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Saturday, October 7, 2023

Karen Pheasant-Neganigwane

Indigenous author impacted by 60s Scoop

Story and Photo By Steffanie Costigan - Lethbridge Herald | September 29, 2023.

Pheasant-Neganigwane shares her book Powwow: A Celebration through Song and Dance at the annual library event Word on the Street last weekend.

Indigenous author Karen Pheasant-Neganigwane talked about her book “Powwow: A Celebration through Song and Dance” at the Word on the Street Festival last weekend at the downtown branch of the Lethbridge Public Library.

Pheasant-Neganiwane is an assistant professor at Mount Royal University in the Treaty Seven region and at the library she shared the lack of education schools have regarding Indigenous culture.

“I came to realize the ignorance that exists in our society. I mean, maybe it’s a presumptuous of me to say, Canada because I was teaching in Edmonton. When I was asked to write about powwow by Orca publishers, their intention was to share what is my story about my journey of dance, but I put it in the context of the experience I had with these Albertan pre-service teachers,” said Pheasant-Neganiwane.

Pheasant-Neganiwane noted some inspiration she got in her writing from former member of the Canadian Senate and First Nations lawyer Murray Sinclair.

“Senator Justice Murray Sinclair did a TVOntario interview in December, 2020. And when he was asked about the situation here in Canada, as a senator, he said, ‘you know, what is at fault is our school system, our curriculum perpetuates white supremacy.’ And one of his also most often cited quote is, ‘it was education that got us in this mess, and it will be education that gets us out of this mess.”

Pheasant-Neganiwane is an Anishinaabe dancer, writer and artist and her parents are residential school survivors. She shared her personal upbringing living in Ontario in the time of the Sixties Scoop.

“I’m from Ontario, and we had the Sixties Scoop that occurred there. That means children that were apprehended in the 1960s as infants from their parents. I was an infant, a toddler in the Sixties. We had to live a very regimented life so my parents lived in fear of Child and Family Services.”

Pheasant-Neganiwane noted she was surprised to learn while living in Calgary the Prairies also experienced the Sixties Scoop.

“But the reality is the Sixties Scoop. If you were to look at the percentage, the Sixties Scoop is more prevalent here in the Prairie provinces. I didn’t know that until I lived here. Not until I met people, not until I worked in education system.”

Pheasant-Neganiwane book can be purchased through amazon at https://www.amazon.ca/Books-Karen-Pheasant-Neganigwane/s?rh=n%3A916520%2Cp_27%3AKaren+Pheasant-Neganigwane.

Pheasant-Neganiwane recalled a statistic she read regarding the connection Indigenous homeless individuals have with the child welfare system.

“I think I read a statistic somewhere that said 85 per cent of Indigenous homeless people came from the systems, that means they were in the child welfare system. So those couple of things are what provide the context of why I wrote this book.”

Pheasant-Neganiwane expressed the importance of educating generations about Indigenous culture along with history.

SOURCE : https://lethbridgeherald.com/news/lethbridge-news/2023/09/29/indigenous-author-impacted-by-sixties-scoop/

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ADOPTION TRUTH

As the single largest unregulated industry in the United States, adoption is viewed as a benevolent action that results in the formation of “forever families.”
The truth is that it is a very lucrative business with a known sales pitch. With profits last estimated at over $1.44 billion dollars a year, mothers who consider adoption for their babies need to be very aware that all of this promotion clouds the facts and only though independent research can they get an accurate account of what life might be like for both them and their child after signing the adoption paperwork.

Why tribes do not recommend the DNA swab

Rebecca Tallbear entitled: “DNA, Blood, and Racializing the Tribe”, bearing out what I only inferred:

Detailed discussion of the Bering Strait theory and other scientific theories about the population of the modern-day Americas is beyond the scope of this essay. However, it should be noted that Indian people have expressed suspicion that DNA analysis is a tool that scientists will use to support theories about the origins of tribal people that contradict tribal oral histories and origin stories. Perhaps more important,the alternative origin stories of scientists are seen as intending to weaken tribal land and other legal claims (and even diminish a history of colonialism?) that are supported in U.S. federal and tribal law. As genetic evidence has already been used to resolve land conflicts in Asian and Eastern European countries, this is not an unfounded fear.

GOOGLE

In some cases, companies may even take it upon themselves to control the narrative according to their own politics and professed values, with no need for government intervention. For example: Google, the most powerful information company in the world, has been reported to fix its algorithms to promote, demote, and disappear content according to undisclosed internal “fairness” guidelines. This was revealed by a whistleblower named Zach Vorhies in his almost completely ignored book, Google Leaks, and by Project Veritas, in a sting operation against Jen Gennai, Google’s Head of Responsible Innovation. In their benevolent desire to protect us from hate speech and disinformation, Google/YouTube immediately removed the original Project Veritas video from the Internet. - https://desultoryheroics.com/2023/11/12/internet-censorship-everywhere-all-at-once