Permaculture course with Bonita Ford

Work Exchange for Permaculture Intro Course, applications by April 27!

We're delighted to offer two Work Exchange positions for our Ecological Design and Gardening: Introduction to Permaculture course in Ottawa, May 25 to 27. The Permaculture Institute of Eastern Ontario (PIEO) is offering these positions to help make our courses more financially accessible to students and in an effort to bring benefit to the larger community. Work Exchange students will be selected based on a combination of financial need and how this course could benefit them and their communities.  Work Exchange applications for the spring Intro Course are due on April 27.  For more info about the Intro Course and Work Exchange, visit http://eonpermaculture.ca/intro_spring2012  or email info@eonpermaculture.ca

Happy spring!

Pillage and profit, from the Amazon to Ardoch

Pillage and profit, from the Amazon to Ardoch: An evening of film, music, and discussion about the exploitation of Indigenous peoples' lands by Canadian companies

Monday April 23, 2012, 5:30 to 7:30 pm
Auditorium of the Ottawa Public Library, Main Branch
120 Metcalfe St. (at Laurier)
Ottawa, unceded Algonquin Territory

Join us for an evening of discussion with Indigenous peoples resisting the plunder of their lands by Canadian oil and mining companies.

Coffee, tea and some snack will be provided.

The event will be opened with a Blessing by Algonquin Elder Albert Dumont. There will be a screening of the award-winning documentary “Chumpi & the Waterfall”. This film explores the way of life of an Achuar community in the Peruvian Amazon – a way of life that's under threat by Canadian oil company Talisman Energy's plans to drill oil in their hunting and fishing grounds.

"I have told the CEO of Talisman, John Manzoni, that the Achuar people do not want oil operations in our ancestral territory, but Talisman refuses to respect our right to live in peace and harmony," says Achuar leader Peas Peas Ayui.

The film will be followed by a panel discussion with:

• Peas Peas Ayui, Lucas Irar Miik, Lucas Chayat Ayui, and Puwaanch Kintui Antich, leaders from Achuar communities in the Amazon rainforest
• Gregor MacLennan, Peru Program Coordinator for Amazon Watch
• Mireille Lapointe, former chief of the Ardoch Algonquin, who have resisted uranium mining on their land
• Marcelo Saavedra-Vargas, of the Quechua-Aymara nation and professor of Aboriginal studies at the University of Ottawa

Musical performances by Three Little Birds (https://www.facebook.com/threelittlebirdstheband), and by Julie Comber, Josh Myles, & Ógui (http://snd.sc/IeHeLD).

Admission is free; donations to support the Achuar community will be gratefully accepted.

This event is hosted by Amazon Watch, Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement Ottawa, and the Indigenous and Canadian Studies Students Association of the University of Ottawa.

Can't make it to the event? Please visit https://www.achuarmovie.org/ to:

- learn more about the Achuar
- Sign a petition demanding that Talisman Energy halt oil exploration in Achuar territory
- Donate to support the Achuar's cause

http://www.facebook.com/events/210214175756207/

Not Our budget!

Great annual ceremony and Open doors day

Kwe, kwe!

(English version will follow)

Cette année encore, nous sommes heureux de vous inviter à notre Grande cérémonie annuelle et journée portes ouvertes, le samedi 19 mai prochain au Centre Kanatha Aki, dans les Laurentides (Québec)!

Au programme:

• Visite de notre centre et de notre cheptel de bisons Athabascae
• Pique-nique
• Cérémonie du Grand Pardon en présence de plusieurs porteurs de pipes sacrées et autres leaders spirituels
• Chants et tambours traditionnels amérindiens

Tous les détails sont dans le document en pièce jointe.

N’hésitez pas à inviter vos parents, enfants et amis pour cette magnifque journée!

Mino piacok! (Soyez les bienvenus!)

T8aminik RANKIN

Chef héréditaire algonquin

 

Kwe, kwe!

This year again, we are happy to invite you to our Great annual ceremony and Open doors day, on Saturday May 19 at Kanatha Aki, in the Laurentian Mountains (Quebec)!

