Best first nations canadian history books according to redditors

Here are some good sources:

Books
Medical Botany (https://www.amazon.com/Medical-Botany-Plants-Affecting-Health/dp/0471628824/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1494004860&sr=8-1&keywords=Medical+Botany)

Dewick’s Medicinal Natural Products (https://www.amazon.com/Medicinal-Natural-Products-Biosynthetic-Approach/dp/0470741678/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1494004479&sr=1-1&keywords=medicinal+natural+products)

Biology of Plants (https://www.amazon.com/Raven-Biology-Plants-Ray-Evert/dp/1429219610/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1494004531&sr=8-3&keywords=biology+of+plants)

Fundamentals of Pharmacognosy and Phyotherapy (https://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Pharmacognosy-Phytotherapy-Michael-Heinrich/dp/070203388X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1494004776&sr=8-1&keywords=fundamentals+of+pharmacognosy+and+phytotherapy)

Eating on the Wild Side
(https://www.amazon.com/Eating-Wild-Side-Pharmacologic-Implications/dp/0816520674/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1494006419&sr=1-1&keywords=eating+on+the+wild+side+nina+etkin)

The Origins of Human Diet and Medicine
(https://www.amazon.com/Origins-Human-Diet-Medicine-Chemical/dp/0816516871/ref=pd_sbs_14_1?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0816516871&pd_rd_r=ATDC8YB48N1H2TS7X84C&pd_rd_w=zYebJ&pd_rd_wg=zAAqF&psc=1&refRID=ATDC8YB48N1H2TS7X84C)

Florida Ethnobotany
(https://www.amazon.com/Florida-Ethnobotany-Daniel-F-Austin/dp/0849323320/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1494006266&sr=8-1&keywords=florida+ethnobotany)

Native American Ethnobotany
(https://www.amazon.com/Native-American-Ethnobotany-Daniel-Moerman/dp/0881924539/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1494006230&sr=8-1&keywords=native+american+ethnobotany)

African Ethnobotany in the Americas (https://www.amazon.com/African-Ethnobotany-Americas-Robert-Voeks/dp/1461408350/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1494006185&sr=8-1&keywords=african+ethnobotany)

Traveling Cultures and Plants: The Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacy of Human Migrations
(https://www.amazon.com/Traveling-Cultures-Plants-Ethnopharmacy-Environmental-ebook/dp/B00EDY6AVM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1494006139&sr=8-1&keywords=traveling+cultures+and+plants)

Plants, People and Culture: The Science of Ethnobotany
(https://www.amazon.com/Plants-Culture-Paperback-Michael-2005-12-23/dp/B01NH01YZP/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1494005994&sr=8-1&keywords=balick+and+cox)


Websites
Quave Research Group (http://etnobotanica.us/)
Emory Herbarium (https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/emoryherbarium/)
National Center for Complementary and Integrated Health ( https://nccih.nih.gov/)
National Center for Natural Products Research (https://pharmacy.olemiss.edu/ncnpr/)
Center for Natural Product Technologies at UIC (http://cenapt.pharm.uic.edu/)
Journal of Natural Products (http://pubs.acs.org/journal/jnprdf)
American Society of Pharmacognosy (http://www.pharmacognosy.us/)
Society for Economic Botany (http://www.econbot.org/)
Economic Botany (http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/plant+sciences/journal/12231)
US National Librar(y of Medicine’s PubMed (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed)
Tropicos (http://www.tropicos.org/)
International Plant Names Index (http://www.ipni.org)
WHO Guidelines on Good Agricultural and Collection Practices for Medicinal Plants (http://apps.who.int/medicinedocs/en/d/Js4928e/)
Convention on Biological Diversity (https://www.cbd.int/)
Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the USA (https://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/threat-report-2013/)

Opinion of herbal healing books:
Herbal healing books run the full gamut from remedies based on anecdotal evidence to remedies that have been subjected to some level of scientific testing. As with anything else, you would be well advised to check the credibility of the sources used.

