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How ethical is it to promote Australia as a land of massacre-hungry settlers (boo, hiss) with jars of poison (boo, hiss) to kill indigenous people? On this day (21 April, 2010) I set out to find some answers at the National Wool Museum, and left feeling cheated. The museum’s video introduction is on widescreen and serves to educate visitors about our supposed pro-massacre and pro-poison settlers. From international tourists to primary school children on excursions, people are being sold a certain version of history, without primary sources.

Health officials ordered an investigation Thursday into why the Canadian government sent body bags to an Aboriginal reserve in Manitoba after community leaders requested assistance to deal with an expected outbreak of swine flu.

Child star Abigail Breslin went to see the movie 'Australia' last night and came out a fan of it's undoubted star: Indigenous Australian child actor Brandon Walters aged 14.

In recent weeks, Canadians have had occasion to reflect on the historic relationship between Canada and its First Nations. Canada's aboriginal leadership has announced that June 29 will be a "National Day of Action." The recent report of Justice Sidney Linden, Commissioner of the Ipperwash Inquiry, has highlighted once again that remedying historic injustices is crucial to improving the relationship between aboriginal Canadians and their governments. I wish to be very clear about the approach of the Government of Canada to dealing with the concerns of aboriginal Canadians across the country. We are blessed to live in a country which...

Good liberal that I am, I have always tried to be on the side of the aboriginal inhabitants of North America. Lately, though, I've been hit with a bout of cognitive dissonance over the standoff in Caledonia. News reports about members of the Six Nations taking over part of the town, destroying property and making life miserable for the citizenry challenged my impression of the Iroquois as a group of underappreciated victims of the perfidy of the white man. Last weekend, I decided to check out the situation in Caledonia for myself. Initially, I saw little sign of conflict. The...

Native protest imperils 'rule of law' hearing: Lawyer calls for use of force in Ontario land dispute Adrian Humphreys National Post Friday, June 02, 2006 CAYUGA, Ont. - A judge, fearing that native blockades were destroying the "rule of law" in his community, forced nearly a dozen lawyers into his rural Ontario courthouse yesterday for a highly unusual court hearing. As more than a dozen Ontario Provincial Police officers ringed the historic courthouse in Cayuga, about an hour's drive southwest of Hamilton, almost as many lawyers gathered inside before Justice T. David Marshall, the senior Ontario Superior Court judge...

World gone mad 14apr06 Countries such as our own are more than ever home to people who say they don't belong and don't really want to. IT being a Saturday, I sat under the oak with a coffee to read a newspaper. And on one scary page after another I discovered a lot of influential people really had given up on defending us and this rotten society. Sure, you wouldn't have had to borrow my paper to have guessed already that the West was in strife. Countries such as our own are more than ever home to people who say...

Stone Age tribe kills fishermen who strayed on to island By Peter Foster in New Delhi (Filed: 08/02/2006) One of the world's last Stone Age tribes has murdered two fishermen whose boat drifted on to a desert island in the Indian Ocean. The Sentinelese, thought to number between 50 and 200, have rebuffed all contact with the modern world, firing a shower of arrows at anyone who comes within range. Sentinelese tribesmen prepare to fire arrows at the coastguard helicopter after the fishermen's murder They are believed to be the last pre-Neolithic tribe in the world to remain isolated and...