Comments for Anishinawbe Blog http://www.bobgoulais.com/bgc/wordpress Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:24:21 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 Comment on Waving at Pigeons by cousin Yvette http://www.bobgoulais.com/bgc/wordpress/?p=533&cpage=1#comment-3193 cousin Yvette Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:24:21 +0000 http://www.bobgoulais.com/bgc/wordpress/?p=533#comment-3193 Hi Bob, this is a wonderful way of reminding us that sometimes it is the smallest, simplest gestures which give us the pleasure, the insight and sometimes the hope we need to get through whatever life hands us. I am always in awe of the teachings that the little ones grant us, if we only take the time to stop, look and listen. I love your blogs! Hi Bob, this is a wonderful way of reminding us that sometimes it is the smallest, simplest gestures which give us the pleasure, the insight and sometimes the hope we need to get through whatever life hands us. I am always in awe of the teachings that the little ones grant us, if we only take the time to stop, look and listen. I love your blogs!

]]> Comment on Restoring Anishinaabe Culture takes Faith by Matt http://www.bobgoulais.com/bgc/wordpress/?p=530&cpage=1#comment-3024 Matt Mon, 16 Aug 2010 03:41:13 +0000 http://www.bobgoulais.com/bgc/wordpress/?p=530#comment-3024 Love that last sentence! I think Jesus has much more in common with the Anishinaabe people than with some of his modern so-called "friends." Can a person be a traditional Anishinaabe person and openly identify Jesus--wholly APART from corporate Christianity--as a moral role model? Does that ring true, or does it ring of clumsy religious amalgamation? I remember sitting with you at a drum at a wedding of an Ojibway girl and a Catholic guy. When the Pipe came through the circle, it stopped at the "Christian half" of the arbor, its journey incomplete. What a shame that was. That drum and that Pipe had consecrated something very holy and good for that couple, but its entire purpose was missed by half the people. I've never seen Ojibways do that to the other direction. Love that last sentence! I think Jesus has much more in common with the Anishinaabe people than with some of his modern so-called “friends.” Can a person be a traditional Anishinaabe person and openly identify Jesus–wholly APART from corporate Christianity–as a moral role model? Does that ring true, or does it ring of clumsy religious amalgamation?

I remember sitting with you at a drum at a wedding of an Ojibway girl and a Catholic guy. When the Pipe came through the circle, it stopped at the “Christian half” of the arbor, its journey incomplete. What a shame that was. That drum and that Pipe had consecrated something very holy and good for that couple, but its entire purpose was missed by half the people. I’ve never seen Ojibways do that to the other direction.

]]> Comment on In memory of Warren Monague by Roberta Bailey http://www.bobgoulais.com/bgc/wordpress/?p=526&cpage=1#comment-2369 Roberta Bailey Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:16:33 +0000 http://www.bobgoulais.com/bgc/wordpress/?p=526#comment-2369 This is just beautiful.... This is just beautiful….