To add on to this excellent response: It is not even an entire race (because human is the race), it is how many hundreds of Nations. Those nations predominately targeted in the Shoah/Holocaust were Jews and Romani... those targeted in the many hundreds of American Genocides are how many hundreds of nations from how many hundreds of countries

Yes, you should feel bad, as anyone should looking back on the German Holocaust. You should also look to learn–like exactly what you are doing. But it is very important to understand the scale of the atrocities and the degree to which they are hidden, erased and otherwise shuffled under the rug

What happened and is happening on this continent (Turtle Island, aka North America) is akin to many numerous Holocausts in many ways because of the multiplicity of atrocities that have occurred over how many generations at this point. Further, the degree to which OP you know about the German Holocaust, Jews and Romani, the countries involved and the nations harmed and targeted... what do you know about the nations who suffered under the hands of Americans and Canadians and Mexicans? Or about the countries that were invaded, occupied, settled and colonised? Can you name any country like you can name Germany, Poland and Israel?

We need truth before reconciliation, so please please please explore the Truth behind why "Wasn't it your tribes fighting amongst themselves in a dog eat dog world as it was?" is as wrong as it is. The resources are there, read books like: Unsettling Canada or Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws or American Genocide or many others... Find out about what Indigenous country you live in... or at least which country's territories got stolen, ceded or sold away. Learn about the language and their neighbours and if they spoke and/or speak a sign language (which is akin in every way to an oral language, but there is a concerted effort to erase sign languages so, like, special category). Read the Truth and Reconciliation's report and 94 Recommendations and take to heart why they were made

Take the time to learn.

Take the time to mourn.

Take the time to act.

repeat

Learning is imperative and what you are doing. Learn about the countries, the nations, their languages, their histories. But every single Indigenous nation on Turtle Island has been severely harmed by colonisation and genocide.. so, like when learning about the horrors of the Shoah, take the time to mourn, to digest, to accept what has happened. There is no use denying nor is there use trying to move past it without this step. But the final is most important, take what you learn and do something with it.. even if that something is as simple as passing on the little knowledge you learned to a neighbour or parent

Recommended reading for those who want to learn more about this horror in Manitoba history.

Anarchists tend to leave this pretty vague and open-ended, because it's difficult to create a blueprint that will work in all cases for all communities (which speaks to one of the reasons why anarchists don't like the state). Generally speaking, anarchists tend to roll with the principles behind Restorative Justice.

There are lots of examples of alternatives to learn from too, including indigenous societies (taking care not to fetishize them), past anarchist experiments, and other attempts to find a more humane path to justice.

AFAQ, for example, holds up juries as a good starting point:

> In terms of resolving disputes between people, it is likely that some form of arbitration system would develop. The parties involved could agree to hand their case to a third party (for example, a communal jury or a mutually agreed individual or set of individuals). There is the possibility that the parties cannot agree (or if the victim were dead). Then the issue could be raised at a communal assembly and a "court" appointed to look into the issue. These "courts" would be independent from the commune, their independence strengthened by popular election instead of executive appointment of judges, by protecting the jury system of selection of random citizens by lot...

Kristian Williams talks about alternatives to policing in his book Our Enemies in Blue (PDF). He adapted a few chapters from it for publication elsewhere, including:

• A Look At Feminist Forms Of Justice That Don't Involve The Police, which looks specifically at community response and prevention around assault, abuse, and rape
  
• Civil Rights with Guns, which looks at alternatives to police from the Black Freedom Movement
  

This is monstrous. Reminds me of a certain Native Canadian book...

This is a very broad topic, and difficult to encapsulate in a few lines, but I'll give it a go. I spent about eight years of my life dedicated to this pursuit. I got a degree in bio and worked as a field botanist for years. I tutored it, etc etc.

There is a lot of conflicting information out there, even within the confines of structured and scientific botany. Species aren't neat little packages that many would like to believe, there are hybrid complexes and recent, yet unstable, specialization events that lead to distinct morphologies but the ability to interbreed.

Practically, you want to discern species A from B so that you may harvest one for a particular purpose. Some groups of plants are easy to ID (e.g. Brassicaceae), and relatively safe to utilize, where others (e.g. Apiaceae) contain both extremely beneficial AND deadly toxic species.

Yet, to get to the level of comfort and mastery where you can discern a poisonous plant from a nutritional plant that differs only in the number of stamens or the position of the ovule, it takes years of dedication. Ask yourself how committed to this you are? The consequences of mis-identification can be severe.

Now, past the disclaimer.

