Kerry Coast

Back to its grass roots: can new AFN leadership make change?

Kerry Coast — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 15:58:30 +0000

“Truth before reconciliation.”

AFN election July 25, 2018

This summer the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) has been refreshed by a certain candidate running for National Chief, whose participation lends the organization rare credibility.

SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN Genocide, Indigenous Nations and the Canadian State

Kerry Coast — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 15:16:06 +0000

New book batters Canadian denial, launches in Vancouver this week

Suffer the Little Children – Genocide, Indigenous Nations and the Canadian State
By Tamara Starblanket

Clarity Press, 2018
Foreword by Ward Churchill
Afterword by Sharon H. Venne

Official launch this Thursday, June 7, 6pm at the Vancouver Native Education Center.

Delgamuukw versus The Queen

Kerry Coast — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 19:44:59 +0000

20 years later, Gisdayway family produces searing report on a legacy of dispossession and division following the court ruling that Gitksan and Wetsuwet’en title survives.

On December 11, 1997, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that British Columbia has not extinguished Gitksan and Wet'suwet’en title and rights.

Indigenous reports force feds ahead of UN review

Kerry Coast — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 02:30:19 +0000

75% of reports to Committee on racial discrimination sent by Indigenous organizations.

Smallpox: The Key to Confederation

Kerry Coast — Sat, 01 Jul 2017 21:02:19 +0000

New book exposes the role of colonial BC officials in 1862 epidemic that devastated west coast nations.

The founding colonial fathers of British Columbia gained control of the land by using smallpox in a pre-emptive biological strike against the powerful Nuxalk, Tsilhqot’in, Haida and other west coast nations, in 1862. This is the latest interpretation of forensically researched letters, journals, maps, records of company directors, and newspapers from the time.

No Canada, Not Here.

Kerry Coast — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 22:32:45 +0000

This text graphic uses exerpts from the following documents, attached in full below as text, and in pdf and jpeg scans at this link -

https://kerrycoast.wordpress.com/category/indigenous-declarations/

Return of the Indian Agent?

Kerry Coast — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 19:45:49 +0000

Grand Chief Ed John recommends MCFD in every reserve community.

In September of 2015, Grand Chief Ed John was hired by the province of British Columbia “to provide advice on how to address the inordinate number of Indigenous children in care of government.” For clarification, the BC government asked for advice from the Chair of the First Nations Summit on how to stop itself from forcibly removing the children of Indigenous nations.

Files attached to this post:

Report of the Special Advisor to BC regarding Aboriginal children in state care. Nov 21 2016.

“Native 9/11” – Inquiry demanded into siege at Gustafsen Lake

Kerry Coast — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 02:11:24 +0000

21 years later, Canada evades the legal, jurisdictional issues they tried to kill along with Secwepemc leaders.

Over a hundred people gathered during the afternoon of September 11, 2016, to remember what happened at Ts’peten (“Gustafsen Lake”) on that date in 1995.

Dead voters ratify BC Treaty – Minister Bennett calls it 'free, prior, informed consent'

Kerry Coast — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 04:23:53 +0000

Traumatic treaty process wreaks havoc, indignity in Sliammon, Northern Secwepemc and In-SHUCK-ch. BC Treaty Commissioners call it a process that can 'lead the country in reconciliation'

The BC treaty process may be rank with fraud, conflict of interest, nepotism, judicial indifference and spending public money on buying ratification votes, but, as we have seen in recent grand-standing, Canadian politicians love it, legislate it, and lie about it on the world stage.

Files attached to this post:

Letter from Elder Mother of Sliammon regarding sabotage of elected officials critical of new treaty.

Description of many irregularities in Sliammon Final Agreement ratification.

Abexit

Kerry Coast — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 02:06:35 +0000

In the wake of Brexit, Aboriginal leaders plan to survey their people on an exit from Canada.

Note: the "Abexit" is a made-up premise to look at Indigenous sovereignty and autonomy through the lens of the recent "Brexit" referendum in the UK. The characters are also made up, but the circumstances depicted are very real.

If Santa Claus was Scrooge’s Son,

Kerry Coast — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 19:10:26 +0000

and Justin Trudeau is really here to unpack the goods his father stole…

Trudeau Junior’s promise to honor treaties is about as far from his father’s Trudeaumania as “God bless us – every one!” gets. In fact, it is a 180 degree turn and it’s unprecedented within Canada.

Holy See under review by UN Committee for Elimination of Racial Discrimination

Kerry Coast — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 21:05:22 +0000

“Papal Bulls were the first extinguishment policy.” – Pau Tuc La Simc, Líl’wat

The Vatican does not appear to see itself as culpable of any kind of racial discrimination. This is according to its report to the UN treaty body, and apparently because all people are welcome to join the Catholic Church and worship their One True God.

"War on drugs" wipes out people, not trafficking.

Kerry Coast — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 18:47:22 +0000

New documentary book connects foreign investment to terror in Latin America: Drug War Capitalism by Dawn Paley.

Drug War Capitalism

By Dawn Paley, Foreword by Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera

November 2014, AK Press

The “war on drugs” as it is known in the USA and Canada is not what people have been told, Dawn Paley argues in her first book, but is effectively masking a war on people.

New Research: Resistance to Indigenous Suicide

Kerry Coast — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 18:43:00 +0000

Haudenausaunee Prof publishes study of suicide, prescribes resistance as cure.

DYING TO PLEASE YOU: INDIGENOUS SUICIDE IN CONTEMPORARY CANADA,

By Roland D. Chrisjohn, Ph. D. and Shaunessy M. McKay

Theytus Books, coming in 2015

Book review by Kerry Coast

New Research: Resistance to Indigenous Suicide

Kerry Coast — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 18:27:58 +0000

DYING TO PLEASE YOU: INDIGENOUS SUICIDE IN CONTEMPORARY CANADA,

by Roland D. Chrisjohn, Ph. D. and Shaunessy M. McKay

Theytus Books, coming in 2015

Book Review by Kerry Coast