]]> Comment on Violence and Trauma in First Nations by Anne Fox http://www.bobgoulais.com/bgc/wordpress/?p=456&cpage=1#comment-2274 Anne Fox Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:57:04 +0000 http://www.bobgoulais.com/bgc/wordpress/?p=456#comment-2274 This issue is an issue which reaches far into the depthes of the most commonly used Police force for First nations. Gregson was abused by the RCMP he was followed discredited and he was a tee-toaller trained as an addictions counsellor. He was abused because he spoke out in an irreverent manner and because he was deeply disilussioned with a force that was keeping a private stocked bar in every detachment. He became known as the Humboldt rat among his compatriots and a lot of pressure was plavced on others to act against him in the private connections within his community. They got payback too. The LDS program of Mormons responsible for a generation of the more recent 60s 70s scoop victims of children's services who were sent all over the United Sates as well as within Canda came back to their origenal homes. Many have what we call a memory in the blood. a need to return and to right the wrongs done by others aginst Aborigenal persons in that time who were sent far from their homes. Kamsack where he was origenally placed is a focus for this return. Many children from there have returned including to the other areas in Sasakatchewan such as Buffy St. Marie. A range of experience was understood by the persons who were sent away as far as Hawaii into the United States. Some loved their adoptive parents but they retained their identity although in many a clear crisis built at adolescence. In his confusion at the time it is strane that he selected Czapnik perhaps a symbol of the issues plaguing Canada a person who he may have connected to the corrupt Police Forces of Poland the USSR and the areas of the former Yugoslavia/Bosnia Hersogovinia as well as to his recent trip to Africa with the tragedy of Rwanda and the Rape propaganda still fresh in the hearts of many. we are having a crisis of our own related to the issues which are international in scope and we are reminded of them by the reports of Richard Fadden of CSIS. Organized crime is becoming a serious issue and it is Global in nature and the money laundering issues have become a chronic problem here and still no effective regulation of our markets. The sure disaster which has already befallen the USSR with corruption reaching the top echelons of their politics and society will surely become an issue for Canda even more than it has already in these days of denial and scape-goating. A symbolic sacrifice of a real man? What do we know about it... This issue is an issue which reaches far into the depthes of the most commonly used Police force for First nations. Gregson was abused by the RCMP he was followed discredited and he was a tee-toaller trained as an addictions counsellor. He was abused because he spoke out in an irreverent manner and because he was deeply disilussioned with a force that was keeping a private stocked bar in every detachment. He became known as the Humboldt rat among his compatriots and a lot of pressure was plavced on others to act against him in the private connections within his community. They got payback too. The LDS program of Mormons responsible for a generation of the more recent 60s 70s scoop victims of children’s services who were sent all over the United Sates as well as within Canda came back to their origenal homes. Many have what we call a memory in the blood. a need to return and to right the wrongs done by others aginst Aborigenal persons in that time who were sent far from their homes. Kamsack where he was origenally placed is a focus for this return. Many children from there have returned including to the other areas in Sasakatchewan such as Buffy St. Marie. A range of experience was understood by the persons who were sent away as far as Hawaii into the United States. Some loved their adoptive parents but they retained their identity although in many a clear crisis built at adolescence. In his confusion at the time it is strane that he selected Czapnik perhaps a symbol of the issues plaguing Canada a person who he may have connected to the corrupt Police Forces of Poland the USSR and the areas of the former Yugoslavia/Bosnia Hersogovinia as well as to his recent trip to Africa with the tragedy of Rwanda and the Rape propaganda still fresh in the hearts of many. we are having a crisis of our own related to the issues which are international in scope and we are reminded of them by the reports of Richard Fadden of CSIS. Organized crime is becoming a serious issue and it is Global in nature and the money laundering issues have become a chronic problem here and still no effective regulation of our markets. The sure disaster which has already befallen the USSR with corruption reaching the top echelons of their politics and society will surely become an issue for Canda even more than it has already in these days of denial and scape-goating.