This year's program includes:

• Visit of the Center and our Athabascae Bison herd
• Pic-nic
• Forgiveness Ceremony in the presence of several Sacred pipe carriers as well as other spiritual leaders
• Traditional singing and drumming

See all the details in the attachments.

Don't hesitate to invite your parents, children or friends to this beautiful day!

Mino piacok! (Be welcome!)

T8aminik

Algonquin Hereditary Chief



Dominique (T8aminik) Rankin

Centre Ethno-Culturel 8ATAPI / Kanatha-Aki
11 chemin du Lac Orignal, Val-des-Lacs, Qc J0T 2P0
Tél. (819) 326-3540
centreethnoculturel@hotmail.com
www.dominiquerankin.ca
www.mariejoseetardif.com

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"On nous appelait les Sauvages", écrit par T8aminik et Marie-Josée, est maintenant disponible dans toutes les bonnes librairies du Québec et d'Europe francophone! Pour en savoir plus, cliquez ici !

Dominique (T8aminik) Rankin / Marie-Josée Tardif

197 chemin du Lac Orignal, Val-des-Lacs (Qc) J0T 2P0  Canada
Tél. 1-819-326-3540
centreethnoculturel@gmail.com
www.dominiquerankin.ca
www.mariejoseetardif.com

The Mayan Word - Please watch this video...

Social Night and Gathering

The Aboriginal Studies and Canadian Studies Students Association (ACCSA -
AÉÉAC) invites you to an Informal Social Night and Gathering on

• Friday March 23, 2012 at  
• Urban Well (244 Laurier Ave E,Ottawa, ON K1N 6P7, Canada) 
• beginning at 8:30 pm (dance music will arrive at 10:00 pm). 

Price: $5 (these funds will be used in funding the "For the Next 7 Generations, Film Screening & Discussion, Featuring One of 13 Grandmothers, Margaret Behan - Red Spider Woman, Montana --- which will take place Monday, March 26, 2012 from 4:30 to 6:30 (pm) [please see poster below] )

Bring your fellow students and friends with you!

For the next 7 generations

Honouring Indigenous Women Campaign

SPREAD THE WORD!


The Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement Ottawa (IPSMO) is inviting you to the launch of its Honouring Indigenous Women Campaign and its Honouring Indigenous Women: Hearts of Nations – Vol. 1 booklet!

7 – 9 PM. Monday, March 19, 2012
Arts Court Studio, 2 Daly Ave. Ottawa
Unceded Algonquin Territory

Join us for a night of poetry, drumming and more, in celebrate the Power of Indigenous Women and their Special Relationship to Water!

MC: Cindy Gaudet (Métis)

Opening ceremony and women’s teaching: Verna McGregor (Algonquin)

Featuring …..

Earth Mothers women drumming group
Water teaching by Grandmother Francine Payer
Vera Wabegijig (Ojibwe),
Susanne Keeptwo (Métis – Algonquin/French & Irish descent),
Jaime Koebel (Métis),
David Groulx (Ojibwe/Métis)

* There will be items made by Indigenous peoples for sale at this event.


To invite your friends via Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/320011758055132/


About our campaign:

Our Honouring Indigenous Campaign aims at raising awareness and put an end to violence perpetrated against Indigenous women. As a group mostly composed of non-Indigenous peoples who have participated or been complicit in the past and present colonization of Native peoples and lands, it is of utmost importance for us to support the work of Indigenous peoples in this regard. This campaign is an act of solidarity, and aims at supporting existing efforts from Indigenous women. As such, we are hoping to mobilize over 500 people to take part in the annual Families of Sisters in Spirit Vigilorganized in Ottawa on October 4th.

This campaign also aims at raising awareness about violence against Indigenous women and understanding the links between violence, colonialism and Indigenous Sovereignty. We echo the demands for equity, justice, and decolonization formulated by Indigenous women whom we have tremendous respect for.

We support self-determination of Indigenous peoples and work towards creating and maintaining respectful relationships with the First peoples of this land.

