Brandi Morin
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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
Joined February 2009
Ok everyone, today is the day!! Our trailer for our doc Killer Water unleashed to the world! Share like a firestorm!.đ„đ„đ„Featuring the incredible cinematography/editing of @geordieday & reported/written/produced by yours truly. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. New Documentary âKiller
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The most beautiful burial Iâve 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, âIf you wonât search the landfill, then we willâ
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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 âBuffalo Womanâ instead of unidentified woman. Until her name is found, we honour her. kitotimnaw (our relative)
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Iâve never seen Chief Adam cry. This is tough to take in. Heâs 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 itâs 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 itâs time for truth and reckoning. Itâs time for these innocents to be honoured, their names spoken, their deaths mournedđ.
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The 15-year-old boy from Samson Cree Nation who was shot and killed by RCMP Friday morning in Wetaskiwin, AB was Hoss Lightning. His maternal grandmother sent me this photo taken of him earlier this year (heâs asking his grandmother if he looks like his late grandfather in the
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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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A 15 year old child was killed by RCMP on Friday. He was First Nation. His name, Hoss Lightning. Where is the outrage Canada?.
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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 (itâs 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, heâs a survivor of residential schools and now uses a walker-itâs 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. âThis is a day to honor the
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My heart is in my throat. Whatâs 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 womenâs 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. Thatâs âtrespassingâ 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- heâs one of Canadaâs 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 đđđŸ
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Why havenât the residential school staff, clergy faced justice 4 their crimes of murder & abuse against Indigenous children? Naziâs 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 âActivistâ journalist, screw you. Iâm 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?đ.
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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 itâs ânot feasibleâ 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 Iâm a journalist & I wonât shut up about a genocidal crisis happening in Canada. To all MMIWG, survivors, families, I â€ïž 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 theyâre 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 đ§Ą.
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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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Jeremy Skibicki, the serial killer who took the lives of four Native women in Winnipeg has been found guilty on all four counts of first degree murder!!!!!!.Rest in Peace Morgan Harris, Rebecca Contois, Mercedes Myran and Buffalo Woman. I pray for justice across Turtle Island.
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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. Sheâs the 1st lawyer from Whitecap Dakota First Nation. A fierce mother, leader & advocate. These pics are so powerful. RISE đ„
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As an Indigenous journalist with family residential school trauma, I'm exposing Poilievre's @PierrePoilievre defence of Aaron Gunn @AaronGunn - who dismisses genocide & bullied land defenders I witnessed firsthand. When Indigenous leaders spoke up, Poilievre called it
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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 wasnât open for a
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Cambria Harris speaks to media in Ottawa this morn-sheâs daughter of Morgan Harris, taken by the serial killer in Winnipeg who murdered 4 Indigenous women. âPolice have failed us time & time againâŠyour government started this genocide. Now itâs your turn 2 help us end itâ
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TRIGGER WARNING-VIOLENCE/LANGUAGE A 16-year-old Cree teenager was falsely accused of theft at Guilford Mall in Surrey, BC on November 12. According to her father (whom Iâve spoken to) she was targeted by mall security. The teen was with two friends who were non-Indigenous and not
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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 âkhustkaâ or âKohkum scarfâ in solidarity with Ukraine. Indigenous helped Ukrainian settlers here & weâve always had friendships & respect because we both know hardship. Ukrainian women gave these floral scarfs to native women & theyâre now embedded into our cultuređ
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BREAKING: After 2+ years of heartbreak and relentless advocacy, Morgan Beatrice Harris is finally coming home. đ. As a journalist whoâs covered this story from the start, Iâm typing through tears. Authorities have confirmed what Morganâs daughters fought so desperately for â
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Woke up in Toronto to incredible news. The Government of Canada is going to actually study the impacts of Naphthenic acids in ground water/river water in the tar sands. This is FREAKIN HUGE. The Alberta oil sands run this country. Thankful for the people of Fort Chip & everyone
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Morgan Harrisâs daughters and family have changed history. They would not back down when they were told no, that authorities would not search for their motherâs remains in the landfill. Now, their mother is going home to them. It was a battle that played out publicly in front of
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First Nations in Alberta would go to war if @ABDanielleSmith was to separate Alberta. From Sturgeon Lake Cree Chief Sheldon Sunshine (just one of many) telling it like it is:. âDear Premier Smith:. You are attempting to manufacture a national unity crisis - by enabling a
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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 Skibickiâs 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. Sheâs furious that Pat King is using her name to tout his agenda. She says itâs 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 callđđœ
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TRIGGER WARNING: Did you know that Canadaâs 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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This is Wedzin Kwa the Wetâsuewetâen 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. Itâs rare. Itâs pure
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There were uncontrollable sobs in my chest as I stood at Peezâuh near Pee-hee-mm-huh (Thacker Pass) where itâs being dug up for North Americaâs 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 & itâs high level control of media in this process of meeting with Indigenous delegates re: residential schools. Theyâre staging this to be in their favour for the world to see. This is NOT reconciliation
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I donât celebrate Canada Day. I canât celebrate an apocalypse against my peopleâŠ
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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 Oilâs tailings spills & its impacts on Fort Chipewyan tonight. Itâs 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 couldâve been dead. I made it out alive so I share this far & wide. For other survivors and those taken â€ïž
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RCMP have apparently arrested a member of the media in Wetâsuewetâen territories. This is ILLEGAL!!! RCMP cannot impede journalists,itâs against freedoms of the press & the publicâs right to know/see. Iâll 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 itâs treatment of the First Nations and their children please understand it was genocide. Itâs that dark, that heavy. Truth & reckoning đ
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There is no climate justice without Indigenous leadership.
