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“Fabrice Luchini Lit Victor Hugo” au Théâtre du Petit Saint-Martin, octobre 2023.

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Peguis First Nation and surrounding communities in Manitoba's Interlake have declared a state of emergency over lack of funding for their ambulance service, which they say is in danger of shutting down unless the province steps in with support. The Fisher Ambulance Service covers an area of 14,000 people in the Interlake region, including Peguis, Fisher River and Kinonjeoshtegon First Nations, as well as the rural municipality of Fisher. Since the last provincial funding agreement expired in 2019, Peguis has funded the service on its own, supplemented partially through billing, but now the First Nation says it can't keep going. Without a new agreement to pay for ongoing services, and reimburse Peguis for past costs, the ambulance service could shut down completely by the end of the month, said Dr. John Neufeld, medical director for Fisher Ambulance Service. [...]

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"Peguis Indians May Carry Fight to Throne, Asking Aid Of "Great, White Mother"," Winnipeg Tribune. December 9, 1933. Page 1. ---- Chief Insists on Letter of Treaty and Promises Made ---- Chief Alex Greyeyes, head of the Peguis Indians that once lived on St. Peter's reserve, with his chief lieutenant, Henry Pahkoo, came to Winnipeg Friday to get help for 17 of his band against whom prosecutions are pending for squatting on land along Netley Creek.

He went to Col. H. M. Hannesson, former Dominion member for Selkirk constituency, and told him that if he couldn't get justice from the authorities he intended to tell his troubles to "The Great Mother, the Queen."

"You mean King George," he was told.

'No, not King George," he answered. "We mean the Great Mother." He took from his pocket a copy of the treaty agreement of August 3, 1871, made at Lower Fort Garry, and pointed to the words on which he said his band relied.

Promise of Treaty "The Great Mother, the Queen, knows you are poor," the treaty said. "She will assist you all when you settle, and our Great Mother will give you 160 acres of land per five of a family. When you will be on your Indian reserve, no white man will be allowed to stop there inside the reserve, and if a white man does anything wrong inside the Indian reserve, I will punish him myself."

About 26 years ago the white man did begin to go inside the reserve and in a series of negotiations that the Indians said never was fair, St. Peter's reserve was surrenderd. The Dominion government arranged their transfer to Fisher Branch reserve, about 100 miles from St. Peter's, a location between Hodgson and Koostatak.

Started a Battle The surrender proceedings years ago started a bitter battle in political circles and at Ottawa the cause of the Indians was taken up by Senator Geo. Bradbury, then the House of Commons member for Selkirk. The surrender of the reserve was put through, and a Royal Commission investigation was forced. Some of the Indians moved from St. Peter's to Fisher Branch and others never moved at all.

When the surrender was made each family was given 16 acres of land in a part of St. Peter's Reserve or near it. This concession was a sort of compromise. but it never satisfied members of the band. A number of them sold the holding for little or nothing. In 1914 Mr. Bradbury got through parliament a bill that placed a lien of $1 an acre on the 16-acre holdings. This was intended as a trust fund for familles of the reserve. It was to bear Interest at five percent from July 1, 1913, until paid, and although registered as an encumbrance on the titles, little or no attempt has ever been made to collect it.

Lacked Local Market Things never went well for the band at Fisher Branch. There used to be a local market for their wood and hay at Selkirk, but in the northern reserve there is little or none. Members of the band who used to act as guides in the hunting marshes have no chance for this occupation at Fisher Branch. Mostly they were deprived of what chance they once had of making a little money.

Two years ago Chief Grey Eyes and some 50 families packed up their belongings at Fisher Branch and returned. Their lands on St. Peter's were gone and they pitched their tents on the north end of Netley Creek. A year after, they started to build log huts, and there they intend to stay. About nine months ago the Dominion government started prosecutions for trespass, and two members of the band, John Muningwav and Charlie Thompson, were given three-month jail sentences. Munnigway has served his time, and Thompson 's still at Headingly. Prosecutions against 17 others are pending.

Petition Government Two months ago the band petitioned the Dominion government and asked that the prosecutions be dropped and the two prisoners released. They asked that they be permitted to organize again as a band and settle on some undisposed parts of the former St. Peter's Reserve, in return for which they agree to surrender all rights in the Fisher Branch Reserve.

