MEDIA INDIGENA 256
Added 2021-05-15 19:54:15 +0000 UTCShow Us The Money / MI 256
ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
From Wealth to Welfare. Just how did Canada’s economy end up among the world's largest, anyway? Was it the sheer pioneering pluck of can-do Canucks? A steely determination tempered by visionary imagination and innovation? Exactly what has Canada done to amass, command and enjoy such wealth? Well, according to a hot-off-the-presses report from the Yellowhead Institute, they stole it.
Entitled Cash Back: A Yellowhead Institute Red Paper, the report impressively details what can only be described as a colossal, colonial theft, the proceeds of which Canada continues to exploit and extract. Adding insult to imperial injury, not only has this country built itself up via the "transformation of Indigenous lands and waterways into corporate profit and national power," the report's authors argue it's forced "a cradle-to-grave bureaucracy" upon First Nations in the process, placing a "stranglehold on [their] each and every need." The result: a zero-sum economic game, a game Canada’s rigged in its favour to the ongoing detriment of First Nations.
Joining host/producer Rick Harp for part one of this extended conversation about the report are two of its contributors: co-author and board member Naiomi Metallic, as well as Yellowhead Research Fellow Karihwakè:ron aka Tim Thompson.
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Comments
Thanks for your comments, Marcus!
Rick Harp
2021-05-29 03:24:23 +0000 UTCHard-hitting episode as so often happens. While I was listening I had a faint recollection of how Theresa Spence had been largely smeared by establishment media, so I headed over to Wikipedia to see how she has fared in posterity. Not surprisingly, the answer is, 'not well'. I know this episode wasn't about Ms Spence, but I felt compelled to share what I've found, along with a 'wonder': I wonder how the Wikipedia article would stand up to an edit that took the focus off petty details like her salary and the way she chose to conduct her hunger strike (good grief), and more on the historical injustice she was sacrificing her personal health to bring into public consideration.
Marcus Elia
2021-05-17 15:16:09 +0000 UTC
