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Edward R. Murrow award winning Cree/Iroquois/French Human Rights Journalist. Mother. Warrior. A Force. BESTSELLING AUTHOR Our Voice of Fire #MMIWG #landback
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Ok everyone, today is the day!! Our trailer for our doc Killer Water unleashed to the world! Share like a firestorm!
🔥🔥🔥Featuring the incredible cinematography/editing of
@geordieday
& reported/written/produced by yours truly.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
New Documentary “Killer
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The most beautiful burial I’ve ever witnessed. After over a 100 yrs the children who died at Carlisle Indian Boarding School are laid to rest by the youth of this generation. Wrapped in buffalo robes and back to the comfort of Grandmother Earth in their ancestral Lakota lands.
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Kiera Harris, daughter of Morgan Harris murdered by Winnipeg serial killer along with 3 other Indigenous women speaks to media in Ottawa this morning addressing police, ‘If you won’t search the landfill, then we will’
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At the request of elders we will now refer to the unidentified Indigenous woman murdered by the serial killer in Winnipeg as ‘Buffalo Woman’ instead of unidentified woman. Until her name is found, we honour her.
kitotimnaw (our relative)
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I’ve never seen Chief Adam cry. This is tough to take in. He’s fought 4 so long 4 the rights of his people; against industry, land/water being poisoned by oilsands. Now, the whole community of Fort Chip evacuated by boat & plane because a raging fire is at their back door. He
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You know it’s freakin cold outside when your front inside door looks like this
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Indigenous communities are calling for more children to be found. There are perhaps thousands of unmarked graves across this country. Are you ready? Because it’s time for truth and reckoning. It’s time for these innocents to be honoured, their names spoken, their deaths mourned💔
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Kylie Severight of Saskatchewan created this for the thousands of Indian residential school children who died. POWERFUL. STUNNING. BEAUTIFUL.
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This morning I explained to my beautiful 5-year-old how her ancestors were once stolen from their mommies and daddies and sent far away to residential schools. It was difficult to explain the horrors of what happened- that we wear orange (it’s Orange shirt day at her school
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This is Prissa. She showed me the tarp she is living under in Edmonton last night in -33 weather. She said she and her boyfriend keep warm with candles while huddling underneath. She said she avoids the shelters and explains why in this video. Her tent and belongings were thrown
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Dr Wilton Littlechild, who has advocated for years 4 the Catholic Church to apologize; was a TRC Commissioner, he’s a survivor of residential schools and now uses a walker-it’s his 78th bday today. He danced in St Peters Square celebrating
@Pontifex
apology which is momentous
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Today is National Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples (MMIP) Awareness Day, also known as Red Dress Day. This date was chosen to honor the life of Hanna Harris (Northern Cheyenne), who was murdered in July 2013 and would have turned 32 today.
“This is a day to honor the
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My heart is in my throat. What’s happening in Winnipeg at the Brady Landfill blockade is so much more than meets the eye. The prospect of people being forcibly removed by police with an injunction; the Native women’s bodies in the dumps; their daughters demanding justice & on the
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Paiute Elder Dean Barlese is being charged in a civil suit by Lithium Americas Corp (a Canadian mining company) with acts including civil conspiracy, trespassing and tortious interference.
That’s “trespassing” in his own ancestral lands. He was protecting a sacred site in
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Chief Allan Adam of Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation in Northern AB was beaten by police a few months ago- he’s one of Canada’s most prolific First Nations leaders. His story just came out w/ the Globe & Mail today. He broke to tears recollecting this:
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I am not a criminal. But today I was charged with a criminal offence while doing my job as a journalist documenting the actions of police raiding vulnerable, unhoused, unarmed Indigenous Peoples in their own territories to displace them out of their tent homes & throw their
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This photo by
@GJohnJournalism
from this morning when
@Pontifex
gave apology to residential school survivors in Maskwacis 💔🙏🏾
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Why haven’t the residential school staff, clergy faced justice 4 their crimes of murder & abuse against Indigenous children? Nazi’s were trialed for their roles in genocide. Sure, some may be passed away, but some must be still alive? Why were they allowed to get away with this?
