FieldNotes: for the Anthropology of British Columbia Taiaiake Alfred’s Review of Widdowson and Howard’s Disrobing University of Victoria Aboriginal Governance Professor Taiaiake Alfred reviews Widdowson and Howard’s Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry. Much of the review takes on Widdowson and Howard’s Marxist inclinations. He writes: Evidently, Widdowson and Howard get up in the morning and eat […]
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Posted in Aboriginal Title and Rights on Nov 18th, 2008 Comments Off on Remove Word ‘Squaw’
BC Park’s Flimsy Attempt to Remove Word ‘Squaw’ :: Views :: thetyee.ca “When in Rome do as the Vandals do” — a line of graffiti I once read. This brazen suggestion crossed my mind awhile back when again I confronted a series of BC Parks signs that continued to display the word “squaw” on them. […]
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Posted in Aboriginal Title and Rights on Oct 27th, 2008 Comments Off on Old Fashioned Racism in New Bottles of Intelectual Scepticism
I often find Wente’s comments interesting to read, at times enlightening, and sometimes infuriating. She’s a 21st century Denny Boyd. But, like Boyd, her commentaries can verge toward the insensitive and the just plain wrong. Take this one on Dick Pound’s comments about Canada’ being one time a savage place. It is possible that the […]
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