13 Further Reading

13   Further Reading:

You do not have to take my word for it. But here is some of the research which helped me form my own opinions.

SEARCH for yourself. Even if you read only the headlines, you will have a clearer picture. 

SEARCH for The Tyee Site C

SEARCH for The Globe and Mail Site C

SEARCH for The Vancouver Sun Site C

(Notice, at the bottom of each page of listings, a link for Site C Jobs, Dam Construction Jobs, and/or ads for BC Hydro.

Re-read Hugh Brody's Maps and Dreams: Indians and the British Columbia Frontier. Douglas & McIntyre, 1981.

Check out John Sutton Lutz'z Makuk: A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations. UBC Press, 2008.

Check out Desmog.ca, you.leadnow.ca, DogwoodInitiative.org, to mention only three.

Re-read Duke Redbird's fifty year old poem "The Beaver" about industry vs Nature: "See how the beaver works all night . . . Please God, my God / Deliver me from dam-nation."

Refresh yourself with some aspirational reading:

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Treaty 8

Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future: Summary of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

Follow the Fort St John First Nations Treaty 8 Justice for the Peace Caravan on Facebook. Fort St John to Montreal. Send them cash.

Follow #SiteC on Twitter.

See also my: Dancing With Ghosts: A Cross-Cultural Education at www.dancingwithghostsaneducation.blogspot.ca/