A symbolic sacrifice of a real man? What do we know about it…

]]> Comment on John Beaucage to advise on needs of aboriginal youth by Anne Fox http://www.bobgoulais.com/bgc/wordpress/?p=515&cpage=1#comment-2273 Anne Fox Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:35:14 +0000 http://www.bobgoulais.com/bgc/wordpress/?p=515#comment-2273 The appointment of an Aborigenal advisor is late in coming. I wish to state the importance of having Aborigenal satffing levels addressed and issues with the record of urban Aborigenal persons within the Children's services networks. Since Children's Services is a law enforcemetn mechanism issues in communictaions and services review must include recording of calls for services as well as clearly understood requirements for reporting and direct contacts regarding co-ordination of services. Issues between departments and informal communications involving vague third hand information recorded in summary has become a serious issue in the mistreatement and refusal of equal protection before the law to Aborigenal persons. In addition issues downloaded to ill-equiped Police services and problems in investigations have surfaced as an issue in Alberta. Nowhere has the now almost irrational issue of badly managed inter-governmantal affairs and jurisdictional disputes been so tragic. The focus of the concern has been on prevention and diversion handled in a hap-hazard fashion and involving psychiatric evaluations with poor outcomes. The amount of money being spent on the build-up of services focussed on this needless abuse of process and scrutiny has been the prevention of required services funding allotted to greedy individuals supplying a sham service while children are left to their own devices. In Ontario several agencies supporting this type of service have recieved extensive funding and it has left the province drained of resources. Issues surrounding divorce and custody and parsimonious disputes of every type have arisen of the presures of this ill-fated program of diagnostics which fail in their view of the obvious issue. The focused investoigation and issues in privatization and reform of the justice system have made a managerial abuse of process the rule rather than the aception. The intent to install these managment issues into the public service in every area of concern leaves no action so clearly a badly poorly though out solution. Mental Health problems and issues in complaints and whistle blowing are now at the bottom of every issue. Sexyual harrassment and issues in harrassment of staff who do not follow the political flow are often an issue as are problems in understanding the needs of any monority including those of the particular Aborigenal group who have several cultures which vary locally along with the more pan-Abrigenal-Canadian approach of the urbanized Aborigenal culture. The problems in focus and understanding related to this matter are legion and the Truth and reconcilliation council has brought matters to a head for Aborigenal people but especially to the people who serve them. In many areas factions of service providers are angry and confused as to their roles. They become saddened and feel disgraced because of the actions of their predecessors and can not understand that these unresolved issues are taking place right now. They must become a part of the solution instead of sweeping issues under the rug or sticking their heads in the sand. Co-rdination will involve sppecail interets to many who have understood the plight of those who are being poilitically abused and attacked even within the ranks of the RCMP. Politically and trade issue motivated abuse has prevented the most glaring issue for Aborihgeanl children in the North form coming forward. It is first the environmental safety involving hundreds of chemical poisons in the environment ( Mercury, Arsenic and H2S gas are prevalent in Alberta). Extreme abuse of children in schools where they are expected to put up with teacher involved bullying and abuse including racist remarks and the latest trend accusations of mental illness to whistle blowers in anything from sexual abuse cases to trafficking charges. The last issue facing children is the refusal of services by RCMP members overwhelmed with their responsibilities and internal strife. That is in the area of enforcement concerning Human/Drug tafficking as well as fraud/extortion related to settlements from the residential schools issues, identity/credit card theft, transportation of stolen goods/vehicles chop shops sexual assault, murder and missing women inapropriate racial tracking and abuse as well as refusal of reports. Hopelessness in this era of the fall out of the Mike Harris common sense revolution and the Ralph Klein cuts fiasco has been one of the most expensive cruel and degrading issues. Anyone can set up shop and charitys fight to gain favor for their own expansion. Everyone is welcome from all over the world to take part in what has become Canda's extension of the Residentail School formula for destruction of children now engulfing everyone. The appointment of an Aborigenal advisor is late in coming. I wish to state the importance of having Aborigenal satffing levels addressed and issues with the record of urban Aborigenal persons within the Children’s services networks. Since Children’s Services is a law enforcemetn mechanism issues in communictaions and services review must include recording of calls for services as well as clearly understood requirements for reporting and direct contacts regarding co-ordination of services. Issues between departments and informal communications involving vague third hand information recorded in summary has become a serious issue in the mistreatement and refusal of equal protection before the law to Aborigenal persons. In addition issues downloaded to ill-equiped Police services and problems in investigations have surfaced as an issue in Alberta. Nowhere has the now almost irrational issue of badly managed inter-governmantal affairs and jurisdictional disputes been so tragic. The focus of the concern has been on prevention and diversion handled in a hap-hazard fashion and involving psychiatric evaluations with poor outcomes. The amount of money being spent on the build-up of services focussed on this needless abuse of process and scrutiny has been the prevention of required services funding allotted to greedy individuals supplying a sham service while children are left to their own devices. In Ontario several agencies supporting this type of service have recieved extensive funding and it has left the province drained of resources. Issues surrounding divorce and custody and parsimonious disputes of every type have arisen of the presures of this ill-fated program of diagnostics which fail in their view of the obvious issue. The focused investoigation and issues in privatization and reform of the justice system have made a managerial abuse of process the rule rather than the aception. The intent to install these managment issues into the public service in every area of concern leaves no action so clearly a badly poorly though out solution. Mental Health problems and issues in complaints and whistle blowing are now at the bottom of every issue. Sexyual harrassment and issues in harrassment of staff who do not follow the political flow are often an issue as are problems in understanding the needs of any monority including those of the particular Aborigenal group who have several cultures which vary locally along with the more pan-Abrigenal-Canadian approach of the urbanized Aborigenal culture. The problems in focus and understanding related to this matter are legion and the Truth and reconcilliation council has brought matters to a head for Aborigenal people but especially to the people who serve them. In many areas factions of service providers are angry and confused as to their roles. They become saddened and feel disgraced because of the actions of their predecessors and can not understand that these unresolved issues are taking place right now. They must become a part of the solution instead of sweeping issues under the rug or sticking their heads in the sand. Co-rdination will involve sppecail interets to many who have understood the plight of those who are being poilitically abused and attacked even within the ranks of the RCMP. Politically and trade issue motivated abuse has prevented the most glaring issue for Aborihgeanl children in the North form coming forward. It is first the environmental safety involving hundreds of chemical poisons in the environment ( Mercury, Arsenic and H2S gas are prevalent in Alberta). Extreme abuse of children in schools where they are expected to put up with teacher involved bullying and abuse including racist remarks and the latest trend accusations of mental illness to whistle blowers in anything from sexual abuse cases to trafficking charges. The last issue facing children is the refusal of services by RCMP members overwhelmed with their responsibilities and internal strife. That is in the area of enforcement concerning Human/Drug tafficking as well as fraud/extortion related to settlements from the residential schools issues, identity/credit card theft, transportation of stolen goods/vehicles chop shops sexual assault, murder and missing women inapropriate racial tracking and abuse as well as refusal of reports. Hopelessness in this era of the fall out of the Mike Harris common sense revolution and the Ralph Klein cuts fiasco has been one of the most expensive cruel and degrading issues. Anyone can set up shop and charitys fight to gain favor for their own expansion. Everyone is welcome from all over the world to take part in what has become Canda’s extension of the Residentail School formula for destruction of children now engulfing everyone.