The campaign would not be as strong without the publication of the Honouring Indigenous Women: Hearts of Nation-Vol. 1. The booklet, composed of five sections – Struggle, Resistance, Power, Liberation, and Be Solidarity, gives to Indigenous women their due space to express their lived realities through various art forms. Through this publication, we aim to augment the voices of Indigenous women in one of many efforts to break the silence surrounding the systemic violence perpetuated by colonialism. It is, for us, a concrete and creative form of solidarity.

As a wise woman told us, we cannot achieve the ethic of respect by formulating demands, we will clearly state our hopes and expectations for this campaign and beyond, as well as announce our upcoming projects at our March 19th event. Stay tune!


To download Honouring Indigenous Women: Hearts of Nation-Vol. 1: http://ipsmo.wordpress.com/honouring-indigenous-women/


For more info: www.ipsmo.org <http://www.ipsmo.org>

Dibenindizowin: Freedoms and Indigenous Peoples

John Borrows, March 12, 2012 
 

Dibenindizowin: Freedoms and Indigenous Peoples 

Where: TBT083 - Tabaret Building, 550 Cumberland, Room 083  When: 1-3 pm

Let's save Mother Trees for our future generations...

“Mother trees” use fungal systems to feed the forest 

By Cori Howard 

Suzanne Simard always had a fetish for soil. As a kid growing up in the British Columbia Interior, she loved digging for worms. Little did she know that she would spend most of her career exploring dirt. Now a forest ecologist at the University of British Columbia, Simard helped make the major finding, first published in the journal Nature, that trees and plants communicate. She discovered an underground web of fungi that connects trees and plants together and shuttles resources, allowing trees to help one another survive and thrive.

Simard noticed brilliant white and yellow fungal threads in the forest floor. Many of these fungi were mycorrhizal, living in tree roots. Through microscopic examination and experimentation, she realized the fungi were transporting carbon, water and nutrients between trees, depending on which needed it most. “The big trees were subsidizing the young ones through the fungal networks,” explains Simard. “Without this helping hand, most of the seedlings wouldn’t make it.”

Mycorrhizal networks exist in ecosystems around the world (and were featured in the movieAvatar), and Simard’s research has shown that without “Mother Trees” — the big trees that dominate forests and are connected to all other trees — efforts at regeneration often fail. Her latest results reveal that when a Mother Tree is cut down, the survival rate of new seedlings is very low. The implications for the forest industry and conservation groups are huge: conserve Mother Trees and preserve mycorrhizal networks, or we could lose our forests.

Taken from: http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/magazine/jf11/fungal_systems.asp

Mid-term and varia

Please follow the links below to find the documents I'll be sharing for the mid-term:
The Power Presentation in different formats. If you need to have it in some other format, please let me know: msaavedr@uOttawa.ca.

• Power Point presentation, PDF format (1 slide per page), a total of 142 pages, 4.47 MB;
• Power Point presentation, PDF format (6 slide per page), a total of 142 pages, 2.1 MB;
• Power Point presentation, PPT format,  a total of 142 slides, 13.5 MB;

If you are going to print the presentation, I suggest you print the version with 6 slides per page or use the presentation on screen. The Amazonian and Boreal tree nations will like that!

The mid-term will consist of what we have done until this past Wednesday. If there are some problems with the links or whatever, please get in touch with me.

Please note the dates of the mid-term and our guest speaker Brigette Depape. When we resume classes, Mon Feb 27^th, we’ll have one more class and the mid-term will be held on Wed Feb 29, from ll:30 – 12:45. Some students cannot make it on that day for a number of legitimate circumstances. I will accommodate to have the mid-term with them some other date. Please get in touch with me so I can identify you and make appropriate arrangements. You must have valid and legitimate reasons. Talk to me.

Monday March 5 we will share our class with Brigette. Please do the reading of her article “Thinking outside the ballot box” (http://bit.ly/yX8bkv).

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Please vote for the South March Highlands, it takes a second. Share this link to collectively position The South March Highlands as Great Places in Canada:
http://cip-icu.ca/greatplaces/en/place.asp?id=6025

Qayaykama ñañaykuna!