16547757236607946723noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603157712086614050.post-62238037975058479612012-09-30T11:32:00.000-07:002012-09-30T11:33:27.025-07:00<br />
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As a member of the aboriginal community, I think that it is
important for all people living in Canada to learn about the hardships that my
people have faced since the Europeans came here some five hundred years
ago. Many of the problems that we face today, I believe, come from the general
public not knowing the extent in which we were treated. This is not surprising
based on the on the poll that most Canadians think that our tribes are both
well-funded and well- treated by the federal government (Smith, 2012). Many aboriginal leaders disagree with this statement; including myself. Most Aboriginal communities suffer from poverty and social problems, and yet the majority of Canadian population think we are well treated by the Canadian government.This is not the case. Maybe whoever poured
cement into our sewage system shared the same views as many other Canadians; that
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I find it appalling that Saskatchewan is the only province
that is authorized to teach non aboriginal students about the residential
schools. Without this education how will young Canadian relationships with
aboriginal people change for the better if they don’t know? However, hope lies
on the horizon, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission have released an
interim report that urges other provinces to change the curriculum so that it will
incorporate more aboriginal history. To me this is a silver lining we have been
waiting for. Though it has not passed yet, it is important to see that other
people share the same sentiment as us, the same need to show others our
history. Hopefully the young students will share the knowledge that they have
learned with their parents and break the vicious cycle. The more people that
know our history means more people will understand the hardships that we have
faced; maybe there will be less demeaning stereotypes, and just maybe the
dominate white population will start to understand.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Smith , T. (2012,
July 6). A call for education on aboriginal issues. Montreal Gazette. Retrieved
from <a href="http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/call%20education%20aboriginal%20issues/6891014/story.html">http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/call
education aboriginal issues/6891014/story.html</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Tsuu t'ina
nation: treaty 7 signed 1877. (n.d.). Retrieved from
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16547757236607946723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603157712086614050.post-27354803038527398532012-09-27T12:01:00.000-07:002012-09-27T12:02:20.557-07:00<br />
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As an aboriginal council member and someone who speaks the endangered Tsuut’ina, it would be devastated to find out that
someone had destroyed early evidence of our language and our history ("<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-indent: -48px;">11 graduates trained"</span>, 2012). Although
there are discrepancies about whether or not there were indeed markings on the
rock, it is still an outrage. It’s still the precedents that an individual
would go out with a set agenda to wreck an item in nature; potentially one with
a vast amount of knowledge pertaining to an ancient tribe’s language.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXPRWUiLcvlVWqBkCqvX2SeE_WRuko2_boxnPzzYRQNcpvciR4PW3s9GYH3g0wlyk8c2tquMlvMpZGlC2Ixb7fy1Mv7Fc_WnNeSZa47wTvI-vvWlWGjwWR7m7mS1NCL1sUPpfUpcjzcZQ/s1600/r-ABORIGINALETCHINGS3-large570.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXPRWUiLcvlVWqBkCqvX2SeE_WRuko2_boxnPzzYRQNcpvciR4PW3s9GYH3g0wlyk8c2tquMlvMpZGlC2Ixb7fy1Mv7Fc_WnNeSZa47wTvI-vvWlWGjwWR7m7mS1NCL1sUPpfUpcjzcZQ/s320/r-ABORIGINALETCHINGS3-large570.jpg" width="320" /></a>I feel that the language and the history is the “heart” to
any group of people. Just like the heart in the body, we cannot exist without
one. For groups of people it is very similar. Whether the group is still around
or it has become extinct that does not matter. The language keeps the history of
the people alive and without it there is nothing for the future generations to
learn. Who will be there too tell others the stories about what we have done
when we are gone if our symbols are destroyed? <o:p></o:p></div>
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It constantly seems like there are individuals who are out
there who purposely sabotage items that are important to our ancestor’s
history. Why must they do this do they not realize that we are people with
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; text-indent: -48px;">11 graduates trained to teach ailing tsuu t'ina language. (2012, March 21). </span><i style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; text-indent: -48px;">CBC Calgary </i><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; text-indent: -48px;">. Retrieved from http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/2012/03/21/calgary-tsuu-tina-first-nation-language.html</span>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; text-indent: -48px;">Aboriginal rock etchings destroyed on southern alberta's glenwood erratic rock. (2012, September 18). </span><i style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; text-indent: -48px;">Huffington post canada</i><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; text-indent: -48px;">. Retrieved from http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/09/18/aboriginal-etchings-destroyed-in-southern-alberta_n_1894129.html</span>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; text-indent: -48px;">Wood, D. (2012, September 21). Glenwood erratic vandalism claims crumble. </span><i style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; text-indent: -48px;">Calgary Sun </i><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; text-indent: -48px;">. Retrieved from http://www.calgarysun.com/2012/09/21/glenwood-erratic-vandalism-claims-crumble</span>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16547757236607946723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603157712086614050.post-55381505046274216032012-09-16T23:54:00.000-07:002012-09-17T10:15:46.367-07:00<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Blog #1 Kevin Littlelight </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By: Krystine Nichols </span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Biography<o:p></o:p></span></strong><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJRO4uXur_2X6fdFTvn8Mzhk-Xe6riRizc7bPbVCtOwDR5_gli4WXG8l4X3pXTE4QQ9MgTNk5CIaFr0zLjyU8Gy8HnBUvsuHGvb4LdhoAOyoDb6YsWaTpzrx94XESvcQPtDPS81zE6umk/s1600/si-kevin-littlelight-220.