In my last lecture this fall in ANTH 100 (2011) I briefly mentioned the situation in Attawapiskat and the relationship of that situation to structural racism in Canada, the ways in which blame and responsibility get reversed, and then transform the oppressed party into the offender.  It is a problem too common among mainstream media and center-right commentators on aboriginal affairs. It is also, at times, a theme picked up by academics (see my comments here on an anthropological variant). At any rate, here are two thoughtful blog comments on this subject – one that looks at the commentary about (mis)management and the other from a teacher in schools concerned with aboriginal education.

These two thoughtful commentaries  provide further context to the issues that are all too common in what amounts to Canada’s own internal colonies.