Aboriginal Front Door Idle No More teaches us more than we want to know. When one looks at videos on the BBC website of scenes involving indigenous people fending off government helicopters with primitive arrows in Brazil, I suspect many of us tend to support "David." Rather than pay attention to her message, some commenters focus on Chief Theresa Spence's figure. (PATRICK DOYLE / THE CANADIAN PRESS) Collectively, we speak of Gandhi as an almost divine figure who was able to slay "Goliath" without spilling blood. We romanticize Irish independence in the early 20th century and boast about our Irish heritage in pubs across the country as a symbol of courage and toughness. In all three cases, people had their land stolen and they fought and continue to fight to take it back or to protect it. In all three cases, colonialism failed to quash the connection these people have with the ecosystem, the landscape and systems on which they depend... -By: Matt Henderson Winnipeg Free Press

Aboriginal Front Door

Idle No More teaches us more than we want to know.
When one looks at videos on the BBC website of scenes involving indigenous people fending off government helicopters with primitive arrows in Brazil, I suspect many of us tend to support "David."
Rather than pay attention to her message, some commenters focus on Chief Theresa Spence's figure. (PATRICK DOYLE / THE CANADIAN PRESS)
Collectively, we speak of Gandhi as an almost divine figure who was able to slay "Goliath" without spilling blood.
We romanticize Irish independence in the early 20th century and boast about our Irish heritage in pubs across the country as a symbol of courage and toughness.
In all three cases, people had their land stolen and they fought and continue to fight to take it back or to protect it. In all three cases, colonialism failed to quash the connection these people have with the ecosystem, the landscape and systems on which they depend...

-By: Matt Henderson
Winnipeg Free Press