Conclusion -- Power of the People Harper's Gone, Now It's Time to Look Within -- Worst Thing That Could Happen Is A First Nation Minister of Indian Affairs -- Will We See Real Nation-to-Nation Respect With Trudeau? -- Evidence of Good Faith Lacking in Trudeau's Indigenous Agenda -- Why Is Trudeau's Government Opposing Charter Equality for Indigenous Women? -- Trudeau's Nation-to-Nation Relationship Disappeared with Empty Budget Promises -- Trudeau's Dance of Deception on Indigenous Rights -- Trudeau's Forked-Tongue Reconciliation At UN -- Indigenous Issues Disappear Slowly from Election 2019 -- Section Two - Racism Kills -- Canada Called to Account by UN for Ongoing Racial Discrimination Against Indigenous Women and Children -- Lethal Impact of Racism on Indigenous Health -- Overincarceration Of Indigenous Peoples Nothing Short of Genocide -- First Nations Water Problems: A Crisis of Canada's Own Making -- Saskatchewan: The Land of The Living Skies and Lethal Racism -- Justice for Our Stolen Children Camp -- How Canada Turned A Blind Eye to The Suicide Crises In First Nations -- Don't Forget the Racist Canadians Behind the Racist Systems -- Ongoing Legacies of Canadian Genocide -- Section Three - Sexualized Genocide -- Sexualized Genocide -- Corporate Conquistadors Rape Indigenous Lands and Bodies -- Bill S-3 Amendments to the Indian Act and the Never-Ending Battle for Equality for Indigenous Women -- What You Need to Know About Sharon McIvor's UN Victory on Indian Status -- People Left Behind by Trudeau's Promised Nation-to-Nation Relationship -- Federal Budget 2019: Indigenous Women and Children Left Behind Again -- Public Inquiry Needed to Address Sexualized Violence in Policing and Corrections -- Why Canada Should Stand Trial for Tina Fontaine's Murder -- Justice System Still Not Protecting Indigenous Women and Girls -- Missing and Murdered: Canada's Genocide Cover-Up -- Transitional Justice Plan Needed to End Genocide in Canada -- Section Four - Canada Is An Outlaw -- Indigenous Child Welfare Act: More Pan-Indigenous Legislation Risks Continuing the Status Quo -- Respecting Indigenous Languages: More Hollow Reconciliation -- Canada's Criminalization of the Indigenous Tobacco Trade -- Cannabis Legalization Ignores First Nations -- NAFTA 2.0: Time to Get It Right or Kill It -- Anti-Terrorism Act: Testimony at the Senate Committee on Public Safety and National Security -- RCMP Invasion of Wet'suwet'en Nation Territory Breaches Canada's Rule of Law -- Killer Whales, Trans Mountain Pipeline and The Public Interest -- It's Up to Indigenous and Environmental Groups to Protect the Public Interest -- Clearing the Lands Has Always Been at the Heart of Canada's Indian Policy -- Blockages No One Talks about Devastate Indigenous Communities -- Section Five - Reconciliation Is A Lie, Resistance Is Hope -- Liberals' Plans for Indigenous Reconciliation Are Just Beads and Trinkets -- Abolishing the Indian Act Means Eliminating First Nations' Rights -- Source of Our Power Has Always Been in Our Peoples, Not Voting in Federal Elections -- Indigenous Rights Are Not Conditional on Public Opinion -- Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples in Universities and Colleges -- True Test of Reconciliation: Respect the Indigenous Right to Say No -- Indigenous Right to Say No -- Modern Treaty to Save Our Peoples and the Planet -- Social Conflict Is inevitable in the Decolonization Battle -- Indigenous Women Warriors Are the Heart of Indigenous Resistance -- Wet'suwet'en: A Wake-up Call for Canada -- Conclusion -- Power of the People
Summary:
"Warrior Life: Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence is the second book of the best blogs and articles authored by Pamela Palmater since her first book: Indigenous Nationhood: Empowering Grassroots Citizens. Like the first book, this one provides short chapters on current Indigenous issues that are easily accessible to students and the general public under the general topic areas of Canadian and First Nation politics, racism, sexualized genocide, Canadian law and policy impacting Indigenous peoples and a critique of reconciliation initiatives. The book is structured as a collection of mini-political and legal critiques/analyses of current issues that provides a starting point for further inquiry or discussion in academic or informal settings. It will also provide updates at end of each chapter so that readers will know what happened next and where they need to take action. Like the first book, Indigenous Nationhood, the focus is on grassroots Indigenous resistance and resurgence through exercising our voices - as sovereign individuals and collectives - for the betterment of our peoples and Nations. Social change requires social engagement, discussion, consideration and reflection of the issues to work towards consensus on the paths forward for our Nations. Solidarity-building with other social justice movements is also key to the radical changes needed to address crises issues like genocide against Indigenous peoples and its connection to the climate change emergency facing all of us. This book, like the last, holds the state to account and seeks to inform and empower grassroots peoples - both Indigenous peoples and Canadian allies - through information, analysis and suggested paths forward. Now more than ever, the future of our peoples and the planet depend on us to break through the barriers of anti-Indigenous racism, capitalism & patriarchy, to decolonize our minds, bodies and spirits and focus on living, asserting and defending our sovereignty and our territories. It requires us to be warriors and find a way to balance our efforts towards both resistance and resurgence. As much effort as we put into resisting ongoing genocide, we must also put into cultural resurgence and nation-building. Traditional Indigenous governance starts with the people and that is where this book locates itself."-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.