To begin this pursuit, you must, odviously, start with the basics. That is learning plant groups. Start coarse and work your way into more fine distinctions. Begin with this text book. It is well written and gives you all of the primary info. It is well written and concise and one of the few text books you that is highly readable. Botany is laden with terminology, and this book is invaluable for that.

Next, you need a flora. Just a quick search (i live in a different biota) yields this website / information. This is a group that you can trust. If you live near, you may attend some of their field trips or lectures. This is the inner circle of botanists in your area and the ones that probably have the info you are looking into. But, most botanists are in it for intellectual masturbation, so keep the uses out of the discussion or you will be shunned (some are more accepting than others).

A couple of other books that are credible, exhaustive, and useful for your purposes are this and this. Lets face it, the indigenous cultures of this continent knew what they were doing long before we Europeanized the landscape. Also try this and this is the definitive guide for European transplants (many of which are naturalized and invasive but nonetheless useful to us).

Any questions, I'd be happy to answer to the best of my ability.

This shouldn't surprise anyone... people have been here for thousands of years, and they used the rivers as their highways.

A great read: http://www.amazon.ca/Before-Ontario-The-Archaeology-Province/dp/0773542086

First Nation? Second Thoughts by Tom Flanagan is probably the most representative book on the conservative (small c) view of Indigenous issues; I know some people have a negative opinion towards Flanagan, but this work is great by most academic standards and I think it's a must read for anyone interested in Indigenous issues.

Citizens Plus: Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian State by Alan Cairns. This was Cairns response to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal's people. Again, I think it's a must read to learn more about the various perspectives about Indigenous issues.

Wasase: Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom by Taiaiake Alfred. Alfred is probably the most "extreme" in terms of his vision for Indigenous peoples in Canada, but he's a must read.

Unjust Society by Harold Cardinal. This book provides the greatest insight into why the White Paper was met with opposition from Indigenous peoples and to Indigenous issues in general (it's a little older, but if you were to read one book out of all the ones I recommended this would be it)

Governing from the Centre: The Concentration of Power in Canadian Politics by Donald Savoie. I haven't read this one yet (I hope to soon) so I can't speak to how it is, but I've been told it's a great book. It basically looks at how the federal government has become increasingly centralized into the PMO

EDIT: If you go to university/college and have free access to academic journals you should look in those. There are so many interesting articles and are less time consuming than books. Here's a directory of open access journals, but keep in mind not all of these journals are of "top quality"

From my understanding because residential schools were starting to close they had to find another way to “remove the Indian from the child”.

If you’re looking for other good reading there’s a book https://www.amazon.ca/Night-Spirits-Story-Relocation-Sayisi/dp/0887556434 if you google it there’s a preview and stuff. I grew up in northern Canada in communities that are half/half. I thought that I had a pretty good grasp of what reserves were like and how history had went down until I read this book. It’s a series of firsthand stories from one of the aboriginal groups in Manitoba that was relocated from their original community where they had cabins and their seasonal route established, to Churchill. It’s very very sad and I found shocking. We had to read it in our Aboriginal history course for university. I would 10/10 recommend.

I wrote this as a hypothetical "day in the life of..." kind of thing last year for the Museum of Ontario Archaeology. I wrote a whole series of them for each time period, but the 11,000 years ago one (Paleoindian Period) is the only one that's up so far. I don't want to send you the others since I wrote them when I was an employee of the museum, and I don't know how that works copyright wise and all that. I would like to volunteer some time for them to get the others in the series ready to post, but I have other things I need to do more urgently (and procrastinate like mad). We'll see though, maybe I can do something in the next couple months.

Explore the museum's website a bit too, especially under the "discover" tab. There are a few short videos by Chris Ellis, one of the foremost Ontario archaeologists, describing each of the three broad periods in precontact Ontario history. There are also some other links there that have an overwhelming amount of info, especially this site. It's poorly organized and outdated, but there's a lot there. And since you are asking specifically for southwestern Ontario I presume that you are in or near London. If you can, go to the museum. It is inexpensive to get in. To be honest, it's not a great museum and it has a lot of problems, but there are some good people there who are working on it, and they have some great artifacts. They also have a partially reconstructed village at the museum, which is the location of an actual 15th century Iroquoian village.

