first nationzz 2014

i dunno. there's a "native-americans" thread dating back to 2005? with "freeloaders" in the title and a guy claiming to be 1/28th. i don't know if anyone's interested in talking about first nations/aboriginal/etc. issues on ilx. in canada there's been relatively more visibility for first nations issues as a result of the idle no more movement and activism around the missing women case.

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/03/07/conservatives_reject_inquiry_for_murdered_missing_aboriginal_women.html

conservative government has no interest in an inquiry into missing first nations women (native womens assoc documents 580 cases of missing or murdered women in canada)

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/03/19/via-rail-trains-between-toronto-and-ottawa-montreal-replaced-by-buses-after-first-nations-blockade/ - mohawks near belleville blocked some via trains...

truth and reconciliation meetings continue in edmonton, hearing testimony from residential school survivors

http://globalnews.ca/news/1238064/residential-school-survivors-share-stories-during-truth-and-reconciliation-event/

loretta saunders. inuk woman, criminology student writing thesis on missing and murdered aboriginal women, found in a ditch.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/darryl-leroux/loretta-saunders_b_4907221.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdOwb6NkQno

ndp asks: can we do something about the continuing genocide? conservative party says: we took care of that. ndp asks: 800 indigenous women have been murdered or gone missing since 1990. how about a national action plan on violence against women? conservative party says: we're sorry but have you heard about the economic action plan 2014?