Here.
NYTs: “Guardians of a Vast Lake, and a Refuge for Humanity”
Here.
Canada
Two New Symposium Issues on Indigenous Law
Here is the symposium from the McGill Law Journal:
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 Introduction: Moving from the Why to the How of Indigenous Law |
Fraser Harland | 721 |
| Val Napoleon and Hadley Friedland | 725 | |
| Robert YELḰÁTTE Clifford | 755 | |
| John Borrows | 795 | |
| Aaron Mills | 847 | |
| Sébastien Grammond et Christiane Guay | 885 | |
| Geneviève Motard | 907 | |
| Kirsten Manley-Casimir | 939 | |
| Lara Ulrich and David Gill | 979 | |
Here is the symposium from the Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice:
VOL 33, NO 1 (2016): WINDSOR YEARBOOK OF ACCESS TO JUSTICE
Special Issue: Indigenous Law, Lands and Literature
Standing Rock may be the first battle site in Trump’s war on the environment
From the article:
“Trump’s orders, in themselves, did not completely undo the Obama administration’s pipeline decisions, but they are clear indicators that such an outcome is in the works. TransCanada, the Keystone project’s owner, is being asked to resubmit the project application (with the caveat that Trump wants the pipeline built with 100% American steel). Meanwhile, the Army Corps of Engineers is being ordered to “review and approve in an expedited manner” the North Dakota pipeline plan of Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners.”
Oil Pipeline Spills 53,000 Gallons on First Nation Lands
NYTs: “Even as Trudeau Reaches Out to First Nations, Mercury Rises”
Here, by Stephen Marche.
The Atlantic Spotlight on Photojournalist Daniella Zalcman’s “Signs of Your Identity”
Link: Erasing Indigenous Heritage by Emily Anne Epstein (Oct. 30, 2016)
Excerpt:
For nearly a century, the Canadian government took indigenous Canadians from their families and placed them in church-run boarding schools, forcibly assimilating them to Western culture. Children as young as 2 or 3 years old were taken from their homes, their language extinguished, their culture destroyed. With support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, photographer Daniella Zalcman has been documenting the lingering effects of this trauma for her book, Signs of Your Identity, this year’s winner for the FotoEvidence Book Award.
“Canada Is Finally Launching An Inquiry Into Its Missing And Murdered Indigenous Women Crisis”
Here, from HuffPo.
Globe and Mail Article on Cindy Blackstock
Here.
“What I saw were children being systemically removed from these communities. And I’d go to these communities, and there was no running water, and people would wonder why the kids weren’t clean, and I’d think maybe someone should do something about the water. We would see the multigenerational impacts of residential schools, and there are no mental-health services that are culturally appropriate. So there were all these layers of inequality and I started to realize it was the system, in many cases, that was creating conditions where families were not going to be successful in caring for their kids. And nobody was really holding the system to account.”
UBC Law’s Indigenous Legal Clinic to Hire Part-time Legal Services Director for Term Appointment
Link to job announcement (PDF) here.
Calls of Justice for Aboriginal Women Echo Down Canada’s Highway of Tears
From the New York Times:
Dozens of Canadian women and girls, most of them indigenous, have disappeared or been murdered near Highway 16, a remote ribbon of asphalt that bisects British Columbia and snakes past thick forests, logging towns and impoverished Indian reserves on its way to the Pacific Ocean. So many women and girls have vanished or turned up dead along one stretch of the road that residents call it the Highway of Tears.
More HERE.