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To anyone calling me an “Activist” journalist, screw you. I’m a journalist telling Indigenous stories from an Indigenous perspective which is not done in main stream colonial media. I guess non-natives telling stories in non-native communities would be activists 4 theirs then?😘
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Cadaver dogs are being used 2 sniff out the bones of Indigenous children who died at residential schools all across the country. Winnipeg Police say it’s ‘not feasible’ to search the dump 4 remains of 3 Indigenous women murdered. It can be done-bring in the dogs, do what it takes
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Yes, I was a missing Indigenous girl who beat the odds. Now I’m a journalist & I won’t shut up about a genocidal crisis happening in Canada. To all MMIWG, survivors, families, I ❤️ YOU!
Indigenous women are preyed on at horrifying rates. I was one of them
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Hold your children close. Pray a prayer of thanks they’re not in threat of being stolen from the government & sent to imprisoned houses of horrors. That u can mold them, hold them & raise them in their 1st language & culture in love. Pray 4 the ones who never had the chance 🧡
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Celebrating in St Peters Square with round dancing- locals join in. Lots of smiles, Chief Willie Littlechild is beaming.
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Wow- Chief Aly Bear signed the roll to join the Law Society of Saskatchewan today. Saskatchewan is one of the most racist towards Indigenous in Canada. She’s the 1st lawyer from Whitecap Dakota First Nation. A fierce mother, leader & advocate. These pics are so powerful. RISE 🔥
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This was remarkable to witness tonight. Bear Claw Patrol, an Indigenous led outreach to the unhoused in Edmonton, put up a 61-year-old woman named Joanne in a hotel. They found her in pain and cold waiting to get in the Bissell Center (it was -33 out), but it wasn’t open for a
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Cambria Harris speaks to media in Ottawa this morn-she’s daughter of Morgan Harris, taken by the serial killer in Winnipeg who murdered 4 Indigenous women.
‘Police have failed us time & time again…your government started this genocide. Now it’s your turn 2 help us end it’
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I have a WONDERFUL UPDATE!!! My charge of criminal obstruction was withdrawn this morning!!! A huge win for press freedom; amplifying the forgotten and silenced and holding powers to account!!!! Teniki to God, my lawyer Rick Mirasty
@MirastyRR
, my editors
@ricochet_en
& all orgs
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Wearing my “khustka” or “Kohkum scarf” in solidarity with Ukraine. Indigenous helped Ukrainian settlers here & we’ve always had friendships & respect because we both know hardship. Ukrainian women gave these floral scarfs to native women & they’re now embedded into our culture💕
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For this small town girl who once thought she was nothing. Moved through foster homes, rape, single motherhood to being in NYC right now prepping to accept the top award for journalism in the world here on Monday Edward R Murrow. Unleashing my Voice of Fire! So many laughs/joy
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MAJOR UPDATE in Winnipeg serial killer Jeremy Skibicki’s trial. Today he admitted to killing all four Indigenous women and dumping their bodies in the landfills:
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Spoke w Cree Clan Mother/Elder Nancy Scanie, 83, Cold Lake FN this afternoon. She’s furious that Pat King is using her name to tout his agenda. She says it’s a lie that she is giving or supporting him to be a pipe carrier. Said she told him to never speak to her again. Our call👇🏽
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This is Wedzin Kwa the Wet’suewet’en are battling to protect from CGL drilling under to lay its LNG pipeline. It flows from Morice Lake,nestled along snow capped coastal mountains, w many creeks & tributaries along the way. It flows 2 the North Pacific Ocean. It’s rare. It’s pure
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TRIGGER WARNING: Did you know that Canada’s most well-known and horrific serial killers is up for day parole today? Robert Pickton, AKA the infamous pig farmer that murdered dozens of vulnerable women near Vancouver, over half of which were Indigenous, chopped their bodies up and
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There were uncontrollable sobs in my chest as I stood at Peez’uh near Pee-hee-mm-huh (Thacker Pass) where it’s being dug up for North America’s largest lithium mine. Indigenous Peoples whose ancestral territories this is that I interviewed, do not want their lands sacrificed to
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Not happy with the Vatican & it’s high level control of media in this process of meeting with Indigenous delegates re: residential schools. They’re staging this to be in their favour for the world to see. This is NOT reconciliation
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Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Chief Allan Adam handed Alberta Energy Regulator CEO Laurie Pusher a Statement of Claim informing him that the ACFN is suing the AER for Imperial Oil’s tailings spills & its impacts on Fort Chipewyan tonight. It’s the first time ACFN has had the
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Today we honour Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls. I was once missing-12 yrs old, a lost foster kid runaway-raped & held against my will. I could’ve been dead. I made it out alive so I share this far & wide. For other survivors and those taken ❤️
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RCMP have apparently arrested a member of the media in Wet’suewet’en territories. This is ILLEGAL!!! RCMP cannot impede journalists,it’s against freedoms of the press & the public’s right to know/see. I’ll be there tomorrow & they best let me in behind the barricades. RETWEET PLZ
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As you reflect on the horrors of the truths of Canada and it’s treatment of the First Nations and their children please understand it was genocide. It’s that dark, that heavy. Truth & reckoning 💔
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There is no climate justice without Indigenous leadership.