In the petition they also undertook to abandon all agitation to set aside the surrender, provided the government would collect the assessments under the 1914 act and distribute them among families of the Peguls band as originally constituted.

[More about St. Peter’s here.]

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[raisongardee]

C’est pour cela que lorsqu’on leur met sous les yeux la vieille chrétienté, quand on les mets en face de ce que c’était dans la réalité qu’une paroisse chrétienne, une paroisse française au commencement du quinzième siècle, du temps où il y avait des paroisses françaises […] aussitôt quelques-uns de nos catholiques modernes, modernes à leur insu, mais profondément modernes, jusque dans les moelles, intellectuels à leur insu et qui se vantent de ne pas l’être, intellectuels tout de même, profondément intellectuels, intellectuels jusqu’aux moelles, bourgeois et fils de bourgeois, rentiers et fils de rentiers, pensionnés du gouvernement, pensionnés de l’Etat, fonctionnaires, pensionnés des autres, des autres citoyens, des autres électeurs, des autres contribuables […] quelques-uns de ces contemporains catholiques, devant une soudaine révélation de l’antique, de la vieille, de la chrétienté ancienne se hâtent de pousser quelques cris, comme de pudeur outragée. Dans un besoin ils renieraient Joinville, comme trop grossier, comme trop peuple. Le sire de Joinville. Ils renieraient peut-être bien saint Louis. Comme trop roi de France."

Charles Péguy, Notre jeunesse, 1910.

[francesderwent]

Top five poems (or song lyrics)

The Hurricane, Mary Oliver

The Cold, Wendell Berry

What Resembles the Grave But Isn’t, Anne Boyer

The Great Minimum, G.K. Chesterton

Portal of the Mystery of Hope, Charles Pegúy

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[matto77]

Coloro che prendono le distanze dal mondo, coloro che prendono quota abbassando il mondo, non si innalzano. Poichè non hanno la forza e la grazia di essere della natura, credono di essere della grazia. Poichè non hanno il coraggio del temporale, credono di essere entrati già nella penetrazione dell'eterno. Poichè non hanno il coraggio di essere del mondo, credono di essere di Dio. Poichè non hanno il coraggio di essere di uno dei partiti dell'uomo, credono di essere del partito di Dio. Poichè non amano nessuno, credono di amare Dio.

Lui è qui - Charles Péguy

[plaques-memoire]

Plaque en hommage à : Charles Péguy

Type : Œuvre

Adresse : 9 rue Victor Cousin, 75005 Paris, France

Date de pose : 2020

Texte : Au rez-de-chaussée de cet immeuble, CHARLES PEGUY fonda la Librairie Georges Bellais, qui édita et diffusa des publications socialistes de mai 1898 à juillet 1899

Quelques précisions : Charles Péguy (1873-1914) est un écrivain français. Dans un premier temps marqué par un socialisme libertaire, il revient plus tard à un catholicisme mystique qui influencera nombre de ses écrits et le conduira également à un rejet de la modernité. Il s'intéresse également à la figure de Jeanne d'Arc, sur laquelle il produira une œuvre marquante, Le Mystère de la charité de Jeanne d'Arc, parue en 1897. Il meurt lors de la bataille de l'Ourcq lors des premières semaines de la Première Guerre mondiale. Il est honoré partout en France. Une autre plaque commémorative en son honneur peut être trouvée à Paris, et une autre à Orléans, où un centre culturel porte son nom.

[ochoislas]

JUANA SE DESPIDE DEL MOSA

Adiós, Mosa moroso de mi infancia, que quedas en los prados, rumorando. Mosa, adiós: que ya emprendo mi partida para otras tierras donde no discurres.

Mira que ya me parto a nuevas tierras: haré la guerra y pasaré los ríos; allá me ensayaré en empresas nuevas, allá me iniciaré en nuevos trabajos.

Y en tanto, Mosa suave y sin noticia, correrás siempre, usado transeúnte, por el valle feliz de yerba arrecha, ¡oh Mosa irrestañable que yo amaba!

Un silencio.

[…]

*

ADIEUX DE JEANNE À LA MEUSE

Adieu, Meuse endormeuse et douce à mon enfance, Qui demeures aux prés, où tu coules tout bas. Meuse, adieu : j’ai déjà commencé ma partance En des pays nouveaux où tu ne coules pas.

