Statue of Cornwallis in Halifax, NS. Andrew Vaughan / The Canadian Press
The statue will be moved into storage temporarily until council decides how to move forward.
After a lengthy debate, Halifax’s regional council has voted to temporarily take down the Edward Cornwallis statue.
On Tuesday, council passed a motion from HRM staff recommending the statue in Cornwallis Park be taken down immediately.
It will be put in storage while council attempts to revive a stalled committee,approved in October, to assess the use of the city’s controversial founder’s name on municipal property. Read the rest of this entry
“Chief Wahoo” merchandise; the Cleveland Indians will be changing their logo by 2019, but not their name.
ESPN, Jan 29, 2018
CLEVELAND — Divisive and hotly debated, the Chief Wahoo logo is being removed from the Indians’ uniform next year.
The polarizing mascot is coming off the team’s jersey sleeves and caps starting in the 2019 season, a move that will end Chief Wahoo’s presence on the field but may not completely silence those who deem it racist. Read the rest of this entry
A statue of Edward Cornwallis in downtown Halifax. Cornwallis, a governor of Nova Scotia, was a British military officer who founded Halifax in 1749. The same year, he issued the so-called scalping proclamation, offering a cash bounty to anyone who killed a Mi’kmaq person.
Panel to discuss the statue of man who offered a bounty for Mi’kmaq scalps has yet to be formed, chiefs say
By Marina von Stackelberg, CBC News, Jan 27, 2018
The Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq Chiefs is calling on Halifax regional council to remove the statue of Edward Cornwallis immediately, after a process to discuss the statue’s future became stalled. Read the rest of this entry
Marching in Melbourne … Photograph: Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images
Activist Gary Foley tells a crowd of up to 60,000 that ‘if we keep mobilising these numbers, governments cannot ignore us’
Melbourne’s Invasion Day rally begins on the steps of Parliament House on Spring Street, 500 metres from where the city council has blocked off the route of the official Australia Day parade.
The events start at the same time, and until a few years ago only one was accommodated. Before 2015, the Invasion Day rally was seen as just a group of hardcore activists; they didn’t register in the minds of the flag-waving crowd that turned out to watch the official proceedings. Read the rest of this entry
Thousands of protesters made history across Australia today with the largest nationwide Australia Day (Invasion Day) protests ever seen.Protest numbers had been growing steadily in recent years but it was this year when everything came to a climax. In previous years protests were only publicised on social media in the lead up to Invasion Day. This year the mainstream media had no choice but to start telling the public about what was being planned. Read the rest of this entry
Hot in pink: statue of Captain James Cook vandalized in Australia.
by Ryan Tennison and Christine McGinn, Herald Sun,
A STATUE of James Cook in St Kilda and the Burke Wills sculpture in the Melbourne CBD have both been defaced on the eve of Australia Day.
The sculpture of Captain James Cook, erected in the Catani Gardens in 1914, has had pink paint dumped over it and big red letters marked at the base saying “No Pride”.
The statue of Captain Cook is a replica of the one at his birthplace at Whitby in England. Read the rest of this entry
On the bicentenary of the colonisation of New England, IndigenousX host Callum Clayton-Dixon reassesses the frontier wars
Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance invite everybody to participate in the 7 days of resistance initiative starting 20th January leading up to January 26th 2018. Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance will host a series of events during the lead up to the Invasion day rallies in various cities, regional and remote spaces across the country. Read the rest of this entry
Chester Gibson, of the Haudenosaunee Wildlife and Habitat Authority, and co-leader of the Six Nations of the Grand River hunt in Short Hills Provincial Park, speaks to visitors on Dec. 5. PHOTOS BY Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail
by Dakshana Bascaramurty, Globe and Mail, Dec 11, 2017
For much of Chester Gibson’s adult life, deer hunting outside the boundaries of the Six Nations Reserve was carried out stealthily. He’d be in a car going 30 kilometres per hour and dive out of the passenger seat clutching his crossbow, roll in a ditch and then disappear into the woods. When Mr. Gibson, who is Mohawk, was ready to be picked up, he’d plant a stick at the side of the road to alert his driver. Then he’d lug the deer carcass into the back of the truck as quickly as possible, jump in and take off. If caught, he could be prosecuted. Read the rest of this entry
He was very well-received, but not by fans of Donald Trump who labelled him a ‘traitor’by Andrew Buncombe, The Independent, Nov 24, 2017
Colin Kaepernick, the American football star whose “kneeling protest” sparked a national debate, has travelled to Alcatraz Island to join Native Americans protesting the “genocide” they say is represented by Thanksgiving Day. Read the rest of this entry
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