To answer your question a bit more specifically, the people who lived in this region shortly before direct European contact were an Iroquoian group we call the Neutral or Attawandaron. The French gave them that name since they were neutral in the wars between the five nations of the Iroquois (a confederacy of nations who lived mostly in upstate New York) and the Huron-Petun or Wendat, another Iroquoian group that lived in the Toronto and Lake Simcoe area. But not much is known about the Neutral. The French had first encountered them in the Niagara region, but the neutral had already abandoned southwestern Ontario at that time so this area appeared to be empty and "pristine" when the French first saw it for themselves (had the French come 100 years before they would have found a bustling and populous area with many villages around the Thames and its tributaries, and with fields as far as the eye could see).

So we don't know much about the Neutral, but we do know that they were Iroquoian and spoke an Iroquoian language, so we make assumptions that they lived in a similar way to the Huron, who we do know more about. What about before the Neutral? That is hard to say, and I'll admit here that Ontario is not my main focus and I'm not entirely up to speed on current ideas about populations movements. It is really hard to push ethnicity or group affiliation back very far, at least using archaeological data (oral histories are different and can help do that, but since the Neutral left this area it is hard to trace those stories). And although people in Ontario and neighbouring regions were largely sedentary after about A.D. 1000, there were still large migrations and movements and it is hard to know whether that happened in this region too, and there is some debate about that. We know that the Neutral were here after about A.D. 1400, but it's hard to know who was here before, and impossible to know how people saw their own ethnic identities.

My main source for all this is Before Ontario: The Archaeology of a Province, edited by Marit Munson and Susan Jamieson. It is a great source with chapters written by many of the biggest names in Ontario archaeology, and they are all very readable and informative for non-specialists. Neal Ferris and Gary Warrick have chapters dealing with southwestern Ontario in the more recent precontact period, and Chris Ellis has one dealing with the more ancient stuff (11,000 - 3000 years ago). The museum has a small bookstore and they stock this title as well as others that you may find interesting, if you make it there.

Edit: oh yeah, and you can ask this as well in /r/askanthropology. This question really falls as archaeology rather than history, and there is a greater concentration of archaeologists there. I'm not sure if anyone there is specifically an Ontario archaeologist, but there are some people who are familiar with the archaeology of eastern North America in general.

You're damn right. If you like the essay, I have to plug the book:

https://www.amazon.com/Justice-Roosting-Chickens-Reflections-Consequences/dp/1902593790

He just goes off on the most scathing critique of US empire you've ever read in an extended written ramble, then offers a year-by-year breakdown of every single action of the United States Military from 1776 - 2003 (when the book was published), including the numerous atrocious incursions on Native communities, and offers another year-by-year breakdown of every illegal US action from 1776-2003. Really great book, one of my favorites, and he lost his job at CU Boulder over it.

Consider that residential schools led to the complete extermination of approximately 50 indigenous languages and associated near-complete or total loss of distinctive culture for about as many peoples.

Consider that the death rate at some residential schools (as high as 60%) compared to the death rates for children in white schools in the same area at the same time (5%) is actually comparable to the difference in the death rate rate compared between some of the Nazi extermination camps (35 - 90%) and regular camps for ethnic German citizens and Western PoWs (~3%).

Checklist:

• An intentional government policy aimed at cultural extermination.
  
  
• The carry-out of that government policy was uninterrupted even when the majority of children subjected to it died.
  
  
• Human medical experimentation was done on the children.
  
  
• Instances where the majority of the population subjected to the policy died.
  
  
• So they used mass graves because they died too quick to bother with individual burials.
  
  
• With the little children digging the graves of their own school friends knowing full-well they'll probably be next.
  
  
• And clever use of novel means to speed up mass extermination (biological warfare / gassing).
  
  The end result sure looks the same. There aren't many Jews in Europe. And there sure aren't many Snokomish or Penlatch people left -- every last one was exterminated.
  
  The numbers and the consequences sure look genocidal for certain periods, especially at the peak in the early 20th century.
  
  Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life is a recent book that thoroughly details the means by which the Canadian state, in parallel to the American, used disease, geographic displacement, starvation, isolation, interment and the occasional bout of literal mass murder, to effectively depopulate much of the continent.

