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Sep 15, 2026
Catherine A. JohnGUEST
Right? Um, and she's invested in sort of rehumanizing, for lack of a better term, the descendants of enslaved Africans after slavery, right? Which is essentially us, right? Um, so years ago, um, she argued that enslaved Africans and their descendants lived in societies in which they had a little cotch, as we would say in Jamaica, in white space, right? Which is like you're perched on the edge of a table, you barely have, right, um, entry or rights.
Catherine A. JohnGUEST
Um, so what does this mean? So after emancipation in various places, there was no restructuring of the education system to meet our substantial needs, no use of our immense knowledge of herbs and plants, along with our First Nation cousins, to reorganize the medical systems in the locations where we were embedded.
Catherine A. JohnGUEST
The political system was not revised to resemble the values and the beliefs we carried, and our grassroots religious and spiritual beliefs were demonized.
Catherine A. JohnGUEST
Right? So without getting into what the actual topic of the book is, these were the things that led me and the things that influenced the journey of writing the book.
Chris SmithHOST
But they've now resurfaced after some digging and Indigenous Affairs Minister Malindiri McCarthy says they are deeply upsetting and completely unacceptable.
Chris SmithHOST
Now, Hanson was questioning why Australian children should be taught First Nations history and culture, asking what the hell have they done in this country for supposedly 60,000 years?
Pauline HansonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They'd never invented the wheel.
Pauline HansonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There was nothing there.
Chris SmithHOST
That was the time in which most of Indigenous populations were primitive.
Chris SmithHOST
There's no doubt about that.
Chris SmithHOST
Were they the most primitive? McCarthy says the comments are totally outrageous and completely racist and says she feels for First Nations Australians who have had to hear them this week.
Chris SmithHOST
She's also demanding Hanson apologise to Indigenous Australians, but she has not done so.
Mike BridgerGUEST
So, you know, going back decades, the problems really started to – you know, step up their monitoring of caribou populations.
Mike BridgerGUEST
And I think there are probably plenty of, say, First Nations on the landscape that were already observing these declines, you know, prior to us doing so.
Mike BridgerGUEST
So anyway, we start to determine that caribou declining.
Mike BridgerGUEST
So now you have to go ask the question, well, why? One of the ways that we did that was to deploy radio collars on a subsample of these populations.
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Mike BridgerGUEST
So yeah, that caribou herd had got down to about 38 individuals, which you know is huge.
Mike BridgerGUEST
is getting bordering on the brink of unrecoverable.
Mike BridgerGUEST
So, you know, through the leadership from some local First Nations communities and establishing that pen and then the province implementing the predator reduction work, that population has been on a remarkable trajectory after, you know, 12 years of wolf reduction and maternal penning that herd has gone from 38 individuals to 200.
Mark HallHOST
In like 10 years? About
Maude BarlowGUEST
They're really trying to keep hydro, another huge hydro project off the, off, off their river.
Maude BarlowGUEST
Um, and there are projects where I live, the Gatineau River, the Friends of Gatineau River are working with the local Kitigan Zibi, um, uh, First Nation to, to have the Gatineau River declared, uh, uh, uh, to have rights.
Maude BarlowGUEST
And just last week, a committee, uh, to the environment committee, or a report to the environment, federal environment committee, recommended having the, giving the St. Lawrence River legal personhood.
Maude BarlowGUEST
Now whether that'll happen or not, it, but it's an absolutely huge breakthrough for us that this would have been recognized by, by a committee.
Sophie LuiHOST
Part of the federal and provincial government's strategy to deal with the trade war is a renewed effort to streamline approval of resource and energy projects.
Sophie LuiHOST
And that was the focus of a gathering of First Nations, political leaders and resource heavy hitters at a conference today called Get It Done.
Jordan ArmstrongCORRESPONDENT
The voices of no tend to get a lot of attention.
Jordan ArmstrongCORRESPONDENT
After all, they make a lot of noise.
Karen OgunSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We have more housing.
Karen OgunSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We're able to have resources for social issues.
Jordan ArmstrongCORRESPONDENT
Karen Ogun is now CEO of the First Nations Natural Gas Alliance.
Jordan ArmstrongCORRESPONDENT
She and Chief Roland Wilson of the West Moberly First Nations spoke Monday at the Get It Done BC Forum.
Jason KenneyGUEST
It also creates a sense of social solidarity and communitarianism, uh, uh, where you have to depend on others.
Jason KenneyGUEST
I mean, the First Nations people teach that to us, obviously.
Jason KenneyGUEST
Um, sometimes we, sometimes there's a tendency to sneeringly dismiss indigenous ways of knowing or traditional knowledge.
Jason KenneyGUEST
I, I...
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Jason KenneyGUEST
Um, my point is, they weren't looking for homogenization.
Jason KenneyGUEST
You know, you had...
Jason KenneyGUEST
Who settled or who came out here as the fur traders? They were typically, you know, canoes that w- half of whom would be, uh, uh, les voyageurs, hearty, tough, um, frontier, uh, French Canadians, rowing those enormous canoes with foul-mouthed, tough-as-nails Highland Scots, marrying country wives from the Cree and First Nations, creating the Métis people from emanating from all of that.
Jason KenneyGUEST
I think that, like, that, that is, that is who we are.
Melody MacArthurGUEST
Like it happened, but I didn't really connect with it the way that I connect with and still really hold vivid memories of being in community.
Melody MacArthurGUEST
Because you're looking at multiple generations of First Nation, Métis or Inuit people who or Native Americans as they're called in America too, like they don't really call themselves First Nations there, but you're looking at them and they're looking at you with this incredible amount of pride, but also what I'm seeing happening in real time is someone seeing themself up there.
Melody MacArthurGUEST
In a way, I know they never have before because Native people are not often the main thing story, when they are in a major film or feature film or something that's like produced by major, major studios, they're not often the main focal point, right? Their background or their historical, like we're telling a story from way long ago.
Melody MacArthurGUEST
This is a story.
Melody MacArthurGUEST
It's been.
Melody MacArthurGUEST
taught to us that we don't because there's so many laws and legislations and things are constantly changing without consultation.
Melody MacArthurGUEST
And I don't just mean consultation with First Nations communities.
Melody MacArthurGUEST
I mean all people.
Kira StevensCORRESPONDENT
Keira Stevens, APTN National News, Winnipeg.
Rick HarpHOST
Still in that province, where a death on a northern First Nation first thought to be suspicious now appears to be the result of an animal attack.
Rick HarpHOST
And it was September 9th when RCMP received a report of a suspicious death on Sapotaweyak Cree Nation, some 600 kilometers northwest of Winnipeg, where a 21-year-old male was found deceased on scene.
Rick HarpHOST
And while an autopsy revealed the likely cause of death to be an animal attack, RCMP say it's not clear which kind, although community members believe it to be a bear.
Nathan DownerHOST
Officials insist they can do a better job talking with communities when fires are approaching.
Nathan DownerHOST
First Nations say they were either warned late or heard nothing at all as blazes tore through their lands.
Nathan DownerHOST
Indigenous leaders have called for a public inquiry into the province's wildfire response, but the government has not committed to fulfilling that request.
Nathan DownerHOST
The latest information shows 53 active blazes in Northern Ontario as of last night.
MartyHOST
Carney, he can be the good guy and say, look, I tried my best to have it happen.
MartyHOST
but he can let the First Nations take it on the chin because he's still granting them basic veto powers over all these projects.
MartyHOST
So to me, that was a fascinating town hall.
MartyHOST
And that's what I, you know, I've been trying all along to decide whether Danielle was really just, you know, a lot of people said, give her the benefit of the doubt.
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