Today's Mood, Episode #032926
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”
~Mary Anne Radmacher

Today's Mood, Episode #032926
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”
~Mary Anne Radmacher

Dr. Joe Watkins’ 50-year career marks a shift from "intrusive practice" to tribal #sovereignty! 🏺🪶
In the Native Circles podcast, he moves beyond 'digging because we can' to prioritizing #Indigenous voices.
🎧 Listen to the full podcast here:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1811701/episodes/18852113

Co-hosts Dr. Davina Two Bears and Dr. Farina King talk with Choctaw archaeologist Dr. Joe Watkins about the changing dynamics of Indigenous archaeology from AIM-era protests and NAGPRA to tribal historic preservation offices and global collaborati...
CBC News has obtained a newly declassified copy of the RCMP Security Service's nearly 1,700-page intelligence dossier on the Dene Nation which confirms the Mounties had five paid informers "targeted specifically" against the organization as late as September 1978, in an extensive intelligence probe already five years old by then.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/dene-nation-rcmp-security-service-files-9.7139036?cmp=rss

Dene leaders believe the RCMP Security Service in the 1970s broke into their office in Yellowknife, bugged it, stole and leaked material while aiming to discredit them via Operation Checkmate, a national disruption program.
Duheme's statement comes after calls from Indigenous leaders and Anandasangaree for the Mounties to take accountability and make amends following a years-long CBC Indigenous investigation revealed the RCMP Security Service ran covert surveillance, had informants and engaged in countersubversion against the First Nations, Inuit and Métis rights movements.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/rcmp-response-indigenous-spying-operation-9.7141533?cmp=rss
The organizations that police monitored included the Métis Society of Saskatchewan and the Federation of Saskatchewan Indians — precursors to today's Métis Nation—Saskatchewan and Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations.

Reports on Indigenous organizations in Saskatchewan are among previously classified RCMP Security Service files released to CBC under the Access to Information Act. Bruce Flamont says he is not surprised. He saw officers surveilling him in the 1970s.