Kathleen Rashid
Kathleen Rashid
Grounds for Decolonizing
Getting our Bearings
A review of
The State of Native America: Genocide, Colonization and Resistance (Ed., M. Annette Jaimes, South End Press, 1992)
“Native Americans as a group experience the most extreme poverty...far and away the greatest rates of malnutrition, plague disease, death by exposure, infant mortality, and teen suicide of any group on the continent.”
Mar 2, 2020 Read the whole text...
Kathleen Rashid
Merge & Conquer
Military Base Closure Ignores Stoney Point Native Land Claim
A recent decision by the Canadian Department of National Defense (DND) to close down its military training camp at Ipperwash in southwest Ontario, built on land confiscated from the Stoney Point Ojibwe in W.W.II, and return it to “the Kettle and Stony Point Band” looks good in the headlines: the government’s giving the land back to the Indians!
May 8, 2020 Read the whole text...
Kathleen Rashid
Stoney Point Reclaims Land and Voice
In 1942, the Canadian Department of National Defense invoked the War Measures Act to seize the land of the Potawatomi people of Stoney Point Reserve and established an “advanced infantry training center.” Many of the displaced native people were crowded onto the neighboring Kettle Point Reserve. The rest scattered throughout Ontario in search of homes and jobs, often in unfamiliar and hostile urban areas.
Oct 13, 2021 Read the whole text...