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I’m here in NYC at the Oscars of journalism. I won this for our stolen sisters!!!!!!!!!!! Edward R Murrow award
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RCMP created media exclusion zones during their raid and arrests of the Savage Patch camp protecting old growth forest this morn, which they’re not supposed to be doing. Pardon my language during these exchanges. I did inform them of my rights as a journalist when they threatened
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I met the woman who is inspiring the world with the song she sang to
@Pontifex
Si Pih Ko is here at Pilgrimage. Story to come
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Cree artist Lance Cardinal completed his 30 foot mural titled “Intergenerational Love” at the Institution for the Advancement of Aboriginal Women in Edmonton 🙌🏽
Can I get a HECK YA!! ❤️❤️❤️
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Statement with from the Piapot family who adopted Buffy Sainte-Marie in light of a CBC Fifth Estate doc allegedly denying her Indigenous identity due to air this Friday.
“An icon’s claims to Indigenous ancestry are being called into question by family members and an
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RCMP SGT Charney grabbed me after him and others threatened me with arrest when I refused to follow their media exclusion zones during the CIRG Unit raid of the Savage Patch blockade against old growth logging. I did, however, inform them that I knew of my rights as a journalist
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A powerful & emotional expressions at
@Pontifex
visit to Maskwacis by Sipihko, who is Cree. She sang Canada’s national anthem embodying generations of pain yet backed with the strength of her culture & spirit that is still alive after the genocidal actions of Catholic Church.
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My heart is hurting, speaking with survivors, some not able to afford or not able to get to locations where the Pope will be; some contending w the nightmares of their past resurface; others are elated, healing. Remember, how somber this is. Please keep survivors in your prayers
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Taken last night at Bissell Center in Edmonton- they were over capacity and people standing outside. It was nearly -40! Told Kohkum’s out there, crying. They started a fire to keep warm.
@ABDanielleSmith
@JasonNixonAB
there is not enough emergency shelter spaces unlike you’re
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Went out for a seven hour boat ride to the Athabasca River from Fort Chipewyan with Dene trapper/hunter/fisherman Jason Short. He’s been navigating this river system for nearly 20 years. He says what he sees on the water is not normal. The Alberta oilsands are just upstream from
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If you think COVID is bad, just wait’ll u can’t find clean water, grow/harvest food & find natural medicines anymore. Indigenous land defenders are battling 4 you & all future gens, the corps, cops & bureaucrats obsessed w money/greed over humanity & health of our 🌎 wakey wakey
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My feature w the BBC is out:
"They're telling me that my mother's dead, but where? Well, if she has been murdered, she needs to be retrieved.
And so does Marcedes Myran because this landfill is essentially a giant burial site, an unmarked grave at that."
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The Canadian state owned TransMountain Pipeline expansion (TMX) is shut down due to this wild flooding causing landslides in BC. Think if the new pipes were already loaded with millions of litres of oil the devastation leaching from climate disasters could cause. This is what
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With
@wankinew
elected I’m thinking of the families of the Indigenous women who were murdered and left in the Winnipeg landfills. The families have been advocating, rallying & blockading asking officials to search the dumps for their remains- the outgoing Manitoba premier told
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Waking up to messages like this from friends. Heartbreaking. This was his daughter, Michelle Rabbit. Her remains were found last Thursday south of Paul First Nation at an abandoned lease site and her death deemed homicide by police. Paul First Nation is just west of where I live.
