Nice.
Question, what are the remains used for once you removed the Crab legs? I can't
find wheel chairs for them.
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From: Lisa Dillon <lisa_dil...@hotmail.com>
To: frostysamerindian@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 3:45:46 PM
Subject: RE: [frostysamerindian] Fw: Canadian Government Keeps Close Tabs on
Child Advocate Cindy Blackstock
you are absolutly right, Tribes should work together at the very leadt for our
children. Child advocates need all the support and protection they need to help
our people heal. It seems the Govenment is hell bent on Genocide through our
children. And it seems following the same ol road of dysfunction is prefered by
Tribes that refuse to put away their difrences to save our children. The cycles
of disfunction will never break unless we stand up and force the issues. If you
have found your way, be mentor and help others. There are all too few mens
groups. Women go to shelters for help but there no help for the men they go
back home to. Just reaching one half does not save the whole.
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To: frostysamerindian@yahoogroups.com
From: frostyca2...@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:48:48 -0800
Subject: Re: [frostysamerindian] Fw: Canadian Government Keeps Close Tabs on
Child Advocate Cindy Blackstock
I wish I had answer but I don't. But native people need to stand together and
don,t let the governments divide people. To many people allow themselves to be
bitten by fast talking lawyers who are educated in Canadian laws forget who
they are.
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From: Lisa Dillon <lisa_dil...@hotmail.com>
To: frostysamerindian@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 3:16:59 PM
Subject: RE: [frostysamerindian] Fw: Canadian Government Keeps Close Tabs on
Child Advocate Cindy Blackstock
why does all of this smack like the 60's. the Canadian Goverment seems to work
hard at making sure our children suffer.
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To: frostysamerindian@yahoogroups.com
From: frostyca2...@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:48:51 -0800
Subject: [frostysamerindian] Fw: Canadian Government Keeps Close Tabs on Child
Advocate Cindy Blackstock
Canadian Government Keeps Close Tabs on Child
Advocate Cindy Blackstock
By ICTMN StaffNovember 16,
2011
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The Canadian
government's answer to APTN over allegations that it is spying on aboriginal
children's welfare advocate Cindy Blackstock.
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Child advocate Cindy Blackstock,
long a champion of aboriginal children’s rights, is on the federal government’s
radar, but not for her work improving the lives of children. Apparently the
government’s Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development (AAND) ministry has
seen fit to scrutinize her every move as if she were an enemy.
Blackstock has discovered, upon
being inspired to request her file through Canada’s Access to Information Act
(the equivalent to the U.S. Freedom of Information Act), that the government
has
been monitoring her doings extensively, the Aboriginal People’s Television
Network(APTN) reports. In fact, Aboriginal Affairs and
Northern Development Canada (AAND) sent personnel to no fewer than 75
meetings—perhaps as many as 100—that she was speaking at, then wrote up reports
for her file.
The surveillance began after
Blackstock, head of the First Nations
Child and Family Caring Society of Canadaand a member of Gitksan First Nation,
filed suit against the government before
the Canadian Human Rights
Tribunalin 2007, charging that First
Nations children were discriminated against by inequitable child welfare
services on reserves. The case was unresolved as of early 2011, and Blackstock
appealed to the courtsearlier this
year.
Soon afterward she was banned from
a meeting between the Chiefs of Ontario and officials from the Ministry of
Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development. Moreover she was watched over by a
security guard outside the meeting, she told APTN. This inspired her to seek
her
file. It took one and a half years to acquire, and what she found surprised
her.
“Not only had they been on my
personal Facebook page, but they had got a government employee to go to their
home address, at night, to log in as them as an individual—not as the
government
of Canada but as the staff person—to go onto my Facebook page and take a
snapshot of it and then have that in a government of Canada log,” Blackstock
told APTN News.
This is the latest in a series of
revelations about the government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper and its
penchant for keeping tabs on its aboriginal citizens. Back in June, Mohawk
Nation activist Russell Diabo, and Shiri Pasternak, a Toronto-based writer,
researcher and organizer, brought to light similar surveillancethat involved
not only AAND (or
INAC, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, as it was known at the time), but
also
the RCMP. That monitoring of aboriginal groups had begun with the advent of
Harper’s first government in 2005.
And in October it came out the
Canadian military was watching native organizations closely, with at least
eight
reports compiled over 18 months about various activities of Native
groups.
Blackstock, a widely known
Native-children’s advocate, received a National Aboriginal Achievement
Awardthis year for public service for
her 20-plus hears working in child and family services. She was lauded in 2009
by the likes of former Prime Minister Peter Martin upon receiving the Atkinson
Charitable Foundation’s Economic Justice fellowship, awarded to community
leaders.
AAND wouldn’t comment beyond a
statement released to APTN saying that Facebook and other such sites are
considered public. But the aboriginal community reacted to the news on
Wednesday.
“The Canadian public needs to know
how the federal government conducts itself when its accountability is called
into question,” said Grand Chief Denise Stonefish of the Association of
Iroquois
and Allied Indians (AIAI) in a statement. “We applaud the work Ms. Blackstock
is
doing for our communities and urge her to continue with her efforts, despite
the
questionable behaviors of the federal government. Our children deserve to have
these tough questions posed to ensure they have the same future opportunities
as
other Canadian children.”
The money spent on delving into
Blackstock’s personal life—AAND even collected data on her family—could have
been more wisely used, she said.
“I have never had a parking ticket,
let alone a criminal record and I have never conducted myself in an
unprofessional manner,’’ Blackstock told the Toronto Star. “I say
rather than spend the money following me around, spend it on the
children.’’
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