Actually a really good book for non historians to get a feel for Canadian History is Will Ferguson's Canadian History for Dummmies. I used it while studying for my comprehensive exams... though clearly as an aid, not a real text or anything. It doesn't get everything right, but it's a good, light attempt at examining Canadian history in a somewhat critical way.

>Get rid of the charter or rights or create a charter of rights and responsibilities.

>Get rid of hyphenated Canadians. In or your out, choose.

>Solve the native problem, either return canada to them and leave, or they become the same as everyone else, no special rights.

>Canadian and Canadian Citizenship should be synonymous but isn't right now.

>Get rid of multi-culturalism as a vision, no nation has ever been successful like that, instead teach tolerance and to value different perspectives.

While I see your point here, I would disagree with you. In my mind and the minds of some of our greatest thinkers this fact has been our greatest strength. You mentioned "Become a truly bilingual country", but perhaps the fact that we hold bilinugalism so dear is that we realize that we are a State made of many Nations. Quebec and the Quebequois are one.

As to your hyphenation point, I'd argue we are all hyphenated, except for the Natives and it is a shame we don't give two shits about them. The fact that you can be a hypenated Canadian is the top reason (in my limited experience) why immigrates appreciate coming here. They understand that in Canada you can be Canadian and you can be Indian, Chinese etc. My partner is Vietnamese, born in Paris, and calls herself Canadian, French, and Vietnamese depending on the context. Infuriating when having an argument with her, yes, but that doesn't mean it's invalid.

As a final point, your idea that we should be a melting pot and not a mosaic is premised on flawed ideas of nationhood based on the European and US models. John Ralson Saul's recent book on this topic, A Fair Country clarified greatly my thoughts in this area. If you don't want to read it his lecture is online both from CBC Ideas and TVO Big Ideas and highly recommended.

Canada, since before first contact and after, has always been (in its ideals, granted) a conversation between parties. And I think that the fact that Europe and the US are having problems with their immigrant populations while we accept more immigrates that any other nation in the world speaks to the success we have made of our model.

The above does not white-wash the negative aspects. It is admittedly a normative claim.

Here is one: https://www.mqup.ca/blog/secwepemc-people-land-laws/

Here is another one: https://www.amazon.ca/Unsettling-Canada-National-Wake-Up-Call-ebook/dp/B012XYFJHO

And another: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1632460688/?coliid=I9PKGROBS5P88&colid=3VO89QG4XNLG3&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

More: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1632460688/?coliid=I9PKGROBS5P88&colid=3VO89QG4XNLG3&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

Additional: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1626566747/?coliid=I1BAWUWU32N6NC&colid=3VO89QG4XNLG3&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

Another: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1442614714/?coliid=I3P3FGFUIK7RFG&colid=3VO89QG4XNLG3&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

One more: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0888646402/?coliid=I2843W2GF6U9NS&colid=3VO89QG4XNLG3&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

More: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0814798535/?coliid=I30HZQ9D3V5O2W&colid=3VO89QG4XNLG3&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

Here: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1138585866/?coliid=I2UL77UTJ47BF0&colid=3VO89QG4XNLG3&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

Another: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1496201558/?coliid=I3BTQMC9LYCLHJ&colid=3VO89QG4XNLG3&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

One: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0822330210/?coliid=I1SEHQBGT2K6CT&colid=3VO89QG4XNLG3&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

Another: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0803282869/?coliid=IHTY3OT3VU8CZ&colid=3VO89QG4XNLG3&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

Last one: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0773547436/?coliid=ITIW0V5V1H7TR&colid=3VO89QG4XNLG3&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

Thomas King's excellent The Inconvenient Indian is readable, funny, informative, and covers the basics:

https://www.amazon.ca/Inconvenient-Indian-Curious-Account-America/dp/0385664214

The first volume of the report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples is also fairly well written and has the advantage of being online and free:

https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/aboriginal-heritage/royal-commission-aboriginal-peoples/Pages/final-report.aspx

I haven't read this, but I have read other Wil Ferguson books, and they were excellent. I'm therefore assuming this is too: http://www.amazon.ca/Canadian-History-Dummies-Will-Ferguson/dp/0470836563/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268672449&sr=1-4

Note: I am not trying to imply you are a dummie.

