Little Red Warrior and His Lawyer

Little Red Warrior and His Lawyer PDF Author: Kevin Loring
Publisher: Talonbooks
ISBN: 9781772012545
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Humour allows the exploration of Indigenous relationships with settler law.

Little Red Warrior and His Lawyer

Little Red Warrior and His Lawyer PDF Author: Kevin Loring
Publisher: Talonbooks
ISBN: 9781772012545
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Book Description
Humour allows the exploration of Indigenous relationships with settler law.

The Colonial Present

The Colonial Present PDF Author: Kerry Coast
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 0986036234
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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No treaties were made with indigenous nations residing in those territories where now there is a Canadian province called British Columbia. Instead, a breathtaking policy of criminalization, assimilation and land rights and sovereignty extinguishment has been vigorously carried out against them. Present day governments continue that approach, now 150 years old, in processes which have recently been re-named and cosmetically improved but remain unconstitutional and are prohibited by the 1948 Genocide Convention, which terms as genocide, inter alia, deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part. Neither Britain nor Canada nor the settlers of British Columbia themselves have ever honourably addressed the peoples whose lands and resources form British Columbia. The indigenous nations in what is now called British Columbia have never joined Canada but had citizenship imposed on them. The province of BC has never fulfilled Canada’s constitutional requirements of purchasing lands from the indigenous owners before settling. The ongoing colonization of British Columbia relies on the settler population’s indifference to the indigenous peoples’ plights and rights. The Colonial Present documents the colonizer’s manufacture of a new mythology to dehumanize the native peoples and strip them of their rightful place. The interests of resource industries have dominated accounts of indigenous peoples throughout the mainstream media, the academic presses and the courts. They have substantially corrupted and impoverished the non-native understanding of indigenous peoples on whose homelands they live and work, and to which they seem to feel entitled. The indigenous nations and individuals have suffered excruciating losses. But the highest expression of official BC aspirations for reconciliation is only that they should release title to their homelands, accept a small financial, land and program funding settlement, and submit to the British Columbia Treaty Commission agenda reducing them, in legal terms, to incorporated associations exercising management capacities barely distinguishable from those of BC municipalities, while by fee simple title, their lands and rich resources are ceded to the Queen. This book is an exploration of how such a stunning string of events has happened, and British Columbians continuing attempts to rationalize them.

Warrior Life

Warrior Life PDF Author: Pamela Palmater
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
ISBN: 1773632914
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 259

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In a moment where unlawful pipelines are built on Indigenous territories, the RCMP make illegal arrests of land defenders on unceded lands, and anti-Indigenous racism permeates on social media; the government lie that is reconciliation is exposed. Renowned lawyer, author, speaker and activist, Pamela Palmater returns to wade through media headlines and government propaganda and get to heart of key issues lost in the noise. Warrior Life: Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence is the second collection of writings by Palmater. In keeping with her previous works, numerous op-eds, media commentaries, YouTube channel videos and podcasts, Palmater’s work is fiercely anti-colonial, anti-racist, and more crucial than ever before. Palmater addresses a range of Indigenous issues — empty political promises, ongoing racism, sexualized genocide, government lawlessness, and the lie that is reconciliation — and makes the complex political and legal implications accessible to the public. From one of the most important, inspiring and fearless voices in Indigenous rights, decolonization, Canadian politics, social justice, earth justice and beyond, Warrior Life is an unflinching critique of the colonial project that is Canada and a rallying cry for Indigenous peoples and allies alike to forge a path toward a decolonial future through resistance and resurgence.

Where the Blood Mixes

Where the Blood Mixes PDF Author: Kevin Loring
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Where the Blood Mixes is meant to expose the shadows below the surface of the author's First Nations heritage, and to celebrate its survivors. Though torn down years ago, the memories of their Residential School still live deep inside the hearts of those who spent their childhoods there. For some, like Floyd, the legacy of that trauma has been passed down through families for generations. But what is the greater story, what lies untold beneath Floyd's alcoholism, under the pain and isolation of the play's main character? Loring's title was inspired by the mistranslation of the N'lakap'mux (Thompson) place name Kumsheen. For years, it was believed to mean "the place where the rivers meet"--the confluence of the muddy Fraser and the brilliant blue Thompson Rivers. A more accurate translation is: "the place inside the heart where the blood mixes." But Kumsheen also refers to a story: Coyote was disemboweled there, along a great cliff in an epic battle with a giant shape-shifting being that could transform the world with its powers--to this day his intestines can still be seen strewn along the granite walls. In his rage the transformer tore Coyote apart and scattered his body across the nation, his heart landing in the place where the rivers meet. Floyd is a man who has lost everyone he holds most dear. Now after more than two decades, his daughter Christine returns home to confront her father. Set during the salmon run, Where the Blood Mixes takes us to the bottom of the river, to the heart of a People. In 2009 Where the Blood Mixes won the Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Original Script; the Sydney J. Risk Prize for Outstanding Original Script by an Emerging Playwright; and most recently the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama.

Thanks for Giving

Thanks for Giving PDF Author: Kevin Loring
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781772012187
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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In this intimate and restorative new play, the table is set and the main course is legacy, but the dessert is pumpkin pie.

Dead White Writer on the Floor

Dead White Writer on the Floor PDF Author: Drew Hayden Taylor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780889226630
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A funny yet thought-provoking play about identity politics in which Pocahontas, Tonto, and other native characters rewrite their stereotyped roles.

Red Country

Red Country PDF Author: Joe Abercrombie
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0575095857
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 611

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'Joe Abercrombie is doing some terrific work' George R. R. Martin, author of GAME OF THRONES. They burned her home. They stole her brother and sister. But vengeance is following. Shy South hoped to bury her bloody past and ride away smiling, but she'll have to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back, and she's not a woman to flinch from what needs doing. She sets off in pursuit with only a pair of oxen and her cowardly old stepfather Lamb for company. But it turns out Lamb's buried a bloody past of his own, and out in the lawless Far Country, the past never stays buried. Their journey will take them across the barren plains to a frontier town gripped by gold fever, through feud, duel and massacre, high into the unmapped mountains to a reckoning with the Ghosts. Even worse, it will force them into alliance with Nicomo Cosca, infamous soldier of fortune, and his feckless lawyer Temple, two men no one should ever have to trust... The past never stays buried...

The Country Gentleman

The Country Gentleman PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1020

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The Rover

The Rover PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 528

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Lover Mother Warrior

Lover Mother Warrior PDF Author: Susan Martinez
Publisher: tjsusan publications
ISBN: 0962537977
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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Lover Mother Warrior, a martial arts themed, year-in-a-life, coming of age story Sofia Rios is the only female martial artist in the world renowned Rios karate family. She’s the family’s martial arts princess who falls hard for rich lawyer Jett McCoy; not the type of man that her conservative Spanish-American family expected her to marry. When Sofia is forced by love and circumstance to leave her girlish ways behind to become a wife, mother, CEO, and matriarch of her big wild Rios family, Jett is by her side. Together, Sofia and Jett battle tradition, problematic family members, the prying media, her troublesome pregnancy and birth, and ultimately, JinTakahashi, a ninja and drug trafficker with deadly intentions. In your face action and drama, Lover Mother Warrior gives the reader a sneak peek into the secret world of martial artists.