]]> Comment on A Scientific view of National Aboriginal Day by Vicki Monague http://www.bobgoulais.com/bgc/wordpress/?p=524&cpage=1#comment-1881 Vicki Monague Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:44:36 +0000 http://www.bobgoulais.com/bgc/wordpress/?p=524#comment-1881 Beautifully stated Bob. Beautifully stated Bob.

]]> Comment on What would you do with $50 million dollars? by Julianna Johnston http://www.bobgoulais.com/bgc/wordpress/?p=350&cpage=1#comment-1868 Julianna Johnston Sat, 19 Jun 2010 05:25:10 +0000 http://www.bobgoulais.com/bgc/wordpress/?p=350#comment-1868 Dear Marie and Kirby, I just wanted to say congratulations to you both on your winning and tell you how you have inpressed me with how unselfish you are helping others. It is that "pay it forward" additute that really shines and it is so refreshing. We all dream about winning the lottery and you two were really blessed. You are living a real dream. I hope that Kirby's health is inproving and that your family continues to prosper in many ways. I don't know you and only wanted to let you know that you are a shining example by your actions since winning the lottery. May God bless you and shine his face upon you and your kids. Julianna Dear Marie and Kirby, I just wanted to say congratulations to you both on your winning and tell you how you have inpressed me with how unselfish you are helping others. It is that “pay it forward” additute that really shines and it is so refreshing. We all dream about winning the lottery and you two were really blessed. You are living a real dream. I hope that Kirby’s health is inproving and that your family continues to prosper in many ways. I don’t know you and only wanted to let you know that you are a shining example by your actions since winning the lottery. May God bless you and shine his face upon you and your kids. Julianna

]]> Comment on Why First Nations Shouldn’t Pay HST by Alfred Mcleod http://www.bobgoulais.com/bgc/wordpress/?p=392&cpage=1#comment-1840 Alfred Mcleod Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:52:32 +0000 http://www.bobgoulais.com/bgc/wordpress/?p=392#comment-1840 As of today., I have just heard we will be exempt from the New HST. As of today., I have just heard we will be exempt from the New HST.

]]> Comment on Why I’m an angry Native by deb jones http://www.bobgoulais.com/bgc/wordpress/?p=511&cpage=1#comment-1587 deb jones Wed, 12 May 2010 18:43:04 +0000 http://www.bobgoulais.com/bgc/wordpress/?p=511#comment-1587 well you may have something there, but in my travels and that of my family, they are of the opinion that natives themselves can be some of the biggest racists going. Granted there are many that are not, but caucasions and natives are both equal in the prejudism. I don't feel good saying this but it is the truth. My daughter doesn't find discrimination in the program at the university that she attends and she is a high acheiver and no like some she will get thru the program as fast as she can. She is not a user of the system. Just wants to get out there and be professional. Stop complaining and get on with the rest of your lives and stop blaming everyone else. It generally doesn't get anyone anywhere. well you may have something there, but in my travels and that of my family, they are of the opinion that natives themselves can be some of the biggest racists going. Granted there are many that are not, but caucasions and natives are both equal in the prejudism. I don’t feel good saying this but it is the truth. My daughter doesn’t find discrimination in the program at the university that she attends and she is a high acheiver and no like some she will get thru the program as fast as she can. She is not a user of the system. Just wants to get out there and be professional. Stop complaining and get on with the rest of your lives and stop blaming everyone else. It generally doesn’t get anyone anywhere.

]]> Comment on What do you mean you’re going to Ceremonies? by mehchock http://www.bobgoulais.com/bgc/wordpress/?p=417&cpage=1#comment-1581 mehchock Wed, 12 May 2010 02:20:50 +0000 http://www.bobgoulais.com/bgc/wordpress/?p=417#comment-1581 Comment for Samuel Poe, I am anishnabe from the Mnidoo Mniss. I am currently on a path to discover the Midewiwin lodge, one not only for myself but for my new born child as well. I respect and agree with the comments you made about not allowing a creater to exist within the Mide entity. I do believe the concept of the creater is derived from Christianity beliefs and is not an true belief within the lodge. With that being said I am having a difficult time finding teachers within the lodge that share this uderstanding. Therefore in my quest for the true spirituality within the lodge, I seek the teachers of this path. You can respond directly to mehchock@yahoo.ca Chi Miigwetch Baamaa pii Comment for Samuel Poe,

I am anishnabe from the Mnidoo Mniss. I am currently on a path to discover the Midewiwin lodge, one not only for myself but for my new born child as well. I respect and agree with the comments you made about not allowing a creater to exist within the Mide entity. I do believe the concept of the creater is derived from Christianity beliefs and is not an true belief within the lodge. With that being said I am having a difficult time finding teachers within the lodge that share this uderstanding. Therefore in my quest for the true spirituality within the lodge, I seek the teachers of this path.
You can respond directly to mehchock@yahoo.ca

Chi Miigwetch

Baamaa pii

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