Awesome man, everyone should learn these histories! Another really good book about the US relationship with indigenous peeps is "The Inconvenient Indian" by Thomas King http://www.amazon.ca/The-Inconvenient-Indian-Curious-Account/dp/0385664214

Hmm, ich kann dir ein paar Artikel verlinken und Bücher - habe aber nicht alle davon selbst gelesen, ein Teil kommt von Buchempfehlungen von Indigener Seite.
Was da wohl nicht rüberkommen wird, es sei denn man versucht wirklich, sich in diese Lage hineinzuversetzen, ist, wie hass- und angstgesättigt die Atmosphäre ist, mit all den Schlagzeilen, die diese Ereignisse produzieren.

Zur allgemeinen Situation und Geschichte ist hier eine Liste mit Büchern, speziell Native American History.

Weniger bekannt ist die kanadische Seite, dazu gibt es hier ein paar Bücher:

Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens: A History of Indian-White Relations in Canada


Loyal Till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion

For King and Kanata: Canadian Indians and the First World War


The Colonial Problem: An Indigenous Perspective on Crime and Injustice in Canada

Wenn es etwas kürzer sein soll:
Wounded Knee Massacre - wenn man sich klar macht, dass das wirklich noch nicht SO lange her ist, nicht lang vor dem ersten Weltkrieg jedenfalls, dann ist das schon wichtig zu lesen.

Tatsächlich aber gibt es Akademiker, v.a. Experten in der Geschichte Indigener Völker in Nordamerika, die die Ursprünge des 2nd Amendment auch im Völkermord sehen.

Ein wichtiges Buch ist Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment (von einer der ersten Akademikerinnen im Feld Native American Studies)

Direkt auf das Buch beziehen sich die folgenden beiden Artikel:


The Brutal Origins of Gun Rights

The Second Amendment is fundamental to the roots of white settler violence in their genocide project against Native populations, as well as to control, and ultimately eliminate freed Black people in America.


Hier gibt es auch noch einmal einen Abriss der Gun Rights vs. Indigenous History.


Edit: Oh, ich hab auch mal nach Indigenous Podcasts gegoogelt (höre selbst normalerweise keine Podcasts). Geschichtlich sicher nur teilweise relevant, aber da waren so coole Sachen dabei, das wollte ich auch verlinken.

11 Indigenous podcasts for your listening pleasure


Indigenous podcasts



12 Great Native Podcasts

So its all about money, is it? Well, I could increase my wealth by stealing money, but I don't. One of the reasons that Canada became wealthy, is that it brutally stole wealth-creating lands from the Aboriginals. Read Clearing the Plains if you still don't understand that.
Obviously, returning some of the wealth is important, but the Liberals have promised something much more important than that, namely: "a total renewal of the relationship between Canada and indigenous peoples".

http://www.amazon.ca/Clearing-Plains-Politics-Starvation-Aboriginal/dp/0889772967

This is his recent work, and the one that won the book of the year award from the Canadian Historical Association.

Sounds like he should start by reading The Inconvenient Indian if he really knows that little about the issues with scrapping the Indian Act.

define relationship. do you want the governmental relationship, the societal relationship. Its a very complex issue I would suggest reading work done by specificity on each sub group to talk bout their personal relationship since each is vastly different.

https://www.amazon.ca/M%C3%A9tis-Canada-History-Identity-Politics/dp/0888646402

Good place to start.

John Ralston Saul is a good place to start: https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0670068047/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used

He is very good about pre-Canadian history. Realizes and strengthens the roles that First Nations played in early Canada while addressing the realities/atrocities of some of things we have done

http://www.amazon.com/Clearing-Plains-Politics-Starvation-Aboriginal/dp/0889772967

A book that may change your mind

IIRC, there has not been a single year from inception through 2000 that the US wasn't involved in military engagements.

Source: http://www.amazon.com/Justice-Roosting-Chickens-Reflections-Consequences/dp/1902593790 Neat timeline in there.

i have written many papers on indigenous issues and governance, but not particularly anarchism. i would be willing to share parts of them, sure!

if you are interested in anarcho-indigenism, taiaiake alfred is essential to the movement, and i found this handy website that gives a basic overview of the concept.

> I wish there were a way of getting people to stop committing crimes after serving a prison sentence, or just in general, but we haven't found one yet, if it's even possible.