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Remembering my beautiful baby boy born today 2 years ago. I’ve never heard my mom wail like she did at the loss of her grandchild-I was numb. Today I will go & dig his grave site from the snow 2 honour where his bones rest, but I know he’s taken care of in heaven-until then❤️🙏🏾❤️
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MMIWG advocate & intergenerational survivor Lorelei Williams, Coast Salish, at the Colosseum in Rome
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I’m really tired of the ignorance, the rhetoric-THESE ARE UNCEDED INDIGENOUS LANDS! Canada has no authority or legal standing in Wet’suewet’en & other territories here. This is all illegal. Industry, police & Canada are committing genocidal acts on sovereign Indigenous nations.
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I really want you to take this in. Elder & Secwépemc Hereditary Chief Saw-ses, also a Kamloops Indian Residential School survivor was released from prison this morning after serving 19 days of a 28 day sentence for protecting his territories & asserting his sovereign Indigenous
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Powerful watching these thriving Tatanka (buffalo) on Lakota lands again!!! 🙌🏽🙏🏾🙌🏽
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Trudeau is riled up about the wildfires & socks it to conservative opposition leader Pierre Poilievre
#ClimateCatastrophe
#climatechange
#wildfirescanada
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Where are the mainstream headlines?! THIS IS HUGE NEWS- in a historic 1st, the House of Commons voted to recognize Canada's Indian residential schools as an act of genocide-motion passed unanimously
@LeahGazan
AFTER ALL THE YEARS OF DENIAL. TRUTH & RECKONING-GENOCIDE acknowledged
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Chief Adam notes a large influx of moose flies swarming the airport. The large insects, known for sending irritated moose into a frenzy, bite chunks of human and animal flesh in order to reproduce.
But it’s too early for moose flies, he says. They usually don’t appear until well
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I’m out of jail. Charged with Obstruction, which is a criminal offence. I’m fine.
Have to appear in court Feb 1.
Thinking about the people who were displaced and hurt by the police today. Hiy Hiy to
@ricochet_en
for having my back.
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This is pretty incredible- I’m holding the original medallion given to my Great (x3) Grandfather Michel Callihoo when he signed an adhesion to Treaty 6 in 1878 establishing my band The Michel First Nation. We are here gathering in Edmonton today as we are close to regaining
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Body of First Nations woman Tytiana Janvier, 21, found in a home in Lac La Biche, AB last week. Her devastated loved ones held a vigil Sunday. Police not releasing info yet, but family members say she was brutally murdered. No mainstream media covering
#MMIWG
STOP THIS GENOCIDE💔
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Reconciliation is a facade. Colonial violence lives. These are unceded territories in Wet’suewet’en lands & governments/industry/police are 1492 all over again. Police occupying Indigenous land. The charade to the world is over, Canada.
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Don’t let the daughters search for their mothers in the landfill. Please fucken try, show that Indigenous women are more than trash to you. Your racism is barefaced and the world is watching.
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93 more bones of the innocent found. It doesn’t get easier hearing the numbers, even though we know there are thousands. I’m grateful their no longer hidden, maybe the souls of the children who died at residential schools can be at peace now. Prayers for healing for this nation.
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This is Grandma Losah, Tla’amin elder and land/water defender at Eden, an old growth forest in Fairy Creek Watershed on Vancouver Island land defenders are fighting to protect from being logged by industry. She has a message for the world “We are in the Eigth Fire and that Eigth
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RACISM/POLICE COMPLACENCY IN CANADA-An old white man purposely drove thru a crowd in Mission, B.C. yesterday- people were walking to honour residential school victims/survivors. Several people bloodied, sent to hospital. CONTINUED
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Aunty Janet is at Wet’suewet’en Camp 44 in Chief Woos territory, she is a Matriarch of the Gidimt'en Clan and lives on the Yintah. She was removed by police on her territory protecting Wedzin Kwa river from CGL pipeline drilling under it. She is pissed!! Watch to the end:
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It’s climate change. Name it. We are going to be in a constant state of emergency from now on as a world. What you’re seeing here in Canada, with infernos burning out of control- just the beginning. AND Indigenous communities pay the greatest price with Native lands/livelihoods
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Kera Harris, daughter of Morgan Harris, victim of the Winnipeg serial killer tells
@wpgpolice
Chief of Police to resign at Ottawa presser 2day ‘On our land, our stolen land. How dare you tell us that you cannot find our missing women.’
