Canada's Aboriginal Show and Tell
Olympics Can't Mask Country's Human Rights Record on Indigenous Peoples
By MARTIN LUKACS, February 17, 2010
http://www.counterpunch.org/luckas02172010.html
Native Anti-2010
Canada Can't Conceal Conditions for Native Peoples
February 21, 2010 - 06:07 — no2010Not All Native Band Councils in BC Support Olympics
February 7, 2010 - 03:08 — no2010
Aboriginal groups divided on whether to support Olympics
80 of B.C.'s 203 bands refuse to participate because government and Vanoc ignore 'horrific levels of poverty,' their leader says
By Kim Pemberton, Vancouver Sun, February 6, 2010
http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/2010wintergames/Aboriginal%20groups%2...
All Eyes on Us: Revealing Over 500 Missing/Murdered Indigenous Women in Canada
January 18, 2010 - 23:52 — no2010
All Eyes on Us!
Capitalizing on the 2010 Olympics to Call International Attention to
the 500+ Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
By Carmen Teeple Hopkins
Manitoba Natives to Focus on Missing/Murdered Women When Torch Relay Arrives
January 1, 2010 - 06:00 — no2010Manitoba First Nations to highlight murdered women during torch run
By Carol Sanders, Winnipeg Free Press, December 31, 2009
http://www.theprovince.com/sports/2010wintergames/First+Nations+highligh...
Torch Relay Blocked at Oneida
December 23, 2009 - 05:18 — no2010
Torch relay makes brief detour, heads deeper into Ontario
By Martha Worboy, Canwest News Service, December 22, 2009
LONDON, Ont. — For the second day in a row the Olympic torch relay was forced to take a detour around a native reserve due to safety concerns.
Torch Blocked, Forced to Detour at Six Nations
December 23, 2009 - 04:36 — no2010
Olympic Torch Relay Stopped at Six Nations
Relay re-routed off Six Nations' Territory
by Alex Hundert
http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/2383
Olympics Shut out Native Businesses, Outsources Production of Native Crafts
December 21, 2009 - 05:00 — no2010Native businessman upset at VANOC's outsourcing of aboriginal products
Sunday, December 20, 2009, By Damian Inwood, The Province/Canwest News Service
www.theprovince.com/sports/2010wintergames/Native+businessman+upset+VANO...
Declaration of Onkwehonwe of Grand River Territory on 2010 olympic torch relay
December 16, 2009 - 09:02 — no2010
Declaration of the Onkwehonwe of Grand River Territory on the 2010 olympic torch relay
Sunday, December 13th, 2009
Being Onkwehonwe (people) of the Grand River Territory, we strive to uphold our responsibilities as stewards of the land; and to the coming faces. In accordance with our responsibilities we declare:
Kahnawake Mohawks Protest Olympic Torch
December 9, 2009 - 10:01 — no2010
Olympic organizers reach deal with Mohawks to drop RCMP escort for torch relay
By Peter Rakobowchuk, THE CANADIAN PRESS, Tuesday, December 8, 2009
http://www.chroniclejournal.com/stories_national.php?id=229545
Kahnawake Mohawks Oppose RCMP Escort for Olympic Torch
December 8, 2009 - 02:37 — no2010
Olympic torch issue heats up in community
Jordan Standup, The Eastern Door, December 2009
http://www.easterndoor.com/feature/olympic-torch-issue-heats-community
The Mohawk Council’s announcement last week that the Olympic torch would
be passing through Kahnawake on its way to the 2010 Winter Olympics in
Vancouver has become a hot issue.
