Comment 43903

By Undustrial (registered) - website | Posted July 23, 2010 at 10:26:28

They're called the Nisga'a, and their Self-Government agreement is a huge step forward. It isn't the only one (Nunavut's techncally the biggest, but the Inuit and Dene are a special case), and there's a bunch more in the works.

If I hadn't studied anthropology and Indigenous Studies in university, I wouldn't know a tenth of this stuff otherwise, and I'd been involved in blockades and other actions with natives for years. The media coverage, and the kind of history we get taught in public schools is atrocious. It leaves out so much crucial context that the whole issue becomes a joke.

"Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century." — Lewis Mumford

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