Voici que je m’en vais en des pays nouveaux : Je ferai la bataille et passerai les fleuves ; Je m’en vais m’essayer à de nouveaux travaux, Je m’en vais commencer là-bas des tâches neuves.

Et pendant ce temps-là, Meuse ignorante et douce, Tu couleras toujours, passante accoutumée, Dans la vallée heureuse où l’herbe vive pousse,

O Meuse inépuisable et que j’avais aimée.

Un silence.

[…]

Charles Peguy

di-versión©ochoislas

[rivieiraa]

Il voulait être un artiste, pour cela même il s’appliquait; mais il le fut bien naturellement, par la force d’un regard décidé, d’un cerveau rêveur et d’un goût profond pour la logique.

[elegantzombielite]

"He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers."

Charles Peguy, poet and essayist (7th January 1873-1914)

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"More than 900 evacuees from Peguis First Nation still can't return to their community nearly nine months after floodwaters ravaged the reserve.

Nearly 300 homes are uninhabitable and many have been given no timeline for when they may be able to go back, Chief Glenn Hudson said.

At least 85 homes have already been condemned and nearly 200 are in need of major repairs before anyone can live in them again, Hudson said.

"The homes themselves are mould infested," he said.

"The furnaces, the hot water tanks, washers and dryers … the appliances are all damaged. They're not functional."

More than 2,000 people were forced to leave the First Nation last spring and around 1,200 have been able to move back to their community.

However, many others are still in limbo.

"I know some people are frustrated," Hudson said. "We have elders that want to come home. They don't want to remain in the hotels anymore."

More than 500 evacuees are still living in hotels in Winnipeg and Selkirk, the Red Cross said. Another 398 have been moved into private accommodations, Hudson said."

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"INDIANS ON ST. PETER'S RESERVE ENJOY A FEAST," Winnipeg Tribune. December 31, 1913. Page 1. --- All Over Fifty Years of Age Entertained-Winnipegger Doing Good Work ---- For several years a number of friends living in Winnipeg of the Indians on St. Peter's Reserve have given them a dinner at Christmas time. This year the annual treat was given yesterday in the Dynevor Indian hospital building. Invitations were sent to all the Indians on the reserve over 50 years of age, and about one hundred and twenty were present. Owing to the beautiful weather preparations were made for a large number and about five hundred pounds of turkey, about one hundred pounds of plum pudding and cases of apples, oranges, noile of candy were sent to the reserve, where willing hands were ready to prepare them.

As the time for dinner approached, it was soon noticed that the committee had not made too elaborate preparations, for Indians were seen coming from all directions - in all sorts conveyances - old men and of women, who had not ventured out of their homes all winter, were seen hobbling along - who were interesting to talk to of the events of seventy years ago. Many of them are now on the eve of ninety years old; some walked twelve and fifteen miles to be present, anticipating a repetition of the good things they received in past years; others came in dog sleds from Lake Winnipeg. Each Indian, in addition to getting a splendid dinner, was given a pound of tea, a plug of tobacco, a bag of candy and oranges, apples and nuts to take home to their families.

After the dinner was over the whole party were shown over the hospital, where there are at present sixteen patients, and speeches were made by Chief Wm. Asham and Councillor Wm. Harper, expressing their appreciation of the the very excellent work done by Miss Gill, the superintendent, and Mrs. Kerr, her assistant, in relieving their people from their sufferings and the splendid appearance of the hospital, and they gave especial thanks to Mesdames Canon Murray, R. McFarlane and J. G. Dagg for preparing the splendid feast they had just partaken of. Especial mention was made of Dr. Steep, who had been medical attendant to the Indians for the past fifteen years, for his interest in the Indians.

Appreciative addresses were also made by Rev. L. LeRond, Anglican clergyman, of the reserve, Rev. Mr. Mayse, the Baptist minister, and Mr. J. R. Bum, inspector of Indian agencies. About fifteen ladies and gentlemen from the city were present and they are loud in their praises of the pleasure given the old Indians. [More about St. Peter's here.]

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Charles Peguy: Accomplice of liars and forgers

“He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.” —Charles Peguy.