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJRO4uXur_2X6fdFTvn8Mzhk-Xe6riRizc7bPbVCtOwDR5_gli4WXG8l4X3pXTE4QQ9MgTNk5CIaFr0zLjyU8Gy8HnBUvsuHGvb4LdhoAOyoDb6YsWaTpzrx94XESvcQPtDPS81zE6umk/s1600/si-kevin-littlelight-220.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My name is Kevin Littlelight, and I am one of the council members of the Tsuu
T'ina band. I grew up on a reserve Southwest of Calgary. I currently work on LittleLight Angus Ranch and I also write, produce, and direct
films for my own company “Thunderhorse films.” In the summer of 2004, one of
my short films, "Samurai Kid" was featured in the Calgary Society of
Independent Filmmaker’s ImagineNATIVE<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">("Zoominfo: Kevin Lttlelight," 2012)</span>. I studied English and Psychology at
Mount Royal College and graduated with a degree in 2011 (facebook).</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZyODeOEkfYA-t0kF5qApnLxGDpX5knvRmyjWo9WIeVeNcMilIhaJ9t-VKAUNKbtJNZCz7jUfGSWeJJdmLcYAQ_KDkIna_7Gt1X89ED64T9BwpzXA1PCrrpm0Ez_c8N8aUoVvaeKaNFWA/s1600/hi-raw-sewage-852.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZyODeOEkfYA-t0kF5qApnLxGDpX5knvRmyjWo9WIeVeNcMilIhaJ9t-VKAUNKbtJNZCz7jUfGSWeJJdmLcYAQ_KDkIna_7Gt1X89ED64T9BwpzXA1PCrrpm0Ez_c8N8aUoVvaeKaNFWA/s320/hi-raw-sewage-852.jpg" width="320" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During my time as a Council member, the Tsuu T'ina band signed the First Nations Land Management Regime. This gave my tribe the ability to fully manage our own land, and allowed for faster economic development. Under this regime the band has been working on creating a “proper place for the Redwater sewage” <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">(Littlelight, 2012). </span>However upon building these pipes, we discovered that an individual had recently poured concrete into the existing sewage system; creating a blockage (Littlelight, 2012). The we had no choice but to divert the sewage to a reseve because the pipes had been shut down for little over a week. Unfortunately the reserve was the forest floor just 500 meters away from the Elbow River. Under the my direction, the pipe has been fixed, and we are now working on the cleanup of the forest (Tsuu T'ina confirms,, 2012). This is not the first form of financial vandalism that we have faced. This is just an example of the various forms of animosity that the Aboriginal people deal with on a day to day basis.</span><br />
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vandels trash inuvik, N.W.T., Food Bank: Food Bank to Close Until Security Improved.</span></o:p><br />
<o:p><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2012/09/11/north-inuvik-food-bank.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2012/09/11/north-inuvik-food-bank.html</span></a></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over two thirds of
the population that live in Inuvik is aboriginal, and more than one fifth of
the population makes less than 30,000 dollars a year <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">("Inuvik: statistical profile")</span>. It is disgusting that an
individual vandalize an organization, such as the food bank, that it trying to
help the families in need. This non-profit group now needs to start over. In addition
to acquiring the essentials again, they also need to invest in cameras, steel
bars and various other security precautions <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">("Vandals trash inuvik,," 2012)<o:p></o:p></span> .However until the volunteers can
promise that the food is not destroyed the food bank will remain closed. What
will the people in need do if it doesn’t reopen?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It seems like across the country aboriginal people are being
sabotaged financially. The money that is needed to set up a security system
could have gone to better use; such as building a playground for the children.
Over the summer my community was too struck by various forms of financial
sabotage such as: pouring concrete in the sewage pipes, and people driving on
our greens on the golf course <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">(Littlelight, 2012)<o:p></o:p></span>. It seems like some individuals do not have
respect for our belongings, or for individual needs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When will people see that we are just like you? What good
does it do to vandalize a food bank, or to pour concrete into a sewage system?
What does this prove? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Inuvik: statistical profile </i>. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.statsnwt.ca/community-data/Profile PDF/Inuvik.pdf </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Windspeaker, S. N. (2012). Land management regime gives more control to nations. <i>Aboriginal multi media society</i>, <i>29</i>(12), Retrieved from </span><a href="http://www.ammsa.com/publications/windspeaker/land-management-regime-gives-more-control-nations"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.ammsa.com/publications/windspeaker/land-management-regime-gives-more-control-nations</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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