You might be very interested in the concept of Restorative Justice then. It's an approach to justice that doesn't have retribution as its core goal, but rather the restoration of functional, healthy community.

This is the best book I've ever read on the subject. It's a concept that's gaining some traction in Canada (http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/restorative-justice/index-eng.shtml).

It depends on soil type and moisture levels. Most of of those are indeed old world plants, though most of them can thrive in arid climates with water and proper soil. There are also many native analogues (same genus different species), and that book is a good jumping off point for their qualities.

For more regional herbals, this guy got me started. Or if you want the encyclopedia, this is unrivaled. There are more. But all of these, including Grieves, tells different parts of the same story.

> Have you read the storys in this thread, every one of them mentions that the econmy was completly not function!

I noticed most said things were better off under communism -- did you?

> Please show me a list with ever attack of the US to all the socialist stats

That would be pages and pages long. You should Google it. Various people have made such lists. Ward Churchill put together one of the most comprehensive but it's no more than a paragraph or so on each as I recall, although it's a couple of hundred examples. William Blum's Killing Hope covers fewer but in much more detail (a chapter each) and several examples are free to read on line. You might like the chapter on Cuba.

Except you don't read, I forget.

< I dont grammer check for you

Did you mean to say "spell check"?

> You are mistaken on several points and have provided no evidence, no definitions of "Buddhism" or "Mahayana" while you assert their authority.

Ugh, the evidence treadmill again. Fine. If you've got some evidence or reference that says that Zen isn't a school of Mahayana Buddhism, show it to me. No, Zen Masters quote on a teachings book don't count, as I said before, for the reasons I said before.

> Zen Masters wrote books about their teachings. If you want to discuss Zen, discuss those books.

When I want to discuss Zen the experience, or the various expedients to get there, I do, right now we are talking about Zen the practice.

> If you have evidence of me interpreting something, show me. I don't think you do.

I said "literal interpretation", reading, quoting, and then saying what's written there is actually what happened or is meant is "literal interpretation". Are you seriously saying you don't do that?

> Buddhist Apologetics traditionally has "Zen" in the title of the book, but nowhere are Zen Masters' teachings discussed in the text of that book.

We're not talking about that

> There is no evidence that there is any such thing as "Buddhism", and the Mahayana religions have again and again made their doctrinal position very clear, and that position is not compatible with the texts written by Zen Masters.

Again, scholars disagree.

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Ummm...what? economic stagnation and unemployment are huge problems on reserves, are they not? Pretty sure that (along with the corruption of tyrannical chiefs) is at the root of the problem.

I highly recommend this book. Might open your mind to some alternative solutions other than just throwing money at the problem (something thats been tried, and failed)

Hakuin's autobiography would be a great place to start.

Heinrich Dumoulin's 2-volume "Zen Buddhism: A History" (Vol 1, Vol 2) is a classic, albeit somewhat dated. It has extended descriptions of the lives of some of the more notable teachers.

Andy Ferguson's "Zen's Chinese Heritage" is a very readable translation of the Lamp Records, providing some useful historical flavor. Although, the Lamp Records are where many of the major koan collections are drawn from, so if you're not into koans, ymmv.

I'll see if I can think of any others.

http://www.amazon.ca/Fair-Country-John-Ralston-Saul/dp/0670068047

More like the deliberate and criminal underfunding, neglect, abuse and starvation of the generations of kids forced to attend these institutions. All in the hopes of converting them to Christianity, while degrading or destroying their languages, cultures, and family bonds.

Education, nutrition, and vocational training were the lowest priorities in most of these cheaply built, ramshackle schools where disease spread quickly and where the kids had to spend a majority of their time farming in order to supplement the inhumane lack of supplies they had to live with.

Learn more about it.

https://www.amazon.ca/Canadian-History-Dummies-Will-Ferguson/dp/0470836563

Don't let the format throw you off, Will Ferguson is a fantastic writer.

Ummm...what? economic stagnation and unemployment are huge problems on reserves, are they not? Pretty sure that (along with the corruption of tyrannical chiefs) is at the root of the problem.

I highly recommend this book. Might open your mind to some alternative solutions other than just throwing money at the problem (something thats been tried, and failed)