She is 18. The youth aren’t messing around…
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Politics aside, I’m so freakin proud of
@WabKinew
Him rising to this high position of leadership will be a hope and inspiration to so many Native youth who will see themselves represented in him. Wab also takes reconciliation seriously. He’s got a lot of work ahead, but it’s good
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Unfortunately, I don’t know who the artist is, was shared on Facebook.
Spirits of Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women...
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I’m taking a moment to fucking cry. And that’s ok. Journalists are not robots. Fuck that. This is real life, real human beings we tell the stories of. And we are decolonizing media!!! This is hard (always) and it sucks. But powerful prayers hold me up & I stand in that ❤️🙏🏾❤️ xo
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Today I experienced +49c temperature for the first time while in Kamloops. It was literally dangerous to be outside. It’s hard to breathe and feels like you’re in a sauna. This is what we have to look forward to with climate change. Wake up call. I’m praying for our children 😞
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Wet’suewet’en Hereditary Chief Gisday'wa of Gidimt'en Clan has a message regarding CGL/RCMP ripping up his Yintah, arrests & tearing down land defender cabins; and to
@JustinTrudeau
“Had enough of that in the past. This is our land. All of Canada is Indigenous land.”
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Everywhere I go telling stories in Indian Country it’s the same battle. You do know the violence against our people never did come to an end? You do know that colonization is still in full force? Corporations rape & poison Indigenous lands for profit with the blessings of
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@ABDanielleSmith
whitewashed version of how so-called Canada was founded left out truths which “might help shape the future of where we are going” & as she’s the leader of my home province, it’s time for her to face the facts instead of perpetuating an inaccurate, harmful fantasy
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To people who are calling my Op Ed in today’s
@TorontoStar
saying I’m exaggerating when I wrote "If this was Indigenous or another minority group, they would have been either shot down or jailed without delay." RCMP have permission 2 shoot to kill Indigenous land defenders. This
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I can’t take the people who believe the Truckers for Freedom convoy are heroes seriously;convinced they’re brave & giving up so much to stand for “their rights,”? Where have they been all these years when Indigenous have been experiencing severe human rights abuses? Apathy.
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I’m tweeting as ferociously as I did when the war in Ukraine broke out & when the unmarked graves of Indigenous children were revealed; as I did when George Floyd was murdered. The injustice of MMIWG genocide is a war against the lives of our women & I won’t shut up about it!
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Wee-One lays at the entrance of the Savage Patch Indigenous resistance camp where police are expected to raid at any time. She is Pacheedaht and these are her ancestral territories. The land defenders are working to stop rare old growth forest from being logged by company Teal
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More Indigenous children are seized by Canada via the child welfare system than at the height of residential schools. It’s attributed 2 the legacy of residential schools & effects of colonization & cultural devaluation. Put $ helping families heal instead of $ into foster homes?
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If this isn’t a sign for the doubters out there, then what is? Almost all of Canada’s on fire. And it’s because of climate change. We are in an emergency. Time to get it together, especially my home province of Alberta where government leaders are pushing to keep raping the earth
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There’s lots of poverty, people begging here in Rome. My heart busted a million times today. This hurts!! The contrast of the riches of the Vatican, (the church nearby which is supposed to love & help the poor), but has locked gates, gold & guards-reeks of irony & darkness 🙏🏾💔🙏🏾
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Hearing from survivors here they’re getting attacked on social media for meeting with the Pope. Some have stopped posting their photos online because they’re being bombarded with negativity. This is so sad. Already tons of trauma for them. Don’t take anger out on them.
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Can you believe that still in 2024 in Canada that industry wants to continue polluting Indigenous territories that are already poisoned by industry? We’re talking horrifying mercury poisoning here in Grassy Narrows. When is enough enough?
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You should be paying attention to what’s unfolding in Winnipeg.
As of 6pm Central- Friday, July 14 (today), the Winnipeg Police have the authority to remove blockaders at the Brady Landfill in Winnipeg. An injunction was granted to the City of Winnipeg earlier today after family
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This needs to be called out. We have to bring the darkness in2 the light or it will continue to grow. Here are excerpts from emails I’ve received due 2 my work. Condemn violence & hateful rhetoric against media. No one should be at the receiving end-plus we have a crisis of MMIWG
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John A MacDonald, author of the Indian Act which still oppresses and kills Indigenous Peoples in Canada to this day; ordered the hanging of Mixed Blood revolutionary who fought 4 Indigenous rights from thievery; author of the residential school horrific legacy killed thousands...
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