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Iâm 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 theyâre 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 âIntergenerational Loveâ at the Institution for the Advancement of Aboriginal Women in Edmonton đđœ.Can I get a HECK YA!! â€ïžâ€ïžâ€ïž
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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. âAn iconâs claims to Indigenous ancestry are being called into question by family members and an
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Actually, itâs Native landsâŠ.
The federal government owns tons of public land thatâs not being used anymore. The Conservative Party wants to sell it all off for a quick profit. Weâve got a better idea.
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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 Canadaâs 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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President Biden will deliver an historic apology to the survivors and families of Americaâs Indian Boarding School era. Children stolen, forced to assimilate, language beaten out of them, abuse and neglect of every kind. An American genocide to be reckoned with, finally. Taking
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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 Kohkumâs out there, crying. They started a fire to keep warm. @ABDanielleSmith @JasonNixonAB there is not enough emergency shelter spaces unlike youâre
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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. Heâs 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 waitâll u canât 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 đ wakey wakey.
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The youth have been covered by Grandmother Earth now đ§Ą
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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 Iâm 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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The search for the remains of the murdered Native women laying somewhere in the Prairie Green garbage dump in Winnipeg would NEVER have gone forward without the families rallying, blocking roads, advocating, making noise, & demanding their loved ones be given respect. For the.
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Remembering my beautiful baby boy born today 2 years ago. Iâve 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 heâs taken care of in heaven-until thenâ€ïžđđŸâ€ïž
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Iâm really tired of the ignorance, the rhetoric-THESE ARE UNCEDED INDIGENOUS LANDS! Canada has no authority or legal standing in Wetâsuewetâen & other territories here. This is all illegal. Industry, police & Canada are committing genocidal acts on sovereign Indigenous nations.
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MMIWG advocate & intergenerational survivor Lorelei Williams, Coast Salish, at the Colosseum in Rome
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Powerful watching these thriving Tatanka (buffalo) on Lakota lands again!!! đđœđđŸđđœ
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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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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 itâs too early for moose flies, he says. They usually donât appear until well
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Iâm out of jail. Charged with Obstruction, which is a criminal offence. Iâm 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- Iâm 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 GENOCIDEđ
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Donât 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 doesnât get easier hearing the numbers, even though we know there are thousands. Iâm 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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Reconciliation is a facade. Colonial violence lives. These are unceded territories in Wetâsuewetâen 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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This is Grandma Losah, Tlaâamin 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 âWe are in the Eigth Fire and that Eigth
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It saddens me to learn of a hero, a legend, world changer Justice Murray Sinclairâs passing. As the first Indigenous judge appointed in Manitoba and chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), he fundamentally changed how Canada confronts its history of residential
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Aunty Janet is at Wetâsuewetâen 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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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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Itâs climate change. Name it. We are going to be in a constant state of emergency from now on as a world. What youâre 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 âOn our land, our stolen land. How dare you tell us that you cannot find our missing women.â.She is 18. The youth arenât messing aroundâŠ
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Alberta Treaty Chiefs speak out on Bill 54, brought forth by Premiere Danielle Smith and her conservative government which would open the pathway for Alberta to separate from Canada. The Chiefs say nope.
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Politics aside, Iâm 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. Heâs got a lot of work ahead, but itâs good.
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Unfortunately, I donât know who the artist is, was shared on Facebook. Spirits of Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women.
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Iâm taking a moment to fucking cry. And thatâs 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 â€ïžđđŸâ€ïž xo.
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My latest w @ricochet_en .Canada, the 51st state? âOver our dead bodies,â say Indigenous leaders .First Nations arenât taking Trumpâs comments lightly, and say they have both international law and economic leverage on their side.
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Today I experienced +49c temperature for the first time while in Kamloops. It was literally dangerous to be outside. Itâs hard to breathe and feels like youâre in a sauna. This is what we have to look forward to with climate change. Wake up call. Iâm praying for our children đ.
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