{"id":386,"date":"2012-12-26T22:02:44","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T22:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/?p=386"},"modified":"2013-01-07T19:50:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T19:50:43","slug":"idle-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/2012\/12\/26\/idle-no-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Idle No More"},"content":{"rendered":"

On December 10th, mass actions were coordinated across Canada by Indigenous peoples and allies to challenge the Harper government’s neglect of First Nations, Metis, and Inuit issues. The pervasive resource extraction on native lands, stifling poverty and mortality rates on reserves and ongoing indifference to treaty rights by the Harper administration are the major focal points for agitation. This continued movement, self named Idle No More<\/a>, represents all First nations, Inuit, Metis, and allies of every shade who seek to decolonize not just the political landscape but the forms of protest as well. From Victoria, BC to Montreal, QB and solidarity actions from LA to London, the possibilities for grass roots actions ranging from Flash Mobs to teach-ins has enabled a broad array of people to engage the movement’s\u00a0call for\u00a0everyday resistance. The issues facing Indigenous peoples have always been a part of Canada’s nation building and myth making, just as they are in the United States and the Americas. Further to the point for archives, the ongoing attempt at gathering and recording the human rights abuses of the\u00a0church and state in the\u00a0past\u00a0through Indian Residential Schools<\/a> will remain a disembodied historical corpse as long as the Canadian government, and large swaths of the settler population,\u00a0continue to ignore the past’s\u00a0clutch on the colonized present.\u00a0 What better way to make good on the apology<\/a> issued by Harper\u00a0before parliament than to present some truth and reconciliation\u00a0by addressing how the current “institution\u00a0neglects and abuses” those\u00a0of the generations after\u00a0residential schools.\u00a0 How tar sands, pipelines, damming\u00a0and mining operations\u00a0will ensure the destruction of the\u00a0ecosystem.\u00a0 How incarceration\u00a0rates <\/a>of Indigenous peoples\u00a0is nine times greater than the national average.\u00a0 How the ongoing\u00a0disassociation of urban population to rural land grows with each economic deregulation\u00a0venture.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nigamo Pejig!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

UConn Archives\u00a0& Special Collections, on Algonquin land,\u00a0has a wide array of materials relating to struggles of\u00a0Native Peoples throughout the 20th\u00a0century in our\u00a0radical Alternative Press\u00a0Collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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