perennialflight:

Photos of the Musqueam protest …

Today, over 100 members of the Musqueam nation and their supporters travelled to Victoria to protest the desecration of their sacred burial site. 

For visitors to Coast Salish land (myself included), it is our responsibility to un-learn the history of the land we live on. To un-map the colonial lies that teach us about the city of Vancouver. Musqueam history is BC history, and colonialism isn’t just a thing of the past, it’s happening now. Despite what your textbooks taught you. 

For those of you living elsewhere on turtle island, this is certainly not the only example of ongoing colonial violence….Learn the real history of the land you live on.

(via beatsthatarefunky)

Where I’ll be getting my dance on pre-Global Indigenous Conference…

Come dance, hang with family and friends and keep it #NativerThanYou for May 2012!
Doors open 9pm - late | W2 Media Cafe - 111 W Hastings | $15 ADVANCE / 20 AT DOOR

 Indigenous Resistance to the enbridge northern gateway pipeline. Pictured:

• “No Pipeline: Enbridge Dirty Oil Burned the Last Bridge”- Art by Gord Hill (Kwakwaka’wakw). From Hill’s Warrior Publications site. 
• Nuxalk House of Smayusta banner at Bella Coola, central coast of BC. 
• Yinka Dene protest proposed Enbridge pipeline, April 2011.
• Hundreds rally in Comox against proposed Enbridge pipeline and increased tanker traffic on the coast, March 31, 2012.  
• Heiltsuk hereditary chiefs greet government officials conducting Enbridge hearings in Bella Bella, April 1, 2012.  

Take action! Upcoming events:

May 1-9

Yinka Dene Alliance Freedom Train. The Yinka Dene Alliance is taking a Freedom Train across Canada to enforce their legal ban on the Enbridge Northern Gateway oil pipelines and tankers project, and to stand up for their freedom to choose their own future. They are travelling from their territories in northern BC all the way to Enbridge’s annual shareholders meeting in Toronto.

May 5

International Stop the Tar Sands Day. Worldwide events listed here.

Climate Impacts Day.  Find an event happening near your community with 350.org’s map tool. 

Global Indigenous Conference 2012 at the UBC First Nations Longhouse. I am on the planning committee, check it out!

More resources:

http://www.ienearth.org/tarsands.html

http://pipeupagainstenbridge.ca/

http://dogwoodinitiative.org/no-tankers/petition

http://www.pacificwild.org/site/our-work/no-tankers-no-pipeline.html

Signal boost!

I am on the organizing committee for the 2012 Global Indigenous Conference at the University of British Columbia.  This super awesome event is sponsored by the First Nations House of Learning and will take place on May 5 and 6, at Sty-Wet-Tan, the Great Hall of the UBC First Nations Longhouse in Vancouver, Canada.

In light of recent initiatives by the Federal and Provincial Governments to ship crude oil from British Columbia’s coast, this year’s theme will be “Uniting Nations, Taking Action: Aboriginal Perspectives on Sustainability, Development and Cultural Determination.”

This will be explored through four key areas: environmental impacts, Aboriginal title and legal sovereignty, cultural self-determination, and sustainable development. The second day, the plenary, will focus on community collaboration and developing next steps on standing together against the exploitation of unceded Indigenous land.

This is an opportunity to raise awareness about an issue that impacts us all and foster an inter-generational dialogue between youth, community members and academics. The purpose of this event is to create a space for voices to be heard, create networking opportunities and generate ideas that will translate into action.

Speakers at this year’s event will include Miles Richardson, former president of the Haida Nation, Art Sterrit, Executive Director of Coastal First Nations, Stewart Phillip, Grand Chief of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs, and Lucas Irar, Elder and school teacher from the Achuar community of Rubina, Ecuador.

If you are in Vancouver, please join us in learning more about our rights and responsibilities as the caretakers of this land. Visit the conference site to register and learn more.

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A Red Girl’s Reasoning

A Film by Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers

beatsthatarefunky:

charge-into-the-sun:

A Tribe Called Red - Red Skin Girl

my favourite song by them

mine too! and electric pow wow drum + look at this 

Ta’Kaiya Blaney at Ted Talks x SFU

“I am a voice of the earth because the earth is crying for help.  I dream for a brighter future.”

An evening (8-10pm ) and late night event (10pm-late) featuring 25+ musicians, djs, and vjs for Indigenous culture not oil culture! On a world-wide tour, Filastine (Spain) will headline with local and BC acts lasting into the night! Settler and Indigenous artists are unit…ing their voices and beats to oppose Enbridge’s proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline project and Super Tankers on BC’s Coast!

INVITE YOUR FRIENDS++SHARE THIS EVENT!
TICKETS ON SALE http://beatsnotpipes.eventbrite.com/

8-10pm (all ages) film, discussion, music
10pm-late (19+ show) multimedia, music, art.
W2 Media Cafe, 111 West Hastings (at Abbott), Coast Salish Territory, Vancouver.
$10 adv $15 door.
And will soon be available at W2 Media Cafe. Limited sponsored DTES low-income resident tickets available at office.

FILASTINE +++++++++++++
filastine.com
youtu.be/XfSVPVVNSvQ
Grey Filastine is a musician based in Barcelona. He composes a dense transnational bass music that collides the lowest frequencies of dubstep with the highest-level beat science, acoustic strings, voices, and lofi street noises. The results are “Awesome and delicate… hybrids so fluent they defy classification.” -Pitchfork
Joined onstage by one of the collaborating cellists from the album.

SKOOKUM SOUND SYSTEM
http://www.realskookum.com/

MANDAI (LIGHTA!)
http://www.soundcloud.com/mandai

LAURA ORTMAN
http://rpm.fm/news/spotlight-white-mountain-apache-laura-ortman/

THE CARNIVAL BAND
www.thecarnivalband.com/

CRAIGY CRAIG aka. NWK (The Northwest Kid) & GAMEBOY (Wepa!)

DJ MUKLUK

VIDEO/LIGHTING: HEIDROGEN

COMMODDITY
http://soundcloud.com/commoddity/commoddity-earthdance

VJ KINOTROPY
http://www.kinotropy.com/
The art of making pixels dance.