The document discusses the Idle No More movement, which advocates for indigenous rights, sovereignty, and environmental protection. It critiques government policies such as Bill C-45 and the Harper government's actions regarding Indigenous issues, emphasizing historical injustices and ongoing colonial practices. The presentation highlights the need for grassroots involvement and reworking the nation-to-nation relationship while addressing the historical context of indigenous oppression.

1. Idle No More presentation
by Michael Frew
INDIGENOUS LIBERATION STUDIES 2015 – WAIKATO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

5. "Idle No More calls on all people to join in a peaceful
revolution, to honour Indigenous sovereignty, and to
protect the land and water"
• Idle No More has and will continue to help build
sovereignty & resurgence of nationhood.
• Idle No More will continue to pressure government
and industry to protect the environment.
• Idle No More will continue to build allies in order to
reframe the nation to nation relationship, this will
be done by including grassroots perspectives,
issues, and concern

6. Bull Romanus Pontifex - declaring war against all non-Christians, any
land that was not inhabited by Christians was available to be
‘discovered’ and thus claimed.
Inter cetera - Propagation of the Christian faith through division of the
globe to be ‘discovered’
Doctrine of discovery – the way in which colonial powers laid
claim to ‘newly discovered lands’

7. Bill C-45
• There’s also an amendment to the Indian
Act in the bill that allows for surrender of
reserve land without proper consent of all
Indian people affected
• An omnibus...It lumps a slew of bills
under one name…One removes much
of the protection under the Navigable
Waters Protection Act and, in some
cases, totally removes that protection. “It
gives major corporations direct and easy
access to our waters and to our land”

8. Acquiescence - agreement or consent by silence or
without objection
Dictionary.com

9. Harper government
- Says no to inquiry into missing and murdered
aboriginal girls
- The most secretive government in Canada’s history
- Sneaks through and Ratifies trade deal with China against
majority wishes
- Silences publically funded scientists
- belligerent, divisive and dismissive of the
United Nations and other international institutions
- He glorified active combat and “pushed Canada’s
peacekeeping tradition virtually out of sight.”
- Harper government closes down world renowned libraries
and destroys centuries old books

10. Terra Nullius - In International Law 'terra nullius' describes territory that
nobody owns so that the first nation to discover it is entitled to take it over, as
"finders keepers".

11. Trail of tears – 1830s ‘Indian removal Act’ over 100,000 first nation
people were forcible ‘relocated’ from homelands
Bio warfare - the British gave the Aboriginal Tribes gifts such as
blankets contaminated with small pox.
The Gradual Civilization Act - the legal definition of an Indian as, an
uncivilized person, destitute of the knowledge of God and of any fixed
and clear belief in religion“
Chemical warfare - Present day Chemical Experiments on
Aboriginal Peoples. Xyolhemeylh Health and Family services program
is engaging in GENOCIDE through the administration of highly
dangerous vaccine

13. Imperialism – the policy of extending the rule or authority of
an empire or nation over foreign countries
De-humanisation – to deprive of human qualities or
attributes
Assimilation - In the nineteenth century, the goal of
government was to make Canada's native cultures disappear.
Oppression - unjust or cruel exercise of authority or power
Colonialism - the disconnection of Native people from the
land, their history, their identity and their rights so that others
can benefit.

16. Thank you