Archive for June, 2008

Jun 29 2008

We Have Started our Journey In Victoria BC

Honourable Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond British Coumbia’s First Representative for Children and Youth Head of the independent over site body for BC Ministry of Children and Families.   What follows is an overview of her on camera interview. And most troubling to me is that the number of non-aboriginal children in government care goes down year after year wile the [...]

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Jun 23 2008

The Bandwagon, Native Adoptions & the 60’s Scoop

The Bandwagon gives voice to the tens of thousands of children who, in the 1960’s through 80’s, were literally scooped from their homes without the consent and in many cases without the knowledge of their parents or communities. The film crew will travel from Band to Band across Canada interviewing the children affected by this [...]

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Jun 16 2008

Celebrate National Aboriginal Day June 21st by trying one of these Recipes.

Cooking Aboriginal Style For more than 4,000 years, we have cultivated many different kinds of corn! For example, by the 1500s, the Iroquois were already growing 150 varieties of corn, which were used for food and trade. This grain that we find so frequently on our plates was the very basis of the First Nations diet [...]

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